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1.1 deraadt 18:
1.454 ian 19: <h2>June, 2005</h2>
20: <ul>
21: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.456 ! niallo 22: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html">
! 23: Is Linux For Losers?</a>,
! 24: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
! 25: An interesting article, if somewhat polemic in tone, which raises questions
! 26: about the quality of Linux code compared to OpenBSD. There is also some short
! 27: discussion of the OpenBSD development model and focus (push for quality above
! 28: everything else) including good quotes from Theo. It seems that the need for
! 29: high quality software is beginning to be recognised by the mainstream.
! 30: <p>
! 31: <ul>
! 32: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.455 ian 33: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/06/09/2132233.shtml?tid=152&tid=8&tid=2">
34: BSD cognoscenti on Linux</a>,
35: NewsForge, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
36: NewsForge talks with Theo de Raadt and NetBSD's Christos Zoulas about the
37: similarities and differences between the Linux kernel and the BSD
38: operating systems. The questions asked were similar to those asked
39: of Linus Torvalds in a <a
40: href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/09/2128249&tid=2">previous
41: interview.</a>
42: <p>
43:
44: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.454 ian 45: <a href="http://www.tuxjournal.net/intervista3-en.html">
46: A good morning with Theo de Raadt</a>,
47: Tux Journal, June 2, 2005</strong></font><br>
48: Brief but wide-ranging interview with Theo in which our leader
49: opines about the good things in 3.7: "The list of new developments
50: is impressive, but in my view not nearly as impressive as the small
51: little details that continue to be fixed during each development
52: cycle." And modestly credits all the developers for the project's
53: continuing success, attributing it to "The passion of the developers,
54: and the wide experience they bring into their development efforts.
55: By amazing coincidence, our users typically have the same needs as we do."
56: Manages to sidestep getting drawn into comparisons with Linux, e.g.,
57: when asked if he likes it/why/why not, deftly replies
58: "I have never used it."
59: <p>
60:
61: </ul>
62:
1.441 deraadt 63: <h2>May, 2005</h2>
64: <ul>
65: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 66: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5190">
67: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part II</a>,
68: Kerneltrap, May 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
69: In the second installment of Kerneltrap's Hackathon 2005 feature, Jeremy
70: Andrews speaks with the pf developers at length about their plans for
71: future enhancements.
72: <p>
73:
74: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.450 deraadt 75: <a href="http://www.ctv.ca">
1.448 deraadt 76: TV coverage: OpenBSD hackathon</a>,
77: CTV/CFCN, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
78: A TV spot done a Canadian national TV station about the Calgary
79: hackathon this year, with 60 developers.<br>
80: North America mirror:
81: <ul>
1.452 marco 82: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.449 jcs 83: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a><br>
84: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a>
1.448 deraadt 85: </ul>
86: European mirror:
87: <ul>
1.452 marco 88: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.448 deraadt 89: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a>
90: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a><br>
91: </ul>
92: <p>
93:
94: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 95: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5186">
96: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part I</a>,
97: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
98: Jeremy Andrews of KernelTrap does a good job of describing what it's like
99: to be at the Hackathon in Part I of KernelTrap's Hackathon feature. Several
100: developers are interviewed in detail about what they are working on.
101: <p>
102:
103: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.447 cloder 104: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/05/20/1426216.shtml?tid=8">
105: Review: OpenBSD 3.7</a>,
106: NewsForge.com, May 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
107: "OpenBSD is not only highly polished and easy to
108: configure because of its documentation, it's also totally free-as-in-rights.
109: With an obsession with security, freedom of source code, and quality of
110: programming technique, OpenBSD 3.7 continues the legacy established by
111: its previous releases," writes Jem Matzan in this nice, small review.
112: <p>
113:
114: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.446 cloder 115: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/05/19/openbsd_3_7.html">
116: OpenBSD 3.7: The Wizard of OS</a>,
117: ONLamp.com, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
118: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
119: new features in OpenBSD 3.7, including new wireless chipsets, new
120: spam-fighting features, zaurus, pf improvements, propolice, and
121: many other things. A good overview of what's new in this release,
122: plus some interesting comments about future direction.
123: <p>
124:
125: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.444 niallo 126: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/software/openbsd-3.7-released.html">
1.445 niallo 127: Next incarnation of OpenBSD released</a>,
1.444 niallo 128: Ping Wales, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
129: "OpenBSD is often unjustly overlooked as a free UNIX-like system in favour of
130: the more-hyped Linux. While it receives a lot less publicity than other
131: operating systems, this is not due to lack of technical merit." says David
132: Chisnall, in what is a clear and concise overview of the new features
133: in 3.7 and indeed the project as a whole.
134: <p>
135:
136: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
137: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5114">
1.445 niallo 138: 2005 Calgary Hackathon, KernelTrap Coverage</a>,
1.444 niallo 139: Kerneltrap, May 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
140: A great article about the annual OpenBSD Hackathon, detailing how the event
141: functions, work done at previous Hackathons and features which may come out
142: of this one. Includes many relevant quotes from developers themselves, and of
143: course information about the legendary Hackathon BBQ!
144: <p>
145:
146: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.442 deraadt 147: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9658/sam0505e/">
148: "Failover Firewalls with OpenBSD and CARP"</a>,
149: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 5, p. 33
1.441 deraadt 150: </strong></font><br>
151: Jason Dixon discusses the history of the CARP and pfsync protocols
152: and demonstrates using them to create redundant stateful firewalls
153: with OpenBSD.
154: </ul>
155:
1.436 henning 156: <h2>April, 2005</h2>
157: <ul>
158: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.440 ian 159: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39195801,00.htm">
160: Security guru wants access to bug databases</a>,
161: ZDNet UK, April 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
162: Ingrid Marson reports on Cambridge professor Ross Anderson's call for analysis of
163: software maintenance records to determine whether open source code is more secure
164: than closed source, as we have long contended.
165: "One of Anderson's research students, Andy Ozment, has already done
166: research using empirical data on bugs found in the open source
167: operating system OpenBSD between 1997 and 2000. This research found
168: that finding and fixing bugs results in a more secure product..."
169: Just as the OpenBSD project has been saying for years.
170: <p>
171: This article can also be found online as
172: <a href="http://uk.builder.com/manage/project/0,39026588,39244080,00.htm">Academic
173: calls for better bug tracking</a> (uk.builder.com).
174: <p>
175:
176: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.439 espie 177: [FRENCH] "PC Expert", number 152, p. 58
178: </strong></font><br>
179: Very short interview of Marc Espie about OpenBSD as a free OS focusing
180: on security, part of a larger dossier «les secrets des hackers».
181: <p>
182:
183: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.436 henning 184: [GERMAN] "Doppelwacht", iX 5/2005, p. 150.
185: </strong></font><br>
186: Stephan Tesch gives an introduction to CARP and using a pair of
187: OpenBSD boxes as Firewalls in High Availibility scenarios. He goes
1.438 martin 188: on explaining CARP and pfsync protocols, and does not forget to cover
1.436 henning 189: the issues we had with IETF.
190: </ul>
191:
1.431 ian 192: <h2>March, 2005</h2>
193: <ul>
194: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.435 reyk 195: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/4818">
196: OpenBSD's "Out of the Box" Wireless Support</a>,
197: Kerneltrap, March 8, 2005</strong></font><br>
198: This article is about the upcoming wireless support in OpenBSD 3.7 and
199: the outcome of the work to open wireless chipsets. Jeremy Andrews
200: talked with Theo de Raadt and the developers Damien Bergamini and Reyk
201: Floeter who did some efforts to implement free and functional drivers.
202: <p>
203:
204: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.431 ian 205: <a href="http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/01/1109546842718.html">
206: OpenBSD to support more wireless chipsets</a>,
207: The Age, March 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
208: "The forthcoming 3.7 release of the OpenBSD operating system has
209: added support for five more wireless chipsets, according to
210: OpenBSD project founder Theo de Raadt...
1.432 ian 211: OpenBSD 3.7 will also have have new drivers for Intel wireless
1.431 ian 212: parts that do not work without the non-redistributable firmware,"
213: namely the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11B
214: and 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11A/B/G wireless network adapters.
215: Mentions OpenBSD's activism in getting vendors to release chip specs.
216: Referring to vendors that still refuse to play ball with open source
217: projects, quotes Damien Miller as saying "Given the number of
218: appliance devices that are built on free OSs, I think that the
219: recalcitrant vendors are missing an important boat."
220:
221: </ul>
222:
1.427 matthieu 223: <h2>February, 2005</h2>
224: <ul>
225:
226: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.428 david 227: <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsaward2004.html">
228: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
229: FSF, February 26, 2005</strong></font><br>
230: The Free Software Foundation awarded Theo de Raadt their "2004 Free Software
231: Award" for his unwavering commitment to free software. Most recently he has
232: been fighting hardware manufacturers for free redistribution of wireless card
233: firmware.
1.434 ian 234: Similar articles can be found online at:
235: <ul>
236: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
237: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=419">
238: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
239: Tectonic.za, March 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
240: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
241: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article4362.phtml">
242: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
243: OSDir, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
244: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
245: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/De-Raadt-gets-free-software-award/2005/02/28/1109546758523.html?oneclick=true">
246: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
247: The Age, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
248: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
249: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/02/27/1413255.shtml?tid=99&tid=7">
250: Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award</a>,
251: Slashdot, February 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
252: </ul>
1.427 matthieu 253: </ul>
254:
1.426 ian 255: <h2>January, 2005</h2>
256: <ul>
257:
258: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
259: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363731">
260: Systrace in OpenBSD</a>,
261: informit.com, January 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
262: This article talks about our systrace
263: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&sektion=1">systrace(1)</a>
264: mechanism: what it is and why and
265: how to use it, with examples.
266: Another excerpt from the book
267: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
268: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
269: <p>
270:
271: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
272: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363732">
273: Overview of OpenBSD</a>,
274: informit.com, January 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
275: "OpenBSD is one of the most secure and well-designed operating
276: systems available today. It has its roots in countless hours of
277: research and development based on some of the best UNIX flavors of
278: the past, and it boasts all the features of modern operating systems.
279: The OS is widely considered one of the most secure general-purpose
280: operating systems available today and it supports many key parts
281: of the global Internet infrastructure..."
282: This article is a sample chapter from
283: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
284: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
285: <p>
1.443 ian 286:
287: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
288: <a href="http://www.pcplus.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=34628&subsectionid=784">
289: OpenBSD operating system</a>,
290: PCPlus.co.uk, January, 2005</strong></font><br>
291: Paul Grosse gives a brief tutorial on installing OpenBSD on i386 for people
292: moving in a Windows->Linux direction, encouraging them to go a bit further for security.
293: "While Linux out-scores Windows substantially (or completely) on [security as well as many other
294: issues], it's still possible to use a more secure operating system on the PC... OpenBSD."
