Annotation of www/press.html, Revision 1.462
1.247 jufi 1: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
1.113 naddy 2: <html>
1.1 deraadt 3: <head>
4: <title>OpenBSD Media Coverage</title>
1.247 jufi 5: <link rev=made href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">
1.113 naddy 6: <meta name="resource-type" content="document">
1.247 jufi 7: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
1.113 naddy 8: <meta name="distribution" content="global">
1.373 jose 9: <meta name="copyright" content="This document copyright 1996-2004 by OpenBSD.">
1.1 deraadt 10: </head>
11:
1.376 david 12: <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" link="#23238E">
1.241 jsyn 13: <a href="index.html"><img alt="[OpenBSD]" height="30" width="141" src="images/smalltitle.gif" border="0"></a>
1.113 naddy 14:
1.112 naddy 15: <p>
1.247 jufi 16: <h2><font color="#e00000">Media Coverage</font></h2>
1.113 naddy 17: <hr>
1.1 deraadt 18:
1.461 grunk 19: <h2>July, 2005</h2>
20: <ul>
21:
22: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
23: <a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-7-5/30084.html">
24: Theo de Raadt on Industry and Free Software</a>,
25: The Epoch Times, July 05, 2005</strong></font><br>
26: In this interview, Theo talks about the inception of the OpenBSD project,
27: its goals as well as its impacts on commercial IT industry.
28: He points out once more that <i>"vendors who incorporate OpenSSH have
29: given us absolutely nothing back - not a cent"</i>.
30: Other topics covered include the OpenBSD team, Theo's role as
31: <i>"benevolent dictator"</i>, and the security process, which he compares
32: to the security efforts led by other free software projects and some
33: commercial vendors.
34: <p>
35:
36: </ul>
37:
1.454 ian 38: <h2>June, 2005</h2>
39: <ul>
40: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.458 niallo 41: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0704/071.html">
42: Free Bird</a>,
43: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
44: <b>(Registration required)</b> A second Forbes article about OpenBSD, more
45: focused on the project itself this time. It contains good description of the
46: history of OpenBSD along with its prime motivations. Mention is made of the
47: DARPA grant and the annual hackathon. Theo's motto "shut up and hack" finally
48: becomes famous in this piece and there are some other very insightful quotes
49: such as "All I care about is making high-quality code. If I had to work at a
50: regular job, it would drive me nuts". This is certainly an astute and perceptive
51: article, well worth reading. Do note that the big picture of Theo's machine
52: room will only be available in the print edition.
53: <p>
1.459 deraadt 54:
1.458 niallo 55: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.456 niallo 56: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html">
57: Is Linux For Losers?</a>,
58: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
59: An interesting article, if somewhat polemic in tone, which raises questions
60: about the quality of Linux code compared to OpenBSD. There is also some short
61: discussion of the OpenBSD development model and focus (push for quality above
62: everything else) including good quotes from Theo. It seems that the need for
63: high quality software is beginning to be recognised by the mainstream.
64: <p>
1.457 deraadt 65:
1.456 niallo 66: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 ! grunk 67: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/06/09/2132233.shtml?tid=152&tid=8&tid=2">
1.455 ian 68: BSD cognoscenti on Linux</a>,
69: NewsForge, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
70: NewsForge talks with Theo de Raadt and NetBSD's Christos Zoulas about the
71: similarities and differences between the Linux kernel and the BSD
72: operating systems. The questions asked were similar to those asked
73: of Linus Torvalds in a <a
1.462 ! grunk 74: href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/09/2128249&tid=2">previous
1.455 ian 75: interview.</a>
76: <p>
77:
78: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.454 ian 79: <a href="http://www.tuxjournal.net/intervista3-en.html">
80: A good morning with Theo de Raadt</a>,
81: Tux Journal, June 2, 2005</strong></font><br>
82: Brief but wide-ranging interview with Theo in which our leader
83: opines about the good things in 3.7: "The list of new developments
84: is impressive, but in my view not nearly as impressive as the small
85: little details that continue to be fixed during each development
86: cycle." And modestly credits all the developers for the project's
87: continuing success, attributing it to "The passion of the developers,
88: and the wide experience they bring into their development efforts.
89: By amazing coincidence, our users typically have the same needs as we do."
90: Manages to sidestep getting drawn into comparisons with Linux, e.g.,
91: when asked if he likes it/why/why not, deftly replies
92: "I have never used it."
93: <p>
94:
95: </ul>
96:
1.441 deraadt 97: <h2>May, 2005</h2>
98: <ul>
99: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 100: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5190">
101: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part II</a>,
102: Kerneltrap, May 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
103: In the second installment of Kerneltrap's Hackathon 2005 feature, Jeremy
104: Andrews speaks with the pf developers at length about their plans for
105: future enhancements.
106: <p>
107:
108: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.450 deraadt 109: <a href="http://www.ctv.ca">
1.448 deraadt 110: TV coverage: OpenBSD hackathon</a>,
111: CTV/CFCN, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
112: A TV spot done a Canadian national TV station about the Calgary
113: hackathon this year, with 60 developers.<br>
114: North America mirror:
115: <ul>
1.452 marco 116: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.449 jcs 117: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a><br>
118: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a>
1.448 deraadt 119: </ul>
120: European mirror:
121: <ul>
1.452 marco 122: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.448 deraadt 123: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a>
124: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a><br>
125: </ul>
126: <p>
127:
128: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 129: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5186">
130: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part I</a>,
131: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
132: Jeremy Andrews of KernelTrap does a good job of describing what it's like
133: to be at the Hackathon in Part I of KernelTrap's Hackathon feature. Several
134: developers are interviewed in detail about what they are working on.
135: <p>
136:
137: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.447 cloder 138: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/05/20/1426216.shtml?tid=8">
139: Review: OpenBSD 3.7</a>,
140: NewsForge.com, May 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
141: "OpenBSD is not only highly polished and easy to
142: configure because of its documentation, it's also totally free-as-in-rights.
143: With an obsession with security, freedom of source code, and quality of
144: programming technique, OpenBSD 3.7 continues the legacy established by
145: its previous releases," writes Jem Matzan in this nice, small review.
146: <p>
147:
148: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.446 cloder 149: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/05/19/openbsd_3_7.html">
150: OpenBSD 3.7: The Wizard of OS</a>,
151: ONLamp.com, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
152: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
153: new features in OpenBSD 3.7, including new wireless chipsets, new
154: spam-fighting features, zaurus, pf improvements, propolice, and
155: many other things. A good overview of what's new in this release,
156: plus some interesting comments about future direction.
157: <p>
158:
159: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.444 niallo 160: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/software/openbsd-3.7-released.html">
1.445 niallo 161: Next incarnation of OpenBSD released</a>,
1.444 niallo 162: Ping Wales, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
163: "OpenBSD is often unjustly overlooked as a free UNIX-like system in favour of
164: the more-hyped Linux. While it receives a lot less publicity than other
165: operating systems, this is not due to lack of technical merit." says David
166: Chisnall, in what is a clear and concise overview of the new features
167: in 3.7 and indeed the project as a whole.
168: <p>
169:
170: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
171: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5114">
1.445 niallo 172: 2005 Calgary Hackathon, KernelTrap Coverage</a>,
1.444 niallo 173: Kerneltrap, May 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
174: A great article about the annual OpenBSD Hackathon, detailing how the event
175: functions, work done at previous Hackathons and features which may come out
176: of this one. Includes many relevant quotes from developers themselves, and of
177: course information about the legendary Hackathon BBQ!
178: <p>
179:
180: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.442 deraadt 181: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9658/sam0505e/">
182: "Failover Firewalls with OpenBSD and CARP"</a>,
183: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 5, p. 33
1.441 deraadt 184: </strong></font><br>
185: Jason Dixon discusses the history of the CARP and pfsync protocols
186: and demonstrates using them to create redundant stateful firewalls
187: with OpenBSD.
188: </ul>
189:
1.436 henning 190: <h2>April, 2005</h2>
191: <ul>
192: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.440 ian 193: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39195801,00.htm">
194: Security guru wants access to bug databases</a>,
195: ZDNet UK, April 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
196: Ingrid Marson reports on Cambridge professor Ross Anderson's call for analysis of
197: software maintenance records to determine whether open source code is more secure
198: than closed source, as we have long contended.
199: "One of Anderson's research students, Andy Ozment, has already done
200: research using empirical data on bugs found in the open source
201: operating system OpenBSD between 1997 and 2000. This research found
202: that finding and fixing bugs results in a more secure product..."
203: Just as the OpenBSD project has been saying for years.
204: <p>
205: This article can also be found online as
206: <a href="http://uk.builder.com/manage/project/0,39026588,39244080,00.htm">Academic
207: calls for better bug tracking</a> (uk.builder.com).
208: <p>
209:
210: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.439 espie 211: [FRENCH] "PC Expert", number 152, p. 58
212: </strong></font><br>
213: Very short interview of Marc Espie about OpenBSD as a free OS focusing
214: on security, part of a larger dossier «les secrets des hackers».
215: <p>
216:
217: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.436 henning 218: [GERMAN] "Doppelwacht", iX 5/2005, p. 150.
219: </strong></font><br>
220: Stephan Tesch gives an introduction to CARP and using a pair of
221: OpenBSD boxes as Firewalls in High Availibility scenarios. He goes
1.438 martin 222: on explaining CARP and pfsync protocols, and does not forget to cover
1.436 henning 223: the issues we had with IETF.
224: </ul>
225:
1.431 ian 226: <h2>March, 2005</h2>
227: <ul>
228: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.435 reyk 229: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/4818">
230: OpenBSD's "Out of the Box" Wireless Support</a>,
231: Kerneltrap, March 8, 2005</strong></font><br>
232: This article is about the upcoming wireless support in OpenBSD 3.7 and
233: the outcome of the work to open wireless chipsets. Jeremy Andrews
234: talked with Theo de Raadt and the developers Damien Bergamini and Reyk
235: Floeter who did some efforts to implement free and functional drivers.
236: <p>
237:
238: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.431 ian 239: <a href="http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/01/1109546842718.html">
240: OpenBSD to support more wireless chipsets</a>,
241: The Age, March 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
242: "The forthcoming 3.7 release of the OpenBSD operating system has
243: added support for five more wireless chipsets, according to
244: OpenBSD project founder Theo de Raadt...
1.432 ian 245: OpenBSD 3.7 will also have have new drivers for Intel wireless
1.431 ian 246: parts that do not work without the non-redistributable firmware,"
247: namely the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11B
248: and 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11A/B/G wireless network adapters.
249: Mentions OpenBSD's activism in getting vendors to release chip specs.
250: Referring to vendors that still refuse to play ball with open source
251: projects, quotes Damien Miller as saying "Given the number of
252: appliance devices that are built on free OSs, I think that the
253: recalcitrant vendors are missing an important boat."
254:
255: </ul>
256:
1.427 matthieu 257: <h2>February, 2005</h2>
258: <ul>
259:
260: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.428 david 261: <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsaward2004.html">
262: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
263: FSF, February 26, 2005</strong></font><br>
264: The Free Software Foundation awarded Theo de Raadt their "2004 Free Software
265: Award" for his unwavering commitment to free software. Most recently he has
266: been fighting hardware manufacturers for free redistribution of wireless card
267: firmware.
