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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:
1.478 ! grunk 51: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
! 52: <a href="http://securityfocus.com/columnists/361">
! 53: OpenBSD's network stack</a>,
! 54: SecurityFocus, October 12, 2005</strong></font><br>
! 55: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about OpenBSD's
! 56: network stack, including protection against ICMP attacks, and propagation
! 57: of enhancements into other BSDs and into Linux.
! 58: The interview also features the other protection mechanisms in the network
! 59: stack, a comparison to the network stack in Linux, and the history and
! 60: current status of <a href="http://www.openbgpd.org/">OpenBGPD</a>.
! 61: <p>
! 62:
1.476 ian 63: </ul>
64:
1.470 saad 65: <h2>September, 2005</h2>
66: <ul>
67:
68: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.474 niallo 69: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/359">
70: Security-related innovation in Unix</a>,
71: SecurityFocus, Sept. 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
72: An article examining the mmap-based malloc() implementation to be
73: included in OpenBSD 3.8. The author states that <i>"it will help OpenBSD
74: users to find bugs in software more easily, which will result in better
75: applications for everyone"</i>. He goes on to say that <i>"the more hurdles
76: that one has to jump through for good security, the less likely people will
77: go through the trouble. OpenBSD allows even the most inexperienced users to
78: take advantage of these technologies without any effort"</i>.
79: <p>
80:
81: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.473 aanriot 82: <a href="http://www.miscmag.com/articles/index.php3?page=2100">
83: [FRENCH] Champ libre : les chantiers OpenBSD</a>
84: Misc, number 21, Sept/Oct, 2005, p. 4-14</strong></font><br>
85: An interesting article about OpenBSD and associated projects. Saad Kadhi
86: and Guillaume Arcas describe useful things you can do with PF and
87: OpenSSH, and give a nice introduction to OpenNTPD and OpenCVS. If the
88: article is focused on the presentation, you can find some interesting
89: technical aspects people are not always acquainted to. A few examples
90: are shown, like a basic CARP setup, or the manner to use multiplexing
91: with OpenSSH and even how to check an OpenSSH server's keys using DNS.
92: <p>
93:
94: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 95: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/news/11306">
96: Big debate over small packets</a>,
97: SecurityFocus, Sept. 7, 2005</strong></font><br>
98: Robert Lemos discusses the ICMP denial-of-service vulnerabilities found
99: by Fernando Gont and fixed in OpenBSD. To date, OpenBSD is the only
100: system that has implemented all of the fixes recommended in the IETF
101: draft.
102: <p>
103:
104: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.471 saad 105: <a href="http://www.pcexpert.fr/">
106: [FRENCH] "Quel est le meilleur système libre pour votre
107: ordinateur ?"</a>,
108: PC Expert, number 156, p. 42-62</strong></font><br>
109: Philippe Roure compares 11 Linux and *BSD operating systems, including
110: OpenBSD 3.7, on different criteria such as security, documentation and
111: usability. OpenBSD earned a 5/5 mark (see pages 60-61) and while a mark
112: isn't necessarily objective, the author seems to grasp the OpenBSD
113: project, its goals, and how good is the operating system. The article
114: includes an interview with Saad Kadhi.
115: <p>
116:
117: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.470 saad 118: <a href="http://www.samag.com/articles/2005/0509/">
119: Monitoring PF Firewalls for Health and Performance</a>,
120: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 9, p. 37</strong></font><br>
121: Ryan Matteson describes several utilities that can be used to monitor the
122: health and performance of a PF firewall. Besides pfctl, the article
123: covers pftop, fwanalog, monitoring logs with tcpdump and graphing
124: performance data with pfstat.
125: <p>
126:
127: </ul>
128:
1.461 grunk 129: <h2>July, 2005</h2>
130: <ul>
131:
132: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.466 deraadt 133: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5382">
134: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part III</a>,
1.467 grunk 135: Kerneltrap, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.466 deraadt 136: Jeremy Andrews writes about the recent Blind ICMP attacks discovered
137: by Fernando Gont, and the fixes done by him and OpenBSD during the
138: 2005 Hackathon.
1.469 ian 139: The article goes into the technical background of the
1.467 grunk 140: attacks, mentioning blind ICMP attacks, "hard" ICMP errors, source
1.469 ian 141: quenching, and path MTU discovery;
142: many helpful RFCs and technical papers are linked from the explanations.
143: This is followed by a recap of the whole ICMP story, involving Gont's
1.467 grunk 144: struggle with other free projects, Cisco lawyers, Microsoft people,
145: and others.<br>
1.469 ian 146: The article concludes that OpenBSD was the first project
1.467 grunk 147: to take Fernando Gont's findings seriously, and also the first group to
148: be really painless to work with.
1.466 deraadt 149: <p>
150:
151: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.464 grunk 152: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/06/security_blame/">
153: Security meltdown: who's to blame?</a>,
1.466 deraadt 154: The Register, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.464 grunk 155: This article talks about various groups that are frequently blamed for
156: poor security:
1.467 grunk 157: individuals, ISPs, companies, crackers, security mailing lists,
1.464 grunk 158: and last but not least: OS vendors!
1.467 grunk 159: In the last paragraph, OpenBSD's style of <i>"dumbed-down, simplified
1.464 grunk 160: and secure systems (with a heavily audited code base)"</i> is described
161: as <i>"one of the smartest approaches to security"</i>.
162: <p>
163:
164: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.461 grunk 165: <a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-7-5/30084.html">
166: Theo de Raadt on Industry and Free Software</a>,
1.466 deraadt 167: The Epoch Times, July 5, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.463 tom 168: In this interview, Theo talks about the inception of the OpenBSD project
169: and its goals, as well as its impact on the commercial IT industry.
1.461 grunk 170: He points out once more that <i>"vendors who incorporate OpenSSH have
171: given us absolutely nothing back - not a cent"</i>.
172: Other topics covered include the OpenBSD team, Theo's role as
173: <i>"benevolent dictator"</i>, and the security process, which he compares
174: to the security efforts led by other free software projects and some
175: commercial vendors.
176: <p>
177:
178: </ul>
179:
1.454 ian 180: <h2>June, 2005</h2>
181: <ul>
1.468 grunk 182:
183: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
184: <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/ns-ttc062205.php">
185: The true cost of computer crime</a>,
186: EurekAlert / <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/">New Scientist Magazine</a>,
187: issue June 25, 2005</strong></font><br>
188: This article looks at computer crime, especially the way upcoming
189: vulnerability reports are dealt with. It also gives a short overview of the
1.469 ian 190: institutions involved in the process (vendors, free projects, CERTs).
1.468 grunk 191: <br>
192: The author mentions the work of Andy Ozment, who researches vulnerability
193: disclosure at the University of Cambridge. Using OpenBSD as a good example
194: of how disclosure and consequent fixing of bugs helps to strengthen security,
195: he refutes the widely spread FUD that disclosing vulnerabilities leads to
196: more harm than good. Ozment's methodology was to examine OpenBSD's CVS logs
1.469 ian 197: and note when fixes were published; his research shows that
1.468 grunk 198: <i>"the number of vulnerabilities decreases as a result of disclosure"</i>.
199: <p>
200:
1.454 ian 201: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.458 niallo 202: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0704/071.html">
203: Free Bird</a>,
204: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
205: <b>(Registration required)</b> A second Forbes article about OpenBSD, more
206: focused on the project itself this time. It contains good description of the
207: history of OpenBSD along with its prime motivations. Mention is made of the
208: DARPA grant and the annual hackathon. Theo's motto "shut up and hack" finally
209: becomes famous in this piece and there are some other very insightful quotes
210: such as "All I care about is making high-quality code. If I had to work at a
211: regular job, it would drive me nuts". This is certainly an astute and perceptive
212: article, well worth reading. Do note that the big picture of Theo's machine
213: room will only be available in the print edition.
214: <p>
1.459 deraadt 215:
1.458 niallo 216: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.456 niallo 217: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html">
218: Is Linux For Losers?</a>,
219: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
220: An interesting article, if somewhat polemic in tone, which raises questions
221: about the quality of Linux code compared to OpenBSD. There is also some short
222: discussion of the OpenBSD development model and focus (push for quality above
223: everything else) including good quotes from Theo. It seems that the need for
224: high quality software is beginning to be recognised by the mainstream.
225: <p>
1.457 deraadt 226:
1.456 niallo 227: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 228: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/06/09/2132233.shtml?tid=152&tid=8&tid=2">
1.455 ian 229: BSD cognoscenti on Linux</a>,
230: NewsForge, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
231: NewsForge talks with Theo de Raadt and NetBSD's Christos Zoulas about the
232: similarities and differences between the Linux kernel and the BSD
233: operating systems. The questions asked were similar to those asked
234: of Linus Torvalds in a <a
1.462 grunk 235: href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/09/2128249&tid=2">previous
1.455 ian 236: interview.</a>
237: <p>
238:
239: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.454 ian 240: <a href="http://www.tuxjournal.net/intervista3-en.html">
241: A good morning with Theo de Raadt</a>,
242: Tux Journal, June 2, 2005</strong></font><br>
243: Brief but wide-ranging interview with Theo in which our leader
244: opines about the good things in 3.7: "The list of new developments
245: is impressive, but in my view not nearly as impressive as the small
246: little details that continue to be fixed during each development
247: cycle." And modestly credits all the developers for the project's
248: continuing success, attributing it to "The passion of the developers,
249: and the wide experience they bring into their development efforts.
250: By amazing coincidence, our users typically have the same needs as we do."
251: Manages to sidestep getting drawn into comparisons with Linux, e.g.,
252: when asked if he likes it/why/why not, deftly replies
253: "I have never used it."
254: <p>
255:
256: </ul>
257:
1.441 deraadt 258: <h2>May, 2005</h2>
259: <ul>
260: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 261: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5190">
262: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part II</a>,
263: Kerneltrap, May 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
264: In the second installment of Kerneltrap's Hackathon 2005 feature, Jeremy
265: Andrews speaks with the pf developers at length about their plans for
266: future enhancements.
267: <p>
268:
269: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.450 deraadt 270: <a href="http://www.ctv.ca">
1.448 deraadt 271: TV coverage: OpenBSD hackathon</a>,
272: CTV/CFCN, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
273: A TV spot done a Canadian national TV station about the Calgary
274: hackathon this year, with 60 developers.<br>
275: North America mirror:
276: <ul>
1.452 marco 277: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.449 jcs 278: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a><br>
279: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a>
1.448 deraadt 280: </ul>
281: European mirror:
282: <ul>
1.452 marco 283: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.448 deraadt 284: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a>
285: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a><br>
286: </ul>
287: <p>
288:
289: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 290: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5186">
291: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part I</a>,
292: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
293: Jeremy Andrews of KernelTrap does a good job of describing what it's like
294: to be at the Hackathon in Part I of KernelTrap's Hackathon feature. Several
295: developers are interviewed in detail about what they are working on.
296: <p>
297:
298: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 299: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5184">
300: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005: Day 6?</a>,
301: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
302: Kjell Wooding describes a typical day at the Hackathon in this entertaining
303: first-hand account.
304: <p>
305:
306: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.447 cloder 307: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/05/20/1426216.shtml?tid=8">
308: Review: OpenBSD 3.7</a>,
309: NewsForge.com, May 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
310: "OpenBSD is not only highly polished and easy to
311: configure because of its documentation, it's also totally free-as-in-rights.
312: With an obsession with security, freedom of source code, and quality of
313: programming technique, OpenBSD 3.7 continues the legacy established by
314: its previous releases," writes Jem Matzan in this nice, small review.
315: <p>
316:
317: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.446 cloder 318: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/05/19/openbsd_3_7.html">
319: OpenBSD 3.7: The Wizard of OS</a>,
320: ONLamp.com, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
321: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
322: new features in OpenBSD 3.7, including new wireless chipsets, new
323: spam-fighting features, zaurus, pf improvements, propolice, and
324: many other things. A good overview of what's new in this release,
325: plus some interesting comments about future direction.
