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1.485 ian 19: <h2>February, 2006</h2>
20: <ul>
21: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.486 ! ian 22: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1859">Zero to IPSec in 4 minutes</a>
! 23: Security Focus, February 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
! 24: This article, as its lead-in says,
! 25: "looks at how to get a fully functional IPSec VPN up and running between two fresh OpenBSD
! 26: installations in about four minutes flat".
! 27: If you've shied away from setting up an IPSEC VPN because of config file complexity,
! 28: now is the time to reconsider.
! 29: Dragos Ruiu shows you how the ipsecctl command (introduced to the world in OpenBSD 3.8)
! 30: makes it really easy to set up a VPN between consenting OpenBSD machines.
! 31: He states that he and a colleague were able to get two machines talking over IPSEC
! 32: in a few minutes, and only changing a few configuration files.
! 33: He also comments on the relative ease of installing our favorite OS, and hopes
! 34: that our ipsecctl will be adopted by the other BSDs (hopefully in a compatible way)
! 35: to make firewall setups easier all around the network.
! 36: But you don't need to wait for that if you're running OpenBSD 3.8; just follow
! 37: the steps in the article.
! 38: <p>
! 39:
! 40: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.485 ian 41: <a href="http://www.networkmagazineindia.com/200602/vendorvoice02.shtml">The Worm in the Machine</a>
42: Network Magazine India, February 2006</strong></font><br>
43: Dilip Ranade elaborates on several reasons why software is drearily buggy and endlessly insecure,
44: particularly in comparison with other technologies.
45: Imagines how very bad shape the automotive industry would be in if you had to sign the
46: same disclaimer of (non-)usability that almost every commercial EULA requires of computer users.
47: Ends with "I once dreamt that all the computer users in the world
48: arose in revolt and switched to hardened OpenBSD", though he admits that there's "fat chance" of it
49: happening in real life.
50: <p>
51:
52: </ul>
53:
1.483 ian 54: <h2>December, 2005</h2>
55: <ul>
56: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.484 djm 57: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/375/1">OpenSSH cutting edge</a>
58: SecurityFocus, December 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
59: Federico Biancuzzi interviews OpenSSH developer Damien Miller to discuss
60: features included in the upcoming version 4.3, public key crypto
61: protocols details, timing based attacks and anti-worm measures.
62: <p>
63:
64: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.483 ian 65: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/11/21/175249.shtml?tid=92&tid=78">Creating
66: Secure Wireless Access Points with OpenBSD and OpenVPN</a>
67: NewsForge, December 13, 2005</strong></font><br>
68: A cookbook approach to setting up a wireless interface as a secure Access Point
69: using OpenBSD's hostap, pf, and authpf.
70: Configuration examples are given with basic explanations and links
71: to sites with more information on most topics.
72: <p>
73:
74: </ul>
75:
76:
1.479 grunk 77: <h2>November, 2005</h2>
78: <ul>
79: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.482 ian 80: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20051116145737">OpenBSD
81: Goes to Venice</a>,
82: OpenBSD Journal, November 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
83: "What happens when you put a dozen developers on a little island with their
84: laptops, power, and an internet connection?
85: <br/>
86: During the first week of November some OpenBSD developers met in a
87: little island in Venice's lagoon to hack on the ports system.
88: This was probably the first ports hackathon and was followed by
89: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON</a>, a European conference
90: fully dedicated to OpenBSD..."
91: Great coverage of the OpenBSD Porting Hackathon: people, ports, beer, ...
92: Contains a link to
93: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ven05-pvalchev/mgp00008.html">
94: pval's summary slides</a>.
95: <p>
96:
97: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.481 niallo 98: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1710223">
99: Trying out the new OpenBSD 3.8</a>,
100: NewsForge, November 11, 2005</strong></font><br>
101: This article describes the installation of OpenBSD 3.8 from a Linux user's
102: perspective, noting the simple elegance of the installer.
103: Although the installation process may be hard to get used to at first for
104: the average Linux user, the author tells us that one can learn a lot from
105: it. Furthermore, the article clears up the common misconception that working
106: on an OpenBSD system is very different from working on a Linux system.
107: In particular, the author states that on OpenBSD, <i>"virtually the entire
108: catalog of familiar free and open source software titles is available through
109: the packages and ports system"</i>.
110: <p>
111:
112: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
113: <a href="http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3561526">
114: Return of The BSDs</a>,
115: internetnews.com, November 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
116: This article mentions that with all three major BSD flavors having had
117: a release this fall, BSD is <i>"still very much alive and kicking among
118: all the noise and buzz created by Linux"</i>. The author talks about
119: various new or improved features of 3.8, such as bioctl(8), hostapd(8),
120: network interface aggregation and sasyncd(8), and there are some
121: quotes from Bob Beck.
122: <p>
123:
124: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.479 grunk 125: <a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/051101/152/fvrlx.html">
126: OpenBSD 3.8 improves hardware support</a>,
127: ZDNet UK, November 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.480 ian 128: This article reports on OpenBSD 3.8, which was released on November 1.
129: The author gives an overview of the improvements and new
1.479 grunk 130: features that were made with 3.8, and quotes Theo on RAID management
131: and Linux.<br>
132: The 3.8 release hit the news also in some other places:
133: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1258232">Slashdot</a>
134: and <a href="http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=12482">OSNews</a>
135: also report about it, mostly repeating parts
136: of the release
137: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/ANNOUNCEMENT">ANNOUNCEMENT</a>.
138: <p>
139: </ul>
140:
1.476 ian 141: <h2>October, 2005</h2>
142: <ul>
143:
144: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
145: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1375194866;fp;16;fpid;0">
146: 'Nightmare' drove desperate user to open source</a>,
147: Computerworld, October 24, 2005</strong></font><br>
148: A great tale of how Mark Uemura of PricewaterhouseCoopers Japan
149: was forced to move to OpenBSD because the alternatives were too costly
150: and too unreliable.
151: This quote will rattle some cages:
152: "IT managers who want to deploy an open source solution but are
153: worried about company politics should go ahead and do it without
154: asking," according to Uemura, who was promoted to IT Manager of PWC Japan
155: after saving the company seven IT-samurais' salaries.
156: Further, "In Japan large organizations like Morgan Stanley and the
157: Bank of America have moved all their backend systems to open source,
158: Uemura said, because with open source you can reduce IT operating
159: costs without any commercial lock-in."
160: <p>
161:
1.477 saad 162: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
163: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6270">
164: OpenBSD 3.8: Hackers of the Lost RAID</a>,
165: ONLamp.com, October 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
166: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
167: new features in OpenBSD 3.8 including interface trunking,
168: internationalization support, Inter-Access Point Protocol (IAPP),
169: IPSec SA synchronization daemon, and RAID management. There is also some
170: discussion about future plans.
171: <p>
172:
1.478 grunk 173: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
174: <a href="http://securityfocus.com/columnists/361">
175: OpenBSD's network stack</a>,
176: SecurityFocus, October 12, 2005</strong></font><br>
177: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about OpenBSD's
178: network stack, including protection against ICMP attacks, and propagation
179: of enhancements into other BSDs and into Linux.
180: The interview also features the other protection mechanisms in the network
181: stack, a comparison to the network stack in Linux, and the history and
182: current status of <a href="http://www.openbgpd.org/">OpenBGPD</a>.
183: <p>
184:
1.476 ian 185: </ul>
186:
1.470 saad 187: <h2>September, 2005</h2>
188: <ul>
189:
190: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.474 niallo 191: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/359">
192: Security-related innovation in Unix</a>,
193: SecurityFocus, Sept. 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
194: An article examining the mmap-based malloc() implementation to be
195: included in OpenBSD 3.8. The author states that <i>"it will help OpenBSD
196: users to find bugs in software more easily, which will result in better
197: applications for everyone"</i>. He goes on to say that <i>"the more hurdles
198: that one has to jump through for good security, the less likely people will
199: go through the trouble. OpenBSD allows even the most inexperienced users to
200: take advantage of these technologies without any effort"</i>.
201: <p>
202:
203: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.473 aanriot 204: <a href="http://www.miscmag.com/articles/index.php3?page=2100">
205: [FRENCH] Champ libre : les chantiers OpenBSD</a>
206: Misc, number 21, Sept/Oct, 2005, p. 4-14</strong></font><br>
207: An interesting article about OpenBSD and associated projects. Saad Kadhi
208: and Guillaume Arcas describe useful things you can do with PF and
209: OpenSSH, and give a nice introduction to OpenNTPD and OpenCVS. If the
210: article is focused on the presentation, you can find some interesting
211: technical aspects people are not always acquainted to. A few examples
212: are shown, like a basic CARP setup, or the manner to use multiplexing
213: with OpenSSH and even how to check an OpenSSH server's keys using DNS.
214: <p>
215:
216: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 217: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/news/11306">
218: Big debate over small packets</a>,
219: SecurityFocus, Sept. 7, 2005</strong></font><br>
220: Robert Lemos discusses the ICMP denial-of-service vulnerabilities found
221: by Fernando Gont and fixed in OpenBSD. To date, OpenBSD is the only
222: system that has implemented all of the fixes recommended in the IETF
223: draft.
224: <p>
225:
226: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.471 saad 227: <a href="http://www.pcexpert.fr/">
228: [FRENCH] "Quel est le meilleur système libre pour votre
229: ordinateur ?"</a>,
230: PC Expert, number 156, p. 42-62</strong></font><br>
231: Philippe Roure compares 11 Linux and *BSD operating systems, including
232: OpenBSD 3.7, on different criteria such as security, documentation and
233: usability. OpenBSD earned a 5/5 mark (see pages 60-61) and while a mark
234: isn't necessarily objective, the author seems to grasp the OpenBSD
235: project, its goals, and how good is the operating system. The article
236: includes an interview with Saad Kadhi.
237: <p>
238:
239: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.470 saad 240: <a href="http://www.samag.com/articles/2005/0509/">
241: Monitoring PF Firewalls for Health and Performance</a>,
242: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 9, p. 37</strong></font><br>
243: Ryan Matteson describes several utilities that can be used to monitor the
244: health and performance of a PF firewall. Besides pfctl, the article
245: covers pftop, fwanalog, monitoring logs with tcpdump and graphing
246: performance data with pfstat.
247: <p>
248:
249: </ul>
250:
1.461 grunk 251: <h2>July, 2005</h2>
252: <ul>
253:
254: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.466 deraadt 255: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5382">
256: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part III</a>,
1.467 grunk 257: Kerneltrap, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.466 deraadt 258: Jeremy Andrews writes about the recent Blind ICMP attacks discovered
259: by Fernando Gont, and the fixes done by him and OpenBSD during the
260: 2005 Hackathon.
1.469 ian 261: The article goes into the technical background of the
1.467 grunk 262: attacks, mentioning blind ICMP attacks, "hard" ICMP errors, source
1.469 ian 263: quenching, and path MTU discovery;
264: many helpful RFCs and technical papers are linked from the explanations.
265: This is followed by a recap of the whole ICMP story, involving Gont's
1.467 grunk 266: struggle with other free projects, Cisco lawyers, Microsoft people,
267: and others.<br>
1.469 ian 268: The article concludes that OpenBSD was the first project
1.467 grunk 269: to take Fernando Gont's findings seriously, and also the first group to
270: be really painless to work with.
1.466 deraadt 271: <p>
272:
273: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.464 grunk 274: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/06/security_blame/">
275: Security meltdown: who's to blame?</a>,
1.466 deraadt 276: The Register, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.464 grunk 277: This article talks about various groups that are frequently blamed for
278: poor security:
1.467 grunk 279: individuals, ISPs, companies, crackers, security mailing lists,
1.464 grunk 280: and last but not least: OS vendors!
1.467 grunk 281: In the last paragraph, OpenBSD's style of <i>"dumbed-down, simplified
1.464 grunk 282: and secure systems (with a heavily audited code base)"</i> is described
283: as <i>"one of the smartest approaches to security"</i>.
284: <p>
285:
286: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.461 grunk 287: <a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-7-5/30084.html">
288: Theo de Raadt on Industry and Free Software</a>,
1.466 deraadt 289: The Epoch Times, July 5, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.463 tom 290: In this interview, Theo talks about the inception of the OpenBSD project
291: and its goals, as well as its impact on the commercial IT industry.
1.461 grunk 292: He points out once more that <i>"vendors who incorporate OpenSSH have
293: given us absolutely nothing back - not a cent"</i>.
294: Other topics covered include the OpenBSD team, Theo's role as
295: <i>"benevolent dictator"</i>, and the security process, which he compares
296: to the security efforts led by other free software projects and some
297: commercial vendors.
