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1.247 jufi 16: <h2><font color="#e00000">Media Coverage</font></h2>
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1.1 deraadt 18:
1.476 ian 19: <h2>October, 2005</h2>
20: <ul>
21:
22: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
23: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1375194866;fp;16;fpid;0">
24: 'Nightmare' drove desperate user to open source</a>,
25: Computerworld, October 24, 2005</strong></font><br>
26: A great tale of how Mark Uemura of PricewaterhouseCoopers Japan
27: was forced to move to OpenBSD because the alternatives were too costly
28: and too unreliable.
29: This quote will rattle some cages:
30: "IT managers who want to deploy an open source solution but are
31: worried about company politics should go ahead and do it without
32: asking," according to Uemura, who was promoted to IT Manager of PWC Japan
33: after saving the company seven IT-samurais' salaries.
34: Further, "In Japan large organizations like Morgan Stanley and the
35: Bank of America have moved all their backend systems to open source,
36: Uemura said, because with open source you can reduce IT operating
37: costs without any commercial lock-in."
38: <p>
39:
1.477 ! saad 40: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
! 41: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6270">
! 42: OpenBSD 3.8: Hackers of the Lost RAID</a>,
! 43: ONLamp.com, October 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
! 44: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
! 45: new features in OpenBSD 3.8 including interface trunking,
! 46: internationalization support, Inter-Access Point Protocol (IAPP),
! 47: IPSec SA synchronization daemon, and RAID management. There is also some
! 48: discussion about future plans.
! 49: <p>
! 50:
1.476 ian 51: </ul>
52:
1.470 saad 53: <h2>September, 2005</h2>
54: <ul>
55:
56: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.474 niallo 57: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/359">
58: Security-related innovation in Unix</a>,
59: SecurityFocus, Sept. 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
60: An article examining the mmap-based malloc() implementation to be
61: included in OpenBSD 3.8. The author states that <i>"it will help OpenBSD
62: users to find bugs in software more easily, which will result in better
63: applications for everyone"</i>. He goes on to say that <i>"the more hurdles
64: that one has to jump through for good security, the less likely people will
65: go through the trouble. OpenBSD allows even the most inexperienced users to
66: take advantage of these technologies without any effort"</i>.
67: <p>
68:
69: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.473 aanriot 70: <a href="http://www.miscmag.com/articles/index.php3?page=2100">
71: [FRENCH] Champ libre : les chantiers OpenBSD</a>
72: Misc, number 21, Sept/Oct, 2005, p. 4-14</strong></font><br>
73: An interesting article about OpenBSD and associated projects. Saad Kadhi
74: and Guillaume Arcas describe useful things you can do with PF and
75: OpenSSH, and give a nice introduction to OpenNTPD and OpenCVS. If the
76: article is focused on the presentation, you can find some interesting
77: technical aspects people are not always acquainted to. A few examples
78: are shown, like a basic CARP setup, or the manner to use multiplexing
79: with OpenSSH and even how to check an OpenSSH server's keys using DNS.
80: <p>
81:
82: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 83: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/news/11306">
84: Big debate over small packets</a>,
85: SecurityFocus, Sept. 7, 2005</strong></font><br>
86: Robert Lemos discusses the ICMP denial-of-service vulnerabilities found
87: by Fernando Gont and fixed in OpenBSD. To date, OpenBSD is the only
88: system that has implemented all of the fixes recommended in the IETF
89: draft.
90: <p>
91:
92: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.471 saad 93: <a href="http://www.pcexpert.fr/">
94: [FRENCH] "Quel est le meilleur système libre pour votre
95: ordinateur ?"</a>,
96: PC Expert, number 156, p. 42-62</strong></font><br>
97: Philippe Roure compares 11 Linux and *BSD operating systems, including
98: OpenBSD 3.7, on different criteria such as security, documentation and
99: usability. OpenBSD earned a 5/5 mark (see pages 60-61) and while a mark
100: isn't necessarily objective, the author seems to grasp the OpenBSD
101: project, its goals, and how good is the operating system. The article
102: includes an interview with Saad Kadhi.
103: <p>
104:
105: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.470 saad 106: <a href="http://www.samag.com/articles/2005/0509/">
107: Monitoring PF Firewalls for Health and Performance</a>,
108: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 9, p. 37</strong></font><br>
109: Ryan Matteson describes several utilities that can be used to monitor the
110: health and performance of a PF firewall. Besides pfctl, the article
111: covers pftop, fwanalog, monitoring logs with tcpdump and graphing
112: performance data with pfstat.
113: <p>
114:
115: </ul>
116:
1.461 grunk 117: <h2>July, 2005</h2>
118: <ul>
119:
120: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.466 deraadt 121: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5382">
122: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part III</a>,
1.467 grunk 123: Kerneltrap, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.466 deraadt 124: Jeremy Andrews writes about the recent Blind ICMP attacks discovered
125: by Fernando Gont, and the fixes done by him and OpenBSD during the
126: 2005 Hackathon.
1.469 ian 127: The article goes into the technical background of the
1.467 grunk 128: attacks, mentioning blind ICMP attacks, "hard" ICMP errors, source
1.469 ian 129: quenching, and path MTU discovery;
130: many helpful RFCs and technical papers are linked from the explanations.
131: This is followed by a recap of the whole ICMP story, involving Gont's
1.467 grunk 132: struggle with other free projects, Cisco lawyers, Microsoft people,
133: and others.<br>
1.469 ian 134: The article concludes that OpenBSD was the first project
1.467 grunk 135: to take Fernando Gont's findings seriously, and also the first group to
136: be really painless to work with.
1.466 deraadt 137: <p>
138:
139: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.464 grunk 140: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/06/security_blame/">
141: Security meltdown: who's to blame?</a>,
1.466 deraadt 142: The Register, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.464 grunk 143: This article talks about various groups that are frequently blamed for
144: poor security:
1.467 grunk 145: individuals, ISPs, companies, crackers, security mailing lists,
1.464 grunk 146: and last but not least: OS vendors!
1.467 grunk 147: In the last paragraph, OpenBSD's style of <i>"dumbed-down, simplified
1.464 grunk 148: and secure systems (with a heavily audited code base)"</i> is described
149: as <i>"one of the smartest approaches to security"</i>.
150: <p>
151:
152: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.461 grunk 153: <a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-7-5/30084.html">
154: Theo de Raadt on Industry and Free Software</a>,
1.466 deraadt 155: The Epoch Times, July 5, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.463 tom 156: In this interview, Theo talks about the inception of the OpenBSD project
157: and its goals, as well as its impact on the commercial IT industry.
1.461 grunk 158: He points out once more that <i>"vendors who incorporate OpenSSH have
159: given us absolutely nothing back - not a cent"</i>.
160: Other topics covered include the OpenBSD team, Theo's role as
161: <i>"benevolent dictator"</i>, and the security process, which he compares
162: to the security efforts led by other free software projects and some
163: commercial vendors.
164: <p>
165:
166: </ul>
167:
1.454 ian 168: <h2>June, 2005</h2>
169: <ul>
1.468 grunk 170:
171: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
172: <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/ns-ttc062205.php">
173: The true cost of computer crime</a>,
174: EurekAlert / <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/">New Scientist Magazine</a>,
175: issue June 25, 2005</strong></font><br>
176: This article looks at computer crime, especially the way upcoming
177: vulnerability reports are dealt with. It also gives a short overview of the
1.469 ian 178: institutions involved in the process (vendors, free projects, CERTs).
1.468 grunk 179: <br>
180: The author mentions the work of Andy Ozment, who researches vulnerability
181: disclosure at the University of Cambridge. Using OpenBSD as a good example
182: of how disclosure and consequent fixing of bugs helps to strengthen security,
183: he refutes the widely spread FUD that disclosing vulnerabilities leads to
184: more harm than good. Ozment's methodology was to examine OpenBSD's CVS logs
1.469 ian 185: and note when fixes were published; his research shows that
1.468 grunk 186: <i>"the number of vulnerabilities decreases as a result of disclosure"</i>.
187: <p>
188:
1.454 ian 189: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.458 niallo 190: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0704/071.html">
191: Free Bird</a>,
192: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
193: <b>(Registration required)</b> A second Forbes article about OpenBSD, more
194: focused on the project itself this time. It contains good description of the
195: history of OpenBSD along with its prime motivations. Mention is made of the
196: DARPA grant and the annual hackathon. Theo's motto "shut up and hack" finally
197: becomes famous in this piece and there are some other very insightful quotes
198: such as "All I care about is making high-quality code. If I had to work at a
199: regular job, it would drive me nuts". This is certainly an astute and perceptive
200: article, well worth reading. Do note that the big picture of Theo's machine
201: room will only be available in the print edition.
202: <p>
1.459 deraadt 203:
1.458 niallo 204: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.456 niallo 205: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html">
206: Is Linux For Losers?</a>,
207: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
208: An interesting article, if somewhat polemic in tone, which raises questions
209: about the quality of Linux code compared to OpenBSD. There is also some short
210: discussion of the OpenBSD development model and focus (push for quality above
211: everything else) including good quotes from Theo. It seems that the need for
212: high quality software is beginning to be recognised by the mainstream.
213: <p>
1.457 deraadt 214:
1.456 niallo 215: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 216: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/06/09/2132233.shtml?tid=152&tid=8&tid=2">
1.455 ian 217: BSD cognoscenti on Linux</a>,
218: NewsForge, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
219: NewsForge talks with Theo de Raadt and NetBSD's Christos Zoulas about the
220: similarities and differences between the Linux kernel and the BSD
221: operating systems. The questions asked were similar to those asked
222: of Linus Torvalds in a <a
1.462 grunk 223: href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/09/2128249&tid=2">previous
1.455 ian 224: interview.</a>
225: <p>
226:
227: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.454 ian 228: <a href="http://www.tuxjournal.net/intervista3-en.html">
229: A good morning with Theo de Raadt</a>,
230: Tux Journal, June 2, 2005</strong></font><br>
231: Brief but wide-ranging interview with Theo in which our leader
232: opines about the good things in 3.7: "The list of new developments
233: is impressive, but in my view not nearly as impressive as the small
234: little details that continue to be fixed during each development
235: cycle." And modestly credits all the developers for the project's
236: continuing success, attributing it to "The passion of the developers,
237: and the wide experience they bring into their development efforts.
238: By amazing coincidence, our users typically have the same needs as we do."
239: Manages to sidestep getting drawn into comparisons with Linux, e.g.,
240: when asked if he likes it/why/why not, deftly replies
241: "I have never used it."
242: <p>
243:
244: </ul>
245:
1.441 deraadt 246: <h2>May, 2005</h2>
247: <ul>
248: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 249: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5190">
250: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part II</a>,
251: Kerneltrap, May 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
252: In the second installment of Kerneltrap's Hackathon 2005 feature, Jeremy
253: Andrews speaks with the pf developers at length about their plans for
254: future enhancements.
255: <p>
256:
257: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.450 deraadt 258: <a href="http://www.ctv.ca">
1.448 deraadt 259: TV coverage: OpenBSD hackathon</a>,
260: CTV/CFCN, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
261: A TV spot done a Canadian national TV station about the Calgary
262: hackathon this year, with 60 developers.<br>
263: North America mirror:
264: <ul>
1.452 marco 265: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.449 jcs 266: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a><br>
267: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a>
1.448 deraadt 268: </ul>
269: European mirror:
270: <ul>
1.452 marco 271: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.448 deraadt 272: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a>
273: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a><br>
274: </ul>
275: <p>
276:
277: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 278: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5186">
279: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part I</a>,
280: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
281: Jeremy Andrews of KernelTrap does a good job of describing what it's like
282: to be at the Hackathon in Part I of KernelTrap's Hackathon feature. Several
283: developers are interviewed in detail about what they are working on.
284: <p>
285:
286: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 287: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5184">
288: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005: Day 6?</a>,
289: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
290: Kjell Wooding describes a typical day at the Hackathon in this entertaining
291: first-hand account.