326: <p>
327:
328: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.444 niallo 329: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/software/openbsd-3.7-released.html">
1.445 niallo 330: Next incarnation of OpenBSD released</a>,
1.444 niallo 331: Ping Wales, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
332: "OpenBSD is often unjustly overlooked as a free UNIX-like system in favour of
333: the more-hyped Linux. While it receives a lot less publicity than other
334: operating systems, this is not due to lack of technical merit." says David
335: Chisnall, in what is a clear and concise overview of the new features
336: in 3.7 and indeed the project as a whole.
337: <p>
338:
339: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
340: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5114">
1.445 niallo 341: 2005 Calgary Hackathon, KernelTrap Coverage</a>,
1.444 niallo 342: Kerneltrap, May 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
343: A great article about the annual OpenBSD Hackathon, detailing how the event
344: functions, work done at previous Hackathons and features which may come out
345: of this one. Includes many relevant quotes from developers themselves, and of
346: course information about the legendary Hackathon BBQ!
347: <p>
348:
349: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.442 deraadt 350: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9658/sam0505e/">
351: "Failover Firewalls with OpenBSD and CARP"</a>,
352: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 5, p. 33
1.441 deraadt 353: </strong></font><br>
354: Jason Dixon discusses the history of the CARP and pfsync protocols
355: and demonstrates using them to create redundant stateful firewalls
356: with OpenBSD.
357: </ul>
358:
1.436 henning 359: <h2>April, 2005</h2>
360: <ul>
361: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.440 ian 362: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39195801,00.htm">
363: Security guru wants access to bug databases</a>,
364: ZDNet UK, April 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
365: Ingrid Marson reports on Cambridge professor Ross Anderson's call for analysis of
366: software maintenance records to determine whether open source code is more secure
367: than closed source, as we have long contended.
368: "One of Anderson's research students, Andy Ozment, has already done
369: research using empirical data on bugs found in the open source
370: operating system OpenBSD between 1997 and 2000. This research found
371: that finding and fixing bugs results in a more secure product..."
372: Just as the OpenBSD project has been saying for years.
373: <p>
374: This article can also be found online as
375: <a href="http://uk.builder.com/manage/project/0,39026588,39244080,00.htm">Academic
376: calls for better bug tracking</a> (uk.builder.com).
377: <p>
378:
379: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.439 espie 380: [FRENCH] "PC Expert", number 152, p. 58
381: </strong></font><br>
382: Very short interview of Marc Espie about OpenBSD as a free OS focusing
383: on security, part of a larger dossier «les secrets des hackers».
384: <p>
385:
386: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.436 henning 387: [GERMAN] "Doppelwacht", iX 5/2005, p. 150.
388: </strong></font><br>
389: Stephan Tesch gives an introduction to CARP and using a pair of
390: OpenBSD boxes as Firewalls in High Availibility scenarios. He goes
1.438 martin 391: on explaining CARP and pfsync protocols, and does not forget to cover
1.436 henning 392: the issues we had with IETF.
393: </ul>
394:
1.431 ian 395: <h2>March, 2005</h2>
396: <ul>
397: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.435 reyk 398: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/4818">
399: OpenBSD's "Out of the Box" Wireless Support</a>,
400: Kerneltrap, March 8, 2005</strong></font><br>
401: This article is about the upcoming wireless support in OpenBSD 3.7 and
402: the outcome of the work to open wireless chipsets. Jeremy Andrews
403: talked with Theo de Raadt and the developers Damien Bergamini and Reyk
404: Floeter who did some efforts to implement free and functional drivers.
405: <p>
406:
407: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.431 ian 408: <a href="http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/01/1109546842718.html">
409: OpenBSD to support more wireless chipsets</a>,
410: The Age, March 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
411: "The forthcoming 3.7 release of the OpenBSD operating system has
412: added support for five more wireless chipsets, according to
413: OpenBSD project founder Theo de Raadt...
1.432 ian 414: OpenBSD 3.7 will also have have new drivers for Intel wireless
1.431 ian 415: parts that do not work without the non-redistributable firmware,"
416: namely the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11B
417: and 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11A/B/G wireless network adapters.
418: Mentions OpenBSD's activism in getting vendors to release chip specs.
419: Referring to vendors that still refuse to play ball with open source
420: projects, quotes Damien Miller as saying "Given the number of
421: appliance devices that are built on free OSs, I think that the
422: recalcitrant vendors are missing an important boat."
423:
424: </ul>
425:
1.427 matthieu 426: <h2>February, 2005</h2>
427: <ul>
428:
429: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.428 david 430: <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsaward2004.html">
431: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
432: FSF, February 26, 2005</strong></font><br>
433: The Free Software Foundation awarded Theo de Raadt their "2004 Free Software
434: Award" for his unwavering commitment to free software. Most recently he has
435: been fighting hardware manufacturers for free redistribution of wireless card
436: firmware.
1.434 ian 437: Similar articles can be found online at:
438: <ul>
439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
440: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=419">
441: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
442: Tectonic.za, March 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
443: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
444: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article4362.phtml">
445: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
446: OSDir, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
447: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
448: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/De-Raadt-gets-free-software-award/2005/02/28/1109546758523.html?oneclick=true">
449: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
450: The Age, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
451: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 452: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/02/27/1413255.shtml?tid=99&tid=7">
1.434 ian 453: Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award</a>,
454: Slashdot, February 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
455: </ul>
1.427 matthieu 456: </ul>
457:
1.426 ian 458: <h2>January, 2005</h2>
459: <ul>
460:
461: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
462: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363731">
463: Systrace in OpenBSD</a>,
464: informit.com, January 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
465: This article talks about our systrace
1.462 grunk 466: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&sektion=1">systrace(1)</a>
1.426 ian 467: mechanism: what it is and why and
468: how to use it, with examples.
469: Another excerpt from the book
470: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
471: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
472: <p>
473:
474: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
475: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363732">
476: Overview of OpenBSD</a>,
477: informit.com, January 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
478: "OpenBSD is one of the most secure and well-designed operating
479: systems available today. It has its roots in countless hours of
480: research and development based on some of the best UNIX flavors of
481: the past, and it boasts all the features of modern operating systems.
482: The OS is widely considered one of the most secure general-purpose
483: operating systems available today and it supports many key parts
484: of the global Internet infrastructure..."
485: This article is a sample chapter from
486: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
487: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
488: <p>
1.443 ian 489:
490: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 491: <a href="http://www.pcplus.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=34628&subsectionid=784">
1.443 ian 492: OpenBSD operating system</a>,
493: PCPlus.co.uk, January, 2005</strong></font><br>
494: Paul Grosse gives a brief tutorial on installing OpenBSD on i386 for people
495: moving in a Windows->Linux direction, encouraging them to go a bit further for security.
496: "While Linux out-scores Windows substantially (or completely) on [security as well as many other
497: issues], it's still possible to use a more secure operating system on the PC... OpenBSD."
498: Gives a brief but understandable walkthrough on the installation process, right up to
499: downloading and installing the third-party packages, and
500: ends with a sidebar on security.
501: <p>
1.426 ian 502: </ul>
503:
1.424 ian 504: <h2>December, 2004</h2>
505: <ul>
506:
507: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.425 ian 508: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/2329229">
509: What are the real vulnerabilities of Linux?</a>
510: NewsForge.com, December 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
511: Several security consultants were asked about "the real vulnerabilities of
512: Linux". Cybersoure CEO Con Symaris seems to get it better than the rest:
513: "One needs to approach security as a prime requirement and motivator,
514: much as the OpenBSD team do," Zymaris said... "The Linux
515: community mindset is different. Linux development is dynamic and
516: races ahead towards more and broader functionality, drawing a
517: multitude of interested parties in to make interesting extensions
518: and adaptations at a rapid rate."
519: <p>
520: "In order to do security the BSD way, however, much more effort
521: needs to be spent auditing code for holes, which is much less sexy,
522: and attracts a different set of coders," Zymaris added.
523: <p>
524:
525: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.424 ian 526: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/281">
527: Closed Source Hardware</a>
528: Security Focus, December 1, 2004</strong></font><br>
529: Symantec Threat Analyst Jason Miller analyzes the potential security threats
530: when hardware vendors won't provide device documentation and
531: instead provide "binary only" driver code for inclusion in open source
532: operating systems.
533: Miller is an open-source fan who says he uses a variety of systems, including
534: OpenBSD on his firewall.
535: Of the recent trend to closed-source binary drivers for open-source
536: systems, he writes:
537: <blockquote>
538: The closed-source component required to support this hardware is
539: completely independent of the associated operating system, and as
540: such, is also independent of the engineering team, security team,
541: auditing process, and quality control procedures normally related
542: to the operating system...
543: <br/>
544: What's possibly even more disturbing is that we're talking about
545: a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest
546: possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a
547: third-party vendor. This code could do anything once loaded, including
548: leaking active WEP keys, gathering usage statistics, sniffing and
549: disclosing traffic, and it could even introduce a subtle backdoor
550: into the operating system itself (much the same as any device driver
551: in a closed source operating system).
552: <br/>
553: [A]lthough some of these scenarios are a
554: little far-fetched, the possibility for them to exist is there...
555: Ultimately it becomes an issue of trust, which is a cornerstone of
556: good security: whom do you trust, and how much do you trust them?
557: </blockquote>
558: <p>And he comments that trust "seems to be a one-way street": vendors
559: demand that you trust them, but they won't trust you to know how
560: their hardware and software operates.
561: This lack of trust is one reason why OpenBSD has recently completed
562: reverse-engineering the
1.462 grunk 563: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4">
1.424 ian 564: Atheros wireless chipset driver</a>
565: that was originally provided as a binary insert.
566: <p>
567: </ul>
568:
1.417 pvalchev 569: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
570: <ul>
1.421 ian 571:
1.417 pvalchev 572: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.422 ian 573: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730775,00.asp">
574: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Widens Its Scope</a>
575: eWEEK, November 22, 2004</strong></font><br>
576: Jason Brooks reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and likes the changes it brings,
577: including the multi-processing support which, he notes,
578: "will be even more important as multicore processors--which occupy space
579: on the road maps of Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others--
580: become more prevalent." Comments favorably on OpenNTPD
581: ("the three-line configuration file we needed to modify ... on OpenBSD was
582: much simpler to deal with than the equivalent configuration file on
583: the Linux systems we've tested").
1.423 ian 584: Overall a favorable review of some of the new stuff in 3.6.
1.422 ian 585: <p>
586: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 otto 587: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
588: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
589: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
590: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
591: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
592: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
593: it claims to do".
594: <p>
595:
596: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 597: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109994542424009&w=2">
1.421 ian 598: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution</a>
599: misc@, November 8, 2004</strong></font><br>
600: Theo recounts the struggle to get Intel to provide redistributable
601: versions of the firmware for their wireless chipsets, and their
1.423 ian 602: ultimate refusal to allow OpenBSD to redistribute the chipsets' firmware.
1.421 ian 603: Includes a caveat about Intel's disingenuous "FAQ", typical of many
604: corporate FAQs that answer questions nobody actually thought
605: to ask, and don't truthfully answer the questions you want hard answers to.
606: At the end Theo names the names (and their emails) that need to be contacted
607: by large numbers of end-users and developers if Intel is to change
608: (yes, this is a hint).
609: Of interest is that this posting to one of our mailing lists was
610: picked up on the
611: <a href="http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1923">Screaming
612: Electron Forum</a> and from there reported on
1.462 grunk 613: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/22/1249249&from=rss">
1.421 ian 614: SlashDot</a>, where it is accompanied by a link to SlashDot's paper
615: on effective advocacy (be firm, but also be polite).
616: <p>
617:
618: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 619: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
620: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
621: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
622: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
623: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
624: questions about the significance and rationale behind
625: the current efforts.
