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1.1 deraadt 18:
1.454 ian 19: <h2>June, 2005</h2>
20: <ul>
21: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.458 ! niallo 22: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0704/071.html">
! 23: Free Bird</a>,
! 24: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
! 25: <b>(Registration required)</b> A second Forbes article about OpenBSD, more
! 26: focused on the project itself this time. It contains good description of the
! 27: history of OpenBSD along with its prime motivations. Mention is made of the
! 28: DARPA grant and the annual hackathon. Theo's motto "shut up and hack" finally
! 29: becomes famous in this piece and there are some other very insightful quotes
! 30: such as "All I care about is making high-quality code. If I had to work at a
! 31: regular job, it would drive me nuts". This is certainly an astute and perceptive
! 32: article, well worth reading. Do note that the big picture of Theo's machine
! 33: room will only be available in the print edition.
! 34: <p>
! 35: <ul>
! 36: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.456 niallo 37: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html">
38: Is Linux For Losers?</a>,
39: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
40: An interesting article, if somewhat polemic in tone, which raises questions
41: about the quality of Linux code compared to OpenBSD. There is also some short
42: discussion of the OpenBSD development model and focus (push for quality above
43: everything else) including good quotes from Theo. It seems that the need for
44: high quality software is beginning to be recognised by the mainstream.
45: <p>
1.457 deraadt 46:
1.456 niallo 47: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.455 ian 48: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/06/09/2132233.shtml?tid=152&tid=8&tid=2">
49: BSD cognoscenti on Linux</a>,
50: NewsForge, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
51: NewsForge talks with Theo de Raadt and NetBSD's Christos Zoulas about the
52: similarities and differences between the Linux kernel and the BSD
53: operating systems. The questions asked were similar to those asked
54: of Linus Torvalds in a <a
55: href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/09/2128249&tid=2">previous
56: interview.</a>
57: <p>
58:
59: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.454 ian 60: <a href="http://www.tuxjournal.net/intervista3-en.html">
61: A good morning with Theo de Raadt</a>,
62: Tux Journal, June 2, 2005</strong></font><br>
63: Brief but wide-ranging interview with Theo in which our leader
64: opines about the good things in 3.7: "The list of new developments
65: is impressive, but in my view not nearly as impressive as the small
66: little details that continue to be fixed during each development
67: cycle." And modestly credits all the developers for the project's
68: continuing success, attributing it to "The passion of the developers,
69: and the wide experience they bring into their development efforts.
70: By amazing coincidence, our users typically have the same needs as we do."
71: Manages to sidestep getting drawn into comparisons with Linux, e.g.,
72: when asked if he likes it/why/why not, deftly replies
73: "I have never used it."
74: <p>
75:
76: </ul>
77:
1.441 deraadt 78: <h2>May, 2005</h2>
79: <ul>
80: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 81: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5190">
82: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part II</a>,
83: Kerneltrap, May 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
84: In the second installment of Kerneltrap's Hackathon 2005 feature, Jeremy
85: Andrews speaks with the pf developers at length about their plans for
86: future enhancements.
87: <p>
88:
89: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.450 deraadt 90: <a href="http://www.ctv.ca">
1.448 deraadt 91: TV coverage: OpenBSD hackathon</a>,
92: CTV/CFCN, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
93: A TV spot done a Canadian national TV station about the Calgary
94: hackathon this year, with 60 developers.<br>
95: North America mirror:
96: <ul>
1.452 marco 97: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.449 jcs 98: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a><br>
99: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a>
1.448 deraadt 100: </ul>
101: European mirror:
102: <ul>
1.452 marco 103: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.448 deraadt 104: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a>
105: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a><br>
106: </ul>
107: <p>
108:
109: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 110: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5186">
111: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part I</a>,
112: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
113: Jeremy Andrews of KernelTrap does a good job of describing what it's like
114: to be at the Hackathon in Part I of KernelTrap's Hackathon feature. Several
115: developers are interviewed in detail about what they are working on.
116: <p>
117:
118: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.447 cloder 119: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/05/20/1426216.shtml?tid=8">
120: Review: OpenBSD 3.7</a>,
121: NewsForge.com, May 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
122: "OpenBSD is not only highly polished and easy to
123: configure because of its documentation, it's also totally free-as-in-rights.
124: With an obsession with security, freedom of source code, and quality of
125: programming technique, OpenBSD 3.7 continues the legacy established by
126: its previous releases," writes Jem Matzan in this nice, small review.
127: <p>
128:
129: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.446 cloder 130: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/05/19/openbsd_3_7.html">
131: OpenBSD 3.7: The Wizard of OS</a>,
132: ONLamp.com, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
133: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
134: new features in OpenBSD 3.7, including new wireless chipsets, new
135: spam-fighting features, zaurus, pf improvements, propolice, and
136: many other things. A good overview of what's new in this release,
137: plus some interesting comments about future direction.
138: <p>
139:
140: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.444 niallo 141: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/software/openbsd-3.7-released.html">
1.445 niallo 142: Next incarnation of OpenBSD released</a>,
1.444 niallo 143: Ping Wales, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
144: "OpenBSD is often unjustly overlooked as a free UNIX-like system in favour of
145: the more-hyped Linux. While it receives a lot less publicity than other
146: operating systems, this is not due to lack of technical merit." says David
147: Chisnall, in what is a clear and concise overview of the new features
148: in 3.7 and indeed the project as a whole.
149: <p>
150:
151: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
152: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5114">
1.445 niallo 153: 2005 Calgary Hackathon, KernelTrap Coverage</a>,
1.444 niallo 154: Kerneltrap, May 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
155: A great article about the annual OpenBSD Hackathon, detailing how the event
156: functions, work done at previous Hackathons and features which may come out
157: of this one. Includes many relevant quotes from developers themselves, and of
158: course information about the legendary Hackathon BBQ!
159: <p>
160:
161: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.442 deraadt 162: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9658/sam0505e/">
163: "Failover Firewalls with OpenBSD and CARP"</a>,
164: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 5, p. 33
1.441 deraadt 165: </strong></font><br>
166: Jason Dixon discusses the history of the CARP and pfsync protocols
167: and demonstrates using them to create redundant stateful firewalls
168: with OpenBSD.
169: </ul>
170:
1.436 henning 171: <h2>April, 2005</h2>
172: <ul>
173: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.440 ian 174: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39195801,00.htm">
175: Security guru wants access to bug databases</a>,
176: ZDNet UK, April 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
177: Ingrid Marson reports on Cambridge professor Ross Anderson's call for analysis of
178: software maintenance records to determine whether open source code is more secure
179: than closed source, as we have long contended.
180: "One of Anderson's research students, Andy Ozment, has already done
181: research using empirical data on bugs found in the open source
182: operating system OpenBSD between 1997 and 2000. This research found
183: that finding and fixing bugs results in a more secure product..."
184: Just as the OpenBSD project has been saying for years.
185: <p>
186: This article can also be found online as
187: <a href="http://uk.builder.com/manage/project/0,39026588,39244080,00.htm">Academic
188: calls for better bug tracking</a> (uk.builder.com).
189: <p>
190:
191: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.439 espie 192: [FRENCH] "PC Expert", number 152, p. 58
193: </strong></font><br>
194: Very short interview of Marc Espie about OpenBSD as a free OS focusing
195: on security, part of a larger dossier «les secrets des hackers».
196: <p>
197:
198: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.436 henning 199: [GERMAN] "Doppelwacht", iX 5/2005, p. 150.
200: </strong></font><br>
201: Stephan Tesch gives an introduction to CARP and using a pair of
202: OpenBSD boxes as Firewalls in High Availibility scenarios. He goes
1.438 martin 203: on explaining CARP and pfsync protocols, and does not forget to cover
1.436 henning 204: the issues we had with IETF.
205: </ul>
206:
1.431 ian 207: <h2>March, 2005</h2>
208: <ul>
209: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.435 reyk 210: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/4818">
211: OpenBSD's "Out of the Box" Wireless Support</a>,
212: Kerneltrap, March 8, 2005</strong></font><br>
213: This article is about the upcoming wireless support in OpenBSD 3.7 and
214: the outcome of the work to open wireless chipsets. Jeremy Andrews
215: talked with Theo de Raadt and the developers Damien Bergamini and Reyk
216: Floeter who did some efforts to implement free and functional drivers.
217: <p>
218:
219: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.431 ian 220: <a href="http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/01/1109546842718.html">
221: OpenBSD to support more wireless chipsets</a>,
222: The Age, March 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
223: "The forthcoming 3.7 release of the OpenBSD operating system has
224: added support for five more wireless chipsets, according to
225: OpenBSD project founder Theo de Raadt...
1.432 ian 226: OpenBSD 3.7 will also have have new drivers for Intel wireless
1.431 ian 227: parts that do not work without the non-redistributable firmware,"
228: namely the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11B
229: and 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11A/B/G wireless network adapters.
230: Mentions OpenBSD's activism in getting vendors to release chip specs.
231: Referring to vendors that still refuse to play ball with open source
232: projects, quotes Damien Miller as saying "Given the number of
233: appliance devices that are built on free OSs, I think that the
234: recalcitrant vendors are missing an important boat."
235:
236: </ul>
237:
1.427 matthieu 238: <h2>February, 2005</h2>
239: <ul>
240:
241: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.428 david 242: <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsaward2004.html">
243: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
244: FSF, February 26, 2005</strong></font><br>
245: The Free Software Foundation awarded Theo de Raadt their "2004 Free Software
246: Award" for his unwavering commitment to free software. Most recently he has
247: been fighting hardware manufacturers for free redistribution of wireless card
248: firmware.
1.434 ian 249: Similar articles can be found online at:
250: <ul>
251: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
252: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=419">
253: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
254: Tectonic.za, March 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
255: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
256: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article4362.phtml">
257: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
258: OSDir, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
259: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
260: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/De-Raadt-gets-free-software-award/2005/02/28/1109546758523.html?oneclick=true">
261: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
262: The Age, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
263: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
264: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/02/27/1413255.shtml?tid=99&tid=7">
265: Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award</a>,
266: Slashdot, February 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
267: </ul>
1.427 matthieu 268: </ul>
269:
1.426 ian 270: <h2>January, 2005</h2>
271: <ul>
272:
273: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
274: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363731">
275: Systrace in OpenBSD</a>,
276: informit.com, January 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
277: This article talks about our systrace
278: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&sektion=1">systrace(1)</a>
279: mechanism: what it is and why and
280: how to use it, with examples.
281: Another excerpt from the book
282: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
283: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
284: <p>
285:
286: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
287: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363732">
288: Overview of OpenBSD</a>,
289: informit.com, January 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
290: "OpenBSD is one of the most secure and well-designed operating
291: systems available today. It has its roots in countless hours of
292: research and development based on some of the best UNIX flavors of
293: the past, and it boasts all the features of modern operating systems.