298: <p>
299:
300: </ul>
301:
1.454 ian 302: <h2>June, 2005</h2>
303: <ul>
1.468 grunk 304:
305: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
306: <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/ns-ttc062205.php">
307: The true cost of computer crime</a>,
308: EurekAlert / <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/">New Scientist Magazine</a>,
309: issue June 25, 2005</strong></font><br>
310: This article looks at computer crime, especially the way upcoming
311: vulnerability reports are dealt with. It also gives a short overview of the
1.469 ian 312: institutions involved in the process (vendors, free projects, CERTs).
1.468 grunk 313: <br>
314: The author mentions the work of Andy Ozment, who researches vulnerability
315: disclosure at the University of Cambridge. Using OpenBSD as a good example
316: of how disclosure and consequent fixing of bugs helps to strengthen security,
317: he refutes the widely spread FUD that disclosing vulnerabilities leads to
318: more harm than good. Ozment's methodology was to examine OpenBSD's CVS logs
1.469 ian 319: and note when fixes were published; his research shows that
1.468 grunk 320: <i>"the number of vulnerabilities decreases as a result of disclosure"</i>.
321: <p>
322:
1.454 ian 323: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.458 niallo 324: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0704/071.html">
325: Free Bird</a>,
326: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
327: <b>(Registration required)</b> A second Forbes article about OpenBSD, more
328: focused on the project itself this time. It contains good description of the
329: history of OpenBSD along with its prime motivations. Mention is made of the
330: DARPA grant and the annual hackathon. Theo's motto "shut up and hack" finally
331: becomes famous in this piece and there are some other very insightful quotes
332: such as "All I care about is making high-quality code. If I had to work at a
333: regular job, it would drive me nuts". This is certainly an astute and perceptive
334: article, well worth reading. Do note that the big picture of Theo's machine
335: room will only be available in the print edition.
336: <p>
1.459 deraadt 337:
1.458 niallo 338: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.456 niallo 339: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html">
340: Is Linux For Losers?</a>,
341: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
342: An interesting article, if somewhat polemic in tone, which raises questions
343: about the quality of Linux code compared to OpenBSD. There is also some short
344: discussion of the OpenBSD development model and focus (push for quality above
345: everything else) including good quotes from Theo. It seems that the need for
346: high quality software is beginning to be recognised by the mainstream.
347: <p>
1.457 deraadt 348:
1.456 niallo 349: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 350: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/06/09/2132233.shtml?tid=152&tid=8&tid=2">
1.455 ian 351: BSD cognoscenti on Linux</a>,
352: NewsForge, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
353: NewsForge talks with Theo de Raadt and NetBSD's Christos Zoulas about the
354: similarities and differences between the Linux kernel and the BSD
355: operating systems. The questions asked were similar to those asked
356: of Linus Torvalds in a <a
1.462 grunk 357: href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/09/2128249&tid=2">previous
1.455 ian 358: interview.</a>
359: <p>
360:
361: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.454 ian 362: <a href="http://www.tuxjournal.net/intervista3-en.html">
363: A good morning with Theo de Raadt</a>,
364: Tux Journal, June 2, 2005</strong></font><br>
365: Brief but wide-ranging interview with Theo in which our leader
366: opines about the good things in 3.7: "The list of new developments
367: is impressive, but in my view not nearly as impressive as the small
368: little details that continue to be fixed during each development
369: cycle." And modestly credits all the developers for the project's
370: continuing success, attributing it to "The passion of the developers,
371: and the wide experience they bring into their development efforts.
372: By amazing coincidence, our users typically have the same needs as we do."
373: Manages to sidestep getting drawn into comparisons with Linux, e.g.,
374: when asked if he likes it/why/why not, deftly replies
375: "I have never used it."
376: <p>
377:
378: </ul>
379:
1.441 deraadt 380: <h2>May, 2005</h2>
381: <ul>
382: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 383: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5190">
384: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part II</a>,
385: Kerneltrap, May 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
386: In the second installment of Kerneltrap's Hackathon 2005 feature, Jeremy
387: Andrews speaks with the pf developers at length about their plans for
388: future enhancements.
389: <p>
390:
391: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.450 deraadt 392: <a href="http://www.ctv.ca">
1.448 deraadt 393: TV coverage: OpenBSD hackathon</a>,
394: CTV/CFCN, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
395: A TV spot done a Canadian national TV station about the Calgary
396: hackathon this year, with 60 developers.<br>
397: North America mirror:
398: <ul>
1.452 marco 399: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.449 jcs 400: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a><br>
401: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a>
1.448 deraadt 402: </ul>
403: European mirror:
404: <ul>
1.452 marco 405: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.448 deraadt 406: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a>
407: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a><br>
408: </ul>
409: <p>
410:
411: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 412: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5186">
413: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part I</a>,
414: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
415: Jeremy Andrews of KernelTrap does a good job of describing what it's like
416: to be at the Hackathon in Part I of KernelTrap's Hackathon feature. Several
417: developers are interviewed in detail about what they are working on.
418: <p>
419:
420: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 421: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5184">
422: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005: Day 6?</a>,
423: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
424: Kjell Wooding describes a typical day at the Hackathon in this entertaining
425: first-hand account.
426: <p>
427:
428: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.447 cloder 429: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/05/20/1426216.shtml?tid=8">
430: Review: OpenBSD 3.7</a>,
431: NewsForge.com, May 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
432: "OpenBSD is not only highly polished and easy to
433: configure because of its documentation, it's also totally free-as-in-rights.
434: With an obsession with security, freedom of source code, and quality of
435: programming technique, OpenBSD 3.7 continues the legacy established by
436: its previous releases," writes Jem Matzan in this nice, small review.
437: <p>
438:
439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.446 cloder 440: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/05/19/openbsd_3_7.html">
441: OpenBSD 3.7: The Wizard of OS</a>,
442: ONLamp.com, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
443: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
444: new features in OpenBSD 3.7, including new wireless chipsets, new
445: spam-fighting features, zaurus, pf improvements, propolice, and
446: many other things. A good overview of what's new in this release,
447: plus some interesting comments about future direction.
448: <p>
449:
450: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.444 niallo 451: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/software/openbsd-3.7-released.html">
1.445 niallo 452: Next incarnation of OpenBSD released</a>,
1.444 niallo 453: Ping Wales, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
454: "OpenBSD is often unjustly overlooked as a free UNIX-like system in favour of
455: the more-hyped Linux. While it receives a lot less publicity than other
456: operating systems, this is not due to lack of technical merit." says David
457: Chisnall, in what is a clear and concise overview of the new features
458: in 3.7 and indeed the project as a whole.
459: <p>
460:
461: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
462: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5114">
1.445 niallo 463: 2005 Calgary Hackathon, KernelTrap Coverage</a>,
1.444 niallo 464: Kerneltrap, May 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
465: A great article about the annual OpenBSD Hackathon, detailing how the event
466: functions, work done at previous Hackathons and features which may come out
467: of this one. Includes many relevant quotes from developers themselves, and of
468: course information about the legendary Hackathon BBQ!
469: <p>
470:
471: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.442 deraadt 472: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9658/sam0505e/">
473: "Failover Firewalls with OpenBSD and CARP"</a>,
474: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 5, p. 33
1.441 deraadt 475: </strong></font><br>
476: Jason Dixon discusses the history of the CARP and pfsync protocols
477: and demonstrates using them to create redundant stateful firewalls
478: with OpenBSD.
479: </ul>
480:
1.436 henning 481: <h2>April, 2005</h2>
482: <ul>
483: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.440 ian 484: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39195801,00.htm">
485: Security guru wants access to bug databases</a>,
486: ZDNet UK, April 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
487: Ingrid Marson reports on Cambridge professor Ross Anderson's call for analysis of
488: software maintenance records to determine whether open source code is more secure
489: than closed source, as we have long contended.
490: "One of Anderson's research students, Andy Ozment, has already done
491: research using empirical data on bugs found in the open source
492: operating system OpenBSD between 1997 and 2000. This research found
493: that finding and fixing bugs results in a more secure product..."
494: Just as the OpenBSD project has been saying for years.
495: <p>
496: This article can also be found online as
497: <a href="http://uk.builder.com/manage/project/0,39026588,39244080,00.htm">Academic
498: calls for better bug tracking</a> (uk.builder.com).
499: <p>
500:
501: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.439 espie 502: [FRENCH] "PC Expert", number 152, p. 58
503: </strong></font><br>
504: Very short interview of Marc Espie about OpenBSD as a free OS focusing
505: on security, part of a larger dossier «les secrets des hackers».
506: <p>
507:
508: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.436 henning 509: [GERMAN] "Doppelwacht", iX 5/2005, p. 150.
510: </strong></font><br>
511: Stephan Tesch gives an introduction to CARP and using a pair of
512: OpenBSD boxes as Firewalls in High Availibility scenarios. He goes
1.438 martin 513: on explaining CARP and pfsync protocols, and does not forget to cover
1.436 henning 514: the issues we had with IETF.
515: </ul>
516:
1.431 ian 517: <h2>March, 2005</h2>
518: <ul>
519: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.435 reyk 520: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/4818">
521: OpenBSD's "Out of the Box" Wireless Support</a>,
522: Kerneltrap, March 8, 2005</strong></font><br>
523: This article is about the upcoming wireless support in OpenBSD 3.7 and
524: the outcome of the work to open wireless chipsets. Jeremy Andrews
525: talked with Theo de Raadt and the developers Damien Bergamini and Reyk
526: Floeter who did some efforts to implement free and functional drivers.
527: <p>
528:
529: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.431 ian 530: <a href="http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/01/1109546842718.html">
531: OpenBSD to support more wireless chipsets</a>,
532: The Age, March 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
533: "The forthcoming 3.7 release of the OpenBSD operating system has
534: added support for five more wireless chipsets, according to
535: OpenBSD project founder Theo de Raadt...
1.432 ian 536: OpenBSD 3.7 will also have have new drivers for Intel wireless
1.431 ian 537: parts that do not work without the non-redistributable firmware,"
538: namely the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11B
539: and 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11A/B/G wireless network adapters.
540: Mentions OpenBSD's activism in getting vendors to release chip specs.
541: Referring to vendors that still refuse to play ball with open source
542: projects, quotes Damien Miller as saying "Given the number of
543: appliance devices that are built on free OSs, I think that the
544: recalcitrant vendors are missing an important boat."
545:
546: </ul>
547:
1.427 matthieu 548: <h2>February, 2005</h2>
549: <ul>
550:
551: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.428 david 552: <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsaward2004.html">
553: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
554: FSF, February 26, 2005</strong></font><br>
555: The Free Software Foundation awarded Theo de Raadt their "2004 Free Software
556: Award" for his unwavering commitment to free software. Most recently he has
557: been fighting hardware manufacturers for free redistribution of wireless card
558: firmware.
1.434 ian 559: Similar articles can be found online at:
560: <ul>
561: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
562: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=419">
563: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
564: Tectonic.za, March 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
565: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
566: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article4362.phtml">
567: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
568: OSDir, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
569: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
570: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/De-Raadt-gets-free-software-award/2005/02/28/1109546758523.html?oneclick=true">
571: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
572: The Age, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
573: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 574: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/02/27/1413255.shtml?tid=99&tid=7">
1.434 ian 575: Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award</a>,
576: Slashdot, February 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
577: </ul>
1.427 matthieu 578: </ul>
579:
1.426 ian 580: <h2>January, 2005</h2>
581: <ul>
582:
583: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
584: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363731">
585: Systrace in OpenBSD</a>,
586: informit.com, January 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
587: This article talks about our systrace
1.462 grunk 588: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&sektion=1">systrace(1)</a>
1.426 ian 589: mechanism: what it is and why and
590: how to use it, with examples.
591: Another excerpt from the book
592: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
593: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
594: <p>
595:
596: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
597: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363732">
598: Overview of OpenBSD</a>,
599: informit.com, January 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
600: "OpenBSD is one of the most secure and well-designed operating
601: systems available today. It has its roots in countless hours of
602: research and development based on some of the best UNIX flavors of
603: the past, and it boasts all the features of modern operating systems.
604: The OS is widely considered one of the most secure general-purpose
605: operating systems available today and it supports many key parts
606: of the global Internet infrastructure..."
607: This article is a sample chapter from
608: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
609: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
610: <p>
1.443 ian 611:
612: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 613: <a href="http://www.pcplus.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=34628&subsectionid=784">
1.443 ian 614: OpenBSD operating system</a>,
615: PCPlus.co.uk, January, 2005</strong></font><br>
616: Paul Grosse gives a brief tutorial on installing OpenBSD on i386 for people
617: moving in a Windows->Linux direction, encouraging them to go a bit further for security.
618: "While Linux out-scores Windows substantially (or completely) on [security as well as many other
619: issues], it's still possible to use a more secure operating system on the PC... OpenBSD."
620: Gives a brief but understandable walkthrough on the installation process, right up to
621: downloading and installing the third-party packages, and
622: ends with a sidebar on security.
