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1.487 ian 19: <h2>March, 2006</h2>
20: <ul>
21: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
22: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/openbgpd.html">OpenBGPd in OpenBSD</a>
23: Daemon News, March, 2006</strong></font><br>
24: Check out the notes and slides from Henning Brauer's presentation at
25: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0602/">NANOG 36</a>;
26: the text and questions cover everything from how and why OpenBGPd got created,
27: through configuration and tools, to integration with pf and CARP,
28: to technical issues regarding use of IPSEC to provide security for BGP packets.
29: Along the way there's considerable discussion on how the program was
30: designed to provide reliability and security.
31: <p>
32:
1.488 ! deraadt 33: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
! 34: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">Report on Business Television</a>
! 35: March 10, 5:45pm MST</strong></font><br>
! 36: Theo de Raadt was interviewed by Howard Green. It is expected that
! 37: the video will be available at their site soon.
! 38: <p>
! 39:
1.487 ian 40: </ul>
41:
1.485 ian 42: <h2>February, 2006</h2>
43: <ul>
44: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.486 ian 45: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1859">Zero to IPSec in 4 minutes</a>
46: Security Focus, February 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
47: This article, as its lead-in says,
48: "looks at how to get a fully functional IPSec VPN up and running between two fresh OpenBSD
49: installations in about four minutes flat".
50: If you've shied away from setting up an IPSEC VPN because of config file complexity,
51: now is the time to reconsider.
52: Dragos Ruiu shows you how the ipsecctl command (introduced to the world in OpenBSD 3.8)
53: makes it really easy to set up a VPN between consenting OpenBSD machines.
54: He states that he and a colleague were able to get two machines talking over IPSEC
55: in a few minutes, and only changing a few configuration files.
56: He also comments on the relative ease of installing our favorite OS, and hopes
57: that our ipsecctl will be adopted by the other BSDs (hopefully in a compatible way)
58: to make firewall setups easier all around the network.
59: But you don't need to wait for that if you're running OpenBSD 3.8; just follow
60: the steps in the article.
61: <p>
62:
63: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.485 ian 64: <a href="http://www.networkmagazineindia.com/200602/vendorvoice02.shtml">The Worm in the Machine</a>
65: Network Magazine India, February 2006</strong></font><br>
66: Dilip Ranade elaborates on several reasons why software is drearily buggy and endlessly insecure,
67: particularly in comparison with other technologies.
68: Imagines how very bad shape the automotive industry would be in if you had to sign the
69: same disclaimer of (non-)usability that almost every commercial EULA requires of computer users.
70: Ends with "I once dreamt that all the computer users in the world
71: arose in revolt and switched to hardened OpenBSD", though he admits that there's "fat chance" of it
72: happening in real life.
73: <p>
74:
75: </ul>
76:
1.483 ian 77: <h2>December, 2005</h2>
78: <ul>
79: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.484 djm 80: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/375/1">OpenSSH cutting edge</a>
81: SecurityFocus, December 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
82: Federico Biancuzzi interviews OpenSSH developer Damien Miller to discuss
83: features included in the upcoming version 4.3, public key crypto
84: protocols details, timing based attacks and anti-worm measures.
85: <p>
86:
87: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.483 ian 88: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/11/21/175249.shtml?tid=92&tid=78">Creating
89: Secure Wireless Access Points with OpenBSD and OpenVPN</a>
90: NewsForge, December 13, 2005</strong></font><br>
91: A cookbook approach to setting up a wireless interface as a secure Access Point
92: using OpenBSD's hostap, pf, and authpf.
93: Configuration examples are given with basic explanations and links
94: to sites with more information on most topics.
95: <p>
96:
97: </ul>
98:
99:
1.479 grunk 100: <h2>November, 2005</h2>
101: <ul>
102: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.482 ian 103: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20051116145737">OpenBSD
104: Goes to Venice</a>,
105: OpenBSD Journal, November 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
106: "What happens when you put a dozen developers on a little island with their
107: laptops, power, and an internet connection?
108: <br/>
109: During the first week of November some OpenBSD developers met in a
110: little island in Venice's lagoon to hack on the ports system.
111: This was probably the first ports hackathon and was followed by
112: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON</a>, a European conference
113: fully dedicated to OpenBSD..."
114: Great coverage of the OpenBSD Porting Hackathon: people, ports, beer, ...
115: Contains a link to
116: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ven05-pvalchev/mgp00008.html">
117: pval's summary slides</a>.
118: <p>
119:
120: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.481 niallo 121: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1710223">
122: Trying out the new OpenBSD 3.8</a>,
123: NewsForge, November 11, 2005</strong></font><br>
124: This article describes the installation of OpenBSD 3.8 from a Linux user's
125: perspective, noting the simple elegance of the installer.
126: Although the installation process may be hard to get used to at first for
127: the average Linux user, the author tells us that one can learn a lot from
128: it. Furthermore, the article clears up the common misconception that working
129: on an OpenBSD system is very different from working on a Linux system.
130: In particular, the author states that on OpenBSD, <i>"virtually the entire
131: catalog of familiar free and open source software titles is available through
132: the packages and ports system"</i>.
133: <p>
134:
135: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
136: <a href="http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3561526">
137: Return of The BSDs</a>,
138: internetnews.com, November 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
139: This article mentions that with all three major BSD flavors having had
140: a release this fall, BSD is <i>"still very much alive and kicking among
141: all the noise and buzz created by Linux"</i>. The author talks about
142: various new or improved features of 3.8, such as bioctl(8), hostapd(8),
143: network interface aggregation and sasyncd(8), and there are some
144: quotes from Bob Beck.
145: <p>
146:
147: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.479 grunk 148: <a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/051101/152/fvrlx.html">
149: OpenBSD 3.8 improves hardware support</a>,
150: ZDNet UK, November 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.480 ian 151: This article reports on OpenBSD 3.8, which was released on November 1.
152: The author gives an overview of the improvements and new
1.479 grunk 153: features that were made with 3.8, and quotes Theo on RAID management
154: and Linux.<br>
155: The 3.8 release hit the news also in some other places:
156: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1258232">Slashdot</a>
157: and <a href="http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=12482">OSNews</a>
158: also report about it, mostly repeating parts
159: of the release
160: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/ANNOUNCEMENT">ANNOUNCEMENT</a>.
161: <p>
162: </ul>
163:
1.476 ian 164: <h2>October, 2005</h2>
165: <ul>
166:
167: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
168: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1375194866;fp;16;fpid;0">
169: 'Nightmare' drove desperate user to open source</a>,
170: Computerworld, October 24, 2005</strong></font><br>
171: A great tale of how Mark Uemura of PricewaterhouseCoopers Japan
172: was forced to move to OpenBSD because the alternatives were too costly
173: and too unreliable.
174: This quote will rattle some cages:
175: "IT managers who want to deploy an open source solution but are
176: worried about company politics should go ahead and do it without
177: asking," according to Uemura, who was promoted to IT Manager of PWC Japan
178: after saving the company seven IT-samurais' salaries.
179: Further, "In Japan large organizations like Morgan Stanley and the
180: Bank of America have moved all their backend systems to open source,
181: Uemura said, because with open source you can reduce IT operating
182: costs without any commercial lock-in."
183: <p>
184:
1.477 saad 185: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
186: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6270">
187: OpenBSD 3.8: Hackers of the Lost RAID</a>,
188: ONLamp.com, October 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
189: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
190: new features in OpenBSD 3.8 including interface trunking,
191: internationalization support, Inter-Access Point Protocol (IAPP),
192: IPSec SA synchronization daemon, and RAID management. There is also some
193: discussion about future plans.
194: <p>
195:
1.478 grunk 196: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
197: <a href="http://securityfocus.com/columnists/361">
198: OpenBSD's network stack</a>,
199: SecurityFocus, October 12, 2005</strong></font><br>
200: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about OpenBSD's
201: network stack, including protection against ICMP attacks, and propagation
202: of enhancements into other BSDs and into Linux.
203: The interview also features the other protection mechanisms in the network
204: stack, a comparison to the network stack in Linux, and the history and
205: current status of <a href="http://www.openbgpd.org/">OpenBGPD</a>.
206: <p>
207:
1.476 ian 208: </ul>
209:
1.470 saad 210: <h2>September, 2005</h2>
211: <ul>
212:
213: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.474 niallo 214: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/359">
215: Security-related innovation in Unix</a>,
216: SecurityFocus, Sept. 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
217: An article examining the mmap-based malloc() implementation to be
218: included in OpenBSD 3.8. The author states that <i>"it will help OpenBSD
219: users to find bugs in software more easily, which will result in better
220: applications for everyone"</i>. He goes on to say that <i>"the more hurdles
221: that one has to jump through for good security, the less likely people will
222: go through the trouble. OpenBSD allows even the most inexperienced users to
223: take advantage of these technologies without any effort"</i>.