292: <p>
293:
294: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.447 cloder 295: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/05/20/1426216.shtml?tid=8">
296: Review: OpenBSD 3.7</a>,
297: NewsForge.com, May 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
298: "OpenBSD is not only highly polished and easy to
299: configure because of its documentation, it's also totally free-as-in-rights.
300: With an obsession with security, freedom of source code, and quality of
301: programming technique, OpenBSD 3.7 continues the legacy established by
302: its previous releases," writes Jem Matzan in this nice, small review.
303: <p>
304:
305: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.446 cloder 306: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/05/19/openbsd_3_7.html">
307: OpenBSD 3.7: The Wizard of OS</a>,
308: ONLamp.com, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
309: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
310: new features in OpenBSD 3.7, including new wireless chipsets, new
311: spam-fighting features, zaurus, pf improvements, propolice, and
312: many other things. A good overview of what's new in this release,
313: plus some interesting comments about future direction.
314: <p>
315:
316: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.444 niallo 317: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/software/openbsd-3.7-released.html">
1.445 niallo 318: Next incarnation of OpenBSD released</a>,
1.444 niallo 319: Ping Wales, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
320: "OpenBSD is often unjustly overlooked as a free UNIX-like system in favour of
321: the more-hyped Linux. While it receives a lot less publicity than other
322: operating systems, this is not due to lack of technical merit." says David
323: Chisnall, in what is a clear and concise overview of the new features
324: in 3.7 and indeed the project as a whole.
325: <p>
326:
327: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
328: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5114">
1.445 niallo 329: 2005 Calgary Hackathon, KernelTrap Coverage</a>,
1.444 niallo 330: Kerneltrap, May 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
331: A great article about the annual OpenBSD Hackathon, detailing how the event
332: functions, work done at previous Hackathons and features which may come out
333: of this one. Includes many relevant quotes from developers themselves, and of
334: course information about the legendary Hackathon BBQ!
335: <p>
336:
337: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.442 deraadt 338: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9658/sam0505e/">
339: "Failover Firewalls with OpenBSD and CARP"</a>,
340: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 5, p. 33
1.441 deraadt 341: </strong></font><br>
342: Jason Dixon discusses the history of the CARP and pfsync protocols
343: and demonstrates using them to create redundant stateful firewalls
344: with OpenBSD.
345: </ul>
346:
1.436 henning 347: <h2>April, 2005</h2>
348: <ul>
349: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.440 ian 350: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39195801,00.htm">
351: Security guru wants access to bug databases</a>,
352: ZDNet UK, April 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
353: Ingrid Marson reports on Cambridge professor Ross Anderson's call for analysis of
354: software maintenance records to determine whether open source code is more secure
355: than closed source, as we have long contended.
356: "One of Anderson's research students, Andy Ozment, has already done
357: research using empirical data on bugs found in the open source
358: operating system OpenBSD between 1997 and 2000. This research found
359: that finding and fixing bugs results in a more secure product..."
360: Just as the OpenBSD project has been saying for years.
361: <p>
362: This article can also be found online as
363: <a href="http://uk.builder.com/manage/project/0,39026588,39244080,00.htm">Academic
364: calls for better bug tracking</a> (uk.builder.com).
365: <p>
366:
367: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.439 espie 368: [FRENCH] "PC Expert", number 152, p. 58
369: </strong></font><br>
370: Very short interview of Marc Espie about OpenBSD as a free OS focusing
371: on security, part of a larger dossier «les secrets des hackers».
372: <p>
373:
374: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.436 henning 375: [GERMAN] "Doppelwacht", iX 5/2005, p. 150.
376: </strong></font><br>
377: Stephan Tesch gives an introduction to CARP and using a pair of
378: OpenBSD boxes as Firewalls in High Availibility scenarios. He goes
1.438 martin 379: on explaining CARP and pfsync protocols, and does not forget to cover
1.436 henning 380: the issues we had with IETF.
381: </ul>
382:
1.431 ian 383: <h2>March, 2005</h2>
384: <ul>
385: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.435 reyk 386: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/4818">
387: OpenBSD's "Out of the Box" Wireless Support</a>,
388: Kerneltrap, March 8, 2005</strong></font><br>
389: This article is about the upcoming wireless support in OpenBSD 3.7 and
390: the outcome of the work to open wireless chipsets. Jeremy Andrews
391: talked with Theo de Raadt and the developers Damien Bergamini and Reyk
392: Floeter who did some efforts to implement free and functional drivers.
393: <p>
394:
395: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.431 ian 396: <a href="http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/01/1109546842718.html">
397: OpenBSD to support more wireless chipsets</a>,
398: The Age, March 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
399: "The forthcoming 3.7 release of the OpenBSD operating system has
400: added support for five more wireless chipsets, according to
401: OpenBSD project founder Theo de Raadt...
1.432 ian 402: OpenBSD 3.7 will also have have new drivers for Intel wireless
1.431 ian 403: parts that do not work without the non-redistributable firmware,"
404: namely the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11B
405: and 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11A/B/G wireless network adapters.
406: Mentions OpenBSD's activism in getting vendors to release chip specs.
407: Referring to vendors that still refuse to play ball with open source
408: projects, quotes Damien Miller as saying "Given the number of
409: appliance devices that are built on free OSs, I think that the
410: recalcitrant vendors are missing an important boat."
411:
412: </ul>
413:
1.427 matthieu 414: <h2>February, 2005</h2>
415: <ul>
416:
417: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.428 david 418: <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsaward2004.html">
419: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
420: FSF, February 26, 2005</strong></font><br>
421: The Free Software Foundation awarded Theo de Raadt their "2004 Free Software
422: Award" for his unwavering commitment to free software. Most recently he has
423: been fighting hardware manufacturers for free redistribution of wireless card
424: firmware.
1.434 ian 425: Similar articles can be found online at:
426: <ul>
427: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
428: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=419">
429: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
430: Tectonic.za, March 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
431: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
432: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article4362.phtml">
433: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
434: OSDir, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
435: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
436: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/De-Raadt-gets-free-software-award/2005/02/28/1109546758523.html?oneclick=true">
437: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
438: The Age, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 440: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/02/27/1413255.shtml?tid=99&tid=7">
1.434 ian 441: Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award</a>,
442: Slashdot, February 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
443: </ul>
1.427 matthieu 444: </ul>
445:
1.426 ian 446: <h2>January, 2005</h2>
447: <ul>
448:
449: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
450: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363731">
451: Systrace in OpenBSD</a>,
452: informit.com, January 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
453: This article talks about our systrace
1.462 grunk 454: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&sektion=1">systrace(1)</a>
1.426 ian 455: mechanism: what it is and why and
456: how to use it, with examples.
457: Another excerpt from the book
458: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
459: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
460: <p>
461:
462: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
463: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363732">
464: Overview of OpenBSD</a>,
465: informit.com, January 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
466: "OpenBSD is one of the most secure and well-designed operating
467: systems available today. It has its roots in countless hours of
468: research and development based on some of the best UNIX flavors of
469: the past, and it boasts all the features of modern operating systems.
470: The OS is widely considered one of the most secure general-purpose
471: operating systems available today and it supports many key parts
472: of the global Internet infrastructure..."
473: This article is a sample chapter from
474: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
475: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
476: <p>
1.443 ian 477:
478: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 479: <a href="http://www.pcplus.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=34628&subsectionid=784">
1.443 ian 480: OpenBSD operating system</a>,
481: PCPlus.co.uk, January, 2005</strong></font><br>
482: Paul Grosse gives a brief tutorial on installing OpenBSD on i386 for people
483: moving in a Windows->Linux direction, encouraging them to go a bit further for security.
484: "While Linux out-scores Windows substantially (or completely) on [security as well as many other
485: issues], it's still possible to use a more secure operating system on the PC... OpenBSD."
486: Gives a brief but understandable walkthrough on the installation process, right up to
487: downloading and installing the third-party packages, and
488: ends with a sidebar on security.
489: <p>
1.426 ian 490: </ul>
491:
1.424 ian 492: <h2>December, 2004</h2>
493: <ul>
494:
495: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.425 ian 496: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/2329229">
497: What are the real vulnerabilities of Linux?</a>
498: NewsForge.com, December 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
499: Several security consultants were asked about "the real vulnerabilities of
500: Linux". Cybersoure CEO Con Symaris seems to get it better than the rest:
501: "One needs to approach security as a prime requirement and motivator,
502: much as the OpenBSD team do," Zymaris said... "The Linux
503: community mindset is different. Linux development is dynamic and
504: races ahead towards more and broader functionality, drawing a
505: multitude of interested parties in to make interesting extensions
506: and adaptations at a rapid rate."
507: <p>
508: "In order to do security the BSD way, however, much more effort
509: needs to be spent auditing code for holes, which is much less sexy,
510: and attracts a different set of coders," Zymaris added.
511: <p>
512:
513: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.424 ian 514: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/281">
515: Closed Source Hardware</a>
516: Security Focus, December 1, 2004</strong></font><br>
517: Symantec Threat Analyst Jason Miller analyzes the potential security threats
518: when hardware vendors won't provide device documentation and
519: instead provide "binary only" driver code for inclusion in open source
520: operating systems.
521: Miller is an open-source fan who says he uses a variety of systems, including
522: OpenBSD on his firewall.
523: Of the recent trend to closed-source binary drivers for open-source
524: systems, he writes:
525: <blockquote>
526: The closed-source component required to support this hardware is
527: completely independent of the associated operating system, and as
528: such, is also independent of the engineering team, security team,
529: auditing process, and quality control procedures normally related
530: to the operating system...
531: <br/>
532: What's possibly even more disturbing is that we're talking about
533: a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest
534: possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a
535: third-party vendor. This code could do anything once loaded, including
536: leaking active WEP keys, gathering usage statistics, sniffing and
537: disclosing traffic, and it could even introduce a subtle backdoor
538: into the operating system itself (much the same as any device driver
539: in a closed source operating system).
540: <br/>
541: [A]lthough some of these scenarios are a
542: little far-fetched, the possibility for them to exist is there...
543: Ultimately it becomes an issue of trust, which is a cornerstone of
544: good security: whom do you trust, and how much do you trust them?
545: </blockquote>
546: <p>And he comments that trust "seems to be a one-way street": vendors
547: demand that you trust them, but they won't trust you to know how
548: their hardware and software operates.
549: This lack of trust is one reason why OpenBSD has recently completed
550: reverse-engineering the
1.462 grunk 551: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4">
1.424 ian 552: Atheros wireless chipset driver</a>
553: that was originally provided as a binary insert.
554: <p>
555: </ul>
556:
1.417 pvalchev 557: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
558: <ul>
1.421 ian 559:
1.417 pvalchev 560: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.422 ian 561: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730775,00.asp">
562: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Widens Its Scope</a>
563: eWEEK, November 22, 2004</strong></font><br>
564: Jason Brooks reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and likes the changes it brings,
565: including the multi-processing support which, he notes,
566: "will be even more important as multicore processors--which occupy space
567: on the road maps of Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others--
568: become more prevalent." Comments favorably on OpenNTPD
569: ("the three-line configuration file we needed to modify ... on OpenBSD was
570: much simpler to deal with than the equivalent configuration file on
571: the Linux systems we've tested").
1.423 ian 572: Overall a favorable review of some of the new stuff in 3.6.
1.422 ian 573: <p>
574: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 otto 575: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
576: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
577: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
578: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
579: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
580: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
581: it claims to do".
582: <p>
583:
584: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 585: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109994542424009&w=2">
1.421 ian 586: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution</a>
587: misc@, November 8, 2004</strong></font><br>
588: Theo recounts the struggle to get Intel to provide redistributable
589: versions of the firmware for their wireless chipsets, and their
1.423 ian 590: ultimate refusal to allow OpenBSD to redistribute the chipsets' firmware.
1.421 ian 591: Includes a caveat about Intel's disingenuous "FAQ", typical of many
592: corporate FAQs that answer questions nobody actually thought
593: to ask, and don't truthfully answer the questions you want hard answers to.