623: <p>
1.426 ian 624: </ul>
625:
1.424 ian 626: <h2>December, 2004</h2>
627: <ul>
628:
629: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.425 ian 630: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/2329229">
631: What are the real vulnerabilities of Linux?</a>
632: NewsForge.com, December 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
633: Several security consultants were asked about "the real vulnerabilities of
634: Linux". Cybersoure CEO Con Symaris seems to get it better than the rest:
635: "One needs to approach security as a prime requirement and motivator,
636: much as the OpenBSD team do," Zymaris said... "The Linux
637: community mindset is different. Linux development is dynamic and
638: races ahead towards more and broader functionality, drawing a
639: multitude of interested parties in to make interesting extensions
640: and adaptations at a rapid rate."
641: <p>
642: "In order to do security the BSD way, however, much more effort
643: needs to be spent auditing code for holes, which is much less sexy,
644: and attracts a different set of coders," Zymaris added.
645: <p>
646:
647: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.424 ian 648: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/281">
649: Closed Source Hardware</a>
650: Security Focus, December 1, 2004</strong></font><br>
651: Symantec Threat Analyst Jason Miller analyzes the potential security threats
652: when hardware vendors won't provide device documentation and
653: instead provide "binary only" driver code for inclusion in open source
654: operating systems.
655: Miller is an open-source fan who says he uses a variety of systems, including
656: OpenBSD on his firewall.
657: Of the recent trend to closed-source binary drivers for open-source
658: systems, he writes:
659: <blockquote>
660: The closed-source component required to support this hardware is
661: completely independent of the associated operating system, and as
662: such, is also independent of the engineering team, security team,
663: auditing process, and quality control procedures normally related
664: to the operating system...
665: <br/>
666: What's possibly even more disturbing is that we're talking about
667: a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest
668: possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a
669: third-party vendor. This code could do anything once loaded, including
670: leaking active WEP keys, gathering usage statistics, sniffing and
671: disclosing traffic, and it could even introduce a subtle backdoor
672: into the operating system itself (much the same as any device driver
673: in a closed source operating system).
674: <br/>
675: [A]lthough some of these scenarios are a
676: little far-fetched, the possibility for them to exist is there...
677: Ultimately it becomes an issue of trust, which is a cornerstone of
678: good security: whom do you trust, and how much do you trust them?
679: </blockquote>
680: <p>And he comments that trust "seems to be a one-way street": vendors
681: demand that you trust them, but they won't trust you to know how
682: their hardware and software operates.
683: This lack of trust is one reason why OpenBSD has recently completed
684: reverse-engineering the
1.462 grunk 685: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4">
1.424 ian 686: Atheros wireless chipset driver</a>
687: that was originally provided as a binary insert.
688: <p>
689: </ul>
690:
1.417 pvalchev 691: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
692: <ul>
1.421 ian 693:
1.417 pvalchev 694: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.422 ian 695: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730775,00.asp">
696: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Widens Its Scope</a>
697: eWEEK, November 22, 2004</strong></font><br>
698: Jason Brooks reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and likes the changes it brings,
699: including the multi-processing support which, he notes,
700: "will be even more important as multicore processors--which occupy space
701: on the road maps of Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others--
702: become more prevalent." Comments favorably on OpenNTPD
703: ("the three-line configuration file we needed to modify ... on OpenBSD was
704: much simpler to deal with than the equivalent configuration file on
705: the Linux systems we've tested").
1.423 ian 706: Overall a favorable review of some of the new stuff in 3.6.
1.422 ian 707: <p>
708: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 otto 709: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
710: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
711: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
712: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
713: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
714: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
715: it claims to do".
716: <p>
717:
718: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 719: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109994542424009&w=2">
1.421 ian 720: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution</a>
721: misc@, November 8, 2004</strong></font><br>
722: Theo recounts the struggle to get Intel to provide redistributable
723: versions of the firmware for their wireless chipsets, and their
1.423 ian 724: ultimate refusal to allow OpenBSD to redistribute the chipsets' firmware.
1.421 ian 725: Includes a caveat about Intel's disingenuous "FAQ", typical of many
726: corporate FAQs that answer questions nobody actually thought
727: to ask, and don't truthfully answer the questions you want hard answers to.
728: At the end Theo names the names (and their emails) that need to be contacted
729: by large numbers of end-users and developers if Intel is to change
730: (yes, this is a hint).
731: Of interest is that this posting to one of our mailing lists was
732: picked up on the
733: <a href="http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1923">Screaming
734: Electron Forum</a> and from there reported on
1.462 grunk 735: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/22/1249249&from=rss">
1.421 ian 736: SlashDot</a>, where it is accompanied by a link to SlashDot's paper
737: on effective advocacy (be firm, but also be polite).
738: <p>
739:
740: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 741: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
742: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
743: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
744: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
745: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
746: questions about the significance and rationale behind
747: the current efforts.
748: <p>
749: </ul>
750:
1.407 henning 751: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
752: <ul>
753: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 754: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
755: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
756: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
757: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
758: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
759: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
760: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
761: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
762: <p>
763:
764: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 765: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
766: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
767: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
768: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
769: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
770: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
771: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
772: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
773: of the important changes in 3.6.
1.462 grunk 774: <p>
1.415 ian 775:
776: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 777: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
1.414 ian 778: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
779: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
780: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
781: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
782: overflow attacks... because
783: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
784: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
785: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
786: and propolice.
787: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
788: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
789: and that's when the science falls apart."
790: <p>
791:
792: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 793: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
794: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
795: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
796: Starts with the question:
797: <blockquote>
798: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
799: <br/>
800: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
801: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
802: <br/>
803: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
804: Should we believe them?"
805: </blockquote>
806: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
807: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
808: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
809: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
810: for your mail, web and other online activities.
811: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
812: <p>
813:
814: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 815: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
816: Simple Simon</a>,
817: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
818: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
819: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
820: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
821: routing/firewall, and more.
822: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
823: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
824: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
825: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
826: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
827: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
828: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
829: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
830: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
831: </blockquote>
832: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
833: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
834: <p>
835:
836: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 837: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
838: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 839: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 840: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 841: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
842: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
843: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 844: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 845: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
846: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
847: in spite of it
848: (registration required, but worth it).
849: <p>
850:
851: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
852: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
853: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
854: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
855: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
856: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
857: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
858: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 859: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 860: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
861: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
862: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
863: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
864: <p>
865:
866: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 867: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
868: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
869: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
870: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
871: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
872: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
873: <blockquote>
874: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
875: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
876: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
877: a lot of analysis.
878: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
879: </blockquote>
880: <p>
881: </ul>
882:
1.400 marco 883: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
884: <ul>
885: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 886: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
887: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
888: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
889: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
890: UNIX-like systems.
891: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
892: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
893: <p>
894: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 895: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
896: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 897: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
898: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
899: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
900: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
901: At one point, the article states:
902: <blockquote>
903: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
904: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
905: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
906: </blockquote>
907: And then quotes Theo as saying:
908: <blockquote>
909: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
910: fewer are reading or auditing code."
911: </blockquote>
912: <p>
913: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
914: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
915: marks its fifth birthday</a>
916: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
917: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
918: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
919: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
920: required).
921: <p>
922: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 923: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
924: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
925: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
926: </strong></font><br>
927: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
928: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
929: <p>
930: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 931: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
932: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 933: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 934: </strong></font><br>
935: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
936: <p>
937: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 938: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
939: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 940: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 941: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 942: 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 943: <p>
944: </ul>
945:
1.396 henning 946: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
947: <ul>
948: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 949: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
950: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
951: Unix Review, July, 2004
952: </strong></font><br>
953: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
954: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
1.462 grunk 955: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
1.418 ian 956: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
957: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
958: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
959: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
960: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
961: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
962: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
963: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
964: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
965: and even spelling/wording errors.
966: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
967: <p>
968: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 969: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 970: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
971: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
972: </strong></font><br>
973: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
974: <p>
975: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 976: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 977: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
978: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
979: </strong></font><br>
980: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
981: <p>
982: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 983: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
984: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
985: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
986: </strong></font><br>
987: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
988: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
989: <p>
990: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 991: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
992: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
993: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
994: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
995: <p>
996: </ul>
997:
1.405 jolan 998: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
999: <ul>
1000: <li><font color="#00900"><strong>
1001: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
1.466 deraadt 1002: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 5, 2004</strong></font>
1.405 jolan 1003: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
1004: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
1005: details on how funds are dispersed.
1006: <p>
1007: </ul>
1008:
1.393 david 1009: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
1010: <ul>
1011: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 1012: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
1013: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
1014: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
1015: </strong></font><br>
1016: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
1017: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
1018: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
1019: on inserting large number of SQL records.
1020: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
1021: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
1022: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
1023: <p>
1024:
1025: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 1026: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
1027: Secure by Default</a>,
1028: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
1029: </strong></font><br>
1030: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
1031: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
1032: <p>
1033:
1034: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1035: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
1036: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
1037: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
1038: </strong></font><br>
1039: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
1040: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
1041: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
1042: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
1043: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
1044: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
1045: <p>
1046:
1047: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1048: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
1049: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
1050: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
1051: </strong></font><br>
1052: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
1053: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
1054: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
1055: <p>
1056:
1057: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1058: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
1059: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
1060: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
1061: </strong></font><br>
1062: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
1063: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
1064: <p>
1065: </ul>
1066:
1.388 mcbride 1067: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
1068: <ul>
1.394 jolan 1069:
1070: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1071: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
1072: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
1073: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
1074: </strong></font><br>
1075: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
1076: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
1077: available for sparc64.
1078: <p>
1079:
1.390 beck 1080: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 1081: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
1082: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
1083: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
1084: </strong></font><br>
1085: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
1086: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
1087: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
1088: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
1089: <p>
1090:
1091: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 1092: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
1093: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 1094: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 1095: </strong></font><br>
1096: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
1097: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
1098: it does: CARP provides sharing
1099: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
1100: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
1101: detail to get you started using it.
1102: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
1103: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
1104: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
1105: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
1106: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
1107: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
1108: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 1109: <p>
1.391 ian 1110:
1111: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 1112: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 1113: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
1114: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 1115: </strong></font><br>
1116: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 1117: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 1118: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 1119: <p>
1.388 mcbride 1120:
1121: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1122: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
1123: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 1124: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 1125: </strong></font><br>
1126: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
1127: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
1128: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
1129: unencumbered by patents.
1130: <p>
1131: </ul>
1132:
1.378 henning 1133: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
1134: <ul>
1.384 jose 1135:
1136: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 1137: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
1138: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
1139: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
1140: </strong></font><br>
1141: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
1142: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
1143: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
1144: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
1145: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
1146: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
1147: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
1148: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
1149: in the page tables."
1150: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
1151: <p>
1152:
1153: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1154: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
1155: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
1156: </strong></font><br>
1157: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
1158: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
1159: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
1160: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 1161: <p>
1.384 jose 1162:
1.378 henning 1163: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 1164: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
1165: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 1166: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
1167: </strong></font><br>
1168: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
1169: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
1170: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
1171: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
1172: (quote:
1173: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
1174: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 1175: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 1176: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
1177: the other developers for their work on the system.
1178: <p>
1179:
1180: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1181: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
1182: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
1183: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 1184: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 1185: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
1186: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
1187: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
1188: too.
1189: <p>
1190:
1191: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 1192: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
1193: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 1194: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 1195: OpenBSD source code using
1196: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
1197: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
1198: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
1199: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
1200: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
1201: <p>
1202: </ul>
1203:
1.374 jose 1204: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
1205: <ul>
1206: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 1207: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 1208: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
1209: </strong></font><br>
1210: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
1211: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
1212: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
1213: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
1214: it."
1215: <p>
1216:
1217: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 1218: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
1219: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
1220: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
1221: </strong></font><br/>
1222: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
1223: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
1224: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
1225: <p>
1226: </ul>
1227:
1.369 ian 1228: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
1229: <ul>
1230: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1231: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
1232: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
1233: </strong></font><br/>
1234: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
1235: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
1236: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
1237: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
1238: <p>
1239:
1240: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 1241: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
1242: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
1243: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
1244: </strong></font><br/>
1245: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
1246: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
1247: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
1248: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
1249: form factor.
1250: <p>
1251:
1252: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1253: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
1254: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
1255: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
1256: Features</a>,
1257: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
1258: </strong></font><br/>
1259: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
1260: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
1261: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
1262: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
1263: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
1264: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
1265: <p>
1266: This article can also be found online at:
1267: <ul>
1268: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1269: <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 1270: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
1271: </strong></font>
1272: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
1273: </ul>
1274: <p>
1.392 david 1275:
1.371 jose 1276: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 1277: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
1278: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 1279: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
1280: </strong></font><br/>
1281: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
1282: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
1283: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 1284: <p>
1.371 jose 1285:
1286: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 1287: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 1288: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 1289: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 1290: </strong></font><br/>
1291: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
1292: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
1293: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
1294: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
1295: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
1296: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
1297: and its history with OpenBSD.