294: The OS is widely considered one of the most secure general-purpose
295: operating systems available today and it supports many key parts
296: of the global Internet infrastructure..."
297: This article is a sample chapter from
298: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
299: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
300: <p>
1.443 ian 301:
302: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
303: <a href="http://www.pcplus.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=34628&subsectionid=784">
304: OpenBSD operating system</a>,
305: PCPlus.co.uk, January, 2005</strong></font><br>
306: Paul Grosse gives a brief tutorial on installing OpenBSD on i386 for people
307: moving in a Windows->Linux direction, encouraging them to go a bit further for security.
308: "While Linux out-scores Windows substantially (or completely) on [security as well as many other
309: issues], it's still possible to use a more secure operating system on the PC... OpenBSD."
310: Gives a brief but understandable walkthrough on the installation process, right up to
311: downloading and installing the third-party packages, and
312: ends with a sidebar on security.
313: <p>
1.426 ian 314: </ul>
315:
1.424 ian 316: <h2>December, 2004</h2>
317: <ul>
318:
319: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.425 ian 320: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/2329229">
321: What are the real vulnerabilities of Linux?</a>
322: NewsForge.com, December 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
323: Several security consultants were asked about "the real vulnerabilities of
324: Linux". Cybersoure CEO Con Symaris seems to get it better than the rest:
325: "One needs to approach security as a prime requirement and motivator,
326: much as the OpenBSD team do," Zymaris said... "The Linux
327: community mindset is different. Linux development is dynamic and
328: races ahead towards more and broader functionality, drawing a
329: multitude of interested parties in to make interesting extensions
330: and adaptations at a rapid rate."
331: <p>
332: "In order to do security the BSD way, however, much more effort
333: needs to be spent auditing code for holes, which is much less sexy,
334: and attracts a different set of coders," Zymaris added.
335: <p>
336:
337: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.424 ian 338: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/281">
339: Closed Source Hardware</a>
340: Security Focus, December 1, 2004</strong></font><br>
341: Symantec Threat Analyst Jason Miller analyzes the potential security threats
342: when hardware vendors won't provide device documentation and
343: instead provide "binary only" driver code for inclusion in open source
344: operating systems.
345: Miller is an open-source fan who says he uses a variety of systems, including
346: OpenBSD on his firewall.
347: Of the recent trend to closed-source binary drivers for open-source
348: systems, he writes:
349: <blockquote>
350: The closed-source component required to support this hardware is
351: completely independent of the associated operating system, and as
352: such, is also independent of the engineering team, security team,
353: auditing process, and quality control procedures normally related
354: to the operating system...
355: <br/>
356: What's possibly even more disturbing is that we're talking about
357: a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest
358: possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a
359: third-party vendor. This code could do anything once loaded, including
360: leaking active WEP keys, gathering usage statistics, sniffing and
361: disclosing traffic, and it could even introduce a subtle backdoor
362: into the operating system itself (much the same as any device driver
363: in a closed source operating system).
364: <br/>
365: [A]lthough some of these scenarios are a
366: little far-fetched, the possibility for them to exist is there...
367: Ultimately it becomes an issue of trust, which is a cornerstone of
368: good security: whom do you trust, and how much do you trust them?
369: </blockquote>
370: <p>And he comments that trust "seems to be a one-way street": vendors
371: demand that you trust them, but they won't trust you to know how
372: their hardware and software operates.
373: This lack of trust is one reason why OpenBSD has recently completed
374: reverse-engineering the
375: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4">
376: Atheros wireless chipset driver</a>
377: that was originally provided as a binary insert.
378: <p>
379: </ul>
380:
1.417 pvalchev 381: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
382: <ul>
1.421 ian 383:
1.417 pvalchev 384: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.422 ian 385: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730775,00.asp">
386: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Widens Its Scope</a>
387: eWEEK, November 22, 2004</strong></font><br>
388: Jason Brooks reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and likes the changes it brings,
389: including the multi-processing support which, he notes,
390: "will be even more important as multicore processors--which occupy space
391: on the road maps of Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others--
392: become more prevalent." Comments favorably on OpenNTPD
393: ("the three-line configuration file we needed to modify ... on OpenBSD was
394: much simpler to deal with than the equivalent configuration file on
395: the Linux systems we've tested").
1.423 ian 396: Overall a favorable review of some of the new stuff in 3.6.
1.422 ian 397: <p>
398: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 otto 399: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
400: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
401: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
402: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
403: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
404: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
405: it claims to do".
406: <p>
407:
408: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.421 ian 409: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109994542424009&w=2">
410: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution</a>
411: misc@, November 8, 2004</strong></font><br>
412: Theo recounts the struggle to get Intel to provide redistributable
413: versions of the firmware for their wireless chipsets, and their
1.423 ian 414: ultimate refusal to allow OpenBSD to redistribute the chipsets' firmware.
1.421 ian 415: Includes a caveat about Intel's disingenuous "FAQ", typical of many
416: corporate FAQs that answer questions nobody actually thought
417: to ask, and don't truthfully answer the questions you want hard answers to.
418: At the end Theo names the names (and their emails) that need to be contacted
419: by large numbers of end-users and developers if Intel is to change
420: (yes, this is a hint).
421: Of interest is that this posting to one of our mailing lists was
422: picked up on the
423: <a href="http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1923">Screaming
424: Electron Forum</a> and from there reported on
425: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/22/1249249&from=rss">
426: SlashDot</a>, where it is accompanied by a link to SlashDot's paper
427: on effective advocacy (be firm, but also be polite).
428: <p>
429:
430: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 431: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
432: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
433: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
434: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
435: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
436: questions about the significance and rationale behind
437: the current efforts.
438: <p>
439: </ul>
440:
1.407 henning 441: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
442: <ul>
443: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 444: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
445: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
446: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
447: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
448: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
449: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
450: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
451: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
452: <p>
453:
454: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 455: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
456: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
457: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
458: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
459: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
460: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
461: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
462: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
463: of the important changes in 3.6.
464: </p>
465:
466: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.414 ian 467: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
468: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
469: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
470: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
471: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
472: overflow attacks... because
473: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
474: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
475: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
476: and propolice.
477: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
478: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
479: and that's when the science falls apart."
480: <p>
481:
482: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 483: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
484: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
485: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
486: Starts with the question:
487: <blockquote>
488: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
489: <br/>
490: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
491: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
492: <br/>
493: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
494: Should we believe them?"
495: </blockquote>
496: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
497: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
498: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
499: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
500: for your mail, web and other online activities.
501: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
502: <p>
503:
504: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 505: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
506: Simple Simon</a>,
507: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
508: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
509: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
510: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
511: routing/firewall, and more.
512: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
513: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
514: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
515: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
516: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
517: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
518: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
519: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
520: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
521: </blockquote>
522: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
523: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
524: <p>
525:
526: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 527: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
528: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 529: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 530: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 531: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
532: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
533: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 534: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 535: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
536: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
537: in spite of it
538: (registration required, but worth it).
539: <p>
540:
541: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
542: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
543: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
544: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
545: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
546: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
547: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
548: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 549: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 550: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
551: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
552: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
553: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
554: <p>
555:
556: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 557: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
558: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
559: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
560: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
561: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
562: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
563: <blockquote>
564: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
565: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
566: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
567: a lot of analysis.
568: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
569: </blockquote>
570: <p>
571: </ul>
572:
1.400 marco 573: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
574: <ul>
575: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 576: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
577: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
578: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
579: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
580: UNIX-like systems.
581: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
582: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
583: <p>
584: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 585: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
586: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 587: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
588: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
589: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
590: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
591: At one point, the article states:
592: <blockquote>
593: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
594: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
595: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
596: </blockquote>
597: And then quotes Theo as saying:
598: <blockquote>
599: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
600: fewer are reading or auditing code."
601: </blockquote>
602: <p>
603: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
604: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
605: marks its fifth birthday</a>
606: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
607: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
608: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
609: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
610: required).
611: <p>
612: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 613: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
614: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
615: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
616: </strong></font><br>
617: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
618: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
619: <p>
620: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 621: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
622: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 623: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 624: </strong></font><br>
625: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
626: <p>
627: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 628: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
629: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 630: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 631: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 632: 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 633: <p>
634: </ul>
635:
1.396 henning 636: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
637: <ul>
638: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 639: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
640: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
641: Unix Review, July, 2004
642: </strong></font><br>
643: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
644: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
645: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
646: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
647: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
648: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
649: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
650: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
651: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
652: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
653: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
654: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
655: and even spelling/wording errors.
656: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
657: <p>
658: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 659: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 660: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
661: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
662: </strong></font><br>
663: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
664: <p>
665: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 666: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 667: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
668: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
669: </strong></font><br>
670: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
671: <p>
672: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 673: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
674: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
675: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
676: </strong></font><br>
677: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
678: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
679: <p>
680: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 681: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
682: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
683: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
684: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
685: <p>
686: </ul>
687:
1.405 jolan 688: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
689: <ul>
690: <li><font color="#00900"><strong>
691: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
692: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 05, 2004</strong></font>
693: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
694: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
695: details on how funds are dispersed.
696: <p>
697: </ul>
698:
1.393 david 699: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
700: <ul>
701: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 702: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
703: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
704: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
705: </strong></font><br>
706: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
707: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
708: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
709: on inserting large number of SQL records.
710: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
711: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
712: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
713: <p>
714:
715: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 716: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
717: Secure by Default</a>,
718: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
719: </strong></font><br>
720: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
721: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
722: <p>
723:
724: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
725: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
726: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
727: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
728: </strong></font><br>
729: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
730: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
731: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
732: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
733: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
734: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
735: <p>
736:
737: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
738: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
739: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
740: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
741: </strong></font><br>
742: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
743: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
744: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
745: <p>
746:
747: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
748: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
749: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
750: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
751: </strong></font><br>
752: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
753: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
754: <p>
755: </ul>
756:
1.388 mcbride 757: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
758: <ul>
1.394 jolan 759:
760: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
761: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
762: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
763: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
764: </strong></font><br>
765: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
766: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
767: available for sparc64.
768: <p>
769:
1.390 beck 770: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 771: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
772: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
773: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
774: </strong></font><br>
775: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
776: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
777: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
778: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
779: <p>
780:
781: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 782: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
783: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 784: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 785: </strong></font><br>
786: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
787: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
788: it does: CARP provides sharing
789: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
790: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
791: detail to get you started using it.
792: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
793: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
794: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
795: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
796: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
797: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
798: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 799: <p>
1.391 ian 800:
801: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 802: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 803: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
804: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 805: </strong></font><br>
806: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 807: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 808: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 809: <p>
1.388 mcbride 810:
811: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
812: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
813: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 814: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 815: </strong></font><br>
816: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
817: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
818: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
819: unencumbered by patents.