1.434 ian 268: Similar articles can be found online at:
269: <ul>
270: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
271: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=419">
272: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
273: Tectonic.za, March 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
274: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
275: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article4362.phtml">
276: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
277: OSDir, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
278: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
279: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/De-Raadt-gets-free-software-award/2005/02/28/1109546758523.html?oneclick=true">
280: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
281: The Age, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
282: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 ! grunk 283: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/02/27/1413255.shtml?tid=99&tid=7">
1.434 ian 284: Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award</a>,
285: Slashdot, February 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
286: </ul>
1.427 matthieu 287: </ul>
288:
1.426 ian 289: <h2>January, 2005</h2>
290: <ul>
291:
292: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
293: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363731">
294: Systrace in OpenBSD</a>,
295: informit.com, January 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
296: This article talks about our systrace
1.462 ! grunk 297: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&sektion=1">systrace(1)</a>
1.426 ian 298: mechanism: what it is and why and
299: how to use it, with examples.
300: Another excerpt from the book
301: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
302: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
303: <p>
304:
305: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
306: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363732">
307: Overview of OpenBSD</a>,
308: informit.com, January 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
309: "OpenBSD is one of the most secure and well-designed operating
310: systems available today. It has its roots in countless hours of
311: research and development based on some of the best UNIX flavors of
312: the past, and it boasts all the features of modern operating systems.
313: The OS is widely considered one of the most secure general-purpose
314: operating systems available today and it supports many key parts
315: of the global Internet infrastructure..."
316: This article is a sample chapter from
317: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
318: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
319: <p>
1.443 ian 320:
321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 ! grunk 322: <a href="http://www.pcplus.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=34628&subsectionid=784">
1.443 ian 323: OpenBSD operating system</a>,
324: PCPlus.co.uk, January, 2005</strong></font><br>
325: Paul Grosse gives a brief tutorial on installing OpenBSD on i386 for people
326: moving in a Windows->Linux direction, encouraging them to go a bit further for security.
327: "While Linux out-scores Windows substantially (or completely) on [security as well as many other
328: issues], it's still possible to use a more secure operating system on the PC... OpenBSD."
329: Gives a brief but understandable walkthrough on the installation process, right up to
330: downloading and installing the third-party packages, and
331: ends with a sidebar on security.
332: <p>
1.426 ian 333: </ul>
334:
1.424 ian 335: <h2>December, 2004</h2>
336: <ul>
337:
338: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.425 ian 339: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/2329229">
340: What are the real vulnerabilities of Linux?</a>
341: NewsForge.com, December 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
342: Several security consultants were asked about "the real vulnerabilities of
343: Linux". Cybersoure CEO Con Symaris seems to get it better than the rest:
344: "One needs to approach security as a prime requirement and motivator,
345: much as the OpenBSD team do," Zymaris said... "The Linux
346: community mindset is different. Linux development is dynamic and
347: races ahead towards more and broader functionality, drawing a
348: multitude of interested parties in to make interesting extensions
349: and adaptations at a rapid rate."
350: <p>
351: "In order to do security the BSD way, however, much more effort
352: needs to be spent auditing code for holes, which is much less sexy,
353: and attracts a different set of coders," Zymaris added.
354: <p>
355:
356: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.424 ian 357: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/281">
358: Closed Source Hardware</a>
359: Security Focus, December 1, 2004</strong></font><br>
360: Symantec Threat Analyst Jason Miller analyzes the potential security threats
361: when hardware vendors won't provide device documentation and
362: instead provide "binary only" driver code for inclusion in open source
363: operating systems.
364: Miller is an open-source fan who says he uses a variety of systems, including
365: OpenBSD on his firewall.
366: Of the recent trend to closed-source binary drivers for open-source
367: systems, he writes:
368: <blockquote>
369: The closed-source component required to support this hardware is
370: completely independent of the associated operating system, and as
371: such, is also independent of the engineering team, security team,
372: auditing process, and quality control procedures normally related
373: to the operating system...
374: <br/>
375: What's possibly even more disturbing is that we're talking about
376: a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest
377: possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a
378: third-party vendor. This code could do anything once loaded, including
379: leaking active WEP keys, gathering usage statistics, sniffing and
380: disclosing traffic, and it could even introduce a subtle backdoor
381: into the operating system itself (much the same as any device driver
382: in a closed source operating system).
383: <br/>
384: [A]lthough some of these scenarios are a
385: little far-fetched, the possibility for them to exist is there...
386: Ultimately it becomes an issue of trust, which is a cornerstone of
387: good security: whom do you trust, and how much do you trust them?
388: </blockquote>
389: <p>And he comments that trust "seems to be a one-way street": vendors
390: demand that you trust them, but they won't trust you to know how
391: their hardware and software operates.
392: This lack of trust is one reason why OpenBSD has recently completed
393: reverse-engineering the
1.462 ! grunk 394: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4">
1.424 ian 395: Atheros wireless chipset driver</a>
396: that was originally provided as a binary insert.
397: <p>
398: </ul>
399:
1.417 pvalchev 400: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
401: <ul>
1.421 ian 402:
1.417 pvalchev 403: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.422 ian 404: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730775,00.asp">
405: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Widens Its Scope</a>
406: eWEEK, November 22, 2004</strong></font><br>
407: Jason Brooks reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and likes the changes it brings,
408: including the multi-processing support which, he notes,
409: "will be even more important as multicore processors--which occupy space
410: on the road maps of Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others--
411: become more prevalent." Comments favorably on OpenNTPD
412: ("the three-line configuration file we needed to modify ... on OpenBSD was
413: much simpler to deal with than the equivalent configuration file on
414: the Linux systems we've tested").
1.423 ian 415: Overall a favorable review of some of the new stuff in 3.6.
1.422 ian 416: <p>
417: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 otto 418: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
419: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
420: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
421: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
422: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
423: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
424: it claims to do".
425: <p>
426:
427: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 ! grunk 428: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109994542424009&w=2">
1.421 ian 429: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution</a>
430: misc@, November 8, 2004</strong></font><br>
431: Theo recounts the struggle to get Intel to provide redistributable
432: versions of the firmware for their wireless chipsets, and their
1.423 ian 433: ultimate refusal to allow OpenBSD to redistribute the chipsets' firmware.
1.421 ian 434: Includes a caveat about Intel's disingenuous "FAQ", typical of many
435: corporate FAQs that answer questions nobody actually thought
436: to ask, and don't truthfully answer the questions you want hard answers to.
437: At the end Theo names the names (and their emails) that need to be contacted
438: by large numbers of end-users and developers if Intel is to change
439: (yes, this is a hint).
440: Of interest is that this posting to one of our mailing lists was
441: picked up on the
442: <a href="http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1923">Screaming
443: Electron Forum</a> and from there reported on
1.462 ! grunk 444: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/22/1249249&from=rss">
1.421 ian 445: SlashDot</a>, where it is accompanied by a link to SlashDot's paper
446: on effective advocacy (be firm, but also be polite).
447: <p>
448:
449: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 450: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
451: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
452: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
453: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
454: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
455: questions about the significance and rationale behind
456: the current efforts.
457: <p>
458: </ul>
459:
1.407 henning 460: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
461: <ul>
462: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 463: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
464: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
465: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
466: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
467: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
468: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
469: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
470: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
471: <p>
472:
473: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 474: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
475: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
476: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
477: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
478: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
479: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
480: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
481: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
482: of the important changes in 3.6.
1.462 ! grunk 483: <p>
1.415 ian 484:
485: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 ! grunk 486: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
1.414 ian 487: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
488: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
489: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
490: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
491: overflow attacks... because
492: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
493: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
494: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
495: and propolice.
496: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
497: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
498: and that's when the science falls apart."
499: <p>
500:
501: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 502: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
503: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
504: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
505: Starts with the question:
506: <blockquote>
507: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
508: <br/>
509: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
510: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
511: <br/>
512: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
513: Should we believe them?"
514: </blockquote>
515: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
516: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
517: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
518: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
519: for your mail, web and other online activities.
520: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
521: <p>
522:
523: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 524: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
525: Simple Simon</a>,
526: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
527: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
528: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
529: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
530: routing/firewall, and more.
531: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
532: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
533: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
534: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
535: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
536: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
537: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
538: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
539: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
540: </blockquote>
541: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
542: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
543: <p>
544:
545: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 546: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
547: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 548: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 549: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 550: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
551: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
552: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 553: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 554: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
555: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
556: in spite of it
557: (registration required, but worth it).
558: <p>
559:
560: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
561: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
562: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
563: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
564: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
565: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
566: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
567: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 568: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 569: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
570: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
571: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
572: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
573: <p>
574:
575: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 576: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
577: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
578: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
579: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
580: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
581: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
582: <blockquote>
583: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
584: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
585: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
586: a lot of analysis.
587: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
588: </blockquote>
589: <p>
590: </ul>
591:
1.400 marco 592: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
593: <ul>
594: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 595: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
596: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
597: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
598: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
599: UNIX-like systems.
600: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
601: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
602: <p>
603: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 604: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
605: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 606: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
607: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
608: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
609: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
610: At one point, the article states:
611: <blockquote>
612: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
613: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
614: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
615: </blockquote>
616: And then quotes Theo as saying:
617: <blockquote>
618: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
619: fewer are reading or auditing code."
620: </blockquote>
621: <p>
622: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
623: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
624: marks its fifth birthday</a>
625: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
626: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
627: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
628: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
629: required).
630: <p>
631: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 632: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
633: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
634: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
635: </strong></font><br>
636: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
637: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
638: <p>
639: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 640: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
641: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 642: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 643: </strong></font><br>
644: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
645: <p>
646: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 647: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
648: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 649: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 650: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 651: 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 652: <p>
653: </ul>
654:
1.396 henning 655: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
656: <ul>
657: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 658: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
659: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
660: Unix Review, July, 2004
661: </strong></font><br>
662: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
663: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
1.462 ! grunk 664: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
1.418 ian 665: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
666: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
667: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
668: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
669: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
670: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
671: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
672: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
673: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
674: and even spelling/wording errors.
675: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
676: <p>
677: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 678: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 679: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
680: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
681: </strong></font><br>
682: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
683: <p>
684: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 685: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 686: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
687: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
688: </strong></font><br>
689: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
690: <p>
691: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 692: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
693: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
694: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
695: </strong></font><br>
696: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
697: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
698: <p>
699: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 700: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
701: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
702: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
703: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
704: <p>
705: </ul>
706:
1.405 jolan 707: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
708: <ul>
709: <li><font color="#00900"><strong>
710: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
711: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 05, 2004</strong></font>
712: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
713: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
714: details on how funds are dispersed.
715: <p>
716: </ul>
717:
1.393 david 718: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
719: <ul>
720: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 721: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
722: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
723: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
724: </strong></font><br>
725: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
726: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
727: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
728: on inserting large number of SQL records.