224: <p>
225:
226: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.473 aanriot 227: <a href="http://www.miscmag.com/articles/index.php3?page=2100">
228: [FRENCH] Champ libre : les chantiers OpenBSD</a>
229: Misc, number 21, Sept/Oct, 2005, p. 4-14</strong></font><br>
230: An interesting article about OpenBSD and associated projects. Saad Kadhi
231: and Guillaume Arcas describe useful things you can do with PF and
232: OpenSSH, and give a nice introduction to OpenNTPD and OpenCVS. If the
233: article is focused on the presentation, you can find some interesting
234: technical aspects people are not always acquainted to. A few examples
235: are shown, like a basic CARP setup, or the manner to use multiplexing
236: with OpenSSH and even how to check an OpenSSH server's keys using DNS.
237: <p>
238:
239: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 240: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/news/11306">
241: Big debate over small packets</a>,
242: SecurityFocus, Sept. 7, 2005</strong></font><br>
243: Robert Lemos discusses the ICMP denial-of-service vulnerabilities found
244: by Fernando Gont and fixed in OpenBSD. To date, OpenBSD is the only
245: system that has implemented all of the fixes recommended in the IETF
246: draft.
247: <p>
248:
249: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.471 saad 250: <a href="http://www.pcexpert.fr/">
251: [FRENCH] "Quel est le meilleur système libre pour votre
252: ordinateur ?"</a>,
253: PC Expert, number 156, p. 42-62</strong></font><br>
254: Philippe Roure compares 11 Linux and *BSD operating systems, including
255: OpenBSD 3.7, on different criteria such as security, documentation and
256: usability. OpenBSD earned a 5/5 mark (see pages 60-61) and while a mark
257: isn't necessarily objective, the author seems to grasp the OpenBSD
258: project, its goals, and how good is the operating system. The article
259: includes an interview with Saad Kadhi.
260: <p>
261:
262: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.470 saad 263: <a href="http://www.samag.com/articles/2005/0509/">
264: Monitoring PF Firewalls for Health and Performance</a>,
265: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 9, p. 37</strong></font><br>
266: Ryan Matteson describes several utilities that can be used to monitor the
267: health and performance of a PF firewall. Besides pfctl, the article
268: covers pftop, fwanalog, monitoring logs with tcpdump and graphing
269: performance data with pfstat.
270: <p>
271:
272: </ul>
273:
1.461 grunk 274: <h2>July, 2005</h2>
275: <ul>
276:
277: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.466 deraadt 278: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5382">
279: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part III</a>,
1.467 grunk 280: Kerneltrap, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.466 deraadt 281: Jeremy Andrews writes about the recent Blind ICMP attacks discovered
282: by Fernando Gont, and the fixes done by him and OpenBSD during the
283: 2005 Hackathon.
1.469 ian 284: The article goes into the technical background of the
1.467 grunk 285: attacks, mentioning blind ICMP attacks, "hard" ICMP errors, source
1.469 ian 286: quenching, and path MTU discovery;
287: many helpful RFCs and technical papers are linked from the explanations.
288: This is followed by a recap of the whole ICMP story, involving Gont's
1.467 grunk 289: struggle with other free projects, Cisco lawyers, Microsoft people,
290: and others.<br>
1.469 ian 291: The article concludes that OpenBSD was the first project
1.467 grunk 292: to take Fernando Gont's findings seriously, and also the first group to
293: be really painless to work with.
1.466 deraadt 294: <p>
295:
296: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.464 grunk 297: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/06/security_blame/">
298: Security meltdown: who's to blame?</a>,
1.466 deraadt 299: The Register, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.464 grunk 300: This article talks about various groups that are frequently blamed for
301: poor security:
1.467 grunk 302: individuals, ISPs, companies, crackers, security mailing lists,
1.464 grunk 303: and last but not least: OS vendors!
1.467 grunk 304: In the last paragraph, OpenBSD's style of <i>"dumbed-down, simplified
1.464 grunk 305: and secure systems (with a heavily audited code base)"</i> is described
306: as <i>"one of the smartest approaches to security"</i>.
307: <p>
308:
309: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.461 grunk 310: <a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-7-5/30084.html">
311: Theo de Raadt on Industry and Free Software</a>,
1.466 deraadt 312: The Epoch Times, July 5, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.463 tom 313: In this interview, Theo talks about the inception of the OpenBSD project
314: and its goals, as well as its impact on the commercial IT industry.
1.461 grunk 315: He points out once more that <i>"vendors who incorporate OpenSSH have
316: given us absolutely nothing back - not a cent"</i>.
317: Other topics covered include the OpenBSD team, Theo's role as
318: <i>"benevolent dictator"</i>, and the security process, which he compares
319: to the security efforts led by other free software projects and some
320: commercial vendors.
321: <p>
322:
323: </ul>
324:
1.454 ian 325: <h2>June, 2005</h2>
326: <ul>
1.468 grunk 327:
328: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
329: <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/ns-ttc062205.php">
330: The true cost of computer crime</a>,
331: EurekAlert / <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/">New Scientist Magazine</a>,
332: issue June 25, 2005</strong></font><br>
333: This article looks at computer crime, especially the way upcoming
334: vulnerability reports are dealt with. It also gives a short overview of the
1.469 ian 335: institutions involved in the process (vendors, free projects, CERTs).
1.468 grunk 336: <br>
337: The author mentions the work of Andy Ozment, who researches vulnerability
338: disclosure at the University of Cambridge. Using OpenBSD as a good example
339: of how disclosure and consequent fixing of bugs helps to strengthen security,
340: he refutes the widely spread FUD that disclosing vulnerabilities leads to
341: more harm than good. Ozment's methodology was to examine OpenBSD's CVS logs
1.469 ian 342: and note when fixes were published; his research shows that
1.468 grunk 343: <i>"the number of vulnerabilities decreases as a result of disclosure"</i>.
344: <p>
345:
1.454 ian 346: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.458 niallo 347: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0704/071.html">
348: Free Bird</a>,
349: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
350: <b>(Registration required)</b> A second Forbes article about OpenBSD, more
351: focused on the project itself this time. It contains good description of the
352: history of OpenBSD along with its prime motivations. Mention is made of the
353: DARPA grant and the annual hackathon. Theo's motto "shut up and hack" finally
354: becomes famous in this piece and there are some other very insightful quotes
355: such as "All I care about is making high-quality code. If I had to work at a
356: regular job, it would drive me nuts". This is certainly an astute and perceptive
357: article, well worth reading. Do note that the big picture of Theo's machine
358: room will only be available in the print edition.
359: <p>
1.459 deraadt 360:
1.458 niallo 361: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.456 niallo 362: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html">
363: Is Linux For Losers?</a>,
364: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
365: An interesting article, if somewhat polemic in tone, which raises questions
366: about the quality of Linux code compared to OpenBSD. There is also some short
367: discussion of the OpenBSD development model and focus (push for quality above
368: everything else) including good quotes from Theo. It seems that the need for
369: high quality software is beginning to be recognised by the mainstream.
370: <p>
1.457 deraadt 371:
1.456 niallo 372: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 373: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/06/09/2132233.shtml?tid=152&tid=8&tid=2">
1.455 ian 374: BSD cognoscenti on Linux</a>,
375: NewsForge, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
376: NewsForge talks with Theo de Raadt and NetBSD's Christos Zoulas about the
377: similarities and differences between the Linux kernel and the BSD
378: operating systems. The questions asked were similar to those asked
379: of Linus Torvalds in a <a
1.462 grunk 380: href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/09/2128249&tid=2">previous
1.455 ian 381: interview.</a>
382: <p>
383:
384: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.454 ian 385: <a href="http://www.tuxjournal.net/intervista3-en.html">
386: A good morning with Theo de Raadt</a>,
387: Tux Journal, June 2, 2005</strong></font><br>
388: Brief but wide-ranging interview with Theo in which our leader
389: opines about the good things in 3.7: "The list of new developments
390: is impressive, but in my view not nearly as impressive as the small
391: little details that continue to be fixed during each development
392: cycle." And modestly credits all the developers for the project's
393: continuing success, attributing it to "The passion of the developers,
394: and the wide experience they bring into their development efforts.
395: By amazing coincidence, our users typically have the same needs as we do."
