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1.483 ian 19: <h2>December, 2005</h2>
20: <ul>
21: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.484 ! djm 22: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/375/1">OpenSSH cutting edge</a>
! 23: SecurityFocus, December 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
! 24: Federico Biancuzzi interviews OpenSSH developer Damien Miller to discuss
! 25: features included in the upcoming version 4.3, public key crypto
! 26: protocols details, timing based attacks and anti-worm measures.
! 27: <p>
! 28:
! 29: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.483 ian 30: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/11/21/175249.shtml?tid=92&tid=78">Creating
31: Secure Wireless Access Points with OpenBSD and OpenVPN</a>
32: NewsForge, December 13, 2005</strong></font><br>
33: A cookbook approach to setting up a wireless interface as a secure Access Point
34: using OpenBSD's hostap, pf, and authpf.
35: Configuration examples are given with basic explanations and links
36: to sites with more information on most topics.
37: <p>
38:
39: </ul>
40:
41:
1.479 grunk 42: <h2>November, 2005</h2>
43: <ul>
44: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.482 ian 45: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20051116145737">OpenBSD
46: Goes to Venice</a>,
47: OpenBSD Journal, November 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
48: "What happens when you put a dozen developers on a little island with their
49: laptops, power, and an internet connection?
50: <br/>
51: During the first week of November some OpenBSD developers met in a
52: little island in Venice's lagoon to hack on the ports system.
53: This was probably the first ports hackathon and was followed by
54: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON</a>, a European conference
55: fully dedicated to OpenBSD..."
56: Great coverage of the OpenBSD Porting Hackathon: people, ports, beer, ...
57: Contains a link to
58: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ven05-pvalchev/mgp00008.html">
59: pval's summary slides</a>.
60: <p>
61:
62: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.481 niallo 63: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1710223">
64: Trying out the new OpenBSD 3.8</a>,
65: NewsForge, November 11, 2005</strong></font><br>
66: This article describes the installation of OpenBSD 3.8 from a Linux user's
67: perspective, noting the simple elegance of the installer.
68: Although the installation process may be hard to get used to at first for
69: the average Linux user, the author tells us that one can learn a lot from
70: it. Furthermore, the article clears up the common misconception that working
71: on an OpenBSD system is very different from working on a Linux system.
72: In particular, the author states that on OpenBSD, <i>"virtually the entire
73: catalog of familiar free and open source software titles is available through
74: the packages and ports system"</i>.
75: <p>
76:
77: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
78: <a href="http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3561526">
79: Return of The BSDs</a>,
80: internetnews.com, November 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
81: This article mentions that with all three major BSD flavors having had
82: a release this fall, BSD is <i>"still very much alive and kicking among
83: all the noise and buzz created by Linux"</i>. The author talks about
84: various new or improved features of 3.8, such as bioctl(8), hostapd(8),
85: network interface aggregation and sasyncd(8), and there are some
86: quotes from Bob Beck.
87: <p>
88:
89: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.479 grunk 90: <a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/051101/152/fvrlx.html">
91: OpenBSD 3.8 improves hardware support</a>,
92: ZDNet UK, November 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.480 ian 93: This article reports on OpenBSD 3.8, which was released on November 1.
94: The author gives an overview of the improvements and new
1.479 grunk 95: features that were made with 3.8, and quotes Theo on RAID management
96: and Linux.<br>
97: The 3.8 release hit the news also in some other places:
98: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1258232">Slashdot</a>
99: and <a href="http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=12482">OSNews</a>
100: also report about it, mostly repeating parts
101: of the release
102: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/ANNOUNCEMENT">ANNOUNCEMENT</a>.
103: <p>
104: </ul>
105:
1.476 ian 106: <h2>October, 2005</h2>
107: <ul>
108:
109: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
110: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1375194866;fp;16;fpid;0">
111: 'Nightmare' drove desperate user to open source</a>,
112: Computerworld, October 24, 2005</strong></font><br>
113: A great tale of how Mark Uemura of PricewaterhouseCoopers Japan
114: was forced to move to OpenBSD because the alternatives were too costly
115: and too unreliable.
116: This quote will rattle some cages:
117: "IT managers who want to deploy an open source solution but are
118: worried about company politics should go ahead and do it without
119: asking," according to Uemura, who was promoted to IT Manager of PWC Japan
120: after saving the company seven IT-samurais' salaries.
121: Further, "In Japan large organizations like Morgan Stanley and the
122: Bank of America have moved all their backend systems to open source,
123: Uemura said, because with open source you can reduce IT operating
124: costs without any commercial lock-in."
125: <p>
126:
1.477 saad 127: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
128: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6270">
129: OpenBSD 3.8: Hackers of the Lost RAID</a>,
130: ONLamp.com, October 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
131: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
132: new features in OpenBSD 3.8 including interface trunking,
133: internationalization support, Inter-Access Point Protocol (IAPP),
134: IPSec SA synchronization daemon, and RAID management. There is also some
135: discussion about future plans.
136: <p>
137:
1.478 grunk 138: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
139: <a href="http://securityfocus.com/columnists/361">
140: OpenBSD's network stack</a>,
141: SecurityFocus, October 12, 2005</strong></font><br>
142: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about OpenBSD's
143: network stack, including protection against ICMP attacks, and propagation
144: of enhancements into other BSDs and into Linux.
145: The interview also features the other protection mechanisms in the network
146: stack, a comparison to the network stack in Linux, and the history and
147: current status of <a href="http://www.openbgpd.org/">OpenBGPD</a>.
148: <p>
149:
1.476 ian 150: </ul>
151:
1.470 saad 152: <h2>September, 2005</h2>
153: <ul>
154:
155: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.474 niallo 156: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/359">
157: Security-related innovation in Unix</a>,
158: SecurityFocus, Sept. 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
159: An article examining the mmap-based malloc() implementation to be
160: included in OpenBSD 3.8. The author states that <i>"it will help OpenBSD
161: users to find bugs in software more easily, which will result in better
162: applications for everyone"</i>. He goes on to say that <i>"the more hurdles
163: that one has to jump through for good security, the less likely people will
164: go through the trouble. OpenBSD allows even the most inexperienced users to
165: take advantage of these technologies without any effort"</i>.
166: <p>
167:
168: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.473 aanriot 169: <a href="http://www.miscmag.com/articles/index.php3?page=2100">
170: [FRENCH] Champ libre : les chantiers OpenBSD</a>
171: Misc, number 21, Sept/Oct, 2005, p. 4-14</strong></font><br>
172: An interesting article about OpenBSD and associated projects. Saad Kadhi
173: and Guillaume Arcas describe useful things you can do with PF and
174: OpenSSH, and give a nice introduction to OpenNTPD and OpenCVS. If the
175: article is focused on the presentation, you can find some interesting
176: technical aspects people are not always acquainted to. A few examples
177: are shown, like a basic CARP setup, or the manner to use multiplexing
178: with OpenSSH and even how to check an OpenSSH server's keys using DNS.
179: <p>
180:
181: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 182: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/news/11306">
183: Big debate over small packets</a>,
184: SecurityFocus, Sept. 7, 2005</strong></font><br>
185: Robert Lemos discusses the ICMP denial-of-service vulnerabilities found
186: by Fernando Gont and fixed in OpenBSD. To date, OpenBSD is the only
187: system that has implemented all of the fixes recommended in the IETF
188: draft.
189: <p>
190:
191: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.471 saad 192: <a href="http://www.pcexpert.fr/">
193: [FRENCH] "Quel est le meilleur système libre pour votre
194: ordinateur ?"</a>,
195: PC Expert, number 156, p. 42-62</strong></font><br>
196: Philippe Roure compares 11 Linux and *BSD operating systems, including
197: OpenBSD 3.7, on different criteria such as security, documentation and
198: usability. OpenBSD earned a 5/5 mark (see pages 60-61) and while a mark
199: isn't necessarily objective, the author seems to grasp the OpenBSD
200: project, its goals, and how good is the operating system. The article
201: includes an interview with Saad Kadhi.
202: <p>
203:
204: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.470 saad 205: <a href="http://www.samag.com/articles/2005/0509/">
206: Monitoring PF Firewalls for Health and Performance</a>,
207: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 9, p. 37</strong></font><br>
208: Ryan Matteson describes several utilities that can be used to monitor the
209: health and performance of a PF firewall. Besides pfctl, the article
210: covers pftop, fwanalog, monitoring logs with tcpdump and graphing
211: performance data with pfstat.
212: <p>
213:
214: </ul>
215:
1.461 grunk 216: <h2>July, 2005</h2>
217: <ul>
218:
219: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.466 deraadt 220: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5382">
221: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part III</a>,
1.467 grunk 222: Kerneltrap, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.466 deraadt 223: Jeremy Andrews writes about the recent Blind ICMP attacks discovered
224: by Fernando Gont, and the fixes done by him and OpenBSD during the
225: 2005 Hackathon.
1.469 ian 226: The article goes into the technical background of the
1.467 grunk 227: attacks, mentioning blind ICMP attacks, "hard" ICMP errors, source
1.469 ian 228: quenching, and path MTU discovery;
229: many helpful RFCs and technical papers are linked from the explanations.
230: This is followed by a recap of the whole ICMP story, involving Gont's
1.467 grunk 231: struggle with other free projects, Cisco lawyers, Microsoft people,
232: and others.<br>
1.469 ian 233: The article concludes that OpenBSD was the first project
1.467 grunk 234: to take Fernando Gont's findings seriously, and also the first group to
235: be really painless to work with.
1.466 deraadt 236: <p>
237:
238: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.464 grunk 239: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/06/security_blame/">
240: Security meltdown: who's to blame?</a>,
1.466 deraadt 241: The Register, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.464 grunk 242: This article talks about various groups that are frequently blamed for
243: poor security:
1.467 grunk 244: individuals, ISPs, companies, crackers, security mailing lists,
1.464 grunk 245: and last but not least: OS vendors!
1.467 grunk 246: In the last paragraph, OpenBSD's style of <i>"dumbed-down, simplified
1.464 grunk 247: and secure systems (with a heavily audited code base)"</i> is described
248: as <i>"one of the smartest approaches to security"</i>.
249: <p>
250:
251: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.461 grunk 252: <a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-7-5/30084.html">
253: Theo de Raadt on Industry and Free Software</a>,
1.466 deraadt 254: The Epoch Times, July 5, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.463 tom 255: In this interview, Theo talks about the inception of the OpenBSD project
256: and its goals, as well as its impact on the commercial IT industry.
1.461 grunk 257: He points out once more that <i>"vendors who incorporate OpenSSH have
258: given us absolutely nothing back - not a cent"</i>.
259: Other topics covered include the OpenBSD team, Theo's role as
260: <i>"benevolent dictator"</i>, and the security process, which he compares
261: to the security efforts led by other free software projects and some
262: commercial vendors.
263: <p>
264:
265: </ul>
266:
1.454 ian 267: <h2>June, 2005</h2>
268: <ul>
1.468 grunk 269:
270: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
271: <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/ns-ttc062205.php">
272: The true cost of computer crime</a>,
273: EurekAlert / <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/">New Scientist Magazine</a>,
274: issue June 25, 2005</strong></font><br>
275: This article looks at computer crime, especially the way upcoming
276: vulnerability reports are dealt with. It also gives a short overview of the
1.469 ian 277: institutions involved in the process (vendors, free projects, CERTs).
1.468 grunk 278: <br>
279: The author mentions the work of Andy Ozment, who researches vulnerability
280: disclosure at the University of Cambridge. Using OpenBSD as a good example
281: of how disclosure and consequent fixing of bugs helps to strengthen security,
282: he refutes the widely spread FUD that disclosing vulnerabilities leads to
283: more harm than good. Ozment's methodology was to examine OpenBSD's CVS logs
1.469 ian 284: and note when fixes were published; his research shows that
1.468 grunk 285: <i>"the number of vulnerabilities decreases as a result of disclosure"</i>.
286: <p>
287:
1.454 ian 288: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.458 niallo 289: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0704/071.html">
290: Free Bird</a>,
291: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
292: <b>(Registration required)</b> A second Forbes article about OpenBSD, more
293: focused on the project itself this time. It contains good description of the
294: history of OpenBSD along with its prime motivations. Mention is made of the
295: DARPA grant and the annual hackathon. Theo's motto "shut up and hack" finally
296: becomes famous in this piece and there are some other very insightful quotes
297: such as "All I care about is making high-quality code. If I had to work at a
298: regular job, it would drive me nuts". This is certainly an astute and perceptive
299: article, well worth reading. Do note that the big picture of Theo's machine
300: room will only be available in the print edition.