1298: </ul>
1299:
1.368 henning 1300: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
1301: <ul>
1302: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 1303: [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 1304: </strong></font><br>
1305: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
1306: </ul>
1307:
1.364 jose 1308: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
1309: <ul>
1310: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 1311: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
1312: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
1313: UNIX Review,
1314: July, 2003.
1315: </strong></font><br>
1316: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
1317: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
1318: who want more information.
1319: <p>
1320:
1321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 1322: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
1323: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
1324: Government Computer News,
1325: July 22, 2003.
1326: </strong></font><br>
1327: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
1328: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
1329: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
1330: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
1331: <p>
1332:
1333: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1334: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
1335: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
1336: SANS Institute,
1337: July 22, 2003.
1338: </strong></font><br>
1339: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 1340: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 1341: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
1342: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
1343: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
1344: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
1345: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
1346: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
1347: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
1348: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
1349: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
1350: <p>
1351:
1352: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 1353: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
1354: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
1355: OnLamp.com,
1356: July 17, 2003.
1357: </strong></font><br>
1358: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
1359: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
1360: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
1361: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
1362: have been working on.
1363:
1364: </ul>
1365:
1.356 jose 1366: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 1367: <ul>
1368:
1369: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 1370: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
1371: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
1372: UNIX Review,
1373: June, 2003.
1374: </strong></font><br>
1375: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
1376: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
1377: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
1378: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
1379: <p>
1380:
1381: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 1382: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
1383: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
1384: eWeek,
1385: June 23, 2003.
1386: </strong></font><br>
1387: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
1388: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
1389: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
1390: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
1391: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
1392: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
1393: <p>
1394:
1395: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 1396: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
1397: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
1398: Software Development Online,
1399: June, 2003.
1400: </strong></font><br>
1401: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
1402: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
1403: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
1404: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
1405: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
1406: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
1407: current activities.
1408: <p>
1409:
1410: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 1411: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
1412: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 1413: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
1414: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
1415: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
1416: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 1417: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 1418: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
1419: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
1420: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 1421: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 1422: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
1423: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 1424: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 1425: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
1426: decisions.
1427: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
1428: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 1429: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 1430: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 1431: <p>
1432:
1433: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 1434: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
1435: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
1436: Page 58, eWeek,
1437: June 2, 2003.
1438: </strong></font><br>
1439: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
1440: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
1441: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
1442: been addressed in -current.
1443: <p>
1444:
1.356 jose 1445: </ul>
1446:
1447: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
1448: <ul>
1449:
1.355 jose 1450: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 1451: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
1452: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
1453: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
1454: </strong></font><br>
1455: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
1456: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
1457: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
1458: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
1459: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
1460: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
1461: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
1462: <p>
1463:
1464: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 1465: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
1466: Beyond Linux</a>,
1467: InfoWorld,
1468: May 23, 2003.
1469: </strong></font><br>
1470: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
1471: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
1472: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
1473: compared to the GPL.
1474: <p>
1475:
1476: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 1477: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
1478: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
1479: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 1480: May 17, 2003.
1481: </strong></font><br>
1482: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
1483: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
1484: the business section and half of another page inside
1485: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
1486: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
1487: in talking about the project's history and goals.
1488: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
1489: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
1490: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
1491: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 1492: <br>
1493: This article can also be found online at:
1494: <ul>
1495: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1496: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
1497: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
1498: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
1499: May 17, 2003
1500: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 1501: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
1502: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1503: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
1504: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
1505: Montreal Gazette,
1506: May 21, 2003
1507: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 1508: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 1509: <p>
1.346 ian 1510:
1511: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 1512: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 1513: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 1514: May 7, 2003.
1515: </strong></font><br>
1516: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
1517: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
1518: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
1519: <p>
1520:
1521: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 1522: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
1523: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1524: OsOpinion,
1525: May 6, 2003.
1526: </strong></font><br>
1527: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
1528: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
1529: <br>
1530: This article can also be found online at:
1531: <ul>
1532: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1533: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
1534: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1535: NewsFactor Network.
1536: </strong></font>
1537: </ul>
1538: <p>
1539:
1540: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1541: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 1542: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
1543: ITBusiness,
1544: May 2, 2003.
1545: </strong></font><br>
1546: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
1547: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
1548: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
1549: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
1550: <p>
1551:
1552: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 1553: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
1554: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1555: InfoWorld,
1556: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 1557: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 1558: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
1559: <br>
1560: This article can also be found online at:
1561: <ul>
1562: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1563: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
1564: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1565: IDG Singapore.
1566: </strong></font>
1567: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1568: <p>
1569:
1.339 jose 1570: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1571: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
1572: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 1573: ZDNet,
1574: May 1, 2003.
1575: </strong></font><br>
1576: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 1577: someone using parts from previous articles.
1578: <br>
1.341 deraadt 1579: This article can also be found online at:
1580: <ul>
1581: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1582: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
1583: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1584: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 1585: </strong></font>
1586: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1587: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
1588: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1589: CNET News.com.
1590: </strong></font>
1591: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1592: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
1593: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
1594: ZDNet UK.
1595: </strong></font>
1596: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1597: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
1598: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
1599: Help Net Security, Croatia.
1600: </strong></font>
1601: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1602: <p>
1.339 jose 1603:
1.341 deraadt 1604: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1605: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 1606: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
1607: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
1608: May 1, 2003.
1609: </strong></font><br>
1610: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
1611: that have been added
1612: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
1613: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
1614: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 1615: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 1616: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
1617: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
1618: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 1619: <p>
1620:
1621: </ul>
1622:
1.253 ian 1623: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
1624: <ul>
1.255 ian 1625:
1.260 ian 1626: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1627: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 1628: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1629: TechRepublic,
1630: April 28, 2003.
1631: </strong></font><br>
1632: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
1633: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 1634: work.<br>
1635: Can also be found online at:
1636: <ul>
1637: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1638: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
1639: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1640: ZDNet UK.
1641: </strong></font>
1642: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 1643: <p>
1644:
1645: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 1646: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
1647: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
1648: IDG,
1649: April 24, 2003.
1650: </strong></font><br>
1651: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
1652: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
1653: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
1654: Can also be found online at:
1655: <ul>
1656: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1657: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
1658: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 1659: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 1660: </strong></font>
1661: </ul>
1662: <p>
1663:
1664: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1665: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 1666: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 1667: Slate,
1668: April 24, 2003.
1669: </strong></font><br>
1670: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
1671: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
1672: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
1673: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
1674: <p>
1675:
1676: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 1677: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1678: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
1679: April 24, 2003.
1680: </strong></font><br>
1681: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
1682: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
1683: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
1684: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
1685: <p>
1686:
1687: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 1688: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
1689: April 24, 2003.
1690: </strong></font><br>
1691: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
1692: the free software community".
1693: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
1694: other articles.
1695: <p>
1696:
1697: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1698: <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 1699: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
1700: </strong></font><br>
1701: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
1702: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
1703: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
1704: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
1705: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
1706: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
1707: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 1708: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 1709: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
1710: <br/>
1711: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
1712: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
1713: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
1714: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 1715: <br>
1716: Can also be found online at:
1717: <ul>
1718: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1719: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
1720: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
1721: Common Dreams NewsCenter
1722: </strong></font>
1723: </ul>
1.324 ian 1724: <p>
1725:
1726: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1727: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
1728: Wired, April 24, 2003.
1729: </strong></font><br>
1730: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
1731: article above.
1732: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
1733: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
1734: wasting them."
1.332 ian 1735: <br>
1736: Can also be found online at:
1737: <ul>
1738: <li>
1739: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
1740: </strong></font>
1741: </ul>
1.324 ian 1742: <p>
1743:
1744: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 1745: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
1746: </strong></font><br>
1747: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
1748: <p>
1749:
1750: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 1751: <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.
1752: </strong></font><br>
1753: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
1754: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
1755: <p>
1756:
1757: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 1758: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
1759: April 23, 2003.
1760: </strong></font><br>
1761: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
1762: <p>
1763:
1764: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 1765: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 1766: April 22, 2003.
1767: </strong></font><br>
1768: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
1769: <p>
1770:
1771: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 1772: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1773: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1774: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 1775: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 1776: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
1777: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
1778: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
1779: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
1780: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
1781: Can also be found online at:
1782: <ul>
1783: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1784: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 1785: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1786: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 1787: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 1788: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1789: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 1790: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
1791: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 1792: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 1793: </ul>
1794: <p>
1795:
1796: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 1797: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
1798: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 1799: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1800: </strong></font><br>
1801: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 1802: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
1803: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
1804: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
1805: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
1806: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
1807: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 1808: <p>
1809:
1810: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 1811: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
1812: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 1813: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
1814: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 1815: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
1816: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
1817: at UPenn and DARPA.
1818: <p>
1819:
1820: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 1821: [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,
1822: France
1.315 deraadt 1823: April 18, 2003.
1824: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 1825: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 1826: <p>
1827:
1828: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 1829: [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 1830: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1831: </strong></font><br>
1832: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
1833: <p>
1834:
1835: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 1836: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
1837: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
1838: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1839: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 1840: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
1841: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
1842: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
1843: <p>
1844:
1845: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 1846: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
1847: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1848: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 1849: </strong></font><br>
1850: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1851: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
1852: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 1853: American century.
1.267 deraadt 1854: <p>
1855:
1856: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 1857: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
1858: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1859: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 1860: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 1861: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
1862: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
1863: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
1864: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
1865: Can also be found online at:
1866: <ul>
1867: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
1868: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 1869: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 1870: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 1871: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 1872: <p>
1873:
1874: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 1875: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 1876: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1877: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 1878: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 1879: </strong></font><br>
1880: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 1881: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
1882: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
1883: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
1884: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 1885:
1886: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1887: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
1888: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1889: New York Times.
1890: </strong></font>(free registration required)
1891:
1.273 deraadt 1892: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1893: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 1894: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1895: ABC News.
1896: </strong></font>
1897:
1898: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1899: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 1900: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 1901: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 1902: </strong></font>
1903:
1904: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1905: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1906: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 1907: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 1908: </strong></font>
1909:
1910: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 1911: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
1912: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1913: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 1914: </strong></font>
1915:
1916: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1917: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1918: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 1919: Times Daily, AL.
1920: </strong></font>
1921:
1922: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1923: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
1924: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
1925: Boston.com, MA.
1926: </strong></font>
1927:
1928: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1929: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 1930: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 1931: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
1932: </strong></font>
1933:
1934: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 1935: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
1936: [Article was pulled]</a>
1937: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 1938: </strong></font>
1939:
1940: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1941: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
1942: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
1943: Infoshop News.
1944: </strong></font>
1945:
1946: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1947: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
1948: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1949: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
1950: </strong></font>
1951:
1952: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 1953: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
1954: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
1955: Raleigh News, NC.
1956: </strong></font>
1957:
1958: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1959: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 1960: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
1961: Napa News, CA.
1962: </strong></font>
1963:
1964: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1965: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 1966: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1967: NEPA News, PA.
1968: </strong></font>
1969:
1970: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1971: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
1972: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
1973: Wired News.
1974: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 1975: <br>
1976: <li>
1.333 deraadt 1977: <font color="#009000"><strong>
1978: [JAPANESE]
1979: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
1980: Wired News Japan</a>
1981: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 1982:
1.271 deraadt 1983: </ul>
1984: <p>
1.272 deraadt 1985: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
1986: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 1987: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
1988: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
1989: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
1990: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
1991: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
1992: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 1993: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 1994: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
1995: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
1996: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 1997: <p>
1998: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 1999:
2000: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2001: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 2002: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
2003: Indianapolis Star, IN.
2004: </strong></font>
2005:
2006: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 2007: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
2008: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2009: Miami Herald, FL.
2010: </strong></font>
2011:
2012: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 2013: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 2014: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
2015: </strong></font>
2016:
2017: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2018: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 2019: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 2020: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 2021: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 2022:
2023: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2024: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
2025: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
2026: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
2027: ABC News.
2028: </strong></font>
2029:
1.276 deraadt 2030: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2031: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 2032: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 2033: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 2034: </strong></font>
2035:
1.286 dhartmei 2036: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2037: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 2038: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2039: Wilmington Star, NC.
2040: </strong></font>
2041:
1.300 jose 2042: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2043: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
2044: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
2045: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
2046: </strong></font>
2047:
1.309 jose 2048: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2049: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
2050: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
2051: Globe Technology.