295: Gives a brief but understandable walkthrough on the installation process, right up to
296: downloading and installing the third-party packages, and
297: ends with a sidebar on security.
298: <p>
1.426 ian 299: </ul>
300:
1.424 ian 301: <h2>December, 2004</h2>
302: <ul>
303:
304: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.425 ian 305: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/2329229">
306: What are the real vulnerabilities of Linux?</a>
307: NewsForge.com, December 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
308: Several security consultants were asked about "the real vulnerabilities of
309: Linux". Cybersoure CEO Con Symaris seems to get it better than the rest:
310: "One needs to approach security as a prime requirement and motivator,
311: much as the OpenBSD team do," Zymaris said... "The Linux
312: community mindset is different. Linux development is dynamic and
313: races ahead towards more and broader functionality, drawing a
314: multitude of interested parties in to make interesting extensions
315: and adaptations at a rapid rate."
316: <p>
317: "In order to do security the BSD way, however, much more effort
318: needs to be spent auditing code for holes, which is much less sexy,
319: and attracts a different set of coders," Zymaris added.
320: <p>
321:
322: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.424 ian 323: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/281">
324: Closed Source Hardware</a>
325: Security Focus, December 1, 2004</strong></font><br>
326: Symantec Threat Analyst Jason Miller analyzes the potential security threats
327: when hardware vendors won't provide device documentation and
328: instead provide "binary only" driver code for inclusion in open source
329: operating systems.
330: Miller is an open-source fan who says he uses a variety of systems, including
331: OpenBSD on his firewall.
332: Of the recent trend to closed-source binary drivers for open-source
333: systems, he writes:
334: <blockquote>
335: The closed-source component required to support this hardware is
336: completely independent of the associated operating system, and as
337: such, is also independent of the engineering team, security team,
338: auditing process, and quality control procedures normally related
339: to the operating system...
340: <br/>
341: What's possibly even more disturbing is that we're talking about
342: a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest
343: possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a
344: third-party vendor. This code could do anything once loaded, including
345: leaking active WEP keys, gathering usage statistics, sniffing and
346: disclosing traffic, and it could even introduce a subtle backdoor
347: into the operating system itself (much the same as any device driver
348: in a closed source operating system).
349: <br/>
350: [A]lthough some of these scenarios are a
351: little far-fetched, the possibility for them to exist is there...
352: Ultimately it becomes an issue of trust, which is a cornerstone of
353: good security: whom do you trust, and how much do you trust them?
354: </blockquote>
355: <p>And he comments that trust "seems to be a one-way street": vendors
356: demand that you trust them, but they won't trust you to know how
357: their hardware and software operates.
358: This lack of trust is one reason why OpenBSD has recently completed
359: reverse-engineering the
360: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4">
361: Atheros wireless chipset driver</a>
362: that was originally provided as a binary insert.
363: <p>
364: </ul>
365:
1.417 pvalchev 366: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
367: <ul>
1.421 ian 368:
1.417 pvalchev 369: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.422 ian 370: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730775,00.asp">
371: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Widens Its Scope</a>
372: eWEEK, November 22, 2004</strong></font><br>
373: Jason Brooks reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and likes the changes it brings,
374: including the multi-processing support which, he notes,
375: "will be even more important as multicore processors--which occupy space
376: on the road maps of Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others--
377: become more prevalent." Comments favorably on OpenNTPD
378: ("the three-line configuration file we needed to modify ... on OpenBSD was
379: much simpler to deal with than the equivalent configuration file on
380: the Linux systems we've tested").
1.423 ian 381: Overall a favorable review of some of the new stuff in 3.6.
1.422 ian 382: <p>
383: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 otto 384: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
385: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
386: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
387: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
388: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
389: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
390: it claims to do".
391: <p>
392:
393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.421 ian 394: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109994542424009&w=2">
395: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution</a>
396: misc@, November 8, 2004</strong></font><br>
397: Theo recounts the struggle to get Intel to provide redistributable
398: versions of the firmware for their wireless chipsets, and their
1.423 ian 399: ultimate refusal to allow OpenBSD to redistribute the chipsets' firmware.
1.421 ian 400: Includes a caveat about Intel's disingenuous "FAQ", typical of many
401: corporate FAQs that answer questions nobody actually thought
402: to ask, and don't truthfully answer the questions you want hard answers to.
403: At the end Theo names the names (and their emails) that need to be contacted
404: by large numbers of end-users and developers if Intel is to change
405: (yes, this is a hint).
406: Of interest is that this posting to one of our mailing lists was
407: picked up on the
408: <a href="http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1923">Screaming
409: Electron Forum</a> and from there reported on
410: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/22/1249249&from=rss">
411: SlashDot</a>, where it is accompanied by a link to SlashDot's paper
412: on effective advocacy (be firm, but also be polite).
413: <p>
414:
415: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 416: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
417: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
418: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
419: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
420: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
421: questions about the significance and rationale behind
422: the current efforts.
423: <p>
424: </ul>
425:
1.407 henning 426: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
427: <ul>
428: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 429: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
430: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
431: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
432: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
433: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
434: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
435: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
436: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
437: <p>
438:
439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 440: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
441: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
442: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
443: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
444: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
445: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
446: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
447: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
448: of the important changes in 3.6.
449: </p>
450:
451: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.414 ian 452: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
453: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
454: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
455: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
456: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
457: overflow attacks... because
458: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
459: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
460: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
461: and propolice.
462: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
463: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
464: and that's when the science falls apart."
465: <p>
466:
467: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 468: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
469: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
470: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
471: Starts with the question:
472: <blockquote>
473: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
474: <br/>
475: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
476: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
477: <br/>
478: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
479: Should we believe them?"
480: </blockquote>
481: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
482: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
483: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
484: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
485: for your mail, web and other online activities.
486: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
487: <p>
488:
489: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 490: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
491: Simple Simon</a>,
492: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
493: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
494: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
495: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
496: routing/firewall, and more.
497: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
498: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
499: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
500: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
501: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
502: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
503: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
504: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
505: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
506: </blockquote>
507: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
508: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
509: <p>
510:
511: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 512: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
513: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 514: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 515: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 516: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
517: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
518: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 519: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 520: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
521: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
522: in spite of it
523: (registration required, but worth it).
524: <p>
525:
526: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
527: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
528: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
529: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
530: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
531: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
532: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
533: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 534: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 535: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
536: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
537: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
538: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
539: <p>
540:
541: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 542: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
543: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
544: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
545: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
546: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
547: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
548: <blockquote>
549: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
550: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
551: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
552: a lot of analysis.
553: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
554: </blockquote>
555: <p>
556: </ul>
557:
1.400 marco 558: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
559: <ul>
560: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 561: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
562: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
563: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
564: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
565: UNIX-like systems.
566: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
567: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
568: <p>
569: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 570: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
571: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 572: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
573: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
574: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
575: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
576: At one point, the article states:
577: <blockquote>
578: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
579: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
580: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
581: </blockquote>
582: And then quotes Theo as saying:
583: <blockquote>
584: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
585: fewer are reading or auditing code."
586: </blockquote>
587: <p>
588: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
589: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
590: marks its fifth birthday</a>
591: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
592: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
593: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
594: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
595: required).
596: <p>
597: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 598: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
599: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
600: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
601: </strong></font><br>
602: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
603: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
604: <p>
605: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 606: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
607: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 608: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 609: </strong></font><br>
610: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
611: <p>
612: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 613: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
614: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 615: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 616: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 617: 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 618: <p>
619: </ul>
620:
1.396 henning 621: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
622: <ul>
623: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 624: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
625: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
626: Unix Review, July, 2004
627: </strong></font><br>
628: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
629: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
630: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
631: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
632: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
633: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
634: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
635: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
636: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
637: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
638: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
639: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
640: and even spelling/wording errors.
641: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
642: <p>
643: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 644: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 645: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
646: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
647: </strong></font><br>
648: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
649: <p>
650: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 651: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 652: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
653: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
654: </strong></font><br>
655: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
656: <p>
657: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 658: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
659: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
660: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
661: </strong></font><br>
662: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
663: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
664: <p>
665: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 666: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
667: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
668: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
669: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
670: <p>
671: </ul>
672:
1.405 jolan 673: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
674: <ul>
675: <li><font color="#00900"><strong>
676: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
677: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 05, 2004</strong></font>
678: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
679: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
680: details on how funds are dispersed.
681: <p>
682: </ul>
683:
1.393 david 684: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
685: <ul>
686: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 687: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
688: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
689: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
690: </strong></font><br>
691: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
692: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
693: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
694: on inserting large number of SQL records.
695: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
696: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
697: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
698: <p>
699:
700: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 701: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
702: Secure by Default</a>,
703: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
704: </strong></font><br>
705: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
706: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
707: <p>
708:
709: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
710: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
711: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
712: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
713: </strong></font><br>
714: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
715: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
716: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
717: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
718: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
719: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
720: <p>
721:
722: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
723: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
724: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
725: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
726: </strong></font><br>
727: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
728: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
729: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
730: <p>
731:
732: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
733: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
734: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
735: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
736: </strong></font><br>
737: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
738: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
739: <p>
740: </ul>
741:
1.388 mcbride 742: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
743: <ul>
1.394 jolan 744:
745: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
746: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
747: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
748: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
749: </strong></font><br>
750: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
751: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
752: available for sparc64.
753: <p>
754:
1.390 beck 755: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 756: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
757: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
758: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
759: </strong></font><br>
760: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
761: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
762: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
763: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
764: <p>
765:
766: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 767: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
768: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 769: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 770: </strong></font><br>
771: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
772: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
773: it does: CARP provides sharing
774: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
775: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
776: detail to get you started using it.
777: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
778: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
779: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
780: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
781: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
782: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
783: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 784: <p>
1.391 ian 785:
786: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 787: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 788: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
789: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 790: </strong></font><br>
791: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 792: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 793: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 794: <p>
1.388 mcbride 795:
796: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
797: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
798: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 799: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 800: </strong></font><br>
801: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
802: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
803: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
804: unencumbered by patents.
805: <p>
806: </ul>
807:
1.378 henning 808: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
809: <ul>
1.384 jose 810:
811: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 812: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
813: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
814: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
815: </strong></font><br>
816: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
817: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
818: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
819: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
820: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
821: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
822: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
823: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
824: in the page tables."
825: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
826: <p>
827:
828: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 829: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
830: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
831: </strong></font><br>
832: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
833: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
834: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
835: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 836: <p>
1.384 jose 837:
1.378 henning 838: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 839: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
840: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 841: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
842: </strong></font><br>
843: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
844: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
845: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
846: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
847: (quote:
848: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
849: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 850: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 851: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
852: the other developers for their work on the system.