301: <p>
1.459 deraadt 302:
1.458 niallo 303: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.456 niallo 304: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html">
305: Is Linux For Losers?</a>,
306: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
307: An interesting article, if somewhat polemic in tone, which raises questions
308: about the quality of Linux code compared to OpenBSD. There is also some short
309: discussion of the OpenBSD development model and focus (push for quality above
310: everything else) including good quotes from Theo. It seems that the need for
311: high quality software is beginning to be recognised by the mainstream.
312: <p>
1.457 deraadt 313:
1.456 niallo 314: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 315: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/06/09/2132233.shtml?tid=152&tid=8&tid=2">
1.455 ian 316: BSD cognoscenti on Linux</a>,
317: NewsForge, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
318: NewsForge talks with Theo de Raadt and NetBSD's Christos Zoulas about the
319: similarities and differences between the Linux kernel and the BSD
320: operating systems. The questions asked were similar to those asked
321: of Linus Torvalds in a <a
1.462 grunk 322: href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/09/2128249&tid=2">previous
1.455 ian 323: interview.</a>
324: <p>
325:
326: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.454 ian 327: <a href="http://www.tuxjournal.net/intervista3-en.html">
328: A good morning with Theo de Raadt</a>,
329: Tux Journal, June 2, 2005</strong></font><br>
330: Brief but wide-ranging interview with Theo in which our leader
331: opines about the good things in 3.7: "The list of new developments
332: is impressive, but in my view not nearly as impressive as the small
333: little details that continue to be fixed during each development
334: cycle." And modestly credits all the developers for the project's
335: continuing success, attributing it to "The passion of the developers,
336: and the wide experience they bring into their development efforts.
337: By amazing coincidence, our users typically have the same needs as we do."
338: Manages to sidestep getting drawn into comparisons with Linux, e.g.,
339: when asked if he likes it/why/why not, deftly replies
340: "I have never used it."
341: <p>
342:
343: </ul>
344:
1.441 deraadt 345: <h2>May, 2005</h2>
346: <ul>
347: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 348: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5190">
349: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part II</a>,
350: Kerneltrap, May 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
351: In the second installment of Kerneltrap's Hackathon 2005 feature, Jeremy
352: Andrews speaks with the pf developers at length about their plans for
353: future enhancements.
354: <p>
355:
356: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.450 deraadt 357: <a href="http://www.ctv.ca">
1.448 deraadt 358: TV coverage: OpenBSD hackathon</a>,
359: CTV/CFCN, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
360: A TV spot done a Canadian national TV station about the Calgary
361: hackathon this year, with 60 developers.<br>
362: North America mirror:
363: <ul>
1.452 marco 364: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.449 jcs 365: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a><br>
366: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a>
1.448 deraadt 367: </ul>
368: European mirror:
369: <ul>
1.452 marco 370: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.448 deraadt 371: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a>
372: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a><br>
373: </ul>
374: <p>
375:
376: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 377: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5186">
378: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part I</a>,
379: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
380: Jeremy Andrews of KernelTrap does a good job of describing what it's like
381: to be at the Hackathon in Part I of KernelTrap's Hackathon feature. Several
382: developers are interviewed in detail about what they are working on.
383: <p>
384:
385: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 386: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5184">
387: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005: Day 6?</a>,
388: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
389: Kjell Wooding describes a typical day at the Hackathon in this entertaining
390: first-hand account.
391: <p>
392:
393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.447 cloder 394: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/05/20/1426216.shtml?tid=8">
395: Review: OpenBSD 3.7</a>,
396: NewsForge.com, May 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
397: "OpenBSD is not only highly polished and easy to
398: configure because of its documentation, it's also totally free-as-in-rights.
399: With an obsession with security, freedom of source code, and quality of
400: programming technique, OpenBSD 3.7 continues the legacy established by
401: its previous releases," writes Jem Matzan in this nice, small review.
402: <p>
403:
404: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.446 cloder 405: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/05/19/openbsd_3_7.html">
406: OpenBSD 3.7: The Wizard of OS</a>,
407: ONLamp.com, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
408: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
409: new features in OpenBSD 3.7, including new wireless chipsets, new
410: spam-fighting features, zaurus, pf improvements, propolice, and
411: many other things. A good overview of what's new in this release,
412: plus some interesting comments about future direction.
413: <p>
414:
415: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.444 niallo 416: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/software/openbsd-3.7-released.html">
1.445 niallo 417: Next incarnation of OpenBSD released</a>,
1.444 niallo 418: Ping Wales, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
419: "OpenBSD is often unjustly overlooked as a free UNIX-like system in favour of
420: the more-hyped Linux. While it receives a lot less publicity than other
421: operating systems, this is not due to lack of technical merit." says David
422: Chisnall, in what is a clear and concise overview of the new features
423: in 3.7 and indeed the project as a whole.
424: <p>
425:
426: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
427: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5114">
1.445 niallo 428: 2005 Calgary Hackathon, KernelTrap Coverage</a>,
1.444 niallo 429: Kerneltrap, May 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
430: A great article about the annual OpenBSD Hackathon, detailing how the event
431: functions, work done at previous Hackathons and features which may come out
432: of this one. Includes many relevant quotes from developers themselves, and of
433: course information about the legendary Hackathon BBQ!
434: <p>
435:
436: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.442 deraadt 437: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9658/sam0505e/">
438: "Failover Firewalls with OpenBSD and CARP"</a>,
439: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 5, p. 33
1.441 deraadt 440: </strong></font><br>
441: Jason Dixon discusses the history of the CARP and pfsync protocols
442: and demonstrates using them to create redundant stateful firewalls
443: with OpenBSD.
444: </ul>
445:
1.436 henning 446: <h2>April, 2005</h2>
447: <ul>
448: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.440 ian 449: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39195801,00.htm">
450: Security guru wants access to bug databases</a>,
451: ZDNet UK, April 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
452: Ingrid Marson reports on Cambridge professor Ross Anderson's call for analysis of
453: software maintenance records to determine whether open source code is more secure
454: than closed source, as we have long contended.
455: "One of Anderson's research students, Andy Ozment, has already done
456: research using empirical data on bugs found in the open source
457: operating system OpenBSD between 1997 and 2000. This research found
458: that finding and fixing bugs results in a more secure product..."
459: Just as the OpenBSD project has been saying for years.
460: <p>
461: This article can also be found online as
462: <a href="http://uk.builder.com/manage/project/0,39026588,39244080,00.htm">Academic
463: calls for better bug tracking</a> (uk.builder.com).
464: <p>
465:
466: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.439 espie 467: [FRENCH] "PC Expert", number 152, p. 58
468: </strong></font><br>
469: Very short interview of Marc Espie about OpenBSD as a free OS focusing
470: on security, part of a larger dossier «les secrets des hackers».
471: <p>
472:
473: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.436 henning 474: [GERMAN] "Doppelwacht", iX 5/2005, p. 150.
475: </strong></font><br>
476: Stephan Tesch gives an introduction to CARP and using a pair of
477: OpenBSD boxes as Firewalls in High Availibility scenarios. He goes
1.438 martin 478: on explaining CARP and pfsync protocols, and does not forget to cover
1.436 henning 479: the issues we had with IETF.
480: </ul>
481:
1.431 ian 482: <h2>March, 2005</h2>
483: <ul>
484: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.435 reyk 485: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/4818">
486: OpenBSD's "Out of the Box" Wireless Support</a>,
487: Kerneltrap, March 8, 2005</strong></font><br>
488: This article is about the upcoming wireless support in OpenBSD 3.7 and
489: the outcome of the work to open wireless chipsets. Jeremy Andrews
490: talked with Theo de Raadt and the developers Damien Bergamini and Reyk
491: Floeter who did some efforts to implement free and functional drivers.
492: <p>
493:
494: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.431 ian 495: <a href="http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/01/1109546842718.html">
496: OpenBSD to support more wireless chipsets</a>,
497: The Age, March 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
498: "The forthcoming 3.7 release of the OpenBSD operating system has
499: added support for five more wireless chipsets, according to
500: OpenBSD project founder Theo de Raadt...
1.432 ian 501: OpenBSD 3.7 will also have have new drivers for Intel wireless
1.431 ian 502: parts that do not work without the non-redistributable firmware,"
503: namely the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11B
504: and 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11A/B/G wireless network adapters.
505: Mentions OpenBSD's activism in getting vendors to release chip specs.
506: Referring to vendors that still refuse to play ball with open source
507: projects, quotes Damien Miller as saying "Given the number of
508: appliance devices that are built on free OSs, I think that the
509: recalcitrant vendors are missing an important boat."
510:
511: </ul>
512:
1.427 matthieu 513: <h2>February, 2005</h2>
514: <ul>
515:
516: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.428 david 517: <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsaward2004.html">
518: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
519: FSF, February 26, 2005</strong></font><br>
520: The Free Software Foundation awarded Theo de Raadt their "2004 Free Software
521: Award" for his unwavering commitment to free software. Most recently he has
522: been fighting hardware manufacturers for free redistribution of wireless card
523: firmware.
1.434 ian 524: Similar articles can be found online at:
525: <ul>
526: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
527: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=419">
528: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
529: Tectonic.za, March 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
530: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
531: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article4362.phtml">
532: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
533: OSDir, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
534: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
535: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/De-Raadt-gets-free-software-award/2005/02/28/1109546758523.html?oneclick=true">
536: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
537: The Age, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
538: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 539: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/02/27/1413255.shtml?tid=99&tid=7">
1.434 ian 540: Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award</a>,
541: Slashdot, February 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
542: </ul>
1.427 matthieu 543: </ul>
544:
1.426 ian 545: <h2>January, 2005</h2>
546: <ul>
547:
548: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
549: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363731">
550: Systrace in OpenBSD</a>,
551: informit.com, January 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
552: This article talks about our systrace
1.462 grunk 553: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&sektion=1">systrace(1)</a>
1.426 ian 554: mechanism: what it is and why and
555: how to use it, with examples.
556: Another excerpt from the book
557: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
558: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
559: <p>
560:
561: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
562: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363732">
563: Overview of OpenBSD</a>,
564: informit.com, January 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
565: "OpenBSD is one of the most secure and well-designed operating
566: systems available today. It has its roots in countless hours of
567: research and development based on some of the best UNIX flavors of
568: the past, and it boasts all the features of modern operating systems.
569: The OS is widely considered one of the most secure general-purpose
570: operating systems available today and it supports many key parts
571: of the global Internet infrastructure..."
572: This article is a sample chapter from
573: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
574: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
575: <p>
1.443 ian 576:
577: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 578: <a href="http://www.pcplus.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=34628&subsectionid=784">
1.443 ian 579: OpenBSD operating system</a>,
580: PCPlus.co.uk, January, 2005</strong></font><br>
581: Paul Grosse gives a brief tutorial on installing OpenBSD on i386 for people
582: moving in a Windows->Linux direction, encouraging them to go a bit further for security.
583: "While Linux out-scores Windows substantially (or completely) on [security as well as many other
584: issues], it's still possible to use a more secure operating system on the PC... OpenBSD."
585: Gives a brief but understandable walkthrough on the installation process, right up to
586: downloading and installing the third-party packages, and
587: ends with a sidebar on security.
588: <p>
1.426 ian 589: </ul>
590:
1.424 ian 591: <h2>December, 2004</h2>
592: <ul>
593:
594: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.425 ian 595: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/2329229">
596: What are the real vulnerabilities of Linux?</a>
597: NewsForge.com, December 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
598: Several security consultants were asked about "the real vulnerabilities of
599: Linux". Cybersoure CEO Con Symaris seems to get it better than the rest:
600: "One needs to approach security as a prime requirement and motivator,
601: much as the OpenBSD team do," Zymaris said... "The Linux
602: community mindset is different. Linux development is dynamic and
603: races ahead towards more and broader functionality, drawing a
604: multitude of interested parties in to make interesting extensions
605: and adaptations at a rapid rate."
606: <p>
607: "In order to do security the BSD way, however, much more effort
608: needs to be spent auditing code for holes, which is much less sexy,
609: and attracts a different set of coders," Zymaris added.
610: <p>
611:
612: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.424 ian 613: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/281">
614: Closed Source Hardware</a>
615: Security Focus, December 1, 2004</strong></font><br>
616: Symantec Threat Analyst Jason Miller analyzes the potential security threats
617: when hardware vendors won't provide device documentation and
618: instead provide "binary only" driver code for inclusion in open source
619: operating systems.