594: At the end Theo names the names (and their emails) that need to be contacted
595: by large numbers of end-users and developers if Intel is to change
596: (yes, this is a hint).
597: Of interest is that this posting to one of our mailing lists was
598: picked up on the
599: <a href="http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1923">Screaming
600: Electron Forum</a> and from there reported on
1.462 grunk 601: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/22/1249249&from=rss">
1.421 ian 602: SlashDot</a>, where it is accompanied by a link to SlashDot's paper
603: on effective advocacy (be firm, but also be polite).
604: <p>
605:
606: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 607: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
608: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
609: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
610: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
611: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
612: questions about the significance and rationale behind
613: the current efforts.
614: <p>
615: </ul>
616:
1.407 henning 617: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
618: <ul>
619: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 620: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
621: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
622: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
623: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
624: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
625: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
626: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
627: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
628: <p>
629:
630: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 631: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
632: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
633: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
634: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
635: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
636: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
637: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
638: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
639: of the important changes in 3.6.
1.462 grunk 640: <p>
1.415 ian 641:
642: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 643: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
1.414 ian 644: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
645: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
646: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
647: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
648: overflow attacks... because
649: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
650: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
651: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
652: and propolice.
653: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
654: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
655: and that's when the science falls apart."
656: <p>
657:
658: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 659: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
660: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
661: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
662: Starts with the question:
663: <blockquote>
664: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
665: <br/>
666: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
667: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
668: <br/>
669: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
670: Should we believe them?"
671: </blockquote>
672: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
673: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
674: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
675: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
676: for your mail, web and other online activities.
677: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
678: <p>
679:
680: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 681: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
682: Simple Simon</a>,
683: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
684: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
685: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
686: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
687: routing/firewall, and more.
688: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
689: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
690: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
691: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
692: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
693: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
694: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
695: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
696: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
697: </blockquote>
698: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
699: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
700: <p>
701:
702: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 703: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
704: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 705: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 706: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 707: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
708: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
709: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 710: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 711: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
712: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
713: in spite of it
714: (registration required, but worth it).
715: <p>
716:
717: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
718: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
719: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
720: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
721: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
722: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
723: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
724: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 725: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 726: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
727: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
728: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
729: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
730: <p>
731:
732: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 733: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
734: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
735: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
736: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
737: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
738: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
739: <blockquote>
740: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
741: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
742: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
743: a lot of analysis.
744: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
745: </blockquote>
746: <p>
747: </ul>
748:
1.400 marco 749: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
750: <ul>
751: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 752: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
753: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
754: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
755: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
756: UNIX-like systems.
757: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
758: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
759: <p>
760: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 761: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
762: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 763: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
764: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
765: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
766: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
767: At one point, the article states:
768: <blockquote>
769: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
770: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
771: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
772: </blockquote>
773: And then quotes Theo as saying:
774: <blockquote>
775: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
776: fewer are reading or auditing code."
777: </blockquote>
778: <p>
779: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
780: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
781: marks its fifth birthday</a>
782: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
783: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
784: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
785: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
786: required).
787: <p>
788: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 789: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
790: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
791: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
792: </strong></font><br>
793: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
794: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
795: <p>
796: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 797: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
798: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 799: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 800: </strong></font><br>
801: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
802: <p>
803: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 804: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
805: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 806: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 807: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 808: 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 809: <p>
810: </ul>
811:
1.396 henning 812: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
813: <ul>
814: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 815: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
816: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
817: Unix Review, July, 2004
818: </strong></font><br>
819: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
820: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
1.462 grunk 821: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
1.418 ian 822: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
823: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
824: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
825: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
826: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
827: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
828: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
829: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
830: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
831: and even spelling/wording errors.
832: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
833: <p>
834: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 835: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 836: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
837: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
838: </strong></font><br>
839: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
840: <p>
841: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 842: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 843: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
844: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
845: </strong></font><br>
846: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
847: <p>
848: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 849: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
850: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
851: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
852: </strong></font><br>
853: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
854: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
855: <p>
856: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 857: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
858: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
859: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
860: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
861: <p>
862: </ul>
863:
1.405 jolan 864: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
865: <ul>
866: <li><font color="#00900"><strong>
867: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
1.466 deraadt 868: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 5, 2004</strong></font>
1.405 jolan 869: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
870: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
871: details on how funds are dispersed.
872: <p>
873: </ul>
874:
1.393 david 875: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
876: <ul>
877: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 878: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
879: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
880: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
881: </strong></font><br>
882: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
883: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
884: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
885: on inserting large number of SQL records.
886: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
887: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
888: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
889: <p>
890:
891: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 892: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
893: Secure by Default</a>,
894: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
895: </strong></font><br>
896: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
897: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
898: <p>
899:
900: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
901: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
902: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
903: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
904: </strong></font><br>
905: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
906: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
907: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
908: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
909: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
910: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
911: <p>
912:
913: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
914: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
915: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
916: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
917: </strong></font><br>
918: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
919: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
920: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
921: <p>
922:
923: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
924: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
925: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
926: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
927: </strong></font><br>
928: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
929: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
930: <p>
931: </ul>
932:
1.388 mcbride 933: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
934: <ul>
1.394 jolan 935:
936: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
937: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
938: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
939: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
940: </strong></font><br>
941: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
942: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
943: available for sparc64.
944: <p>
945:
1.390 beck 946: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 947: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
948: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
949: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
950: </strong></font><br>
951: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
952: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
953: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
954: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
955: <p>
956:
957: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 958: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
959: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 960: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 961: </strong></font><br>
962: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
963: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
964: it does: CARP provides sharing
965: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
966: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
967: detail to get you started using it.
968: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
969: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
970: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
971: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
972: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
973: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
974: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 975: <p>
1.391 ian 976:
977: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 978: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 979: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
980: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 981: </strong></font><br>
982: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 983: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 984: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 985: <p>
1.388 mcbride 986:
987: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
988: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
989: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 990: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 991: </strong></font><br>
992: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
993: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
994: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
995: unencumbered by patents.
996: <p>
997: </ul>
998:
1.378 henning 999: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
1000: <ul>
1.384 jose 1001:
1002: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 1003: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
1004: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
1005: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
1006: </strong></font><br>
1007: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
1008: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
1009: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
1010: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
1011: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
1012: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
1013: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
1014: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
1015: in the page tables."
1016: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
1017: <p>
1018:
1019: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1020: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
1021: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
1022: </strong></font><br>
1023: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
1024: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
1025: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
1026: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 1027: <p>
1.384 jose 1028:
1.378 henning 1029: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 1030: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
1031: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 1032: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
1033: </strong></font><br>
1034: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
1035: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
1036: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
1037: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
1038: (quote:
1039: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
1040: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 1041: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 1042: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
1043: the other developers for their work on the system.
1044: <p>
1045:
1046: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1047: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
1048: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
1049: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 1050: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 1051: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
1052: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
1053: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
1054: too.
1055: <p>
1056:
1057: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 1058: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
1059: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 1060: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 1061: OpenBSD source code using
1062: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
1063: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
1064: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
1065: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
1066: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
1067: <p>
1068: </ul>
1069:
1.374 jose 1070: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
1071: <ul>
1072: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 1073: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 1074: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
1075: </strong></font><br>
1076: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
1077: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
1078: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
1079: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
1080: it."
1081: <p>
1082:
1083: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 1084: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
1085: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
1086: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
1087: </strong></font><br/>
1088: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
1089: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
1090: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
1091: <p>
1092: </ul>
1093:
1.369 ian 1094: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
1095: <ul>
1096: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1097: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
1098: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
1099: </strong></font><br/>
1100: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
1101: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
1102: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
1103: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
1104: <p>
1105:
1106: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 1107: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
1108: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
1109: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
1110: </strong></font><br/>
1111: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
1112: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
1113: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
1114: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
1115: form factor.
1116: <p>
1117:
1118: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1119: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
1120: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
1121: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
1122: Features</a>,
1123: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
1124: </strong></font><br/>
1125: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
1126: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
1127: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
1128: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
1129: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
1130: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
1131: <p>
1132: This article can also be found online at:
1133: <ul>
1134: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1135: <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 1136: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
1137: </strong></font>
1138: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
1139: </ul>
1140: <p>
1.392 david 1141:
1.371 jose 1142: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 1143: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
1144: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 1145: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
1146: </strong></font><br/>
1147: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
1148: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
1149: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 1150: <p>
1.371 jose 1151:
1152: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 1153: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 1154: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 1155: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 1156: </strong></font><br/>
1157: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
1158: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
1159: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
1160: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
1161: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
1162: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
1163: and its history with OpenBSD.
1164: </ul>
1165:
1.368 henning 1166: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
1167: <ul>
1168: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 1169: [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 1170: </strong></font><br>
1171: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
1172: </ul>
1173:
1.364 jose 1174: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
1175: <ul>
1176: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 1177: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
1178: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
1179: UNIX Review,
1180: July, 2003.
1181: </strong></font><br>
1182: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
1183: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
1184: who want more information.
1185: <p>
1186:
1187: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 1188: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
1189: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
1190: Government Computer News,
1191: July 22, 2003.
1192: </strong></font><br>
1193: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
1194: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
1195: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
1196: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
1197: <p>
1198:
1199: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1200: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
1201: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
1202: SANS Institute,
1203: July 22, 2003.
1204: </strong></font><br>
1205: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 1206: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 1207: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
1208: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
1209: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
1210: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
1211: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
1212: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
1213: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
1214: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
1215: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
1216: <p>
1217:
1218: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 1219: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
1220: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
1221: OnLamp.com,
1222: July 17, 2003.
1223: </strong></font><br>
1224: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
1225: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
1226: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
1227: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
1228: have been working on.
1229:
1230: </ul>
1231:
1.356 jose 1232: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 1233: <ul>
1234:
1235: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 1236: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
1237: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
1238: UNIX Review,
1239: June, 2003.
1240: </strong></font><br>
1241: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
1242: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
1243: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
1244: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
1245: <p>
1246:
1247: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 1248: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
1249: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
1250: eWeek,
1251: June 23, 2003.
1252: </strong></font><br>
1253: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
1254: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
1255: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
1256: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
1257: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
1258: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
1259: <p>
1260:
1261: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 1262: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
1263: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
1264: Software Development Online,
1265: June, 2003.
1266: </strong></font><br>
1267: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
1268: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
1269: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
1270: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
1271: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
1272: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
1273: current activities.
1274: <p>
1275:
1276: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 1277: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
1278: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 1279: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
1280: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
1281: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
1282: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 1283: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 1284: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
1285: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
1286: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 1287: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 1288: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
1289: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 1290: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 1291: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
1292: decisions.
1293: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
1294: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 1295: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 1296: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 1297: <p>
1298:
1299: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 1300: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
1301: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
1302: Page 58, eWeek,
1303: June 2, 2003.
1304: </strong></font><br>
1305: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
1306: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
1307: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
1308: been addressed in -current.
1309: <p>
1310:
1.356 jose 1311: </ul>
1312:
1313: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
1314: <ul>
1315:
1.355 jose 1316: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 1317: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
1318: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
1319: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
1320: </strong></font><br>
1321: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
1322: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
1323: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
1324: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
1325: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
1326: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
1327: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
1328: <p>
1329:
1330: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 1331: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
1332: Beyond Linux</a>,
1333: InfoWorld,
1334: May 23, 2003.
1335: </strong></font><br>
1336: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
1337: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
1338: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
1339: compared to the GPL.
1340: <p>
1341:
1342: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 1343: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
1344: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
1345: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 1346: May 17, 2003.
1347: </strong></font><br>
1348: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
1349: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
1350: the business section and half of another page inside
1351: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
1352: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
1353: in talking about the project's history and goals.
1354: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
1355: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
1356: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
1357: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 1358: <br>
1359: This article can also be found online at:
1360: <ul>
1361: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1362: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
1363: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
1364: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
1365: May 17, 2003
1366: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 1367: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
1368: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1369: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
1370: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
1371: Montreal Gazette,
1372: May 21, 2003
1373: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 1374: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 1375: <p>
1.346 ian 1376:
1377: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 1378: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 1379: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 1380: May 7, 2003.