396: Manages to sidestep getting drawn into comparisons with Linux, e.g.,
397: when asked if he likes it/why/why not, deftly replies
398: "I have never used it."
399: <p>
400:
401: </ul>
402:
1.441 deraadt 403: <h2>May, 2005</h2>
404: <ul>
405: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 406: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5190">
407: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part II</a>,
408: Kerneltrap, May 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
409: In the second installment of Kerneltrap's Hackathon 2005 feature, Jeremy
410: Andrews speaks with the pf developers at length about their plans for
411: future enhancements.
412: <p>
413:
414: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.450 deraadt 415: <a href="http://www.ctv.ca">
1.448 deraadt 416: TV coverage: OpenBSD hackathon</a>,
417: CTV/CFCN, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
418: A TV spot done a Canadian national TV station about the Calgary
419: hackathon this year, with 60 developers.<br>
420: North America mirror:
421: <ul>
1.452 marco 422: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.449 jcs 423: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a><br>
424: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a>
1.448 deraadt 425: </ul>
426: European mirror:
427: <ul>
1.452 marco 428: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.448 deraadt 429: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a>
430: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a><br>
431: </ul>
432: <p>
433:
434: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 435: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5186">
436: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part I</a>,
437: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
438: Jeremy Andrews of KernelTrap does a good job of describing what it's like
439: to be at the Hackathon in Part I of KernelTrap's Hackathon feature. Several
440: developers are interviewed in detail about what they are working on.
441: <p>
442:
443: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 444: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5184">
445: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005: Day 6?</a>,
446: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
447: Kjell Wooding describes a typical day at the Hackathon in this entertaining
448: first-hand account.
449: <p>
450:
451: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.447 cloder 452: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/05/20/1426216.shtml?tid=8">
453: Review: OpenBSD 3.7</a>,
454: NewsForge.com, May 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
455: "OpenBSD is not only highly polished and easy to
456: configure because of its documentation, it's also totally free-as-in-rights.
457: With an obsession with security, freedom of source code, and quality of
458: programming technique, OpenBSD 3.7 continues the legacy established by
459: its previous releases," writes Jem Matzan in this nice, small review.
460: <p>
461:
462: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.446 cloder 463: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/05/19/openbsd_3_7.html">
464: OpenBSD 3.7: The Wizard of OS</a>,
465: ONLamp.com, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
466: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
467: new features in OpenBSD 3.7, including new wireless chipsets, new
468: spam-fighting features, zaurus, pf improvements, propolice, and
469: many other things. A good overview of what's new in this release,
470: plus some interesting comments about future direction.
471: <p>
472:
473: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.444 niallo 474: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/software/openbsd-3.7-released.html">
1.445 niallo 475: Next incarnation of OpenBSD released</a>,
1.444 niallo 476: Ping Wales, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
477: "OpenBSD is often unjustly overlooked as a free UNIX-like system in favour of
478: the more-hyped Linux. While it receives a lot less publicity than other
479: operating systems, this is not due to lack of technical merit." says David
480: Chisnall, in what is a clear and concise overview of the new features
481: in 3.7 and indeed the project as a whole.
482: <p>
483:
484: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
485: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5114">
1.445 niallo 486: 2005 Calgary Hackathon, KernelTrap Coverage</a>,
1.444 niallo 487: Kerneltrap, May 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
488: A great article about the annual OpenBSD Hackathon, detailing how the event
489: functions, work done at previous Hackathons and features which may come out
490: of this one. Includes many relevant quotes from developers themselves, and of
491: course information about the legendary Hackathon BBQ!
492: <p>
493:
494: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.442 deraadt 495: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9658/sam0505e/">
496: "Failover Firewalls with OpenBSD and CARP"</a>,
497: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 5, p. 33
1.441 deraadt 498: </strong></font><br>
499: Jason Dixon discusses the history of the CARP and pfsync protocols
500: and demonstrates using them to create redundant stateful firewalls
501: with OpenBSD.
502: </ul>
503:
1.436 henning 504: <h2>April, 2005</h2>
505: <ul>
506: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.440 ian 507: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39195801,00.htm">
508: Security guru wants access to bug databases</a>,
509: ZDNet UK, April 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
510: Ingrid Marson reports on Cambridge professor Ross Anderson's call for analysis of
511: software maintenance records to determine whether open source code is more secure
512: than closed source, as we have long contended.
513: "One of Anderson's research students, Andy Ozment, has already done
514: research using empirical data on bugs found in the open source
515: operating system OpenBSD between 1997 and 2000. This research found
516: that finding and fixing bugs results in a more secure product..."
517: Just as the OpenBSD project has been saying for years.
518: <p>
519: This article can also be found online as
520: <a href="http://uk.builder.com/manage/project/0,39026588,39244080,00.htm">Academic
521: calls for better bug tracking</a> (uk.builder.com).
522: <p>
523:
524: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.439 espie 525: [FRENCH] "PC Expert", number 152, p. 58
526: </strong></font><br>
527: Very short interview of Marc Espie about OpenBSD as a free OS focusing
528: on security, part of a larger dossier «les secrets des hackers».
529: <p>
530:
531: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.436 henning 532: [GERMAN] "Doppelwacht", iX 5/2005, p. 150.
533: </strong></font><br>
534: Stephan Tesch gives an introduction to CARP and using a pair of
535: OpenBSD boxes as Firewalls in High Availibility scenarios. He goes
1.438 martin 536: on explaining CARP and pfsync protocols, and does not forget to cover
1.436 henning 537: the issues we had with IETF.
538: </ul>
539:
1.431 ian 540: <h2>March, 2005</h2>
541: <ul>
542: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.435 reyk 543: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/4818">
544: OpenBSD's "Out of the Box" Wireless Support</a>,
545: Kerneltrap, March 8, 2005</strong></font><br>
546: This article is about the upcoming wireless support in OpenBSD 3.7 and
547: the outcome of the work to open wireless chipsets. Jeremy Andrews
548: talked with Theo de Raadt and the developers Damien Bergamini and Reyk
549: Floeter who did some efforts to implement free and functional drivers.
550: <p>
551:
552: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.431 ian 553: <a href="http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/01/1109546842718.html">
554: OpenBSD to support more wireless chipsets</a>,
555: The Age, March 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
556: "The forthcoming 3.7 release of the OpenBSD operating system has
557: added support for five more wireless chipsets, according to
558: OpenBSD project founder Theo de Raadt...
1.432 ian 559: OpenBSD 3.7 will also have have new drivers for Intel wireless
1.431 ian 560: parts that do not work without the non-redistributable firmware,"
561: namely the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11B
562: and 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11A/B/G wireless network adapters.
563: Mentions OpenBSD's activism in getting vendors to release chip specs.
564: Referring to vendors that still refuse to play ball with open source
565: projects, quotes Damien Miller as saying "Given the number of
566: appliance devices that are built on free OSs, I think that the
567: recalcitrant vendors are missing an important boat."
568:
569: </ul>
570:
1.427 matthieu 571: <h2>February, 2005</h2>
572: <ul>
573:
574: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.428 david 575: <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsaward2004.html">
576: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
577: FSF, February 26, 2005</strong></font><br>
578: The Free Software Foundation awarded Theo de Raadt their "2004 Free Software
579: Award" for his unwavering commitment to free software. Most recently he has
580: been fighting hardware manufacturers for free redistribution of wireless card
581: firmware.
1.434 ian 582: Similar articles can be found online at:
583: <ul>
584: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
585: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=419">
586: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
587: Tectonic.za, March 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
588: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
589: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article4362.phtml">
590: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
591: OSDir, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
592: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
593: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/De-Raadt-gets-free-software-award/2005/02/28/1109546758523.html?oneclick=true">
594: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
595: The Age, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
596: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 597: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/02/27/1413255.shtml?tid=99&tid=7">
1.434 ian 598: Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award</a>,
599: Slashdot, February 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
600: </ul>
1.427 matthieu 601: </ul>
602:
1.426 ian 603: <h2>January, 2005</h2>
604: <ul>
605:
606: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
607: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363731">
608: Systrace in OpenBSD</a>,
609: informit.com, January 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
610: This article talks about our systrace
1.462 grunk 611: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&sektion=1">systrace(1)</a>
1.426 ian 612: mechanism: what it is and why and
613: how to use it, with examples.
614: Another excerpt from the book
615: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
616: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
617: <p>
618:
619: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
620: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363732">
621: Overview of OpenBSD</a>,
622: informit.com, January 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
623: "OpenBSD is one of the most secure and well-designed operating
624: systems available today. It has its roots in countless hours of
625: research and development based on some of the best UNIX flavors of
626: the past, and it boasts all the features of modern operating systems.