626: <p>
627: </ul>
628:
1.407 henning 629: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
630: <ul>
631: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 632: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
633: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
634: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
635: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
636: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
637: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
638: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
639: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
640: <p>
641:
642: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 643: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
644: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
645: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
646: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
647: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
648: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
649: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
650: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
651: of the important changes in 3.6.
1.462 grunk 652: <p>
1.415 ian 653:
654: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 655: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
1.414 ian 656: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
657: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
658: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
659: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
660: overflow attacks... because
661: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
662: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
663: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
664: and propolice.
665: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
666: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
667: and that's when the science falls apart."
668: <p>
669:
670: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 671: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
672: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
673: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
674: Starts with the question:
675: <blockquote>
676: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
677: <br/>
678: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
679: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
680: <br/>
681: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
682: Should we believe them?"
683: </blockquote>
684: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
685: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
686: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
687: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
688: for your mail, web and other online activities.
689: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
690: <p>
691:
692: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 693: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
694: Simple Simon</a>,
695: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
696: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
697: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
698: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
699: routing/firewall, and more.
700: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
701: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
702: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
703: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
704: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
705: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
706: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
707: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
708: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
709: </blockquote>
710: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
711: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
712: <p>
713:
714: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 715: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
716: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 717: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 718: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 719: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
720: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
721: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 722: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 723: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
724: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
725: in spite of it
726: (registration required, but worth it).
727: <p>
728:
729: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
730: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
731: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
732: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
733: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
734: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
735: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
736: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 737: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 738: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
739: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
740: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
741: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
742: <p>
743:
744: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 745: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
746: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
747: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
748: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
749: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
750: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
751: <blockquote>
752: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
753: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
754: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
755: a lot of analysis.
756: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
757: </blockquote>
758: <p>
759: </ul>
760:
1.400 marco 761: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
762: <ul>
763: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 764: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
765: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
766: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
767: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
768: UNIX-like systems.
769: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
770: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
771: <p>
772: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 773: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
774: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 775: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
776: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
777: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
778: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
779: At one point, the article states:
780: <blockquote>
781: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
782: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
783: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
784: </blockquote>
785: And then quotes Theo as saying:
786: <blockquote>
787: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
788: fewer are reading or auditing code."
789: </blockquote>
790: <p>
791: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
792: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
793: marks its fifth birthday</a>
794: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
795: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
796: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
797: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
798: required).
799: <p>
800: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 801: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
802: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
803: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
804: </strong></font><br>
805: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
806: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
807: <p>
808: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 809: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
810: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 811: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 812: </strong></font><br>
813: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
814: <p>
815: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 816: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
817: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 818: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 819: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 820: 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 821: <p>
822: </ul>
823:
1.396 henning 824: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
825: <ul>
826: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 827: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
828: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
829: Unix Review, July, 2004
830: </strong></font><br>
831: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
832: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
1.462 grunk 833: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
1.418 ian 834: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
835: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
836: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
837: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
838: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
839: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
840: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
841: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
842: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
843: and even spelling/wording errors.
844: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
845: <p>
846: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 847: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 848: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
849: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
850: </strong></font><br>
851: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
852: <p>
853: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 854: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 855: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
856: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
857: </strong></font><br>
858: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
859: <p>
860: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 861: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
862: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
863: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
864: </strong></font><br>
865: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
866: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
867: <p>
868: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 869: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
870: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
871: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
872: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
873: <p>
874: </ul>
875:
1.405 jolan 876: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
877: <ul>
878: <li><font color="#00900"><strong>
879: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
1.466 deraadt 880: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 5, 2004</strong></font>
1.405 jolan 881: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
882: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
883: details on how funds are dispersed.
884: <p>
885: </ul>
886:
1.393 david 887: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
888: <ul>
889: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 890: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
891: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
892: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
893: </strong></font><br>
894: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
895: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
896: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
897: on inserting large number of SQL records.
898: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
899: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
900: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
901: <p>
902:
903: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 904: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
905: Secure by Default</a>,
906: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
907: </strong></font><br>
908: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
909: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
910: <p>
911:
912: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
913: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
914: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
915: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
916: </strong></font><br>
917: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
918: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
919: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
920: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
921: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
922: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
923: <p>
924:
925: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
926: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
927: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
928: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
929: </strong></font><br>
930: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
931: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
932: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
933: <p>
934:
935: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
936: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
937: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
938: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
939: </strong></font><br>
940: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
941: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
942: <p>
943: </ul>
944:
1.388 mcbride 945: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
946: <ul>
1.394 jolan 947:
948: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
949: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
950: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
951: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
952: </strong></font><br>
953: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
954: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
955: available for sparc64.
956: <p>
957:
1.390 beck 958: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 959: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
960: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
961: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
962: </strong></font><br>
963: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
964: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
965: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
966: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
967: <p>
968:
969: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 970: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
971: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 972: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 973: </strong></font><br>
974: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
975: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
976: it does: CARP provides sharing
977: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
978: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
979: detail to get you started using it.
980: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
981: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
982: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
983: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
984: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
985: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
986: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 987: <p>
1.391 ian 988:
989: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 990: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 991: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
992: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 993: </strong></font><br>
994: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 995: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 996: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 997: <p>
1.388 mcbride 998:
999: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1000: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
1001: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 1002: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 1003: </strong></font><br>
1004: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
1005: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
1006: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
1007: unencumbered by patents.
1008: <p>
1009: </ul>
1010:
1.378 henning 1011: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
1012: <ul>
1.384 jose 1013:
1014: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 1015: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
1016: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
1017: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
1018: </strong></font><br>
1019: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
1020: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
1021: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
1022: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
1023: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
1024: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
1025: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
1026: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
1027: in the page tables."
1028: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
1029: <p>
1030:
1031: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1032: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
1033: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
1034: </strong></font><br>
1035: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
1036: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
1037: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
1038: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 1039: <p>
1.384 jose 1040:
1.378 henning 1041: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 1042: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
1043: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 1044: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
1045: </strong></font><br>
1046: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
1047: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
1048: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
1049: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
1050: (quote:
1051: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
1052: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 1053: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 1054: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
1055: the other developers for their work on the system.
1056: <p>
1057:
1058: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1059: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
1060: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
1061: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 1062: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 1063: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
1064: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
1065: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
1066: too.
1067: <p>
1068:
1069: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 1070: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
1071: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 1072: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 1073: OpenBSD source code using
1074: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
1075: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
1076: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
1077: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
1078: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
1079: <p>
1080: </ul>
1081:
1.374 jose 1082: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
1083: <ul>
1084: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 1085: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 1086: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
1087: </strong></font><br>
1088: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
1089: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
1090: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
1091: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
1092: it."
1093: <p>
1094:
1095: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 1096: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
1097: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
1098: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
1099: </strong></font><br/>
1100: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
1101: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
1102: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
1103: <p>
1104: </ul>
1105:
1.369 ian 1106: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
1107: <ul>
1108: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1109: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
1110: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
1111: </strong></font><br/>
1112: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
1113: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
1114: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
1115: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
1116: <p>
1117:
1118: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 1119: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
1120: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
1121: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
1122: </strong></font><br/>
1123: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
1124: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
1125: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
1126: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
1127: form factor.
1128: <p>
1129:
1130: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1131: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
1132: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
1133: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
1134: Features</a>,
1135: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
1136: </strong></font><br/>
1137: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
1138: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
1139: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
1140: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
1141: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
1142: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
1143: <p>
1144: This article can also be found online at:
1145: <ul>
1146: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1147: <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 1148: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
1149: </strong></font>
1150: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
1151: </ul>
1152: <p>
1.392 david 1153:
1.371 jose 1154: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 1155: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
1156: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 1157: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
1158: </strong></font><br/>
1159: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
1160: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
1161: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 1162: <p>
1.371 jose 1163:
1164: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 1165: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 1166: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 1167: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 1168: </strong></font><br/>
1169: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
1170: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
1171: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
1172: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
1173: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
1174: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
1175: and its history with OpenBSD.
1176: </ul>
1177:
1.368 henning 1178: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
1179: <ul>
1180: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 1181: [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 1182: </strong></font><br>
1183: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
1184: </ul>
1185:
1.364 jose 1186: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
1187: <ul>
1188: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 1189: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
1190: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
1191: UNIX Review,
1192: July, 2003.
1193: </strong></font><br>
1194: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
1195: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
1196: who want more information.
1197: <p>
1198:
1199: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 1200: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
1201: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
1202: Government Computer News,
1203: July 22, 2003.
1204: </strong></font><br>
1205: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
1206: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
1207: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
1208: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
1209: <p>
1210:
1211: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1212: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
1213: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
1214: SANS Institute,
1215: July 22, 2003.
1216: </strong></font><br>
1217: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 1218: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 1219: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
1220: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
1221: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
1222: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
1223: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
1224: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
1225: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
1226: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
1227: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
1228: <p>
1229:
1230: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 1231: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
1232: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
1233: OnLamp.com,
1234: July 17, 2003.
1235: </strong></font><br>
1236: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
1237: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
1238: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
1239: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
1240: have been working on.
1241:
1242: </ul>
1243:
1.356 jose 1244: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 1245: <ul>
1246:
1247: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 1248: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
1249: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
1250: UNIX Review,
1251: June, 2003.
1252: </strong></font><br>
1253: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
1254: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
1255: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
1256: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
1257: <p>
1258:
1259: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 1260: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
1261: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
1262: eWeek,
1263: June 23, 2003.
1264: </strong></font><br>
1265: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
1266: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
1267: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
1268: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
1269: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
1270: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
1271: <p>
1272:
1273: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 1274: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
1275: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
1276: Software Development Online,
1277: June, 2003.
1278: </strong></font><br>
1279: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
1280: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
1281: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
1282: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
1283: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
1284: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
1285: current activities.
1286: <p>
1287:
1288: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 1289: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
1290: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 1291: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
1292: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
1293: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
1294: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 1295: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 1296: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
1297: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
1298: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 1299: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 1300: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
1301: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 1302: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 1303: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
1304: decisions.
1305: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
1306: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 1307: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 1308: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 1309: <p>
1310:
1311: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 1312: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
1313: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
1314: Page 58, eWeek,
1315: June 2, 2003.
1316: </strong></font><br>
1317: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
1318: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
1319: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
1320: been addressed in -current.
1321: <p>
1322:
1.356 jose 1323: </ul>
1324:
1325: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
1326: <ul>
1327:
1.355 jose 1328: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 1329: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
1330: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
1331: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
1332: </strong></font><br>
1333: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
1334: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
1335: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
1336: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
1337: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
1338: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
1339: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
1340: <p>
1341:
1342: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 1343: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
1344: Beyond Linux</a>,
1345: InfoWorld,
1346: May 23, 2003.
1347: </strong></font><br>
1348: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
1349: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
1350: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
1351: compared to the GPL.
1352: <p>
1353:
1354: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 1355: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
1356: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
1357: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 1358: May 17, 2003.
1359: </strong></font><br>
1360: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
1361: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
1362: the business section and half of another page inside
1363: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
1364: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
1365: in talking about the project's history and goals.
1366: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
1367: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
1368: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
1369: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 1370: <br>
1371: This article can also be found online at:
1372: <ul>
1373: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1374: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
1375: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
1376: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
1377: May 17, 2003
1378: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 1379: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
1380: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1381: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
1382: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
1383: Montreal Gazette,
1384: May 21, 2003
1385: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 1386: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 1387: <p>
1.346 ian 1388:
1389: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 1390: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 1391: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 1392: May 7, 2003.
1393: </strong></font><br>
1394: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
1395: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
1396: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
1397: <p>
1398:
1399: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 1400: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
1401: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1402: OsOpinion,
1403: May 6, 2003.
1404: </strong></font><br>
1405: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
1406: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
1407: <br>
1408: This article can also be found online at:
1409: <ul>
1410: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1411: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
1412: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1413: NewsFactor Network.