853: <p>
854:
855: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 856: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
857: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
858: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 859: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 860: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
861: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
862: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
863: too.
864: <p>
865:
866: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 867: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
868: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 869: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 870: OpenBSD source code using
871: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
872: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
873: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
874: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
875: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
876: <p>
877: </ul>
878:
1.374 jose 879: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
880: <ul>
881: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 882: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 883: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
884: </strong></font><br>
885: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
886: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
887: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
888: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
889: it."
890: <p>
891:
892: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 893: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
894: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
895: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
896: </strong></font><br/>
897: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
898: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
899: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
900: <p>
901: </ul>
902:
1.369 ian 903: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
904: <ul>
905: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 906: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
907: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
908: </strong></font><br/>
909: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
910: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
911: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
912: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
913: <p>
914:
915: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 916: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
917: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
918: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
919: </strong></font><br/>
920: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
921: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
922: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
923: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
924: form factor.
925: <p>
926:
927: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
928: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
929: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
930: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
931: Features</a>,
932: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
933: </strong></font><br/>
934: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
935: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
936: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
937: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
938: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
939: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
940: <p>
941: This article can also be found online at:
942: <ul>
943: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 944: <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 945: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
946: </strong></font>
947: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
948: </ul>
949: <p>
1.392 david 950:
1.371 jose 951: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 952: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
953: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 954: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
955: </strong></font><br/>
956: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
957: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
958: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 959: <p>
1.371 jose 960:
961: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 962: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 963: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 964: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 965: </strong></font><br/>
966: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
967: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
968: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
969: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
970: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
971: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
972: and its history with OpenBSD.
973: </ul>
974:
1.368 henning 975: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
976: <ul>
977: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 978: [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 979: </strong></font><br>
980: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
981: </ul>
982:
1.364 jose 983: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
984: <ul>
985: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 986: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
987: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
988: UNIX Review,
989: July, 2003.
990: </strong></font><br>
991: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
992: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
993: who want more information.
994: <p>
995:
996: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 997: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
998: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
999: Government Computer News,
1000: July 22, 2003.
1001: </strong></font><br>
1002: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
1003: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
1004: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
1005: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
1006: <p>
1007:
1008: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1009: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
1010: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
1011: SANS Institute,
1012: July 22, 2003.
1013: </strong></font><br>
1014: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 1015: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 1016: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
1017: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
1018: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
1019: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
1020: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
1021: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
1022: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
1023: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
1024: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
1025: <p>
1026:
1027: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 1028: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
1029: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
1030: OnLamp.com,
1031: July 17, 2003.
1032: </strong></font><br>
1033: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
1034: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
1035: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
1036: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
1037: have been working on.
1038:
1039: </ul>
1040:
1.356 jose 1041: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 1042: <ul>
1043:
1044: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 1045: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
1046: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
1047: UNIX Review,
1048: June, 2003.
1049: </strong></font><br>
1050: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
1051: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
1052: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
1053: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
1054: <p>
1055:
1056: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 1057: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
1058: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
1059: eWeek,
1060: June 23, 2003.
1061: </strong></font><br>
1062: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
1063: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
1064: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
1065: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
1066: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
1067: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
1068: <p>
1069:
1070: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 1071: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
1072: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
1073: Software Development Online,
1074: June, 2003.
1075: </strong></font><br>
1076: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
1077: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
1078: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
1079: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
1080: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
1081: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
1082: current activities.
1083: <p>
1084:
1085: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 1086: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
1087: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 1088: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
1089: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
1090: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
1091: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 1092: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 1093: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
1094: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
1095: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 1096: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 1097: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
1098: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 1099: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 1100: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
1101: decisions.
1102: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
1103: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 1104: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 1105: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 1106: <p>
1107:
1108: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 1109: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
1110: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
1111: Page 58, eWeek,
1112: June 2, 2003.
1113: </strong></font><br>
1114: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
1115: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
1116: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
1117: been addressed in -current.
1118: <p>
1119:
1.356 jose 1120: </ul>
1121:
1122: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
1123: <ul>
1124:
1.355 jose 1125: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 1126: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
1127: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
1128: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
1129: </strong></font><br>
1130: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
1131: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
1132: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
1133: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
1134: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
1135: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
1136: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
1137: <p>
1138:
1139: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 1140: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
1141: Beyond Linux</a>,
1142: InfoWorld,
1143: May 23, 2003.
1144: </strong></font><br>
1145: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
1146: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
1147: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
1148: compared to the GPL.
1149: <p>
1150:
1151: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 1152: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
1153: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
1154: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 1155: May 17, 2003.
1156: </strong></font><br>
1157: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
1158: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
1159: the business section and half of another page inside
1160: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
1161: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
1162: in talking about the project's history and goals.
1163: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
1164: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
1165: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
1166: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 1167: <br>
1168: This article can also be found online at:
1169: <ul>
1170: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1171: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
1172: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
1173: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
1174: May 17, 2003
1175: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 1176: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
1177: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1178: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
1179: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
1180: Montreal Gazette,
1181: May 21, 2003
1182: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 1183: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 1184: <p>
1.346 ian 1185:
1186: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 1187: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 1188: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 1189: May 7, 2003.
1190: </strong></font><br>
1191: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
1192: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
1193: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
1194: <p>
1195:
1196: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 1197: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
1198: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1199: OsOpinion,
1200: May 6, 2003.
1201: </strong></font><br>
1202: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
1203: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
1204: <br>
1205: This article can also be found online at:
1206: <ul>
1207: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1208: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
1209: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1210: NewsFactor Network.
1211: </strong></font>
1212: </ul>
1213: <p>
1214:
1215: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1216: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 1217: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
1218: ITBusiness,
1219: May 2, 2003.
1220: </strong></font><br>
1221: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
1222: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
1223: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
1224: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
1225: <p>
1226:
1227: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 1228: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
1229: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1230: InfoWorld,
1231: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 1232: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 1233: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
1234: <br>
1235: This article can also be found online at:
1236: <ul>
1237: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1238: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
1239: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1240: IDG Singapore.
1241: </strong></font>
1242: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1243: <p>
1244:
1.339 jose 1245: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1246: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
1247: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 1248: ZDNet,
1249: May 1, 2003.
1250: </strong></font><br>
1251: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 1252: someone using parts from previous articles.
1253: <br>
1.341 deraadt 1254: This article can also be found online at:
1255: <ul>
1256: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1257: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
1258: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1259: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 1260: </strong></font>
1261: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1262: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
1263: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1264: CNET News.com.
1265: </strong></font>
1266: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1267: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
1268: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
1269: ZDNet UK.
1270: </strong></font>
1271: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1272: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
1273: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
1274: Help Net Security, Croatia.
1275: </strong></font>
1276: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1277: <p>
1.339 jose 1278:
1.341 deraadt 1279: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1280: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 1281: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
1282: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
1283: May 1, 2003.
1284: </strong></font><br>
1285: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
1286: that have been added
1287: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
1288: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
1289: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 1290: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 1291: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
1292: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
1293: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 1294: <p>
1295:
1296: </ul>
1297:
1.253 ian 1298: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
1299: <ul>
1.255 ian 1300:
1.260 ian 1301: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1302: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 1303: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1304: TechRepublic,
1305: April 28, 2003.
1306: </strong></font><br>
1307: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
1308: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 1309: work.<br>
1310: Can also be found online at:
1311: <ul>
1312: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1313: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
1314: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1315: ZDNet UK.
1316: </strong></font>
1317: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 1318: <p>
1319:
1320: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 1321: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
1322: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
1323: IDG,
1324: April 24, 2003.
1325: </strong></font><br>
1326: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
1327: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
1328: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
1329: Can also be found online at:
1330: <ul>
1331: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1332: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
1333: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 1334: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 1335: </strong></font>
1336: </ul>
1337: <p>
1338:
1339: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1340: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 1341: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 1342: Slate,
1343: April 24, 2003.
1344: </strong></font><br>
1345: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
1346: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
1347: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
1348: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
1349: <p>
1350:
1351: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 1352: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1353: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
1354: April 24, 2003.
1355: </strong></font><br>
1356: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
1357: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
1358: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
1359: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
1360: <p>
1361:
1362: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 1363: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
1364: April 24, 2003.
1365: </strong></font><br>
1366: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
1367: the free software community".
1368: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
1369: other articles.
1370: <p>
1371:
1372: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1373: <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 1374: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
1375: </strong></font><br>
1376: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
1377: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
1378: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
1379: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
1380: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
1381: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
1382: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 1383: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 1384: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
1385: <br/>
1386: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
1387: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
1388: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
1389: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 1390: <br>
1391: Can also be found online at:
1392: <ul>
1393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1394: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
1395: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
1396: Common Dreams NewsCenter
1397: </strong></font>
1398: </ul>
1.324 ian 1399: <p>
1400:
1401: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1402: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
1403: Wired, April 24, 2003.
1404: </strong></font><br>
1405: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
1406: article above.
1407: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
1408: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
1409: wasting them."
1.332 ian 1410: <br>
1411: Can also be found online at:
1412: <ul>
1413: <li>
1414: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
1415: </strong></font>
1416: </ul>
1.324 ian 1417: <p>
1418:
1419: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 1420: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
1421: </strong></font><br>
1422: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
1423: <p>
1424:
1425: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 1426: <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.
1427: </strong></font><br>
1428: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
1429: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
1430: <p>
1431:
1432: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 1433: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
1434: April 23, 2003.
1435: </strong></font><br>
1436: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
1437: <p>
1438:
1439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 1440: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 1441: April 22, 2003.
1442: </strong></font><br>
1443: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
1444: <p>
1445:
1446: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 1447: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1448: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1449: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 1450: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 1451: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
1452: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
1453: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
1454: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
1455: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
1456: Can also be found online at:
1457: <ul>
1458: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1459: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 1460: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1461: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 1462: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 1463: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1464: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 1465: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
1466: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 1467: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 1468: </ul>
1469: <p>
1470:
1471: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 1472: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
1473: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 1474: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1475: </strong></font><br>
1476: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 1477: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
1478: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
1479: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
1480: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
1481: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
1482: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 1483: <p>
1484:
1485: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 1486: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
1487: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 1488: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
1489: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 1490: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
1491: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
1492: at UPenn and DARPA.
1493: <p>
1494:
1495: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 1496: [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,
1497: France
1.315 deraadt 1498: April 18, 2003.
1499: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 1500: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 1501: <p>
1502:
1503: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 1504: [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 1505: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1506: </strong></font><br>
1507: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
1508: <p>
1509:
1510: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 1511: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
1512: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
1513: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1514: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 1515: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
1516: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
1517: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
1518: <p>
1519:
1520: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 1521: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
1522: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1523: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 1524: </strong></font><br>
1525: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1526: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
1527: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 1528: American century.