1381: </strong></font><br>
1382: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
1383: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
1384: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
1385: <p>
1386:
1387: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 1388: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
1389: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1390: OsOpinion,
1391: May 6, 2003.
1392: </strong></font><br>
1393: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
1394: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
1395: <br>
1396: This article can also be found online at:
1397: <ul>
1398: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1399: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
1400: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1401: NewsFactor Network.
1402: </strong></font>
1403: </ul>
1404: <p>
1405:
1406: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1407: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 1408: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
1409: ITBusiness,
1410: May 2, 2003.
1411: </strong></font><br>
1412: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
1413: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
1414: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
1415: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
1416: <p>
1417:
1418: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 1419: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
1420: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1421: InfoWorld,
1422: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 1423: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 1424: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
1425: <br>
1426: This article can also be found online at:
1427: <ul>
1428: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1429: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
1430: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1431: IDG Singapore.
1432: </strong></font>
1433: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1434: <p>
1435:
1.339 jose 1436: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1437: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
1438: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 1439: ZDNet,
1440: May 1, 2003.
1441: </strong></font><br>
1442: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 1443: someone using parts from previous articles.
1444: <br>
1.341 deraadt 1445: This article can also be found online at:
1446: <ul>
1447: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1448: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
1449: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1450: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 1451: </strong></font>
1452: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1453: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
1454: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1455: CNET News.com.
1456: </strong></font>
1457: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1458: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
1459: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
1460: ZDNet UK.
1461: </strong></font>
1462: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1463: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
1464: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
1465: Help Net Security, Croatia.
1466: </strong></font>
1467: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1468: <p>
1.339 jose 1469:
1.341 deraadt 1470: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1471: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 1472: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
1473: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
1474: May 1, 2003.
1475: </strong></font><br>
1476: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
1477: that have been added
1478: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
1479: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
1480: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 1481: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 1482: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
1483: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
1484: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 1485: <p>
1486:
1487: </ul>
1488:
1.253 ian 1489: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
1490: <ul>
1.255 ian 1491:
1.260 ian 1492: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1493: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 1494: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1495: TechRepublic,
1496: April 28, 2003.
1497: </strong></font><br>
1498: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
1499: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 1500: work.<br>
1501: Can also be found online at:
1502: <ul>
1503: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1504: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
1505: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1506: ZDNet UK.
1507: </strong></font>
1508: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 1509: <p>
1510:
1511: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 1512: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
1513: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
1514: IDG,
1515: April 24, 2003.
1516: </strong></font><br>
1517: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
1518: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
1519: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
1520: Can also be found online at:
1521: <ul>
1522: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1523: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
1524: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 1525: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 1526: </strong></font>
1527: </ul>
1528: <p>
1529:
1530: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1531: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 1532: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 1533: Slate,
1534: April 24, 2003.
1535: </strong></font><br>
1536: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
1537: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
1538: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
1539: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
1540: <p>
1541:
1542: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 1543: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1544: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
1545: April 24, 2003.
1546: </strong></font><br>
1547: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
1548: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
1549: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
1550: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
1551: <p>
1552:
1553: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 1554: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
1555: April 24, 2003.
1556: </strong></font><br>
1557: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
1558: the free software community".
1559: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
1560: other articles.
1561: <p>
1562:
1563: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1564: <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 1565: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
1566: </strong></font><br>
1567: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
1568: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
1569: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
1570: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
1571: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
1572: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
1573: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 1574: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 1575: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
1576: <br/>
1577: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
1578: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
1579: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
1580: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 1581: <br>
1582: Can also be found online at:
1583: <ul>
1584: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1585: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
1586: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
1587: Common Dreams NewsCenter
1588: </strong></font>
1589: </ul>
1.324 ian 1590: <p>
1591:
1592: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1593: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
1594: Wired, April 24, 2003.
1595: </strong></font><br>
1596: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
1597: article above.
1598: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
1599: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
1600: wasting them."
1.332 ian 1601: <br>
1602: Can also be found online at:
1603: <ul>
1604: <li>
1605: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
1606: </strong></font>
1607: </ul>
1.324 ian 1608: <p>
1609:
1610: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 1611: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
1612: </strong></font><br>
1613: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
1614: <p>
1615:
1616: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 1617: <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.
1618: </strong></font><br>
1619: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
1620: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
1621: <p>
1622:
1623: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 1624: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
1625: April 23, 2003.
1626: </strong></font><br>
1627: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
1628: <p>
1629:
1630: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 1631: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 1632: April 22, 2003.
1633: </strong></font><br>
1634: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
1635: <p>
1636:
1637: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 1638: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1639: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1640: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 1641: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 1642: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
1643: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
1644: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
1645: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
1646: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
1647: Can also be found online at:
1648: <ul>
1649: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1650: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 1651: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1652: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 1653: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 1654: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1655: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 1656: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
1657: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 1658: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 1659: </ul>
1660: <p>
1661:
1662: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 1663: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
1664: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 1665: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1666: </strong></font><br>
1667: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 1668: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
1669: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
1670: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
1671: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
1672: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
1673: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 1674: <p>
1675:
1676: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 1677: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
1678: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 1679: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
1680: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 1681: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
1682: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
1683: at UPenn and DARPA.
1684: <p>
1685:
1686: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 1687: [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,
1688: France
1.315 deraadt 1689: April 18, 2003.
1690: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 1691: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 1692: <p>
1693:
1694: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 1695: [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 1696: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1697: </strong></font><br>
1698: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
1699: <p>
1700:
1701: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 1702: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
1703: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
1704: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1705: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 1706: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
1707: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
1708: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
1709: <p>
1710:
1711: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 1712: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
1713: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1714: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 1715: </strong></font><br>
1716: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1717: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
1718: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 1719: American century.
1.267 deraadt 1720: <p>
1721:
1722: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 1723: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
1724: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1725: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 1726: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 1727: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
1728: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
1729: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
1730: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
1731: Can also be found online at:
1732: <ul>
1733: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
1734: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 1735: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 1736: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 1737: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 1738: <p>
1739:
1740: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 1741: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 1742: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1743: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 1744: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 1745: </strong></font><br>
1746: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 1747: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
1748: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
1749: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
1750: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 1751:
1752: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1753: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
1754: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1755: New York Times.
1756: </strong></font>(free registration required)
1757:
1.273 deraadt 1758: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1759: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 1760: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1761: ABC News.
1762: </strong></font>
1763:
1764: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1765: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 1766: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 1767: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 1768: </strong></font>
1769:
1770: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1771: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1772: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 1773: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 1774: </strong></font>
1775:
1776: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 1777: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
1778: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1779: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 1780: </strong></font>
1781:
1782: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1783: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1784: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 1785: Times Daily, AL.
1786: </strong></font>
1787:
1788: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1789: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
1790: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
1791: Boston.com, MA.
1792: </strong></font>
1793:
1794: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1795: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 1796: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 1797: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
1798: </strong></font>
1799:
1800: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 1801: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
1802: [Article was pulled]</a>
1803: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 1804: </strong></font>
1805:
1806: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1807: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
1808: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
1809: Infoshop News.
1810: </strong></font>
1811:
1812: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1813: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
1814: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1815: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
1816: </strong></font>
1817:
1818: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 1819: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
1820: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
1821: Raleigh News, NC.
1822: </strong></font>
1823:
1824: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1825: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 1826: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
1827: Napa News, CA.
1828: </strong></font>
1829:
1830: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1831: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 1832: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1833: NEPA News, PA.
1834: </strong></font>
1835:
1836: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1837: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
1838: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
1839: Wired News.
1840: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 1841: <br>
1842: <li>
1.333 deraadt 1843: <font color="#009000"><strong>
1844: [JAPANESE]
1845: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
1846: Wired News Japan</a>
1847: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 1848:
1.271 deraadt 1849: </ul>
1850: <p>
1.272 deraadt 1851: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
1852: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 1853: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
1854: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
1855: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
1856: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
1857: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
1858: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 1859: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 1860: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
1861: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
1862: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 1863: <p>
1864: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 1865:
1866: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1867: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 1868: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1869: Indianapolis Star, IN.
1870: </strong></font>
1871:
1872: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 1873: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
1874: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1875: Miami Herald, FL.
1876: </strong></font>
1877:
1878: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 1879: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1880: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
1881: </strong></font>
1882:
1883: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1884: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 1885: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1886: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 1887: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 1888:
1889: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1890: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
1891: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
1892: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
1893: ABC News.
1894: </strong></font>
1895:
1.276 deraadt 1896: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1897: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 1898: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1899: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 1900: </strong></font>
1901:
1.286 dhartmei 1902: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1903: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 1904: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1905: Wilmington Star, NC.
1906: </strong></font>
1907:
1.300 jose 1908: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1909: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
1910: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
1911: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
1912: </strong></font>
1913:
1.309 jose 1914: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1915: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
1916: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
1917: Globe Technology.
1918: </strong></font>
1919:
1.263 deraadt 1920: </ul>
1.262 beck 1921: <p>
1922:
1923: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 1924: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
1925: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1926: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 1927: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 1928: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 1929: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
1930: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
1931: <p>
1932:
1933: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 1934: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
1935: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
1936: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1937: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 1938: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
1939: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
1940: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
1941: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
1942: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
1943: and simply restates other press reports.
1944: <p>
1945:
1946: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 1947: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
1948: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1949: OS News, April 18, 2003.
1950: </strong></font><br>
1951: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
1952: <p>
1953:
1954: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 1955: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
1956: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1957: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 1958: </strong></font><br>
1959: Another report on the DARPA funding.
1960: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
1961: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
1962: <p>
1963:
1964: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 1965: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
1966: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
1967: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
1968: April 17, 2003.
1969: </strong></font><br>
1970: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
1971: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
1972: Tech Anthems</a>
1973: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
1974: 4 so far.
1975: <p>
1976:
1977: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 1978: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
1979: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1980: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1981: </strong></font><br>
1982: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
1983: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
1984: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
1985: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
1986: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
1987: Goes on to say:
1988: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
1989: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
1990: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
1991: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 1992: This article is also found online at:
1993: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 1994: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1995: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
1996: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
1997: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 1998: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 1999: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2000: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
2001: ZDnet</a>,
2002: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 2003: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 2004: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2005: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
2006: ZDnet Australia</a>,
2007: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 2008: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 2009: </ul>
1.260 ian 2010: <p>
1.279 deraadt 2011:
1.260 ian 2012: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2013: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 2014: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 2015: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2016: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 2017: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 2018: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
2019: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
2020: without notice or justification.
2021: <p>
2022:
2023: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2024: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 2025: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 2026: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2027: </strong></font><br>
2028: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
2029: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 2030: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 2031: effective today, without any warning..."
2032: <p>
1.257 ian 2033:
2034: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 2035: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
2036: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2037: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 2038: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 2039: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
2040: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
2041: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
2042: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
2043: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 2044: <p>
2045:
2046: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 2047: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
2048: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2049: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 2050: </strong></font><br>
2051: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
2052: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
2053: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
2054: quoting two of them:
2055: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
2056: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
2057: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
2058: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
2059: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
2060: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
2061: <p>
2062:
1.255 ian 2063: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2064: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
2065: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 2066: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2067: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 2068: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 2069: <p>
2070:
2071: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 2072: [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 2073: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2074: </strong></font><br>
2075: New security concepts in OpenBSD
2076: <p>
2077:
2078: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 2079: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
2080: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2081: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 2082: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 2083: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 2084: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
2085: security experts for more than three decades."
2086: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
2087: <p>
1.261 ian 2088:
1.254 drahn 2089: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 2090: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 2091: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2092: </strong></font><br>
2093: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
2094: <p>
2095:
2096: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 2097: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
2098: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
2099: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
2100: </strong></font><br>
2101: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
2102: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
2103: discussion OpenBSD's path.
2104: <p>
2105:
2106: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 2107: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
2108: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2109: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 2110: </strong></font><br>
2111: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
2112: from US DARPA.