1414: </strong></font>
1415: </ul>
1416: <p>
1417:
1418: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1419: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 1420: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
1421: ITBusiness,
1422: May 2, 2003.
1423: </strong></font><br>
1424: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
1425: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
1426: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
1427: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
1428: <p>
1429:
1430: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 1431: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
1432: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1433: InfoWorld,
1434: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 1435: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 1436: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
1437: <br>
1438: This article can also be found online at:
1439: <ul>
1440: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1441: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
1442: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1443: IDG Singapore.
1444: </strong></font>
1445: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1446: <p>
1447:
1.339 jose 1448: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1449: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
1450: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 1451: ZDNet,
1452: May 1, 2003.
1453: </strong></font><br>
1454: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 1455: someone using parts from previous articles.
1456: <br>
1.341 deraadt 1457: This article can also be found online at:
1458: <ul>
1459: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1460: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
1461: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1462: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 1463: </strong></font>
1464: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1465: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
1466: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1467: CNET News.com.
1468: </strong></font>
1469: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1470: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
1471: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
1472: ZDNet UK.
1473: </strong></font>
1474: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1475: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
1476: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
1477: Help Net Security, Croatia.
1478: </strong></font>
1479: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1480: <p>
1.339 jose 1481:
1.341 deraadt 1482: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1483: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 1484: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
1485: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
1486: May 1, 2003.
1487: </strong></font><br>
1488: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
1489: that have been added
1490: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
1491: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
1492: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 1493: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 1494: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
1495: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
1496: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 1497: <p>
1498:
1499: </ul>
1500:
1.253 ian 1501: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
1502: <ul>
1.255 ian 1503:
1.260 ian 1504: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1505: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 1506: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1507: TechRepublic,
1508: April 28, 2003.
1509: </strong></font><br>
1510: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
1511: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 1512: work.<br>
1513: Can also be found online at:
1514: <ul>
1515: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1516: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
1517: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1518: ZDNet UK.
1519: </strong></font>
1520: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 1521: <p>
1522:
1523: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 1524: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
1525: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
1526: IDG,
1527: April 24, 2003.
1528: </strong></font><br>
1529: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
1530: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
1531: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
1532: Can also be found online at:
1533: <ul>
1534: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1535: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
1536: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 1537: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 1538: </strong></font>
1539: </ul>
1540: <p>
1541:
1542: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1543: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 1544: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 1545: Slate,
1546: April 24, 2003.
1547: </strong></font><br>
1548: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
1549: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
1550: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
1551: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
1552: <p>
1553:
1554: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 1555: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1556: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
1557: April 24, 2003.
1558: </strong></font><br>
1559: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
1560: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
1561: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
1562: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
1563: <p>
1564:
1565: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 1566: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
1567: April 24, 2003.
1568: </strong></font><br>
1569: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
1570: the free software community".
1571: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
1572: other articles.
1573: <p>
1574:
1575: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1576: <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 1577: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
1578: </strong></font><br>
1579: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
1580: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
1581: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
1582: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
1583: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
1584: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
1585: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 1586: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 1587: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
1588: <br/>
1589: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
1590: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
1591: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
1592: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 1593: <br>
1594: Can also be found online at:
1595: <ul>
1596: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1597: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
1598: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
1599: Common Dreams NewsCenter
1600: </strong></font>
1601: </ul>
1.324 ian 1602: <p>
1603:
1604: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1605: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
1606: Wired, April 24, 2003.
1607: </strong></font><br>
1608: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
1609: article above.
1610: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
1611: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
1612: wasting them."
1.332 ian 1613: <br>
1614: Can also be found online at:
1615: <ul>
1616: <li>
1617: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
1618: </strong></font>
1619: </ul>
1.324 ian 1620: <p>
1621:
1622: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 1623: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
1624: </strong></font><br>
1625: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
1626: <p>
1627:
1628: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 1629: <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.
1630: </strong></font><br>
1631: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
1632: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
1633: <p>
1634:
1635: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 1636: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
1637: April 23, 2003.
1638: </strong></font><br>
1639: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
1640: <p>
1641:
1642: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 1643: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 1644: April 22, 2003.
1645: </strong></font><br>
1646: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
1647: <p>
1648:
1649: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 1650: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1651: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1652: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 1653: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 1654: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
1655: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
1656: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
1657: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
1658: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
1659: Can also be found online at:
1660: <ul>
1661: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1662: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 1663: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1664: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 1665: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 1666: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1667: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 1668: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
1669: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 1670: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 1671: </ul>
1672: <p>
1673:
1674: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 1675: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
1676: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 1677: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1678: </strong></font><br>
1679: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 1680: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
1681: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
1682: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
1683: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
1684: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
1685: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 1686: <p>
1687:
1688: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 1689: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
1690: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 1691: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
1692: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 1693: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
1694: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
1695: at UPenn and DARPA.
1696: <p>
1697:
1698: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 1699: [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,
1700: France
1.315 deraadt 1701: April 18, 2003.
1702: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 1703: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 1704: <p>
1705:
1706: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 1707: [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 1708: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1709: </strong></font><br>
1710: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
1711: <p>
1712:
1713: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 1714: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
1715: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
1716: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1717: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 1718: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
1719: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
1720: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
1721: <p>
1722:
1723: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 1724: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
1725: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1726: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 1727: </strong></font><br>
1728: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1729: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
1730: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 1731: American century.
1.267 deraadt 1732: <p>
1733:
1734: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 1735: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
1736: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1737: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 1738: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 1739: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
1740: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
1741: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
1742: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
1743: Can also be found online at:
1744: <ul>
1745: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
1746: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 1747: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 1748: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 1749: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 1750: <p>
1751:
1752: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 1753: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 1754: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1755: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 1756: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 1757: </strong></font><br>
1758: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 1759: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
1760: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
1761: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
1762: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 1763:
1764: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1765: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
1766: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1767: New York Times.
1768: </strong></font>(free registration required)
1769:
1.273 deraadt 1770: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1771: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 1772: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1773: ABC News.
1774: </strong></font>
1775:
1776: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1777: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 1778: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 1779: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 1780: </strong></font>
1781:
1782: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1783: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1784: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 1785: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 1786: </strong></font>
1787:
1788: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 1789: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
1790: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1791: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 1792: </strong></font>
1793:
1794: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1795: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1796: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 1797: Times Daily, AL.
1798: </strong></font>
1799:
1800: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1801: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
1802: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
1803: Boston.com, MA.
1804: </strong></font>
1805:
1806: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1807: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 1808: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 1809: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
1810: </strong></font>
1811:
1812: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 1813: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
1814: [Article was pulled]</a>
1815: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 1816: </strong></font>
1817:
1818: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1819: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
1820: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
1821: Infoshop News.
1822: </strong></font>
1823:
1824: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1825: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
1826: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1827: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
1828: </strong></font>
1829:
1830: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 1831: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
1832: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
1833: Raleigh News, NC.
1834: </strong></font>
1835:
1836: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1837: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 1838: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
1839: Napa News, CA.
1840: </strong></font>
1841:
1842: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1843: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 1844: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1845: NEPA News, PA.
1846: </strong></font>
1847:
1848: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1849: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
1850: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
1851: Wired News.
1852: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 1853: <br>
1854: <li>
1.333 deraadt 1855: <font color="#009000"><strong>
1856: [JAPANESE]
1857: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
1858: Wired News Japan</a>
1859: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 1860:
1.271 deraadt 1861: </ul>
1862: <p>
1.272 deraadt 1863: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
1864: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 1865: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
1866: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
1867: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
1868: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
1869: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
1870: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 1871: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 1872: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
1873: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
1874: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 1875: <p>
1876: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 1877:
1878: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1879: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 1880: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1881: Indianapolis Star, IN.
1882: </strong></font>
1883:
1884: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 1885: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
1886: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1887: Miami Herald, FL.
1888: </strong></font>
1889:
1890: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 1891: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1892: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
1893: </strong></font>
1894:
1895: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1896: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 1897: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1898: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 1899: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 1900:
1901: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1902: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
1903: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
1904: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
1905: ABC News.
1906: </strong></font>
1907:
1.276 deraadt 1908: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1909: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 1910: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1911: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 1912: </strong></font>
1913:
1.286 dhartmei 1914: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1915: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 1916: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1917: Wilmington Star, NC.
1918: </strong></font>
1919:
1.300 jose 1920: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1921: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
1922: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
1923: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
1924: </strong></font>
1925:
1.309 jose 1926: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1927: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
1928: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
1929: Globe Technology.
1930: </strong></font>
1931:
1.263 deraadt 1932: </ul>
1.262 beck 1933: <p>
1934:
1935: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 1936: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
1937: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1938: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 1939: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 1940: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 1941: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
1942: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
1943: <p>
1944:
1945: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 1946: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
1947: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
1948: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1949: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 1950: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
1951: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
1952: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
1953: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
1954: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
1955: and simply restates other press reports.
1956: <p>
1957:
1958: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 1959: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
1960: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1961: OS News, April 18, 2003.
1962: </strong></font><br>
1963: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
1964: <p>
1965:
1966: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 1967: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
1968: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1969: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 1970: </strong></font><br>
1971: Another report on the DARPA funding.
1972: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
1973: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
1974: <p>
1975:
1976: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 1977: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
1978: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
1979: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
1980: April 17, 2003.
1981: </strong></font><br>
1982: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
1983: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
1984: Tech Anthems</a>
1985: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
1986: 4 so far.
1987: <p>
1988:
1989: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 1990: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
1991: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1992: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 1993: </strong></font><br>
1994: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
1995: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
1996: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
1997: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
1998: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
1999: Goes on to say:
2000: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
2001: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
2002: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
2003: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 2004: This article is also found online at:
2005: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 2006: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2007: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
2008: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
2009: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 2010: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 2011: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2012: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
2013: ZDnet</a>,
2014: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 2015: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 2016: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2017: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
2018: ZDnet Australia</a>,
2019: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 2020: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 2021: </ul>
1.260 ian 2022: <p>
1.279 deraadt 2023:
1.260 ian 2024: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2025: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 2026: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 2027: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2028: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 2029: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 2030: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
2031: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
2032: without notice or justification.
2033: <p>
2034:
2035: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2036: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 2037: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 2038: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2039: </strong></font><br>
2040: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
2041: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 2042: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 2043: effective today, without any warning..."
2044: <p>
1.257 ian 2045:
2046: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 2047: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
2048: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2049: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 2050: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 2051: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
2052: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
2053: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
2054: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
2055: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 2056: <p>
2057:
2058: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 2059: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
2060: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2061: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 2062: </strong></font><br>
2063: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
2064: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
2065: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
2066: quoting two of them:
2067: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
2068: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
2069: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
2070: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
2071: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
2072: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
2073: <p>
2074:
1.255 ian 2075: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2076: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
2077: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 2078: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2079: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 2080: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 2081: <p>
2082:
2083: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 2084: [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 2085: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2086: </strong></font><br>
2087: New security concepts in OpenBSD
2088: <p>
2089:
2090: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 2091: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
2092: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2093: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 2094: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 2095: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 2096: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
2097: security experts for more than three decades."
2098: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
2099: <p>
1.261 ian 2100:
1.254 drahn 2101: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 2102: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 2103: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2104: </strong></font><br>
2105: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
2106: <p>
2107:
2108: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 2109: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
2110: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
2111: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
2112: </strong></font><br>
2113: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
2114: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
2115: discussion OpenBSD's path.
2116: <p>
2117:
2118: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 2119: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
2120: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2121: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 2122: </strong></font><br>
2123: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
2124: from US DARPA.
2125: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
2126: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
2127: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
2128: the BSD license.
2129: <p>
2130: </ul>
2131:
1.251 ian 2132: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
2133: <ul>
2134:
2135: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2136: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
2137: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
2138: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
2139: </strong></font><br>
2140:
2141: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
2142: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
2143: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
2144: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
2145: <p>
2146:
2147: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 2148: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
2149: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 2150: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 2151: </strong></font><br>
2152: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
2153: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
2154: Mentions
2155: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
2156: and
2157: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
2158: programs.