627: The OS is widely considered one of the most secure general-purpose
628: operating systems available today and it supports many key parts
629: of the global Internet infrastructure..."
630: This article is a sample chapter from
631: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
632: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
633: <p>
1.443 ian 634:
635: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 636: <a href="http://www.pcplus.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=34628&subsectionid=784">
1.443 ian 637: OpenBSD operating system</a>,
638: PCPlus.co.uk, January, 2005</strong></font><br>
639: Paul Grosse gives a brief tutorial on installing OpenBSD on i386 for people
640: moving in a Windows->Linux direction, encouraging them to go a bit further for security.
641: "While Linux out-scores Windows substantially (or completely) on [security as well as many other
642: issues], it's still possible to use a more secure operating system on the PC... OpenBSD."
643: Gives a brief but understandable walkthrough on the installation process, right up to
644: downloading and installing the third-party packages, and
645: ends with a sidebar on security.
646: <p>
1.426 ian 647: </ul>
648:
1.424 ian 649: <h2>December, 2004</h2>
650: <ul>
651:
652: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.425 ian 653: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/2329229">
654: What are the real vulnerabilities of Linux?</a>
655: NewsForge.com, December 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
656: Several security consultants were asked about "the real vulnerabilities of
657: Linux". Cybersoure CEO Con Symaris seems to get it better than the rest:
658: "One needs to approach security as a prime requirement and motivator,
659: much as the OpenBSD team do," Zymaris said... "The Linux
660: community mindset is different. Linux development is dynamic and
661: races ahead towards more and broader functionality, drawing a
662: multitude of interested parties in to make interesting extensions
663: and adaptations at a rapid rate."
664: <p>
665: "In order to do security the BSD way, however, much more effort
666: needs to be spent auditing code for holes, which is much less sexy,
667: and attracts a different set of coders," Zymaris added.
668: <p>
669:
670: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.424 ian 671: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/281">
672: Closed Source Hardware</a>
673: Security Focus, December 1, 2004</strong></font><br>
674: Symantec Threat Analyst Jason Miller analyzes the potential security threats
675: when hardware vendors won't provide device documentation and
676: instead provide "binary only" driver code for inclusion in open source
677: operating systems.
678: Miller is an open-source fan who says he uses a variety of systems, including
679: OpenBSD on his firewall.
680: Of the recent trend to closed-source binary drivers for open-source
681: systems, he writes:
682: <blockquote>
683: The closed-source component required to support this hardware is
684: completely independent of the associated operating system, and as
685: such, is also independent of the engineering team, security team,
686: auditing process, and quality control procedures normally related
687: to the operating system...
688: <br/>
689: What's possibly even more disturbing is that we're talking about
690: a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest
691: possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a
692: third-party vendor. This code could do anything once loaded, including
693: leaking active WEP keys, gathering usage statistics, sniffing and
694: disclosing traffic, and it could even introduce a subtle backdoor
695: into the operating system itself (much the same as any device driver
696: in a closed source operating system).
697: <br/>
698: [A]lthough some of these scenarios are a
699: little far-fetched, the possibility for them to exist is there...
700: Ultimately it becomes an issue of trust, which is a cornerstone of
701: good security: whom do you trust, and how much do you trust them?
702: </blockquote>
703: <p>And he comments that trust "seems to be a one-way street": vendors
704: demand that you trust them, but they won't trust you to know how
705: their hardware and software operates.
706: This lack of trust is one reason why OpenBSD has recently completed
707: reverse-engineering the
1.462 grunk 708: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4">
1.424 ian 709: Atheros wireless chipset driver</a>
710: that was originally provided as a binary insert.
711: <p>
712: </ul>
713:
1.417 pvalchev 714: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
715: <ul>
1.421 ian 716:
1.417 pvalchev 717: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.422 ian 718: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730775,00.asp">
719: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Widens Its Scope</a>
720: eWEEK, November 22, 2004</strong></font><br>
721: Jason Brooks reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and likes the changes it brings,
722: including the multi-processing support which, he notes,
723: "will be even more important as multicore processors--which occupy space
724: on the road maps of Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others--
725: become more prevalent." Comments favorably on OpenNTPD
726: ("the three-line configuration file we needed to modify ... on OpenBSD was
727: much simpler to deal with than the equivalent configuration file on
728: the Linux systems we've tested").
1.423 ian 729: Overall a favorable review of some of the new stuff in 3.6.
1.422 ian 730: <p>
731: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 otto 732: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
733: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
734: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
735: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
736: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
737: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
738: it claims to do".
739: <p>
740:
741: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 742: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109994542424009&w=2">
1.421 ian 743: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution</a>
744: misc@, November 8, 2004</strong></font><br>
745: Theo recounts the struggle to get Intel to provide redistributable
746: versions of the firmware for their wireless chipsets, and their
1.423 ian 747: ultimate refusal to allow OpenBSD to redistribute the chipsets' firmware.
1.421 ian 748: Includes a caveat about Intel's disingenuous "FAQ", typical of many
749: corporate FAQs that answer questions nobody actually thought
750: to ask, and don't truthfully answer the questions you want hard answers to.
751: At the end Theo names the names (and their emails) that need to be contacted
752: by large numbers of end-users and developers if Intel is to change
753: (yes, this is a hint).
754: Of interest is that this posting to one of our mailing lists was
755: picked up on the
756: <a href="http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1923">Screaming
757: Electron Forum</a> and from there reported on
1.462 grunk 758: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/22/1249249&from=rss">
1.421 ian 759: SlashDot</a>, where it is accompanied by a link to SlashDot's paper
760: on effective advocacy (be firm, but also be polite).
761: <p>
762:
763: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 764: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
765: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
766: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
767: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
768: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
769: questions about the significance and rationale behind
770: the current efforts.
771: <p>
772: </ul>
773:
1.407 henning 774: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
775: <ul>
776: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 777: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
778: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
779: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
780: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
781: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
782: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
783: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
784: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
785: <p>
786:
787: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 788: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
789: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
790: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
791: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
792: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
793: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
794: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
795: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
796: of the important changes in 3.6.
1.462 grunk 797: <p>
1.415 ian 798:
799: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 800: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
1.414 ian 801: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
802: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
803: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
804: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
805: overflow attacks... because
806: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
807: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
808: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
809: and propolice.
810: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
811: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
812: and that's when the science falls apart."
813: <p>
814:
815: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 816: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
817: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
818: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
819: Starts with the question:
820: <blockquote>
821: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
822: <br/>
823: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
824: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
825: <br/>
826: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
827: Should we believe them?"
828: </blockquote>
829: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
830: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
831: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
832: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
833: for your mail, web and other online activities.
834: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
835: <p>
836:
837: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 838: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
839: Simple Simon</a>,
840: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
841: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
842: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
843: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
844: routing/firewall, and more.
845: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
846: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
847: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
848: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
849: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
850: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
851: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
852: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
853: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
854: </blockquote>
855: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
856: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
857: <p>
858:
859: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 860: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
861: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 862: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 863: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 864: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
865: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
866: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 867: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 868: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
869: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
870: in spite of it
871: (registration required, but worth it).
872: <p>
873:
874: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
875: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
876: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
877: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
878: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
879: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
880: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
881: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 882: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 883: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
884: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
885: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
886: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
887: <p>
888:
889: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 890: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
891: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
892: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
893: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
894: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
895: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
896: <blockquote>
897: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
898: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
899: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
900: a lot of analysis.
901: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
902: </blockquote>
903: <p>
904: </ul>
905:
1.400 marco 906: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
907: <ul>
908: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 909: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
910: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
911: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
912: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
913: UNIX-like systems.
914: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
915: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
916: <p>
917: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 918: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
919: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 920: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
921: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
922: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
923: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
924: At one point, the article states:
925: <blockquote>
926: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
927: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
928: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
929: </blockquote>
930: And then quotes Theo as saying:
931: <blockquote>
932: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
933: fewer are reading or auditing code."
934: </blockquote>
935: <p>
936: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
937: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
938: marks its fifth birthday</a>
939: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
940: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
941: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
942: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
943: required).
944: <p>
945: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 946: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
947: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
948: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
949: </strong></font><br>
950: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
951: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
952: <p>
953: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 954: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
955: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 956: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 957: </strong></font><br>
958: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
959: <p>
960: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 961: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
962: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 963: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 964: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 965: 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 966: <p>
967: </ul>
968:
1.396 henning 969: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
970: <ul>
971: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 972: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
973: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
974: Unix Review, July, 2004
975: </strong></font><br>
976: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
977: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
1.462 grunk 978: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
1.418 ian 979: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
980: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
981: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
982: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
983: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
984: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
985: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
986: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
987: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
988: and even spelling/wording errors.