2113: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
2114: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
2115: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
2116: the BSD license.
2117: <p>
2118: </ul>
2119:
1.251 ian 2120: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
2121: <ul>
2122:
2123: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2124: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
2125: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
2126: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
2127: </strong></font><br>
2128:
2129: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
2130: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
2131: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
2132: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
2133: <p>
2134:
2135: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 2136: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
2137: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 2138: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 2139: </strong></font><br>
2140: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
2141: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
2142: Mentions
2143: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
2144: and
2145: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
2146: programs.
2147: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 2148: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 2149: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
2150: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
2151: <p>
1.325 ian 2152: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
2153: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 2154:
2155: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2156: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
2157: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
2158: </strong></font><br>
2159: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
2160: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
2161: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
2162: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
2163: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
2164: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
2165: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
2166: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
2167: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
2168: put into service."
2169: <p>
2170: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
2171: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
2172: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
2173: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
2174: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
2175: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
2176: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
2177: computers with security features."
2178: <p>
1.329 ian 2179:
2180: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2181: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
2182: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
2183: Slate,
2184: March 3, 2003.
2185: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 2186: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 2187: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
2188: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
2189: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
2190: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
2191: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
2192: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
2193: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
2194: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
2195: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
2196: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
2197: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
2198: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
2199: of more secure open-source solutions like
2200: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
2201: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
2202: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
2203: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
2204: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
2205: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
2206: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
2207: the Beltway."
2208: <p>
1.251 ian 2209: </ul>
2210:
1.249 jufi 2211: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
2212: <ul>
2213: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2214: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
2215: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2216: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 2217: </strong></font><br>
2218: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
2219: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 2220: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 2221: <p>
1.334 ian 2222:
2223: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2224: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
2225: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
2226: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
2227: </strong></font><br>
2228: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
2229: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
2230: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
2231: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
2232: "... the hypothetical question ...
2233: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
2234: <br>
2235: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
2236: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
2237: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
2238: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
2239: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
2240: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 2241: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 2242: support network security.
2243: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
2244: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
2245: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
2246: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
2247: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
2248: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
2249: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
2250: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
2251: <br>
2252: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
2253: <p>
2254:
1.249 jufi 2255: </ul>
2256:
1.246 jufi 2257: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2258: <ul>
1.246 jufi 2259:
1.247 jufi 2260: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2261: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 2262: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2263: CNET News.com, December 4, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2264: </strong></font><br>
2265: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
2266: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
2267: <p>
2268:
1.247 jufi 2269: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2270: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
2271: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2272: Heise News-Ticker, December 4, 2002
1.301 jose 2273: </strong></font><br>
1.460 david 2274: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III CPU
1.301 jose 2275: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
2276: <p>
2277:
2278: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2279: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 2280: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2281: eWeek, December 3, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2282: </strong></font><br>
2283: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
2284: in their annual OpenHack security test.
2285: <p>
1.247 jufi 2286: </ul>
1.246 jufi 2287:
1.244 jufi 2288: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2289: <ul>
1.246 jufi 2290:
1.247 jufi 2291: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2292: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
2293: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
2294: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2295: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2296: </strong></font><br>
2297: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
2298: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
2299: md5 digests.
2300: <p>
2301:
1.247 jufi 2302: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2303: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 2304: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
2305: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2306: </strong></font><br>
2307: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
2308: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
2309: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
2310: right the first time."
2311: <p>
1.247 jufi 2312: </ul>
1.244 jufi 2313:
2314:
2315: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2316: <ul>
1.244 jufi 2317:
1.247 jufi 2318: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2319: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2320: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
2321: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2322: </strong></font><br>
2323: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
2324: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
2325: part 6</a>.
2326: <p>
2327:
1.247 jufi 2328: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2329: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 2330: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
2331: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2332: O'Reilly Network, August 8, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2333: </strong></font><br>
2334: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
2335: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
2336: <p>
1.301 jose 2337:
2338: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2339: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
2340: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
2341: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
2342: </strong></font><br>
2343:
2344: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
2345: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
2346: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
2347: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
2348: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
2349: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
2350: <i>Here's the
2351: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
2352: <p>
1.247 jufi 2353: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2354:
2355: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2356: <ul>
1.242 jufi 2357:
1.247 jufi 2358: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2359: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 2360: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2361: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2362: </strong></font><br>
2363: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
2364: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
2365: <p>
2366:
1.247 jufi 2367: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2368: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2369: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2370: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 1, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2371: </strong></font><br>
2372: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
2373: this time using pf.
2374: <p>
1.247 jufi 2375: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2376:
2377: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2378: <ul>
1.242 jufi 2379:
1.247 jufi 2380: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2381: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2382: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
2383: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2384: </strong></font><br>
2385: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
2386: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
2387: their rotation.
2388: <p>
2389:
1.247 jufi 2390: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2391: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2392: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2393: O'Reilly Network, June 6, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2394: </strong></font><br>
2395: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
2396: <p>
1.247 jufi 2397: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2398:
1.239 jufi 2399: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2400: <ul>
1.239 jufi 2401:
1.247 jufi 2402: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2403: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2404: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
2405: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2406: </strong></font><br>
2407: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
2408: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
2409: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
2410: <p>
2411:
1.247 jufi 2412: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 2413: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2414: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
2415: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 2416: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 2417: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
2418: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
2419: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 2420: <p>
1.247 jufi 2421: </ul>
1.239 jufi 2422:
1.235 lebel 2423: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2424: <ul>
1.235 lebel 2425:
1.239 jufi 2426:
1.247 jufi 2427: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 2428: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 2429: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
2430: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 2431: </strong></font><br>
2432: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
2433: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
2434: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
2435: <p>
1.301 jose 2436:
1.247 jufi 2437: </ul>
1.235 lebel 2438:
1.228 horacio 2439: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2440: <ul>
1.228 horacio 2441:
1.247 jufi 2442: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2443: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2444: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
2445: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 2446: </strong></font><br>
2447: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
2448: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
2449: <p>
2450:
1.247 jufi 2451: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 2452: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 2453: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
2454: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 2455: </strong></font><br>
2456: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
2457: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
2458: <p>
2459:
1.247 jufi 2460: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 2461: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 2462: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
2463: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 2464: </strong></font><br>
2465: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
2466: on the desktop of his parents.
2467: <p>
2468:
1.247 jufi 2469: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 2470: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 2471: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
2472: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 2473: </strong></font><br>
2474: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
2475: using IPFilter.
2476:
2477: <p>
2478:
1.247 jufi 2479: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 2480: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 2481: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
2482: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 2483: </strong></font><br>
2484: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
2485: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
2486: perspectives of the four OS.
2487: <br>
2488: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 2489: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 2490: <p>
2491:
1.247 jufi 2492: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 2493: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
2494: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 2495: software and security</a>,
2496: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 2497: </strong></font><br>
2498:
2499: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
2500: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
2501: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
2502: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
2503: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
2504: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
2505: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
2506: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
2507: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
2508: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
2509: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
2510: security conscious team beyond doubt.
2511: <p>
1.247 jufi 2512: </ul>
1.228 horacio 2513:
1.225 horacio 2514: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2515: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2516:
1.247 jufi 2517: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2518: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
2519: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 2520: Interview</a>,
2521: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 2522: </strong></font><br>
2523:
2524: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
2525: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
2526: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 2527: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 2528: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
2529: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
2530: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
2531: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
2532: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 2533: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 2534: of choice.
2535: <p>
1.247 jufi 2536: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2537:
2538: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2539: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2540:
1.247 jufi 2541: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2542: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 2543: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
2544: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 2545: </strong></font><br>
2546:
2547: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
2548: <p>
2549:
1.247 jufi 2550: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2551: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 2552: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
2553: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 2554: </strong></font><br>
2555:
2556: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
2557: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
2558: <p>
1.247 jufi 2559: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2560:
1.218 horacio 2561: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2562: <ul>
1.218 horacio 2563:
1.247 jufi 2564: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 2565: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 2566: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 2567: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 2568: </strong></font><br>
2569:
2570: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
2571: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
2572: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
2573: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
2574: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
2575: subjects. Worth a read.
2576: <p>
2577:
2578:
1.247 jufi 2579: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 2580: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 2581: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
2582: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 2583: </strong></font><br>
2584:
2585: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
2586: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
2587: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
2588: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
2589: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
2590: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
2591: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
2592: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
2593: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 2594: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 2595: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
2596: on other operating systems.<br>
2597: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
2598: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
2599: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
2600: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
2601: <p>
2602:
1.247 jufi 2603: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2604: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 2605: Operating System 2010</a>,
2606: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 2607: </strong></font><br>
2608:
2609: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
2610: covering the level of software integration into the core
2611: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
2612: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
2613: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
2614: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
2615: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
2616: <p>
2617:
1.247 jufi 2618: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 2619: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2620: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
2621: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 2622: </strong></font><br>
2623:
2624: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
2625: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
2626: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
2627: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
2628: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
2629: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
2630: <p>
1.247 jufi 2631: </ul>
1.221 horacio 2632:
1.210 jufi 2633: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2634: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2635:
1.247 jufi 2636: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2637: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2638: Already a Contender</a>,
2639: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 2640: </strong></font><br>
2641:
2642: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
2643: source software in response to an article which claimed that
2644: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
2645: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
2646: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
2647: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
2648: <p>
2649:
1.247 jufi 2650: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 2651: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 2652: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
2653: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 2654: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2655:
1.224 horacio 2656: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
2657: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
2658: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
2659: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
2660: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
2661: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 2662: <p>
1.247 jufi 2663: </ul>
1.215 horacio 2664:
2665: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2666: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2667:
1.247 jufi 2668: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2669: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
2670: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 2671: Division</a>,
2672: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 2673: </strong></font><br>
2674:
2675: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
2676: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 2677: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 2678: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
2679: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
2680: investment</em>.<br>
2681: The implementation details can be seen on their
2682: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
2683: <p>
2684:
1.247 jufi 2685: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2686: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
2687: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
2688: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
2689: </strong></font><br>
2690:
2691: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
2692: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
2693: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1.475 grunk 2694: laptops and T-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1.301 jose 2695: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
2696: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
2697: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
2698: <p>
2699:
2700: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2701: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2702: Thinking about Security</a>,
2703: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2704: </strong></font><br>
2705:
2706: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
2707: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
2708: security and says that even secured operating systems running
2709: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
2710: to time.<br>
2711: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
2712: system and just the most secure system.
2713: <p>
2714:
1.247 jufi 2715: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2716: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2717: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
2718: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2719: </strong></font><br>
2720:
2721: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
2722: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
2723: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
2724: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
2725: choice:<br>
2726: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
2727: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
2728: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
2729: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
2730: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
2731: network security devices and as such must be well
2732: armored."</em><br>
2733: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
2734: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
2735: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
2736: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
2737: <br>
2738: Bravo!