1.267 deraadt 1529: <p>
1530:
1531: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 1532: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
1533: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1534: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 1535: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 1536: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
1537: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
1538: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
1539: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
1540: Can also be found online at:
1541: <ul>
1542: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
1543: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 1544: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 1545: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 1546: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 1547: <p>
1548:
1549: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 1550: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 1551: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1552: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 1553: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 1554: </strong></font><br>
1555: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 1556: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
1557: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
1558: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
1559: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 1560:
1561: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1562: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
1563: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1564: New York Times.
1565: </strong></font>(free registration required)
1566:
1.273 deraadt 1567: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1568: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 1569: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1570: ABC News.
1571: </strong></font>
1572:
1573: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1574: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 1575: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 1576: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 1577: </strong></font>
1578:
1579: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1580: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1581: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 1582: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 1583: </strong></font>
1584:
1585: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 1586: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
1587: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1588: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 1589: </strong></font>
1590:
1591: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1592: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1593: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 1594: Times Daily, AL.
1595: </strong></font>
1596:
1597: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1598: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
1599: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
1600: Boston.com, MA.
1601: </strong></font>
1602:
1603: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1604: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 1605: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 1606: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
1607: </strong></font>
1608:
1609: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 1610: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
1611: [Article was pulled]</a>
1612: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 1613: </strong></font>
1614:
1615: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1616: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
1617: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
1618: Infoshop News.
1619: </strong></font>
1620:
1621: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1622: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
1623: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1624: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
1625: </strong></font>
1626:
1627: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 1628: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
1629: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
1630: Raleigh News, NC.
1631: </strong></font>
1632:
1633: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1634: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 1635: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
1636: Napa News, CA.
1637: </strong></font>
1638:
1639: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1640: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 1641: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1642: NEPA News, PA.
1643: </strong></font>
1644:
1645: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1646: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
1647: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
1648: Wired News.
1649: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 1650: <br>
1651: <li>
1.333 deraadt 1652: <font color="#009000"><strong>
1653: [JAPANESE]
1654: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
1655: Wired News Japan</a>
1656: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 1657:
1.271 deraadt 1658: </ul>
1659: <p>
1.272 deraadt 1660: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
1661: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 1662: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
1663: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
1664: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
1665: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
1666: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
1667: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 1668: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 1669: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
1670: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
1671: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 1672: <p>
1673: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 1674:
1675: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1676: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 1677: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1678: Indianapolis Star, IN.
1679: </strong></font>
1680:
1681: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 1682: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
1683: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1684: Miami Herald, FL.
1685: </strong></font>
1686:
1687: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 1688: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1689: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
1690: </strong></font>
1691:
1692: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1693: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 1694: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1695: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 1696: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 1697:
1698: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1699: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
1700: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
1701: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
1702: ABC News.
1703: </strong></font>
1704:
1.276 deraadt 1705: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1706: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 1707: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1708: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 1709: </strong></font>
1710:
1.286 dhartmei 1711: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1712: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 1713: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1714: Wilmington Star, NC.
1715: </strong></font>
1716:
1.300 jose 1717: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1718: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
1719: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
1720: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
1721: </strong></font>
1722:
1.309 jose 1723: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1724: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
1725: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
1726: Globe Technology.
1727: </strong></font>
1728:
1.263 deraadt 1729: </ul>
1.262 beck 1730: <p>
1731:
1732: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 1733: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
1734: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1735: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 1736: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 1737: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 1738: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
1739: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
1740: <p>
1741:
1742: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 1743: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
1744: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
1745: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1746: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 1747: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
1748: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
1749: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
1750: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
1751: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
1752: and simply restates other press reports.
1753: <p>
1754:
1755: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 1756: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
1757: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1758: OS News, April 18, 2003.
1759: </strong></font><br>
1760: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
1761: <p>
1762:
1763: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 1764: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
1765: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1766: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 1767: </strong></font><br>
1768: Another report on the DARPA funding.
1769: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
1770: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
1771: <p>
1772:
1773: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 1774: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
1775: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
1776: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
1777: April 17, 2003.
1778: </strong></font><br>
1779: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
1780: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
1781: Tech Anthems</a>
1782: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
1783: 4 so far.
1784: <p>
1785:
1786: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 1787: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
1788: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1789: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1790: </strong></font><br>
1791: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
1792: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
1793: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
1794: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
1795: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
1796: Goes on to say:
1797: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
1798: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
1799: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
1800: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 1801: This article is also found online at:
1802: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 1803: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1804: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
1805: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
1806: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1807: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1808: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1809: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
1810: ZDnet</a>,
1811: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1812: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1813: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1814: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
1815: ZDnet Australia</a>,
1816: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 1817: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 1818: </ul>
1.260 ian 1819: <p>
1.279 deraadt 1820:
1.260 ian 1821: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1822: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 1823: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 1824: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1825: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 1826: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 1827: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
1828: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
1829: without notice or justification.
1830: <p>
1831:
1832: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1833: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 1834: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 1835: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1836: </strong></font><br>
1837: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
1838: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 1839: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 1840: effective today, without any warning..."
1841: <p>
1.257 ian 1842:
1843: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 1844: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
1845: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1846: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 1847: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 1848: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
1849: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
1850: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
1851: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
1852: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 1853: <p>
1854:
1855: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 1856: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
1857: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1858: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 1859: </strong></font><br>
1860: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
1861: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
1862: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
1863: quoting two of them:
1864: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
1865: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
1866: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
1867: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
1868: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
1869: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
1870: <p>
1871:
1.255 ian 1872: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1873: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
1874: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 1875: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1876: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 1877: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 1878: <p>
1879:
1880: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 1881: [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 1882: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1883: </strong></font><br>
1884: New security concepts in OpenBSD
1885: <p>
1886:
1887: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 1888: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
1889: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1890: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 1891: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 1892: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 1893: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
1894: security experts for more than three decades."
1895: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
1896: <p>
1.261 ian 1897:
1.254 drahn 1898: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 1899: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 1900: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1901: </strong></font><br>
1902: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1903: <p>
1904:
1905: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 1906: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
1907: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
1908: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
1909: </strong></font><br>
1910: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
1911: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
1912: discussion OpenBSD's path.
1913: <p>
1914:
1915: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 1916: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
1917: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1918: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 1919: </strong></font><br>
1920: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
1921: from US DARPA.
1922: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
1923: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
1924: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
1925: the BSD license.
1926: <p>
1927: </ul>
1928:
1.251 ian 1929: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
1930: <ul>
1931:
1932: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1933: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
1934: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
1935: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
1936: </strong></font><br>
1937:
1938: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
1939: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
1940: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
1941: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
1942: <p>
1943:
1944: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 1945: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
1946: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 1947: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 1948: </strong></font><br>
1949: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
1950: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
1951: Mentions
1952: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
1953: and
1954: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
1955: programs.
1956: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 1957: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 1958: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
1959: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
1960: <p>
1.325 ian 1961: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
1962: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 1963:
1964: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1965: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
1966: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
1967: </strong></font><br>
1968: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
1969: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
1970: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
1971: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
1972: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
1973: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
1974: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
1975: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
1976: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
1977: put into service."
1978: <p>
1979: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
1980: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
1981: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
1982: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
1983: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
1984: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
1985: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
1986: computers with security features."
1987: <p>
1.329 ian 1988:
1989: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1990: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
1991: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
1992: Slate,
1993: March 3, 2003.
1994: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 1995: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 1996: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
1997: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
1998: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
1999: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
2000: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
2001: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
2002: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
2003: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
2004: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
2005: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
2006: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
2007: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
2008: of more secure open-source solutions like
2009: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
2010: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
2011: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
2012: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
2013: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
2014: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
2015: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
2016: the Beltway."
2017: <p>
1.251 ian 2018: </ul>
2019:
1.249 jufi 2020: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
2021: <ul>
2022: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2023: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
2024: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2025: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 2026: </strong></font><br>
2027: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
2028: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 2029: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 2030: <p>
1.334 ian 2031:
2032: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2033: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
2034: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
2035: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
2036: </strong></font><br>
2037: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
2038: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
2039: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
2040: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
2041: "... the hypothetical question ...
2042: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
2043: <br>
2044: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
2045: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
2046: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
2047: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
2048: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
2049: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 2050: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 2051: support network security.
2052: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
2053: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
2054: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
2055: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
2056: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
2057: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
2058: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
2059: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
2060: <br>
2061: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
2062: <p>
2063:
1.249 jufi 2064: </ul>
2065:
1.246 jufi 2066: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2067: <ul>
1.246 jufi 2068:
1.247 jufi 2069: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2070: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 2071: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
2072: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2073: </strong></font><br>
2074: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
2075: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
2076: <p>
2077:
1.247 jufi 2078: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2079: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
2080: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
2081: Heise News-Ticker, December 04, 2002
2082: </strong></font><br>
2083: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
2084: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
2085: <p>
2086:
2087: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2088: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 2089: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
2090: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2091: </strong></font><br>
2092: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
2093: in their annual OpenHack security test.
2094: <p>
1.247 jufi 2095: </ul>
1.246 jufi 2096:
1.244 jufi 2097: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2098: <ul>
1.246 jufi 2099:
1.247 jufi 2100: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2101: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
2102: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
2103: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2104: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2105: </strong></font><br>
2106: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
2107: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
2108: md5 digests.
2109: <p>
2110:
1.247 jufi 2111: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2112: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 2113: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
2114: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2115: </strong></font><br>
2116: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
2117: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
2118: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
2119: right the first time."
2120: <p>
1.247 jufi 2121: </ul>
1.244 jufi 2122:
2123:
2124: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2125: <ul>
1.244 jufi 2126:
1.247 jufi 2127: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2128: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2129: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
2130: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2131: </strong></font><br>
2132: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
2133: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
2134: part 6</a>.
2135: <p>
2136:
1.247 jufi 2137: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2138: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 2139: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
2140: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2141: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2142: </strong></font><br>
2143: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
2144: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
2145: <p>
1.301 jose 2146:
2147: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2148: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
2149: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
2150: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
2151: </strong></font><br>
2152:
2153: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
2154: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
2155: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
2156: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
2157: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
2158: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
2159: <i>Here's the
2160: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
2161: <p>
1.247 jufi 2162: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2163:
2164: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2165: <ul>
1.242 jufi 2166:
1.247 jufi 2167: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2168: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 2169: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2170: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2171: </strong></font><br>
2172: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
2173: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
2174: <p>
2175:
1.247 jufi 2176: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2177: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2178: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
2179: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2180: </strong></font><br>
2181: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
2182: this time using pf.
2183: <p>
1.247 jufi 2184: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2185:
2186: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2187: <ul>
1.242 jufi 2188:
1.247 jufi 2189: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2190: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2191: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
2192: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2193: </strong></font><br>
2194: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
2195: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
2196: their rotation.