989: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
990: <p>
991: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 992: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 993: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
994: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
995: </strong></font><br>
996: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
997: <p>
998: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 999: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 1000: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
1001: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
1002: </strong></font><br>
1003: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
1004: <p>
1005: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 1006: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
1007: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
1008: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
1009: </strong></font><br>
1010: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
1011: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
1012: <p>
1013: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 1014: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
1015: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
1016: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
1017: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
1018: <p>
1019: </ul>
1020:
1.405 jolan 1021: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
1022: <ul>
1023: <li><font color="#00900"><strong>
1024: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
1.466 deraadt 1025: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 5, 2004</strong></font>
1.405 jolan 1026: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
1027: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
1028: details on how funds are dispersed.
1029: <p>
1030: </ul>
1031:
1.393 david 1032: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
1033: <ul>
1034: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 1035: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
1036: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
1037: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
1038: </strong></font><br>
1039: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
1040: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
1041: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
1042: on inserting large number of SQL records.
1043: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
1044: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
1045: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
1046: <p>
1047:
1048: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 1049: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
1050: Secure by Default</a>,
1051: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
1052: </strong></font><br>
1053: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
1054: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
1055: <p>
1056:
1057: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1058: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
1059: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
1060: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
1061: </strong></font><br>
1062: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
1063: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
1064: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
1065: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
1066: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
1067: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
1068: <p>
1069:
1070: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1071: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
1072: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
1073: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
1074: </strong></font><br>
1075: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
1076: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
1077: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
1078: <p>
1079:
1080: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1081: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
1082: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
1083: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
1084: </strong></font><br>
1085: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
1086: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
1087: <p>
1088: </ul>
1089:
1.388 mcbride 1090: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
1091: <ul>
1.394 jolan 1092:
1093: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1094: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
1095: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
1096: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
1097: </strong></font><br>
1098: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
1099: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
1100: available for sparc64.
1101: <p>
1102:
1.390 beck 1103: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 1104: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
1105: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
1106: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
1107: </strong></font><br>
1108: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
1109: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
1110: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
1111: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
1112: <p>
1113:
1114: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 1115: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
1116: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 1117: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 1118: </strong></font><br>
1119: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
1120: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
1121: it does: CARP provides sharing
1122: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
1123: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
1124: detail to get you started using it.
1125: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
1126: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
1127: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
1128: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
1129: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
1130: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
1131: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 1132: <p>
1.391 ian 1133:
1134: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 1135: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 1136: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
1137: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 1138: </strong></font><br>
1139: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 1140: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 1141: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 1142: <p>
1.388 mcbride 1143:
1144: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1145: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
1146: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 1147: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 1148: </strong></font><br>
1149: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
1150: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
1151: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
1152: unencumbered by patents.
1153: <p>
1154: </ul>
1155:
1.378 henning 1156: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
1157: <ul>
1.384 jose 1158:
1159: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 1160: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
1161: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
1162: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
1163: </strong></font><br>
1164: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
1165: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
1166: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
1167: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
1168: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
1169: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
1170: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
1171: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
1172: in the page tables."
1173: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
1174: <p>
1175:
1176: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1177: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
1178: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
1179: </strong></font><br>
1180: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
1181: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
1182: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
1183: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 1184: <p>
1.384 jose 1185:
1.378 henning 1186: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 1187: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
1188: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 1189: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
1190: </strong></font><br>
1191: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
1192: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
1193: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
1194: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
1195: (quote:
1196: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
1197: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 1198: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 1199: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
1200: the other developers for their work on the system.
1201: <p>
1202:
1203: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1204: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
1205: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
1206: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 1207: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 1208: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
1209: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
1210: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
1211: too.
1212: <p>
1213:
1214: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 1215: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
1216: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 1217: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 1218: OpenBSD source code using
1219: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
1220: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
1221: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
1222: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
1223: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
1224: <p>
1225: </ul>
1226:
1.374 jose 1227: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
1228: <ul>
1229: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 1230: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 1231: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
1232: </strong></font><br>
1233: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
1234: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
1235: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
1236: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
1237: it."
1238: <p>
1239:
1240: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 1241: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
1242: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
1243: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
1244: </strong></font><br/>
1245: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
1246: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
1247: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
1248: <p>
1249: </ul>
1250:
1.369 ian 1251: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
1252: <ul>
1253: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1254: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
1255: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
1256: </strong></font><br/>
1257: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
1258: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
1259: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
1260: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
1261: <p>
1262:
1263: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 1264: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
1265: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
1266: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
1267: </strong></font><br/>
1268: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
1269: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
1270: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
1271: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
1272: form factor.
1273: <p>
1274:
1275: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1276: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
1277: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
1278: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
1279: Features</a>,
1280: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
1281: </strong></font><br/>
1282: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
1283: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
1284: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
1285: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
1286: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
1287: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
1288: <p>
1289: This article can also be found online at:
1290: <ul>
1291: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1292: <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 1293: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
1294: </strong></font>
1295: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
1296: </ul>
1297: <p>
1.392 david 1298:
1.371 jose 1299: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 1300: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
1301: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 1302: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
1303: </strong></font><br/>
1304: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
1305: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
1306: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 1307: <p>
1.371 jose 1308:
1309: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 1310: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 1311: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 1312: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 1313: </strong></font><br/>
1314: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
1315: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
1316: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
1317: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
1318: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
1319: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
1320: and its history with OpenBSD.
1321: </ul>
1322:
1.368 henning 1323: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
1324: <ul>
1325: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 1326: [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 1327: </strong></font><br>
1328: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
1329: </ul>
1330:
1.364 jose 1331: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
1332: <ul>
1333: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 1334: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
1335: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
1336: UNIX Review,
1337: July, 2003.
1338: </strong></font><br>
1339: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
1340: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
1341: who want more information.
1342: <p>
1343:
1344: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 1345: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
1346: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
1347: Government Computer News,
1348: July 22, 2003.
1349: </strong></font><br>
1350: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
1351: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
1352: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
1353: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
1354: <p>
1355:
1356: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1357: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
1358: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
1359: SANS Institute,
1360: July 22, 2003.
1361: </strong></font><br>
1362: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 1363: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 1364: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
1365: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
1366: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
1367: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
1368: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
1369: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
1370: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
1371: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
1372: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
1373: <p>
1374:
1375: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 1376: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
1377: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
1378: OnLamp.com,
1379: July 17, 2003.
1380: </strong></font><br>
1381: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
1382: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
1383: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
1384: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
1385: have been working on.
1386:
1387: </ul>
1388:
1.356 jose 1389: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 1390: <ul>
1391:
1392: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 1393: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
1394: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
1395: UNIX Review,
1396: June, 2003.
1397: </strong></font><br>
1398: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
1399: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
1400: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
1401: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
1402: <p>
1403:
1404: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 1405: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
1406: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
1407: eWeek,
1408: June 23, 2003.
1409: </strong></font><br>
1410: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
1411: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
1412: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
1413: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
1414: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
1415: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
1416: <p>
1417:
1418: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 1419: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
1420: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
1421: Software Development Online,
1422: June, 2003.
1423: </strong></font><br>
1424: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
1425: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
1426: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
1427: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
1428: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
1429: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
1430: current activities.
1431: <p>
1432:
1433: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 1434: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
1435: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 1436: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
1437: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
1438: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
1439: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 1440: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 1441: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
1442: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
1443: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 1444: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 1445: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
1446: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 1447: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 1448: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
1449: decisions.
1450: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
1451: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 1452: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 1453: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 1454: <p>
1455:
1456: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 1457: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
1458: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
1459: Page 58, eWeek,
1460: June 2, 2003.
1461: </strong></font><br>
1462: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
1463: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
1464: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
1465: been addressed in -current.
1466: <p>
1467:
1.356 jose 1468: </ul>
1469:
1470: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
1471: <ul>
1472:
1.355 jose 1473: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 1474: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
1475: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
1476: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
1477: </strong></font><br>
1478: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
1479: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
1480: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
1481: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
1482: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
1483: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
1484: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
1485: <p>
1486:
1487: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 1488: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
1489: Beyond Linux</a>,
1490: InfoWorld,
1491: May 23, 2003.
1492: </strong></font><br>
1493: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
1494: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
1495: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
1496: compared to the GPL.