2739: <p>
1.247 jufi 2740: </ul>
1.210 jufi 2741:
1.207 ian 2742: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2743: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2744:
1.247 jufi 2745: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 2746: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
2747: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
2748: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 2749:
1.207 ian 2750: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
2751: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 2752: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 2753: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
2754: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
2755: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 2756: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 2757: <p>
1.247 jufi 2758: </ul>
1.207 ian 2759:
1.194 jufi 2760: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2761: <ul>
1.194 jufi 2762:
1.247 jufi 2763: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2764: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 2765: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
2766: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 2767: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2768:
1.240 miod 2769: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 2770: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
2771: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
2772: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
2773: <p>
2774:
1.247 jufi 2775: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2776: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
2777: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
2778: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
2779:
2780: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
2781: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
2782: <p>
2783:
2784: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2785: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
2786: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2787: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
2788:
2789: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
2790: <p>
2791:
2792: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2793: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 2794: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
2795: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
2796: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2797:
1.240 miod 2798: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 2799: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 2800: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
2801: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 2802: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 2803: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 2804: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
2805: <br>
1.413 deraadt 2806: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 2807: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
2808: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
2809: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
2810: <p>
2811:
1.247 jufi 2812: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 2813: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
2814: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 2815: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 2816: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2817:
1.194 jufi 2818: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
2819: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
2820: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
2821: <br>
2822: The new
2823: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 2824: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 2825: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
2826: <p>
1.247 jufi 2827: </ul>
1.194 jufi 2828:
1.190 horacio 2829: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2830: <ul>
1.190 horacio 2831:
1.247 jufi 2832: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 2833:
2834: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
2835: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
2836:
1.301 jose 2837:
1.191 jufi 2838: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
2839: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
2840:
2841: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
2842: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
2843:
1.212 horacio 2844: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
2845: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 2846: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
2847:
1.211 horacio 2848: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
2849: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 2850: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
2851:
1.247 jufi 2852: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 2853: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
2854:
1.247 jufi 2855: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 2856: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
2857:
1.212 horacio 2858: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
2859: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 2860: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
2861:
2862: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
2863: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
2864:
2865: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
2866: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
2867:
1.301 jose 2868: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
2869: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
2870:
1.191 jufi 2871: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
2872: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
2873:
2874: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 2875: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 2876:
1.192 jufi 2877: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
2878: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 2879: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 2880:
1.193 deraadt 2881: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
2882: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 2883: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 2884:
1.247 jufi 2885: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 2886: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
2887:
1.247 jufi 2888: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 2889: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
2890: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
2891:
1.213 horacio 2892: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 2893: 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 2894: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
2895:
1.190 horacio 2896: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 2897: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
2898: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
2899: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
2900: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
2901: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
2902: <p>
1.190 horacio 2903:
1.247 jufi 2904: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2905: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
2906: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
2907: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 2908: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2909:
1.195 jufi 2910: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 2911: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
2912: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
2913: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 2914: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
2915: <p>
2916:
1.247 jufi 2917: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2918: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 2919: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
2920: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
2921: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2922:
1.191 jufi 2923: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 2924: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
2925: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
2926: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
2927: <p>
2928:
2929: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2930: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2931: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2932: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
2933:
2934: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2935: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 2936: <p>
1.247 jufi 2937: </ul>
1.190 horacio 2938:
1.191 jufi 2939:
1.186 jufi 2940: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2941: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 2942:
1.247 jufi 2943: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 2944: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 2945: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
2946: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 2947: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 2948:
1.188 jufi 2949: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 2950: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 2951: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 2952: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
2953: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 2954: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 2955: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 2956: <p>
2957:
1.301 jose 2958: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2959: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2960: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2961: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2962:
2963: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2964: <p>
1.191 jufi 2965:
1.247 jufi 2966: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 2967: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
2968: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2969: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 5, 2001
1.191 jufi 2970: </strong></font><br>
2971:
2972: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
2973: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
2974: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
2975: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
2976: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
2977: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
2978: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
2979: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
2980: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
2981: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
2982: familiar?
2983: <p>
1.247 jufi 2984: </ul>
1.191 jufi 2985:
1.178 louis 2986: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2987: <ul>
1.178 louis 2988:
1.247 jufi 2989: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 2990: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 2991: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
2992: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 2993: </strong></font><br>
2994:
2995: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
2996: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
2997: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
2998: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
2999: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
3000: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
3001: <p>
3002:
1.247 jufi 3003: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3004: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
3005: Open source under the hood</a>,
3006: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 3007: </strong></font><br>
3008:
3009: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
3010: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
3011: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
3012: <p>
3013:
1.247 jufi 3014: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3015: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
3016: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
3017: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 3018: </strong></font><br>
3019:
3020: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
3021: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
3022: <p>
1.247 jufi 3023: </ul>
1.179 louis 3024:
1.174 louis 3025:
1.175 louis 3026: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3027: <ul>
1.175 louis 3028:
1.247 jufi 3029: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3030: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
3031: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
3032: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 3033: </strong></font><br>
3034:
3035: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
3036: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
3037: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
3038: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
3039: <p>
3040:
1.247 jufi 3041: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3042: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
3043: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
3044: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 3045: </strong></font><br>
3046:
3047: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 3048: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 3049: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
3050: <p>
1.247 jufi 3051: </ul>
1.175 louis 3052:
1.176 louis 3053:
1.172 mickey 3054: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3055: <ul>
1.172 mickey 3056:
1.247 jufi 3057: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3058: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
3059: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 3060: </strong></font><br>
3061:
3062: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
3063: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
3064: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 3065: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 3066: <p>
3067:
1.247 jufi 3068: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 3069: <a
1.269 deraadt 3070: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
3071: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
3072: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 3073: </strong></font><br>
3074:
3075: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
3076: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
3077: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
3078: <p>
3079:
1.247 jufi 3080: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3081: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 3082: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
3083: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 3084: </strong></font><br>
3085:
3086: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
3087: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
3088: <p>
3089:
1.247 jufi 3090: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3091: <a
1.269 deraadt 3092: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
3093: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 3094: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
3095: </strong></font><br>
3096:
3097: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
3098: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
3099: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
3100: our own Theo de Raadt.
3101: <p>
3102:
1.247 jufi 3103: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3104: <a
1.269 deraadt 3105: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
3106: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
3107: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 3108: </strong></font><br>
3109:
3110: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
3111: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
3112: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
3113: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
3114: shut down.]
3115: <p>
3116:
1.247 jufi 3117: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3118: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 3119: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 3120: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
3121: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 3122: </strong></font><br>
3123:
3124: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
3125: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
3126: <p>
1.247 jufi 3127: </ul>
1.172 mickey 3128:
1.161 louis 3129: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3130: <ul>
1.161 louis 3131:
1.247 jufi 3132: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 3133: <a
1.269 deraadt 3134: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
3135: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
3136: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 3137: </strong></font><br>
3138:
3139: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
3140: by John Wolley
3141: <p>
3142:
1.247 jufi 3143: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 3144: <a
1.269 deraadt 3145: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
3146: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
3147: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 3148: </strong></font><br>
3149:
3150: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
3151: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
3152: OpenBSD).
3153: <p>
3154:
1.247 jufi 3155: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 3156: <a
1.247 jufi 3157: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 3158: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
3159: </strong></font><br>
3160:
3161: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
3162: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
3163: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
3164: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
3165: and hindsight.
3166: <p>
3167:
1.247 jufi 3168: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3169: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
3170: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
3171: </strong></font><br>
3172:
3173: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
3174: <p>
3175:
1.247 jufi 3176: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 3177: <a
1.168 provos 3178: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
3179: December 7, 2000
3180: </strong></font><br>
3181:
3182: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
3183: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
3184: us explain.
3185: <p>
3186:
1.247 jufi 3187: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 3188: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
3189: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 3190: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 3191: December 6, 2000
3192: </strong></font><br>
3193:
3194: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
3195: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
3196: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
3197: <p>
3198:
1.247 jufi 3199: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3200: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
3201: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
3202: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
3203: </strong></font><br>
3204:
3205: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
3206: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
3207: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
3208: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
3209: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
3210: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
3211: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
3212: <p>
3213:
3214: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 3215: <a
1.226 horacio 3216: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
3217: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 3218: </strong></font><br>
3219:
3220: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 3221: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 3222: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 3223: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
3224: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
3225: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 3226: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 3227: <p>
1.162 millert 3228:
1.247 jufi 3229: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 3230: <a
1.161 louis 3231: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
3232: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
3233: </strong></font><br>
3234:
3235: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
3236: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
3237: <p>
3238:
1.247 jufi 3239: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3240: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
3241: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
3242: </strong></font><br>
3243:
3244: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
3245: <p>
3246:
3247:
1.247 jufi 3248: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 3249: <a
1.226 horacio 3250: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
3251: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
3252: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 3253: </strong></font><br>
3254:
3255: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
3256: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
3257: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
3258: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
3259: <p>
1.247 jufi 3260: </ul>
1.169 louis 3261:
1.158 louis 3262: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3263: <ul>
1.147 louis 3264:
1.247 jufi 3265: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3266: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
3267: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 3268: </strong></font><br>
3269:
3270: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
3271: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
3272: <p>
3273:
1.247 jufi 3274: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3275: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
3276: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
3277: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 3278: </strong></font><br>
3279: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
3280: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
3281: <p>
3282:
1.247 jufi 3283: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 3284: <a
3285: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
3286: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
3287: </strong></font><br>
3288:
3289: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
3290: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
3291: <p>
3292:
1.247 jufi 3293: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3294: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 3295: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
3296: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 3297:
1.213 horacio 3298: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 3299: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 3300: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
3301: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
3302: <p>
1.215 horacio 3303:
1.247 jufi 3304: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3305: <a
3306: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
3307: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
3308: </strong></font><br>
3309:
3310: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
3311: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
3312: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
3313: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
3314: much of the attitude too).
3315: <p>
1.161 louis 3316:
1.247 jufi 3317: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3318: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3319: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 3320: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3321:
1.157 louis 3322: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
3323: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
3324: <p>
1.247 jufi 3325: </ul>
1.157 louis 3326:
3327: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3328: <ul>
1.157 louis 3329:
1.247 jufi 3330: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3331: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3332: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 3333: </strong></font><br>
3334:
3335: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
3336: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
3337: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
3338: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
3339: <p>
3340:
1.247 jufi 3341: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 3342: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
3343: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
3344: </strong></font><br>
3345:
3346: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
3347: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
3348: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
3349: it because they love coding...
3350: <p>
3351:
1.247 jufi 3352: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 3353: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
3354: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
3355: </strong></font><br>
3356:
3357: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
3358: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
3359: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
3360: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
3361: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
3362: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
3363: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
3364: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
3365: <p>
3366:
1.247 jufi 3367: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3368: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
3369: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
3370: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 3371: </strong></font><br>
3372:
3373: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
3374: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
3375: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
3376: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
3377: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
3378: the pizza.
3379: <p>
3380:
1.247 jufi 3381: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 3382: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
3383: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
3384: </strong></font><br>
3385:
3386: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
3387: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
3388: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
3389: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
3390: problems.
3391: <p>
3392:
1.247 jufi 3393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 3394: <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 3395: </strong></font><br>
3396:
1.222 miod 3397: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 3398: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
3399: - whether they like it or not.
3400: <p>
3401:
1.247 jufi 3402: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3403: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
3404: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 3405: </strong></font><br>
3406:
3407: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
3408: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
3409: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 3410: <p>
1.148 aaron 3411:
1.247 jufi 3412: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3413: <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 3414: </strong></font><br>
3415:
3416: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
3417: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
3418: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
3419: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
3420: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
3421: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
3422: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
3423: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
3424: <p>
3425:
1.247 jufi 3426: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3427: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
3428: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 3429: </strong></font><br>
3430:
3431: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
3432: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 3433: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 3434: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
3435: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
3436: <p>
1.247 jufi 3437: </ul>
1.147 louis 3438:
1.138 louis 3439: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3440: <ul>
1.138 louis 3441:
1.247 jufi 3442: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3443: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
3444: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
3445: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
3446: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 3447: </strong></font><br>
3448:
1.227 horacio 3449: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 3450: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
3451: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
3452: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
3453: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
3454: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
3455: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
3456: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 3457: <p>
3458:
1.247 jufi 3459: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 3460: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 3461: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 3462: </strong></font><br>
3463:
3464: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
3465: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
3466: groups, and even Linux.
3467: <p>
3468:
1.247 jufi 3469: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3470: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
3471: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 3472: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
3473: </strong></font><br>
3474:
3475: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
3476: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
3477: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
3478: library after installing the OS.
3479: <p>
3480:
1.247 jufi 3481: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3482: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 3483: Sys Admin, September 2000
3484: </strong></font><br>
3485:
3486: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
3487: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
3488: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
3489: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 3490: (<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>,
3491: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
3492: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
3493: <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 3494: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 3495: out of the system.
3496: <p>
3497:
1.247 jufi 3498: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 3499: <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
3500: </strong></font><br>
3501:
3502: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 3503: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 3504: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
3505: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
3506: the IP filtering and address translation.