2197: <p>
2198:
1.247 jufi 2199: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2200: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2201: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
2202: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2203: </strong></font><br>
2204: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
2205: <p>
1.247 jufi 2206: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2207:
1.239 jufi 2208: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2209: <ul>
1.239 jufi 2210:
1.247 jufi 2211: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2212: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2213: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
2214: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2215: </strong></font><br>
2216: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
2217: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
2218: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
2219: <p>
2220:
1.247 jufi 2221: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 2222: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2223: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
2224: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 2225: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 2226: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
2227: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
2228: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 2229: <p>
1.247 jufi 2230: </ul>
1.239 jufi 2231:
1.235 lebel 2232: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2233: <ul>
1.235 lebel 2234:
1.239 jufi 2235:
1.247 jufi 2236: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 2237: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 2238: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
2239: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 2240: </strong></font><br>
2241: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
2242: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
2243: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
2244: <p>
1.301 jose 2245:
1.247 jufi 2246: </ul>
1.235 lebel 2247:
1.228 horacio 2248: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2249: <ul>
1.228 horacio 2250:
1.247 jufi 2251: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2252: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2253: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
2254: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 2255: </strong></font><br>
2256: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
2257: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
2258: <p>
2259:
1.247 jufi 2260: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 2261: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 2262: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
2263: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 2264: </strong></font><br>
2265: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
2266: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
2267: <p>
2268:
1.247 jufi 2269: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 2270: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 2271: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
2272: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 2273: </strong></font><br>
2274: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
2275: on the desktop of his parents.
2276: <p>
2277:
1.247 jufi 2278: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 2279: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 2280: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
2281: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 2282: </strong></font><br>
2283: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
2284: using IPFilter.
2285:
2286: <p>
2287:
1.247 jufi 2288: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 2289: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 2290: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
2291: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 2292: </strong></font><br>
2293: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
2294: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
2295: perspectives of the four OS.
2296: <br>
2297: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 2298: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 2299: <p>
2300:
1.247 jufi 2301: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 2302: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
2303: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 2304: software and security</a>,
2305: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 2306: </strong></font><br>
2307:
2308: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
2309: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
2310: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
2311: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
2312: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
2313: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
2314: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
2315: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
2316: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
2317: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
2318: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
2319: security conscious team beyond doubt.
2320: <p>
1.247 jufi 2321: </ul>
1.228 horacio 2322:
1.225 horacio 2323: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2324: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2325:
1.247 jufi 2326: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2327: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
2328: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 2329: Interview</a>,
2330: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 2331: </strong></font><br>
2332:
2333: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
2334: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
2335: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 2336: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 2337: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
2338: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
2339: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
2340: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
2341: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 2342: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 2343: of choice.
2344: <p>
1.247 jufi 2345: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2346:
2347: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2348: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2349:
1.247 jufi 2350: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2351: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 2352: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
2353: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 2354: </strong></font><br>
2355:
2356: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
2357: <p>
2358:
1.247 jufi 2359: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2360: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 2361: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
2362: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 2363: </strong></font><br>
2364:
2365: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
2366: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
2367: <p>
1.247 jufi 2368: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2369:
1.218 horacio 2370: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2371: <ul>
1.218 horacio 2372:
1.247 jufi 2373: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 2374: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 2375: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 2376: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 2377: </strong></font><br>
2378:
2379: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
2380: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
2381: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
2382: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
2383: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
2384: subjects. Worth a read.
2385: <p>
2386:
2387:
1.247 jufi 2388: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 2389: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 2390: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
2391: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 2392: </strong></font><br>
2393:
2394: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
2395: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
2396: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
2397: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
2398: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
2399: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
2400: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
2401: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
2402: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 2403: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 2404: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
2405: on other operating systems.<br>
2406: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
2407: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
2408: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
2409: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
2410: <p>
2411:
1.247 jufi 2412: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2413: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 2414: Operating System 2010</a>,
2415: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 2416: </strong></font><br>
2417:
2418: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
2419: covering the level of software integration into the core
2420: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
2421: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
2422: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
2423: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
2424: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
2425: <p>
2426:
1.247 jufi 2427: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 2428: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2429: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
2430: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 2431: </strong></font><br>
2432:
2433: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
2434: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
2435: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
2436: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
2437: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
2438: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
2439: <p>
1.247 jufi 2440: </ul>
1.221 horacio 2441:
1.210 jufi 2442: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2443: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2444:
1.247 jufi 2445: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2446: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2447: Already a Contender</a>,
2448: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 2449: </strong></font><br>
2450:
2451: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
2452: source software in response to an article which claimed that
2453: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
2454: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
2455: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
2456: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
2457: <p>
2458:
1.247 jufi 2459: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 2460: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 2461: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
2462: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 2463: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2464:
1.224 horacio 2465: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
2466: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
2467: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
2468: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
2469: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
2470: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 2471: <p>
1.247 jufi 2472: </ul>
1.215 horacio 2473:
2474: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2475: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2476:
1.247 jufi 2477: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2478: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
2479: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 2480: Division</a>,
2481: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 2482: </strong></font><br>
2483:
2484: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
2485: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 2486: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 2487: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
2488: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
2489: investment</em>.<br>
2490: The implementation details can be seen on their
2491: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
2492: <p>
2493:
1.247 jufi 2494: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2495: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
2496: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
2497: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
2498: </strong></font><br>
2499:
2500: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
2501: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
2502: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
2503: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
2504: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
2505: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
2506: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
2507: <p>
2508:
2509: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2510: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2511: Thinking about Security</a>,
2512: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2513: </strong></font><br>
2514:
2515: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
2516: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
2517: security and says that even secured operating systems running
2518: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
2519: to time.<br>
2520: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
2521: system and just the most secure system.
2522: <p>
2523:
1.247 jufi 2524: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2525: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2526: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
2527: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2528: </strong></font><br>
2529:
2530: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
2531: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
2532: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
2533: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
2534: choice:<br>
2535: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
2536: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
2537: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
2538: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
2539: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
2540: network security devices and as such must be well
2541: armored."</em><br>
2542: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
2543: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
2544: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
2545: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
2546: <br>
2547: Bravo!
2548: <p>
1.247 jufi 2549: </ul>
1.210 jufi 2550:
1.207 ian 2551: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2552: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2553:
1.247 jufi 2554: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 2555: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
2556: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
2557: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 2558:
1.207 ian 2559: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
2560: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 2561: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 2562: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
2563: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
2564: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 2565: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 2566: <p>
1.247 jufi 2567: </ul>
1.207 ian 2568:
1.194 jufi 2569: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2570: <ul>
1.194 jufi 2571:
1.247 jufi 2572: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2573: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 2574: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
2575: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 2576: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2577:
1.240 miod 2578: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 2579: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
2580: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
2581: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
2582: <p>
2583:
1.247 jufi 2584: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2585: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
2586: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
2587: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
2588:
2589: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
2590: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
2591: <p>
2592:
2593: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2594: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
2595: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2596: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
2597:
2598: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
2599: <p>
2600:
2601: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2602: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 2603: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
2604: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
2605: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2606:
1.240 miod 2607: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 2608: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 2609: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
2610: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 2611: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 2612: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 2613: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
2614: <br>
1.413 deraadt 2615: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 2616: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
2617: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
2618: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
2619: <p>
2620:
1.247 jufi 2621: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 2622: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
2623: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 2624: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 2625: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2626:
1.194 jufi 2627: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
2628: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
2629: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
2630: <br>
2631: The new
2632: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 2633: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 2634: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
2635: <p>
1.247 jufi 2636: </ul>
1.194 jufi 2637:
1.190 horacio 2638: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2639: <ul>
1.190 horacio 2640:
1.247 jufi 2641: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 2642:
2643: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
2644: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
2645:
1.301 jose 2646:
1.191 jufi 2647: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
2648: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
2649:
2650: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
2651: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
2652:
1.212 horacio 2653: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
2654: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 2655: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
2656:
1.211 horacio 2657: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
2658: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 2659: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
2660:
1.247 jufi 2661: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 2662: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
2663:
1.247 jufi 2664: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 2665: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
2666:
1.212 horacio 2667: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
2668: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 2669: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
2670:
2671: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
2672: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
2673:
2674: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
2675: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
2676:
1.301 jose 2677: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
2678: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
2679:
1.191 jufi 2680: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
2681: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
2682:
2683: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 2684: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 2685:
1.192 jufi 2686: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
2687: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 2688: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 2689:
1.193 deraadt 2690: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
2691: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 2692: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 2693:
1.247 jufi 2694: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 2695: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
2696:
1.247 jufi 2697: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 2698: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
2699: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
2700:
1.213 horacio 2701: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 2702: 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 2703: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
2704:
1.190 horacio 2705: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 2706: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
2707: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
2708: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
2709: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
2710: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
2711: <p>
1.190 horacio 2712:
1.247 jufi 2713: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2714: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
2715: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
2716: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 2717: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2718:
1.195 jufi 2719: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 2720: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
2721: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
2722: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 2723: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
2724: <p>
2725:
1.247 jufi 2726: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2727: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 2728: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
2729: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
2730: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2731:
1.191 jufi 2732: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 2733: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
2734: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
2735: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
2736: <p>
2737:
2738: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2739: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2740: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2741: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
2742:
2743: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2744: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 2745: <p>
1.247 jufi 2746: </ul>
1.190 horacio 2747:
1.191 jufi 2748:
1.186 jufi 2749: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2750: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 2751:
1.247 jufi 2752: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 2753: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 2754: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
2755: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 2756: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 2757:
1.188 jufi 2758: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 2759: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 2760: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 2761: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
2762: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 2763: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 2764: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 2765: <p>
2766:
1.301 jose 2767: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2768: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2769: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2770: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2771:
2772: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2773: <p>
1.191 jufi 2774:
1.247 jufi 2775: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 2776: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
2777: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
2778: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 2779: </strong></font><br>
2780:
2781: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
2782: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
2783: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
2784: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
2785: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
2786: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
2787: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
2788: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
2789: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
2790: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
2791: familiar?