2052: </strong></font>
2053:
1.263 deraadt 2054: </ul>
1.262 beck 2055: <p>
2056:
2057: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 2058: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
2059: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2060: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 2061: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 2062: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 2063: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
2064: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
2065: <p>
2066:
2067: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 2068: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
2069: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
2070: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 2071: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 2072: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
2073: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
2074: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
2075: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
2076: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
2077: and simply restates other press reports.
2078: <p>
2079:
2080: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 2081: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
2082: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2083: OS News, April 18, 2003.
2084: </strong></font><br>
2085: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
2086: <p>
2087:
2088: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 2089: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
2090: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2091: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 2092: </strong></font><br>
2093: Another report on the DARPA funding.
2094: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
2095: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
2096: <p>
2097:
2098: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 2099: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
2100: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
2101: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
2102: April 17, 2003.
2103: </strong></font><br>
2104: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
2105: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
2106: Tech Anthems</a>
2107: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
2108: 4 so far.
2109: <p>
2110:
2111: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 2112: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
2113: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2114: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2115: </strong></font><br>
2116: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
2117: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
2118: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
2119: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
2120: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
2121: Goes on to say:
2122: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
2123: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
2124: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
2125: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 2126: This article is also found online at:
2127: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 2128: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2129: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
2130: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
2131: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 2132: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 2133: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2134: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
2135: ZDnet</a>,
2136: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 2137: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 2138: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2139: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
2140: ZDnet Australia</a>,
2141: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 2142: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 2143: </ul>
1.260 ian 2144: <p>
1.279 deraadt 2145:
1.260 ian 2146: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2147: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 2148: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 2149: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2150: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 2151: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 2152: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
2153: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
2154: without notice or justification.
2155: <p>
2156:
2157: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2158: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 2159: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 2160: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2161: </strong></font><br>
2162: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
2163: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 2164: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 2165: effective today, without any warning..."
2166: <p>
1.257 ian 2167:
2168: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 2169: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
2170: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2171: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 2172: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 2173: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
2174: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
2175: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
2176: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
2177: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 2178: <p>
2179:
2180: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 2181: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
2182: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2183: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 2184: </strong></font><br>
2185: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
2186: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
2187: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
2188: quoting two of them:
2189: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
2190: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
2191: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
2192: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
2193: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
2194: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
2195: <p>
2196:
1.255 ian 2197: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2198: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
2199: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 2200: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2201: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 2202: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 2203: <p>
2204:
2205: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 2206: [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 2207: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2208: </strong></font><br>
2209: New security concepts in OpenBSD
2210: <p>
2211:
2212: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 2213: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
2214: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2215: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 2216: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 2217: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 2218: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
2219: security experts for more than three decades."
2220: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
2221: <p>
1.261 ian 2222:
1.254 drahn 2223: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 2224: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 2225: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2226: </strong></font><br>
2227: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
2228: <p>
2229:
2230: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 2231: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
2232: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
2233: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
2234: </strong></font><br>
2235: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
2236: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
2237: discussion OpenBSD's path.
2238: <p>
2239:
2240: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 2241: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
2242: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2243: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 2244: </strong></font><br>
2245: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
2246: from US DARPA.
2247: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
2248: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
2249: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
2250: the BSD license.
2251: <p>
2252: </ul>
2253:
1.251 ian 2254: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
2255: <ul>
2256:
2257: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2258: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
2259: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
2260: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
2261: </strong></font><br>
2262:
2263: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
2264: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
2265: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
2266: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
2267: <p>
2268:
2269: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 2270: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
2271: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 2272: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 2273: </strong></font><br>
2274: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
2275: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
2276: Mentions
2277: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
2278: and
2279: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
2280: programs.
2281: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 2282: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 2283: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
2284: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
2285: <p>
1.325 ian 2286: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
2287: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 2288:
2289: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2290: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
2291: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
2292: </strong></font><br>
2293: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
2294: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
2295: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
2296: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
2297: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
2298: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
2299: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
2300: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
2301: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
2302: put into service."
2303: <p>
2304: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
2305: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
2306: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
2307: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
2308: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
2309: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
2310: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
2311: computers with security features."
2312: <p>
1.329 ian 2313:
2314: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2315: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
2316: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
2317: Slate,
2318: March 3, 2003.
2319: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 2320: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 2321: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
2322: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
2323: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
2324: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
2325: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
2326: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
2327: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
2328: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
2329: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
2330: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
2331: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
2332: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
2333: of more secure open-source solutions like
2334: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
2335: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
2336: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
2337: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
2338: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
2339: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
2340: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
2341: the Beltway."
2342: <p>
1.251 ian 2343: </ul>
2344:
1.249 jufi 2345: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
2346: <ul>
2347: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2348: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
2349: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2350: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 2351: </strong></font><br>
2352: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
2353: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 2354: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 2355: <p>
1.334 ian 2356:
2357: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2358: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
2359: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
2360: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
2361: </strong></font><br>
2362: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
2363: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
2364: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
2365: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
2366: "... the hypothetical question ...
2367: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
2368: <br>
2369: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
2370: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
2371: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
2372: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
2373: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
2374: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 2375: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 2376: support network security.
2377: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
2378: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
2379: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
2380: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
2381: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
2382: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
2383: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
2384: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
2385: <br>
2386: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
2387: <p>
2388:
1.249 jufi 2389: </ul>
2390:
1.246 jufi 2391: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2392: <ul>
1.246 jufi 2393:
1.247 jufi 2394: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2395: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 2396: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2397: CNET News.com, December 4, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2398: </strong></font><br>
2399: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
2400: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
2401: <p>
2402:
1.247 jufi 2403: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2404: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
2405: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2406: Heise News-Ticker, December 4, 2002
1.301 jose 2407: </strong></font><br>
1.460 david 2408: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III CPU
1.301 jose 2409: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
2410: <p>
2411:
2412: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2413: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 2414: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2415: eWeek, December 3, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2416: </strong></font><br>
2417: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
2418: in their annual OpenHack security test.
2419: <p>
1.247 jufi 2420: </ul>
1.246 jufi 2421:
1.244 jufi 2422: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2423: <ul>
1.246 jufi 2424:
1.247 jufi 2425: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2426: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
2427: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
2428: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2429: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2430: </strong></font><br>
2431: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
2432: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
2433: md5 digests.
2434: <p>
2435:
1.247 jufi 2436: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2437: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 2438: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
2439: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2440: </strong></font><br>
2441: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
2442: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
2443: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
2444: right the first time."
2445: <p>
1.247 jufi 2446: </ul>
1.244 jufi 2447:
2448:
2449: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2450: <ul>
1.244 jufi 2451:
1.247 jufi 2452: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2453: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2454: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
2455: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2456: </strong></font><br>
2457: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
2458: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
2459: part 6</a>.
2460: <p>
2461:
1.247 jufi 2462: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2463: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 2464: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
2465: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2466: O'Reilly Network, August 8, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2467: </strong></font><br>
2468: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
2469: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
2470: <p>
1.301 jose 2471:
2472: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2473: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
2474: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
2475: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
2476: </strong></font><br>
2477:
2478: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
2479: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
2480: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
2481: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
2482: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
2483: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
2484: <i>Here's the
2485: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
2486: <p>
1.247 jufi 2487: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2488:
2489: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2490: <ul>
1.242 jufi 2491:
1.247 jufi 2492: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2493: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 2494: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2495: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2496: </strong></font><br>
2497: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
2498: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
2499: <p>
2500:
1.247 jufi 2501: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2502: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2503: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2504: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 1, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2505: </strong></font><br>
2506: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
2507: this time using pf.
2508: <p>
1.247 jufi 2509: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2510:
2511: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2512: <ul>
1.242 jufi 2513:
1.247 jufi 2514: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2515: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2516: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
2517: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2518: </strong></font><br>
2519: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
2520: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
2521: their rotation.
2522: <p>
2523:
1.247 jufi 2524: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2525: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2526: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2527: O'Reilly Network, June 6, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2528: </strong></font><br>
2529: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
2530: <p>
1.247 jufi 2531: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2532:
1.239 jufi 2533: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2534: <ul>
1.239 jufi 2535:
1.247 jufi 2536: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2537: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2538: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
2539: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2540: </strong></font><br>
2541: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
2542: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
2543: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
2544: <p>
2545:
1.247 jufi 2546: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 2547: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2548: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
2549: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 2550: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 2551: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
2552: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
2553: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 2554: <p>
1.247 jufi 2555: </ul>
1.239 jufi 2556:
1.235 lebel 2557: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2558: <ul>
1.235 lebel 2559:
1.239 jufi 2560:
1.247 jufi 2561: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 2562: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 2563: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
2564: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 2565: </strong></font><br>
2566: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
2567: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
2568: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
2569: <p>
1.301 jose 2570:
1.247 jufi 2571: </ul>
1.235 lebel 2572:
1.228 horacio 2573: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2574: <ul>
1.228 horacio 2575:
1.247 jufi 2576: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2577: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2578: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
2579: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 2580: </strong></font><br>
2581: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
2582: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
2583: <p>
2584:
1.247 jufi 2585: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 2586: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 2587: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
2588: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 2589: </strong></font><br>
2590: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
2591: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
2592: <p>
2593:
1.247 jufi 2594: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 2595: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 2596: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
2597: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 2598: </strong></font><br>
2599: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
2600: on the desktop of his parents.
2601: <p>
2602:
1.247 jufi 2603: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 2604: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 2605: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
2606: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 2607: </strong></font><br>
2608: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
2609: using IPFilter.
2610:
2611: <p>
2612:
1.247 jufi 2613: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 2614: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 2615: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
2616: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 2617: </strong></font><br>
2618: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
2619: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
2620: perspectives of the four OS.
2621: <br>
2622: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 2623: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 2624: <p>
2625:
1.247 jufi 2626: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 2627: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
2628: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 2629: software and security</a>,
2630: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 2631: </strong></font><br>
2632:
2633: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
2634: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
2635: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
2636: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
2637: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
2638: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
2639: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
2640: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
2641: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
2642: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
2643: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
2644: security conscious team beyond doubt.
2645: <p>
1.247 jufi 2646: </ul>
1.228 horacio 2647:
1.225 horacio 2648: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2649: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2650:
1.247 jufi 2651: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2652: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
2653: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 2654: Interview</a>,
2655: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 2656: </strong></font><br>
2657:
2658: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
2659: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
2660: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 2661: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 2662: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
2663: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
2664: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
2665: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
2666: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 2667: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 2668: of choice.
2669: <p>
1.247 jufi 2670: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2671:
2672: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2673: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2674:
1.247 jufi 2675: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2676: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 2677: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
2678: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 2679: </strong></font><br>
2680:
2681: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
2682: <p>
2683:
1.247 jufi 2684: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2685: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 2686: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
2687: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 2688: </strong></font><br>
2689:
2690: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
2691: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
2692: <p>
1.247 jufi 2693: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2694:
1.218 horacio 2695: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2696: <ul>
1.218 horacio 2697:
1.247 jufi 2698: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 2699: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 2700: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 2701: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 2702: </strong></font><br>
2703:
2704: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
2705: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
2706: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
2707: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
2708: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
2709: subjects. Worth a read.
2710: <p>
2711:
2712:
1.247 jufi 2713: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 2714: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 2715: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
2716: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 2717: </strong></font><br>
2718:
2719: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
2720: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
2721: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
2722: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
2723: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
2724: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
2725: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
2726: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
2727: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 2728: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 2729: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
2730: on other operating systems.<br>
2731: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
2732: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
2733: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
2734: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
2735: <p>
2736:
1.247 jufi 2737: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2738: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 2739: Operating System 2010</a>,
2740: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 2741: </strong></font><br>
2742:
2743: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
2744: covering the level of software integration into the core
2745: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
2746: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
2747: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
2748: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
2749: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
2750: <p>
2751:
1.247 jufi 2752: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 2753: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2754: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
2755: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 2756: </strong></font><br>
2757:
2758: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
2759: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
2760: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
2761: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
2762: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
2763: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
2764: <p>
1.247 jufi 2765: </ul>
1.221 horacio 2766:
1.210 jufi 2767: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2768: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2769:
1.247 jufi 2770: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2771: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2772: Already a Contender</a>,
2773: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 2774: </strong></font><br>
2775:
2776: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
2777: source software in response to an article which claimed that
2778: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
2779: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
2780: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
2781: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
2782: <p>
2783:
1.247 jufi 2784: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 2785: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 2786: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
2787: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 2788: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2789:
1.224 horacio 2790: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
2791: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
2792: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
2793: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
2794: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
2795: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 2796: <p>
1.247 jufi 2797: </ul>
1.215 horacio 2798:
2799: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2800: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2801:
1.247 jufi 2802: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2803: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
2804: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 2805: Division</a>,
2806: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 2807: </strong></font><br>
2808:
2809: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
2810: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 2811: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 2812: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
2813: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
2814: investment</em>.<br>
2815: The implementation details can be seen on their
2816: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
2817: <p>
2818:
1.247 jufi 2819: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2820: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
2821: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
2822: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
2823: </strong></font><br>
2824:
2825: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
2826: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
2827: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1.475 grunk 2828: laptops and T-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1.301 jose 2829: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
2830: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
2831: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
2832: <p>
2833:
2834: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2835: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2836: Thinking about Security</a>,
2837: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2838: </strong></font><br>
2839:
2840: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
2841: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
2842: security and says that even secured operating systems running
2843: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
2844: to time.<br>
2845: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
2846: system and just the most secure system.