729: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
730: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
731: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
732: <p>
733:
734: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 735: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
736: Secure by Default</a>,
737: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
738: </strong></font><br>
739: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
740: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
741: <p>
742:
743: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
744: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
745: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
746: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
747: </strong></font><br>
748: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
749: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
750: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
751: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
752: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
753: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
754: <p>
755:
756: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
757: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
758: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
759: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
760: </strong></font><br>
761: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
762: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
763: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
764: <p>
765:
766: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
767: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
768: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
769: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
770: </strong></font><br>
771: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
772: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
773: <p>
774: </ul>
775:
1.388 mcbride 776: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
777: <ul>
1.394 jolan 778:
779: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
780: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
781: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
782: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
783: </strong></font><br>
784: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
785: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
786: available for sparc64.
787: <p>
788:
1.390 beck 789: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 790: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
791: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
792: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
793: </strong></font><br>
794: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
795: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
796: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
797: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
798: <p>
799:
800: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 801: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
802: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 803: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 804: </strong></font><br>
805: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
806: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
807: it does: CARP provides sharing
808: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
809: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
810: detail to get you started using it.
811: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
812: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
813: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
814: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
815: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
816: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
817: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 818: <p>
1.391 ian 819:
820: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 821: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 822: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
823: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 824: </strong></font><br>
825: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 826: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 827: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 828: <p>
1.388 mcbride 829:
830: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
831: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
832: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 833: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 834: </strong></font><br>
835: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
836: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
837: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
838: unencumbered by patents.
839: <p>
840: </ul>
841:
1.378 henning 842: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
843: <ul>
1.384 jose 844:
845: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 846: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
847: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
848: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
849: </strong></font><br>
850: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
851: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
852: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
853: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
854: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
855: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
856: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
857: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
858: in the page tables."
859: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
860: <p>
861:
862: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 863: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
864: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
865: </strong></font><br>
866: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
867: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
868: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
869: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 870: <p>
1.384 jose 871:
1.378 henning 872: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 873: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
874: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 875: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
876: </strong></font><br>
877: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
878: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
879: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
880: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
881: (quote:
882: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
883: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 884: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 885: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
886: the other developers for their work on the system.
887: <p>
888:
889: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 890: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
891: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
892: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 893: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 894: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
895: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
896: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
897: too.
898: <p>
899:
900: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 901: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
902: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 903: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 904: OpenBSD source code using
905: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
906: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
907: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
908: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
909: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
910: <p>
911: </ul>
912:
1.374 jose 913: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
914: <ul>
915: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 916: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 917: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
918: </strong></font><br>
919: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
920: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
921: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
922: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
923: it."
924: <p>
925:
926: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 927: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
928: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
929: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
930: </strong></font><br/>
931: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
932: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
933: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
934: <p>
935: </ul>
936:
1.369 ian 937: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
938: <ul>
939: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 940: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
941: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
942: </strong></font><br/>
943: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
944: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
945: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
946: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
947: <p>
948:
949: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 950: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
951: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
952: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
953: </strong></font><br/>
954: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
955: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
956: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
957: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
958: form factor.
959: <p>
960:
961: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
962: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
963: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
964: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
965: Features</a>,
966: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
967: </strong></font><br/>
968: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
969: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
970: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
971: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
972: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
973: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
974: <p>
975: This article can also be found online at:
976: <ul>
977: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 ! grunk 978: <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 979: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
980: </strong></font>
981: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
982: </ul>
983: <p>
1.392 david 984:
1.371 jose 985: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 986: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
987: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 988: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
989: </strong></font><br/>
990: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
991: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
992: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 993: <p>
1.371 jose 994:
995: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 996: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 997: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 998: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 999: </strong></font><br/>
1000: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
1001: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
1002: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
1003: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
1004: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
1005: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
1006: and its history with OpenBSD.
1007: </ul>
1008:
1.368 henning 1009: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
1010: <ul>
1011: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 1012: [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 1013: </strong></font><br>
1014: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
1015: </ul>
1016:
1.364 jose 1017: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
1018: <ul>
1019: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 1020: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
1021: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
1022: UNIX Review,
1023: July, 2003.
1024: </strong></font><br>
1025: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
1026: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
1027: who want more information.
1028: <p>
1029:
1030: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 1031: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
1032: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
1033: Government Computer News,
1034: July 22, 2003.
1035: </strong></font><br>
1036: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
1037: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
1038: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
1039: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
1040: <p>
1041:
1042: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1043: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
1044: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
1045: SANS Institute,
1046: July 22, 2003.
1047: </strong></font><br>
1048: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 1049: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 1050: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
1051: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
1052: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
1053: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
1054: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
1055: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
1056: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
1057: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
1058: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
1059: <p>
1060:
1061: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 1062: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
1063: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
1064: OnLamp.com,
1065: July 17, 2003.
1066: </strong></font><br>
1067: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
1068: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
1069: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
1070: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
1071: have been working on.
1072:
1073: </ul>
1074:
1.356 jose 1075: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 1076: <ul>
1077:
1078: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 1079: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
1080: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
1081: UNIX Review,
1082: June, 2003.
1083: </strong></font><br>
1084: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
1085: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
1086: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
1087: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
1088: <p>
1089:
1090: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 1091: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
1092: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
1093: eWeek,
1094: June 23, 2003.
1095: </strong></font><br>
1096: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
1097: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
1098: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
1099: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
1100: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
1101: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
1102: <p>
1103:
1104: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 1105: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
1106: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
1107: Software Development Online,
1108: June, 2003.
1109: </strong></font><br>
1110: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
1111: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
1112: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
1113: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
1114: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
1115: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
1116: current activities.
1117: <p>
1118:
1119: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 1120: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
1121: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 1122: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
1123: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
1124: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
1125: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 1126: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 1127: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
1128: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
1129: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 1130: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 1131: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
1132: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 1133: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 1134: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
1135: decisions.
1136: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
1137: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 1138: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 1139: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 1140: <p>
1141:
1142: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 1143: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
1144: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
1145: Page 58, eWeek,
1146: June 2, 2003.
1147: </strong></font><br>
1148: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
1149: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
1150: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
1151: been addressed in -current.
1152: <p>
1153:
1.356 jose 1154: </ul>
1155:
1156: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
1157: <ul>
1158:
1.355 jose 1159: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 1160: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
1161: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
1162: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
1163: </strong></font><br>
1164: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
1165: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
1166: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
1167: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
1168: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
1169: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
1170: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
1171: <p>
1172:
1173: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 1174: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
1175: Beyond Linux</a>,
1176: InfoWorld,
1177: May 23, 2003.
1178: </strong></font><br>
1179: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
1180: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
1181: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
1182: compared to the GPL.
1183: <p>
1184:
1185: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 1186: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
1187: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
1188: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 1189: May 17, 2003.
1190: </strong></font><br>
1191: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
1192: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
1193: the business section and half of another page inside
1194: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
1195: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
1196: in talking about the project's history and goals.
1197: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
1198: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
1199: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
1200: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 1201: <br>
1202: This article can also be found online at:
1203: <ul>
1204: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1205: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
1206: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
1207: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
1208: May 17, 2003
1209: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 1210: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
1211: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1212: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
1213: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
1214: Montreal Gazette,
1215: May 21, 2003
1216: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 1217: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 1218: <p>
1.346 ian 1219:
1220: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 1221: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 1222: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 1223: May 7, 2003.
1224: </strong></font><br>
1225: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
1226: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
1227: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
1228: <p>
1229:
1230: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 1231: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
1232: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1233: OsOpinion,
1234: May 6, 2003.
1235: </strong></font><br>
1236: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
1237: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
1238: <br>
1239: This article can also be found online at:
1240: <ul>
1241: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1242: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
1243: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1244: NewsFactor Network.
1245: </strong></font>
1246: </ul>
1247: <p>
1248:
1249: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1250: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 1251: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
1252: ITBusiness,
1253: May 2, 2003.
1254: </strong></font><br>
1255: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
1256: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
1257: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
1258: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
1259: <p>
1260:
1261: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 1262: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
1263: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1264: InfoWorld,
1265: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 1266: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 1267: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
1268: <br>
1269: This article can also be found online at:
1270: <ul>
1271: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1272: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
1273: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1274: IDG Singapore.
1275: </strong></font>
1276: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1277: <p>
1278:
1.339 jose 1279: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1280: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
1281: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 1282: ZDNet,
1283: May 1, 2003.
1284: </strong></font><br>
1285: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 1286: someone using parts from previous articles.
1287: <br>
1.341 deraadt 1288: This article can also be found online at:
1289: <ul>
1290: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1291: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
1292: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1293: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 1294: </strong></font>
1295: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1296: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
1297: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1298: CNET News.com.
1299: </strong></font>
1300: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1301: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
1302: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
1303: ZDNet UK.
1304: </strong></font>
1305: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1306: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
1307: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
1308: Help Net Security, Croatia.
1309: </strong></font>
1310: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1311: <p>
1.339 jose 1312:
1.341 deraadt 1313: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1314: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 1315: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
1316: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
1317: May 1, 2003.
1318: </strong></font><br>
1319: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
1320: that have been added
1321: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
1322: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
1323: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 1324: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 1325: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
1326: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
1327: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 1328: <p>
1329:
1330: </ul>
1331:
1.253 ian 1332: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
1333: <ul>
1.255 ian 1334:
1.260 ian 1335: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1336: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 1337: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1338: TechRepublic,
1339: April 28, 2003.
1340: </strong></font><br>
1341: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
1342: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 1343: work.<br>
1344: Can also be found online at:
1345: <ul>
1346: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1347: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
1348: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1349: ZDNet UK.
1350: </strong></font>
1351: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 1352: <p>
1353:
1354: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 1355: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
1356: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
1357: IDG,
1358: April 24, 2003.
1359: </strong></font><br>
1360: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
1361: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
1362: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
1363: Can also be found online at:
1364: <ul>
1365: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1366: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
1367: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 1368: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 1369: </strong></font>
1370: </ul>
1371: <p>
1372:
1373: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1374: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 1375: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 1376: Slate,
1377: April 24, 2003.
1378: </strong></font><br>
1379: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
1380: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
1381: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
1382: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
1383: <p>
1384:
1385: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 1386: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1387: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
1388: April 24, 2003.
1389: </strong></font><br>
1390: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
1391: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
1392: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
1393: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
1394: <p>
1395:
1396: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 1397: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
1398: April 24, 2003.
1399: </strong></font><br>
1400: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
1401: the free software community".
1402: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
1403: other articles.
1404: <p>
1405:
1406: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1407: <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 1408: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
1409: </strong></font><br>
1410: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
1411: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
1412: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
1413: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
1414: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
1415: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
1416: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 1417: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 1418: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
1419: <br/>
1420: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
1421: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
1422: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
1423: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 1424: <br>
1425: Can also be found online at:
1426: <ul>
1427: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1428: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
1429: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
1430: Common Dreams NewsCenter
1431: </strong></font>
1432: </ul>
1.324 ian 1433: <p>
1434:
1435: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1436: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
1437: Wired, April 24, 2003.
1438: </strong></font><br>
1439: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
1440: article above.
1441: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
1442: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
1443: wasting them."
1.332 ian 1444: <br>
1445: Can also be found online at:
1446: <ul>
1447: <li>
1448: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
1449: </strong></font>
1450: </ul>
1.324 ian 1451: <p>
1452:
1453: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 1454: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
1455: </strong></font><br>
1456: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
1457: <p>
1458:
1459: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 1460: <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.