2159: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 2160: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 2161: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
2162: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
2163: <p>
1.325 ian 2164: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
2165: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 2166:
2167: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2168: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
2169: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
2170: </strong></font><br>
2171: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
2172: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
2173: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
2174: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
2175: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
2176: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
2177: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
2178: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
2179: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
2180: put into service."
2181: <p>
2182: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
2183: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
2184: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
2185: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
2186: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
2187: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
2188: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
2189: computers with security features."
2190: <p>
1.329 ian 2191:
2192: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2193: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
2194: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
2195: Slate,
2196: March 3, 2003.
2197: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 2198: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 2199: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
2200: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
2201: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
2202: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
2203: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
2204: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
2205: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
2206: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
2207: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
2208: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
2209: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
2210: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
2211: of more secure open-source solutions like
2212: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
2213: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
2214: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
2215: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
2216: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
2217: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
2218: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
2219: the Beltway."
2220: <p>
1.251 ian 2221: </ul>
2222:
1.249 jufi 2223: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
2224: <ul>
2225: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2226: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
2227: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2228: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 2229: </strong></font><br>
2230: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
2231: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 2232: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 2233: <p>
1.334 ian 2234:
2235: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2236: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
2237: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
2238: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
2239: </strong></font><br>
2240: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
2241: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
2242: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
2243: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
2244: "... the hypothetical question ...
2245: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
2246: <br>
2247: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
2248: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
2249: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
2250: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
2251: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
2252: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 2253: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 2254: support network security.
2255: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
2256: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
2257: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
2258: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
2259: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
2260: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
2261: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
2262: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
2263: <br>
2264: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
2265: <p>
2266:
1.249 jufi 2267: </ul>
2268:
1.246 jufi 2269: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2270: <ul>
1.246 jufi 2271:
1.247 jufi 2272: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2273: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 2274: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2275: CNET News.com, December 4, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2276: </strong></font><br>
2277: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
2278: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
2279: <p>
2280:
1.247 jufi 2281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2282: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
2283: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2284: Heise News-Ticker, December 4, 2002
1.301 jose 2285: </strong></font><br>
1.460 david 2286: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III CPU
1.301 jose 2287: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
2288: <p>
2289:
2290: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2291: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 2292: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2293: eWeek, December 3, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2294: </strong></font><br>
2295: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
2296: in their annual OpenHack security test.
2297: <p>
1.247 jufi 2298: </ul>
1.246 jufi 2299:
1.244 jufi 2300: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2301: <ul>
1.246 jufi 2302:
1.247 jufi 2303: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2304: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
2305: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
2306: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2307: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2308: </strong></font><br>
2309: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
2310: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
2311: md5 digests.
2312: <p>
2313:
1.247 jufi 2314: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2315: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 2316: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
2317: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2318: </strong></font><br>
2319: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
2320: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
2321: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
2322: right the first time."
2323: <p>
1.247 jufi 2324: </ul>
1.244 jufi 2325:
2326:
2327: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2328: <ul>
1.244 jufi 2329:
1.247 jufi 2330: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2331: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2332: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
2333: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2334: </strong></font><br>
2335: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
2336: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
2337: part 6</a>.
2338: <p>
2339:
1.247 jufi 2340: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2341: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 2342: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
2343: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2344: O'Reilly Network, August 8, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2345: </strong></font><br>
2346: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
2347: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
2348: <p>
1.301 jose 2349:
2350: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2351: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
2352: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
2353: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
2354: </strong></font><br>
2355:
2356: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
2357: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
2358: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
2359: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
2360: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
2361: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
2362: <i>Here's the
2363: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
2364: <p>
1.247 jufi 2365: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2366:
2367: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2368: <ul>
1.242 jufi 2369:
1.247 jufi 2370: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2371: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 2372: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2373: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2374: </strong></font><br>
2375: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
2376: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
2377: <p>
2378:
1.247 jufi 2379: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2380: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2381: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2382: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 1, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2383: </strong></font><br>
2384: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
2385: this time using pf.
2386: <p>
1.247 jufi 2387: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2388:
2389: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2390: <ul>
1.242 jufi 2391:
1.247 jufi 2392: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2393: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2394: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
2395: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2396: </strong></font><br>
2397: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
2398: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
2399: their rotation.
2400: <p>
2401:
1.247 jufi 2402: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2403: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2404: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2405: O'Reilly Network, June 6, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2406: </strong></font><br>
2407: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
2408: <p>
1.247 jufi 2409: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2410:
1.239 jufi 2411: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2412: <ul>
1.239 jufi 2413:
1.247 jufi 2414: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2415: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2416: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
2417: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2418: </strong></font><br>
2419: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
2420: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
2421: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
2422: <p>
2423:
1.247 jufi 2424: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 2425: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2426: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
2427: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 2428: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 2429: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
2430: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
2431: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 2432: <p>
1.247 jufi 2433: </ul>
1.239 jufi 2434:
1.235 lebel 2435: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2436: <ul>
1.235 lebel 2437:
1.239 jufi 2438:
1.247 jufi 2439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 2440: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 2441: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
2442: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 2443: </strong></font><br>
2444: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
2445: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
2446: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
2447: <p>
1.301 jose 2448:
1.247 jufi 2449: </ul>
1.235 lebel 2450:
1.228 horacio 2451: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2452: <ul>
1.228 horacio 2453:
1.247 jufi 2454: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2455: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2456: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
2457: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 2458: </strong></font><br>
2459: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
2460: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
2461: <p>
2462:
1.247 jufi 2463: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 2464: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 2465: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
2466: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 2467: </strong></font><br>
2468: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
2469: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
2470: <p>
2471:
1.247 jufi 2472: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 2473: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 2474: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
2475: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 2476: </strong></font><br>
2477: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
2478: on the desktop of his parents.
2479: <p>
2480:
1.247 jufi 2481: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 2482: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 2483: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
2484: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 2485: </strong></font><br>
2486: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
2487: using IPFilter.
2488:
2489: <p>
2490:
1.247 jufi 2491: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 2492: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 2493: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
2494: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 2495: </strong></font><br>
2496: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
2497: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
2498: perspectives of the four OS.
2499: <br>
2500: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 2501: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 2502: <p>
2503:
1.247 jufi 2504: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 2505: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
2506: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 2507: software and security</a>,
2508: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 2509: </strong></font><br>
2510:
2511: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
2512: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
2513: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
2514: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
2515: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
2516: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
2517: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
2518: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
2519: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
2520: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
2521: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
2522: security conscious team beyond doubt.
2523: <p>
1.247 jufi 2524: </ul>
1.228 horacio 2525:
1.225 horacio 2526: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2527: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2528:
1.247 jufi 2529: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2530: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
2531: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 2532: Interview</a>,
2533: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 2534: </strong></font><br>
2535:
2536: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
2537: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
2538: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 2539: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 2540: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
2541: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
2542: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
2543: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
2544: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 2545: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 2546: of choice.
2547: <p>
1.247 jufi 2548: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2549:
2550: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2551: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2552:
1.247 jufi 2553: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2554: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 2555: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
2556: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 2557: </strong></font><br>
2558:
2559: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
2560: <p>
2561:
1.247 jufi 2562: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2563: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 2564: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
2565: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 2566: </strong></font><br>
2567:
2568: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
2569: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
2570: <p>
1.247 jufi 2571: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2572:
1.218 horacio 2573: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2574: <ul>
1.218 horacio 2575:
1.247 jufi 2576: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 2577: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 2578: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 2579: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 2580: </strong></font><br>
2581:
2582: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
2583: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
2584: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
2585: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
2586: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
2587: subjects. Worth a read.
2588: <p>
2589:
2590:
1.247 jufi 2591: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 2592: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 2593: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
2594: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 2595: </strong></font><br>
2596:
2597: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
2598: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
2599: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
2600: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
2601: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
2602: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
2603: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
2604: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
2605: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 2606: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 2607: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
2608: on other operating systems.<br>
2609: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
2610: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
2611: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
2612: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
2613: <p>
2614:
1.247 jufi 2615: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2616: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 2617: Operating System 2010</a>,
2618: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 2619: </strong></font><br>
2620:
2621: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
2622: covering the level of software integration into the core
2623: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
2624: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
2625: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
2626: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
2627: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
2628: <p>
2629:
1.247 jufi 2630: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 2631: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2632: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
2633: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 2634: </strong></font><br>
2635:
2636: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
2637: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
2638: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
2639: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
2640: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
2641: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
2642: <p>
1.247 jufi 2643: </ul>
1.221 horacio 2644:
1.210 jufi 2645: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2646: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2647:
1.247 jufi 2648: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2649: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2650: Already a Contender</a>,
2651: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 2652: </strong></font><br>
2653:
2654: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
2655: source software in response to an article which claimed that
2656: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
2657: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
2658: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
2659: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
2660: <p>
2661:
1.247 jufi 2662: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 2663: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 2664: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
2665: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 2666: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2667:
1.224 horacio 2668: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
2669: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
2670: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
2671: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
2672: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
2673: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 2674: <p>
1.247 jufi 2675: </ul>
1.215 horacio 2676:
2677: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2678: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2679:
1.247 jufi 2680: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2681: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
2682: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 2683: Division</a>,
2684: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 2685: </strong></font><br>
2686:
2687: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
2688: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 2689: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 2690: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
2691: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
2692: investment</em>.<br>
2693: The implementation details can be seen on their
2694: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
2695: <p>
2696:
1.247 jufi 2697: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2698: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
2699: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
2700: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
2701: </strong></font><br>
2702:
2703: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
2704: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
2705: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1.475 grunk 2706: laptops and T-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1.301 jose 2707: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
2708: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
2709: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
2710: <p>
2711:
2712: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2713: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2714: Thinking about Security</a>,
2715: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2716: </strong></font><br>
2717:
2718: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
2719: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
2720: security and says that even secured operating systems running
2721: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
2722: to time.<br>
2723: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
2724: system and just the most secure system.
2725: <p>
2726:
1.247 jufi 2727: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2728: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2729: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
2730: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2731: </strong></font><br>
2732:
2733: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
2734: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
2735: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
2736: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
2737: choice:<br>
2738: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
2739: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
2740: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
2741: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
2742: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
2743: network security devices and as such must be well
2744: armored."</em><br>
2745: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
2746: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
2747: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
2748: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
2749: <br>
2750: Bravo!