2847: <p>
2848:
1.247 jufi 2849: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2850: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2851: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
2852: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2853: </strong></font><br>
2854:
2855: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
2856: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
2857: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
2858: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
2859: choice:<br>
2860: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
2861: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
2862: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
2863: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
2864: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
2865: network security devices and as such must be well
2866: armored."</em><br>
2867: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
2868: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
2869: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
2870: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
2871: <br>
2872: Bravo!
2873: <p>
1.247 jufi 2874: </ul>
1.210 jufi 2875:
1.207 ian 2876: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2877: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2878:
1.247 jufi 2879: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 2880: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
2881: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
2882: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 2883:
1.207 ian 2884: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
2885: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 2886: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 2887: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
2888: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
2889: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 2890: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 2891: <p>
1.247 jufi 2892: </ul>
1.207 ian 2893:
1.194 jufi 2894: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2895: <ul>
1.194 jufi 2896:
1.247 jufi 2897: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2898: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 2899: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
2900: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 2901: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2902:
1.240 miod 2903: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 2904: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
2905: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
2906: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
2907: <p>
2908:
1.247 jufi 2909: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2910: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
2911: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
2912: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
2913:
2914: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
2915: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
2916: <p>
2917:
2918: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2919: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
2920: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2921: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
2922:
2923: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
2924: <p>
2925:
2926: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2927: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 2928: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
2929: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
2930: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2931:
1.240 miod 2932: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 2933: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 2934: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
2935: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 2936: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 2937: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 2938: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
2939: <br>
1.413 deraadt 2940: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 2941: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
2942: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
2943: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
2944: <p>
2945:
1.247 jufi 2946: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 2947: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
2948: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 2949: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 2950: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2951:
1.194 jufi 2952: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
2953: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
2954: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
2955: <br>
2956: The new
2957: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 2958: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 2959: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
2960: <p>
1.247 jufi 2961: </ul>
1.194 jufi 2962:
1.190 horacio 2963: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2964: <ul>
1.190 horacio 2965:
1.247 jufi 2966: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 2967:
2968: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
2969: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
2970:
1.301 jose 2971:
1.191 jufi 2972: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
2973: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
2974:
2975: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
2976: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
2977:
1.212 horacio 2978: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
2979: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 2980: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
2981:
1.211 horacio 2982: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
2983: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 2984: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
2985:
1.247 jufi 2986: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 2987: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
2988:
1.247 jufi 2989: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 2990: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
2991:
1.212 horacio 2992: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
2993: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 2994: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
2995:
2996: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
2997: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
2998:
2999: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
3000: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
3001:
1.301 jose 3002: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
3003: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
3004:
1.191 jufi 3005: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
3006: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
3007:
3008: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 3009: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 3010:
1.192 jufi 3011: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
3012: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 3013: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 3014:
1.193 deraadt 3015: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
3016: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 3017: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 3018:
1.247 jufi 3019: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 3020: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
3021:
1.247 jufi 3022: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 3023: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
3024: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
3025:
1.213 horacio 3026: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 3027: 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 3028: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
3029:
1.190 horacio 3030: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 3031: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
3032: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
3033: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
3034: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
3035: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
3036: <p>
1.190 horacio 3037:
1.247 jufi 3038: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3039: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
3040: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
3041: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 3042: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3043:
1.195 jufi 3044: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 3045: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
3046: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
3047: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 3048: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
3049: <p>
3050:
1.247 jufi 3051: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3052: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 3053: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
3054: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
3055: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3056:
1.191 jufi 3057: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 3058: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
3059: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
3060: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
3061: <p>
3062:
3063: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3064: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
3065: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3066: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
3067:
3068: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
3069: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 3070: <p>
1.247 jufi 3071: </ul>
1.190 horacio 3072:
1.191 jufi 3073:
1.186 jufi 3074: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3075: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 3076:
1.247 jufi 3077: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 3078: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 3079: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
3080: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 3081: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 3082:
1.188 jufi 3083: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 3084: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 3085: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 3086: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
3087: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 3088: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 3089: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 3090: <p>
3091:
1.301 jose 3092: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3093: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
3094: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3095: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
3096:
3097: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
3098: <p>
1.191 jufi 3099:
1.247 jufi 3100: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 3101: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
3102: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3103: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 5, 2001
1.191 jufi 3104: </strong></font><br>
3105:
3106: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
3107: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
3108: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
3109: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
3110: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
3111: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
3112: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
3113: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
3114: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
3115: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
3116: familiar?
3117: <p>
1.247 jufi 3118: </ul>
1.191 jufi 3119:
1.178 louis 3120: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3121: <ul>
1.178 louis 3122:
1.247 jufi 3123: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 3124: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 3125: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
3126: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 3127: </strong></font><br>
3128:
3129: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
3130: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
3131: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
3132: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
3133: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
3134: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
3135: <p>
3136:
1.247 jufi 3137: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3138: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
3139: Open source under the hood</a>,
3140: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 3141: </strong></font><br>
3142:
3143: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
3144: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
3145: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
3146: <p>
3147:
1.247 jufi 3148: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3149: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
3150: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
3151: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 3152: </strong></font><br>
3153:
3154: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
3155: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
3156: <p>
1.247 jufi 3157: </ul>
1.179 louis 3158:
1.174 louis 3159:
1.175 louis 3160: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3161: <ul>
1.175 louis 3162:
1.247 jufi 3163: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3164: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
3165: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
3166: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 3167: </strong></font><br>
3168:
3169: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
3170: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
3171: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
3172: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
3173: <p>
3174:
1.247 jufi 3175: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3176: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
3177: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
3178: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 3179: </strong></font><br>
3180:
3181: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 3182: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 3183: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
3184: <p>
1.247 jufi 3185: </ul>
1.175 louis 3186:
1.176 louis 3187:
1.172 mickey 3188: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3189: <ul>
1.172 mickey 3190:
1.247 jufi 3191: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3192: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
3193: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 3194: </strong></font><br>
3195:
3196: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
3197: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
3198: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 3199: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 3200: <p>
3201:
1.247 jufi 3202: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 3203: <a
1.269 deraadt 3204: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
3205: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
3206: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 3207: </strong></font><br>
3208:
3209: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
3210: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
3211: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
3212: <p>
3213:
1.247 jufi 3214: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3215: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 3216: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
3217: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 3218: </strong></font><br>
3219:
3220: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
3221: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
3222: <p>
3223:
1.247 jufi 3224: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3225: <a
1.269 deraadt 3226: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
3227: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 3228: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
3229: </strong></font><br>
3230:
3231: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
3232: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
3233: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
3234: our own Theo de Raadt.
3235: <p>
3236:
1.247 jufi 3237: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3238: <a
1.269 deraadt 3239: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
3240: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
3241: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 3242: </strong></font><br>
3243:
3244: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
3245: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
3246: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
3247: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
3248: shut down.]
3249: <p>
3250:
1.247 jufi 3251: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3252: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 3253: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 3254: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
3255: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 3256: </strong></font><br>
3257:
3258: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
3259: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
3260: <p>
1.247 jufi 3261: </ul>
1.172 mickey 3262:
1.161 louis 3263: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3264: <ul>
1.161 louis 3265:
1.247 jufi 3266: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 3267: <a
1.269 deraadt 3268: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
3269: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
3270: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 3271: </strong></font><br>
3272:
3273: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
3274: by John Wolley
3275: <p>
3276:
1.247 jufi 3277: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 3278: <a
1.269 deraadt 3279: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
3280: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
3281: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 3282: </strong></font><br>
3283:
3284: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
3285: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
3286: OpenBSD).
3287: <p>
3288:
1.247 jufi 3289: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 3290: <a
1.247 jufi 3291: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 3292: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
3293: </strong></font><br>
3294:
3295: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
3296: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
3297: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
3298: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
3299: and hindsight.
3300: <p>
3301:
1.247 jufi 3302: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3303: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
3304: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
3305: </strong></font><br>
3306:
3307: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
3308: <p>
3309:
1.247 jufi 3310: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 3311: <a
1.168 provos 3312: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
3313: December 7, 2000
3314: </strong></font><br>
3315:
3316: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
3317: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
3318: us explain.
3319: <p>
3320:
1.247 jufi 3321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 3322: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
3323: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 3324: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 3325: December 6, 2000
3326: </strong></font><br>
3327:
3328: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
3329: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
3330: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
3331: <p>
3332:
1.247 jufi 3333: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3334: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
3335: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
3336: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
3337: </strong></font><br>
3338:
3339: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
3340: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
3341: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
3342: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
3343: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
3344: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
3345: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
3346: <p>
3347:
3348: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 3349: <a
1.226 horacio 3350: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
3351: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 3352: </strong></font><br>
3353:
3354: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 3355: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 3356: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 3357: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
3358: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
3359: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 3360: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 3361: <p>
1.162 millert 3362:
1.247 jufi 3363: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 3364: <a
1.161 louis 3365: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
3366: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
3367: </strong></font><br>
3368:
3369: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
3370: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
3371: <p>
3372:
1.247 jufi 3373: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3374: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
3375: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
3376: </strong></font><br>
3377:
3378: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
3379: <p>
3380:
3381:
1.247 jufi 3382: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 3383: <a
1.226 horacio 3384: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
3385: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
3386: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 3387: </strong></font><br>
3388:
3389: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
3390: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
3391: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
3392: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
3393: <p>
1.247 jufi 3394: </ul>
1.169 louis 3395:
1.158 louis 3396: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3397: <ul>
1.147 louis 3398:
1.247 jufi 3399: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3400: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
3401: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 3402: </strong></font><br>
3403:
3404: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
3405: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
3406: <p>
3407:
1.247 jufi 3408: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3409: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
3410: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
3411: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 3412: </strong></font><br>
3413: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
3414: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
3415: <p>
3416:
1.247 jufi 3417: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 3418: <a
3419: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
3420: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
3421: </strong></font><br>
3422:
3423: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
3424: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
3425: <p>
3426:
1.247 jufi 3427: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3428: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 3429: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
3430: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 3431:
1.213 horacio 3432: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 3433: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 3434: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
3435: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
3436: <p>
1.215 horacio 3437:
1.247 jufi 3438: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3439: <a
3440: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
3441: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
3442: </strong></font><br>
3443:
3444: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
3445: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
3446: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
3447: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
3448: much of the attitude too).
3449: <p>
1.161 louis 3450:
1.247 jufi 3451: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3452: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3453: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 3454: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3455:
1.157 louis 3456: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
3457: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
3458: <p>
1.247 jufi 3459: </ul>
1.157 louis 3460:
3461: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3462: <ul>
1.157 louis 3463:
1.247 jufi 3464: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3465: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3466: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 3467: </strong></font><br>
3468:
3469: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
3470: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
3471: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
3472: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
3473: <p>
3474:
1.247 jufi 3475: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 3476: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
3477: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
3478: </strong></font><br>
3479:
3480: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
3481: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
3482: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
3483: it because they love coding...
3484: <p>
3485:
1.247 jufi 3486: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 3487: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
3488: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
3489: </strong></font><br>
3490:
3491: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
3492: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
3493: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
3494: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
3495: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
3496: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
3497: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
3498: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
3499: <p>
3500:
1.247 jufi 3501: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3502: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
3503: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
3504: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 3505: </strong></font><br>
3506:
3507: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
3508: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
3509: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
3510: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
3511: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
3512: the pizza.
3513: <p>
3514:
1.247 jufi 3515: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 3516: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
3517: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
3518: </strong></font><br>
3519:
3520: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
3521: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
3522: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
3523: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
3524: problems.
3525: <p>
3526:
1.247 jufi 3527: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 3528: <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 3529: </strong></font><br>
3530:
1.222 miod 3531: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 3532: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
3533: - whether they like it or not.