1461: </strong></font><br>
1462: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
1463: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
1464: <p>
1465:
1466: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 1467: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
1468: April 23, 2003.
1469: </strong></font><br>
1470: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
1471: <p>
1472:
1473: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 1474: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 1475: April 22, 2003.
1476: </strong></font><br>
1477: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
1478: <p>
1479:
1480: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 1481: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1482: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1483: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 1484: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 1485: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
1486: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
1487: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
1488: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
1489: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
1490: Can also be found online at:
1491: <ul>
1492: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1493: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 1494: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1495: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 1496: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 1497: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1498: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 1499: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
1500: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 1501: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 1502: </ul>
1503: <p>
1504:
1505: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 1506: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
1507: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 1508: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1509: </strong></font><br>
1510: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 1511: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
1512: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
1513: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
1514: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
1515: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
1516: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 1517: <p>
1518:
1519: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 1520: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
1521: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 1522: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
1523: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 1524: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
1525: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
1526: at UPenn and DARPA.
1527: <p>
1528:
1529: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 1530: [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,
1531: France
1.315 deraadt 1532: April 18, 2003.
1533: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 1534: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 1535: <p>
1536:
1537: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 1538: [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 1539: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1540: </strong></font><br>
1541: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
1542: <p>
1543:
1544: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 1545: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
1546: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
1547: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1548: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 1549: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
1550: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
1551: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
1552: <p>
1553:
1554: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 1555: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
1556: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1557: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 1558: </strong></font><br>
1559: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1560: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
1561: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 1562: American century.
1.267 deraadt 1563: <p>
1564:
1565: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 1566: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
1567: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1568: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 1569: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 1570: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
1571: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
1572: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
1573: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
1574: Can also be found online at:
1575: <ul>
1576: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
1577: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 1578: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 1579: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 1580: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 1581: <p>
1582:
1583: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 1584: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 1585: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1586: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 1587: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 1588: </strong></font><br>
1589: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 1590: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
1591: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
1592: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
1593: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 1594:
1595: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1596: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
1597: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1598: New York Times.
1599: </strong></font>(free registration required)
1600:
1.273 deraadt 1601: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1602: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 1603: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1604: ABC News.
1605: </strong></font>
1606:
1607: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1608: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 1609: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 1610: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 1611: </strong></font>
1612:
1613: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1614: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1615: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 1616: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 1617: </strong></font>
1618:
1619: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 1620: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
1621: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1622: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 1623: </strong></font>
1624:
1625: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1626: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1627: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 1628: Times Daily, AL.
1629: </strong></font>
1630:
1631: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1632: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
1633: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
1634: Boston.com, MA.
1635: </strong></font>
1636:
1637: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1638: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 1639: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 1640: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
1641: </strong></font>
1642:
1643: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 1644: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
1645: [Article was pulled]</a>
1646: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 1647: </strong></font>
1648:
1649: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1650: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
1651: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
1652: Infoshop News.
1653: </strong></font>
1654:
1655: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1656: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
1657: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1658: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
1659: </strong></font>
1660:
1661: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 1662: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
1663: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
1664: Raleigh News, NC.
1665: </strong></font>
1666:
1667: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1668: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 1669: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
1670: Napa News, CA.
1671: </strong></font>
1672:
1673: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1674: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 1675: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1676: NEPA News, PA.
1677: </strong></font>
1678:
1679: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1680: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
1681: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
1682: Wired News.
1683: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 1684: <br>
1685: <li>
1.333 deraadt 1686: <font color="#009000"><strong>
1687: [JAPANESE]
1688: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
1689: Wired News Japan</a>
1690: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 1691:
1.271 deraadt 1692: </ul>
1693: <p>
1.272 deraadt 1694: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
1695: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 1696: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
1697: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
1698: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
1699: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
1700: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
1701: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 1702: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 1703: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
1704: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
1705: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 1706: <p>
1707: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 1708:
1709: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1710: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 1711: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1712: Indianapolis Star, IN.
1713: </strong></font>
1714:
1715: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 1716: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
1717: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1718: Miami Herald, FL.
1719: </strong></font>
1720:
1721: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 1722: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1723: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
1724: </strong></font>
1725:
1726: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1727: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 1728: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1729: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 1730: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 1731:
1732: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1733: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
1734: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
1735: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
1736: ABC News.
1737: </strong></font>
1738:
1.276 deraadt 1739: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1740: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 1741: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1742: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 1743: </strong></font>
1744:
1.286 dhartmei 1745: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1746: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 1747: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1748: Wilmington Star, NC.
1749: </strong></font>
1750:
1.300 jose 1751: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1752: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
1753: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
1754: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
1755: </strong></font>
1756:
1.309 jose 1757: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1758: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
1759: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
1760: Globe Technology.
1761: </strong></font>
1762:
1.263 deraadt 1763: </ul>
1.262 beck 1764: <p>
1765:
1766: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 1767: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
1768: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1769: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 1770: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 1771: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 1772: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
1773: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
1774: <p>
1775:
1776: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 1777: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
1778: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
1779: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1780: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 1781: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
1782: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
1783: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
1784: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
1785: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
1786: and simply restates other press reports.
1787: <p>
1788:
1789: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 1790: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
1791: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1792: OS News, April 18, 2003.
1793: </strong></font><br>
1794: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
1795: <p>
1796:
1797: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 1798: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
1799: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1800: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 1801: </strong></font><br>
1802: Another report on the DARPA funding.
1803: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
1804: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
1805: <p>
1806:
1807: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 1808: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
1809: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
1810: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
1811: April 17, 2003.
1812: </strong></font><br>
1813: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
1814: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
1815: Tech Anthems</a>
1816: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
1817: 4 so far.
1818: <p>
1819:
1820: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 1821: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
1822: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1823: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1824: </strong></font><br>
1825: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
1826: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
1827: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
1828: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
1829: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
1830: Goes on to say:
1831: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
1832: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
1833: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
1834: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 1835: This article is also found online at:
1836: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 1837: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1838: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
1839: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
1840: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1841: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1842: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1843: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
1844: ZDnet</a>,
1845: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1846: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1847: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1848: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
1849: ZDnet Australia</a>,
1850: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 1851: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 1852: </ul>
1.260 ian 1853: <p>
1.279 deraadt 1854:
1.260 ian 1855: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1856: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 1857: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 1858: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1859: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 1860: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 1861: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
1862: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
1863: without notice or justification.
1864: <p>
1865:
1866: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1867: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 1868: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 1869: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1870: </strong></font><br>
1871: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
1872: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 1873: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 1874: effective today, without any warning..."
1875: <p>
1.257 ian 1876:
1877: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 1878: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
1879: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1880: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 1881: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 1882: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
1883: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
1884: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
1885: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
1886: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 1887: <p>
1888:
1889: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 1890: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
1891: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1892: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 1893: </strong></font><br>
1894: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
1895: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
1896: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
1897: quoting two of them:
1898: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
1899: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
1900: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
1901: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
1902: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
1903: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
1904: <p>
1905:
1.255 ian 1906: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1907: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
1908: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 1909: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1910: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 1911: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 1912: <p>
1913:
1914: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 1915: [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 1916: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1917: </strong></font><br>
1918: New security concepts in OpenBSD
1919: <p>
1920:
1921: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 1922: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
1923: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1924: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 1925: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 1926: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 1927: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
1928: security experts for more than three decades."
1929: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
1930: <p>
1.261 ian 1931:
1.254 drahn 1932: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 1933: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 1934: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1935: </strong></font><br>
1936: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1937: <p>
1938:
1939: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 1940: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
1941: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
1942: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
1943: </strong></font><br>
1944: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
1945: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
1946: discussion OpenBSD's path.
1947: <p>
1948:
1949: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 1950: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
1951: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1952: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 1953: </strong></font><br>
1954: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
1955: from US DARPA.
1956: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
1957: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
1958: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
1959: the BSD license.
1960: <p>
1961: </ul>
1962:
1.251 ian 1963: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
1964: <ul>
1965:
1966: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1967: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
1968: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
1969: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
1970: </strong></font><br>
1971:
1972: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
1973: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
1974: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
1975: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
1976: <p>
1977:
1978: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 1979: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
1980: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 1981: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 1982: </strong></font><br>
1983: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
1984: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
1985: Mentions
1986: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
1987: and
1988: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
1989: programs.
1990: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 1991: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 1992: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
1993: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
1994: <p>
1.325 ian 1995: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
1996: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 1997:
1998: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1999: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
2000: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
2001: </strong></font><br>
2002: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
2003: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
2004: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
2005: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
2006: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
2007: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
2008: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
2009: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
2010: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
2011: put into service."
2012: <p>
2013: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
2014: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
2015: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
2016: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
2017: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
2018: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
2019: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
2020: computers with security features."
2021: <p>
1.329 ian 2022:
2023: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2024: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
2025: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
2026: Slate,
2027: March 3, 2003.
2028: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 2029: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 2030: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
2031: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
2032: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
2033: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
2034: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
2035: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
2036: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
2037: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
2038: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
2039: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
2040: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
2041: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
2042: of more secure open-source solutions like
2043: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
2044: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
2045: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
2046: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
2047: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
2048: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
2049: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
2050: the Beltway."
2051: <p>
1.251 ian 2052: </ul>
2053:
1.249 jufi 2054: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
2055: <ul>
2056: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2057: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
2058: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2059: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 2060: </strong></font><br>
2061: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
2062: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 2063: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 2064: <p>
1.334 ian 2065:
2066: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2067: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
2068: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
2069: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
2070: </strong></font><br>
2071: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
2072: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
2073: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
2074: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
2075: "... the hypothetical question ...
2076: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
2077: <br>
2078: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
2079: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
2080: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
2081: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
2082: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
2083: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 2084: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 2085: support network security.
2086: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
2087: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
2088: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
2089: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
2090: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
2091: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
2092: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
2093: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
2094: <br>
2095: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
2096: <p>
2097:
1.249 jufi 2098: </ul>
2099:
1.246 jufi 2100: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2101: <ul>
1.246 jufi 2102:
1.247 jufi 2103: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2104: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 2105: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
2106: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2107: </strong></font><br>
2108: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
2109: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
2110: <p>
2111:
1.247 jufi 2112: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2113: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
2114: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
2115: Heise News-Ticker, December 04, 2002
2116: </strong></font><br>
1.460 david 2117: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III CPU
1.301 jose 2118: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
2119: <p>
2120:
2121: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2122: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 2123: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
2124: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2125: </strong></font><br>
2126: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
2127: in their annual OpenHack security test.
2128: <p>
1.247 jufi 2129: </ul>
1.246 jufi 2130:
1.244 jufi 2131: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2132: <ul>
1.246 jufi 2133:
1.247 jufi 2134: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2135: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
2136: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
2137: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2138: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2139: </strong></font><br>
2140: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
2141: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
2142: md5 digests.
2143: <p>
2144:
1.247 jufi 2145: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2146: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 2147: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
2148: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2149: </strong></font><br>
2150: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
2151: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
2152: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
2153: right the first time."