2751: <p>
1.247 jufi 2752: </ul>
1.210 jufi 2753:
1.207 ian 2754: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2755: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2756:
1.247 jufi 2757: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 2758: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
2759: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
2760: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 2761:
1.207 ian 2762: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
2763: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 2764: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 2765: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
2766: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
2767: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 2768: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 2769: <p>
1.247 jufi 2770: </ul>
1.207 ian 2771:
1.194 jufi 2772: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2773: <ul>
1.194 jufi 2774:
1.247 jufi 2775: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2776: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 2777: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
2778: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 2779: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2780:
1.240 miod 2781: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 2782: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
2783: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
2784: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
2785: <p>
2786:
1.247 jufi 2787: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2788: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
2789: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
2790: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
2791:
2792: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
2793: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
2794: <p>
2795:
2796: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2797: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
2798: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2799: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
2800:
2801: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
2802: <p>
2803:
2804: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2805: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 2806: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
2807: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
2808: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2809:
1.240 miod 2810: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 2811: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 2812: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
2813: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 2814: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 2815: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 2816: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
2817: <br>
1.413 deraadt 2818: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 2819: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
2820: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
2821: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
2822: <p>
2823:
1.247 jufi 2824: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 2825: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
2826: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 2827: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 2828: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2829:
1.194 jufi 2830: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
2831: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
2832: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
2833: <br>
2834: The new
2835: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 2836: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 2837: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
2838: <p>
1.247 jufi 2839: </ul>
1.194 jufi 2840:
1.190 horacio 2841: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2842: <ul>
1.190 horacio 2843:
1.247 jufi 2844: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 2845:
2846: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
2847: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
2848:
1.301 jose 2849:
1.191 jufi 2850: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
2851: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
2852:
2853: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
2854: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
2855:
1.212 horacio 2856: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
2857: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 2858: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
2859:
1.211 horacio 2860: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
2861: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 2862: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
2863:
1.247 jufi 2864: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 2865: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
2866:
1.247 jufi 2867: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 2868: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
2869:
1.212 horacio 2870: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
2871: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 2872: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
2873:
2874: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
2875: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
2876:
2877: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
2878: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
2879:
1.301 jose 2880: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
2881: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
2882:
1.191 jufi 2883: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
2884: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
2885:
2886: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 2887: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 2888:
1.192 jufi 2889: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
2890: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 2891: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 2892:
1.193 deraadt 2893: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
2894: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 2895: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 2896:
1.247 jufi 2897: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 2898: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
2899:
1.247 jufi 2900: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 2901: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
2902: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
2903:
1.213 horacio 2904: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 2905: 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 2906: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
2907:
1.190 horacio 2908: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 2909: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
2910: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
2911: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
2912: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
2913: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
2914: <p>
1.190 horacio 2915:
1.247 jufi 2916: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2917: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
2918: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
2919: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 2920: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2921:
1.195 jufi 2922: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 2923: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
2924: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
2925: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 2926: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
2927: <p>
2928:
1.247 jufi 2929: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2930: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 2931: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
2932: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
2933: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2934:
1.191 jufi 2935: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 2936: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
2937: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
2938: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
2939: <p>
2940:
2941: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2942: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2943: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2944: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
2945:
2946: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2947: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 2948: <p>
1.247 jufi 2949: </ul>
1.190 horacio 2950:
1.191 jufi 2951:
1.186 jufi 2952: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2953: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 2954:
1.247 jufi 2955: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 2956: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 2957: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
2958: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 2959: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 2960:
1.188 jufi 2961: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 2962: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 2963: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 2964: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
2965: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 2966: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 2967: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 2968: <p>
2969:
1.301 jose 2970: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2971: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2972: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2973: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2974:
2975: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2976: <p>
1.191 jufi 2977:
1.247 jufi 2978: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 2979: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
2980: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2981: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 5, 2001
1.191 jufi 2982: </strong></font><br>
2983:
2984: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
2985: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
2986: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
2987: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
2988: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
2989: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
2990: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
2991: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
2992: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
2993: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
2994: familiar?
2995: <p>
1.247 jufi 2996: </ul>
1.191 jufi 2997:
1.178 louis 2998: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2999: <ul>
1.178 louis 3000:
1.247 jufi 3001: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 3002: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 3003: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
3004: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 3005: </strong></font><br>
3006:
3007: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
3008: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
3009: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
3010: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
3011: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
3012: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
3013: <p>
3014:
1.247 jufi 3015: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3016: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
3017: Open source under the hood</a>,
3018: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 3019: </strong></font><br>
3020:
3021: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
3022: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
3023: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
3024: <p>
3025:
1.247 jufi 3026: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3027: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
3028: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
3029: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 3030: </strong></font><br>
3031:
3032: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
3033: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
3034: <p>
1.247 jufi 3035: </ul>
1.179 louis 3036:
1.174 louis 3037:
1.175 louis 3038: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3039: <ul>
1.175 louis 3040:
1.247 jufi 3041: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3042: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
3043: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
3044: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 3045: </strong></font><br>
3046:
3047: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
3048: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
3049: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
3050: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
3051: <p>
3052:
1.247 jufi 3053: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3054: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
3055: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
3056: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 3057: </strong></font><br>
3058:
3059: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 3060: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 3061: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
3062: <p>
1.247 jufi 3063: </ul>
1.175 louis 3064:
1.176 louis 3065:
1.172 mickey 3066: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3067: <ul>
1.172 mickey 3068:
1.247 jufi 3069: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3070: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
3071: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 3072: </strong></font><br>
3073:
3074: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
3075: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
3076: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 3077: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 3078: <p>
3079:
1.247 jufi 3080: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 3081: <a
1.269 deraadt 3082: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
3083: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
3084: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 3085: </strong></font><br>
3086:
3087: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
3088: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
3089: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
3090: <p>
3091:
1.247 jufi 3092: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3093: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 3094: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
3095: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 3096: </strong></font><br>
3097:
3098: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
3099: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
3100: <p>
3101:
1.247 jufi 3102: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3103: <a
1.269 deraadt 3104: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
3105: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 3106: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
3107: </strong></font><br>
3108:
3109: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
3110: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
3111: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
3112: our own Theo de Raadt.
3113: <p>
3114:
1.247 jufi 3115: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3116: <a
1.269 deraadt 3117: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
3118: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
3119: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 3120: </strong></font><br>
3121:
3122: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
3123: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
3124: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
3125: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
3126: shut down.]
3127: <p>
3128:
1.247 jufi 3129: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3130: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 3131: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 3132: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
3133: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 3134: </strong></font><br>
3135:
3136: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
3137: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
3138: <p>
1.247 jufi 3139: </ul>
1.172 mickey 3140:
1.161 louis 3141: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3142: <ul>
1.161 louis 3143:
1.247 jufi 3144: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 3145: <a
1.269 deraadt 3146: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
3147: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
3148: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 3149: </strong></font><br>
3150:
3151: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
3152: by John Wolley
3153: <p>
3154:
1.247 jufi 3155: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 3156: <a
1.269 deraadt 3157: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
3158: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
3159: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 3160: </strong></font><br>
3161:
3162: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
3163: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
3164: OpenBSD).
3165: <p>
3166:
1.247 jufi 3167: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 3168: <a
1.247 jufi 3169: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 3170: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
3171: </strong></font><br>
3172:
3173: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
3174: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
3175: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
3176: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
3177: and hindsight.
3178: <p>
3179:
1.247 jufi 3180: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3181: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
3182: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
3183: </strong></font><br>
3184:
3185: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
3186: <p>
3187:
1.247 jufi 3188: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 3189: <a
1.168 provos 3190: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
3191: December 7, 2000
3192: </strong></font><br>
3193:
3194: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
3195: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
3196: us explain.
3197: <p>
3198:
1.247 jufi 3199: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 3200: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
3201: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 3202: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 3203: December 6, 2000
3204: </strong></font><br>
3205:
3206: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
3207: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
3208: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
3209: <p>
3210:
1.247 jufi 3211: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3212: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
3213: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
3214: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
3215: </strong></font><br>
3216:
3217: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
3218: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
3219: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
3220: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
3221: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
3222: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
3223: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
3224: <p>
3225:
3226: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 3227: <a
1.226 horacio 3228: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
3229: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 3230: </strong></font><br>
3231:
3232: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 3233: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 3234: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 3235: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
3236: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
3237: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 3238: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 3239: <p>
1.162 millert 3240:
1.247 jufi 3241: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 3242: <a
1.161 louis 3243: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
3244: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
3245: </strong></font><br>
3246:
3247: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
3248: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
3249: <p>
3250:
1.247 jufi 3251: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3252: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
3253: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
3254: </strong></font><br>
3255:
3256: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
3257: <p>
3258:
3259:
1.247 jufi 3260: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 3261: <a
1.226 horacio 3262: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
3263: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
3264: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 3265: </strong></font><br>
3266:
3267: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
3268: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
3269: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
3270: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
3271: <p>
1.247 jufi 3272: </ul>
1.169 louis 3273:
1.158 louis 3274: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3275: <ul>
1.147 louis 3276:
1.247 jufi 3277: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3278: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
3279: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 3280: </strong></font><br>
3281:
3282: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
3283: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
3284: <p>
3285:
1.247 jufi 3286: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3287: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
3288: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
3289: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 3290: </strong></font><br>
3291: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
3292: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
3293: <p>
3294:
1.247 jufi 3295: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 3296: <a
3297: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
3298: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
3299: </strong></font><br>
3300:
3301: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
3302: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
3303: <p>
3304:
1.247 jufi 3305: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3306: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 3307: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
3308: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 3309:
1.213 horacio 3310: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 3311: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 3312: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
3313: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
3314: <p>
1.215 horacio 3315:
1.247 jufi 3316: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3317: <a
3318: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
3319: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
3320: </strong></font><br>
3321:
3322: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
3323: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
3324: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
3325: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
3326: much of the attitude too).
3327: <p>
1.161 louis 3328:
1.247 jufi 3329: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3330: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3331: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 3332: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3333:
1.157 louis 3334: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
3335: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
3336: <p>
1.247 jufi 3337: </ul>
1.157 louis 3338:
3339: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3340: <ul>
1.157 louis 3341:
1.247 jufi 3342: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3343: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3344: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 3345: </strong></font><br>
3346:
3347: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
3348: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
3349: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
3350: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
3351: <p>
3352:
1.247 jufi 3353: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 3354: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
3355: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
3356: </strong></font><br>
3357:
3358: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
3359: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
3360: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
3361: it because they love coding...
3362: <p>
3363:
1.247 jufi 3364: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 3365: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
3366: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
3367: </strong></font><br>
3368:
3369: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
3370: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
3371: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
3372: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
3373: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
3374: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
3375: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
3376: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
3377: <p>
3378:
1.247 jufi 3379: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3380: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
3381: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
3382: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 3383: </strong></font><br>
3384:
3385: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
3386: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
3387: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
3388: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
3389: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
3390: the pizza.
3391: <p>
3392:
1.247 jufi 3393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 3394: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
3395: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
3396: </strong></font><br>
3397:
3398: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
3399: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
3400: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
3401: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
3402: problems.
3403: <p>
3404:
1.247 jufi 3405: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 3406: <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 3407: </strong></font><br>
3408:
1.222 miod 3409: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 3410: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
3411: - whether they like it or not.
3412: <p>
3413:
1.247 jufi 3414: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3415: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
3416: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 3417: </strong></font><br>
3418:
3419: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
3420: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
3421: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 3422: <p>
1.148 aaron 3423:
1.247 jufi 3424: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3425: <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 3426: </strong></font><br>
3427:
3428: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
3429: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
3430: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
3431: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
3432: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
3433: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
3434: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
3435: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
3436: <p>
3437:
1.247 jufi 3438: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3439: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
3440: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 3441: </strong></font><br>
3442:
3443: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
3444: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 3445: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 3446: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
3447: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
3448: <p>
1.247 jufi 3449: </ul>
1.147 louis 3450:
1.138 louis 3451: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3452: <ul>
1.138 louis 3453:
1.247 jufi 3454: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3455: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
3456: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
3457: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
3458: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 3459: </strong></font><br>
3460:
1.227 horacio 3461: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 3462: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
3463: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
3464: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
3465: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
3466: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
3467: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
3468: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 3469: <p>
3470:
1.247 jufi 3471: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 3472: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 3473: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 3474: </strong></font><br>
3475:
3476: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
3477: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
3478: groups, and even Linux.
3479: <p>
3480:
1.247 jufi 3481: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3482: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
3483: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 3484: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
3485: </strong></font><br>
3486:
3487: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
3488: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
3489: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
3490: library after installing the OS.
3491: <p>
3492:
1.247 jufi 3493: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3494: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 3495: Sys Admin, September 2000
3496: </strong></font><br>
3497:
3498: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
3499: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
3500: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
3501: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 3502: (<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>,
3503: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
3504: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
3505: <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 3506: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 3507: out of the system.
3508: <p>
3509:
1.247 jufi 3510: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 3511: <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
3512: </strong></font><br>
3513:
3514: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 3515: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 3516: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
3517: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
3518: the IP filtering and address translation.