3534: <p>
3535:
1.247 jufi 3536: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3537: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
3538: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 3539: </strong></font><br>
3540:
3541: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
3542: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
3543: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 3544: <p>
1.148 aaron 3545:
1.247 jufi 3546: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3547: <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 3548: </strong></font><br>
3549:
3550: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
3551: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
3552: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
3553: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
3554: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
3555: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
3556: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
3557: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
3558: <p>
3559:
1.247 jufi 3560: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3561: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
3562: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 3563: </strong></font><br>
3564:
3565: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
3566: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 3567: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 3568: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
3569: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
3570: <p>
1.247 jufi 3571: </ul>
1.147 louis 3572:
1.138 louis 3573: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3574: <ul>
1.138 louis 3575:
1.247 jufi 3576: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3577: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
3578: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
3579: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
3580: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 3581: </strong></font><br>
3582:
1.227 horacio 3583: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 3584: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
3585: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
3586: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
3587: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
3588: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
3589: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
3590: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 3591: <p>
3592:
1.247 jufi 3593: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 3594: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 3595: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 3596: </strong></font><br>
3597:
3598: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
3599: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
3600: groups, and even Linux.
3601: <p>
3602:
1.247 jufi 3603: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3604: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
3605: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 3606: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
3607: </strong></font><br>
3608:
3609: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
3610: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
3611: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
3612: library after installing the OS.
3613: <p>
3614:
1.247 jufi 3615: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3616: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 3617: Sys Admin, September 2000
3618: </strong></font><br>
3619:
3620: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
3621: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
3622: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
3623: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 3624: (<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>,
3625: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
3626: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
3627: <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 3628: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 3629: out of the system.
3630: <p>
3631:
1.247 jufi 3632: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 3633: <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
3634: </strong></font><br>
3635:
3636: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 3637: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 3638: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
3639: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
3640: the IP filtering and address translation.
3641: <p>
1.301 jose 3642:
3643: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3644: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
3645: </strong></font><br>
3646:
3647: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
3648: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
3649: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
3650: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
3651: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
3652: <p>
1.247 jufi 3653: </ul>
1.200 niklas 3654:
1.131 louis 3655: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3656: <ul>
1.131 louis 3657:
1.247 jufi 3658: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3659: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
3660: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
3661: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 3662: </strong></font><br>
3663:
3664: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
3665: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
3666: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
3667: <p>
3668:
1.247 jufi 3669: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 3670: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
3671: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
3672: </strong></font><br>
3673:
3674: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
3675: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
3676: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
3677: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
3678: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
3679: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
3680: note of"</i>.
3681: <p>
3682:
1.247 jufi 3683: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 3684: <a
1.247 jufi 3685: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 3686: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
3687: </strong></font><br>
3688:
3689: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
3690: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
3691: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
3692: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
3693: <p>
3694:
1.247 jufi 3695: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 3696: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 3697: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
3698: </strong></font><br>
3699:
3700: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
3701: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
3702: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
3703: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
3704: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
3705: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
3706: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
3707: <p>
3708:
1.247 jufi 3709: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 3710: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
3711: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
3712: 2000
3713: </strong></font><br>
3714:
3715: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
3716: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
3717: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
3718: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
3719: against current industry practices.
3720: <p>
3721:
1.247 jufi 3722: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 3723: <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
3724: </strong></font><br>
3725:
3726: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
3727: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
3728: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
3729: <p>
3730:
1.247 jufi 3731: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 3732: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
3733: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
3734: </strong></font><br>
3735:
3736: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
3737: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
3738: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
3739: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
3740: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
3741: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
3742: careful code reviews, he concludes.
3743: <p>
3744:
1.247 jufi 3745: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 3746: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
3747: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
3748: </strong></font><br>
3749:
3750: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
3751: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
3752: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
3753: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
3754: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 3755: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
3756: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
3757: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 3758: <p>
1.247 jufi 3759: </ul>
1.131 louis 3760:
1.118 louis 3761: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3762: <ul>
1.118 louis 3763:
1.247 jufi 3764: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 3765: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
3766: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
3767: </strong></font><br>
3768:
3769: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
3770: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
3771: about time. The article mentions that
3772: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
3773: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
3774: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 3775: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 3776: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
3777: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 3778: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 3779: <p>
3780:
1.247 jufi 3781: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3782: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 3783: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3784: </strong></font><br>
3785:
3786: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
3787: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
3788: of OpenSSH.
3789: <p>
3790:
1.247 jufi 3791: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3792: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3793: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3794: </strong></font><br>
3795:
3796: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 3797: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 3798: bridging.
3799: <p>
3800:
1.247 jufi 3801: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3802: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
3803: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 3804: </strong></font><br>
3805:
1.121 deraadt 3806: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
3807: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 3808: <p>
3809:
1.247 jufi 3810: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3811: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
3812: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
3813: </strong></font><br>
3814:
3815: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
3816: <p>
3817:
1.247 jufi 3818: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 3819: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3820: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
3821: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 3822: </strong></font><br>
3823:
1.120 deraadt 3824: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
3825: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 3826: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
3827: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
3828: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
3829: <p>
3830:
1.247 jufi 3831: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 3832: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
3833: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
3834: </strong></font><br>
3835:
1.222 miod 3836: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 3837: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
3838: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
3839: protocols and their quirks.
3840: <p>
3841:
1.247 jufi 3842: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3843: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
3844: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 3845: </strong></font><br>
3846:
3847: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
3848: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
3849: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 3850: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 3851: <p>
3852:
1.247 jufi 3853: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 3854: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
3855: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
3856: </strong></font><br>
3857:
3858: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
3859: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
3860: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
3861: <p>
3862:
1.247 jufi 3863: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 3864: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3865: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
3866: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 3867: </strong></font><br>
3868:
3869: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
3870: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
3871: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
3872: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
3873: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
3874: <p>
1.247 jufi 3875: </ul>
1.118 louis 3876:
1.104 louis 3877: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3878: <ul>
1.104 louis 3879:
1.247 jufi 3880: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 3881: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
3882: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
3883: </strong></font><br>
3884:
3885: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
3886: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
3887: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
3888: be a bit dry.
3889: <p>
3890:
1.247 jufi 3891: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3892: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
3893: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
3894: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
3895: </strong></font><br>
3896: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
3897: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
3898: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
3899: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
3900: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
3901: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
3902: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
3903: <p>
3904:
1.247 jufi 3905: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3906: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
3907: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 3908: 2000
1.128 louis 3909: </strong></font><br>
3910:
3911: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
3912: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
3913: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
3914: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
3915: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 3916: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 3917: <p>
3918:
1.247 jufi 3919: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3920: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
3921: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 3922: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 3923:
3924: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
3925: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
3926: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
3927: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 3928: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
3929: <p>
1.110 louis 3930:
1.247 jufi 3931: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 3932: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
3933: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
3934: </strong></font><br>
3935:
3936: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
3937: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
3938: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
3939: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
3940: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
3941: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
3942: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
3943: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
3944: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
3945: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
3946: <p>
3947:
1.247 jufi 3948: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 3949: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3950: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 3951:
3952: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
3953: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 3954: <p>
1.108 louis 3955:
1.247 jufi 3956: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 3957: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
3958: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 3959: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 3960:
3961: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
3962: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
3963: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 3964: <p>
1.106 louis 3965:
1.247 jufi 3966: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 3967: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
3968: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 3969: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 3970:
3971: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
3972: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
3973: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
3974: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 3975: <p>
1.107 louis 3976:
1.247 jufi 3977: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3978: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
3979: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 3980: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 3981:
3982: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
3983: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 3984: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 3985: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
3986: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 3987: <p>
1.105 louis 3988:
1.247 jufi 3989: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 3990: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 3991: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 3992: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 3993:
1.113 naddy 3994: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
3995: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 3996: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 3997: <p>
1.104 louis 3998:
1.247 jufi 3999: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4000: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
4001: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
4002: </strong></font><br>
4003:
4004: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
4005: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
4006: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
4007: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
4008: <p>
1.301 jose 4009:
4010: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4011: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
4012: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
4013: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
4014:
4015: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
4016: hardware-supported cryptography.
4017: <p>
1.247 jufi 4018: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 4019:
1.85 louis 4020: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4021: <ul>
1.85 louis 4022:
1.247 jufi 4023: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4024: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 4025: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 4026: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 4027:
4028: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
4029: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
4030: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
4031: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
4032: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
4033: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
4034: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 4035: <p>
1.99 louis 4036:
1.247 jufi 4037: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4038: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 4039: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 4040: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 4041:
4042: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
4043: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
4044: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
4045: conditions.
1.113 naddy 4046: <p>
1.100 louis 4047:
1.247 jufi 4048: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4049: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 4050: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 4051: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 4052:
4053: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
4054: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
4055: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
4056: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 4057: <p>
1.95 louis 4058:
1.247 jufi 4059: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4060: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 4061: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 4062: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 4063:
4064: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
4065: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 4066: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 4067: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
4068: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4069: <p>
1.92 louis 4070:
1.247 jufi 4071: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4072: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 4073: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 4074: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 4075:
4076: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
4077: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
4078: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
4079: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
4080: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
4081: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 4082: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 4083: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 4084: <p>
1.91 louis 4085:
1.247 jufi 4086: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4087: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
4088: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 4089: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 4090:
4091: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
4092: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
4093: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
4094: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
4095: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
4096: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
4097: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
4098: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
4099: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 4100: <p>
1.90 louis 4101:
1.247 jufi 4102: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 4103: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
4104: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
4105: </strong></font><br>
4106: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
4107: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
4108: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
4109: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
4110: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
4111: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
4112: <p>
4113:
1.247 jufi 4114: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 4115: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
4116: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 4117: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 4118:
1.113 naddy 4119: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
4120: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 4121: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
4122: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
4123: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
4124: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
4125: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 4126: <p>
1.87 louis 4127:
1.247 jufi 4128: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 4129: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
4130: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 4131: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 4132:
4133: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 4134: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 4135: <p>
1.85 louis 4136:
1.247 jufi 4137: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4138: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
4139: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4140: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
4141:
4142: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
4143: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
4144: <p>
4145:
4146: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 4147: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
4148: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 4149: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 4150:
4151: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 4152: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 4153: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
4154: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 4155: <p>
1.89 louis 4156:
1.247 jufi 4157: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 4158: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
4159: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 4160: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 4161:
4162: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
4163: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
4164: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
4165: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
4166: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 4167: </ul>
1.85 louis 4168:
1.78 deraadt 4169: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4170: <ul>
1.74 louis 4171:
1.247 jufi 4172: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4173: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 4174: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 4175: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 4176: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 4177:
4178: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
4179: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
4180: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4181: <p>
1.83 louis 4182:
1.247 jufi 4183: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 4184: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
4185: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 4186: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 4187:
4188: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
4189: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 4190: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 4191: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
4192: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 4193: <p>
1.93 louis 4194:
1.247 jufi 4195: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4196: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
4197: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
4198: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 4199: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 4200:
1.83 louis 4201: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
4202: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
4203: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
4204: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
4205: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 4206: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
4207: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
4208: <p>
1.82 aaron 4209:
1.247 jufi 4210: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4211: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 4212: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 4213: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 4214:
1.83 louis 4215: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
4216: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
4217: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 4218: <p>
1.80 louis 4219:
1.247 jufi 4220: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4221: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 4222: Bad Press</a>,
4223: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 4224: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 4225:
4226: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 4227: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 4228: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
4229: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
4230: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 4231: <p>
1.247 jufi 4232: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 4233:
4234: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4235: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 4236:
1.247 jufi 4237: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4238: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
4239: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 4240: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 4241: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 4242:
4243: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
4244: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
4245: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
4246: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 4247: <p>
1.74 louis 4248:
1.247 jufi 4249: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 4250: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
4251: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 4252: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 4253:
1.219 horacio 4254: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
4255: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
4256: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
4257: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
4258: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
4259: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
4260: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 4261: <p>
1.88 louis 4262:
1.247 jufi 4263: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 4264: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 4265: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 4266: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 4267:
4268: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
4269: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
4270: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
4271: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 4272: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 4273: <p>
1.81 louis 4274:
1.247 jufi 4275: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4276: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 4277: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 4278: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 4279:
4280: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
4281: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
4282: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
4283: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
4284: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
4285: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
4286: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 4287: <p>
1.90 louis 4288:
1.247 jufi 4289: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4290: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 4291: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 4292: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 4293:
4294: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
4295: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
4296: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 4297: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 4298: <p>
1.247 jufi 4299: </ul>
1.71 louis 4300:
1.69 deraadt 4301: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4302: <ul>
1.70 louis 4303:
1.247 jufi 4304: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4305: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
4306: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 4307: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 4308:
4309: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
4310: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
4311: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 4312: <p>
1.70 louis 4313:
1.247 jufi 4314: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4315: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
4316: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 4317: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 4318:
4319: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 4320: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 4321: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 4322: <p>
1.68 louis 4323:
1.247 jufi 4324: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4325: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
4326: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 4327: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 4328: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 4329:
1.111 jufi 4330: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
4331: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 4332: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 4333: "secure by default" installation.