1497: <p>
1498:
1499: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 1500: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
1501: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
1502: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 1503: May 17, 2003.
1504: </strong></font><br>
1505: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
1506: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
1507: the business section and half of another page inside
1508: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
1509: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
1510: in talking about the project's history and goals.
1511: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
1512: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
1513: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
1514: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 1515: <br>
1516: This article can also be found online at:
1517: <ul>
1518: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1519: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
1520: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
1521: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
1522: May 17, 2003
1523: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 1524: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
1525: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1526: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
1527: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
1528: Montreal Gazette,
1529: May 21, 2003
1530: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 1531: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 1532: <p>
1.346 ian 1533:
1534: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 1535: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 1536: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 1537: May 7, 2003.
1538: </strong></font><br>
1539: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
1540: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
1541: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
1542: <p>
1543:
1544: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 1545: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
1546: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1547: OsOpinion,
1548: May 6, 2003.
1549: </strong></font><br>
1550: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
1551: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
1552: <br>
1553: This article can also be found online at:
1554: <ul>
1555: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1556: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
1557: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1558: NewsFactor Network.
1559: </strong></font>
1560: </ul>
1561: <p>
1562:
1563: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1564: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 1565: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
1566: ITBusiness,
1567: May 2, 2003.
1568: </strong></font><br>
1569: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
1570: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
1571: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
1572: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
1573: <p>
1574:
1575: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 1576: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
1577: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1578: InfoWorld,
1579: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 1580: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 1581: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
1582: <br>
1583: This article can also be found online at:
1584: <ul>
1585: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1586: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
1587: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1588: IDG Singapore.
1589: </strong></font>
1590: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1591: <p>
1592:
1.339 jose 1593: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1594: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
1595: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 1596: ZDNet,
1597: May 1, 2003.
1598: </strong></font><br>
1599: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 1600: someone using parts from previous articles.
1601: <br>
1.341 deraadt 1602: This article can also be found online at:
1603: <ul>
1604: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1605: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
1606: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1607: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 1608: </strong></font>
1609: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1610: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
1611: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1612: CNET News.com.
1613: </strong></font>
1614: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1615: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
1616: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
1617: ZDNet UK.
1618: </strong></font>
1619: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1620: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
1621: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
1622: Help Net Security, Croatia.
1623: </strong></font>
1624: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1625: <p>
1.339 jose 1626:
1.341 deraadt 1627: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1628: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 1629: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
1630: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
1631: May 1, 2003.
1632: </strong></font><br>
1633: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
1634: that have been added
1635: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
1636: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
1637: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 1638: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 1639: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
1640: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
1641: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 1642: <p>
1643:
1644: </ul>
1645:
1.253 ian 1646: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
1647: <ul>
1.255 ian 1648:
1.260 ian 1649: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1650: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 1651: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1652: TechRepublic,
1653: April 28, 2003.
1654: </strong></font><br>
1655: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
1656: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 1657: work.<br>
1658: Can also be found online at:
1659: <ul>
1660: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1661: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
1662: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1663: ZDNet UK.
1664: </strong></font>
1665: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 1666: <p>
1667:
1668: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 1669: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
1670: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
1671: IDG,
1672: April 24, 2003.
1673: </strong></font><br>
1674: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
1675: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
1676: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
1677: Can also be found online at:
1678: <ul>
1679: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1680: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
1681: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 1682: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 1683: </strong></font>
1684: </ul>
1685: <p>
1686:
1687: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1688: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 1689: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 1690: Slate,
1691: April 24, 2003.
1692: </strong></font><br>
1693: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
1694: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
1695: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
1696: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
1697: <p>
1698:
1699: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 1700: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1701: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
1702: April 24, 2003.
1703: </strong></font><br>
1704: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
1705: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
1706: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
1707: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
1708: <p>
1709:
1710: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 1711: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
1712: April 24, 2003.
1713: </strong></font><br>
1714: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
1715: the free software community".
1716: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
1717: other articles.
1718: <p>
1719:
1720: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1721: <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 1722: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
1723: </strong></font><br>
1724: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
1725: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
1726: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
1727: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
1728: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
1729: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
1730: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 1731: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 1732: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
1733: <br/>
1734: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
1735: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
1736: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
1737: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 1738: <br>
1739: Can also be found online at:
1740: <ul>
1741: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1742: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
1743: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
1744: Common Dreams NewsCenter
1745: </strong></font>
1746: </ul>
1.324 ian 1747: <p>
1748:
1749: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1750: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
1751: Wired, April 24, 2003.
1752: </strong></font><br>
1753: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
1754: article above.
1755: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
1756: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
1757: wasting them."
1.332 ian 1758: <br>
1759: Can also be found online at:
1760: <ul>
1761: <li>
1762: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
1763: </strong></font>
1764: </ul>
1.324 ian 1765: <p>
1766:
1767: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 1768: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
1769: </strong></font><br>
1770: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
1771: <p>
1772:
1773: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 1774: <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.
1775: </strong></font><br>
1776: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
1777: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
1778: <p>
1779:
1780: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 1781: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
1782: April 23, 2003.
1783: </strong></font><br>
1784: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
1785: <p>
1786:
1787: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 1788: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 1789: April 22, 2003.
1790: </strong></font><br>
1791: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
1792: <p>
1793:
1794: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 1795: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1796: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1797: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 1798: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 1799: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
1800: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
1801: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
1802: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
1803: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
1804: Can also be found online at:
1805: <ul>
1806: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1807: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 1808: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1809: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 1810: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 1811: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1812: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 1813: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
1814: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 1815: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 1816: </ul>
1817: <p>
1818:
1819: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 1820: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
1821: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 1822: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1823: </strong></font><br>
1824: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 1825: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
1826: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
1827: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
1828: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
1829: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
1830: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 1831: <p>
1832:
1833: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 1834: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
1835: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 1836: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
1837: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 1838: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
1839: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
1840: at UPenn and DARPA.
1841: <p>
1842:
1843: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 1844: [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,
1845: France
1.315 deraadt 1846: April 18, 2003.
1847: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 1848: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 1849: <p>
1850:
1851: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 1852: [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 1853: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1854: </strong></font><br>
1855: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
1856: <p>
1857:
1858: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 1859: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
1860: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
1861: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1862: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 1863: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
1864: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
1865: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
1866: <p>
1867:
1868: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 1869: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
1870: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1871: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 1872: </strong></font><br>
1873: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1874: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
1875: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 1876: American century.
1.267 deraadt 1877: <p>
1878:
1879: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 1880: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
1881: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1882: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 1883: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 1884: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
1885: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
1886: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
1887: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
1888: Can also be found online at:
1889: <ul>
1890: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
1891: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 1892: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 1893: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 1894: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 1895: <p>
1896:
1897: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 1898: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 1899: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1900: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 1901: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 1902: </strong></font><br>
1903: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 1904: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
1905: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
1906: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
1907: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 1908:
1909: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1910: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
1911: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1912: New York Times.
1913: </strong></font>(free registration required)
1914:
1.273 deraadt 1915: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1916: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 1917: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1918: ABC News.
1919: </strong></font>
1920:
1921: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1922: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 1923: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 1924: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 1925: </strong></font>
1926:
1927: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1928: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1929: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 1930: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 1931: </strong></font>
1932:
1933: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 1934: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
1935: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1936: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 1937: </strong></font>
1938:
1939: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1940: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1941: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 1942: Times Daily, AL.
1943: </strong></font>
1944:
1945: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1946: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
1947: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
1948: Boston.com, MA.
1949: </strong></font>
1950:
1951: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1952: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 1953: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 1954: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
1955: </strong></font>
1956:
1957: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 1958: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
1959: [Article was pulled]</a>
1960: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 1961: </strong></font>
1962:
1963: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1964: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
1965: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
1966: Infoshop News.
1967: </strong></font>
1968:
1969: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1970: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
1971: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1972: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
1973: </strong></font>
1974:
1975: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 1976: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
1977: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
1978: Raleigh News, NC.
1979: </strong></font>
1980:
1981: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1982: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 1983: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
1984: Napa News, CA.
1985: </strong></font>
1986:
1987: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1988: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 1989: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1990: NEPA News, PA.
1991: </strong></font>
1992:
1993: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1994: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
1995: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
1996: Wired News.
1997: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 1998: <br>
1999: <li>
1.333 deraadt 2000: <font color="#009000"><strong>
2001: [JAPANESE]
2002: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
2003: Wired News Japan</a>
2004: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 2005:
1.271 deraadt 2006: </ul>
2007: <p>
1.272 deraadt 2008: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
2009: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 2010: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
2011: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
2012: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
2013: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
2014: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
2015: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 2016: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 2017: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
2018: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
2019: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 2020: <p>
2021: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 2022:
2023: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2024: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 2025: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
2026: Indianapolis Star, IN.