3519: <p>
1.301 jose 3520:
3521: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3522: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
3523: </strong></font><br>
3524:
3525: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
3526: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
3527: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
3528: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
3529: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
3530: <p>
1.247 jufi 3531: </ul>
1.200 niklas 3532:
1.131 louis 3533: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3534: <ul>
1.131 louis 3535:
1.247 jufi 3536: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3537: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
3538: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
3539: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 3540: </strong></font><br>
3541:
3542: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
3543: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
3544: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
3545: <p>
3546:
1.247 jufi 3547: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 3548: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
3549: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
3550: </strong></font><br>
3551:
3552: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
3553: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
3554: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
3555: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
3556: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
3557: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
3558: note of"</i>.
3559: <p>
3560:
1.247 jufi 3561: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 3562: <a
1.247 jufi 3563: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 3564: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
3565: </strong></font><br>
3566:
3567: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
3568: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
3569: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
3570: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
3571: <p>
3572:
1.247 jufi 3573: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 3574: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 3575: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
3576: </strong></font><br>
3577:
3578: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
3579: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
3580: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
3581: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
3582: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
3583: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
3584: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
3585: <p>
3586:
1.247 jufi 3587: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 3588: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
3589: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
3590: 2000
3591: </strong></font><br>
3592:
3593: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
3594: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
3595: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
3596: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
3597: against current industry practices.
3598: <p>
3599:
1.247 jufi 3600: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 3601: <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
3602: </strong></font><br>
3603:
3604: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
3605: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
3606: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
3607: <p>
3608:
1.247 jufi 3609: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 3610: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
3611: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
3612: </strong></font><br>
3613:
3614: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
3615: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
3616: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
3617: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
3618: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
3619: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
3620: careful code reviews, he concludes.
3621: <p>
3622:
1.247 jufi 3623: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 3624: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
3625: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
3626: </strong></font><br>
3627:
3628: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
3629: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
3630: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
3631: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
3632: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 3633: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
3634: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
3635: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 3636: <p>
1.247 jufi 3637: </ul>
1.131 louis 3638:
1.118 louis 3639: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3640: <ul>
1.118 louis 3641:
1.247 jufi 3642: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 3643: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
3644: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
3645: </strong></font><br>
3646:
3647: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
3648: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
3649: about time. The article mentions that
3650: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
3651: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
3652: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 3653: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 3654: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
3655: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 3656: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 3657: <p>
3658:
1.247 jufi 3659: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3660: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 3661: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3662: </strong></font><br>
3663:
3664: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
3665: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
3666: of OpenSSH.
3667: <p>
3668:
1.247 jufi 3669: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3670: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3671: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3672: </strong></font><br>
3673:
3674: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 3675: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 3676: bridging.
3677: <p>
3678:
1.247 jufi 3679: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3680: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
3681: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 3682: </strong></font><br>
3683:
1.121 deraadt 3684: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
3685: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 3686: <p>
3687:
1.247 jufi 3688: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3689: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
3690: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
3691: </strong></font><br>
3692:
3693: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
3694: <p>
3695:
1.247 jufi 3696: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 3697: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3698: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
3699: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 3700: </strong></font><br>
3701:
1.120 deraadt 3702: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
3703: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 3704: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
3705: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
3706: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
3707: <p>
3708:
1.247 jufi 3709: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 3710: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
3711: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
3712: </strong></font><br>
3713:
1.222 miod 3714: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 3715: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
3716: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
3717: protocols and their quirks.
3718: <p>
3719:
1.247 jufi 3720: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3721: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
3722: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 3723: </strong></font><br>
3724:
3725: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
3726: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
3727: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 3728: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 3729: <p>
3730:
1.247 jufi 3731: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 3732: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
3733: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
3734: </strong></font><br>
3735:
3736: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
3737: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
3738: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
3739: <p>
3740:
1.247 jufi 3741: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 3742: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3743: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
3744: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 3745: </strong></font><br>
3746:
3747: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
3748: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
3749: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
3750: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
3751: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
3752: <p>
1.247 jufi 3753: </ul>
1.118 louis 3754:
1.104 louis 3755: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3756: <ul>
1.104 louis 3757:
1.247 jufi 3758: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 3759: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
3760: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
3761: </strong></font><br>
3762:
3763: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
3764: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
3765: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
3766: be a bit dry.
3767: <p>
3768:
1.247 jufi 3769: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3770: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
3771: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
3772: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
3773: </strong></font><br>
3774: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
3775: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
3776: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
3777: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
3778: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
3779: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
3780: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
3781: <p>
3782:
1.247 jufi 3783: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3784: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
3785: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 3786: 2000
1.128 louis 3787: </strong></font><br>
3788:
3789: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
3790: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
3791: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
3792: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
3793: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 3794: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 3795: <p>
3796:
1.247 jufi 3797: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3798: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
3799: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 3800: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 3801:
3802: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
3803: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
3804: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
3805: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 3806: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
3807: <p>
1.110 louis 3808:
1.247 jufi 3809: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 3810: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
3811: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
3812: </strong></font><br>
3813:
3814: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
3815: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
3816: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
3817: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
3818: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
3819: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
3820: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
3821: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
3822: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
3823: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
3824: <p>
3825:
1.247 jufi 3826: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 3827: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3828: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 3829:
3830: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
3831: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 3832: <p>
1.108 louis 3833:
1.247 jufi 3834: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 3835: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
3836: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 3837: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 3838:
3839: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
3840: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
3841: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 3842: <p>
1.106 louis 3843:
1.247 jufi 3844: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 3845: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
3846: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 3847: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 3848:
3849: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
3850: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
3851: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
3852: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 3853: <p>
1.107 louis 3854:
1.247 jufi 3855: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3856: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
3857: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3858: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 3859:
3860: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
3861: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 3862: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 3863: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
3864: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 3865: <p>
1.105 louis 3866:
1.247 jufi 3867: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 3868: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 3869: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 3870: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 3871:
1.113 naddy 3872: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
3873: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 3874: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 3875: <p>
1.104 louis 3876:
1.247 jufi 3877: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3878: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
3879: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
3880: </strong></font><br>
3881:
3882: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
3883: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
3884: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
3885: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
3886: <p>
1.301 jose 3887:
3888: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3889: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
3890: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
3891: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
3892:
3893: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
3894: hardware-supported cryptography.
3895: <p>
1.247 jufi 3896: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 3897:
1.85 louis 3898: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3899: <ul>
1.85 louis 3900:
1.247 jufi 3901: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3902: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 3903: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 3904: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3905:
3906: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
3907: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
3908: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
3909: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
3910: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
3911: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
3912: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 3913: <p>
1.99 louis 3914:
1.247 jufi 3915: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3916: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 3917: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 3918: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 3919:
3920: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
3921: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
3922: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
3923: conditions.
1.113 naddy 3924: <p>
1.100 louis 3925:
1.247 jufi 3926: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3927: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 3928: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 3929: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 3930:
3931: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
3932: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
3933: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
3934: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 3935: <p>
1.95 louis 3936:
1.247 jufi 3937: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3938: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 3939: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 3940: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 3941:
3942: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
3943: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 3944: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 3945: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
3946: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3947: <p>
1.92 louis 3948:
1.247 jufi 3949: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3950: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 3951: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3952: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 3953:
3954: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
3955: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
3956: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
3957: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
3958: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
3959: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 3960: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 3961: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 3962: <p>
1.91 louis 3963:
1.247 jufi 3964: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3965: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
3966: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 3967: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 3968:
3969: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
3970: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
3971: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
3972: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
3973: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
3974: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
3975: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
3976: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
3977: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 3978: <p>
1.90 louis 3979:
1.247 jufi 3980: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3981: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
3982: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
3983: </strong></font><br>
3984: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
3985: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
3986: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
3987: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
3988: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
3989: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
3990: <p>
3991:
1.247 jufi 3992: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 3993: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
3994: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 3995: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 3996:
1.113 naddy 3997: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
3998: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 3999: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
4000: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
4001: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
4002: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
4003: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 4004: <p>
1.87 louis 4005:
1.247 jufi 4006: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 4007: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
4008: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 4009: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 4010:
4011: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 4012: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 4013: <p>
1.85 louis 4014:
1.247 jufi 4015: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4016: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
4017: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4018: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
4019:
4020: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
4021: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
4022: <p>
4023:
4024: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 4025: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
4026: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 4027: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 4028:
4029: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 4030: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 4031: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
4032: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 4033: <p>
1.89 louis 4034:
1.247 jufi 4035: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 4036: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
4037: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 4038: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 4039:
4040: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
4041: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
4042: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
4043: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
4044: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 4045: </ul>
1.85 louis 4046:
1.78 deraadt 4047: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4048: <ul>
1.74 louis 4049:
1.247 jufi 4050: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4051: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 4052: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 4053: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 4054: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 4055:
4056: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
4057: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
4058: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4059: <p>
1.83 louis 4060:
1.247 jufi 4061: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 4062: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
4063: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 4064: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 4065:
4066: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
4067: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 4068: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 4069: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
4070: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 4071: <p>
1.93 louis 4072:
1.247 jufi 4073: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4074: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
4075: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
4076: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 4077: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 4078:
1.83 louis 4079: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
4080: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
4081: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
4082: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
4083: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 4084: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
4085: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
4086: <p>
1.82 aaron 4087:
1.247 jufi 4088: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4089: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 4090: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 4091: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 4092:
1.83 louis 4093: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
4094: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
4095: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 4096: <p>
1.80 louis 4097:
1.247 jufi 4098: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4099: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 4100: Bad Press</a>,
4101: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 4102: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 4103:
4104: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 4105: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 4106: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
4107: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
4108: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 4109: <p>
1.247 jufi 4110: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 4111:
4112: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4113: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 4114:
1.247 jufi 4115: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4116: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
4117: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 4118: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 4119: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 4120:
4121: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
4122: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
4123: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
4124: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 4125: <p>
1.74 louis 4126:
1.247 jufi 4127: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 4128: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
4129: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 4130: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 4131:
1.219 horacio 4132: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
4133: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
4134: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
4135: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
4136: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
4137: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
4138: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 4139: <p>
1.88 louis 4140:
1.247 jufi 4141: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 4142: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 4143: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 4144: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 4145:
4146: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
4147: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
4148: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
4149: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 4150: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 4151: <p>
1.81 louis 4152:
1.247 jufi 4153: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4154: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 4155: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 4156: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 4157:
4158: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
4159: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
4160: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
4161: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
4162: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
4163: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
4164: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 4165: <p>
1.90 louis 4166:
1.247 jufi 4167: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4168: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 4169: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 4170: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 4171:
4172: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
4173: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
4174: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 4175: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 4176: <p>
1.247 jufi 4177: </ul>
1.71 louis 4178:
1.69 deraadt 4179: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4180: <ul>
1.70 louis 4181:
1.247 jufi 4182: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4183: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
4184: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 4185: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 4186:
4187: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
4188: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
4189: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 4190: <p>
1.70 louis 4191:
1.247 jufi 4192: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4193: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
4194: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 4195: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 4196:
4197: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 4198: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 4199: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 4200: <p>
1.68 louis 4201:
1.247 jufi 4202: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4203: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
4204: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 4205: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 4206: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 4207:
1.111 jufi 4208: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
4209: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 4210: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 4211: "secure by default" installation.