4334: <p>
1.64 louis 4335:
1.247 jufi 4336: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 4337: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 4338: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 4339: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 4340:
1.113 naddy 4341: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 4342: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 4343: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 4344: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
4345: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
4346: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 4347: <p>
1.66 louis 4348:
1.247 jufi 4349: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4350: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 4351: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4352: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 4353:
4354: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 4355: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 4356: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
4357: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
4358: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 4359: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
4360: <p>
1.83 louis 4361:
1.247 jufi 4362: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4363: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 4364: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4365: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 4366:
4367: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 4368: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
4369: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 4370: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
4371: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 4372: <p>
1.64 louis 4373:
1.247 jufi 4374: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4375: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 4376: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4377: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 4378:
4379: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
4380: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 4381: <p>
1.301 jose 4382:
4383: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4384: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
4385: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
4386: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
4387: </strong></font><br>
4388:
4389: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
4390: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
4391: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
4392: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
4393: Giving way to
4394: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
4395: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
4396: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
4397: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
4398: <p>
1.247 jufi 4399: </ul>
1.65 louis 4400:
1.69 deraadt 4401: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4402: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4403:
1.247 jufi 4404: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4405: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 4406: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 4407: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 4408:
4409: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
4410: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
4411: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
4412: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 4413: <p>
1.88 louis 4414:
1.247 jufi 4415: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4416: <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 4417: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 4418:
4419: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 4420: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
4421: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 4422: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
4423: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 4424: <p>
1.60 louis 4425:
1.247 jufi 4426: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 4427: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 4428: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 4429: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 4430: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4431:
4432: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
4433: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
4434: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 4435: <p>
1.58 louis 4436:
1.247 jufi 4437: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 4438: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 4439: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 4440:
4441: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
4442: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 4443: <p>
1.53 louis 4444:
1.247 jufi 4445: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 4446: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
4447: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 4448: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 4449:
4450: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
4451: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
4452: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 4453: <p>
1.99 louis 4454:
1.247 jufi 4455: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 4456: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 4457: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4458:
4459: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
4460: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 4461: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 4462: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 4463: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 4464:
1.247 jufi 4465: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4466: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
4467: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 4468: </strong></font><br>
4469:
4470: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
4471: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
4472: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
4473: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
4474: <p>
4475:
1.247 jufi 4476: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4477: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 4478: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 4479: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4480:
4481: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
4482: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 4483: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 4484:
1.247 jufi 4485: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 4486: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 4487: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 4488:
4489: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 4490: in
1.247 jufi 4491: <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 4492: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 4493: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 4494: <p>
1.53 louis 4495:
1.247 jufi 4496: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4497: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 4498: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
4499: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 4500: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 4501:
1.58 louis 4502: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4503: <p>
1.301 jose 4504:
4505: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4506: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
4507: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
4508: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
4509: Informacyjny, January 2000
4510: </strong></font><br>
4511:
4512: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
4513: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
4514: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
4515: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
4516: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
4517: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
4518: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
4519: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
4520: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
4521: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 4522: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
4523: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 4524: <p>
4525:
4526: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4527: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4528: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
4529: </strong></font><br>
4530:
4531: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
4532: <p>
4533: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 4534:
1.69 deraadt 4535: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4536: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4537:
1.247 jufi 4538: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4539: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
4540: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
4541: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 4542: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4543:
1.58 louis 4544: Kurt Seifried
4545: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4546: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
4547: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 4548: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 4549:
1.247 jufi 4550: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4551: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 4552: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4553: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 4554:
4555: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 4556: <p>
1.96 louis 4557:
1.247 jufi 4558: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4559: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
4560: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
4561: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
4562: </strong></font><br>
4563:
4564: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
4565: <p>
4566:
4567: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4568: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 4569: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 4570: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 4571:
4572: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
4573: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 4574: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 4575: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 4576: <p>
1.247 jufi 4577: </ul>
1.86 louis 4578:
1.69 deraadt 4579: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4580: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4581:
1.247 jufi 4582: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4583: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
4584: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 4585: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 4586:
4587: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
4588: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 4589: <p>
1.61 louis 4590:
1.247 jufi 4591: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4592: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 4593: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
4594: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4595: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 4596:
4597: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 4598: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 4599: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
4600: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 4601: right -- or at least strives to".
4602: <p>
1.48 louis 4603:
1.247 jufi 4604: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4605: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
4606: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4607: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 4608: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
4609: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
4610: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
4611: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 4612: <p>
1.61 louis 4613:
1.247 jufi 4614: <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 4615: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4616: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 4617:
4618: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
4619: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
4620: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
4621: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 4622: <p>
1.46 louis 4623:
1.247 jufi 4624: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4625: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
4626: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4627: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4628:
4629: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
4630: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 4631: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 4632:
1.247 jufi 4633: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 4634: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
4635: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 4636: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 4637:
4638: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
4639: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
4640: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
4641: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 4642: <p>
1.247 jufi 4643: </ul>
1.70 louis 4644:
1.69 deraadt 4645: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4646: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4647:
1.247 jufi 4648: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4649: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
4650: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 4651: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 4652: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 4653:
4654: Kurt Seifried
4655: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4656: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
4657: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 4658: <p>
1.44 philen 4659:
1.247 jufi 4660: <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 4661: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 4662: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 4663:
4664: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 4665: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 4666:
1.247 jufi 4667: <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 4668: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 4669: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 4670:
4671: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 4672: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 4673:
1.247 jufi 4674: <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 4675: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 4676: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 4677:
4678: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
4679: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
4680: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
4681: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 4682: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 4683:
1.247 jufi 4684: <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 4685: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 4686: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 4687:
1.36 louis 4688: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 4689: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 4690:
1.247 jufi 4691: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 4692: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
4693: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 4694: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4695:
4696: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 4697: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 4698: </ul>
1.38 louis 4699:
1.69 deraadt 4700: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4701: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4702:
1.247 jufi 4703: <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 4704: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 4705: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 4706:
4707: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
4708: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 4709: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 4710:
1.113 naddy 4711: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 4712: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 4713: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 4714: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 4715:
4716: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
4717: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 4718: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
4719: terminal:
1.113 naddy 4720: <blockquote>
4721: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
4722: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
4723: <br>
4724: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
4725: </code>
4726: </blockquote>
4727: <p>
4728:
1.247 jufi 4729: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 4730: <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 4731: <p>
4732:
4733: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4734: <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 4735: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 4736:
4737: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
4738: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 4739: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 4740: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 4741:
1.247 jufi 4742: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4743: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
4744: Sept. 28, 1999
4745: </strong></font><br>
4746:
4747: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
4748: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
4749: translating and reprinting articles from
4750: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
4751: <p>
4752:
4753: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 4754: <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 4755: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 4756:
4757: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
4758: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
4759: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
4760: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
4761: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 4762: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 4763: <p>
1.19 louis 4764:
1.113 naddy 4765: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 4766: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 4767: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 4768:
4769: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
4770: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
4771: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 4772: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
4773: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 4774: <p>
1.16 louis 4775:
1.247 jufi 4776: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4777: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 4778: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 4779: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 4780:
1.57 louis 4781: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
4782: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
4783: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 4784: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 4785:
1.247 jufi 4786: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4787: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.466 deraadt 4788: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4789: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4790:
1.113 naddy 4791: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 4792:
1.247 jufi 4793: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4794: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
4795: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4796: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 4797:
1.23 louis 4798: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
4799: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
4800: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
4801: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
4802: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 4803: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 4804:
1.247 jufi 4805: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 4806: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
4807: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4808: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 4809:
1.199 pvalchev 4810: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 4811: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
4812: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
4813: installation.
1.113 naddy 4814: <p>
1.47 louis 4815:
1.247 jufi 4816: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4817: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 4818: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 4819: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4820:
1.301 jose 4821: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
4822: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
4823: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4824: </ul>
1.57 louis 4825:
1.69 deraadt 4826: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4827: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4828:
1.247 jufi 4829: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 4830: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 4831: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 4832: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 4833:
4834: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
4835: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 4836: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4837: <p>
1.12 louis 4838:
1.247 jufi 4839: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 4840: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 4841: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 4842: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 4843:
4844: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
4845: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 4846: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
4847: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
4848: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
4849: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
4850: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 4851: <p>
1.247 jufi 4852: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 4853:
1.69 deraadt 4854: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4855: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 4856:
1.247 jufi 4857: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 4858: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 4859: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 4860:
4861: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
4862: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
4863: available."
1.113 naddy 4864: <p>
1.301 jose 4865:
4866: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4867: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4868: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
4869: </strong></font><br>
4870:
4871: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
4872: <p>
1.247 jufi 4873: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 4874:
1.69 deraadt 4875: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4876: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4877:
1.247 jufi 4878: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 4879: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 4880: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 4881:
4882: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
4883: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
4884: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
4885: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
4886: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 4887: <p>
1.33 louis 4888:
1.247 jufi 4889: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4890: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 4891: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 4892: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4893:
1.113 naddy 4894: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
4895: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 4896: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
4897: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
4898: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 4899: <p>
1.247 jufi 4900: </ul>
1.57 louis 4901:
1.69 deraadt 4902: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4903: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4904:
1.247 jufi 4905: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4906: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 4907: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 4908: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4909:
4910: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
4911: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 4912: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4913:
1.247 jufi 4914: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 4915: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
4916: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
4917: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 4918: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 4919:
4920: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 4921: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 4922:
1.247 jufi 4923: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 4924: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4925:
1.113 naddy 4926: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 4927:
1.247 jufi 4928: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 4929: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
4930: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 4931: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4932:
4933: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 4934: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 4935: </ul>
1.23 louis 4936:
1.69 deraadt 4937: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4938: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4939:
1.247 jufi 4940: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 4941: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 4942: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4943:
4944: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
4945: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 4946: <p>
1.2 deraadt 4947:
1.247 jufi 4948: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4949: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 4950: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4951: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4952:
4953: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
4954: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 4955: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 4956: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4957: </ul>
1.57 louis 4958:
1.69 deraadt 4959: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4960: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4961:
1.247 jufi 4962: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 4963: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
4964: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 4965: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 4966:
4967: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
4968: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
4969: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
4970: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4971: <p>
1.15 louis 4972:
1.247 jufi 4973: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4974: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
4975: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 4976: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 4977:
4978: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
4979: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
4980: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
4981: columns."
1.113 naddy 4982: <p>
1.247 jufi 4983: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 4984:
1.69 deraadt 4985: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4986: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4987:
1.247 jufi 4988: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4989: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 4990: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4991: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4992:
4993: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 4994: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 4995:
1.113 naddy 4996: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4997: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 4998: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4999:
5000: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
5001: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 5002: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 5003: </ul>
1.57 louis 5004:
1.69 deraadt 5005: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5006: <ul>
1.301 jose 5007: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5008: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
5009: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
5010: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
5011:
5012: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
5013: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
5014: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
5015: <p>
5016:
5017: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5018: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
5019: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
5020: Nov 13, 1998 and
5021: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
5022: Datateknik</a>,
5023: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
5024:
1.380 saad 5025: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 5026: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
5027: explains the licensing issues and points to our
5028: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
5029: <p>
1.69 deraadt 5030:
1.113 naddy 5031: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 5032: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 5033: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 5034: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 5035:
1.222 miod 5036: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 5037: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
5038: Implementation, including a brief interview with
5039: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 5040: <p>
1.247 jufi 5041: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5042:
1.69 deraadt 5043: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5044: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5045:
1.247 jufi 5046: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5047: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 5048: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5049:
1.69 deraadt 5050: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
5051: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 5052: <p>
1.247 jufi 5053: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5054:
1.69 deraadt 5055: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5056: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 5057:
1.247 jufi 5058: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 5059: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
5060: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 5061: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5062:
1.383 jcs 5063: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 5064: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 5065: <p>
1.1 deraadt 5066:
1.247 jufi 5067: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 5068: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 5069: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
5070: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 5071: <p>
1.247 jufi 5072: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5073:
1.69 deraadt 5074: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5075: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5076:
1.247 jufi 5077: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5078: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 5079: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
5080: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 5081: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 5082: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 5083:
5084: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
5085: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
5086: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 5087: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 5088: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 5089: <p>
1.247 jufi 5090: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 5091:
5092: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5093: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5094:
1.247 jufi 5095: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5096: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 5097: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 5098:
1.69 deraadt 5099: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
5100: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 5101: <p>
1.112 naddy 5102:
1.247 jufi 5103: </ul>
1.113 naddy 5104: <p>
1.1 deraadt 5105:
1.292 camield 5106: <hr>
1.216 horacio 5107: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 5108: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.486 ! ian 5109: <br><small>$OpenBSD: press.html,v 1.485 2006/02/22 16:28:00 ian Exp $</small>
1.1 deraadt 5110:
5111: </body>
5112: </html>