620: Miller is an open-source fan who says he uses a variety of systems, including
621: OpenBSD on his firewall.
622: Of the recent trend to closed-source binary drivers for open-source
623: systems, he writes:
624: <blockquote>
625: The closed-source component required to support this hardware is
626: completely independent of the associated operating system, and as
627: such, is also independent of the engineering team, security team,
628: auditing process, and quality control procedures normally related
629: to the operating system...
630: <br/>
631: What's possibly even more disturbing is that we're talking about
632: a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest
633: possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a
634: third-party vendor. This code could do anything once loaded, including
635: leaking active WEP keys, gathering usage statistics, sniffing and
636: disclosing traffic, and it could even introduce a subtle backdoor
637: into the operating system itself (much the same as any device driver
638: in a closed source operating system).
639: <br/>
640: [A]lthough some of these scenarios are a
641: little far-fetched, the possibility for them to exist is there...
642: Ultimately it becomes an issue of trust, which is a cornerstone of
643: good security: whom do you trust, and how much do you trust them?
644: </blockquote>
645: <p>And he comments that trust "seems to be a one-way street": vendors
646: demand that you trust them, but they won't trust you to know how
647: their hardware and software operates.
648: This lack of trust is one reason why OpenBSD has recently completed
649: reverse-engineering the
1.462 grunk 650: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4">
1.424 ian 651: Atheros wireless chipset driver</a>
652: that was originally provided as a binary insert.
653: <p>
654: </ul>
655:
1.417 pvalchev 656: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
657: <ul>
1.421 ian 658:
1.417 pvalchev 659: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.422 ian 660: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730775,00.asp">
661: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Widens Its Scope</a>
662: eWEEK, November 22, 2004</strong></font><br>
663: Jason Brooks reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and likes the changes it brings,
664: including the multi-processing support which, he notes,
665: "will be even more important as multicore processors--which occupy space
666: on the road maps of Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others--
667: become more prevalent." Comments favorably on OpenNTPD
668: ("the three-line configuration file we needed to modify ... on OpenBSD was
669: much simpler to deal with than the equivalent configuration file on
670: the Linux systems we've tested").
1.423 ian 671: Overall a favorable review of some of the new stuff in 3.6.
1.422 ian 672: <p>
673: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 otto 674: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
675: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
676: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
677: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
678: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
679: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
680: it claims to do".
681: <p>
682:
683: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 684: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109994542424009&w=2">
1.421 ian 685: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution</a>
686: misc@, November 8, 2004</strong></font><br>
687: Theo recounts the struggle to get Intel to provide redistributable
688: versions of the firmware for their wireless chipsets, and their
1.423 ian 689: ultimate refusal to allow OpenBSD to redistribute the chipsets' firmware.
1.421 ian 690: Includes a caveat about Intel's disingenuous "FAQ", typical of many
691: corporate FAQs that answer questions nobody actually thought
692: to ask, and don't truthfully answer the questions you want hard answers to.
693: At the end Theo names the names (and their emails) that need to be contacted
694: by large numbers of end-users and developers if Intel is to change
695: (yes, this is a hint).
696: Of interest is that this posting to one of our mailing lists was
697: picked up on the
698: <a href="http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1923">Screaming
699: Electron Forum</a> and from there reported on
1.462 grunk 700: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/22/1249249&from=rss">
1.421 ian 701: SlashDot</a>, where it is accompanied by a link to SlashDot's paper
702: on effective advocacy (be firm, but also be polite).
703: <p>
704:
705: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 706: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
707: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
708: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
709: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
710: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
711: questions about the significance and rationale behind
712: the current efforts.
713: <p>
714: </ul>
715:
1.407 henning 716: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
717: <ul>
718: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 719: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
720: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
721: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
722: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
723: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
724: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
725: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
726: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
727: <p>
728:
729: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 730: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
731: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
732: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
733: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
734: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
735: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
736: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
737: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
738: of the important changes in 3.6.
1.462 grunk 739: <p>
1.415 ian 740:
741: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 742: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
1.414 ian 743: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
744: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
745: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
746: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
747: overflow attacks... because
748: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
749: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
750: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
751: and propolice.
752: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
753: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
754: and that's when the science falls apart."
755: <p>
756:
757: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 758: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
759: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
760: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
761: Starts with the question:
762: <blockquote>
763: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
764: <br/>
765: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
766: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
767: <br/>
768: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
769: Should we believe them?"
770: </blockquote>
771: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
772: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
773: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
774: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
775: for your mail, web and other online activities.
776: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
777: <p>
778:
779: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 780: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
781: Simple Simon</a>,
782: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
783: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
784: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
785: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
786: routing/firewall, and more.
787: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
788: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
789: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
790: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
791: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
792: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
793: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
794: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
795: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
796: </blockquote>
797: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
798: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
799: <p>
800:
801: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 802: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
803: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 804: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 805: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 806: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
807: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
808: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 809: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 810: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
811: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
812: in spite of it
813: (registration required, but worth it).
814: <p>
815:
816: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
817: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
818: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
819: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
820: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
821: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
822: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
823: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 824: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 825: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
826: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
827: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
828: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
829: <p>
830:
831: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 832: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
833: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
834: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
835: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
836: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
837: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
838: <blockquote>
839: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
840: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
841: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
842: a lot of analysis.
843: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
844: </blockquote>
845: <p>
846: </ul>
847:
1.400 marco 848: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
849: <ul>
850: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 851: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
852: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
853: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
854: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
855: UNIX-like systems.
856: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
857: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
858: <p>
859: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 860: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
861: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 862: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
863: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
864: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
865: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
866: At one point, the article states:
867: <blockquote>
868: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
869: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
870: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
871: </blockquote>
872: And then quotes Theo as saying:
873: <blockquote>
874: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
875: fewer are reading or auditing code."
876: </blockquote>
877: <p>
878: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
879: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
880: marks its fifth birthday</a>
881: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
882: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
883: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
884: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
885: required).
886: <p>
887: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 888: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
889: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
890: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
891: </strong></font><br>
892: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
893: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
894: <p>
895: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 896: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
897: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 898: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 899: </strong></font><br>
900: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
901: <p>
902: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 903: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
904: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 905: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 906: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 907: 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 908: <p>
909: </ul>
910:
1.396 henning 911: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
912: <ul>
913: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 914: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
915: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
916: Unix Review, July, 2004
917: </strong></font><br>
918: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
919: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
1.462 grunk 920: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
1.418 ian 921: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
922: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
923: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
924: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
925: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
926: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
927: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
928: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
929: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
930: and even spelling/wording errors.
931: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
932: <p>
933: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 934: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 935: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
936: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
937: </strong></font><br>
938: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
939: <p>
940: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 941: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 942: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
943: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
944: </strong></font><br>
945: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
946: <p>
947: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 948: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
949: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
950: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
951: </strong></font><br>
952: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
953: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
954: <p>
955: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 956: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
957: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
958: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
959: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
960: <p>
961: </ul>
962:
1.405 jolan 963: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
964: <ul>
965: <li><font color="#00900"><strong>
966: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
1.466 deraadt 967: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 5, 2004</strong></font>
1.405 jolan 968: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
969: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
970: details on how funds are dispersed.
971: <p>
972: </ul>
973:
1.393 david 974: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
975: <ul>
976: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 977: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
978: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
979: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
980: </strong></font><br>
981: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
982: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
983: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
984: on inserting large number of SQL records.
985: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
986: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
987: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
988: <p>
989:
990: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 991: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
992: Secure by Default</a>,
993: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
994: </strong></font><br>
995: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
996: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
997: <p>
998:
999: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1000: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
1001: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
1002: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
1003: </strong></font><br>
1004: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
1005: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
1006: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
1007: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
1008: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
1009: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
1010: <p>
1011:
1012: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1013: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
1014: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
1015: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
1016: </strong></font><br>
1017: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
1018: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
1019: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
1020: <p>
1021:
1022: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1023: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
1024: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
1025: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
1026: </strong></font><br>
1027: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
1028: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
1029: <p>
1030: </ul>
1031:
1.388 mcbride 1032: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
1033: <ul>
1.394 jolan 1034:
1035: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1036: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
1037: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
1038: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
1039: </strong></font><br>
1040: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
1041: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
1042: available for sparc64.
1043: <p>
1044:
1.390 beck 1045: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 1046: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
1047: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
1048: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
1049: </strong></font><br>
1050: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
1051: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
1052: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
1053: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
1054: <p>
1055:
1056: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 1057: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
1058: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 1059: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 1060: </strong></font><br>
1061: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
1062: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
1063: it does: CARP provides sharing
1064: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
1065: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
1066: detail to get you started using it.
1067: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
1068: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
1069: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
1070: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
1071: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
1072: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
1073: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 1074: <p>
1.391 ian 1075:
1076: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 1077: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 1078: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
1079: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 1080: </strong></font><br>
1081: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 1082: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 1083: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 1084: <p>
1.388 mcbride 1085:
1086: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1087: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
1088: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 1089: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 1090: </strong></font><br>
1091: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
1092: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
1093: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
1094: unencumbered by patents.
1095: <p>
1096: </ul>
1097:
1.378 henning 1098: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
1099: <ul>
1.384 jose 1100:
1101: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 1102: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
1103: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
1104: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
1105: </strong></font><br>
1106: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
1107: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
1108: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
1109: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
1110: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
1111: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
1112: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
1113: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
1114: in the page tables."
1115: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
1116: <p>
1117:
1118: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1119: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
1120: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
1121: </strong></font><br>
1122: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
1123: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
1124: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
1125: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 1126: <p>
1.384 jose 1127:
1.378 henning 1128: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 1129: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
1130: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 1131: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
1132: </strong></font><br>
1133: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
1134: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
1135: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
1136: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
1137: (quote:
1138: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
1139: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 1140: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 1141: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
1142: the other developers for their work on the system.
1143: <p>
1144:
1145: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1146: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
1147: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
1148: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 1149: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 1150: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
1151: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
1152: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
1153: too.
1154: <p>
1155:
1156: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 1157: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
1158: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 1159: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 1160: OpenBSD source code using
1161: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
1162: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
1163: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
1164: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
1165: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
1166: <p>
1167: </ul>
1168:
1.374 jose 1169: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
1170: <ul>
1171: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 1172: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 1173: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
1174: </strong></font><br>
1175: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
1176: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
1177: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
1178: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
1179: it."
1180: <p>
1181:
1182: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 1183: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
1184: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
1185: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
1186: </strong></font><br/>
1187: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
1188: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
1189: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
1190: <p>
1191: </ul>
1192:
1.369 ian 1193: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
1194: <ul>
1195: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1196: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
1197: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
1198: </strong></font><br/>
1199: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
1200: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
1201: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
1202: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
1203: <p>
1204:
1205: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 1206: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
1207: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
1208: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
1209: </strong></font><br/>
1210: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
1211: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
1212: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
1213: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
1214: form factor.
1215: <p>
1216:
1217: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1218: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
1219: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
1220: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
1221: Features</a>,
1222: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
1223: </strong></font><br/>
1224: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
1225: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
1226: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
1227: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
1228: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
1229: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
1230: <p>
1231: This article can also be found online at:
1232: <ul>
1233: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1234: <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 1235: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
1236: </strong></font>
1237: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
1238: </ul>
1239: <p>
1.392 david 1240:
1.371 jose 1241: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 1242: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
1243: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 1244: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
1245: </strong></font><br/>
1246: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
1247: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
1248: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 1249: <p>
1.371 jose 1250:
1251: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 1252: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 1253: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 1254: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 1255: </strong></font><br/>
1256: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
1257: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
1258: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
1259: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
1260: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
1261: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
1262: and its history with OpenBSD.
1263: </ul>
1264:
1.368 henning 1265: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
1266: <ul>
1267: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 1268: [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 1269: </strong></font><br>
1270: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
1271: </ul>
1272:
1.364 jose 1273: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
1274: <ul>
1275: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 1276: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
1277: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
1278: UNIX Review,
1279: July, 2003.
1280: </strong></font><br>
1281: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
1282: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
1283: who want more information.
1284: <p>
1285:
1286: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 1287: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
1288: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
1289: Government Computer News,
1290: July 22, 2003.
1291: </strong></font><br>
1292: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
1293: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
1294: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
1295: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
1296: <p>
1297:
1298: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1299: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
1300: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
1301: SANS Institute,
1302: July 22, 2003.
1303: </strong></font><br>
1304: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 1305: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 1306: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
1307: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
1308: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
1309: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
1310: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
1311: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
1312: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
1313: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
1314: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
1315: <p>
1316:
1317: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 1318: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
1319: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
1320: OnLamp.com,
1321: July 17, 2003.