4212: <p>
1.64 louis 4213:
1.247 jufi 4214: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 4215: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 4216: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 4217: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 4218:
1.113 naddy 4219: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 4220: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 4221: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 4222: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
4223: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
4224: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 4225: <p>
1.66 louis 4226:
1.247 jufi 4227: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4228: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 4229: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4230: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 4231:
4232: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 4233: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 4234: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
4235: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
4236: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 4237: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
4238: <p>
1.83 louis 4239:
1.247 jufi 4240: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4241: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 4242: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4243: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 4244:
4245: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 4246: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
4247: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 4248: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
4249: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 4250: <p>
1.64 louis 4251:
1.247 jufi 4252: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4253: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 4254: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4255: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 4256:
4257: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
4258: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 4259: <p>
1.301 jose 4260:
4261: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4262: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
4263: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
4264: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
4265: </strong></font><br>
4266:
4267: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
4268: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
4269: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
4270: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
4271: Giving way to
4272: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
4273: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
4274: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
4275: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
4276: <p>
1.247 jufi 4277: </ul>
1.65 louis 4278:
1.69 deraadt 4279: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4280: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4281:
1.247 jufi 4282: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4283: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 4284: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 4285: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 4286:
4287: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
4288: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
4289: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
4290: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 4291: <p>
1.88 louis 4292:
1.247 jufi 4293: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4294: <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 4295: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 4296:
4297: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 4298: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
4299: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 4300: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
4301: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 4302: <p>
1.60 louis 4303:
1.247 jufi 4304: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 4305: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 4306: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 4307: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 4308: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4309:
4310: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
4311: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
4312: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 4313: <p>
1.58 louis 4314:
1.247 jufi 4315: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 4316: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 4317: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 4318:
4319: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
4320: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 4321: <p>
1.53 louis 4322:
1.247 jufi 4323: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 4324: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
4325: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 4326: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 4327:
4328: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
4329: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
4330: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 4331: <p>
1.99 louis 4332:
1.247 jufi 4333: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 4334: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 4335: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4336:
4337: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
4338: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 4339: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 4340: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 4341: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 4342:
1.247 jufi 4343: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4344: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
4345: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 4346: </strong></font><br>
4347:
4348: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
4349: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
4350: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
4351: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
4352: <p>
4353:
1.247 jufi 4354: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4355: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 4356: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 4357: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4358:
4359: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
4360: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 4361: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 4362:
1.247 jufi 4363: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 4364: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 4365: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 4366:
4367: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 4368: in
1.247 jufi 4369: <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 4370: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 4371: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 4372: <p>
1.53 louis 4373:
1.247 jufi 4374: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4375: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 4376: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
4377: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 4378: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 4379:
1.58 louis 4380: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4381: <p>
1.301 jose 4382:
4383: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4384: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
4385: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
4386: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
4387: Informacyjny, January 2000
4388: </strong></font><br>
4389:
4390: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
4391: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
4392: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
4393: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
4394: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
4395: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
4396: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
4397: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
4398: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
4399: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 4400: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
4401: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 4402: <p>
4403:
4404: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4405: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4406: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
4407: </strong></font><br>
4408:
4409: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
4410: <p>
4411: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 4412:
1.69 deraadt 4413: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4414: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4415:
1.247 jufi 4416: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4417: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
4418: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
4419: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 4420: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4421:
1.58 louis 4422: Kurt Seifried
4423: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4424: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
4425: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 4426: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 4427:
1.247 jufi 4428: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4429: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 4430: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4431: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 4432:
4433: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 4434: <p>
1.96 louis 4435:
1.247 jufi 4436: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4437: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
4438: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
4439: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
4440: </strong></font><br>
4441:
4442: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
4443: <p>
4444:
4445: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4446: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 4447: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 4448: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 4449:
4450: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
4451: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 4452: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 4453: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 4454: <p>
1.247 jufi 4455: </ul>
1.86 louis 4456:
1.69 deraadt 4457: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4458: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4459:
1.247 jufi 4460: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4461: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
4462: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 4463: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 4464:
4465: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
4466: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 4467: <p>
1.61 louis 4468:
1.247 jufi 4469: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4470: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 4471: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
4472: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4473: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 4474:
4475: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 4476: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 4477: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
4478: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 4479: right -- or at least strives to".
4480: <p>
1.48 louis 4481:
1.247 jufi 4482: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4483: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
4484: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4485: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 4486: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
4487: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
4488: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
4489: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 4490: <p>
1.61 louis 4491:
1.247 jufi 4492: <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 4493: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4494: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 4495:
4496: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
4497: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
4498: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
4499: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 4500: <p>
1.46 louis 4501:
1.247 jufi 4502: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4503: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
4504: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4505: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4506:
4507: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
4508: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 4509: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 4510:
1.247 jufi 4511: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 4512: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
4513: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 4514: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 4515:
4516: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
4517: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
4518: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
4519: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 4520: <p>
1.247 jufi 4521: </ul>
1.70 louis 4522:
1.69 deraadt 4523: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4524: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4525:
1.247 jufi 4526: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4527: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
4528: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 4529: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 4530: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 4531:
4532: Kurt Seifried
4533: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4534: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
4535: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 4536: <p>
1.44 philen 4537:
1.247 jufi 4538: <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 4539: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 4540: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 4541:
4542: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 4543: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 4544:
1.247 jufi 4545: <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 4546: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 4547: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 4548:
4549: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 4550: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 4551:
1.247 jufi 4552: <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 4553: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 4554: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 4555:
4556: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
4557: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
4558: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
4559: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 4560: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 4561:
1.247 jufi 4562: <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 4563: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 4564: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 4565:
1.36 louis 4566: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 4567: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 4568:
1.247 jufi 4569: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 4570: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
4571: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 4572: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4573:
4574: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 4575: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 4576: </ul>
1.38 louis 4577:
1.69 deraadt 4578: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4579: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4580:
1.247 jufi 4581: <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 4582: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 4583: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 4584:
4585: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
4586: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 4587: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 4588:
1.113 naddy 4589: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 4590: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 4591: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 4592: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 4593:
4594: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
4595: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 4596: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
4597: terminal:
1.113 naddy 4598: <blockquote>
4599: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
4600: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
4601: <br>
4602: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
4603: </code>
4604: </blockquote>
4605: <p>
4606:
1.247 jufi 4607: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 4608: <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 4609: <p>
4610:
4611: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4612: <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 4613: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 4614:
4615: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
4616: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 4617: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 4618: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 4619:
1.247 jufi 4620: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4621: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
4622: Sept. 28, 1999
4623: </strong></font><br>
4624:
4625: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
4626: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
4627: translating and reprinting articles from
4628: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
4629: <p>
4630:
4631: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 4632: <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 4633: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 4634:
4635: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
4636: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
4637: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
4638: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
4639: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 4640: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 4641: <p>
1.19 louis 4642:
1.113 naddy 4643: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 4644: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 4645: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 4646:
4647: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
4648: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
4649: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 4650: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
4651: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 4652: <p>
1.16 louis 4653:
1.247 jufi 4654: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4655: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 4656: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 4657: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 4658:
1.57 louis 4659: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
4660: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
4661: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 4662: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 4663:
1.247 jufi 4664: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4665: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.466 deraadt 4666: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4667: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4668:
1.113 naddy 4669: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 4670:
1.247 jufi 4671: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4672: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
4673: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4674: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 4675:
1.23 louis 4676: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
4677: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
4678: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
4679: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
4680: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 4681: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 4682:
1.247 jufi 4683: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 4684: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
4685: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4686: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 4687:
1.199 pvalchev 4688: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 4689: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
4690: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
4691: installation.
1.113 naddy 4692: <p>
1.47 louis 4693:
1.247 jufi 4694: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4695: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 4696: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 4697: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4698:
1.301 jose 4699: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
4700: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
4701: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4702: </ul>
1.57 louis 4703:
1.69 deraadt 4704: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4705: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4706:
1.247 jufi 4707: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 4708: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 4709: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 4710: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 4711:
4712: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
4713: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 4714: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4715: <p>
1.12 louis 4716:
1.247 jufi 4717: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 4718: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 4719: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 4720: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 4721:
4722: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
4723: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 4724: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
4725: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
4726: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
4727: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
4728: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 4729: <p>
1.247 jufi 4730: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 4731:
1.69 deraadt 4732: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4733: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 4734:
1.247 jufi 4735: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 4736: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 4737: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 4738:
4739: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
4740: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
4741: available."
1.113 naddy 4742: <p>
1.301 jose 4743:
4744: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4745: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4746: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
4747: </strong></font><br>
4748:
4749: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
4750: <p>
1.247 jufi 4751: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 4752:
1.69 deraadt 4753: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4754: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4755:
1.247 jufi 4756: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 4757: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 4758: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 4759:
4760: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
4761: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
4762: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
4763: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
4764: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 4765: <p>
1.33 louis 4766:
1.247 jufi 4767: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4768: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 4769: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 4770: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4771:
1.113 naddy 4772: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
4773: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 4774: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
4775: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
4776: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 4777: <p>
1.247 jufi 4778: </ul>
1.57 louis 4779:
1.69 deraadt 4780: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4781: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4782:
1.247 jufi 4783: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4784: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 4785: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 4786: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4787:
4788: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
4789: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 4790: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4791:
1.247 jufi 4792: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 4793: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
4794: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
4795: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 4796: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 4797:
4798: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 4799: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 4800:
1.247 jufi 4801: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 4802: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4803:
1.113 naddy 4804: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 4805:
1.247 jufi 4806: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 4807: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
4808: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 4809: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4810:
4811: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 4812: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 4813: </ul>
1.23 louis 4814:
1.69 deraadt 4815: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4816: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4817:
1.247 jufi 4818: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 4819: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 4820: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4821:
4822: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
4823: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 4824: <p>
1.2 deraadt 4825:
1.247 jufi 4826: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4827: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 4828: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4829: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4830:
4831: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
4832: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 4833: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 4834: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4835: </ul>
1.57 louis 4836:
1.69 deraadt 4837: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4838: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4839:
1.247 jufi 4840: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 4841: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
4842: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 4843: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 4844:
4845: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
4846: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
4847: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
4848: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4849: <p>
1.15 louis 4850:
1.247 jufi 4851: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4852: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
4853: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 4854: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4855:
4856: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
4857: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
4858: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
4859: columns."
1.113 naddy 4860: <p>
1.247 jufi 4861: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4862:
1.69 deraadt 4863: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4864: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4865:
1.247 jufi 4866: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4867: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 4868: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4869: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4870:
4871: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 4872: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 4873:
1.113 naddy 4874: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4875: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 4876: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4877:
4878: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
4879: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 4880: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 4881: </ul>
1.57 louis 4882:
1.69 deraadt 4883: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4884: <ul>
1.301 jose 4885: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4886: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
4887: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4888: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
4889:
4890: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
4891: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
4892: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
4893: <p>
4894:
4895: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4896: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
4897: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4898: Nov 13, 1998 and
4899: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
4900: Datateknik</a>,
4901: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
4902:
1.380 saad 4903: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 4904: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
4905: explains the licensing issues and points to our
4906: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
4907: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4908:
1.113 naddy 4909: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 4910: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 4911: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 4912: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4913:
1.222 miod 4914: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 4915: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
4916: Implementation, including a brief interview with
4917: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 4918: <p>
1.247 jufi 4919: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4920:
1.69 deraadt 4921: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4922: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4923:
1.247 jufi 4924: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4925: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 4926: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4927:
1.69 deraadt 4928: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
4929: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 4930: <p>
1.247 jufi 4931: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4932:
1.69 deraadt 4933: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4934: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 4935:
1.247 jufi 4936: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4937: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
4938: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 4939: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4940:
1.383 jcs 4941: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 4942: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 4943: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4944:
1.247 jufi 4945: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 4946: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 4947: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
4948: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 4949: <p>
1.247 jufi 4950: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4951:
1.69 deraadt 4952: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4953: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4954:
1.247 jufi 4955: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4956: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 4957: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
4958: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 4959: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 4960: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4961:
4962: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
4963: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
4964: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 4965: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 4966: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 4967: <p>
1.247 jufi 4968: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 4969:
4970: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4971: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4972:
1.247 jufi 4973: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 4974: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 4975: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4976:
1.69 deraadt 4977: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
4978: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 4979: <p>
1.112 naddy 4980:
1.247 jufi 4981: </ul>
1.113 naddy 4982: <p>
1.1 deraadt 4983:
1.292 camield 4984: <hr>
1.216 horacio 4985: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 4986: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.478 ! grunk 4987: <br><small>$OpenBSD: press.html,v 1.477 2005/10/25 08:24:38 saad Exp $</small>
1.1 deraadt 4988:
4989: </body>
4990: </html>