2792: <p>
1.247 jufi 2793: </ul>
1.191 jufi 2794:
1.178 louis 2795: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2796: <ul>
1.178 louis 2797:
1.247 jufi 2798: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 2799: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 2800: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
2801: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 2802: </strong></font><br>
2803:
2804: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
2805: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
2806: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
2807: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
2808: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
2809: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
2810: <p>
2811:
1.247 jufi 2812: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2813: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
2814: Open source under the hood</a>,
2815: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 2816: </strong></font><br>
2817:
2818: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
2819: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
2820: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
2821: <p>
2822:
1.247 jufi 2823: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2824: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
2825: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
2826: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 2827: </strong></font><br>
2828:
2829: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
2830: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
2831: <p>
1.247 jufi 2832: </ul>
1.179 louis 2833:
1.174 louis 2834:
1.175 louis 2835: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2836: <ul>
1.175 louis 2837:
1.247 jufi 2838: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2839: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
2840: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
2841: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 2842: </strong></font><br>
2843:
2844: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
2845: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
2846: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
2847: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
2848: <p>
2849:
1.247 jufi 2850: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2851: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
2852: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
2853: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 2854: </strong></font><br>
2855:
2856: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 2857: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 2858: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
2859: <p>
1.247 jufi 2860: </ul>
1.175 louis 2861:
1.176 louis 2862:
1.172 mickey 2863: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2864: <ul>
1.172 mickey 2865:
1.247 jufi 2866: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2867: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
2868: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 2869: </strong></font><br>
2870:
2871: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
2872: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
2873: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 2874: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 2875: <p>
2876:
1.247 jufi 2877: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 2878: <a
1.269 deraadt 2879: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
2880: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
2881: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 2882: </strong></font><br>
2883:
2884: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
2885: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
2886: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
2887: <p>
2888:
1.247 jufi 2889: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2890: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 2891: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
2892: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 2893: </strong></font><br>
2894:
2895: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
2896: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
2897: <p>
2898:
1.247 jufi 2899: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2900: <a
1.269 deraadt 2901: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
2902: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 2903: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
2904: </strong></font><br>
2905:
2906: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
2907: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
2908: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
2909: our own Theo de Raadt.
2910: <p>
2911:
1.247 jufi 2912: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2913: <a
1.269 deraadt 2914: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
2915: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
2916: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 2917: </strong></font><br>
2918:
2919: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
2920: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
2921: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
2922: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
2923: shut down.]
2924: <p>
2925:
1.247 jufi 2926: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2927: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 2928: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 2929: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
2930: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 2931: </strong></font><br>
2932:
2933: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
2934: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
2935: <p>
1.247 jufi 2936: </ul>
1.172 mickey 2937:
1.161 louis 2938: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2939: <ul>
1.161 louis 2940:
1.247 jufi 2941: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2942: <a
1.269 deraadt 2943: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
2944: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
2945: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 2946: </strong></font><br>
2947:
2948: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
2949: by John Wolley
2950: <p>
2951:
1.247 jufi 2952: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2953: <a
1.269 deraadt 2954: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
2955: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
2956: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 2957: </strong></font><br>
2958:
2959: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
2960: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
2961: OpenBSD).
2962: <p>
2963:
1.247 jufi 2964: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2965: <a
1.247 jufi 2966: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 2967: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
2968: </strong></font><br>
2969:
2970: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
2971: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
2972: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
2973: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
2974: and hindsight.
2975: <p>
2976:
1.247 jufi 2977: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2978: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
2979: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
2980: </strong></font><br>
2981:
2982: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
2983: <p>
2984:
1.247 jufi 2985: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 2986: <a
1.168 provos 2987: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
2988: December 7, 2000
2989: </strong></font><br>
2990:
2991: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
2992: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
2993: us explain.
2994: <p>
2995:
1.247 jufi 2996: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 2997: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
2998: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 2999: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 3000: December 6, 2000
3001: </strong></font><br>
3002:
3003: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
3004: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
3005: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
3006: <p>
3007:
1.247 jufi 3008: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3009: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
3010: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
3011: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
3012: </strong></font><br>
3013:
3014: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
3015: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
3016: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
3017: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
3018: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
3019: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
3020: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
3021: <p>
3022:
3023: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 3024: <a
1.226 horacio 3025: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
3026: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 3027: </strong></font><br>
3028:
3029: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 3030: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 3031: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 3032: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
3033: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
3034: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 3035: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 3036: <p>
1.162 millert 3037:
1.247 jufi 3038: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 3039: <a
1.161 louis 3040: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
3041: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
3042: </strong></font><br>
3043:
3044: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
3045: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
3046: <p>
3047:
1.247 jufi 3048: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3049: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
3050: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
3051: </strong></font><br>
3052:
3053: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
3054: <p>
3055:
3056:
1.247 jufi 3057: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 3058: <a
1.226 horacio 3059: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
3060: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
3061: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 3062: </strong></font><br>
3063:
3064: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
3065: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
3066: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
3067: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
3068: <p>
1.247 jufi 3069: </ul>
1.169 louis 3070:
1.158 louis 3071: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3072: <ul>
1.147 louis 3073:
1.247 jufi 3074: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3075: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
3076: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 3077: </strong></font><br>
3078:
3079: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
3080: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
3081: <p>
3082:
1.247 jufi 3083: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3084: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
3085: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
3086: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 3087: </strong></font><br>
3088: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
3089: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
3090: <p>
3091:
1.247 jufi 3092: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 3093: <a
3094: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
3095: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
3096: </strong></font><br>
3097:
3098: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
3099: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
3100: <p>
3101:
1.247 jufi 3102: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3103: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 3104: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
3105: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 3106:
1.213 horacio 3107: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 3108: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 3109: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
3110: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
3111: <p>
1.215 horacio 3112:
1.247 jufi 3113: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3114: <a
3115: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
3116: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
3117: </strong></font><br>
3118:
3119: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
3120: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
3121: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
3122: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
3123: much of the attitude too).
3124: <p>
1.161 louis 3125:
1.247 jufi 3126: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3127: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3128: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 3129: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3130:
1.157 louis 3131: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
3132: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
3133: <p>
1.247 jufi 3134: </ul>
1.157 louis 3135:
3136: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3137: <ul>
1.157 louis 3138:
1.247 jufi 3139: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3140: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3141: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 3142: </strong></font><br>
3143:
3144: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
3145: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
3146: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
3147: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
3148: <p>
3149:
1.247 jufi 3150: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 3151: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
3152: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
3153: </strong></font><br>
3154:
3155: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
3156: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
3157: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
3158: it because they love coding...
3159: <p>
3160:
1.247 jufi 3161: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 3162: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
3163: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
3164: </strong></font><br>
3165:
3166: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
3167: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
3168: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
3169: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
3170: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
3171: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
3172: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
3173: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
3174: <p>
3175:
1.247 jufi 3176: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3177: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
3178: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
3179: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 3180: </strong></font><br>
3181:
3182: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
3183: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
3184: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
3185: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
3186: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
3187: the pizza.
3188: <p>
3189:
1.247 jufi 3190: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 3191: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
3192: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
3193: </strong></font><br>
3194:
3195: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
3196: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
3197: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
3198: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
3199: problems.
3200: <p>
3201:
1.247 jufi 3202: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 3203: <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 3204: </strong></font><br>
3205:
1.222 miod 3206: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 3207: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
3208: - whether they like it or not.
3209: <p>
3210:
1.247 jufi 3211: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3212: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
3213: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 3214: </strong></font><br>
3215:
3216: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
3217: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
3218: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 3219: <p>
1.148 aaron 3220:
1.247 jufi 3221: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3222: <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 3223: </strong></font><br>
3224:
3225: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
3226: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
3227: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
3228: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
3229: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
3230: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
3231: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
3232: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
3233: <p>
3234:
1.247 jufi 3235: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3236: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
3237: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 3238: </strong></font><br>
3239:
3240: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
3241: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 3242: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 3243: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
3244: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
3245: <p>
1.247 jufi 3246: </ul>
1.147 louis 3247:
1.138 louis 3248: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3249: <ul>
1.138 louis 3250:
1.247 jufi 3251: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3252: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
3253: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
3254: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
3255: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 3256: </strong></font><br>
3257:
1.227 horacio 3258: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 3259: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
3260: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
3261: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
3262: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
3263: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
3264: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
3265: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 3266: <p>
3267:
1.247 jufi 3268: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 3269: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 3270: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 3271: </strong></font><br>
3272:
3273: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
3274: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
3275: groups, and even Linux.
3276: <p>
3277:
1.247 jufi 3278: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3279: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
3280: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 3281: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
3282: </strong></font><br>
3283:
3284: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
3285: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
3286: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
3287: library after installing the OS.
3288: <p>
3289:
1.247 jufi 3290: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3291: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 3292: Sys Admin, September 2000
3293: </strong></font><br>
3294:
3295: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
3296: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
3297: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
3298: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 3299: (<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>,
3300: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
3301: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
3302: <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 3303: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 3304: out of the system.
3305: <p>
3306:
1.247 jufi 3307: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 3308: <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
3309: </strong></font><br>
3310:
3311: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 3312: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 3313: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
3314: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
3315: the IP filtering and address translation.
3316: <p>
1.301 jose 3317:
3318: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3319: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
3320: </strong></font><br>
3321:
3322: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
3323: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
3324: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
3325: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
3326: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
3327: <p>
1.247 jufi 3328: </ul>
1.200 niklas 3329:
1.131 louis 3330: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3331: <ul>
1.131 louis 3332:
1.247 jufi 3333: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3334: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
3335: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
3336: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 3337: </strong></font><br>
3338:
3339: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
3340: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
3341: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
3342: <p>
3343:
1.247 jufi 3344: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 3345: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
3346: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
3347: </strong></font><br>
3348:
3349: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
3350: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
3351: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
3352: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
3353: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
3354: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
3355: note of"</i>.
3356: <p>
3357:
1.247 jufi 3358: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 3359: <a
1.247 jufi 3360: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 3361: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
3362: </strong></font><br>
3363:
3364: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
3365: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
3366: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
3367: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
3368: <p>
3369:
1.247 jufi 3370: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 3371: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 3372: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
3373: </strong></font><br>
3374:
3375: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
3376: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
3377: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
3378: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
3379: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
3380: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
3381: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
3382: <p>
3383:
1.247 jufi 3384: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 3385: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
3386: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
3387: 2000
3388: </strong></font><br>
3389:
3390: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
3391: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
3392: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
3393: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
3394: against current industry practices.
3395: <p>
3396:
1.247 jufi 3397: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 3398: <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
3399: </strong></font><br>
3400:
3401: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
3402: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
3403: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
3404: <p>
3405:
1.247 jufi 3406: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 3407: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
3408: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
3409: </strong></font><br>
3410:
3411: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
3412: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
3413: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
3414: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
3415: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
3416: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
3417: careful code reviews, he concludes.
3418: <p>
3419:
1.247 jufi 3420: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 3421: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
3422: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
3423: </strong></font><br>
3424:
3425: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
3426: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
3427: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
3428: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
3429: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 3430: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
3431: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
3432: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 3433: <p>
1.247 jufi 3434: </ul>
1.131 louis 3435:
1.118 louis 3436: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3437: <ul>
1.118 louis 3438:
1.247 jufi 3439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 3440: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
3441: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
3442: </strong></font><br>
3443:
3444: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
3445: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
3446: about time. The article mentions that
3447: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
3448: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
3449: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 3450: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 3451: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
3452: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 3453: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 3454: <p>
3455:
1.247 jufi 3456: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3457: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 3458: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3459: </strong></font><br>
3460:
3461: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
3462: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
3463: of OpenSSH.