2154: <p>
1.247 jufi 2155: </ul>
1.244 jufi 2156:
2157:
2158: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2159: <ul>
1.244 jufi 2160:
1.247 jufi 2161: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2162: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2163: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
2164: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2165: </strong></font><br>
2166: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
2167: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
2168: part 6</a>.
2169: <p>
2170:
1.247 jufi 2171: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2172: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 2173: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
2174: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2175: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2176: </strong></font><br>
2177: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
2178: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
2179: <p>
1.301 jose 2180:
2181: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2182: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
2183: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
2184: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
2185: </strong></font><br>
2186:
2187: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
2188: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
2189: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
2190: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
2191: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
2192: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
2193: <i>Here's the
2194: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
2195: <p>
1.247 jufi 2196: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2197:
2198: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2199: <ul>
1.242 jufi 2200:
1.247 jufi 2201: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2202: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 2203: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2204: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2205: </strong></font><br>
2206: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
2207: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
2208: <p>
2209:
1.247 jufi 2210: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2211: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2212: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
2213: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2214: </strong></font><br>
2215: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
2216: this time using pf.
2217: <p>
1.247 jufi 2218: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2219:
2220: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2221: <ul>
1.242 jufi 2222:
1.247 jufi 2223: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2224: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2225: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
2226: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2227: </strong></font><br>
2228: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
2229: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
2230: their rotation.
2231: <p>
2232:
1.247 jufi 2233: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2234: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2235: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
2236: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2237: </strong></font><br>
2238: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
2239: <p>
1.247 jufi 2240: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2241:
1.239 jufi 2242: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2243: <ul>
1.239 jufi 2244:
1.247 jufi 2245: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2246: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2247: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
2248: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2249: </strong></font><br>
2250: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
2251: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
2252: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
2253: <p>
2254:
1.247 jufi 2255: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 2256: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2257: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
2258: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 2259: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 2260: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
2261: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
2262: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 2263: <p>
1.247 jufi 2264: </ul>
1.239 jufi 2265:
1.235 lebel 2266: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2267: <ul>
1.235 lebel 2268:
1.239 jufi 2269:
1.247 jufi 2270: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 2271: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 2272: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
2273: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 2274: </strong></font><br>
2275: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
2276: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
2277: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
2278: <p>
1.301 jose 2279:
1.247 jufi 2280: </ul>
1.235 lebel 2281:
1.228 horacio 2282: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2283: <ul>
1.228 horacio 2284:
1.247 jufi 2285: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2286: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2287: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
2288: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 2289: </strong></font><br>
2290: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
2291: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
2292: <p>
2293:
1.247 jufi 2294: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 2295: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 2296: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
2297: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 2298: </strong></font><br>
2299: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
2300: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
2301: <p>
2302:
1.247 jufi 2303: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 2304: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 2305: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
2306: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 2307: </strong></font><br>
2308: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
2309: on the desktop of his parents.
2310: <p>
2311:
1.247 jufi 2312: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 2313: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 2314: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
2315: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 2316: </strong></font><br>
2317: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
2318: using IPFilter.
2319:
2320: <p>
2321:
1.247 jufi 2322: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 2323: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 2324: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
2325: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 2326: </strong></font><br>
2327: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
2328: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
2329: perspectives of the four OS.
2330: <br>
2331: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 2332: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 2333: <p>
2334:
1.247 jufi 2335: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 2336: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
2337: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 2338: software and security</a>,
2339: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 2340: </strong></font><br>
2341:
2342: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
2343: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
2344: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
2345: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
2346: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
2347: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
2348: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
2349: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
2350: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
2351: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
2352: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
2353: security conscious team beyond doubt.
2354: <p>
1.247 jufi 2355: </ul>
1.228 horacio 2356:
1.225 horacio 2357: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2358: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2359:
1.247 jufi 2360: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2361: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
2362: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 2363: Interview</a>,
2364: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 2365: </strong></font><br>
2366:
2367: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
2368: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
2369: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 2370: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 2371: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
2372: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
2373: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
2374: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
2375: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 2376: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 2377: of choice.
2378: <p>
1.247 jufi 2379: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2380:
2381: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2382: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2383:
1.247 jufi 2384: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2385: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 2386: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
2387: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 2388: </strong></font><br>
2389:
2390: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
2391: <p>
2392:
1.247 jufi 2393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2394: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 2395: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
2396: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 2397: </strong></font><br>
2398:
2399: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
2400: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
2401: <p>
1.247 jufi 2402: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2403:
1.218 horacio 2404: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2405: <ul>
1.218 horacio 2406:
1.247 jufi 2407: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 2408: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 2409: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 2410: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 2411: </strong></font><br>
2412:
2413: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
2414: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
2415: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
2416: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
2417: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
2418: subjects. Worth a read.
2419: <p>
2420:
2421:
1.247 jufi 2422: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 2423: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 2424: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
2425: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 2426: </strong></font><br>
2427:
2428: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
2429: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
2430: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
2431: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
2432: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
2433: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
2434: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
2435: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
2436: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 2437: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 2438: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
2439: on other operating systems.<br>
2440: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
2441: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
2442: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
2443: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
2444: <p>
2445:
1.247 jufi 2446: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2447: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 2448: Operating System 2010</a>,
2449: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 2450: </strong></font><br>
2451:
2452: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
2453: covering the level of software integration into the core
2454: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
2455: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
2456: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
2457: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
2458: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
2459: <p>
2460:
1.247 jufi 2461: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 2462: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2463: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
2464: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 2465: </strong></font><br>
2466:
2467: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
2468: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
2469: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
2470: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
2471: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
2472: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
2473: <p>
1.247 jufi 2474: </ul>
1.221 horacio 2475:
1.210 jufi 2476: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2477: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2478:
1.247 jufi 2479: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2480: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2481: Already a Contender</a>,
2482: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 2483: </strong></font><br>
2484:
2485: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
2486: source software in response to an article which claimed that
2487: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
2488: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
2489: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
2490: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
2491: <p>
2492:
1.247 jufi 2493: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 2494: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 2495: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
2496: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 2497: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2498:
1.224 horacio 2499: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
2500: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
2501: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
2502: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
2503: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
2504: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 2505: <p>
1.247 jufi 2506: </ul>
1.215 horacio 2507:
2508: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2509: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2510:
1.247 jufi 2511: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2512: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
2513: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 2514: Division</a>,
2515: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 2516: </strong></font><br>
2517:
2518: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
2519: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 2520: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 2521: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
2522: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
2523: investment</em>.<br>
2524: The implementation details can be seen on their
2525: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
2526: <p>
2527:
1.247 jufi 2528: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2529: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
2530: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
2531: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
2532: </strong></font><br>
2533:
2534: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
2535: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
2536: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
2537: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
2538: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
2539: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
2540: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
2541: <p>
2542:
2543: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2544: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2545: Thinking about Security</a>,
2546: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2547: </strong></font><br>
2548:
2549: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
2550: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
2551: security and says that even secured operating systems running
2552: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
2553: to time.<br>
2554: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
2555: system and just the most secure system.
2556: <p>
2557:
1.247 jufi 2558: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2559: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2560: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
2561: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2562: </strong></font><br>
2563:
2564: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
2565: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
2566: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
2567: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
2568: choice:<br>
2569: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
2570: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
2571: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
2572: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
2573: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
2574: network security devices and as such must be well
2575: armored."</em><br>
2576: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
2577: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
2578: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
2579: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
2580: <br>
2581: Bravo!
2582: <p>
1.247 jufi 2583: </ul>
1.210 jufi 2584:
1.207 ian 2585: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2586: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2587:
1.247 jufi 2588: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 2589: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
2590: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
2591: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 2592:
1.207 ian 2593: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
2594: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 2595: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 2596: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
2597: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
2598: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 2599: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 2600: <p>
1.247 jufi 2601: </ul>
1.207 ian 2602:
1.194 jufi 2603: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2604: <ul>
1.194 jufi 2605:
1.247 jufi 2606: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2607: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 2608: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
2609: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 2610: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2611:
1.240 miod 2612: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 2613: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
2614: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
2615: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
2616: <p>
2617:
1.247 jufi 2618: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2619: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
2620: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
2621: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
2622:
2623: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
2624: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
2625: <p>
2626:
2627: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2628: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
2629: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2630: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
2631:
2632: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
2633: <p>
2634:
2635: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2636: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 2637: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
2638: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
2639: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2640:
1.240 miod 2641: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 2642: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 2643: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
2644: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 2645: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 2646: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 2647: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
2648: <br>
1.413 deraadt 2649: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 2650: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
2651: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
2652: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
2653: <p>
2654:
1.247 jufi 2655: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 2656: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
2657: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 2658: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 2659: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2660:
1.194 jufi 2661: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
2662: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
2663: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
2664: <br>
2665: The new
2666: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 2667: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 2668: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
2669: <p>
1.247 jufi 2670: </ul>
1.194 jufi 2671:
1.190 horacio 2672: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2673: <ul>
1.190 horacio 2674:
1.247 jufi 2675: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 2676:
2677: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
2678: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
2679:
1.301 jose 2680:
1.191 jufi 2681: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
2682: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
2683:
2684: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
2685: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
2686:
1.212 horacio 2687: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
2688: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 2689: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
2690:
1.211 horacio 2691: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
2692: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 2693: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
2694:
1.247 jufi 2695: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 2696: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
2697:
1.247 jufi 2698: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 2699: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
2700:
1.212 horacio 2701: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
2702: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 2703: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
2704:
2705: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
2706: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
2707:
2708: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
2709: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
2710:
1.301 jose 2711: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
2712: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
2713:
1.191 jufi 2714: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
2715: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
2716:
2717: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 2718: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 2719:
1.192 jufi 2720: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
2721: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 2722: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 2723:
1.193 deraadt 2724: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
2725: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 2726: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 2727:
1.247 jufi 2728: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 2729: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
2730:
1.247 jufi 2731: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 2732: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
2733: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
2734:
1.213 horacio 2735: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 2736: 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 2737: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
2738:
1.190 horacio 2739: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 2740: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
2741: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
2742: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
2743: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
2744: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
2745: <p>
1.190 horacio 2746:
1.247 jufi 2747: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2748: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
2749: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
2750: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 2751: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2752:
1.195 jufi 2753: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 2754: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
2755: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
2756: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 2757: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
2758: <p>
2759:
1.247 jufi 2760: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2761: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 2762: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
2763: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
2764: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2765:
1.191 jufi 2766: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 2767: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
2768: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
2769: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
2770: <p>
2771:
2772: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2773: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2774: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2775: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
2776:
2777: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2778: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 2779: <p>
1.247 jufi 2780: </ul>
1.190 horacio 2781:
1.191 jufi 2782:
1.186 jufi 2783: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2784: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 2785:
1.247 jufi 2786: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 2787: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 2788: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
2789: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 2790: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 2791:
1.188 jufi 2792: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 2793: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 2794: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 2795: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
2796: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 2797: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 2798: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 2799: <p>
2800:
1.301 jose 2801: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2802: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2803: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2804: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2805:
2806: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2807: <p>
1.191 jufi 2808:
1.247 jufi 2809: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 2810: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
2811: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
2812: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 2813: </strong></font><br>
2814:
2815: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
2816: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
2817: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
2818: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
2819: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
2820: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
2821: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
2822: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
2823: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
2824: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
2825: familiar?