820: <p>
821: </ul>
822:
1.378 henning 823: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
824: <ul>
1.384 jose 825:
826: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 827: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
828: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
829: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
830: </strong></font><br>
831: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
832: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
833: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
834: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
835: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
836: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
837: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
838: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
839: in the page tables."
840: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
841: <p>
842:
843: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 844: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
845: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
846: </strong></font><br>
847: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
848: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
849: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
850: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 851: <p>
1.384 jose 852:
1.378 henning 853: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 854: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
855: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 856: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
857: </strong></font><br>
858: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
859: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
860: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
861: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
862: (quote:
863: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
864: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 865: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 866: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
867: the other developers for their work on the system.
868: <p>
869:
870: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 871: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
872: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
873: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 874: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 875: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
876: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
877: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
878: too.
879: <p>
880:
881: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 882: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
883: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 884: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 885: OpenBSD source code using
886: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
887: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
888: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
889: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
890: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
891: <p>
892: </ul>
893:
1.374 jose 894: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
895: <ul>
896: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 897: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 898: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
899: </strong></font><br>
900: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
901: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
902: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
903: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
904: it."
905: <p>
906:
907: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 908: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
909: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
910: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
911: </strong></font><br/>
912: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
913: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
914: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
915: <p>
916: </ul>
917:
1.369 ian 918: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
919: <ul>
920: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 921: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
922: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
923: </strong></font><br/>
924: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
925: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
926: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
927: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
928: <p>
929:
930: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 931: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
932: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
933: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
934: </strong></font><br/>
935: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
936: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
937: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
938: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
939: form factor.
940: <p>
941:
942: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
943: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
944: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
945: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
946: Features</a>,
947: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
948: </strong></font><br/>
949: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
950: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
951: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
952: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
953: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
954: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
955: <p>
956: This article can also be found online at:
957: <ul>
958: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 959: <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 960: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
961: </strong></font>
962: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
963: </ul>
964: <p>
1.392 david 965:
1.371 jose 966: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 967: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
968: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 969: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
970: </strong></font><br/>
971: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
972: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
973: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 974: <p>
1.371 jose 975:
976: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 977: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 978: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 979: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 980: </strong></font><br/>
981: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
982: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
983: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
984: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
985: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
986: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
987: and its history with OpenBSD.
988: </ul>
989:
1.368 henning 990: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
991: <ul>
992: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 993: [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 994: </strong></font><br>
995: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
996: </ul>
997:
1.364 jose 998: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
999: <ul>
1000: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 1001: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
1002: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
1003: UNIX Review,
1004: July, 2003.
1005: </strong></font><br>
1006: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
1007: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
1008: who want more information.
1009: <p>
1010:
1011: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 1012: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
1013: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
1014: Government Computer News,
1015: July 22, 2003.
1016: </strong></font><br>
1017: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
1018: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
1019: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
1020: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
1021: <p>
1022:
1023: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1024: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
1025: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
1026: SANS Institute,
1027: July 22, 2003.
1028: </strong></font><br>
1029: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 1030: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 1031: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
1032: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
1033: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
1034: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
1035: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
1036: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
1037: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
1038: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
1039: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
1040: <p>
1041:
1042: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 1043: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
1044: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
1045: OnLamp.com,
1046: July 17, 2003.
1047: </strong></font><br>
1048: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
1049: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
1050: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
1051: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
1052: have been working on.
1053:
1054: </ul>
1055:
1.356 jose 1056: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 1057: <ul>
1058:
1059: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 1060: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
1061: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
1062: UNIX Review,
1063: June, 2003.
1064: </strong></font><br>
1065: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
1066: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
1067: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
1068: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
1069: <p>
1070:
1071: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 1072: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
1073: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
1074: eWeek,
1075: June 23, 2003.
1076: </strong></font><br>
1077: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
1078: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
1079: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
1080: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
1081: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
1082: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
1083: <p>
1084:
1085: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 1086: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
1087: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
1088: Software Development Online,
1089: June, 2003.
1090: </strong></font><br>
1091: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
1092: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
1093: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
1094: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
1095: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
1096: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
1097: current activities.
1098: <p>
1099:
1100: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 1101: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
1102: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 1103: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
1104: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
1105: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
1106: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 1107: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 1108: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
1109: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
1110: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 1111: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 1112: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
1113: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 1114: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 1115: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
1116: decisions.
1117: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
1118: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 1119: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 1120: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 1121: <p>
1122:
1123: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 1124: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
1125: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
1126: Page 58, eWeek,
1127: June 2, 2003.
1128: </strong></font><br>
1129: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
1130: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
1131: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
1132: been addressed in -current.
1133: <p>
1134:
1.356 jose 1135: </ul>
1136:
1137: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
1138: <ul>
1139:
1.355 jose 1140: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 1141: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
1142: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
1143: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
1144: </strong></font><br>
1145: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
1146: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
1147: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
1148: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
1149: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
1150: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
1151: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
1152: <p>
1153:
1154: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 1155: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
1156: Beyond Linux</a>,
1157: InfoWorld,
1158: May 23, 2003.
1159: </strong></font><br>
1160: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
1161: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
1162: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
1163: compared to the GPL.
1164: <p>
1165:
1166: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 1167: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
1168: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
1169: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 1170: May 17, 2003.
1171: </strong></font><br>
1172: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
1173: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
1174: the business section and half of another page inside
1175: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
1176: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
1177: in talking about the project's history and goals.
1178: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
1179: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
1180: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
1181: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 1182: <br>
1183: This article can also be found online at:
1184: <ul>
1185: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1186: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
1187: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
1188: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
1189: May 17, 2003
1190: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 1191: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
1192: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1193: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
1194: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
1195: Montreal Gazette,
1196: May 21, 2003
1197: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 1198: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 1199: <p>
1.346 ian 1200:
1201: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 1202: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 1203: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 1204: May 7, 2003.
1205: </strong></font><br>
1206: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
1207: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
1208: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
1209: <p>
1210:
1211: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 1212: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
1213: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1214: OsOpinion,
1215: May 6, 2003.
1216: </strong></font><br>
1217: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
1218: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
1219: <br>
1220: This article can also be found online at:
1221: <ul>
1222: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1223: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
1224: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1225: NewsFactor Network.
1226: </strong></font>
1227: </ul>
1228: <p>
1229:
1230: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1231: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 1232: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
1233: ITBusiness,
1234: May 2, 2003.
1235: </strong></font><br>
1236: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
1237: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
1238: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
1239: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
1240: <p>
1241:
1242: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 1243: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
1244: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1245: InfoWorld,
1246: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 1247: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 1248: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
1249: <br>
1250: This article can also be found online at:
1251: <ul>
1252: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1253: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
1254: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1255: IDG Singapore.
1256: </strong></font>
1257: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1258: <p>
1259:
1.339 jose 1260: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1261: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
1262: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 1263: ZDNet,
1264: May 1, 2003.
1265: </strong></font><br>
1266: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 1267: someone using parts from previous articles.
1268: <br>
1.341 deraadt 1269: This article can also be found online at:
1270: <ul>
1271: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1272: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
1273: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1274: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 1275: </strong></font>
1276: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1277: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
1278: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1279: CNET News.com.
1280: </strong></font>
1281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1282: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
1283: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
1284: ZDNet UK.
1285: </strong></font>
1286: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1287: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
1288: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
1289: Help Net Security, Croatia.
1290: </strong></font>
1291: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1292: <p>
1.339 jose 1293:
1.341 deraadt 1294: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1295: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 1296: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
1297: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
1298: May 1, 2003.
1299: </strong></font><br>
1300: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
1301: that have been added
1302: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
1303: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
1304: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 1305: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 1306: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
1307: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
1308: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 1309: <p>
1310:
1311: </ul>
1312:
1.253 ian 1313: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
1314: <ul>
1.255 ian 1315:
1.260 ian 1316: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1317: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 1318: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1319: TechRepublic,
1320: April 28, 2003.
1321: </strong></font><br>
1322: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
1323: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 1324: work.<br>
1325: Can also be found online at:
1326: <ul>
1327: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1328: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
1329: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1330: ZDNet UK.
1331: </strong></font>
1332: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 1333: <p>
1334:
1335: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 1336: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
1337: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
1338: IDG,
1339: April 24, 2003.
1340: </strong></font><br>
1341: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
1342: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
1343: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
1344: Can also be found online at:
1345: <ul>
1346: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1347: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
1348: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 1349: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 1350: </strong></font>
1351: </ul>
1352: <p>
1353:
1354: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1355: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 1356: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 1357: Slate,
1358: April 24, 2003.
1359: </strong></font><br>
1360: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
1361: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
1362: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
1363: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
1364: <p>
1365:
1366: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 1367: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1368: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
1369: April 24, 2003.
1370: </strong></font><br>
1371: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
1372: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
1373: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
1374: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
1375: <p>
1376:
1377: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 1378: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
1379: April 24, 2003.
1380: </strong></font><br>
1381: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
1382: the free software community".
1383: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
1384: other articles.
1385: <p>
1386:
1387: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1388: <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 1389: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
1390: </strong></font><br>
1391: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
1392: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
1393: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
1394: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
1395: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
1396: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
1397: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 1398: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 1399: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
1400: <br/>
1401: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
1402: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
1403: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
1404: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 1405: <br>
1406: Can also be found online at:
1407: <ul>
1408: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1409: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
1410: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
1411: Common Dreams NewsCenter
1412: </strong></font>
1413: </ul>
1.324 ian 1414: <p>
1415:
1416: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1417: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
1418: Wired, April 24, 2003.
1419: </strong></font><br>
1420: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
1421: article above.
1422: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
1423: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
1424: wasting them."
1.332 ian 1425: <br>
1426: Can also be found online at:
1427: <ul>
1428: <li>
1429: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
1430: </strong></font>
1431: </ul>
1.324 ian 1432: <p>
1433:
1434: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 1435: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
1436: </strong></font><br>
1437: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
1438: <p>
1439:
1440: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 1441: <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.
1442: </strong></font><br>
1443: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
1444: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
1445: <p>
1446:
1447: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 1448: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
1449: April 23, 2003.
1450: </strong></font><br>
1451: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
1452: <p>
1453:
1454: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 1455: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 1456: April 22, 2003.
1457: </strong></font><br>
1458: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
1459: <p>
1460:
1461: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 1462: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1463: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1464: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 1465: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 1466: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
1467: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
1468: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
1469: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
1470: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
1471: Can also be found online at:
1472: <ul>
1473: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1474: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 1475: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1476: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 1477: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 1478: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1479: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 1480: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
1481: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 1482: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 1483: </ul>
1484: <p>
1485:
1486: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 1487: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
1488: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 1489: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1490: </strong></font><br>
1491: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 1492: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
1493: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
1494: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
1495: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
1496: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
1497: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 1498: <p>
1499:
1500: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 1501: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
1502: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 1503: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
1504: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 1505: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
1506: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
1507: at UPenn and DARPA.