1322: </strong></font><br>
1323: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
1324: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
1325: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
1326: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
1327: have been working on.
1328:
1329: </ul>
1330:
1.356 jose 1331: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 1332: <ul>
1333:
1334: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 1335: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
1336: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
1337: UNIX Review,
1338: June, 2003.
1339: </strong></font><br>
1340: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
1341: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
1342: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
1343: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
1344: <p>
1345:
1346: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 1347: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
1348: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
1349: eWeek,
1350: June 23, 2003.
1351: </strong></font><br>
1352: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
1353: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
1354: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
1355: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
1356: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
1357: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
1358: <p>
1359:
1360: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 1361: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
1362: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
1363: Software Development Online,
1364: June, 2003.
1365: </strong></font><br>
1366: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
1367: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
1368: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
1369: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
1370: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
1371: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
1372: current activities.
1373: <p>
1374:
1375: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 1376: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
1377: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 1378: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
1379: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
1380: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
1381: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 1382: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 1383: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
1384: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
1385: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 1386: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 1387: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
1388: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 1389: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 1390: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
1391: decisions.
1392: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
1393: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 1394: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 1395: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 1396: <p>
1397:
1398: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 1399: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
1400: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
1401: Page 58, eWeek,
1402: June 2, 2003.
1403: </strong></font><br>
1404: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
1405: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
1406: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
1407: been addressed in -current.
1408: <p>
1409:
1.356 jose 1410: </ul>
1411:
1412: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
1413: <ul>
1414:
1.355 jose 1415: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 1416: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
1417: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
1418: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
1419: </strong></font><br>
1420: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
1421: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
1422: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
1423: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
1424: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
1425: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
1426: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
1427: <p>
1428:
1429: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 1430: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
1431: Beyond Linux</a>,
1432: InfoWorld,
1433: May 23, 2003.
1434: </strong></font><br>
1435: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
1436: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
1437: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
1438: compared to the GPL.
1439: <p>
1440:
1441: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 1442: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
1443: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
1444: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 1445: May 17, 2003.
1446: </strong></font><br>
1447: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
1448: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
1449: the business section and half of another page inside
1450: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
1451: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
1452: in talking about the project's history and goals.
1453: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
1454: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
1455: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
1456: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 1457: <br>
1458: This article can also be found online at:
1459: <ul>
1460: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1461: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
1462: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
1463: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
1464: May 17, 2003
1465: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 1466: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
1467: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1468: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
1469: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
1470: Montreal Gazette,
1471: May 21, 2003
1472: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 1473: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 1474: <p>
1.346 ian 1475:
1476: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 1477: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 1478: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 1479: May 7, 2003.
1480: </strong></font><br>
1481: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
1482: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
1483: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
1484: <p>
1485:
1486: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 1487: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
1488: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1489: OsOpinion,
1490: May 6, 2003.
1491: </strong></font><br>
1492: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
1493: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
1494: <br>
1495: This article can also be found online at:
1496: <ul>
1497: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1498: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
1499: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1500: NewsFactor Network.
1501: </strong></font>
1502: </ul>
1503: <p>
1504:
1505: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1506: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 1507: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
1508: ITBusiness,
1509: May 2, 2003.
1510: </strong></font><br>
1511: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
1512: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
1513: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
1514: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
1515: <p>
1516:
1517: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 1518: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
1519: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1520: InfoWorld,
1521: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 1522: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 1523: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
1524: <br>
1525: This article can also be found online at:
1526: <ul>
1527: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1528: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
1529: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1530: IDG Singapore.
1531: </strong></font>
1532: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1533: <p>
1534:
1.339 jose 1535: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1536: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
1537: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 1538: ZDNet,
1539: May 1, 2003.
1540: </strong></font><br>
1541: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 1542: someone using parts from previous articles.
1543: <br>
1.341 deraadt 1544: This article can also be found online at:
1545: <ul>
1546: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1547: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
1548: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1549: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 1550: </strong></font>
1551: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1552: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
1553: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1554: CNET News.com.
1555: </strong></font>
1556: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1557: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
1558: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
1559: ZDNet UK.
1560: </strong></font>
1561: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1562: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
1563: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
1564: Help Net Security, Croatia.
1565: </strong></font>
1566: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1567: <p>
1.339 jose 1568:
1.341 deraadt 1569: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1570: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 1571: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
1572: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
1573: May 1, 2003.
1574: </strong></font><br>
1575: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
1576: that have been added
1577: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
1578: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
1579: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 1580: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 1581: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
1582: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
1583: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 1584: <p>
1585:
1586: </ul>
1587:
1.253 ian 1588: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
1589: <ul>
1.255 ian 1590:
1.260 ian 1591: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1592: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 1593: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1594: TechRepublic,
1595: April 28, 2003.
1596: </strong></font><br>
1597: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
1598: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 1599: work.<br>
1600: Can also be found online at:
1601: <ul>
1602: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1603: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
1604: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1605: ZDNet UK.
1606: </strong></font>
1607: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 1608: <p>
1609:
1610: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 1611: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
1612: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
1613: IDG,
1614: April 24, 2003.
1615: </strong></font><br>
1616: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
1617: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
1618: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
1619: Can also be found online at:
1620: <ul>
1621: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1622: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
1623: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 1624: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 1625: </strong></font>
1626: </ul>
1627: <p>
1628:
1629: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1630: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 1631: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 1632: Slate,
1633: April 24, 2003.
1634: </strong></font><br>
1635: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
1636: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
1637: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
1638: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
1639: <p>
1640:
1641: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 1642: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1643: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
1644: April 24, 2003.
1645: </strong></font><br>
1646: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
1647: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
1648: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
1649: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
1650: <p>
1651:
1652: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 1653: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
1654: April 24, 2003.
1655: </strong></font><br>
1656: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
1657: the free software community".
1658: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
1659: other articles.
1660: <p>
1661:
1662: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1663: <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 1664: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
1665: </strong></font><br>
1666: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
1667: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
1668: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
1669: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
1670: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
1671: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
1672: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 1673: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 1674: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
1675: <br/>
1676: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
1677: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
1678: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
1679: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 1680: <br>
1681: Can also be found online at:
1682: <ul>
1683: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1684: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
1685: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
1686: Common Dreams NewsCenter
1687: </strong></font>
1688: </ul>
1.324 ian 1689: <p>
1690:
1691: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1692: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
1693: Wired, April 24, 2003.
1694: </strong></font><br>
1695: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
1696: article above.
1697: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
1698: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
1699: wasting them."
1.332 ian 1700: <br>
1701: Can also be found online at:
1702: <ul>
1703: <li>
1704: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
1705: </strong></font>
1706: </ul>
1.324 ian 1707: <p>
1708:
1709: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 1710: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
1711: </strong></font><br>
1712: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
1713: <p>
1714:
1715: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 1716: <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.
1717: </strong></font><br>
1718: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
1719: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
1720: <p>
1721:
1722: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 1723: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
1724: April 23, 2003.
1725: </strong></font><br>
1726: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
1727: <p>
1728:
1729: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 1730: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 1731: April 22, 2003.
1732: </strong></font><br>
1733: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
1734: <p>
1735:
1736: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 1737: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1738: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1739: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 1740: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 1741: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
1742: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
1743: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
1744: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
1745: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
1746: Can also be found online at:
1747: <ul>
1748: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1749: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 1750: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1751: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 1752: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 1753: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1754: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 1755: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
1756: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 1757: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 1758: </ul>
1759: <p>
1760:
1761: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 1762: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
1763: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 1764: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1765: </strong></font><br>
1766: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 1767: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
1768: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
1769: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
1770: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
1771: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
1772: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 1773: <p>
1774:
1775: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 1776: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
1777: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 1778: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
1779: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 1780: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
1781: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
1782: at UPenn and DARPA.
1783: <p>
1784:
1785: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 1786: [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,
1787: France
1.315 deraadt 1788: April 18, 2003.
1789: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 1790: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 1791: <p>
1792:
1793: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 1794: [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 1795: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1796: </strong></font><br>
1797: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
1798: <p>
1799:
1800: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 1801: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
1802: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
1803: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1804: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 1805: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
1806: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
1807: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
1808: <p>
1809:
1810: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 1811: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
1812: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1813: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 1814: </strong></font><br>
1815: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1816: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
1817: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 1818: American century.
1.267 deraadt 1819: <p>
1820:
1821: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 1822: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
1823: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1824: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 1825: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 1826: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
1827: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
1828: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
1829: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
1830: Can also be found online at:
1831: <ul>
1832: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
1833: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 1834: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 1835: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 1836: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 1837: <p>
1838:
1839: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 1840: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 1841: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1842: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 1843: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 1844: </strong></font><br>
1845: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 1846: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
1847: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
1848: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
1849: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 1850:
1851: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1852: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
1853: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1854: New York Times.
1855: </strong></font>(free registration required)
1856:
1.273 deraadt 1857: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1858: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 1859: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1860: ABC News.
1861: </strong></font>
1862:
1863: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1864: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 1865: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 1866: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 1867: </strong></font>
1868:
1869: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1870: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1871: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 1872: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 1873: </strong></font>
1874:
1875: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 1876: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
1877: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1878: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 1879: </strong></font>
1880:
1881: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1882: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1883: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 1884: Times Daily, AL.
1885: </strong></font>
1886:
1887: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1888: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
1889: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
1890: Boston.com, MA.
1891: </strong></font>
1892:
1893: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1894: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 1895: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 1896: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
1897: </strong></font>
1898:
1899: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 1900: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
1901: [Article was pulled]</a>
1902: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 1903: </strong></font>
1904:
1905: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1906: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
1907: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
1908: Infoshop News.
1909: </strong></font>
1910:
1911: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1912: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
1913: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1914: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
1915: </strong></font>
1916:
1917: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 1918: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
1919: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
1920: Raleigh News, NC.
1921: </strong></font>
1922:
1923: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1924: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 1925: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
1926: Napa News, CA.
1927: </strong></font>
1928:
1929: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1930: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 1931: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1932: NEPA News, PA.
1933: </strong></font>
1934:
1935: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1936: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
1937: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
1938: Wired News.
1939: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 1940: <br>
1941: <li>
1.333 deraadt 1942: <font color="#009000"><strong>
1943: [JAPANESE]
1944: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
1945: Wired News Japan</a>
1946: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 1947:
1.271 deraadt 1948: </ul>
1949: <p>
1.272 deraadt 1950: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
1951: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 1952: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
1953: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
1954: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
1955: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
1956: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
1957: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 1958: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 1959: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
1960: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
1961: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 1962: <p>
1963: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 1964:
1965: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1966: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 1967: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1968: Indianapolis Star, IN.
1969: </strong></font>
1970:
1971: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 1972: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
1973: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1974: Miami Herald, FL.
1975: </strong></font>
1976:
1977: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 1978: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1979: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
1980: </strong></font>
1981:
1982: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1983: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 1984: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 1985: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 1986: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 1987:
1988: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1989: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
1990: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
1991: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
1992: ABC News.
1993: </strong></font>
1994:
1.276 deraadt 1995: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1996: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 1997: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1998: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 1999: </strong></font>
2000:
1.286 dhartmei 2001: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2002: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 2003: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2004: Wilmington Star, NC.
2005: </strong></font>
2006:
1.300 jose 2007: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2008: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
2009: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
2010: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
2011: </strong></font>
2012:
1.309 jose 2013: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2014: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
2015: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
2016: Globe Technology.
2017: </strong></font>
2018:
1.263 deraadt 2019: </ul>
1.262 beck 2020: <p>
2021:
2022: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 2023: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
2024: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2025: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 2026: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 2027: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 2028: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
2029: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
2030: <p>
2031:
2032: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 2033: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
2034: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
2035: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 2036: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 2037: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
2038: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
2039: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
2040: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
2041: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
2042: and simply restates other press reports.
2043: <p>
2044:
2045: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 2046: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
2047: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2048: OS News, April 18, 2003.
2049: </strong></font><br>
2050: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
2051: <p>
2052:
2053: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 2054: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
2055: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2056: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 2057: </strong></font><br>
2058: Another report on the DARPA funding.
2059: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
2060: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
2061: <p>
2062:
2063: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 2064: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
2065: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
2066: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
2067: April 17, 2003.
2068: </strong></font><br>
2069: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
2070: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
2071: Tech Anthems</a>
2072: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
2073: 4 so far.