2826: <p>
1.247 jufi 2827: </ul>
1.191 jufi 2828:
1.178 louis 2829: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2830: <ul>
1.178 louis 2831:
1.247 jufi 2832: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 2833: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 2834: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
2835: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 2836: </strong></font><br>
2837:
2838: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
2839: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
2840: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
2841: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
2842: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
2843: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
2844: <p>
2845:
1.247 jufi 2846: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2847: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
2848: Open source under the hood</a>,
2849: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 2850: </strong></font><br>
2851:
2852: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
2853: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
2854: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
2855: <p>
2856:
1.247 jufi 2857: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2858: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
2859: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
2860: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 2861: </strong></font><br>
2862:
2863: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
2864: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
2865: <p>
1.247 jufi 2866: </ul>
1.179 louis 2867:
1.174 louis 2868:
1.175 louis 2869: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2870: <ul>
1.175 louis 2871:
1.247 jufi 2872: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2873: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
2874: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
2875: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 2876: </strong></font><br>
2877:
2878: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
2879: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
2880: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
2881: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
2882: <p>
2883:
1.247 jufi 2884: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2885: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
2886: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
2887: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 2888: </strong></font><br>
2889:
2890: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 2891: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 2892: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
2893: <p>
1.247 jufi 2894: </ul>
1.175 louis 2895:
1.176 louis 2896:
1.172 mickey 2897: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2898: <ul>
1.172 mickey 2899:
1.247 jufi 2900: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2901: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
2902: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 2903: </strong></font><br>
2904:
2905: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
2906: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
2907: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 2908: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 2909: <p>
2910:
1.247 jufi 2911: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 2912: <a
1.269 deraadt 2913: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
2914: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
2915: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 2916: </strong></font><br>
2917:
2918: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
2919: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
2920: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
2921: <p>
2922:
1.247 jufi 2923: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2924: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 2925: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
2926: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 2927: </strong></font><br>
2928:
2929: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
2930: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
2931: <p>
2932:
1.247 jufi 2933: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2934: <a
1.269 deraadt 2935: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
2936: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 2937: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
2938: </strong></font><br>
2939:
2940: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
2941: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
2942: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
2943: our own Theo de Raadt.
2944: <p>
2945:
1.247 jufi 2946: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 2947: <a
1.269 deraadt 2948: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
2949: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
2950: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 2951: </strong></font><br>
2952:
2953: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
2954: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
2955: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
2956: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
2957: shut down.]
2958: <p>
2959:
1.247 jufi 2960: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 2961: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 2962: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 2963: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
2964: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 2965: </strong></font><br>
2966:
2967: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
2968: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
2969: <p>
1.247 jufi 2970: </ul>
1.172 mickey 2971:
1.161 louis 2972: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2973: <ul>
1.161 louis 2974:
1.247 jufi 2975: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2976: <a
1.269 deraadt 2977: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
2978: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
2979: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 2980: </strong></font><br>
2981:
2982: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
2983: by John Wolley
2984: <p>
2985:
1.247 jufi 2986: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 2987: <a
1.269 deraadt 2988: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
2989: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
2990: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 2991: </strong></font><br>
2992:
2993: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
2994: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
2995: OpenBSD).
2996: <p>
2997:
1.247 jufi 2998: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 2999: <a
1.247 jufi 3000: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 3001: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
3002: </strong></font><br>
3003:
3004: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
3005: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
3006: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
3007: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
3008: and hindsight.
3009: <p>
3010:
1.247 jufi 3011: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3012: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
3013: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
3014: </strong></font><br>
3015:
3016: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
3017: <p>
3018:
1.247 jufi 3019: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 3020: <a
1.168 provos 3021: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
3022: December 7, 2000
3023: </strong></font><br>
3024:
3025: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
3026: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
3027: us explain.
3028: <p>
3029:
1.247 jufi 3030: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 3031: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
3032: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 3033: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 3034: December 6, 2000
3035: </strong></font><br>
3036:
3037: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
3038: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
3039: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
3040: <p>
3041:
1.247 jufi 3042: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3043: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
3044: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
3045: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
3046: </strong></font><br>
3047:
3048: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
3049: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
3050: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
3051: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
3052: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
3053: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
3054: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
3055: <p>
3056:
3057: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 3058: <a
1.226 horacio 3059: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
3060: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 3061: </strong></font><br>
3062:
3063: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 3064: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 3065: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 3066: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
3067: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
3068: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 3069: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 3070: <p>
1.162 millert 3071:
1.247 jufi 3072: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 3073: <a
1.161 louis 3074: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
3075: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
3076: </strong></font><br>
3077:
3078: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
3079: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
3080: <p>
3081:
1.247 jufi 3082: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3083: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
3084: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
3085: </strong></font><br>
3086:
3087: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
3088: <p>
3089:
3090:
1.247 jufi 3091: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 3092: <a
1.226 horacio 3093: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
3094: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
3095: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 3096: </strong></font><br>
3097:
3098: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
3099: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
3100: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
3101: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
3102: <p>
1.247 jufi 3103: </ul>
1.169 louis 3104:
1.158 louis 3105: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3106: <ul>
1.147 louis 3107:
1.247 jufi 3108: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3109: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
3110: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 3111: </strong></font><br>
3112:
3113: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
3114: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
3115: <p>
3116:
1.247 jufi 3117: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3118: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
3119: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
3120: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 3121: </strong></font><br>
3122: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
3123: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
3124: <p>
3125:
1.247 jufi 3126: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 3127: <a
3128: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
3129: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
3130: </strong></font><br>
3131:
3132: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
3133: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
3134: <p>
3135:
1.247 jufi 3136: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3137: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 3138: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
3139: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 3140:
1.213 horacio 3141: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 3142: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 3143: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
3144: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
3145: <p>
1.215 horacio 3146:
1.247 jufi 3147: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3148: <a
3149: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
3150: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
3151: </strong></font><br>
3152:
3153: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
3154: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
3155: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
3156: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
3157: much of the attitude too).
3158: <p>
1.161 louis 3159:
1.247 jufi 3160: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3161: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3162: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 3163: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3164:
1.157 louis 3165: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
3166: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
3167: <p>
1.247 jufi 3168: </ul>
1.157 louis 3169:
3170: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3171: <ul>
1.157 louis 3172:
1.247 jufi 3173: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3174: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3175: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 3176: </strong></font><br>
3177:
3178: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
3179: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
3180: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
3181: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
3182: <p>
3183:
1.247 jufi 3184: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 3185: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
3186: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
3187: </strong></font><br>
3188:
3189: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
3190: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
3191: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
3192: it because they love coding...
3193: <p>
3194:
1.247 jufi 3195: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 3196: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
3197: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
3198: </strong></font><br>
3199:
3200: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
3201: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
3202: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
3203: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
3204: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
3205: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
3206: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
3207: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
3208: <p>
3209:
1.247 jufi 3210: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3211: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
3212: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
3213: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 3214: </strong></font><br>
3215:
3216: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
3217: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
3218: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
3219: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
3220: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
3221: the pizza.
3222: <p>
3223:
1.247 jufi 3224: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 3225: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
3226: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
3227: </strong></font><br>
3228:
3229: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
3230: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
3231: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
3232: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
3233: problems.
3234: <p>
3235:
1.247 jufi 3236: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 3237: <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 3238: </strong></font><br>
3239:
1.222 miod 3240: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 3241: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
3242: - whether they like it or not.
3243: <p>
3244:
1.247 jufi 3245: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3246: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
3247: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 3248: </strong></font><br>
3249:
3250: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
3251: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
3252: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 3253: <p>
1.148 aaron 3254:
1.247 jufi 3255: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3256: <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 3257: </strong></font><br>
3258:
3259: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
3260: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
3261: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
3262: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
3263: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
3264: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
3265: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
3266: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
3267: <p>
3268:
1.247 jufi 3269: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3270: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
3271: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 3272: </strong></font><br>
3273:
3274: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
3275: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 3276: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 3277: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
3278: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
3279: <p>
1.247 jufi 3280: </ul>
1.147 louis 3281:
1.138 louis 3282: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3283: <ul>
1.138 louis 3284:
1.247 jufi 3285: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3286: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
3287: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
3288: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
3289: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 3290: </strong></font><br>
3291:
1.227 horacio 3292: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 3293: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
3294: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
3295: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
3296: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
3297: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
3298: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
3299: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 3300: <p>
3301:
1.247 jufi 3302: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 3303: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 3304: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 3305: </strong></font><br>
3306:
3307: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
3308: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
3309: groups, and even Linux.
3310: <p>
3311:
1.247 jufi 3312: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3313: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
3314: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 3315: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
3316: </strong></font><br>
3317:
3318: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
3319: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
3320: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
3321: library after installing the OS.
3322: <p>
3323:
1.247 jufi 3324: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3325: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 3326: Sys Admin, September 2000
3327: </strong></font><br>
3328:
3329: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
3330: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
3331: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
3332: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 3333: (<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>,
3334: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
3335: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
3336: <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 3337: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 3338: out of the system.
3339: <p>
3340:
1.247 jufi 3341: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 3342: <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
3343: </strong></font><br>
3344:
3345: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 3346: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 3347: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
3348: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
3349: the IP filtering and address translation.
3350: <p>
1.301 jose 3351:
3352: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3353: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
3354: </strong></font><br>
3355:
3356: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
3357: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
3358: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
3359: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
3360: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
3361: <p>
1.247 jufi 3362: </ul>
1.200 niklas 3363:
1.131 louis 3364: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3365: <ul>
1.131 louis 3366:
1.247 jufi 3367: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3368: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
3369: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
3370: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 3371: </strong></font><br>
3372:
3373: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
3374: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
3375: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
3376: <p>
3377:
1.247 jufi 3378: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 3379: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
3380: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
3381: </strong></font><br>
3382:
3383: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
3384: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
3385: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
3386: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
3387: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
3388: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
3389: note of"</i>.
3390: <p>
3391:
1.247 jufi 3392: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 3393: <a
1.247 jufi 3394: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 3395: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
3396: </strong></font><br>
3397:
3398: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
3399: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
3400: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
3401: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
3402: <p>
3403:
1.247 jufi 3404: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 3405: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 3406: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
3407: </strong></font><br>
3408:
3409: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
3410: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
3411: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
3412: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
3413: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
3414: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
3415: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
3416: <p>
3417:
1.247 jufi 3418: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 3419: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
3420: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
3421: 2000
3422: </strong></font><br>
3423:
3424: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
3425: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
3426: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
3427: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
3428: against current industry practices.
3429: <p>
3430:
1.247 jufi 3431: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 3432: <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
3433: </strong></font><br>
3434:
3435: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
3436: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
3437: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
3438: <p>
3439:
1.247 jufi 3440: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 3441: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
3442: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
3443: </strong></font><br>
3444:
3445: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
3446: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
3447: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
3448: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
3449: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
3450: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
3451: careful code reviews, he concludes.