1508: <p>
1509:
1510: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 1511: [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,
1512: France
1.315 deraadt 1513: April 18, 2003.
1514: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 1515: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 1516: <p>
1517:
1518: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 1519: [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 1520: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1521: </strong></font><br>
1522: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
1523: <p>
1524:
1525: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 1526: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
1527: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
1528: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1529: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 1530: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
1531: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
1532: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
1533: <p>
1534:
1535: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 1536: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
1537: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1538: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 1539: </strong></font><br>
1540: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1541: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
1542: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 1543: American century.
1.267 deraadt 1544: <p>
1545:
1546: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 1547: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
1548: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1549: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 1550: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 1551: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
1552: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
1553: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
1554: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
1555: Can also be found online at:
1556: <ul>
1557: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
1558: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 1559: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 1560: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 1561: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 1562: <p>
1563:
1564: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 1565: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 1566: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1567: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 1568: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 1569: </strong></font><br>
1570: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 1571: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
1572: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
1573: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
1574: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 1575:
1576: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1577: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
1578: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1579: New York Times.
1580: </strong></font>(free registration required)
1581:
1.273 deraadt 1582: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1583: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 1584: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1585: ABC News.
1586: </strong></font>
1587:
1588: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1589: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 1590: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 1591: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 1592: </strong></font>
1593:
1594: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1595: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1596: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 1597: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 1598: </strong></font>
1599:
1600: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 1601: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
1602: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1603: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 1604: </strong></font>
1605:
1606: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1607: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1608: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 1609: Times Daily, AL.
1610: </strong></font>
1611:
1612: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1613: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
1614: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
1615: Boston.com, MA.
1616: </strong></font>
1617:
1618: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1619: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 1620: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 1621: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
1622: </strong></font>
1623:
1624: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 1625: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
1626: [Article was pulled]</a>
1627: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 1628: </strong></font>
1629:
1630: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1631: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
1632: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
1633: Infoshop News.
1634: </strong></font>
1635:
1636: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1637: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
1638: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1639: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
1640: </strong></font>
1641:
1642: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 1643: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
1644: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
1645: Raleigh News, NC.
1646: </strong></font>
1647:
1648: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1649: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 1650: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
1651: Napa News, CA.
1652: </strong></font>
1653:
1654: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1655: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 1656: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1657: NEPA News, PA.
1658: </strong></font>
1659:
1660: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1661: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
1662: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
1663: Wired News.
1664: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 1665: <br>
1666: <li>
1.333 deraadt 1667: <font color="#009000"><strong>
1668: [JAPANESE]
1669: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
1670: Wired News Japan</a>
1671: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 1672:
1.271 deraadt 1673: </ul>
1674: <p>
1.272 deraadt 1675: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
1676: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 1677: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
1678: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
1679: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
1680: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
1681: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
1682: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 1683: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 1684: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
1685: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
1686: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 1687: <p>
1688: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 1689:
1690: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1691: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 1692: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1693: Indianapolis Star, IN.
1694: </strong></font>
1695:
1696: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 1697: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
1698: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1699: Miami Herald, FL.
1700: </strong></font>
1701:
1702: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 1703: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1704: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
1705: </strong></font>
1706:
1707: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1708: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 1709: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1710: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 1711: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 1712:
1713: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1714: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
1715: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
1716: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
1717: ABC News.
1718: </strong></font>
1719:
1.276 deraadt 1720: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1721: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 1722: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1723: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 1724: </strong></font>
1725:
1.286 dhartmei 1726: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1727: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 1728: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1729: Wilmington Star, NC.
1730: </strong></font>
1731:
1.300 jose 1732: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1733: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
1734: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
1735: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
1736: </strong></font>
1737:
1.309 jose 1738: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1739: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
1740: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
1741: Globe Technology.
1742: </strong></font>
1743:
1.263 deraadt 1744: </ul>
1.262 beck 1745: <p>
1746:
1747: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 1748: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
1749: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1750: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 1751: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 1752: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 1753: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
1754: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
1755: <p>
1756:
1757: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 1758: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
1759: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
1760: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1761: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 1762: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
1763: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
1764: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
1765: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
1766: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
1767: and simply restates other press reports.
1768: <p>
1769:
1770: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 1771: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
1772: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1773: OS News, April 18, 2003.
1774: </strong></font><br>
1775: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
1776: <p>
1777:
1778: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 1779: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
1780: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1781: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 1782: </strong></font><br>
1783: Another report on the DARPA funding.
1784: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
1785: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
1786: <p>
1787:
1788: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 1789: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
1790: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
1791: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
1792: April 17, 2003.
1793: </strong></font><br>
1794: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
1795: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
1796: Tech Anthems</a>
1797: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
1798: 4 so far.
1799: <p>
1800:
1801: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 1802: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
1803: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1804: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1805: </strong></font><br>
1806: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
1807: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
1808: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
1809: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
1810: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
1811: Goes on to say:
1812: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
1813: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
1814: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
1815: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 1816: This article is also found online at:
1817: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 1818: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1819: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
1820: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
1821: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1822: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1823: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1824: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
1825: ZDnet</a>,
1826: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1827: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1828: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1829: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
1830: ZDnet Australia</a>,
1831: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 1832: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 1833: </ul>
1.260 ian 1834: <p>
1.279 deraadt 1835:
1.260 ian 1836: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1837: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 1838: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 1839: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1840: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 1841: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 1842: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
1843: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
1844: without notice or justification.
1845: <p>
1846:
1847: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1848: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 1849: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 1850: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1851: </strong></font><br>
1852: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
1853: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 1854: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 1855: effective today, without any warning..."
1856: <p>
1.257 ian 1857:
1858: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 1859: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
1860: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1861: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 1862: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 1863: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
1864: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
1865: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
1866: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
1867: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 1868: <p>
1869:
1870: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 1871: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
1872: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1873: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 1874: </strong></font><br>
1875: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
1876: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
1877: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
1878: quoting two of them:
1879: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
1880: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
1881: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
1882: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
1883: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
1884: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
1885: <p>
1886:
1.255 ian 1887: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1888: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
1889: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 1890: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1891: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 1892: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 1893: <p>
1894:
1895: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 1896: [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 1897: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1898: </strong></font><br>
1899: New security concepts in OpenBSD
1900: <p>
1901:
1902: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 1903: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
1904: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1905: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 1906: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 1907: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 1908: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
1909: security experts for more than three decades."
1910: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
1911: <p>
1.261 ian 1912:
1.254 drahn 1913: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 1914: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 1915: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1916: </strong></font><br>
1917: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1918: <p>
1919:
1920: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 1921: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
1922: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
1923: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
1924: </strong></font><br>
1925: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
1926: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
1927: discussion OpenBSD's path.
1928: <p>
1929:
1930: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 1931: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
1932: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1933: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 1934: </strong></font><br>
1935: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
1936: from US DARPA.
1937: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
1938: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
1939: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
1940: the BSD license.
1941: <p>
1942: </ul>
1943:
1.251 ian 1944: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
1945: <ul>
1946:
1947: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1948: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
1949: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
1950: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
1951: </strong></font><br>
1952:
1953: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
1954: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
1955: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
1956: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
1957: <p>
1958:
1959: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 1960: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
1961: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 1962: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 1963: </strong></font><br>
1964: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
1965: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
1966: Mentions
1967: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
1968: and
1969: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
1970: programs.
1971: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 1972: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 1973: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
1974: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
1975: <p>
1.325 ian 1976: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
1977: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 1978:
1979: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1980: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
1981: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
1982: </strong></font><br>
1983: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
1984: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
1985: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
1986: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
1987: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
1988: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
1989: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
1990: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
1991: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
1992: put into service."
1993: <p>
1994: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
1995: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
1996: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
1997: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
1998: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
1999: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
2000: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
2001: computers with security features."
2002: <p>
1.329 ian 2003:
2004: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2005: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
2006: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
2007: Slate,
2008: March 3, 2003.
2009: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 2010: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 2011: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
2012: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
2013: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
2014: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
2015: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
2016: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
2017: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
2018: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
2019: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
2020: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
2021: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
2022: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
2023: of more secure open-source solutions like
2024: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
2025: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
2026: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
2027: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
2028: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
2029: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
2030: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
2031: the Beltway."
2032: <p>
1.251 ian 2033: </ul>
2034:
1.249 jufi 2035: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
2036: <ul>
2037: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2038: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
2039: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2040: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 2041: </strong></font><br>
2042: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
2043: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 2044: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 2045: <p>
1.334 ian 2046:
2047: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2048: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
2049: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
2050: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
2051: </strong></font><br>
2052: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
2053: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
2054: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
2055: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
2056: "... the hypothetical question ...
2057: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
2058: <br>
2059: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
2060: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
2061: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
2062: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
2063: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
2064: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 2065: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 2066: support network security.
2067: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
2068: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
2069: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
2070: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
2071: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
2072: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
2073: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
2074: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
2075: <br>
2076: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
2077: <p>
2078:
1.249 jufi 2079: </ul>
2080:
1.246 jufi 2081: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2082: <ul>
1.246 jufi 2083:
1.247 jufi 2084: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2085: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 2086: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
2087: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2088: </strong></font><br>
2089: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
2090: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
2091: <p>
2092:
1.247 jufi 2093: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2094: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
2095: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
2096: Heise News-Ticker, December 04, 2002
2097: </strong></font><br>
2098: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
2099: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
2100: <p>
2101:
2102: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2103: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 2104: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
2105: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2106: </strong></font><br>
2107: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
2108: in their annual OpenHack security test.
2109: <p>
1.247 jufi 2110: </ul>
1.246 jufi 2111:
1.244 jufi 2112: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2113: <ul>
1.246 jufi 2114:
1.247 jufi 2115: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2116: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
2117: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
2118: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2119: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2120: </strong></font><br>
2121: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
2122: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
2123: md5 digests.
2124: <p>
2125:
1.247 jufi 2126: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2127: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 2128: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
2129: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2130: </strong></font><br>
2131: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
2132: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
2133: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
2134: right the first time."
2135: <p>
1.247 jufi 2136: </ul>
1.244 jufi 2137:
2138:
2139: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2140: <ul>
1.244 jufi 2141:
1.247 jufi 2142: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2143: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2144: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
2145: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2146: </strong></font><br>
2147: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
2148: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
2149: part 6</a>.
2150: <p>
2151:
1.247 jufi 2152: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2153: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 2154: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
2155: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2156: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2157: </strong></font><br>
2158: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
2159: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
2160: <p>
1.301 jose 2161:
2162: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2163: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
2164: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
2165: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
2166: </strong></font><br>
2167:
2168: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
2169: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
2170: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
2171: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
2172: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
2173: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
2174: <i>Here's the
2175: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
2176: <p>
1.247 jufi 2177: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2178:
2179: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2180: <ul>
1.242 jufi 2181:
1.247 jufi 2182: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2183: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 2184: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2185: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2186: </strong></font><br>
2187: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
2188: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
2189: <p>
2190:
1.247 jufi 2191: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2192: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2193: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
2194: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2195: </strong></font><br>
2196: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
2197: this time using pf.