2074: <p>
2075:
2076: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 2077: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
2078: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2079: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2080: </strong></font><br>
2081: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
2082: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
2083: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
2084: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
2085: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
2086: Goes on to say:
2087: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
2088: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
2089: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
2090: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 2091: This article is also found online at:
2092: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 2093: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2094: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
2095: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
2096: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 2097: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 2098: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2099: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
2100: ZDnet</a>,
2101: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 2102: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 2103: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2104: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
2105: ZDnet Australia</a>,
2106: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 2107: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 2108: </ul>
1.260 ian 2109: <p>
1.279 deraadt 2110:
1.260 ian 2111: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2112: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 2113: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 2114: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2115: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 2116: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 2117: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
2118: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
2119: without notice or justification.
2120: <p>
2121:
2122: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2123: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 2124: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 2125: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2126: </strong></font><br>
2127: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
2128: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 2129: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 2130: effective today, without any warning..."
2131: <p>
1.257 ian 2132:
2133: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 2134: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
2135: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2136: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 2137: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 2138: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
2139: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
2140: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
2141: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
2142: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 2143: <p>
2144:
2145: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 2146: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
2147: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2148: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 2149: </strong></font><br>
2150: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
2151: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
2152: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
2153: quoting two of them:
2154: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
2155: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
2156: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
2157: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
2158: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
2159: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
2160: <p>
2161:
1.255 ian 2162: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2163: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
2164: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 2165: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2166: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 2167: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 2168: <p>
2169:
2170: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 2171: [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 2172: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2173: </strong></font><br>
2174: New security concepts in OpenBSD
2175: <p>
2176:
2177: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 2178: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
2179: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2180: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 2181: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 2182: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 2183: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
2184: security experts for more than three decades."
2185: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
2186: <p>
1.261 ian 2187:
1.254 drahn 2188: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 2189: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 2190: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2191: </strong></font><br>
2192: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
2193: <p>
2194:
2195: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 2196: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
2197: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
2198: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
2199: </strong></font><br>
2200: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
2201: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
2202: discussion OpenBSD's path.
2203: <p>
2204:
2205: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 2206: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
2207: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2208: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 2209: </strong></font><br>
2210: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
2211: from US DARPA.
2212: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
2213: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
2214: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
2215: the BSD license.
2216: <p>
2217: </ul>
2218:
1.251 ian 2219: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
2220: <ul>
2221:
2222: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2223: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
2224: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
2225: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
2226: </strong></font><br>
2227:
2228: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
2229: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
2230: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
2231: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
2232: <p>
2233:
2234: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 2235: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
2236: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 2237: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 2238: </strong></font><br>
2239: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
2240: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
2241: Mentions
2242: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
2243: and
2244: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
2245: programs.
2246: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 2247: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 2248: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
2249: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
2250: <p>
1.325 ian 2251: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
2252: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 2253:
2254: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2255: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
2256: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
2257: </strong></font><br>
2258: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
2259: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
2260: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
2261: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
2262: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
2263: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
2264: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
2265: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
2266: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
2267: put into service."
2268: <p>
2269: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
2270: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
2271: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
2272: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
2273: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
2274: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
2275: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
2276: computers with security features."
2277: <p>
1.329 ian 2278:
2279: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2280: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
2281: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
2282: Slate,
2283: March 3, 2003.
2284: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 2285: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 2286: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
2287: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
2288: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
2289: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
2290: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
2291: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
2292: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
2293: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
2294: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
2295: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
2296: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
2297: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
2298: of more secure open-source solutions like
2299: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
2300: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
2301: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
2302: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
2303: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
2304: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
2305: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
2306: the Beltway."
2307: <p>
1.251 ian 2308: </ul>
2309:
1.249 jufi 2310: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
2311: <ul>
2312: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2313: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
2314: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2315: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 2316: </strong></font><br>
2317: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
2318: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 2319: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 2320: <p>
1.334 ian 2321:
2322: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2323: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
2324: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
2325: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
2326: </strong></font><br>
2327: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
2328: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
2329: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
2330: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
2331: "... the hypothetical question ...
2332: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
2333: <br>
2334: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
2335: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
2336: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
2337: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
2338: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
2339: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 2340: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 2341: support network security.
2342: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
2343: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
2344: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
2345: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
2346: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
2347: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
2348: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
2349: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
2350: <br>
2351: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
2352: <p>
2353:
1.249 jufi 2354: </ul>
2355:
1.246 jufi 2356: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2357: <ul>
1.246 jufi 2358:
1.247 jufi 2359: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2360: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 2361: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2362: CNET News.com, December 4, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2363: </strong></font><br>
2364: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
2365: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
2366: <p>
2367:
1.247 jufi 2368: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2369: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
2370: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2371: Heise News-Ticker, December 4, 2002
1.301 jose 2372: </strong></font><br>
1.460 david 2373: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III CPU
1.301 jose 2374: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
2375: <p>
2376:
2377: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2378: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 2379: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2380: eWeek, December 3, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2381: </strong></font><br>
2382: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
2383: in their annual OpenHack security test.
2384: <p>
1.247 jufi 2385: </ul>
1.246 jufi 2386:
1.244 jufi 2387: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2388: <ul>
1.246 jufi 2389:
1.247 jufi 2390: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2391: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
2392: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
2393: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2394: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2395: </strong></font><br>
2396: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
2397: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
2398: md5 digests.
2399: <p>
2400:
1.247 jufi 2401: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2402: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 2403: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
2404: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2405: </strong></font><br>
2406: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
2407: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
2408: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
2409: right the first time."
2410: <p>
1.247 jufi 2411: </ul>
1.244 jufi 2412:
2413:
2414: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2415: <ul>
1.244 jufi 2416:
1.247 jufi 2417: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2418: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2419: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
2420: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2421: </strong></font><br>
2422: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
2423: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
2424: part 6</a>.
2425: <p>
2426:
1.247 jufi 2427: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2428: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 2429: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
2430: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2431: O'Reilly Network, August 8, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2432: </strong></font><br>
2433: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
2434: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
2435: <p>
1.301 jose 2436:
2437: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2438: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
2439: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
2440: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
2441: </strong></font><br>
2442:
2443: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
2444: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
2445: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
2446: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
2447: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
2448: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
2449: <i>Here's the
2450: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
2451: <p>
1.247 jufi 2452: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2453:
2454: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2455: <ul>
1.242 jufi 2456:
1.247 jufi 2457: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2458: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 2459: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2460: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2461: </strong></font><br>
2462: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
2463: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
2464: <p>
2465:
1.247 jufi 2466: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2467: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2468: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2469: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 1, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2470: </strong></font><br>
2471: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
2472: this time using pf.
2473: <p>
1.247 jufi 2474: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2475:
2476: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2477: <ul>
1.242 jufi 2478:
1.247 jufi 2479: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2480: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2481: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
2482: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2483: </strong></font><br>
2484: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
2485: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
2486: their rotation.
2487: <p>
2488:
1.247 jufi 2489: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2490: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2491: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2492: O'Reilly Network, June 6, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2493: </strong></font><br>
2494: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
2495: <p>
1.247 jufi 2496: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2497:
1.239 jufi 2498: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2499: <ul>
1.239 jufi 2500:
1.247 jufi 2501: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2502: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2503: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
2504: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2505: </strong></font><br>
2506: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
2507: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
2508: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
2509: <p>
2510:
1.247 jufi 2511: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 2512: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2513: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
2514: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 2515: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 2516: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
2517: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
2518: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 2519: <p>
1.247 jufi 2520: </ul>
1.239 jufi 2521:
1.235 lebel 2522: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2523: <ul>
1.235 lebel 2524:
1.239 jufi 2525:
1.247 jufi 2526: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 2527: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 2528: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
2529: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 2530: </strong></font><br>
2531: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
2532: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
2533: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
2534: <p>
1.301 jose 2535:
1.247 jufi 2536: </ul>
1.235 lebel 2537:
1.228 horacio 2538: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2539: <ul>
1.228 horacio 2540:
1.247 jufi 2541: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2542: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2543: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
2544: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 2545: </strong></font><br>
2546: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
2547: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
2548: <p>
2549:
1.247 jufi 2550: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 2551: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 2552: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
2553: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 2554: </strong></font><br>
2555: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
2556: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
2557: <p>
2558:
1.247 jufi 2559: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 2560: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 2561: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
2562: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 2563: </strong></font><br>
2564: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
2565: on the desktop of his parents.
2566: <p>
2567:
1.247 jufi 2568: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 2569: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 2570: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
2571: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 2572: </strong></font><br>
2573: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
2574: using IPFilter.
2575:
2576: <p>
2577:
1.247 jufi 2578: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 2579: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 2580: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
2581: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 2582: </strong></font><br>
2583: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
2584: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
2585: perspectives of the four OS.
2586: <br>
2587: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 2588: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 2589: <p>
2590:
1.247 jufi 2591: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 2592: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
2593: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 2594: software and security</a>,
2595: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 2596: </strong></font><br>
2597:
2598: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
2599: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
2600: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
2601: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
2602: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
2603: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
2604: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
2605: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
2606: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
2607: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
2608: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
2609: security conscious team beyond doubt.
2610: <p>
1.247 jufi 2611: </ul>
1.228 horacio 2612:
1.225 horacio 2613: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2614: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2615:
1.247 jufi 2616: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2617: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
2618: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 2619: Interview</a>,
2620: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 2621: </strong></font><br>
2622:
2623: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
2624: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
2625: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 2626: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 2627: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
2628: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
2629: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
2630: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
2631: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 2632: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 2633: of choice.
2634: <p>
1.247 jufi 2635: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2636:
2637: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2638: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2639:
1.247 jufi 2640: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2641: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 2642: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
2643: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 2644: </strong></font><br>
2645:
2646: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
2647: <p>
2648:
1.247 jufi 2649: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2650: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 2651: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
2652: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 2653: </strong></font><br>
2654:
2655: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
2656: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
2657: <p>
1.247 jufi 2658: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2659:
1.218 horacio 2660: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2661: <ul>
1.218 horacio 2662:
1.247 jufi 2663: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 2664: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 2665: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 2666: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 2667: </strong></font><br>
2668:
2669: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
2670: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
2671: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
2672: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
2673: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
2674: subjects. Worth a read.
2675: <p>
2676:
2677:
1.247 jufi 2678: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 2679: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 2680: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
2681: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 2682: </strong></font><br>
2683:
2684: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
2685: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
2686: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
2687: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
2688: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
2689: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
2690: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
2691: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
2692: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 2693: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 2694: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
2695: on other operating systems.<br>
2696: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
2697: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
2698: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
2699: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
2700: <p>
2701:
1.247 jufi 2702: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2703: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 2704: Operating System 2010</a>,
2705: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 2706: </strong></font><br>
2707:
2708: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
2709: covering the level of software integration into the core
2710: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
2711: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
2712: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
2713: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
2714: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
2715: <p>
2716:
1.247 jufi 2717: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 2718: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2719: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
2720: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 2721: </strong></font><br>
2722:
2723: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
2724: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
2725: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
2726: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
2727: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
2728: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
2729: <p>
1.247 jufi 2730: </ul>
1.221 horacio 2731:
1.210 jufi 2732: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2733: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2734:
1.247 jufi 2735: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2736: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2737: Already a Contender</a>,
2738: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 2739: </strong></font><br>
2740:
2741: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
2742: source software in response to an article which claimed that
2743: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
2744: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
2745: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
2746: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
2747: <p>
2748:
1.247 jufi 2749: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 2750: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 2751: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
2752: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 2753: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2754:
1.224 horacio 2755: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
2756: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
2757: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
2758: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
2759: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
2760: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 2761: <p>
1.247 jufi 2762: </ul>
1.215 horacio 2763:
2764: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2765: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2766:
1.247 jufi 2767: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2768: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
2769: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 2770: Division</a>,
2771: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 2772: </strong></font><br>
2773:
2774: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
2775: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 2776: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 2777: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
2778: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
2779: investment</em>.<br>
2780: The implementation details can be seen on their
2781: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
2782: <p>
2783:
1.247 jufi 2784: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2785: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
2786: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
2787: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
2788: </strong></font><br>
2789:
2790: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
2791: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
2792: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1.475 grunk 2793: laptops and T-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1.301 jose 2794: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
2795: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
2796: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
2797: <p>
2798:
2799: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2800: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2801: Thinking about Security</a>,
2802: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2803: </strong></font><br>
2804:
2805: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
2806: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
2807: security and says that even secured operating systems running
2808: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
2809: to time.<br>
2810: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
2811: system and just the most secure system.