3464: <p>
3465:
1.247 jufi 3466: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3467: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3468: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3469: </strong></font><br>
3470:
3471: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 3472: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 3473: bridging.
3474: <p>
3475:
1.247 jufi 3476: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3477: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
3478: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 3479: </strong></font><br>
3480:
1.121 deraadt 3481: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
3482: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 3483: <p>
3484:
1.247 jufi 3485: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3486: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
3487: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
3488: </strong></font><br>
3489:
3490: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
3491: <p>
3492:
1.247 jufi 3493: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 3494: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3495: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
3496: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 3497: </strong></font><br>
3498:
1.120 deraadt 3499: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
3500: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 3501: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
3502: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
3503: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
3504: <p>
3505:
1.247 jufi 3506: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 3507: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
3508: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
3509: </strong></font><br>
3510:
1.222 miod 3511: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 3512: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
3513: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
3514: protocols and their quirks.
3515: <p>
3516:
1.247 jufi 3517: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3518: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
3519: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 3520: </strong></font><br>
3521:
3522: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
3523: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
3524: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 3525: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 3526: <p>
3527:
1.247 jufi 3528: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 3529: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
3530: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
3531: </strong></font><br>
3532:
3533: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
3534: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
3535: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
3536: <p>
3537:
1.247 jufi 3538: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 3539: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3540: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
3541: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 3542: </strong></font><br>
3543:
3544: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
3545: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
3546: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
3547: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
3548: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
3549: <p>
1.247 jufi 3550: </ul>
1.118 louis 3551:
1.104 louis 3552: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3553: <ul>
1.104 louis 3554:
1.247 jufi 3555: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 3556: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
3557: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
3558: </strong></font><br>
3559:
3560: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
3561: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
3562: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
3563: be a bit dry.
3564: <p>
3565:
1.247 jufi 3566: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3567: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
3568: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
3569: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
3570: </strong></font><br>
3571: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
3572: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
3573: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
3574: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
3575: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
3576: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
3577: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
3578: <p>
3579:
1.247 jufi 3580: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3581: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
3582: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 3583: 2000
1.128 louis 3584: </strong></font><br>
3585:
3586: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
3587: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
3588: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
3589: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
3590: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 3591: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 3592: <p>
3593:
1.247 jufi 3594: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3595: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
3596: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 3597: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 3598:
3599: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
3600: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
3601: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
3602: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 3603: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
3604: <p>
1.110 louis 3605:
1.247 jufi 3606: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 3607: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
3608: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
3609: </strong></font><br>
3610:
3611: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
3612: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
3613: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
3614: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
3615: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
3616: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
3617: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
3618: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
3619: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
3620: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
3621: <p>
3622:
1.247 jufi 3623: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 3624: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3625: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 3626:
3627: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
3628: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 3629: <p>
1.108 louis 3630:
1.247 jufi 3631: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 3632: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
3633: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 3634: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 3635:
3636: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
3637: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
3638: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 3639: <p>
1.106 louis 3640:
1.247 jufi 3641: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 3642: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
3643: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 3644: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 3645:
3646: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
3647: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
3648: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
3649: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 3650: <p>
1.107 louis 3651:
1.247 jufi 3652: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3653: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
3654: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3655: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 3656:
3657: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
3658: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 3659: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 3660: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
3661: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 3662: <p>
1.105 louis 3663:
1.247 jufi 3664: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 3665: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 3666: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 3667: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 3668:
1.113 naddy 3669: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
3670: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 3671: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 3672: <p>
1.104 louis 3673:
1.247 jufi 3674: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3675: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
3676: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
3677: </strong></font><br>
3678:
3679: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
3680: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
3681: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
3682: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
3683: <p>
1.301 jose 3684:
3685: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3686: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
3687: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
3688: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
3689:
3690: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
3691: hardware-supported cryptography.
3692: <p>
1.247 jufi 3693: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 3694:
1.85 louis 3695: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3696: <ul>
1.85 louis 3697:
1.247 jufi 3698: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3699: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 3700: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 3701: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3702:
3703: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
3704: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
3705: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
3706: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
3707: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
3708: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
3709: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 3710: <p>
1.99 louis 3711:
1.247 jufi 3712: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3713: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 3714: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3715: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 3716:
3717: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
3718: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
3719: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
3720: conditions.
1.113 naddy 3721: <p>
1.100 louis 3722:
1.247 jufi 3723: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3724: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 3725: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3726: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 3727:
3728: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
3729: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
3730: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
3731: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 3732: <p>
1.95 louis 3733:
1.247 jufi 3734: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3735: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 3736: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3737: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 3738:
3739: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
3740: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 3741: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 3742: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
3743: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3744: <p>
1.92 louis 3745:
1.247 jufi 3746: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3747: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 3748: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3749: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 3750:
3751: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
3752: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
3753: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
3754: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
3755: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
3756: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 3757: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 3758: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 3759: <p>
1.91 louis 3760:
1.247 jufi 3761: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3762: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
3763: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 3764: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3765:
3766: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
3767: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
3768: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
3769: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
3770: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
3771: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
3772: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
3773: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
3774: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 3775: <p>
1.90 louis 3776:
1.247 jufi 3777: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3778: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
3779: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
3780: </strong></font><br>
3781: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
3782: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
3783: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
3784: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
3785: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
3786: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
3787: <p>
3788:
1.247 jufi 3789: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 3790: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
3791: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3792: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 3793:
1.113 naddy 3794: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
3795: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 3796: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
3797: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
3798: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
3799: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
3800: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 3801: <p>
1.87 louis 3802:
1.247 jufi 3803: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3804: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
3805: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 3806: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3807:
3808: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 3809: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 3810: <p>
1.85 louis 3811:
1.247 jufi 3812: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3813: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
3814: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3815: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
3816:
3817: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
3818: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
3819: <p>
3820:
3821: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 3822: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
3823: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3824: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 3825:
3826: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 3827: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 3828: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
3829: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 3830: <p>
1.89 louis 3831:
1.247 jufi 3832: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3833: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
3834: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3835: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3836:
3837: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
3838: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
3839: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
3840: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
3841: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 3842: </ul>
1.85 louis 3843:
1.78 deraadt 3844: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3845: <ul>
1.74 louis 3846:
1.247 jufi 3847: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3848: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 3849: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 3850: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 3851: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3852:
3853: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
3854: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
3855: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3856: <p>
1.83 louis 3857:
1.247 jufi 3858: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 3859: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
3860: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3861: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 3862:
3863: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
3864: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 3865: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 3866: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
3867: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 3868: <p>
1.93 louis 3869:
1.247 jufi 3870: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3871: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
3872: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
3873: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3874: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 3875:
1.83 louis 3876: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
3877: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
3878: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
3879: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
3880: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 3881: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
3882: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
3883: <p>
1.82 aaron 3884:
1.247 jufi 3885: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3886: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 3887: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3888: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 3889:
1.83 louis 3890: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
3891: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
3892: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 3893: <p>
1.80 louis 3894:
1.247 jufi 3895: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3896: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 3897: Bad Press</a>,
3898: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 3899: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 3900:
3901: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 3902: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 3903: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
3904: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
3905: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 3906: <p>
1.247 jufi 3907: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 3908:
3909: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3910: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 3911:
1.247 jufi 3912: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3913: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
3914: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 3915: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 3916: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 3917:
3918: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
3919: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
3920: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
3921: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 3922: <p>
1.74 louis 3923:
1.247 jufi 3924: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 3925: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
3926: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 3927: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3928:
1.219 horacio 3929: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
3930: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
3931: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
3932: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
3933: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
3934: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
3935: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 3936: <p>
1.88 louis 3937:
1.247 jufi 3938: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 3939: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 3940: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 3941: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 3942:
3943: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
3944: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
3945: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
3946: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 3947: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 3948: <p>
1.81 louis 3949:
1.247 jufi 3950: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3951: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 3952: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3953: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3954:
3955: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
3956: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
3957: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
3958: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
3959: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
3960: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
3961: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 3962: <p>
1.90 louis 3963:
1.247 jufi 3964: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3965: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 3966: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3967: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 3968:
3969: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
3970: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
3971: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 3972: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 3973: <p>
1.247 jufi 3974: </ul>
1.71 louis 3975:
1.69 deraadt 3976: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3977: <ul>
1.70 louis 3978:
1.247 jufi 3979: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3980: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
3981: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 3982: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3983:
3984: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
3985: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
3986: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 3987: <p>
1.70 louis 3988:
1.247 jufi 3989: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3990: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
3991: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3992: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 3993:
3994: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 3995: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 3996: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 3997: <p>
1.68 louis 3998:
1.247 jufi 3999: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4000: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
4001: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 4002: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 4003: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 4004:
1.111 jufi 4005: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
4006: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 4007: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 4008: "secure by default" installation.