2198: <p>
1.247 jufi 2199: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2200:
2201: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2202: <ul>
1.242 jufi 2203:
1.247 jufi 2204: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2205: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2206: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
2207: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2208: </strong></font><br>
2209: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
2210: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
2211: their rotation.
2212: <p>
2213:
1.247 jufi 2214: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2215: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2216: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
2217: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2218: </strong></font><br>
2219: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
2220: <p>
1.247 jufi 2221: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2222:
1.239 jufi 2223: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2224: <ul>
1.239 jufi 2225:
1.247 jufi 2226: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2227: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2228: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
2229: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2230: </strong></font><br>
2231: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
2232: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
2233: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
2234: <p>
2235:
1.247 jufi 2236: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 2237: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2238: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
2239: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 2240: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 2241: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
2242: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
2243: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 2244: <p>
1.247 jufi 2245: </ul>
1.239 jufi 2246:
1.235 lebel 2247: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2248: <ul>
1.235 lebel 2249:
1.239 jufi 2250:
1.247 jufi 2251: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 2252: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 2253: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
2254: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 2255: </strong></font><br>
2256: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
2257: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
2258: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
2259: <p>
1.301 jose 2260:
1.247 jufi 2261: </ul>
1.235 lebel 2262:
1.228 horacio 2263: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2264: <ul>
1.228 horacio 2265:
1.247 jufi 2266: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2267: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2268: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
2269: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 2270: </strong></font><br>
2271: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
2272: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
2273: <p>
2274:
1.247 jufi 2275: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 2276: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 2277: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
2278: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 2279: </strong></font><br>
2280: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
2281: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
2282: <p>
2283:
1.247 jufi 2284: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 2285: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 2286: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
2287: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 2288: </strong></font><br>
2289: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
2290: on the desktop of his parents.
2291: <p>
2292:
1.247 jufi 2293: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 2294: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 2295: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
2296: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 2297: </strong></font><br>
2298: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
2299: using IPFilter.
2300:
2301: <p>
2302:
1.247 jufi 2303: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 2304: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 2305: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
2306: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 2307: </strong></font><br>
2308: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
2309: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
2310: perspectives of the four OS.
2311: <br>
2312: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 2313: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 2314: <p>
2315:
1.247 jufi 2316: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 2317: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
2318: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 2319: software and security</a>,
2320: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 2321: </strong></font><br>
2322:
2323: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
2324: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
2325: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
2326: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
2327: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
2328: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
2329: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
2330: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
2331: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
2332: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
2333: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
2334: security conscious team beyond doubt.
2335: <p>
1.247 jufi 2336: </ul>
1.228 horacio 2337:
1.225 horacio 2338: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2339: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2340:
1.247 jufi 2341: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2342: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
2343: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 2344: Interview</a>,
2345: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 2346: </strong></font><br>
2347:
2348: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
2349: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
2350: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 2351: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 2352: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
2353: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
2354: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
2355: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
2356: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 2357: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 2358: of choice.
2359: <p>
1.247 jufi 2360: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2361:
2362: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2363: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2364:
1.247 jufi 2365: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2366: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 2367: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
2368: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 2369: </strong></font><br>
2370:
2371: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
2372: <p>
2373:
1.247 jufi 2374: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2375: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 2376: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
2377: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 2378: </strong></font><br>
2379:
2380: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
2381: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
2382: <p>
1.247 jufi 2383: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2384:
1.218 horacio 2385: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2386: <ul>
1.218 horacio 2387:
1.247 jufi 2388: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 2389: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 2390: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 2391: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 2392: </strong></font><br>
2393:
2394: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
2395: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
2396: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
2397: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
2398: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
2399: subjects. Worth a read.
2400: <p>
2401:
2402:
1.247 jufi 2403: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 2404: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 2405: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
2406: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 2407: </strong></font><br>
2408:
2409: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
2410: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
2411: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
2412: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
2413: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
2414: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
2415: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
2416: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
2417: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 2418: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 2419: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
2420: on other operating systems.<br>
2421: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
2422: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
2423: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
2424: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
2425: <p>
2426:
1.247 jufi 2427: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2428: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 2429: Operating System 2010</a>,
2430: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 2431: </strong></font><br>
2432:
2433: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
2434: covering the level of software integration into the core
2435: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
2436: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
2437: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
2438: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
2439: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
2440: <p>
2441:
1.247 jufi 2442: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 2443: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2444: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
2445: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 2446: </strong></font><br>
2447:
2448: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
2449: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
2450: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
2451: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
2452: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
2453: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
2454: <p>
1.247 jufi 2455: </ul>
1.221 horacio 2456:
1.210 jufi 2457: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2458: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2459:
1.247 jufi 2460: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2461: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2462: Already a Contender</a>,
2463: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 2464: </strong></font><br>
2465:
2466: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
2467: source software in response to an article which claimed that
2468: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
2469: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
2470: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
2471: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
2472: <p>
2473:
1.247 jufi 2474: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 2475: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 2476: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
2477: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 2478: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2479:
1.224 horacio 2480: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
2481: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
2482: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
2483: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
2484: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
2485: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 2486: <p>
1.247 jufi 2487: </ul>
1.215 horacio 2488:
2489: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2490: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2491:
1.247 jufi 2492: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2493: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
2494: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 2495: Division</a>,
2496: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 2497: </strong></font><br>
2498:
2499: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
2500: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 2501: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 2502: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
2503: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
2504: investment</em>.<br>
2505: The implementation details can be seen on their
2506: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
2507: <p>
2508:
1.247 jufi 2509: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2510: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
2511: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
2512: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
2513: </strong></font><br>
2514:
2515: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
2516: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
2517: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
2518: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
2519: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
2520: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
2521: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
2522: <p>
2523:
2524: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2525: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2526: Thinking about Security</a>,
2527: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2528: </strong></font><br>
2529:
2530: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
2531: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
2532: security and says that even secured operating systems running
2533: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
2534: to time.<br>
2535: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
2536: system and just the most secure system.
2537: <p>
2538:
1.247 jufi 2539: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2540: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2541: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
2542: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2543: </strong></font><br>
2544:
2545: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
2546: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
2547: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
2548: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
2549: choice:<br>
2550: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
2551: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
2552: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
2553: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
2554: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
2555: network security devices and as such must be well
2556: armored."</em><br>
2557: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
2558: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
2559: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
2560: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
2561: <br>
2562: Bravo!
2563: <p>
1.247 jufi 2564: </ul>
1.210 jufi 2565:
1.207 ian 2566: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2567: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2568:
1.247 jufi 2569: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 2570: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
2571: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
2572: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 2573:
1.207 ian 2574: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
2575: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 2576: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 2577: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
2578: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
2579: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 2580: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 2581: <p>
1.247 jufi 2582: </ul>
1.207 ian 2583:
1.194 jufi 2584: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2585: <ul>
1.194 jufi 2586:
1.247 jufi 2587: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2588: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 2589: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
2590: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 2591: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2592:
1.240 miod 2593: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 2594: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
2595: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
2596: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
2597: <p>
2598:
1.247 jufi 2599: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2600: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
2601: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
2602: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
2603:
2604: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
2605: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
2606: <p>
2607:
2608: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2609: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
2610: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2611: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
2612:
2613: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
2614: <p>
2615:
2616: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2617: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 2618: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
2619: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
2620: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2621:
1.240 miod 2622: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 2623: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 2624: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
2625: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 2626: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 2627: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 2628: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
2629: <br>
1.413 deraadt 2630: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 2631: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
2632: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
2633: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
2634: <p>
2635:
1.247 jufi 2636: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 2637: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
2638: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 2639: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 2640: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2641:
1.194 jufi 2642: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
2643: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
2644: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
2645: <br>
2646: The new
2647: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 2648: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 2649: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
2650: <p>
1.247 jufi 2651: </ul>
1.194 jufi 2652:
1.190 horacio 2653: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2654: <ul>
1.190 horacio 2655:
1.247 jufi 2656: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 2657:
2658: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
2659: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
2660:
1.301 jose 2661:
1.191 jufi 2662: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
2663: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
2664:
2665: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
2666: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
2667:
1.212 horacio 2668: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
2669: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 2670: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
2671:
1.211 horacio 2672: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
2673: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 2674: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
2675:
1.247 jufi 2676: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 2677: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
2678:
1.247 jufi 2679: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 2680: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
2681:
1.212 horacio 2682: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
2683: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 2684: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
2685:
2686: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
2687: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
2688:
2689: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
2690: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
2691:
1.301 jose 2692: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
2693: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
2694:
1.191 jufi 2695: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
2696: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
2697:
2698: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 2699: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 2700:
1.192 jufi 2701: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
2702: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 2703: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 2704:
1.193 deraadt 2705: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
2706: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 2707: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 2708:
1.247 jufi 2709: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 2710: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
2711:
1.247 jufi 2712: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 2713: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
2714: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
2715:
1.213 horacio 2716: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 2717: 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 2718: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
2719:
1.190 horacio 2720: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 2721: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
2722: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
2723: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
2724: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
2725: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
2726: <p>
1.190 horacio 2727:
1.247 jufi 2728: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2729: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
2730: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
2731: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 2732: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2733:
1.195 jufi 2734: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 2735: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
2736: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
2737: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 2738: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
2739: <p>
2740:
1.247 jufi 2741: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2742: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 2743: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
2744: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
2745: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2746:
1.191 jufi 2747: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 2748: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
2749: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
2750: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
2751: <p>
2752:
2753: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2754: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2755: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2756: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
2757:
2758: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2759: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 2760: <p>
1.247 jufi 2761: </ul>
1.190 horacio 2762:
1.191 jufi 2763:
1.186 jufi 2764: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2765: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 2766:
1.247 jufi 2767: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 2768: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 2769: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
2770: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 2771: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 2772:
1.188 jufi 2773: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 2774: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 2775: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 2776: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
2777: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 2778: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 2779: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 2780: <p>
2781:
1.301 jose 2782: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2783: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2784: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2785: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2786:
2787: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2788: <p>
1.191 jufi 2789:
1.247 jufi 2790: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 2791: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
2792: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
2793: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 2794: </strong></font><br>
2795:
2796: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
2797: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
2798: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
2799: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
2800: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
2801: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
2802: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
2803: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
2804: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
2805: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
2806: familiar?