3507: <p>
1.301 jose 3508:
3509: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3510: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
3511: </strong></font><br>
3512:
3513: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
3514: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
3515: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
3516: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
3517: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
3518: <p>
1.247 jufi 3519: </ul>
1.200 niklas 3520:
1.131 louis 3521: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3522: <ul>
1.131 louis 3523:
1.247 jufi 3524: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3525: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
3526: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
3527: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 3528: </strong></font><br>
3529:
3530: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
3531: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
3532: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
3533: <p>
3534:
1.247 jufi 3535: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 3536: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
3537: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
3538: </strong></font><br>
3539:
3540: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
3541: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
3542: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
3543: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
3544: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
3545: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
3546: note of"</i>.
3547: <p>
3548:
1.247 jufi 3549: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 3550: <a
1.247 jufi 3551: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 3552: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
3553: </strong></font><br>
3554:
3555: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
3556: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
3557: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
3558: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
3559: <p>
3560:
1.247 jufi 3561: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 3562: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 3563: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
3564: </strong></font><br>
3565:
3566: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
3567: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
3568: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
3569: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
3570: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
3571: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
3572: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
3573: <p>
3574:
1.247 jufi 3575: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 3576: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
3577: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
3578: 2000
3579: </strong></font><br>
3580:
3581: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
3582: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
3583: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
3584: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
3585: against current industry practices.
3586: <p>
3587:
1.247 jufi 3588: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 3589: <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
3590: </strong></font><br>
3591:
3592: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
3593: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
3594: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
3595: <p>
3596:
1.247 jufi 3597: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 3598: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
3599: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
3600: </strong></font><br>
3601:
3602: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
3603: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
3604: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
3605: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
3606: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
3607: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
3608: careful code reviews, he concludes.
3609: <p>
3610:
1.247 jufi 3611: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 3612: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
3613: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
3614: </strong></font><br>
3615:
3616: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
3617: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
3618: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
3619: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
3620: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 3621: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
3622: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
3623: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 3624: <p>
1.247 jufi 3625: </ul>
1.131 louis 3626:
1.118 louis 3627: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3628: <ul>
1.118 louis 3629:
1.247 jufi 3630: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 3631: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
3632: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
3633: </strong></font><br>
3634:
3635: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
3636: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
3637: about time. The article mentions that
3638: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
3639: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
3640: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 3641: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 3642: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
3643: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 3644: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 3645: <p>
3646:
1.247 jufi 3647: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3648: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 3649: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3650: </strong></font><br>
3651:
3652: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
3653: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
3654: of OpenSSH.
3655: <p>
3656:
1.247 jufi 3657: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3658: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3659: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3660: </strong></font><br>
3661:
3662: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 3663: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 3664: bridging.
3665: <p>
3666:
1.247 jufi 3667: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3668: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
3669: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 3670: </strong></font><br>
3671:
1.121 deraadt 3672: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
3673: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 3674: <p>
3675:
1.247 jufi 3676: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3677: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
3678: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
3679: </strong></font><br>
3680:
3681: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
3682: <p>
3683:
1.247 jufi 3684: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 3685: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3686: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
3687: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 3688: </strong></font><br>
3689:
1.120 deraadt 3690: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
3691: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 3692: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
3693: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
3694: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
3695: <p>
3696:
1.247 jufi 3697: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 3698: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
3699: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
3700: </strong></font><br>
3701:
1.222 miod 3702: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 3703: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
3704: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
3705: protocols and their quirks.
3706: <p>
3707:
1.247 jufi 3708: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3709: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
3710: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 3711: </strong></font><br>
3712:
3713: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
3714: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
3715: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 3716: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 3717: <p>
3718:
1.247 jufi 3719: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 3720: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
3721: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
3722: </strong></font><br>
3723:
3724: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
3725: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
3726: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
3727: <p>
3728:
1.247 jufi 3729: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 3730: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3731: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
3732: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 3733: </strong></font><br>
3734:
3735: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
3736: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
3737: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
3738: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
3739: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
3740: <p>
1.247 jufi 3741: </ul>
1.118 louis 3742:
1.104 louis 3743: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3744: <ul>
1.104 louis 3745:
1.247 jufi 3746: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 3747: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
3748: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
3749: </strong></font><br>
3750:
3751: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
3752: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
3753: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
3754: be a bit dry.
3755: <p>
3756:
1.247 jufi 3757: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3758: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
3759: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
3760: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
3761: </strong></font><br>
3762: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
3763: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
3764: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
3765: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
3766: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
3767: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
3768: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
3769: <p>
3770:
1.247 jufi 3771: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3772: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
3773: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 3774: 2000
1.128 louis 3775: </strong></font><br>
3776:
3777: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
3778: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
3779: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
3780: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
3781: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 3782: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 3783: <p>
3784:
1.247 jufi 3785: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3786: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
3787: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 3788: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 3789:
3790: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
3791: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
3792: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
3793: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 3794: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
3795: <p>
1.110 louis 3796:
1.247 jufi 3797: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 3798: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
3799: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
3800: </strong></font><br>
3801:
3802: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
3803: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
3804: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
3805: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
3806: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
3807: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
3808: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
3809: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
3810: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
3811: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
3812: <p>
3813:
1.247 jufi 3814: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 3815: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3816: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 3817:
3818: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
3819: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 3820: <p>
1.108 louis 3821:
1.247 jufi 3822: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 3823: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
3824: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 3825: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 3826:
3827: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
3828: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
3829: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 3830: <p>
1.106 louis 3831:
1.247 jufi 3832: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 3833: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
3834: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 3835: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 3836:
3837: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
3838: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
3839: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
3840: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 3841: <p>
1.107 louis 3842:
1.247 jufi 3843: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3844: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
3845: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3846: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 3847:
3848: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
3849: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 3850: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 3851: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
3852: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 3853: <p>
1.105 louis 3854:
1.247 jufi 3855: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 3856: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 3857: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 3858: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 3859:
1.113 naddy 3860: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
3861: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 3862: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 3863: <p>
1.104 louis 3864:
1.247 jufi 3865: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3866: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
3867: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
3868: </strong></font><br>
3869:
3870: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
3871: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
3872: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
3873: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
3874: <p>
1.301 jose 3875:
3876: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3877: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
3878: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
3879: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
3880:
3881: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
3882: hardware-supported cryptography.
3883: <p>
1.247 jufi 3884: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 3885:
1.85 louis 3886: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3887: <ul>
1.85 louis 3888:
1.247 jufi 3889: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3890: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 3891: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 3892: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3893:
3894: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
3895: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
3896: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
3897: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
3898: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
3899: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
3900: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 3901: <p>
1.99 louis 3902:
1.247 jufi 3903: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3904: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 3905: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3906: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 3907:
3908: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
3909: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
3910: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
3911: conditions.
1.113 naddy 3912: <p>
1.100 louis 3913:
1.247 jufi 3914: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3915: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 3916: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3917: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 3918:
3919: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
3920: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
3921: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
3922: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 3923: <p>
1.95 louis 3924:
1.247 jufi 3925: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3926: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 3927: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3928: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 3929:
3930: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
3931: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 3932: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 3933: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
3934: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3935: <p>
1.92 louis 3936:
1.247 jufi 3937: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3938: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 3939: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3940: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 3941:
3942: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
3943: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
3944: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
3945: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
3946: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
3947: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 3948: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 3949: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 3950: <p>
1.91 louis 3951:
1.247 jufi 3952: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3953: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
3954: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 3955: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3956:
3957: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
3958: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
3959: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
3960: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
3961: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
3962: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
3963: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
3964: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
3965: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 3966: <p>
1.90 louis 3967:
1.247 jufi 3968: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3969: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
3970: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
3971: </strong></font><br>
3972: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
3973: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
3974: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
3975: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
3976: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
3977: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
3978: <p>
3979:
1.247 jufi 3980: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 3981: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
3982: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3983: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 3984:
1.113 naddy 3985: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
3986: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 3987: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
3988: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
3989: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
3990: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
3991: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 3992: <p>
1.87 louis 3993:
1.247 jufi 3994: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 3995: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
3996: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 3997: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 3998:
3999: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 4000: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 4001: <p>
1.85 louis 4002:
1.247 jufi 4003: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4004: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
4005: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4006: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
4007:
4008: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
4009: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
4010: <p>
4011:
4012: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 4013: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
4014: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 4015: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 4016:
4017: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 4018: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 4019: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
4020: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 4021: <p>
1.89 louis 4022:
1.247 jufi 4023: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 4024: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
4025: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 4026: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 4027:
4028: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
4029: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
4030: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
4031: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
4032: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 4033: </ul>
1.85 louis 4034:
1.78 deraadt 4035: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4036: <ul>
1.74 louis 4037:
1.247 jufi 4038: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4039: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 4040: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 4041: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 4042: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 4043:
4044: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
4045: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
4046: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4047: <p>
1.83 louis 4048:
1.247 jufi 4049: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 4050: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
4051: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 4052: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 4053:
4054: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
4055: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 4056: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 4057: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
4058: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 4059: <p>
1.93 louis 4060:
1.247 jufi 4061: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4062: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
4063: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
4064: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 4065: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 4066:
1.83 louis 4067: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
4068: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
4069: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
4070: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
4071: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 4072: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
4073: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
4074: <p>
1.82 aaron 4075:
1.247 jufi 4076: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4077: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 4078: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 4079: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 4080:
1.83 louis 4081: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
4082: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
4083: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 4084: <p>
1.80 louis 4085:
1.247 jufi 4086: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4087: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 4088: Bad Press</a>,
4089: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 4090: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 4091:
4092: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 4093: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 4094: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
4095: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
4096: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 4097: <p>
1.247 jufi 4098: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 4099:
4100: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4101: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 4102:
1.247 jufi 4103: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4104: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
4105: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 4106: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 4107: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 4108:
4109: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
4110: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
4111: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
4112: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 4113: <p>
1.74 louis 4114:
1.247 jufi 4115: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 4116: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
4117: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 4118: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 4119:
1.219 horacio 4120: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
4121: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
4122: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
4123: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
4124: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
4125: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
4126: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 4127: <p>
1.88 louis 4128:
1.247 jufi 4129: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 4130: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 4131: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 4132: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 4133:
4134: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
4135: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
4136: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
4137: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 4138: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 4139: <p>
1.81 louis 4140:
1.247 jufi 4141: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4142: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 4143: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 4144: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 4145:
4146: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
4147: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
4148: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
4149: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
4150: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
4151: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
4152: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 4153: <p>
1.90 louis 4154:
1.247 jufi 4155: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4156: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 4157: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 4158: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 4159:
4160: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
4161: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
4162: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 4163: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 4164: <p>
1.247 jufi 4165: </ul>
1.71 louis 4166:
1.69 deraadt 4167: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4168: <ul>
1.70 louis 4169:
1.247 jufi 4170: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4171: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
4172: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 4173: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 4174:
4175: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
4176: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
4177: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 4178: <p>
1.70 louis 4179:
1.247 jufi 4180: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4181: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
4182: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 4183: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 4184:
4185: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 4186: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 4187: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 4188: <p>
1.68 louis 4189:
1.247 jufi 4190: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4191: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
4192: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 4193: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 4194: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 4195:
1.111 jufi 4196: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
4197: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 4198: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 4199: "secure by default" installation.