3452: <p>
3453:
1.247 jufi 3454: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 3455: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
3456: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
3457: </strong></font><br>
3458:
3459: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
3460: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
3461: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
3462: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
3463: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 3464: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
3465: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
3466: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 3467: <p>
1.247 jufi 3468: </ul>
1.131 louis 3469:
1.118 louis 3470: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3471: <ul>
1.118 louis 3472:
1.247 jufi 3473: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 3474: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
3475: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
3476: </strong></font><br>
3477:
3478: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
3479: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
3480: about time. The article mentions that
3481: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
3482: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
3483: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 3484: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 3485: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
3486: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 3487: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 3488: <p>
3489:
1.247 jufi 3490: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3491: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 3492: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3493: </strong></font><br>
3494:
3495: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
3496: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
3497: of OpenSSH.
3498: <p>
3499:
1.247 jufi 3500: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3501: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3502: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3503: </strong></font><br>
3504:
3505: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 3506: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 3507: bridging.
3508: <p>
3509:
1.247 jufi 3510: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3511: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
3512: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 3513: </strong></font><br>
3514:
1.121 deraadt 3515: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
3516: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 3517: <p>
3518:
1.247 jufi 3519: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3520: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
3521: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
3522: </strong></font><br>
3523:
3524: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
3525: <p>
3526:
1.247 jufi 3527: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 3528: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3529: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
3530: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 3531: </strong></font><br>
3532:
1.120 deraadt 3533: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
3534: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 3535: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
3536: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
3537: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
3538: <p>
3539:
1.247 jufi 3540: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 3541: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
3542: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
3543: </strong></font><br>
3544:
1.222 miod 3545: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 3546: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
3547: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
3548: protocols and their quirks.
3549: <p>
3550:
1.247 jufi 3551: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3552: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
3553: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 3554: </strong></font><br>
3555:
3556: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
3557: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
3558: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 3559: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 3560: <p>
3561:
1.247 jufi 3562: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 3563: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
3564: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
3565: </strong></font><br>
3566:
3567: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
3568: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
3569: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
3570: <p>
3571:
1.247 jufi 3572: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 3573: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3574: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
3575: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 3576: </strong></font><br>
3577:
3578: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
3579: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
3580: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
3581: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
3582: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
3583: <p>
1.247 jufi 3584: </ul>
1.118 louis 3585:
1.104 louis 3586: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3587: <ul>
1.104 louis 3588:
1.247 jufi 3589: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 3590: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
3591: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
3592: </strong></font><br>
3593:
3594: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
3595: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
3596: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
3597: be a bit dry.
3598: <p>
3599:
1.247 jufi 3600: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3601: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
3602: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
3603: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
3604: </strong></font><br>
3605: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
3606: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
3607: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
3608: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
3609: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
3610: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
3611: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
3612: <p>
3613:
1.247 jufi 3614: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3615: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
3616: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 3617: 2000
1.128 louis 3618: </strong></font><br>
3619:
3620: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
3621: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
3622: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
3623: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
3624: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 3625: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 3626: <p>
3627:
1.247 jufi 3628: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3629: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
3630: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 3631: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 3632:
3633: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
3634: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
3635: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
3636: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 3637: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
3638: <p>
1.110 louis 3639:
1.247 jufi 3640: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 3641: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
3642: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
3643: </strong></font><br>
3644:
3645: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
3646: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
3647: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
3648: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
3649: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
3650: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
3651: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
3652: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
3653: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
3654: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
3655: <p>
3656:
1.247 jufi 3657: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 3658: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3659: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 3660:
3661: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
3662: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 3663: <p>
1.108 louis 3664:
1.247 jufi 3665: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 3666: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
3667: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 3668: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 3669:
3670: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
3671: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
3672: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 3673: <p>
1.106 louis 3674:
1.247 jufi 3675: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 3676: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
3677: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 3678: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 3679:
3680: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
3681: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
3682: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
3683: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 3684: <p>
1.107 louis 3685:
1.247 jufi 3686: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3687: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
3688: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3689: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 3690:
3691: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
3692: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 3693: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 3694: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
3695: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 3696: <p>
1.105 louis 3697:
1.247 jufi 3698: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 3699: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 3700: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 3701: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 3702:
1.113 naddy 3703: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
3704: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 3705: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 3706: <p>
1.104 louis 3707:
1.247 jufi 3708: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3709: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
3710: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
3711: </strong></font><br>
3712:
3713: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
3714: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
3715: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
3716: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
3717: <p>
1.301 jose 3718:
3719: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3720: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
3721: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
3722: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
3723:
3724: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
3725: hardware-supported cryptography.
3726: <p>
1.247 jufi 3727: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 3728:
1.85 louis 3729: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3730: <ul>
1.85 louis 3731:
1.247 jufi 3732: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3733: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 3734: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 3735: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3736:
3737: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
3738: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
3739: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
3740: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
3741: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
3742: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
3743: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 3744: <p>
1.99 louis 3745:
1.247 jufi 3746: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3747: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 3748: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3749: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 3750:
3751: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
3752: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
3753: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
3754: conditions.
1.113 naddy 3755: <p>
1.100 louis 3756:
1.247 jufi 3757: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3758: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 3759: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3760: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 3761:
3762: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
3763: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
3764: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
3765: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 3766: <p>
1.95 louis 3767:
1.247 jufi 3768: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3769: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 3770: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3771: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 3772:
3773: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
3774: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 3775: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 3776: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
3777: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3778: <p>
1.92 louis 3779:
1.247 jufi 3780: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3781: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 3782: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3783: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 3784:
3785: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
3786: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
3787: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
3788: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
3789: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
3790: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 3791: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 3792: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 3793: <p>
1.91 louis 3794:
1.247 jufi 3795: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3796: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
3797: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 3798: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3799:
3800: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
3801: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
3802: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
3803: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
3804: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
3805: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
3806: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
3807: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
3808: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 3809: <p>
1.90 louis 3810:
1.247 jufi 3811: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3812: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
3813: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
3814: </strong></font><br>
3815: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
3816: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
3817: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
3818: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
3819: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
3820: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
3821: <p>
3822:
1.247 jufi 3823: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 3824: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
3825: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3826: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 3827:
1.113 naddy 3828: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
3829: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 3830: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
3831: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
3832: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
3833: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
3834: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 3835: <p>
1.87 louis 3836:
1.247 jufi 3837: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3838: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
3839: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 3840: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3841:
3842: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 3843: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 3844: <p>
1.85 louis 3845:
1.247 jufi 3846: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3847: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
3848: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3849: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
3850:
3851: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
3852: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
3853: <p>
3854:
3855: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 3856: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
3857: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3858: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 3859:
3860: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 3861: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 3862: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
3863: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 3864: <p>
1.89 louis 3865:
1.247 jufi 3866: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3867: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
3868: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 3869: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3870:
3871: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
3872: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
3873: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
3874: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
3875: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 3876: </ul>
1.85 louis 3877:
1.78 deraadt 3878: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3879: <ul>
1.74 louis 3880:
1.247 jufi 3881: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3882: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 3883: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 3884: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 3885: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 3886:
3887: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
3888: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
3889: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3890: <p>
1.83 louis 3891:
1.247 jufi 3892: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 3893: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
3894: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3895: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 3896:
3897: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
3898: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 3899: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 3900: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
3901: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 3902: <p>
1.93 louis 3903:
1.247 jufi 3904: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3905: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
3906: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
3907: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3908: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 3909:
1.83 louis 3910: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
3911: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
3912: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
3913: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
3914: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 3915: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
3916: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
3917: <p>
1.82 aaron 3918:
1.247 jufi 3919: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3920: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 3921: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 3922: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 3923:
1.83 louis 3924: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
3925: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
3926: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 3927: <p>
1.80 louis 3928:
1.247 jufi 3929: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3930: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 3931: Bad Press</a>,
3932: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 3933: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 3934:
3935: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 3936: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 3937: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
3938: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
3939: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 3940: <p>
1.247 jufi 3941: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 3942:
3943: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3944: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 3945:
1.247 jufi 3946: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3947: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
3948: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 3949: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 3950: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 3951:
3952: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
3953: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
3954: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
3955: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 3956: <p>
1.74 louis 3957:
1.247 jufi 3958: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 3959: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
3960: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 3961: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 3962:
1.219 horacio 3963: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
3964: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
3965: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
3966: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
3967: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
3968: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
3969: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 3970: <p>
1.88 louis 3971:
1.247 jufi 3972: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 3973: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 3974: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 3975: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 3976:
3977: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
3978: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
3979: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
3980: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 3981: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 3982: <p>
1.81 louis 3983:
1.247 jufi 3984: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3985: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 3986: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 3987: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3988:
3989: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
3990: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
3991: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
3992: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
3993: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
3994: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
3995: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 3996: <p>
1.90 louis 3997:
1.247 jufi 3998: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3999: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 4000: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 4001: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 4002:
4003: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
4004: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
4005: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 4006: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 4007: <p>
1.247 jufi 4008: </ul>
1.71 louis 4009:
1.69 deraadt 4010: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4011: <ul>
1.70 louis 4012:
1.247 jufi 4013: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4014: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
4015: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 4016: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 4017:
4018: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
4019: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
4020: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 4021: <p>
1.70 louis 4022:
1.247 jufi 4023: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4024: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
4025: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 4026: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 4027:
4028: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 4029: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 4030: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 4031: <p>
1.68 louis 4032:
1.247 jufi 4033: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4034: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
4035: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 4036: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 4037: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 4038:
1.111 jufi 4039: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
4040: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 4041: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 4042: "secure by default" installation.