2812: <p>
2813:
1.247 jufi 2814: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2815: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2816: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
2817: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2818: </strong></font><br>
2819:
2820: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
2821: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
2822: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
2823: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
2824: choice:<br>
2825: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
2826: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
2827: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
2828: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
2829: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
2830: network security devices and as such must be well
2831: armored."</em><br>
2832: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
2833: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
2834: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
2835: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
2836: <br>
2837: Bravo!
2838: <p>
1.247 jufi 2839: </ul>
1.210 jufi 2840:
1.207 ian 2841: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2842: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2843:
1.247 jufi 2844: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 2845: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
2846: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
2847: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 2848:
1.207 ian 2849: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
2850: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 2851: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 2852: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
2853: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
2854: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 2855: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 2856: <p>
1.247 jufi 2857: </ul>
1.207 ian 2858:
1.194 jufi 2859: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2860: <ul>
1.194 jufi 2861:
1.247 jufi 2862: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2863: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 2864: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
2865: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 2866: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2867:
1.240 miod 2868: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 2869: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
2870: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
2871: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
2872: <p>
2873:
1.247 jufi 2874: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2875: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
2876: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
2877: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
2878:
2879: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
2880: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
2881: <p>
2882:
2883: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2884: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
2885: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2886: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
2887:
2888: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
2889: <p>
2890:
2891: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2892: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 2893: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
2894: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
2895: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2896:
1.240 miod 2897: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 2898: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 2899: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
2900: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 2901: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 2902: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 2903: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
2904: <br>
1.413 deraadt 2905: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 2906: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
2907: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
2908: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
2909: <p>
2910:
1.247 jufi 2911: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 2912: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
2913: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 2914: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 2915: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2916:
1.194 jufi 2917: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
2918: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
2919: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
2920: <br>
2921: The new
2922: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 2923: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 2924: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
2925: <p>
1.247 jufi 2926: </ul>
1.194 jufi 2927:
1.190 horacio 2928: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2929: <ul>
1.190 horacio 2930:
1.247 jufi 2931: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 2932:
2933: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
2934: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
2935:
1.301 jose 2936:
1.191 jufi 2937: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
2938: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
2939:
2940: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
2941: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
2942:
1.212 horacio 2943: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
2944: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 2945: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
2946:
1.211 horacio 2947: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
2948: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 2949: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
2950:
1.247 jufi 2951: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 2952: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
2953:
1.247 jufi 2954: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 2955: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
2956:
1.212 horacio 2957: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
2958: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 2959: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
2960:
2961: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
2962: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
2963:
2964: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
2965: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
2966:
1.301 jose 2967: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
2968: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
2969:
1.191 jufi 2970: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
2971: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
2972:
2973: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 2974: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 2975:
1.192 jufi 2976: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
2977: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 2978: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 2979:
1.193 deraadt 2980: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
2981: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 2982: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 2983:
1.247 jufi 2984: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 2985: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
2986:
1.247 jufi 2987: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 2988: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
2989: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
2990:
1.213 horacio 2991: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 2992: 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 2993: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
2994:
1.190 horacio 2995: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 2996: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
2997: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
2998: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
2999: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
3000: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
3001: <p>
1.190 horacio 3002:
1.247 jufi 3003: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3004: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
3005: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
3006: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 3007: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3008:
1.195 jufi 3009: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 3010: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
3011: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
3012: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 3013: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
3014: <p>
3015:
1.247 jufi 3016: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3017: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 3018: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
3019: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
3020: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3021:
1.191 jufi 3022: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 3023: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
3024: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
3025: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
3026: <p>
3027:
3028: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3029: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
3030: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3031: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
3032:
3033: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
3034: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 3035: <p>
1.247 jufi 3036: </ul>
1.190 horacio 3037:
1.191 jufi 3038:
1.186 jufi 3039: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3040: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 3041:
1.247 jufi 3042: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 3043: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 3044: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
3045: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 3046: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 3047:
1.188 jufi 3048: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 3049: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 3050: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 3051: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
3052: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 3053: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 3054: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 3055: <p>
3056:
1.301 jose 3057: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3058: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
3059: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3060: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
3061:
3062: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
3063: <p>
1.191 jufi 3064:
1.247 jufi 3065: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 3066: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
3067: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3068: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 5, 2001
1.191 jufi 3069: </strong></font><br>
3070:
3071: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
3072: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
3073: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
3074: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
3075: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
3076: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
3077: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
3078: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
3079: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
3080: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
3081: familiar?
3082: <p>
1.247 jufi 3083: </ul>
1.191 jufi 3084:
1.178 louis 3085: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3086: <ul>
1.178 louis 3087:
1.247 jufi 3088: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 3089: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 3090: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
3091: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 3092: </strong></font><br>
3093:
3094: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
3095: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
3096: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
3097: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
3098: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
3099: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
3100: <p>
3101:
1.247 jufi 3102: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3103: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
3104: Open source under the hood</a>,
3105: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 3106: </strong></font><br>
3107:
3108: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
3109: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
3110: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
3111: <p>
3112:
1.247 jufi 3113: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3114: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
3115: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
3116: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 3117: </strong></font><br>
3118:
3119: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
3120: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
3121: <p>
1.247 jufi 3122: </ul>
1.179 louis 3123:
1.174 louis 3124:
1.175 louis 3125: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3126: <ul>
1.175 louis 3127:
1.247 jufi 3128: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3129: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
3130: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
3131: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 3132: </strong></font><br>
3133:
3134: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
3135: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
3136: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
3137: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
3138: <p>
3139:
1.247 jufi 3140: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3141: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
3142: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
3143: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 3144: </strong></font><br>
3145:
3146: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 3147: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 3148: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
3149: <p>
1.247 jufi 3150: </ul>
1.175 louis 3151:
1.176 louis 3152:
1.172 mickey 3153: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3154: <ul>
1.172 mickey 3155:
1.247 jufi 3156: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3157: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
3158: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 3159: </strong></font><br>
3160:
3161: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
3162: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
3163: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 3164: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 3165: <p>
3166:
1.247 jufi 3167: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 3168: <a
1.269 deraadt 3169: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
3170: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
3171: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 3172: </strong></font><br>
3173:
3174: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
3175: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
3176: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
3177: <p>
3178:
1.247 jufi 3179: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3180: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 3181: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
3182: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 3183: </strong></font><br>
3184:
3185: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
3186: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
3187: <p>
3188:
1.247 jufi 3189: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3190: <a
1.269 deraadt 3191: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
3192: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 3193: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
3194: </strong></font><br>
3195:
3196: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
3197: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
3198: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
3199: our own Theo de Raadt.
3200: <p>
3201:
1.247 jufi 3202: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3203: <a
1.269 deraadt 3204: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
3205: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
3206: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 3207: </strong></font><br>
3208:
3209: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
3210: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
3211: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
3212: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
3213: shut down.]
3214: <p>
3215:
1.247 jufi 3216: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3217: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 3218: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 3219: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
3220: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 3221: </strong></font><br>
3222:
3223: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
3224: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
3225: <p>
1.247 jufi 3226: </ul>
1.172 mickey 3227:
1.161 louis 3228: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3229: <ul>
1.161 louis 3230:
1.247 jufi 3231: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 3232: <a
1.269 deraadt 3233: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
3234: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
3235: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 3236: </strong></font><br>
3237:
3238: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
3239: by John Wolley
3240: <p>
3241:
1.247 jufi 3242: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 3243: <a
1.269 deraadt 3244: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
3245: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
3246: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 3247: </strong></font><br>
3248:
3249: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
3250: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
3251: OpenBSD).
3252: <p>
3253:
1.247 jufi 3254: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 3255: <a
1.247 jufi 3256: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 3257: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
3258: </strong></font><br>
3259:
3260: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
3261: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
3262: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
3263: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
3264: and hindsight.
3265: <p>
3266:
1.247 jufi 3267: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3268: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
3269: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
3270: </strong></font><br>
3271:
3272: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
3273: <p>
3274:
1.247 jufi 3275: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 3276: <a
1.168 provos 3277: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
3278: December 7, 2000
3279: </strong></font><br>
3280:
3281: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
3282: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
3283: us explain.
3284: <p>
3285:
1.247 jufi 3286: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 3287: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
3288: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 3289: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 3290: December 6, 2000
3291: </strong></font><br>
3292:
3293: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
3294: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
3295: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
3296: <p>
3297:
1.247 jufi 3298: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3299: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
3300: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
3301: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
3302: </strong></font><br>
3303:
3304: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
3305: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
3306: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
3307: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
3308: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
3309: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
3310: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
3311: <p>
3312:
3313: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 3314: <a
1.226 horacio 3315: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
3316: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 3317: </strong></font><br>
3318:
3319: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 3320: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 3321: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 3322: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
3323: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
3324: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 3325: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 3326: <p>
1.162 millert 3327:
1.247 jufi 3328: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 3329: <a
1.161 louis 3330: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
3331: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
3332: </strong></font><br>
3333:
3334: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
3335: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
3336: <p>
3337:
1.247 jufi 3338: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3339: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
3340: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
3341: </strong></font><br>
3342:
3343: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
3344: <p>
3345:
3346:
1.247 jufi 3347: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 3348: <a
1.226 horacio 3349: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
3350: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
3351: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 3352: </strong></font><br>
3353:
3354: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
3355: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
3356: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
3357: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
3358: <p>
1.247 jufi 3359: </ul>
1.169 louis 3360:
1.158 louis 3361: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3362: <ul>
1.147 louis 3363:
1.247 jufi 3364: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3365: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
3366: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 3367: </strong></font><br>
3368:
3369: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
3370: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
3371: <p>
3372:
1.247 jufi 3373: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3374: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
3375: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
3376: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 3377: </strong></font><br>
3378: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
3379: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
3380: <p>
3381:
1.247 jufi 3382: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 3383: <a
3384: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
3385: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
3386: </strong></font><br>
3387:
3388: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
3389: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
3390: <p>
3391:
1.247 jufi 3392: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3393: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 3394: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
3395: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 3396:
1.213 horacio 3397: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 3398: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 3399: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
3400: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
3401: <p>
1.215 horacio 3402:
1.247 jufi 3403: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3404: <a
3405: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
3406: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
3407: </strong></font><br>
3408:
3409: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
3410: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
3411: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
3412: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
3413: much of the attitude too).
3414: <p>
1.161 louis 3415:
1.247 jufi 3416: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3417: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3418: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 3419: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3420:
1.157 louis 3421: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
3422: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
3423: <p>
1.247 jufi 3424: </ul>
1.157 louis 3425:
3426: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3427: <ul>
1.157 louis 3428:
1.247 jufi 3429: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3430: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3431: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 3432: </strong></font><br>
3433:
3434: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
3435: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
3436: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
3437: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
3438: <p>
3439:
1.247 jufi 3440: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 3441: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
3442: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
3443: </strong></font><br>
3444:
3445: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
3446: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
3447: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
3448: it because they love coding...
3449: <p>
3450:
1.247 jufi 3451: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 3452: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
3453: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
3454: </strong></font><br>
3455:
3456: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
3457: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
3458: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
3459: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
3460: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
3461: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
3462: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
3463: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
3464: <p>
3465:
1.247 jufi 3466: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3467: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
3468: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
3469: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 3470: </strong></font><br>
3471:
3472: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
3473: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
3474: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
3475: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
3476: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
3477: the pizza.
3478: <p>
3479:
1.247 jufi 3480: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 3481: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
3482: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
3483: </strong></font><br>
3484:
3485: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
3486: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
3487: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
3488: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
3489: problems.
3490: <p>
3491:
1.247 jufi 3492: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 3493: <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 3494: </strong></font><br>
3495:
1.222 miod 3496: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 3497: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
3498: - whether they like it or not.
3499: <p>
3500:
1.247 jufi 3501: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3502: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
3503: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 3504: </strong></font><br>
3505:
3506: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
3507: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
3508: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 3509: <p>
1.148 aaron 3510:
1.247 jufi 3511: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3512: <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 3513: </strong></font><br>
3514:
3515: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
3516: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
3517: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
3518: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
3519: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
3520: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
3521: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
3522: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
3523: <p>
3524:
1.247 jufi 3525: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3526: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
3527: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 3528: </strong></font><br>
3529:
3530: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
3531: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 3532: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 3533: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
3534: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
3535: <p>
1.247 jufi 3536: </ul>
1.147 louis 3537:
1.138 louis 3538: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3539: <ul>
1.138 louis 3540:
1.247 jufi 3541: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3542: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
3543: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
3544: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
3545: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 3546: </strong></font><br>
3547:
1.227 horacio 3548: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 3549: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
3550: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
3551: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
3552: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
3553: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
3554: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
3555: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 3556: <p>
3557:
1.247 jufi 3558: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 3559: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 3560: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 3561: </strong></font><br>
3562:
3563: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
3564: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
3565: groups, and even Linux.