2807: <p>
1.247 jufi 2808: </ul>
1.191 jufi 2809:
1.178 louis 2810: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2811: <ul>
1.178 louis 2812:
1.247 jufi 2813: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 2814: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 2815: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
2816: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 2817: </strong></font><br>
2818:
2819: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
2820: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
2821: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
2822: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
2823: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
2824: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
2825: <p>
2826:
1.247 jufi 2827: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2828: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
2829: Open source under the hood</a>,
2830: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 2831: </strong></font><br>
2832:
2833: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
2834: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
2835: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
2836: <p>
2837:
1.247 jufi 2838: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2839: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
2840: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
2841: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 2842: </strong></font><br>
2843:
2844: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
2845: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
2846: <p>
1.247 jufi 2847: </ul>
1.179 louis 2848:
1.174 louis 2849:
1.175 louis 2850: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2851: <ul>
1.175 louis 2852:
1.247 jufi 2853: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2854: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
2855: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
2856: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 2857: </strong></font><br>
2858:
2859: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
2860: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
2861: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
2862: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
2863: <p>
2864:
1.247 jufi 2865: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2866: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
2867: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
2868: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 2869: </strong></font><br>
2870:
2871: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 2872: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 2873: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
2874: <p>
1.247 jufi 2875: </ul>
1.175 louis 2876:
1.176 louis 2877:
1.172 mickey 2878: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2879: <ul>
1.172 mickey 2880:
1.247 jufi 2881: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2882: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
2883: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 2884: </strong></font><br>
2885:
2886: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
2887: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
2888: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 2889: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 2890: <p>
2891:
1.247 jufi 2892: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 2893: <a
1.269 deraadt 2894: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
2895: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
2896: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 2897: </strong></font><br>
2898:
2899: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
2900: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
2901: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
2902: <p>
2903:
1.247 jufi 2904: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2905: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 2906: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
2907: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 2908: </strong></font><br>
2909:
2910: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
2911: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
2912: <p>
2913:
1.247 jufi 2914: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2915: <a
1.269 deraadt 2916: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
2917: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 2918: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
2919: </strong></font><br>
2920:
2921: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
2922: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
2923: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
2924: our own Theo de Raadt.
2925: <p>
2926:
1.247 jufi 2927: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2928: <a
1.269 deraadt 2929: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
2930: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
2931: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 2932: </strong></font><br>
2933:
2934: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
2935: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
2936: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
2937: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
2938: shut down.]
2939: <p>
2940:
1.247 jufi 2941: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2942: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 2943: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 2944: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
2945: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 2946: </strong></font><br>
2947:
2948: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
2949: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
2950: <p>
1.247 jufi 2951: </ul>
1.172 mickey 2952:
1.161 louis 2953: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2954: <ul>
1.161 louis 2955:
1.247 jufi 2956: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2957: <a
1.269 deraadt 2958: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
2959: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
2960: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 2961: </strong></font><br>
2962:
2963: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
2964: by John Wolley
2965: <p>
2966:
1.247 jufi 2967: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2968: <a
1.269 deraadt 2969: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
2970: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
2971: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 2972: </strong></font><br>
2973:
2974: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
2975: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
2976: OpenBSD).
2977: <p>
2978:
1.247 jufi 2979: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2980: <a
1.247 jufi 2981: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 2982: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
2983: </strong></font><br>
2984:
2985: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
2986: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
2987: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
2988: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
2989: and hindsight.
2990: <p>
2991:
1.247 jufi 2992: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2993: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
2994: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
2995: </strong></font><br>
2996:
2997: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
2998: <p>
2999:
1.247 jufi 3000: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 3001: <a
1.168 provos 3002: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
3003: December 7, 2000
3004: </strong></font><br>
3005:
3006: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
3007: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
3008: us explain.
3009: <p>
3010:
1.247 jufi 3011: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 3012: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
3013: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 3014: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 3015: December 6, 2000
3016: </strong></font><br>
3017:
3018: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
3019: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
3020: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
3021: <p>
3022:
1.247 jufi 3023: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3024: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
3025: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
3026: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
3027: </strong></font><br>
3028:
3029: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
3030: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
3031: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
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
3035: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
3036: <p>
3037:
3038: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 3039: <a
1.226 horacio 3040: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
3041: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 3042: </strong></font><br>
3043:
3044: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 3045: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 3046: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 3047: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
3048: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
3049: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 3050: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 3051: <p>
1.162 millert 3052:
1.247 jufi 3053: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 3054: <a
1.161 louis 3055: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
3056: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
3057: </strong></font><br>
3058:
3059: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
3060: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
3061: <p>
3062:
1.247 jufi 3063: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3064: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
3065: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
3066: </strong></font><br>
3067:
3068: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
3069: <p>
3070:
3071:
1.247 jufi 3072: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 3073: <a
1.226 horacio 3074: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
3075: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
3076: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 3077: </strong></font><br>
3078:
3079: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
3080: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
3081: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
3082: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
3083: <p>
1.247 jufi 3084: </ul>
1.169 louis 3085:
1.158 louis 3086: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3087: <ul>
1.147 louis 3088:
1.247 jufi 3089: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3090: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
3091: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 3092: </strong></font><br>
3093:
3094: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
3095: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
3096: <p>
3097:
1.247 jufi 3098: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3099: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
3100: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
3101: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 3102: </strong></font><br>
3103: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
3104: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
3105: <p>
3106:
1.247 jufi 3107: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 3108: <a
3109: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
3110: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
3111: </strong></font><br>
3112:
3113: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
3114: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
3115: <p>
3116:
1.247 jufi 3117: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3118: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 3119: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
3120: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 3121:
1.213 horacio 3122: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 3123: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 3124: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
3125: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
3126: <p>
1.215 horacio 3127:
1.247 jufi 3128: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3129: <a
3130: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
3131: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
3132: </strong></font><br>
3133:
3134: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
3135: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
3136: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
3137: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
3138: much of the attitude too).
3139: <p>
1.161 louis 3140:
1.247 jufi 3141: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3142: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3143: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 3144: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3145:
1.157 louis 3146: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
3147: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
3148: <p>
1.247 jufi 3149: </ul>
1.157 louis 3150:
3151: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3152: <ul>
1.157 louis 3153:
1.247 jufi 3154: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3155: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3156: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 3157: </strong></font><br>
3158:
3159: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
3160: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
3161: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
3162: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
3163: <p>
3164:
1.247 jufi 3165: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 3166: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
3167: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
3168: </strong></font><br>
3169:
3170: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
3171: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
3172: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
3173: it because they love coding...
3174: <p>
3175:
1.247 jufi 3176: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 3177: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
3178: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
3179: </strong></font><br>
3180:
3181: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
3182: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
3183: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
3184: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
3185: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
3186: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
3187: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
3188: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
3189: <p>
3190:
1.247 jufi 3191: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3192: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
3193: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
3194: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 3195: </strong></font><br>
3196:
3197: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
3198: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
3199: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
3200: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
3201: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
3202: the pizza.
3203: <p>
3204:
1.247 jufi 3205: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 3206: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
3207: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
3208: </strong></font><br>
3209:
3210: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
3211: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
3212: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
3213: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
3214: problems.
3215: <p>
3216:
1.247 jufi 3217: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 3218: <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 3219: </strong></font><br>
3220:
1.222 miod 3221: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 3222: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
3223: - whether they like it or not.
3224: <p>
3225:
1.247 jufi 3226: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3227: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
3228: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 3229: </strong></font><br>
3230:
3231: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
3232: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
3233: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 3234: <p>
1.148 aaron 3235:
1.247 jufi 3236: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3237: <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 3238: </strong></font><br>
3239:
3240: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
3241: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
3242: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
3243: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
3244: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
3245: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
3246: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
3247: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
3248: <p>
3249:
1.247 jufi 3250: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3251: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
3252: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 3253: </strong></font><br>
3254:
3255: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
3256: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 3257: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 3258: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
3259: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
3260: <p>
1.247 jufi 3261: </ul>
1.147 louis 3262:
1.138 louis 3263: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3264: <ul>
1.138 louis 3265:
1.247 jufi 3266: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3267: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
3268: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
3269: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
3270: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 3271: </strong></font><br>
3272:
1.227 horacio 3273: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 3274: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
3275: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
3276: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
3277: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
3278: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
3279: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
3280: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 3281: <p>
3282:
1.247 jufi 3283: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 3284: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 3285: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 3286: </strong></font><br>
3287:
3288: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
3289: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
3290: groups, and even Linux.
3291: <p>
3292:
1.247 jufi 3293: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3294: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
3295: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 3296: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
3297: </strong></font><br>
3298:
3299: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
3300: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
3301: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
3302: library after installing the OS.
3303: <p>
3304:
1.247 jufi 3305: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3306: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 3307: Sys Admin, September 2000
3308: </strong></font><br>
3309:
3310: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
3311: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
3312: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
3313: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 3314: (<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>,
3315: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
3316: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
3317: <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 3318: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 3319: out of the system.
3320: <p>
3321:
1.247 jufi 3322: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 3323: <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
3324: </strong></font><br>
3325:
3326: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 3327: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 3328: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
3329: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
3330: the IP filtering and address translation.
3331: <p>
1.301 jose 3332:
3333: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3334: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
3335: </strong></font><br>
3336:
3337: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
3338: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
3339: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
3340: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
3341: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
3342: <p>
1.247 jufi 3343: </ul>
1.200 niklas 3344:
1.131 louis 3345: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3346: <ul>
1.131 louis 3347:
1.247 jufi 3348: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3349: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
3350: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
3351: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 3352: </strong></font><br>
3353:
3354: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
3355: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
3356: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
3357: <p>
3358:
1.247 jufi 3359: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 3360: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
3361: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
3362: </strong></font><br>
3363:
3364: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
3365: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
3366: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
3367: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
3368: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
3369: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
3370: note of"</i>.
3371: <p>
3372:
1.247 jufi 3373: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 3374: <a
1.247 jufi 3375: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 3376: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
3377: </strong></font><br>
3378:
3379: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
3380: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
3381: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
3382: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
3383: <p>
3384:
1.247 jufi 3385: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 3386: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 3387: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
3388: </strong></font><br>
3389:
3390: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
3391: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
3392: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
3393: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
3394: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
3395: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
3396: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
3397: <p>
3398:
1.247 jufi 3399: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 3400: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
3401: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
3402: 2000
3403: </strong></font><br>
3404:
3405: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
3406: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
3407: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
3408: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
3409: against current industry practices.
3410: <p>
3411:
1.247 jufi 3412: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 3413: <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
3414: </strong></font><br>
3415:
3416: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
3417: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
3418: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
3419: <p>
3420:
1.247 jufi 3421: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 3422: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
3423: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
3424: </strong></font><br>
3425:
3426: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
3427: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
3428: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
3429: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
3430: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
3431: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
3432: careful code reviews, he concludes.