4043: <p>
1.64 louis 4044:
1.247 jufi 4045: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 4046: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 4047: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 4048: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 4049:
1.113 naddy 4050: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 4051: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 4052: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 4053: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
4054: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
4055: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 4056: <p>
1.66 louis 4057:
1.247 jufi 4058: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4059: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 4060: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4061: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 4062:
4063: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 4064: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 4065: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
4066: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
4067: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 4068: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
4069: <p>
1.83 louis 4070:
1.247 jufi 4071: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4072: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 4073: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4074: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 4075:
4076: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 4077: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
4078: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 4079: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
4080: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 4081: <p>
1.64 louis 4082:
1.247 jufi 4083: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4084: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 4085: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4086: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 4087:
4088: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
4089: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 4090: <p>
1.301 jose 4091:
4092: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4093: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
4094: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
4095: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
4096: </strong></font><br>
4097:
4098: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
4099: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
4100: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
4101: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
4102: Giving way to
4103: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
4104: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
4105: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
4106: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
4107: <p>
1.247 jufi 4108: </ul>
1.65 louis 4109:
1.69 deraadt 4110: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4111: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4112:
1.247 jufi 4113: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4114: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 4115: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 4116: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 4117:
4118: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
4119: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
4120: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
4121: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 4122: <p>
1.88 louis 4123:
1.247 jufi 4124: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4125: <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 4126: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 4127:
4128: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 4129: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
4130: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 4131: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
4132: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 4133: <p>
1.60 louis 4134:
1.247 jufi 4135: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 4136: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 4137: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 4138: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 4139: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4140:
4141: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
4142: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
4143: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 4144: <p>
1.58 louis 4145:
1.247 jufi 4146: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 4147: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 4148: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 4149:
4150: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
4151: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 4152: <p>
1.53 louis 4153:
1.247 jufi 4154: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 4155: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
4156: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 4157: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 4158:
4159: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
4160: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
4161: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 4162: <p>
1.99 louis 4163:
1.247 jufi 4164: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 4165: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 4166: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4167:
4168: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
4169: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 4170: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 4171: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 4172: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 4173:
1.247 jufi 4174: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4175: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
4176: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 4177: </strong></font><br>
4178:
4179: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
4180: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
4181: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
4182: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
4183: <p>
4184:
1.247 jufi 4185: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4186: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 4187: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 4188: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4189:
4190: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
4191: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 4192: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 4193:
1.247 jufi 4194: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 4195: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 4196: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 4197:
4198: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 4199: in
1.247 jufi 4200: <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 4201: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 4202: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 4203: <p>
1.53 louis 4204:
1.247 jufi 4205: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4206: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 4207: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
4208: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 4209: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 4210:
1.58 louis 4211: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4212: <p>
1.301 jose 4213:
4214: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4215: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
4216: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
4217: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
4218: Informacyjny, January 2000
4219: </strong></font><br>
4220:
4221: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
4222: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
4223: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
4224: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
4225: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
4226: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
4227: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
4228: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
4229: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
4230: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 4231: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
4232: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 4233: <p>
4234:
4235: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4236: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4237: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
4238: </strong></font><br>
4239:
4240: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
4241: <p>
4242: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 4243:
1.69 deraadt 4244: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4245: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4246:
1.247 jufi 4247: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4248: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
4249: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
4250: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 4251: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4252:
1.58 louis 4253: Kurt Seifried
4254: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4255: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
4256: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 4257: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 4258:
1.247 jufi 4259: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4260: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 4261: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4262: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 4263:
4264: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 4265: <p>
1.96 louis 4266:
1.247 jufi 4267: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4268: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
4269: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
4270: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
4271: </strong></font><br>
4272:
4273: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
4274: <p>
4275:
4276: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4277: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 4278: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 4279: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 4280:
4281: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
4282: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 4283: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 4284: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 4285: <p>
1.247 jufi 4286: </ul>
1.86 louis 4287:
1.69 deraadt 4288: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4289: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4290:
1.247 jufi 4291: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4292: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
4293: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 4294: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 4295:
4296: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
4297: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 4298: <p>
1.61 louis 4299:
1.247 jufi 4300: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4301: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 4302: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
4303: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4304: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 4305:
4306: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 4307: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 4308: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
4309: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 4310: right -- or at least strives to".
4311: <p>
1.48 louis 4312:
1.247 jufi 4313: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4314: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
4315: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4316: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 4317: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
4318: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
4319: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
4320: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 4321: <p>
1.61 louis 4322:
1.247 jufi 4323: <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 4324: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4325: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 4326:
4327: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
4328: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
4329: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
4330: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 4331: <p>
1.46 louis 4332:
1.247 jufi 4333: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4334: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
4335: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4336: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4337:
4338: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
4339: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 4340: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 4341:
1.247 jufi 4342: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 4343: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
4344: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 4345: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 4346:
4347: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
4348: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
4349: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
4350: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 4351: <p>
1.247 jufi 4352: </ul>
1.70 louis 4353:
1.69 deraadt 4354: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4355: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4356:
1.247 jufi 4357: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4358: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
4359: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 4360: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 4361: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 4362:
4363: Kurt Seifried
4364: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4365: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
4366: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 4367: <p>
1.44 philen 4368:
1.247 jufi 4369: <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 4370: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 4371: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 4372:
4373: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 4374: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 4375:
1.247 jufi 4376: <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 4377: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 4378: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 4379:
4380: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 4381: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 4382:
1.247 jufi 4383: <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 4384: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 4385: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 4386:
4387: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
4388: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
4389: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
4390: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 4391: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 4392:
1.247 jufi 4393: <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 4394: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 4395: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 4396:
1.36 louis 4397: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 4398: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 4399:
1.247 jufi 4400: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 4401: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
4402: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 4403: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4404:
4405: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 4406: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 4407: </ul>
1.38 louis 4408:
1.69 deraadt 4409: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4410: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4411:
1.247 jufi 4412: <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 4413: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 4414: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 4415:
4416: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
4417: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 4418: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 4419:
1.113 naddy 4420: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 4421: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 4422: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 4423: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 4424:
4425: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
4426: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 4427: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
4428: terminal:
1.113 naddy 4429: <blockquote>
4430: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
4431: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
4432: <br>
4433: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
4434: </code>
4435: </blockquote>
4436: <p>
4437:
1.247 jufi 4438: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 4439: <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 4440: <p>
4441:
4442: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4443: <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 4444: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 4445:
4446: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
4447: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 4448: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 4449: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 4450:
1.247 jufi 4451: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4452: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
4453: Sept. 28, 1999
4454: </strong></font><br>
4455:
4456: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
4457: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
4458: translating and reprinting articles from
4459: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
4460: <p>
4461:
4462: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 4463: <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 4464: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 4465:
4466: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
4467: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
4468: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
4469: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
4470: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 4471: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 4472: <p>
1.19 louis 4473:
1.113 naddy 4474: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 4475: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 4476: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 4477:
4478: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
4479: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
4480: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 4481: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
4482: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 4483: <p>
1.16 louis 4484:
1.247 jufi 4485: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4486: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 4487: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 4488: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 4489:
1.57 louis 4490: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
4491: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
4492: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 4493: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 4494:
1.247 jufi 4495: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4496: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 4497: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 4498: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4499:
1.113 naddy 4500: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 4501:
1.247 jufi 4502: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4503: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
4504: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4505: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 4506:
1.23 louis 4507: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
4508: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
4509: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
4510: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
4511: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 4512: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 4513:
1.247 jufi 4514: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 4515: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
4516: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4517: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 4518:
1.199 pvalchev 4519: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 4520: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
4521: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
4522: installation.
1.113 naddy 4523: <p>
1.47 louis 4524:
1.247 jufi 4525: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4526: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 4527: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 4528: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4529:
1.301 jose 4530: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
4531: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
4532: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4533: </ul>
1.57 louis 4534:
1.69 deraadt 4535: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4536: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4537:
1.247 jufi 4538: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 4539: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 4540: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 4541: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 4542:
4543: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
4544: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 4545: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4546: <p>
1.12 louis 4547:
1.247 jufi 4548: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 4549: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 4550: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 4551: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 4552:
4553: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
4554: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 4555: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
4556: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
4557: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
4558: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
4559: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 4560: <p>
1.247 jufi 4561: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 4562:
1.69 deraadt 4563: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4564: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 4565:
1.247 jufi 4566: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 4567: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 4568: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 4569:
4570: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
4571: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
4572: available."
1.113 naddy 4573: <p>
1.301 jose 4574:
4575: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4576: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4577: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
4578: </strong></font><br>
4579:
4580: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
4581: <p>
1.247 jufi 4582: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 4583:
1.69 deraadt 4584: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4585: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4586:
1.247 jufi 4587: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 4588: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 4589: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 4590:
4591: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
4592: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
4593: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
4594: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
4595: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 4596: <p>
1.33 louis 4597:
1.247 jufi 4598: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4599: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 4600: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 4601: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4602:
1.113 naddy 4603: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
4604: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 4605: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
4606: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
4607: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 4608: <p>
1.247 jufi 4609: </ul>
1.57 louis 4610:
1.69 deraadt 4611: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4612: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4613:
1.247 jufi 4614: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4615: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 4616: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 4617: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4618:
4619: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
4620: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 4621: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4622:
1.247 jufi 4623: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 4624: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
4625: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
4626: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 4627: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 4628:
4629: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 4630: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 4631:
1.247 jufi 4632: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 4633: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4634:
1.113 naddy 4635: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 4636:
1.247 jufi 4637: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 4638: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
4639: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 4640: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4641:
4642: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 4643: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 4644: </ul>
1.23 louis 4645:
1.69 deraadt 4646: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4647: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4648:
1.247 jufi 4649: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 4650: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 4651: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4652:
4653: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
4654: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 4655: <p>
1.2 deraadt 4656:
1.247 jufi 4657: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4658: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 4659: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4660: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4661:
4662: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
4663: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 4664: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 4665: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4666: </ul>
1.57 louis 4667:
1.69 deraadt 4668: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4669: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4670:
1.247 jufi 4671: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 4672: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
4673: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 4674: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 4675:
4676: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
4677: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
4678: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
4679: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4680: <p>
1.15 louis 4681:
1.247 jufi 4682: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4683: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
4684: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 4685: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4686:
4687: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
4688: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
4689: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
4690: columns."
1.113 naddy 4691: <p>
1.247 jufi 4692: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4693:
1.69 deraadt 4694: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4695: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4696:
1.247 jufi 4697: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4698: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 4699: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4700: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4701:
4702: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 4703: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 4704:
1.113 naddy 4705: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4706: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 4707: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4708:
4709: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
4710: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 4711: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 4712: </ul>
1.57 louis 4713:
1.69 deraadt 4714: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4715: <ul>
1.301 jose 4716: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4717: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
4718: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4719: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
4720:
4721: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
4722: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
4723: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
4724: <p>
4725:
4726: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4727: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
4728: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4729: Nov 13, 1998 and
4730: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
4731: Datateknik</a>,
4732: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
4733:
1.380 saad 4734: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 4735: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
4736: explains the licensing issues and points to our
4737: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
4738: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4739:
1.113 naddy 4740: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 4741: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 4742: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 4743: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4744:
1.222 miod 4745: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 4746: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
4747: Implementation, including a brief interview with
4748: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 4749: <p>
1.247 jufi 4750: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4751:
1.69 deraadt 4752: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4753: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4754:
1.247 jufi 4755: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4756: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 4757: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4758:
1.69 deraadt 4759: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
4760: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 4761: <p>
1.247 jufi 4762: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4763:
1.69 deraadt 4764: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4765: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 4766:
1.247 jufi 4767: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4768: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
4769: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 4770: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4771:
1.383 jcs 4772: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 4773: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 4774: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4775:
1.247 jufi 4776: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 4777: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 4778: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
4779: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 4780: <p>
1.247 jufi 4781: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4782:
1.69 deraadt 4783: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4784: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4785:
1.247 jufi 4786: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4787: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 4788: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
4789: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 4790: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 4791: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4792:
4793: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
4794: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
4795: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 4796: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 4797: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 4798: <p>
1.247 jufi 4799: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 4800:
4801: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4802: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4803:
1.247 jufi 4804: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4805: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 4806: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4807:
1.69 deraadt 4808: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
4809: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 4810: <p>
1.112 naddy 4811:
1.247 jufi 4812: </ul>
1.113 naddy 4813: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4814:
1.292 camield 4815: <hr>
1.216 horacio 4816: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 4817: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.462 ! grunk 4818: <br><small>$OpenBSD: press.html,v 1.461 2005/07/06 10:10:00 grunk Exp $</small>
1.1 deraadt 4819:
4820: </body>
4821: </html>
![[BACK]](/icons/back.gif){kind=icon}
Return to press.html CVS log ![[TXT]](/icons/text.gif){kind=icon}
![[DIR]](/icons/dir.gif){kind=icon}
Up to [local] / www