3566: <p>
3567:
1.247 jufi 3568: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3569: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
3570: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 3571: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
3572: </strong></font><br>
3573:
3574: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
3575: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
3576: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
3577: library after installing the OS.
3578: <p>
3579:
1.247 jufi 3580: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3581: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 3582: Sys Admin, September 2000
3583: </strong></font><br>
3584:
3585: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
3586: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
3587: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
3588: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 3589: (<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>,
3590: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
3591: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
3592: <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 3593: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 3594: out of the system.
3595: <p>
3596:
1.247 jufi 3597: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 3598: <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
3599: </strong></font><br>
3600:
3601: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 3602: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 3603: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
3604: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
3605: the IP filtering and address translation.
3606: <p>
1.301 jose 3607:
3608: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3609: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
3610: </strong></font><br>
3611:
3612: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
3613: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
3614: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
3615: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
3616: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
3617: <p>
1.247 jufi 3618: </ul>
1.200 niklas 3619:
1.131 louis 3620: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3621: <ul>
1.131 louis 3622:
1.247 jufi 3623: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3624: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
3625: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
3626: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 3627: </strong></font><br>
3628:
3629: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
3630: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
3631: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
3632: <p>
3633:
1.247 jufi 3634: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 3635: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
3636: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
3637: </strong></font><br>
3638:
3639: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
3640: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
3641: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
3642: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
3643: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
3644: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
3645: note of"</i>.
3646: <p>
3647:
1.247 jufi 3648: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 3649: <a
1.247 jufi 3650: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 3651: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
3652: </strong></font><br>
3653:
3654: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
3655: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
3656: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
3657: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
3658: <p>
3659:
1.247 jufi 3660: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 3661: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 3662: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
3663: </strong></font><br>
3664:
3665: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
3666: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
3667: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
3668: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
3669: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
3670: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
3671: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
3672: <p>
3673:
1.247 jufi 3674: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 3675: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
3676: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
3677: 2000
3678: </strong></font><br>
3679:
3680: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
3681: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
3682: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
3683: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
3684: against current industry practices.
3685: <p>
3686:
1.247 jufi 3687: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 3688: <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
3689: </strong></font><br>
3690:
3691: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
3692: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
3693: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
3694: <p>
3695:
1.247 jufi 3696: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 3697: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
3698: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
3699: </strong></font><br>
3700:
3701: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
3702: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
3703: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
3704: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
3705: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
3706: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
3707: careful code reviews, he concludes.
3708: <p>
3709:
1.247 jufi 3710: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 3711: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
3712: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
3713: </strong></font><br>
3714:
3715: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
3716: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
3717: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
3718: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
3719: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 3720: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
3721: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
3722: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 3723: <p>
1.247 jufi 3724: </ul>
1.131 louis 3725:
1.118 louis 3726: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3727: <ul>
1.118 louis 3728:
1.247 jufi 3729: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 3730: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
3731: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
3732: </strong></font><br>
3733:
3734: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
3735: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
3736: about time. The article mentions that
3737: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
3738: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
3739: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 3740: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 3741: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
3742: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 3743: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 3744: <p>
3745:
1.247 jufi 3746: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3747: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 3748: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3749: </strong></font><br>
3750:
3751: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
3752: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
3753: of OpenSSH.
3754: <p>
3755:
1.247 jufi 3756: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3757: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3758: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3759: </strong></font><br>
3760:
3761: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 3762: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 3763: bridging.
3764: <p>
3765:
1.247 jufi 3766: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3767: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
3768: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 3769: </strong></font><br>
3770:
1.121 deraadt 3771: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
3772: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 3773: <p>
3774:
1.247 jufi 3775: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3776: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
3777: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
3778: </strong></font><br>
3779:
3780: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
3781: <p>
3782:
1.247 jufi 3783: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 3784: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3785: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
3786: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 3787: </strong></font><br>
3788:
1.120 deraadt 3789: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
3790: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 3791: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
3792: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
3793: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
3794: <p>
3795:
1.247 jufi 3796: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 3797: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
3798: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
3799: </strong></font><br>
3800:
1.222 miod 3801: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 3802: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
3803: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
3804: protocols and their quirks.
3805: <p>
3806:
1.247 jufi 3807: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3808: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
3809: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 3810: </strong></font><br>
3811:
3812: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
3813: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
3814: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 3815: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 3816: <p>
3817:
1.247 jufi 3818: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 3819: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
3820: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
3821: </strong></font><br>
3822:
3823: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
3824: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
3825: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
3826: <p>
3827:
1.247 jufi 3828: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 3829: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3830: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
3831: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 3832: </strong></font><br>
3833:
3834: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
3835: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
3836: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
3837: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
3838: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
3839: <p>
1.247 jufi 3840: </ul>
1.118 louis 3841:
1.104 louis 3842: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3843: <ul>
1.104 louis 3844:
1.247 jufi 3845: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 3846: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
3847: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
3848: </strong></font><br>
3849:
3850: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
3851: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
3852: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
3853: be a bit dry.
3854: <p>
3855:
1.247 jufi 3856: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3857: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
3858: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
3859: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
3860: </strong></font><br>
3861: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
3862: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
3863: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
3864: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
3865: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
3866: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
3867: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
3868: <p>
3869:
1.247 jufi 3870: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3871: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
3872: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 3873: 2000
1.128 louis 3874: </strong></font><br>
3875:
3876: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
3877: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
3878: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
3879: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
3880: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 3881: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 3882: <p>
3883:
1.247 jufi 3884: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3885: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
3886: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 3887: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 3888:
3889: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
3890: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
3891: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
3892: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 3893: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
3894: <p>
1.110 louis 3895:
1.247 jufi 3896: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 3897: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
3898: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
3899: </strong></font><br>
3900:
3901: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
3902: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
3903: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
3904: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
3905: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
3906: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
3907: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
3908: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
3909: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
3910: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
3911: <p>
3912:
1.247 jufi 3913: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 3914: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3915: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 3916:
3917: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
3918: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 3919: <p>
1.108 louis 3920:
1.247 jufi 3921: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 3922: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
3923: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 3924: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 3925:
3926: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
3927: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
3928: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 3929: <p>
1.106 louis 3930:
1.247 jufi 3931: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 3932: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
3933: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 3934: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 3935:
3936: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
3937: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
3938: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
3939: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 3940: <p>
1.107 louis 3941:
1.247 jufi 3942: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3943: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
3944: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3945: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 3946:
3947: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
3948: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 3949: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 3950: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
3951: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 3952: <p>
1.105 louis 3953:
1.247 jufi 3954: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 3955: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 3956: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 3957: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 3958:
1.113 naddy 3959: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
3960: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 3961: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 3962: <p>
1.104 louis 3963:
1.247 jufi 3964: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3965: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
3966: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
3967: </strong></font><br>
3968:
3969: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
3970: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
3971: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
3972: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
3973: <p>
1.301 jose 3974:
3975: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3976: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
3977: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
3978: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
3979:
3980: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
3981: hardware-supported cryptography.
3982: <p>
1.247 jufi 3983: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 3984:
1.85 louis 3985: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3986: <ul>
1.85 louis 3987:
1.247 jufi 3988: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3989: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 3990: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 3991: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 3992:
3993: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
3994: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
3995: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
3996: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
3997: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
3998: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
3999: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 4000: <p>
1.99 louis 4001:
1.247 jufi 4002: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4003: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 4004: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 4005: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 4006:
4007: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
4008: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
4009: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
4010: conditions.
1.113 naddy 4011: <p>
1.100 louis 4012:
1.247 jufi 4013: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4014: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 4015: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 4016: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 4017:
4018: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
4019: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
4020: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
4021: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 4022: <p>
1.95 louis 4023:
1.247 jufi 4024: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4025: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 4026: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 4027: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 4028:
4029: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
4030: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 4031: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 4032: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
4033: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4034: <p>
1.92 louis 4035:
1.247 jufi 4036: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4037: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 4038: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 4039: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 4040:
4041: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
4042: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
4043: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
4044: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
4045: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
4046: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 4047: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 4048: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 4049: <p>
1.91 louis 4050:
1.247 jufi 4051: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4052: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
4053: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 4054: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 4055:
4056: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
4057: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
4058: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
4059: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
4060: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
4061: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
4062: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
4063: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
4064: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 4065: <p>
1.90 louis 4066:
1.247 jufi 4067: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 4068: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
4069: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
4070: </strong></font><br>
4071: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
4072: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
4073: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
4074: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
4075: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
4076: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
4077: <p>
4078:
1.247 jufi 4079: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 4080: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
4081: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 4082: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 4083:
1.113 naddy 4084: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
4085: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 4086: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
4087: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
4088: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
4089: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
4090: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 4091: <p>
1.87 louis 4092:
1.247 jufi 4093: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 4094: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
4095: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 4096: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 4097:
4098: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 4099: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 4100: <p>
1.85 louis 4101:
1.247 jufi 4102: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4103: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
4104: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4105: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
4106:
4107: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
4108: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
4109: <p>
4110:
4111: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 4112: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
4113: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 4114: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 4115:
4116: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 4117: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 4118: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
4119: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 4120: <p>
1.89 louis 4121:
1.247 jufi 4122: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 4123: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
4124: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 4125: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 4126:
4127: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
4128: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
4129: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
4130: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
4131: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 4132: </ul>
1.85 louis 4133:
1.78 deraadt 4134: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4135: <ul>
1.74 louis 4136:
1.247 jufi 4137: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4138: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 4139: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 4140: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 4141: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 4142:
4143: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
4144: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
4145: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4146: <p>
1.83 louis 4147:
1.247 jufi 4148: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 4149: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
4150: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 4151: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 4152:
4153: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
4154: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 4155: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 4156: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
4157: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 4158: <p>
1.93 louis 4159:
1.247 jufi 4160: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4161: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
4162: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
4163: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 4164: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 4165:
1.83 louis 4166: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
4167: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
4168: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
4169: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
4170: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 4171: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
4172: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
4173: <p>
1.82 aaron 4174:
1.247 jufi 4175: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4176: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 4177: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 4178: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 4179:
1.83 louis 4180: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
4181: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
4182: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 4183: <p>
1.80 louis 4184:
1.247 jufi 4185: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4186: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 4187: Bad Press</a>,
4188: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 4189: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 4190:
4191: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 4192: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 4193: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
4194: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
4195: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 4196: <p>
1.247 jufi 4197: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 4198:
4199: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4200: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 4201:
1.247 jufi 4202: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4203: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
4204: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 4205: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 4206: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 4207:
4208: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
4209: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
4210: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
4211: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 4212: <p>
1.74 louis 4213:
1.247 jufi 4214: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 4215: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
4216: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 4217: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 4218:
1.219 horacio 4219: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
4220: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
4221: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
4222: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
4223: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
4224: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
4225: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 4226: <p>
1.88 louis 4227:
1.247 jufi 4228: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 4229: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 4230: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 4231: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 4232:
4233: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
4234: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
4235: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
4236: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 4237: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 4238: <p>
1.81 louis 4239:
1.247 jufi 4240: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4241: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 4242: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 4243: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 4244:
4245: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
4246: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
4247: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
4248: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
4249: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
4250: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
4251: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 4252: <p>
1.90 louis 4253:
1.247 jufi 4254: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4255: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 4256: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 4257: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 4258:
4259: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
4260: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
4261: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 4262: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 4263: <p>
1.247 jufi 4264: </ul>
1.71 louis 4265:
1.69 deraadt 4266: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4267: <ul>
1.70 louis 4268:
1.247 jufi 4269: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4270: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
4271: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 4272: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 4273:
4274: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
4275: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
4276: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 4277: <p>
1.70 louis 4278:
1.247 jufi 4279: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4280: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
4281: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 4282: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 4283:
4284: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 4285: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 4286: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 4287: <p>
1.68 louis 4288:
1.247 jufi 4289: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4290: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
4291: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 4292: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 4293: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 4294:
1.111 jufi 4295: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
4296: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 4297: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 4298: "secure by default" installation.