3433: <p>
3434:
1.247 jufi 3435: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 3436: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
3437: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
3438: </strong></font><br>
3439:
3440: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
3441: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
3442: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
3443: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
3444: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 3445: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
3446: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
3447: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 3448: <p>
1.247 jufi 3449: </ul>
1.131 louis 3450:
1.118 louis 3451: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3452: <ul>
1.118 louis 3453:
1.247 jufi 3454: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 3455: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
3456: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
3457: </strong></font><br>
3458:
3459: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
3460: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
3461: about time. The article mentions that
3462: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
3463: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
3464: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 3465: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 3466: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
3467: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 3468: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 3469: <p>
3470:
1.247 jufi 3471: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3472: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 3473: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3474: </strong></font><br>
3475:
3476: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
3477: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
3478: of OpenSSH.
3479: <p>
3480:
1.247 jufi 3481: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3482: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3483: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3484: </strong></font><br>
3485:
3486: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 3487: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 3488: bridging.
3489: <p>
3490:
1.247 jufi 3491: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3492: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
3493: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 3494: </strong></font><br>
3495:
1.121 deraadt 3496: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
3497: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 3498: <p>
3499:
1.247 jufi 3500: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3501: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
3502: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
3503: </strong></font><br>
3504:
3505: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
3506: <p>
3507:
1.247 jufi 3508: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 3509: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3510: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
3511: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 3512: </strong></font><br>
3513:
1.120 deraadt 3514: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
3515: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 3516: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
3517: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
3518: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
3519: <p>
3520:
1.247 jufi 3521: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 3522: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
3523: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
3524: </strong></font><br>
3525:
1.222 miod 3526: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 3527: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
3528: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
3529: protocols and their quirks.
3530: <p>
3531:
1.247 jufi 3532: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3533: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
3534: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 3535: </strong></font><br>
3536:
3537: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
3538: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
3539: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 3540: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 3541: <p>
3542:
1.247 jufi 3543: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 3544: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
3545: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
3546: </strong></font><br>
3547:
3548: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
3549: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
3550: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
3551: <p>
3552:
1.247 jufi 3553: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 3554: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3555: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
3556: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 3557: </strong></font><br>
3558:
3559: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
3560: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
3561: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
3562: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
3563: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
3564: <p>
1.247 jufi 3565: </ul>
1.118 louis 3566:
1.104 louis 3567: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3568: <ul>
1.104 louis 3569:
1.247 jufi 3570: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 3571: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
3572: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
3573: </strong></font><br>
3574:
3575: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
3576: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
3577: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
3578: be a bit dry.
3579: <p>
3580:
1.247 jufi 3581: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3582: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
3583: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
3584: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
3585: </strong></font><br>
3586: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
3587: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
3588: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
3589: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
3590: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
3591: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
3592: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
3593: <p>
3594:
1.247 jufi 3595: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3596: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
3597: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 3598: 2000
1.128 louis 3599: </strong></font><br>
3600:
3601: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
3602: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
3603: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
3604: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
3605: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 3606: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 3607: <p>
3608:
1.247 jufi 3609: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3610: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
3611: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 3612: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 3613:
3614: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
3615: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
3616: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
3617: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 3618: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
3619: <p>
1.110 louis 3620:
1.247 jufi 3621: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 3622: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
3623: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
3624: </strong></font><br>
3625:
3626: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
3627: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
3628: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
3629: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
3630: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
3631: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
3632: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
3633: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
3634: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
3635: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
3636: <p>
3637:
1.247 jufi 3638: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 3639: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3640: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 3641:
3642: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
3643: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 3644: <p>
1.108 louis 3645:
1.247 jufi 3646: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 3647: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
3648: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 3649: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 3650:
3651: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
3652: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
3653: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 3654: <p>
1.106 louis 3655:
1.247 jufi 3656: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 3657: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
3658: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 3659: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 3660:
3661: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
3662: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
3663: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
3664: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 3665: <p>
1.107 louis 3666:
1.247 jufi 3667: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3668: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
3669: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3670: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 3671:
3672: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
3673: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 3674: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 3675: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
3676: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 3677: <p>
1.105 louis 3678:
1.247 jufi 3679: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 3680: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 3681: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 3682: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 3683:
1.113 naddy 3684: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
3685: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 3686: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 3687: <p>
1.104 louis 3688:
1.247 jufi 3689: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3690: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
3691: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
3692: </strong></font><br>
3693:
3694: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
3695: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
3696: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
3697: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
3698: <p>
1.301 jose 3699:
3700: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3701: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
3702: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
3703: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
3704:
3705: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
3706: hardware-supported cryptography.
3707: <p>
1.247 jufi 3708: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 3709:
1.85 louis 3710: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3711: <ul>
1.85 louis 3712:
1.247 jufi 3713: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3714: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 3715: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 3716: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3717:
3718: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
3719: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
3720: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
3721: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
3722: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
3723: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
3724: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 3725: <p>
1.99 louis 3726:
1.247 jufi 3727: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3728: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 3729: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3730: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 3731:
3732: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
3733: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
3734: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
3735: conditions.
1.113 naddy 3736: <p>
1.100 louis 3737:
1.247 jufi 3738: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3739: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 3740: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3741: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 3742:
3743: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
3744: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
3745: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
3746: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 3747: <p>
1.95 louis 3748:
1.247 jufi 3749: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3750: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 3751: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3752: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 3753:
3754: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
3755: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 3756: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 3757: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
3758: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3759: <p>
1.92 louis 3760:
1.247 jufi 3761: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3762: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 3763: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3764: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 3765:
3766: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
3767: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
3768: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
3769: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
3770: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
3771: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 3772: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 3773: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 3774: <p>
1.91 louis 3775:
1.247 jufi 3776: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3777: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
3778: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 3779: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3780:
3781: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
3782: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
3783: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
3784: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
3785: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
3786: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
3787: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
3788: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
3789: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 3790: <p>
1.90 louis 3791:
1.247 jufi 3792: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3793: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
3794: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
3795: </strong></font><br>
3796: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
3797: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
3798: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
3799: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
3800: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
3801: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
3802: <p>
3803:
1.247 jufi 3804: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 3805: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
3806: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3807: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 3808:
1.113 naddy 3809: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
3810: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 3811: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
3812: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
3813: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
3814: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
3815: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 3816: <p>
1.87 louis 3817:
1.247 jufi 3818: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3819: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
3820: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 3821: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3822:
3823: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 3824: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 3825: <p>
1.85 louis 3826:
1.247 jufi 3827: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3828: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
3829: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3830: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
3831:
3832: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
3833: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
3834: <p>
3835:
3836: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 3837: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
3838: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3839: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 3840:
3841: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 3842: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 3843: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
3844: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 3845: <p>
1.89 louis 3846:
1.247 jufi 3847: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3848: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
3849: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3850: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3851:
3852: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
3853: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
3854: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
3855: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
3856: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 3857: </ul>
1.85 louis 3858:
1.78 deraadt 3859: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3860: <ul>
1.74 louis 3861:
1.247 jufi 3862: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3863: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 3864: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 3865: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 3866: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3867:
3868: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
3869: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
3870: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3871: <p>
1.83 louis 3872:
1.247 jufi 3873: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 3874: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
3875: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3876: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 3877:
3878: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
3879: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 3880: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 3881: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
3882: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 3883: <p>
1.93 louis 3884:
1.247 jufi 3885: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3886: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
3887: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
3888: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3889: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 3890:
1.83 louis 3891: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
3892: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
3893: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
3894: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
3895: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 3896: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
3897: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
3898: <p>
1.82 aaron 3899:
1.247 jufi 3900: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3901: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 3902: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3903: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 3904:
1.83 louis 3905: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
3906: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
3907: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 3908: <p>
1.80 louis 3909:
1.247 jufi 3910: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3911: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 3912: Bad Press</a>,
3913: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 3914: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 3915:
3916: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 3917: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 3918: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
3919: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
3920: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 3921: <p>
1.247 jufi 3922: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 3923:
3924: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3925: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 3926:
1.247 jufi 3927: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3928: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
3929: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 3930: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 3931: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 3932:
3933: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
3934: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
3935: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
3936: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 3937: <p>
1.74 louis 3938:
1.247 jufi 3939: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 3940: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
3941: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 3942: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3943:
1.219 horacio 3944: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
3945: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
3946: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
3947: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
3948: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
3949: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
3950: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 3951: <p>
1.88 louis 3952:
1.247 jufi 3953: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 3954: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 3955: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 3956: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 3957:
3958: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
3959: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
3960: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
3961: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 3962: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 3963: <p>
1.81 louis 3964:
1.247 jufi 3965: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3966: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 3967: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3968: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3969:
3970: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
3971: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
3972: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
3973: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
3974: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
3975: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
3976: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 3977: <p>
1.90 louis 3978:
1.247 jufi 3979: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3980: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 3981: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3982: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 3983:
3984: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
3985: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
3986: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 3987: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 3988: <p>
1.247 jufi 3989: </ul>
1.71 louis 3990:
1.69 deraadt 3991: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3992: <ul>
1.70 louis 3993:
1.247 jufi 3994: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3995: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
3996: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 3997: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3998:
3999: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
4000: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
4001: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 4002: <p>
1.70 louis 4003:
1.247 jufi 4004: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4005: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
4006: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 4007: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 4008:
4009: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 4010: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 4011: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 4012: <p>
1.68 louis 4013:
1.247 jufi 4014: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4015: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
4016: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 4017: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 4018: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 4019:
1.111 jufi 4020: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
4021: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 4022: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 4023: "secure by default" installation.