4200: <p>
1.64 louis 4201:
1.247 jufi 4202: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 4203: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 4204: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 4205: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 4206:
1.113 naddy 4207: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 4208: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 4209: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 4210: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
4211: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
4212: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 4213: <p>
1.66 louis 4214:
1.247 jufi 4215: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4216: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 4217: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4218: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 4219:
4220: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 4221: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 4222: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
4223: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
4224: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 4225: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
4226: <p>
1.83 louis 4227:
1.247 jufi 4228: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4229: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 4230: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4231: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 4232:
4233: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 4234: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
4235: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 4236: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
4237: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 4238: <p>
1.64 louis 4239:
1.247 jufi 4240: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4241: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 4242: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4243: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 4244:
4245: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
4246: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 4247: <p>
1.301 jose 4248:
4249: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4250: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
4251: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
4252: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
4253: </strong></font><br>
4254:
4255: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
4256: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
4257: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
4258: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
4259: Giving way to
4260: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
4261: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
4262: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
4263: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
4264: <p>
1.247 jufi 4265: </ul>
1.65 louis 4266:
1.69 deraadt 4267: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4268: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4269:
1.247 jufi 4270: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4271: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 4272: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 4273: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 4274:
4275: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
4276: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
4277: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
4278: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 4279: <p>
1.88 louis 4280:
1.247 jufi 4281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4282: <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 4283: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 4284:
4285: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 4286: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
4287: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 4288: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
4289: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 4290: <p>
1.60 louis 4291:
1.247 jufi 4292: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 4293: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 4294: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 4295: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 4296: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4297:
4298: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
4299: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
4300: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 4301: <p>
1.58 louis 4302:
1.247 jufi 4303: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 4304: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 4305: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 4306:
4307: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
4308: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 4309: <p>
1.53 louis 4310:
1.247 jufi 4311: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 4312: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
4313: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 4314: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 4315:
4316: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
4317: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
4318: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 4319: <p>
1.99 louis 4320:
1.247 jufi 4321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 4322: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 4323: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4324:
4325: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
4326: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 4327: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 4328: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 4329: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 4330:
1.247 jufi 4331: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4332: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
4333: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 4334: </strong></font><br>
4335:
4336: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
4337: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
4338: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
4339: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
4340: <p>
4341:
1.247 jufi 4342: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4343: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 4344: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 4345: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4346:
4347: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
4348: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 4349: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 4350:
1.247 jufi 4351: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 4352: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 4353: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 4354:
4355: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 4356: in
1.247 jufi 4357: <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 4358: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 4359: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 4360: <p>
1.53 louis 4361:
1.247 jufi 4362: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4363: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 4364: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
4365: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 4366: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 4367:
1.58 louis 4368: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4369: <p>
1.301 jose 4370:
4371: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4372: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
4373: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
4374: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
4375: Informacyjny, January 2000
4376: </strong></font><br>
4377:
4378: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
4379: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
4380: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
4381: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
4382: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
4383: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
4384: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
4385: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
4386: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
4387: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 4388: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
4389: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 4390: <p>
4391:
4392: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4393: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4394: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
4395: </strong></font><br>
4396:
4397: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
4398: <p>
4399: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 4400:
1.69 deraadt 4401: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4402: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4403:
1.247 jufi 4404: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4405: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
4406: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
4407: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 4408: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4409:
1.58 louis 4410: Kurt Seifried
4411: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4412: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
4413: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 4414: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 4415:
1.247 jufi 4416: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4417: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 4418: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4419: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 4420:
4421: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 4422: <p>
1.96 louis 4423:
1.247 jufi 4424: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4425: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
4426: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
4427: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
4428: </strong></font><br>
4429:
4430: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
4431: <p>
4432:
4433: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4434: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 4435: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 4436: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 4437:
4438: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
4439: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 4440: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 4441: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 4442: <p>
1.247 jufi 4443: </ul>
1.86 louis 4444:
1.69 deraadt 4445: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4446: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4447:
1.247 jufi 4448: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4449: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
4450: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 4451: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 4452:
4453: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
4454: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 4455: <p>
1.61 louis 4456:
1.247 jufi 4457: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4458: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 4459: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
4460: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4461: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 4462:
4463: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 4464: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 4465: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
4466: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 4467: right -- or at least strives to".
4468: <p>
1.48 louis 4469:
1.247 jufi 4470: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4471: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
4472: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4473: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 4474: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
4475: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
4476: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
4477: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 4478: <p>
1.61 louis 4479:
1.247 jufi 4480: <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 4481: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4482: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 4483:
4484: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
4485: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
4486: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
4487: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 4488: <p>
1.46 louis 4489:
1.247 jufi 4490: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4491: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
4492: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4493: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4494:
4495: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
4496: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 4497: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 4498:
1.247 jufi 4499: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 4500: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
4501: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 4502: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 4503:
4504: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
4505: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
4506: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
4507: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 4508: <p>
1.247 jufi 4509: </ul>
1.70 louis 4510:
1.69 deraadt 4511: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4512: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4513:
1.247 jufi 4514: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4515: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
4516: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 4517: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 4518: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 4519:
4520: Kurt Seifried
4521: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4522: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
4523: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 4524: <p>
1.44 philen 4525:
1.247 jufi 4526: <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 4527: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 4528: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 4529:
4530: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 4531: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 4532:
1.247 jufi 4533: <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 4534: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 4535: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 4536:
4537: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 4538: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 4539:
1.247 jufi 4540: <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 4541: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 4542: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 4543:
4544: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
4545: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
4546: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
4547: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 4548: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 4549:
1.247 jufi 4550: <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 4551: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 4552: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 4553:
1.36 louis 4554: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 4555: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 4556:
1.247 jufi 4557: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 4558: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
4559: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 4560: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4561:
4562: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 4563: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 4564: </ul>
1.38 louis 4565:
1.69 deraadt 4566: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4567: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4568:
1.247 jufi 4569: <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 4570: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 4571: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 4572:
4573: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
4574: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 4575: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 4576:
1.113 naddy 4577: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 4578: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 4579: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 4580: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 4581:
4582: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
4583: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 4584: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
4585: terminal:
1.113 naddy 4586: <blockquote>
4587: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
4588: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
4589: <br>
4590: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
4591: </code>
4592: </blockquote>
4593: <p>
4594:
1.247 jufi 4595: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 4596: <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 4597: <p>
4598:
4599: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4600: <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 4601: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 4602:
4603: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
4604: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 4605: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 4606: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 4607:
1.247 jufi 4608: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4609: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
4610: Sept. 28, 1999
4611: </strong></font><br>
4612:
4613: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
4614: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
4615: translating and reprinting articles from
4616: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
4617: <p>
4618:
4619: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 4620: <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 4621: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 4622:
4623: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
4624: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
4625: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
4626: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
4627: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 4628: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 4629: <p>
1.19 louis 4630:
1.113 naddy 4631: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 4632: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 4633: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 4634:
4635: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
4636: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
4637: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 4638: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
4639: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 4640: <p>
1.16 louis 4641:
1.247 jufi 4642: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4643: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 4644: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 4645: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 4646:
1.57 louis 4647: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
4648: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
4649: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 4650: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 4651:
1.247 jufi 4652: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4653: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.466 deraadt 4654: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4655: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4656:
1.113 naddy 4657: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 4658:
1.247 jufi 4659: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4660: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
4661: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4662: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 4663:
1.23 louis 4664: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
4665: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
4666: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
4667: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
4668: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 4669: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 4670:
1.247 jufi 4671: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 4672: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
4673: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4674: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 4675:
1.199 pvalchev 4676: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 4677: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
4678: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
4679: installation.
1.113 naddy 4680: <p>
1.47 louis 4681:
1.247 jufi 4682: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4683: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 4684: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 4685: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4686:
1.301 jose 4687: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
4688: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
4689: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4690: </ul>
1.57 louis 4691:
1.69 deraadt 4692: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4693: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4694:
1.247 jufi 4695: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 4696: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 4697: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 4698: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 4699:
4700: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
4701: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 4702: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4703: <p>
1.12 louis 4704:
1.247 jufi 4705: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 4706: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 4707: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 4708: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 4709:
4710: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
4711: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 4712: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
4713: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
4714: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
4715: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
4716: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 4717: <p>
1.247 jufi 4718: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 4719:
1.69 deraadt 4720: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4721: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 4722:
1.247 jufi 4723: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 4724: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 4725: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 4726:
4727: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
4728: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
4729: available."
1.113 naddy 4730: <p>
1.301 jose 4731:
4732: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4733: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4734: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
4735: </strong></font><br>
4736:
4737: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
4738: <p>
1.247 jufi 4739: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 4740:
1.69 deraadt 4741: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4742: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4743:
1.247 jufi 4744: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 4745: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 4746: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 4747:
4748: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
4749: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
4750: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
4751: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
4752: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 4753: <p>
1.33 louis 4754:
1.247 jufi 4755: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4756: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 4757: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 4758: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4759:
1.113 naddy 4760: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
4761: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 4762: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
4763: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
4764: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 4765: <p>
1.247 jufi 4766: </ul>
1.57 louis 4767:
1.69 deraadt 4768: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4769: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4770:
1.247 jufi 4771: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4772: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 4773: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 4774: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4775:
4776: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
4777: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 4778: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4779:
1.247 jufi 4780: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 4781: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
4782: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
4783: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 4784: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 4785:
4786: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 4787: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 4788:
1.247 jufi 4789: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 4790: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4791:
1.113 naddy 4792: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 4793:
1.247 jufi 4794: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 4795: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
4796: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 4797: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4798:
4799: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 4800: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 4801: </ul>
1.23 louis 4802:
1.69 deraadt 4803: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4804: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4805:
1.247 jufi 4806: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 4807: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 4808: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4809:
4810: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
4811: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 4812: <p>
1.2 deraadt 4813:
1.247 jufi 4814: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4815: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 4816: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4817: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4818:
4819: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
4820: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 4821: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 4822: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4823: </ul>
1.57 louis 4824:
1.69 deraadt 4825: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4826: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4827:
1.247 jufi 4828: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 4829: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
4830: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 4831: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 4832:
4833: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
4834: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
4835: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
4836: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4837: <p>
1.15 louis 4838:
1.247 jufi 4839: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4840: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
4841: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 4842: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4843:
4844: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
4845: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
4846: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
4847: columns."
1.113 naddy 4848: <p>
1.247 jufi 4849: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4850:
1.69 deraadt 4851: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4852: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4853:
1.247 jufi 4854: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4855: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 4856: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4857: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4858:
4859: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 4860: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 4861:
1.113 naddy 4862: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4863: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 4864: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4865:
4866: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
4867: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 4868: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 4869: </ul>
1.57 louis 4870:
1.69 deraadt 4871: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4872: <ul>
1.301 jose 4873: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4874: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
4875: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4876: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
4877:
4878: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
4879: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
4880: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
4881: <p>
4882:
4883: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4884: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
4885: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4886: Nov 13, 1998 and
4887: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
4888: Datateknik</a>,
4889: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
4890:
1.380 saad 4891: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 4892: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
4893: explains the licensing issues and points to our
4894: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
4895: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4896:
1.113 naddy 4897: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 4898: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 4899: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 4900: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4901:
1.222 miod 4902: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 4903: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
4904: Implementation, including a brief interview with
4905: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 4906: <p>
1.247 jufi 4907: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4908:
1.69 deraadt 4909: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4910: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4911:
1.247 jufi 4912: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4913: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 4914: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4915:
1.69 deraadt 4916: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
4917: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 4918: <p>
1.247 jufi 4919: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4920:
1.69 deraadt 4921: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4922: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 4923:
1.247 jufi 4924: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4925: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
4926: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 4927: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4928:
1.383 jcs 4929: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 4930: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 4931: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4932:
1.247 jufi 4933: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 4934: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 4935: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
4936: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 4937: <p>
1.247 jufi 4938: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4939:
1.69 deraadt 4940: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4941: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4942:
1.247 jufi 4943: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4944: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 4945: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
4946: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 4947: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 4948: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4949:
4950: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
4951: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
4952: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 4953: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 4954: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 4955: <p>
1.247 jufi 4956: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 4957:
4958: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4959: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4960:
1.247 jufi 4961: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4962: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 4963: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4964:
1.69 deraadt 4965: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
4966: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 4967: <p>
1.112 naddy 4968:
1.247 jufi 4969: </ul>
1.113 naddy 4970: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4971:
1.292 camield 4972: <hr>
1.216 horacio 4973: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 4974: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.477 ! saad 4975: <br><small>$OpenBSD: press.html,v 1.476 2005/10/24 22:36:42 ian Exp $</small>
1.1 deraadt 4976:
4977: </body>
4978: </html>
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