2027: </strong></font>
2028:
2029: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 2030: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
2031: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2032: Miami Herald, FL.
2033: </strong></font>
2034:
2035: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 2036: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 2037: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
2038: </strong></font>
2039:
2040: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2041: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 2042: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 2043: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 2044: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 2045:
2046: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2047: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
2048: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
2049: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
2050: ABC News.
2051: </strong></font>
2052:
1.276 deraadt 2053: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2054: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 2055: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 2056: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 2057: </strong></font>
2058:
1.286 dhartmei 2059: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2060: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 2061: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2062: Wilmington Star, NC.
2063: </strong></font>
2064:
1.300 jose 2065: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2066: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
2067: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
2068: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
2069: </strong></font>
2070:
1.309 jose 2071: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2072: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
2073: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
2074: Globe Technology.
2075: </strong></font>
2076:
1.263 deraadt 2077: </ul>
1.262 beck 2078: <p>
2079:
2080: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 2081: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
2082: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2083: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 2084: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 2085: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 2086: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
2087: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
2088: <p>
2089:
2090: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 2091: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
2092: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
2093: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 2094: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 2095: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
2096: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
2097: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
2098: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
2099: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
2100: and simply restates other press reports.
2101: <p>
2102:
2103: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 2104: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
2105: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2106: OS News, April 18, 2003.
2107: </strong></font><br>
2108: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
2109: <p>
2110:
2111: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 2112: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
2113: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2114: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 2115: </strong></font><br>
2116: Another report on the DARPA funding.
2117: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
2118: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
2119: <p>
2120:
2121: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 2122: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
2123: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
2124: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
2125: April 17, 2003.
2126: </strong></font><br>
2127: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
2128: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
2129: Tech Anthems</a>
2130: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
2131: 4 so far.
2132: <p>
2133:
2134: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 2135: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
2136: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2137: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2138: </strong></font><br>
2139: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
2140: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
2141: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
2142: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
2143: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
2144: Goes on to say:
2145: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
2146: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
2147: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
2148: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 2149: This article is also found online at:
2150: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 2151: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2152: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
2153: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
2154: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 2155: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 2156: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2157: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
2158: ZDnet</a>,
2159: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 2160: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 2161: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2162: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
2163: ZDnet Australia</a>,
2164: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 2165: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 2166: </ul>
1.260 ian 2167: <p>
1.279 deraadt 2168:
1.260 ian 2169: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2170: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 2171: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 2172: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2173: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 2174: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 2175: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
2176: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
2177: without notice or justification.
2178: <p>
2179:
2180: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2181: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 2182: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 2183: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2184: </strong></font><br>
2185: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
2186: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 2187: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 2188: effective today, without any warning..."
2189: <p>
1.257 ian 2190:
2191: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 2192: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
2193: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2194: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 2195: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 2196: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
2197: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
2198: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
2199: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
2200: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 2201: <p>
2202:
2203: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 2204: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
2205: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2206: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 2207: </strong></font><br>
2208: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
2209: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
2210: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
2211: quoting two of them:
2212: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
2213: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
2214: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
2215: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
2216: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
2217: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
2218: <p>
2219:
1.255 ian 2220: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2221: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
2222: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 2223: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2224: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 2225: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 2226: <p>
2227:
2228: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 2229: [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 2230: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2231: </strong></font><br>
2232: New security concepts in OpenBSD
2233: <p>
2234:
2235: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 2236: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
2237: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2238: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 2239: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 2240: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 2241: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
2242: security experts for more than three decades."
2243: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
2244: <p>
1.261 ian 2245:
1.254 drahn 2246: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 2247: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 2248: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2249: </strong></font><br>
2250: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
2251: <p>
2252:
2253: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 2254: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
2255: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
2256: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
2257: </strong></font><br>
2258: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
2259: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
2260: discussion OpenBSD's path.
2261: <p>
2262:
2263: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 2264: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
2265: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2266: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 2267: </strong></font><br>
2268: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
2269: from US DARPA.
2270: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
2271: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
2272: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
2273: the BSD license.
2274: <p>
2275: </ul>
2276:
1.251 ian 2277: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
2278: <ul>
2279:
2280: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2281: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
2282: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
2283: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
2284: </strong></font><br>
2285:
2286: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
2287: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
2288: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
2289: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
2290: <p>
2291:
2292: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 2293: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
2294: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 2295: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 2296: </strong></font><br>
2297: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
2298: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
2299: Mentions
2300: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
2301: and
2302: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
2303: programs.
2304: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 2305: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 2306: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
2307: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
2308: <p>
1.325 ian 2309: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
2310: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 2311:
2312: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2313: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
2314: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
2315: </strong></font><br>
2316: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
2317: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
2318: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
2319: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
2320: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
2321: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
2322: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
2323: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
2324: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
2325: put into service."
2326: <p>
2327: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
2328: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
2329: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
2330: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
2331: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
2332: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
2333: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
2334: computers with security features."
2335: <p>
1.329 ian 2336:
2337: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2338: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
2339: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
2340: Slate,
2341: March 3, 2003.
2342: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 2343: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 2344: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
2345: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
2346: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
2347: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
2348: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
2349: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
2350: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
2351: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
2352: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
2353: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
2354: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
2355: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
2356: of more secure open-source solutions like
2357: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
2358: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
2359: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
2360: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
2361: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
2362: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
2363: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
2364: the Beltway."
2365: <p>
1.251 ian 2366: </ul>
2367:
1.249 jufi 2368: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
2369: <ul>
2370: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2371: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
2372: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2373: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 2374: </strong></font><br>
2375: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
2376: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 2377: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 2378: <p>
1.334 ian 2379:
2380: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2381: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
2382: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
2383: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
2384: </strong></font><br>
2385: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
2386: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
2387: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
2388: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
2389: "... the hypothetical question ...
2390: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
2391: <br>
2392: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
2393: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
2394: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
2395: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
2396: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
2397: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 2398: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 2399: support network security.
2400: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
2401: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
2402: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
2403: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
2404: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
2405: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
2406: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
2407: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
2408: <br>
2409: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
2410: <p>
2411:
1.249 jufi 2412: </ul>
2413:
1.246 jufi 2414: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2415: <ul>
1.246 jufi 2416:
1.247 jufi 2417: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2418: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 2419: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2420: CNET News.com, December 4, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2421: </strong></font><br>
2422: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
2423: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
2424: <p>
2425:
1.247 jufi 2426: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2427: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
2428: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2429: Heise News-Ticker, December 4, 2002
1.301 jose 2430: </strong></font><br>
1.460 david 2431: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III CPU
1.301 jose 2432: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
2433: <p>
2434:
2435: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2436: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 2437: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2438: eWeek, December 3, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2439: </strong></font><br>
2440: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
2441: in their annual OpenHack security test.
2442: <p>
1.247 jufi 2443: </ul>
1.246 jufi 2444:
1.244 jufi 2445: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2446: <ul>
1.246 jufi 2447:
1.247 jufi 2448: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2449: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
2450: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
2451: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2452: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2453: </strong></font><br>
2454: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
2455: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
2456: md5 digests.
2457: <p>
2458:
1.247 jufi 2459: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2460: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 2461: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
2462: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2463: </strong></font><br>
2464: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
2465: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
2466: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
2467: right the first time."
2468: <p>
1.247 jufi 2469: </ul>
1.244 jufi 2470:
2471:
2472: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2473: <ul>
1.244 jufi 2474:
1.247 jufi 2475: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2476: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2477: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
2478: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2479: </strong></font><br>
2480: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
2481: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
2482: part 6</a>.
2483: <p>
2484:
1.247 jufi 2485: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2486: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 2487: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
2488: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2489: O'Reilly Network, August 8, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2490: </strong></font><br>
2491: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
2492: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
2493: <p>
1.301 jose 2494:
2495: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2496: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
2497: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
2498: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
2499: </strong></font><br>
2500:
2501: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
2502: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
2503: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
2504: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
2505: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
2506: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
2507: <i>Here's the
2508: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
2509: <p>
1.247 jufi 2510: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2511:
2512: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2513: <ul>
1.242 jufi 2514:
1.247 jufi 2515: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2516: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 2517: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2518: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2519: </strong></font><br>
2520: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
2521: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
2522: <p>
2523:
1.247 jufi 2524: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2525: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2526: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2527: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 1, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2528: </strong></font><br>
2529: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
2530: this time using pf.