4299: <p>
1.64 louis 4300:
1.247 jufi 4301: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 4302: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 4303: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 4304: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 4305:
1.113 naddy 4306: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 4307: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 4308: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 4309: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
4310: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
4311: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 4312: <p>
1.66 louis 4313:
1.247 jufi 4314: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4315: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 4316: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4317: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 4318:
4319: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 4320: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 4321: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
4322: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
4323: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 4324: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
4325: <p>
1.83 louis 4326:
1.247 jufi 4327: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4328: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 4329: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4330: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 4331:
4332: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 4333: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
4334: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 4335: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
4336: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 4337: <p>
1.64 louis 4338:
1.247 jufi 4339: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4340: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 4341: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4342: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 4343:
4344: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
4345: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 4346: <p>
1.301 jose 4347:
4348: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4349: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
4350: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
4351: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
4352: </strong></font><br>
4353:
4354: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
4355: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
4356: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
4357: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
4358: Giving way to
4359: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
4360: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
4361: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
4362: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
4363: <p>
1.247 jufi 4364: </ul>
1.65 louis 4365:
1.69 deraadt 4366: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4367: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4368:
1.247 jufi 4369: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4370: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 4371: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 4372: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 4373:
4374: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
4375: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
4376: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
4377: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 4378: <p>
1.88 louis 4379:
1.247 jufi 4380: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4381: <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 4382: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 4383:
4384: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 4385: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
4386: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 4387: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
4388: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 4389: <p>
1.60 louis 4390:
1.247 jufi 4391: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 4392: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 4393: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 4394: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 4395: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4396:
4397: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
4398: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
4399: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 4400: <p>
1.58 louis 4401:
1.247 jufi 4402: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 4403: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 4404: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 4405:
4406: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
4407: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 4408: <p>
1.53 louis 4409:
1.247 jufi 4410: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 4411: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
4412: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 4413: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 4414:
4415: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
4416: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
4417: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 4418: <p>
1.99 louis 4419:
1.247 jufi 4420: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 4421: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 4422: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4423:
4424: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
4425: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 4426: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 4427: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 4428: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 4429:
1.247 jufi 4430: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4431: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
4432: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 4433: </strong></font><br>
4434:
4435: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
4436: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
4437: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
4438: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
4439: <p>
4440:
1.247 jufi 4441: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4442: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 4443: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 4444: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4445:
4446: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
4447: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 4448: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 4449:
1.247 jufi 4450: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 4451: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 4452: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 4453:
4454: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 4455: in
1.247 jufi 4456: <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 4457: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 4458: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 4459: <p>
1.53 louis 4460:
1.247 jufi 4461: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4462: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 4463: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
4464: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 4465: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 4466:
1.58 louis 4467: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4468: <p>
1.301 jose 4469:
4470: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4471: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
4472: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
4473: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
4474: Informacyjny, January 2000
4475: </strong></font><br>
4476:
4477: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
4478: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
4479: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
4480: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
4481: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
4482: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
4483: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
4484: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
4485: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
4486: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 4487: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
4488: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 4489: <p>
4490:
4491: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4492: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4493: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
4494: </strong></font><br>
4495:
4496: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
4497: <p>
4498: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 4499:
1.69 deraadt 4500: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4501: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4502:
1.247 jufi 4503: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4504: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
4505: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
4506: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 4507: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4508:
1.58 louis 4509: Kurt Seifried
4510: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4511: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
4512: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 4513: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 4514:
1.247 jufi 4515: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4516: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 4517: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4518: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 4519:
4520: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 4521: <p>
1.96 louis 4522:
1.247 jufi 4523: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4524: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
4525: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
4526: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
4527: </strong></font><br>
4528:
4529: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
4530: <p>
4531:
4532: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4533: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 4534: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 4535: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 4536:
4537: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
4538: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 4539: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 4540: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 4541: <p>
1.247 jufi 4542: </ul>
1.86 louis 4543:
1.69 deraadt 4544: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4545: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4546:
1.247 jufi 4547: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4548: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
4549: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 4550: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 4551:
4552: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
4553: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 4554: <p>
1.61 louis 4555:
1.247 jufi 4556: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4557: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 4558: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
4559: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4560: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 4561:
4562: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 4563: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 4564: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
4565: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 4566: right -- or at least strives to".
4567: <p>
1.48 louis 4568:
1.247 jufi 4569: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4570: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
4571: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4572: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 4573: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
4574: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
4575: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
4576: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 4577: <p>
1.61 louis 4578:
1.247 jufi 4579: <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 4580: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4581: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 4582:
4583: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
4584: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
4585: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
4586: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 4587: <p>
1.46 louis 4588:
1.247 jufi 4589: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4590: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
4591: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4592: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4593:
4594: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
4595: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 4596: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 4597:
1.247 jufi 4598: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 4599: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
4600: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 4601: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 4602:
4603: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
4604: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
4605: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
4606: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 4607: <p>
1.247 jufi 4608: </ul>
1.70 louis 4609:
1.69 deraadt 4610: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4611: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4612:
1.247 jufi 4613: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4614: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
4615: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 4616: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 4617: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 4618:
4619: Kurt Seifried
4620: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4621: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
4622: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 4623: <p>
1.44 philen 4624:
1.247 jufi 4625: <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 4626: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 4627: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 4628:
4629: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 4630: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 4631:
1.247 jufi 4632: <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 4633: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 4634: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 4635:
4636: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 4637: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 4638:
1.247 jufi 4639: <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 4640: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 4641: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 4642:
4643: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
4644: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
4645: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
4646: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 4647: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 4648:
1.247 jufi 4649: <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 4650: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 4651: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 4652:
1.36 louis 4653: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 4654: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 4655:
1.247 jufi 4656: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 4657: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
4658: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 4659: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4660:
4661: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 4662: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 4663: </ul>
1.38 louis 4664:
1.69 deraadt 4665: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4666: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4667:
1.247 jufi 4668: <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 4669: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 4670: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 4671:
4672: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
4673: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 4674: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 4675:
1.113 naddy 4676: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 4677: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 4678: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 4679: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 4680:
4681: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
4682: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 4683: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
4684: terminal:
1.113 naddy 4685: <blockquote>
4686: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
4687: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
4688: <br>
4689: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
4690: </code>
4691: </blockquote>
4692: <p>
4693:
1.247 jufi 4694: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 4695: <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 4696: <p>
4697:
4698: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4699: <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 4700: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 4701:
4702: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
4703: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 4704: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 4705: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 4706:
1.247 jufi 4707: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4708: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
4709: Sept. 28, 1999
4710: </strong></font><br>
4711:
4712: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
4713: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
4714: translating and reprinting articles from
4715: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
4716: <p>
4717:
4718: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 4719: <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 4720: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 4721:
4722: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
4723: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
4724: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
4725: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
4726: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 4727: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 4728: <p>
1.19 louis 4729:
1.113 naddy 4730: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 4731: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 4732: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 4733:
4734: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
4735: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
4736: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 4737: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
4738: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 4739: <p>
1.16 louis 4740:
1.247 jufi 4741: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4742: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 4743: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 4744: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 4745:
1.57 louis 4746: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
4747: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
4748: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 4749: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 4750:
1.247 jufi 4751: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4752: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.466 deraadt 4753: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4754: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4755:
1.113 naddy 4756: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 4757:
1.247 jufi 4758: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4759: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
4760: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4761: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 4762:
1.23 louis 4763: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
4764: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
4765: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
4766: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
4767: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 4768: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 4769:
1.247 jufi 4770: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 4771: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
4772: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4773: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 4774:
1.199 pvalchev 4775: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 4776: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
4777: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
4778: installation.
1.113 naddy 4779: <p>
1.47 louis 4780:
1.247 jufi 4781: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4782: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 4783: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 4784: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4785:
1.301 jose 4786: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
4787: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
4788: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4789: </ul>
1.57 louis 4790:
1.69 deraadt 4791: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4792: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4793:
1.247 jufi 4794: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 4795: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 4796: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 4797: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 4798:
4799: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
4800: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 4801: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4802: <p>
1.12 louis 4803:
1.247 jufi 4804: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 4805: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 4806: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 4807: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 4808:
4809: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
4810: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 4811: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
4812: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
4813: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
4814: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
4815: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 4816: <p>
1.247 jufi 4817: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 4818:
1.69 deraadt 4819: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4820: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 4821:
1.247 jufi 4822: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 4823: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 4824: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 4825:
4826: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
4827: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
4828: available."
1.113 naddy 4829: <p>
1.301 jose 4830:
4831: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4832: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4833: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
4834: </strong></font><br>
4835:
4836: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
4837: <p>
1.247 jufi 4838: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 4839:
1.69 deraadt 4840: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4841: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4842:
1.247 jufi 4843: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 4844: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 4845: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 4846:
4847: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
4848: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
4849: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
4850: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
4851: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 4852: <p>
1.33 louis 4853:
1.247 jufi 4854: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4855: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 4856: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 4857: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4858:
1.113 naddy 4859: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
4860: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 4861: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
4862: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
4863: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 4864: <p>
1.247 jufi 4865: </ul>
1.57 louis 4866:
1.69 deraadt 4867: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4868: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4869:
1.247 jufi 4870: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4871: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 4872: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 4873: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4874:
4875: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
4876: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 4877: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4878:
1.247 jufi 4879: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 4880: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
4881: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
4882: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 4883: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 4884:
4885: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 4886: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 4887:
1.247 jufi 4888: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 4889: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4890:
1.113 naddy 4891: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 4892:
1.247 jufi 4893: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 4894: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
4895: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 4896: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4897:
4898: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 4899: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 4900: </ul>
1.23 louis 4901:
1.69 deraadt 4902: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4903: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4904:
1.247 jufi 4905: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 4906: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 4907: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4908:
4909: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
4910: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 4911: <p>
1.2 deraadt 4912:
1.247 jufi 4913: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4914: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 4915: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4916: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4917:
4918: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
4919: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 4920: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 4921: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4922: </ul>
1.57 louis 4923:
1.69 deraadt 4924: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4925: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4926:
1.247 jufi 4927: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 4928: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
4929: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 4930: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 4931:
4932: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
4933: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
4934: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
4935: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4936: <p>
1.15 louis 4937:
1.247 jufi 4938: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4939: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
4940: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 4941: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4942:
4943: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
4944: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
4945: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
4946: columns."
1.113 naddy 4947: <p>
1.247 jufi 4948: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4949:
1.69 deraadt 4950: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4951: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4952:
1.247 jufi 4953: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4954: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 4955: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4956: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4957:
4958: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 4959: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 4960:
1.113 naddy 4961: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4962: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 4963: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4964:
4965: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
4966: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 4967: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 4968: </ul>
1.57 louis 4969:
1.69 deraadt 4970: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 4971: <ul>
1.301 jose 4972: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4973: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
4974: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4975: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
4976:
4977: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
4978: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
4979: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
4980: <p>
4981:
4982: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4983: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
4984: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
4985: Nov 13, 1998 and
4986: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
4987: Datateknik</a>,
4988: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
4989:
1.380 saad 4990: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 4991: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
4992: explains the licensing issues and points to our
4993: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
4994: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4995:
1.113 naddy 4996: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 4997: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 4998: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 4999: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 5000:
1.222 miod 5001: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 5002: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
5003: Implementation, including a brief interview with
5004: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 5005: <p>
1.247 jufi 5006: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5007:
1.69 deraadt 5008: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5009: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5010:
1.247 jufi 5011: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5012: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 5013: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5014:
1.69 deraadt 5015: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
5016: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 5017: <p>
1.247 jufi 5018: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5019:
1.69 deraadt 5020: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5021: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 5022:
1.247 jufi 5023: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 5024: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
5025: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 5026: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5027:
1.383 jcs 5028: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 5029: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 5030: <p>
1.1 deraadt 5031:
1.247 jufi 5032: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 5033: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 5034: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
5035: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 5036: <p>
1.247 jufi 5037: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5038:
1.69 deraadt 5039: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5040: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5041:
1.247 jufi 5042: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5043: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 5044: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
5045: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 5046: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 5047: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 5048:
5049: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
5050: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
5051: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 5052: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 5053: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 5054: <p>
1.247 jufi 5055: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 5056:
5057: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5058: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5059:
1.247 jufi 5060: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5061: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 5062: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 5063:
1.69 deraadt 5064: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
5065: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 5066: <p>
1.112 naddy 5067:
1.247 jufi 5068: </ul>
1.113 naddy 5069: <p>
1.1 deraadt 5070:
1.292 camield 5071: <hr>
1.216 horacio 5072: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 5073: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.484 ! djm 5074: <br><small>$OpenBSD: press.html,v 1.483 2005/12/13 22:54:37 ian Exp $</small>
1.1 deraadt 5075:
5076: </body>
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