4024: <p>
1.64 louis 4025:
1.247 jufi 4026: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 4027: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 4028: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 4029: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 4030:
1.113 naddy 4031: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 4032: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 4033: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 4034: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
4035: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
4036: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 4037: <p>
1.66 louis 4038:
1.247 jufi 4039: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4040: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 4041: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4042: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 4043:
4044: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 4045: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 4046: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
4047: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
4048: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 4049: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
4050: <p>
1.83 louis 4051:
1.247 jufi 4052: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4053: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 4054: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4055: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 4056:
4057: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 4058: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
4059: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 4060: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
4061: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 4062: <p>
1.64 louis 4063:
1.247 jufi 4064: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4065: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 4066: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4067: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 4068:
4069: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
4070: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 4071: <p>
1.301 jose 4072:
4073: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4074: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
4075: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
4076: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
4077: </strong></font><br>
4078:
4079: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
4080: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
4081: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
4082: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
4083: Giving way to
4084: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
4085: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
4086: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
4087: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
4088: <p>
1.247 jufi 4089: </ul>
1.65 louis 4090:
1.69 deraadt 4091: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4092: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4093:
1.247 jufi 4094: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4095: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 4096: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 4097: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 4098:
4099: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
4100: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
4101: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
4102: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 4103: <p>
1.88 louis 4104:
1.247 jufi 4105: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4106: <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 4107: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 4108:
4109: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 4110: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
4111: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 4112: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
4113: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 4114: <p>
1.60 louis 4115:
1.247 jufi 4116: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 4117: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 4118: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 4119: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 4120: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4121:
4122: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
4123: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
4124: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 4125: <p>
1.58 louis 4126:
1.247 jufi 4127: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 4128: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 4129: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 4130:
4131: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
4132: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 4133: <p>
1.53 louis 4134:
1.247 jufi 4135: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 4136: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
4137: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 4138: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 4139:
4140: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
4141: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
4142: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 4143: <p>
1.99 louis 4144:
1.247 jufi 4145: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 4146: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 4147: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4148:
4149: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
4150: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 4151: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 4152: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 4153: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 4154:
1.247 jufi 4155: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4156: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
4157: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 4158: </strong></font><br>
4159:
4160: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
4161: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
4162: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
4163: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
4164: <p>
4165:
1.247 jufi 4166: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4167: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 4168: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 4169: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4170:
4171: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
4172: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 4173: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 4174:
1.247 jufi 4175: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 4176: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 4177: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 4178:
4179: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 4180: in
1.247 jufi 4181: <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 4182: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 4183: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 4184: <p>
1.53 louis 4185:
1.247 jufi 4186: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4187: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 4188: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
4189: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 4190: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 4191:
1.58 louis 4192: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4193: <p>
1.301 jose 4194:
4195: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4196: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
4197: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
4198: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
4199: Informacyjny, January 2000
4200: </strong></font><br>
4201:
4202: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
4203: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
4204: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
4205: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
4206: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
4207: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
4208: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
4209: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
4210: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
4211: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 4212: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
4213: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 4214: <p>
4215:
4216: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4217: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4218: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
4219: </strong></font><br>
4220:
4221: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
4222: <p>
4223: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 4224:
1.69 deraadt 4225: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4226: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4227:
1.247 jufi 4228: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4229: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
4230: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
4231: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 4232: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4233:
1.58 louis 4234: Kurt Seifried
4235: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4236: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
4237: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 4238: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 4239:
1.247 jufi 4240: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4241: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 4242: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4243: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 4244:
4245: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 4246: <p>
1.96 louis 4247:
1.247 jufi 4248: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4249: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
4250: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
4251: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
4252: </strong></font><br>
4253:
4254: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
4255: <p>
4256:
4257: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4258: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 4259: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 4260: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 4261:
4262: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
4263: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 4264: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 4265: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 4266: <p>
1.247 jufi 4267: </ul>
1.86 louis 4268:
1.69 deraadt 4269: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4270: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4271:
1.247 jufi 4272: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4273: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
4274: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 4275: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 4276:
4277: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
4278: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 4279: <p>
1.61 louis 4280:
1.247 jufi 4281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4282: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 4283: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
4284: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4285: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 4286:
4287: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 4288: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 4289: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
4290: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 4291: right -- or at least strives to".
4292: <p>
1.48 louis 4293:
1.247 jufi 4294: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4295: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
4296: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4297: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 4298: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
4299: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
4300: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
4301: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 4302: <p>
1.61 louis 4303:
1.247 jufi 4304: <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 4305: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4306: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 4307:
4308: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
4309: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
4310: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
4311: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 4312: <p>
1.46 louis 4313:
1.247 jufi 4314: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4315: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
4316: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4317: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4318:
4319: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
4320: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 4321: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 4322:
1.247 jufi 4323: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 4324: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
4325: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 4326: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 4327:
4328: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
4329: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
4330: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
4331: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 4332: <p>
1.247 jufi 4333: </ul>
1.70 louis 4334:
1.69 deraadt 4335: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4336: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4337:
1.247 jufi 4338: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4339: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
4340: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 4341: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 4342: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 4343:
4344: Kurt Seifried
4345: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4346: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
4347: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 4348: <p>
1.44 philen 4349:
1.247 jufi 4350: <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 4351: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 4352: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 4353:
4354: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 4355: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 4356:
1.247 jufi 4357: <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 4358: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 4359: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 4360:
4361: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 4362: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 4363:
1.247 jufi 4364: <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 4365: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 4366: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 4367:
4368: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
4369: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
4370: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
4371: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 4372: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 4373:
1.247 jufi 4374: <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 4375: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 4376: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 4377:
1.36 louis 4378: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 4379: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 4380:
1.247 jufi 4381: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 4382: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
4383: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 4384: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4385:
4386: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 4387: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 4388: </ul>
1.38 louis 4389:
1.69 deraadt 4390: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4391: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4392:
1.247 jufi 4393: <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 4394: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 4395: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 4396:
4397: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
4398: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 4399: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 4400:
1.113 naddy 4401: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 4402: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 4403: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 4404: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 4405:
4406: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
4407: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 4408: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
4409: terminal:
1.113 naddy 4410: <blockquote>
4411: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
4412: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
4413: <br>
4414: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
4415: </code>
4416: </blockquote>
4417: <p>
4418:
1.247 jufi 4419: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 4420: <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 4421: <p>
4422:
4423: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4424: <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 4425: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 4426:
4427: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
4428: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 4429: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 4430: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 4431:
1.247 jufi 4432: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4433: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
4434: Sept. 28, 1999
4435: </strong></font><br>
4436:
4437: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
4438: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
4439: translating and reprinting articles from
4440: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
4441: <p>
4442:
4443: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 4444: <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 4445: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 4446:
4447: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
4448: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
4449: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
4450: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
4451: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 4452: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 4453: <p>
1.19 louis 4454:
1.113 naddy 4455: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 4456: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 4457: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 4458:
4459: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
4460: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
4461: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 4462: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
4463: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 4464: <p>
1.16 louis 4465:
1.247 jufi 4466: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4467: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 4468: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 4469: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 4470:
1.57 louis 4471: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
4472: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
4473: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 4474: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 4475:
1.247 jufi 4476: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4477: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 4478: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 4479: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4480:
1.113 naddy 4481: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 4482:
1.247 jufi 4483: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4484: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
4485: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4486: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 4487:
1.23 louis 4488: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
4489: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
4490: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
4491: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
4492: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 4493: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 4494:
1.247 jufi 4495: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 4496: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
4497: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4498: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 4499:
1.199 pvalchev 4500: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 4501: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
4502: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
4503: installation.
1.113 naddy 4504: <p>
1.47 louis 4505:
1.247 jufi 4506: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4507: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 4508: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 4509: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4510:
1.301 jose 4511: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
4512: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
4513: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4514: </ul>
1.57 louis 4515:
1.69 deraadt 4516: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4517: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4518:
1.247 jufi 4519: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 4520: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 4521: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 4522: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 4523:
4524: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
4525: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 4526: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4527: <p>
1.12 louis 4528:
1.247 jufi 4529: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 4530: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 4531: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 4532: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 4533:
4534: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
4535: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 4536: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
4537: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
4538: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
4539: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
4540: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 4541: <p>
1.247 jufi 4542: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 4543:
1.69 deraadt 4544: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4545: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 4546:
1.247 jufi 4547: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 4548: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 4549: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 4550:
4551: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
4552: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
4553: available."
1.113 naddy 4554: <p>
1.301 jose 4555:
4556: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4557: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4558: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
4559: </strong></font><br>
4560:
4561: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
4562: <p>
1.247 jufi 4563: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 4564:
1.69 deraadt 4565: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4566: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4567:
1.247 jufi 4568: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 4569: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 4570: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 4571:
4572: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
4573: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
4574: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
4575: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
4576: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 4577: <p>
1.33 louis 4578:
1.247 jufi 4579: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4580: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 4581: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 4582: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4583:
1.113 naddy 4584: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
4585: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 4586: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
4587: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
4588: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 4589: <p>
1.247 jufi 4590: </ul>
1.57 louis 4591:
1.69 deraadt 4592: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4593: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4594:
1.247 jufi 4595: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4596: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 4597: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 4598: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4599:
4600: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
4601: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 4602: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4603:
1.247 jufi 4604: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 4605: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
4606: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
4607: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 4608: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 4609:
4610: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 4611: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 4612:
1.247 jufi 4613: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 4614: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4615:
1.113 naddy 4616: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 4617:
1.247 jufi 4618: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 4619: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
4620: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 4621: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4622:
4623: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 4624: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 4625: </ul>
1.23 louis 4626:
1.69 deraadt 4627: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4628: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4629:
1.247 jufi 4630: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 4631: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 4632: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4633:
4634: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
4635: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 4636: <p>
1.2 deraadt 4637:
1.247 jufi 4638: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4639: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 4640: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4641: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4642:
4643: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
4644: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 4645: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 4646: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4647: </ul>
1.57 louis 4648:
1.69 deraadt 4649: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4650: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4651:
1.247 jufi 4652: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 4653: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
4654: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 4655: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 4656:
4657: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
4658: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
4659: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
4660: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4661: <p>
1.15 louis 4662:
1.247 jufi 4663: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4664: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
4665: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 4666: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4667:
4668: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
4669: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
4670: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
4671: columns."
1.113 naddy 4672: <p>
1.247 jufi 4673: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4674:
1.69 deraadt 4675: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4676: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4677:
1.247 jufi 4678: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4679: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 4680: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4681: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4682:
4683: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 4684: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 4685:
1.113 naddy 4686: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4687: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 4688: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4689:
4690: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
4691: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 4692: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 4693: </ul>
1.57 louis 4694:
1.69 deraadt 4695: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4696: <ul>
1.301 jose 4697: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4698: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
4699: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4700: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
4701:
4702: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
4703: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
4704: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
4705: <p>
4706:
4707: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4708: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
4709: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4710: Nov 13, 1998 and
4711: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
4712: Datateknik</a>,
4713: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
4714:
1.380 saad 4715: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 4716: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
4717: explains the licensing issues and points to our
4718: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
4719: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4720:
1.113 naddy 4721: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 4722: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 4723: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 4724: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4725:
1.222 miod 4726: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 4727: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
4728: Implementation, including a brief interview with
4729: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 4730: <p>
1.247 jufi 4731: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4732:
1.69 deraadt 4733: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4734: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4735:
1.247 jufi 4736: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4737: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 4738: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4739:
1.69 deraadt 4740: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
4741: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 4742: <p>
1.247 jufi 4743: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4744:
1.69 deraadt 4745: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4746: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 4747:
1.247 jufi 4748: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4749: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
4750: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 4751: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4752:
1.383 jcs 4753: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 4754: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 4755: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4756:
1.247 jufi 4757: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 4758: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 4759: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
4760: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 4761: <p>
1.247 jufi 4762: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4763:
1.69 deraadt 4764: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4765: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4766:
1.247 jufi 4767: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4768: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 4769: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
4770: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 4771: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 4772: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4773:
4774: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
4775: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
4776: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 4777: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 4778: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 4779: <p>
1.247 jufi 4780: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 4781:
4782: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4783: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4784:
1.247 jufi 4785: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4786: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 4787: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4788:
1.69 deraadt 4789: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
4790: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 4791: <p>
1.112 naddy 4792:
1.247 jufi 4793: </ul>
1.113 naddy 4794: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4795:
1.292 camield 4796: <hr>
1.216 horacio 4797: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 4798: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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