4009: <p>
1.64 louis 4010:
1.247 jufi 4011: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 4012: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 4013: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 4014: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 4015:
1.113 naddy 4016: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 4017: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 4018: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 4019: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
4020: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
4021: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 4022: <p>
1.66 louis 4023:
1.247 jufi 4024: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4025: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 4026: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4027: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 4028:
4029: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 4030: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 4031: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
4032: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
4033: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 4034: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
4035: <p>
1.83 louis 4036:
1.247 jufi 4037: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4038: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 4039: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4040: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 4041:
4042: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 4043: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
4044: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 4045: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
4046: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 4047: <p>
1.64 louis 4048:
1.247 jufi 4049: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4050: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 4051: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4052: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 4053:
4054: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
4055: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 4056: <p>
1.301 jose 4057:
4058: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4059: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
4060: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
4061: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
4062: </strong></font><br>
4063:
4064: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
4065: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
4066: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
4067: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
4068: Giving way to
4069: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
4070: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
4071: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
4072: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
4073: <p>
1.247 jufi 4074: </ul>
1.65 louis 4075:
1.69 deraadt 4076: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4077: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4078:
1.247 jufi 4079: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4080: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 4081: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 4082: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 4083:
4084: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
4085: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
4086: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
4087: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 4088: <p>
1.88 louis 4089:
1.247 jufi 4090: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4091: <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 4092: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 4093:
4094: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 4095: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
4096: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 4097: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
4098: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 4099: <p>
1.60 louis 4100:
1.247 jufi 4101: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 4102: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 4103: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 4104: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 4105: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4106:
4107: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
4108: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
4109: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 4110: <p>
1.58 louis 4111:
1.247 jufi 4112: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 4113: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 4114: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 4115:
4116: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
4117: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 4118: <p>
1.53 louis 4119:
1.247 jufi 4120: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 4121: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
4122: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 4123: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 4124:
4125: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
4126: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
4127: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 4128: <p>
1.99 louis 4129:
1.247 jufi 4130: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 4131: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 4132: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4133:
4134: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
4135: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 4136: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 4137: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 4138: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 4139:
1.247 jufi 4140: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4141: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
4142: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 4143: </strong></font><br>
4144:
4145: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
4146: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
4147: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
4148: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
4149: <p>
4150:
1.247 jufi 4151: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4152: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 4153: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 4154: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4155:
4156: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
4157: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 4158: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 4159:
1.247 jufi 4160: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 4161: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 4162: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 4163:
4164: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 4165: in
1.247 jufi 4166: <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 4167: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 4168: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 4169: <p>
1.53 louis 4170:
1.247 jufi 4171: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4172: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 4173: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
4174: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 4175: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 4176:
1.58 louis 4177: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4178: <p>
1.301 jose 4179:
4180: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4181: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
4182: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
4183: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
4184: Informacyjny, January 2000
4185: </strong></font><br>
4186:
4187: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
4188: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
4189: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
4190: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
4191: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
4192: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
4193: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
4194: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
4195: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
4196: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 4197: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
4198: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 4199: <p>
4200:
4201: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4202: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4203: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
4204: </strong></font><br>
4205:
4206: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
4207: <p>
4208: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 4209:
1.69 deraadt 4210: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4211: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4212:
1.247 jufi 4213: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4214: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
4215: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
4216: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 4217: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4218:
1.58 louis 4219: Kurt Seifried
4220: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4221: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
4222: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 4223: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 4224:
1.247 jufi 4225: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4226: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 4227: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4228: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 4229:
4230: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 4231: <p>
1.96 louis 4232:
1.247 jufi 4233: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4234: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
4235: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
4236: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
4237: </strong></font><br>
4238:
4239: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
4240: <p>
4241:
4242: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4243: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 4244: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 4245: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 4246:
4247: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
4248: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 4249: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 4250: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 4251: <p>
1.247 jufi 4252: </ul>
1.86 louis 4253:
1.69 deraadt 4254: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4255: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4256:
1.247 jufi 4257: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4258: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
4259: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 4260: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 4261:
4262: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
4263: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 4264: <p>
1.61 louis 4265:
1.247 jufi 4266: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4267: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 4268: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
4269: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4270: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 4271:
4272: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 4273: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 4274: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
4275: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 4276: right -- or at least strives to".
4277: <p>
1.48 louis 4278:
1.247 jufi 4279: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4280: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
4281: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4282: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 4283: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
4284: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
4285: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
4286: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 4287: <p>
1.61 louis 4288:
1.247 jufi 4289: <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 4290: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4291: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 4292:
4293: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
4294: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
4295: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
4296: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 4297: <p>
1.46 louis 4298:
1.247 jufi 4299: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4300: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
4301: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4302: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4303:
4304: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
4305: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 4306: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 4307:
1.247 jufi 4308: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 4309: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
4310: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 4311: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 4312:
4313: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
4314: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
4315: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
4316: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 4317: <p>
1.247 jufi 4318: </ul>
1.70 louis 4319:
1.69 deraadt 4320: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4321: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4322:
1.247 jufi 4323: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4324: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
4325: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 4326: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 4327: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 4328:
4329: Kurt Seifried
4330: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4331: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
4332: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 4333: <p>
1.44 philen 4334:
1.247 jufi 4335: <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 4336: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 4337: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 4338:
4339: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 4340: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 4341:
1.247 jufi 4342: <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 4343: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 4344: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 4345:
4346: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 4347: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 4348:
1.247 jufi 4349: <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 4350: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 4351: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 4352:
4353: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
4354: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
4355: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
4356: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 4357: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 4358:
1.247 jufi 4359: <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 4360: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 4361: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 4362:
1.36 louis 4363: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 4364: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 4365:
1.247 jufi 4366: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 4367: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
4368: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 4369: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4370:
4371: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 4372: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 4373: </ul>
1.38 louis 4374:
1.69 deraadt 4375: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4376: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4377:
1.247 jufi 4378: <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 4379: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 4380: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 4381:
4382: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
4383: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 4384: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 4385:
1.113 naddy 4386: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 4387: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 4388: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 4389: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 4390:
4391: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
4392: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 4393: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
4394: terminal:
1.113 naddy 4395: <blockquote>
4396: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
4397: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
4398: <br>
4399: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
4400: </code>
4401: </blockquote>
4402: <p>
4403:
1.247 jufi 4404: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 4405: <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 4406: <p>
4407:
4408: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4409: <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 4410: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 4411:
4412: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
4413: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 4414: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 4415: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 4416:
1.247 jufi 4417: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4418: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
4419: Sept. 28, 1999
4420: </strong></font><br>
4421:
4422: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
4423: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
4424: translating and reprinting articles from
4425: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
4426: <p>
4427:
4428: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 4429: <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 4430: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 4431:
4432: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
4433: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
4434: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
4435: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
4436: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 4437: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 4438: <p>
1.19 louis 4439:
1.113 naddy 4440: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 4441: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 4442: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 4443:
4444: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
4445: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
4446: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 4447: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
4448: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 4449: <p>
1.16 louis 4450:
1.247 jufi 4451: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4452: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 4453: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 4454: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 4455:
1.57 louis 4456: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
4457: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
4458: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 4459: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 4460:
1.247 jufi 4461: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4462: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 4463: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 4464: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4465:
1.113 naddy 4466: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 4467:
1.247 jufi 4468: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4469: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
4470: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4471: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 4472:
1.23 louis 4473: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
4474: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
4475: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
4476: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
4477: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 4478: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 4479:
1.247 jufi 4480: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 4481: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
4482: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4483: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 4484:
1.199 pvalchev 4485: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 4486: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
4487: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
4488: installation.
1.113 naddy 4489: <p>
1.47 louis 4490:
1.247 jufi 4491: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4492: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 4493: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 4494: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4495:
1.301 jose 4496: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
4497: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
4498: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4499: </ul>
1.57 louis 4500:
1.69 deraadt 4501: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4502: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4503:
1.247 jufi 4504: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 4505: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 4506: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 4507: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 4508:
4509: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
4510: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 4511: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4512: <p>
1.12 louis 4513:
1.247 jufi 4514: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 4515: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 4516: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 4517: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 4518:
4519: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
4520: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 4521: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
4522: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
4523: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
4524: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
4525: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 4526: <p>
1.247 jufi 4527: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 4528:
1.69 deraadt 4529: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4530: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 4531:
1.247 jufi 4532: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 4533: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 4534: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 4535:
4536: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
4537: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
4538: available."
1.113 naddy 4539: <p>
1.301 jose 4540:
4541: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4542: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4543: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
4544: </strong></font><br>
4545:
4546: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
4547: <p>
1.247 jufi 4548: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 4549:
1.69 deraadt 4550: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4551: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4552:
1.247 jufi 4553: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 4554: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 4555: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 4556:
4557: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
4558: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
4559: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
4560: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
4561: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 4562: <p>
1.33 louis 4563:
1.247 jufi 4564: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4565: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 4566: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 4567: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4568:
1.113 naddy 4569: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
4570: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 4571: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
4572: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
4573: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 4574: <p>
1.247 jufi 4575: </ul>
1.57 louis 4576:
1.69 deraadt 4577: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4578: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4579:
1.247 jufi 4580: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4581: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 4582: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 4583: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4584:
4585: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
4586: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 4587: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4588:
1.247 jufi 4589: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 4590: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
4591: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
4592: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 4593: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 4594:
4595: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 4596: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 4597:
1.247 jufi 4598: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 4599: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4600:
1.113 naddy 4601: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 4602:
1.247 jufi 4603: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 4604: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
4605: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 4606: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4607:
4608: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 4609: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 4610: </ul>
1.23 louis 4611:
1.69 deraadt 4612: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4613: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4614:
1.247 jufi 4615: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 4616: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 4617: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4618:
4619: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
4620: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 4621: <p>
1.2 deraadt 4622:
1.247 jufi 4623: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4624: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 4625: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4626: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4627:
4628: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
4629: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 4630: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 4631: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4632: </ul>
1.57 louis 4633:
1.69 deraadt 4634: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4635: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4636:
1.247 jufi 4637: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 4638: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
4639: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 4640: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 4641:
4642: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
4643: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
4644: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
4645: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4646: <p>
1.15 louis 4647:
1.247 jufi 4648: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4649: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
4650: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 4651: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4652:
4653: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
4654: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
4655: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
4656: columns."
1.113 naddy 4657: <p>
1.247 jufi 4658: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4659:
1.69 deraadt 4660: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4661: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4662:
1.247 jufi 4663: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4664: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 4665: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4666: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4667:
4668: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 4669: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 4670:
1.113 naddy 4671: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4672: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 4673: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4674:
4675: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
4676: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 4677: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 4678: </ul>
1.57 louis 4679:
1.69 deraadt 4680: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4681: <ul>
1.301 jose 4682: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4683: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
4684: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4685: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
4686:
4687: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
4688: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
4689: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
4690: <p>
4691:
4692: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4693: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
4694: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4695: Nov 13, 1998 and
4696: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
4697: Datateknik</a>,
4698: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
4699:
1.380 saad 4700: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 4701: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
4702: explains the licensing issues and points to our
4703: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
4704: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4705:
1.113 naddy 4706: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 4707: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 4708: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 4709: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4710:
1.222 miod 4711: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 4712: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
4713: Implementation, including a brief interview with
4714: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 4715: <p>
1.247 jufi 4716: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4717:
1.69 deraadt 4718: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4719: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4720:
1.247 jufi 4721: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4722: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 4723: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4724:
1.69 deraadt 4725: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
4726: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 4727: <p>
1.247 jufi 4728: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4729:
1.69 deraadt 4730: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4731: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 4732:
1.247 jufi 4733: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4734: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
4735: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 4736: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4737:
1.383 jcs 4738: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 4739: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 4740: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4741:
1.247 jufi 4742: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 4743: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 4744: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
4745: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 4746: <p>
1.247 jufi 4747: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4748:
1.69 deraadt 4749: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4750: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4751:
1.247 jufi 4752: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4753: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 4754: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
4755: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 4756: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 4757: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4758:
4759: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
4760: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
4761: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 4762: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 4763: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 4764: <p>
1.247 jufi 4765: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 4766:
4767: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4768: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4769:
1.247 jufi 4770: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4771: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 4772: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4773:
1.69 deraadt 4774: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
4775: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 4776: <p>
1.112 naddy 4777:
1.247 jufi 4778: </ul>
1.113 naddy 4779: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4780:
1.292 camield 4781: <hr>
1.216 horacio 4782: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 4783: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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