2531: <p>
1.247 jufi 2532: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2533:
2534: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2535: <ul>
1.242 jufi 2536:
1.247 jufi 2537: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2538: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2539: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
2540: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2541: </strong></font><br>
2542: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
2543: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
2544: their rotation.
2545: <p>
2546:
1.247 jufi 2547: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2548: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2549: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2550: O'Reilly Network, June 6, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2551: </strong></font><br>
2552: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
2553: <p>
1.247 jufi 2554: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2555:
1.239 jufi 2556: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2557: <ul>
1.239 jufi 2558:
1.247 jufi 2559: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2560: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2561: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
2562: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2563: </strong></font><br>
2564: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
2565: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
2566: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
2567: <p>
2568:
1.247 jufi 2569: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 2570: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2571: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
2572: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 2573: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 2574: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
2575: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
2576: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 2577: <p>
1.247 jufi 2578: </ul>
1.239 jufi 2579:
1.235 lebel 2580: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2581: <ul>
1.235 lebel 2582:
1.239 jufi 2583:
1.247 jufi 2584: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 2585: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 2586: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
2587: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 2588: </strong></font><br>
2589: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
2590: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
2591: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
2592: <p>
1.301 jose 2593:
1.247 jufi 2594: </ul>
1.235 lebel 2595:
1.228 horacio 2596: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2597: <ul>
1.228 horacio 2598:
1.247 jufi 2599: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2600: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2601: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
2602: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 2603: </strong></font><br>
2604: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
2605: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
2606: <p>
2607:
1.247 jufi 2608: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 2609: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 2610: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
2611: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 2612: </strong></font><br>
2613: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
2614: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
2615: <p>
2616:
1.247 jufi 2617: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 2618: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 2619: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
2620: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 2621: </strong></font><br>
2622: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
2623: on the desktop of his parents.
2624: <p>
2625:
1.247 jufi 2626: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 2627: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 2628: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
2629: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 2630: </strong></font><br>
2631: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
2632: using IPFilter.
2633:
2634: <p>
2635:
1.247 jufi 2636: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 2637: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 2638: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
2639: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 2640: </strong></font><br>
2641: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
2642: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
2643: perspectives of the four OS.
2644: <br>
2645: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 2646: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 2647: <p>
2648:
1.247 jufi 2649: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 2650: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
2651: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 2652: software and security</a>,
2653: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 2654: </strong></font><br>
2655:
2656: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
2657: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
2658: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
2659: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
2660: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
2661: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
2662: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
2663: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
2664: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
2665: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
2666: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
2667: security conscious team beyond doubt.
2668: <p>
1.247 jufi 2669: </ul>
1.228 horacio 2670:
1.225 horacio 2671: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2672: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2673:
1.247 jufi 2674: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2675: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
2676: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 2677: Interview</a>,
2678: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 2679: </strong></font><br>
2680:
2681: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
2682: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
2683: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 2684: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 2685: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
2686: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
2687: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
2688: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
2689: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 2690: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 2691: of choice.
2692: <p>
1.247 jufi 2693: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2694:
2695: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2696: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2697:
1.247 jufi 2698: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2699: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 2700: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
2701: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 2702: </strong></font><br>
2703:
2704: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
2705: <p>
2706:
1.247 jufi 2707: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2708: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 2709: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
2710: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 2711: </strong></font><br>
2712:
2713: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
2714: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
2715: <p>
1.247 jufi 2716: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2717:
1.218 horacio 2718: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2719: <ul>
1.218 horacio 2720:
1.247 jufi 2721: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 2722: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 2723: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 2724: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 2725: </strong></font><br>
2726:
2727: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
2728: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
2729: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
2730: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
2731: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
2732: subjects. Worth a read.
2733: <p>
2734:
2735:
1.247 jufi 2736: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 2737: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 2738: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
2739: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 2740: </strong></font><br>
2741:
2742: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
2743: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
2744: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
2745: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
2746: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
2747: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
2748: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
2749: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
2750: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 2751: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 2752: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
2753: on other operating systems.<br>
2754: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
2755: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
2756: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
2757: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
2758: <p>
2759:
1.247 jufi 2760: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2761: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 2762: Operating System 2010</a>,
2763: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 2764: </strong></font><br>
2765:
2766: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
2767: covering the level of software integration into the core
2768: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
2769: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
2770: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
2771: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
2772: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
2773: <p>
2774:
1.247 jufi 2775: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 2776: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2777: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
2778: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 2779: </strong></font><br>
2780:
2781: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
2782: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
2783: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
2784: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
2785: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
2786: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
2787: <p>
1.247 jufi 2788: </ul>
1.221 horacio 2789:
1.210 jufi 2790: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2791: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2792:
1.247 jufi 2793: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2794: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2795: Already a Contender</a>,
2796: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 2797: </strong></font><br>
2798:
2799: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
2800: source software in response to an article which claimed that
2801: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
2802: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
2803: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
2804: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
2805: <p>
2806:
1.247 jufi 2807: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 2808: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 2809: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
2810: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 2811: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2812:
1.224 horacio 2813: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
2814: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
2815: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
2816: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
2817: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
2818: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 2819: <p>
1.247 jufi 2820: </ul>
1.215 horacio 2821:
2822: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2823: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2824:
1.247 jufi 2825: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2826: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
2827: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 2828: Division</a>,
2829: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 2830: </strong></font><br>
2831:
2832: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
2833: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 2834: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 2835: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
2836: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
2837: investment</em>.<br>
2838: The implementation details can be seen on their
2839: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
2840: <p>
2841:
1.247 jufi 2842: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2843: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
2844: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
2845: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
2846: </strong></font><br>
2847:
2848: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
2849: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
2850: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1.475 grunk 2851: laptops and T-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1.301 jose 2852: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
2853: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
2854: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
2855: <p>
2856:
2857: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2858: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2859: Thinking about Security</a>,
2860: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2861: </strong></font><br>
2862:
2863: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
2864: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
2865: security and says that even secured operating systems running
2866: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
2867: to time.<br>
2868: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
2869: system and just the most secure system.
2870: <p>
2871:
1.247 jufi 2872: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2873: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2874: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
2875: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2876: </strong></font><br>
2877:
2878: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
2879: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
2880: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
2881: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
2882: choice:<br>
2883: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
2884: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
2885: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
2886: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
2887: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
2888: network security devices and as such must be well
2889: armored."</em><br>
2890: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
2891: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
2892: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
2893: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
2894: <br>
2895: Bravo!
2896: <p>
1.247 jufi 2897: </ul>
1.210 jufi 2898:
1.207 ian 2899: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2900: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2901:
1.247 jufi 2902: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 2903: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
2904: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
2905: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 2906:
1.207 ian 2907: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
2908: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 2909: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 2910: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
2911: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
2912: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 2913: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 2914: <p>
1.247 jufi 2915: </ul>
1.207 ian 2916:
1.194 jufi 2917: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2918: <ul>
1.194 jufi 2919:
1.247 jufi 2920: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2921: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 2922: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
2923: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 2924: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2925:
1.240 miod 2926: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 2927: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
2928: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
2929: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
2930: <p>
2931:
1.247 jufi 2932: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2933: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
2934: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
2935: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
2936:
2937: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
2938: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
2939: <p>
2940:
2941: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2942: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
2943: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2944: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
2945:
2946: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
2947: <p>
2948:
2949: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2950: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 2951: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
2952: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
2953: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2954:
1.240 miod 2955: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 2956: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 2957: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
2958: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 2959: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 2960: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 2961: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
2962: <br>
1.413 deraadt 2963: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 2964: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
2965: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
2966: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
2967: <p>
2968:
1.247 jufi 2969: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 2970: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
2971: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 2972: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 2973: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2974:
1.194 jufi 2975: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
2976: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
2977: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
2978: <br>
2979: The new
2980: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 2981: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 2982: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
2983: <p>
1.247 jufi 2984: </ul>
1.194 jufi 2985:
1.190 horacio 2986: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2987: <ul>
1.190 horacio 2988:
1.247 jufi 2989: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 2990:
2991: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
2992: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
2993:
1.301 jose 2994:
1.191 jufi 2995: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
2996: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
2997:
2998: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
2999: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
3000:
1.212 horacio 3001: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
3002: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 3003: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
3004:
1.211 horacio 3005: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
3006: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 3007: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
3008:
1.247 jufi 3009: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 3010: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
3011:
1.247 jufi 3012: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 3013: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
3014:
1.212 horacio 3015: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
3016: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 3017: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
3018:
3019: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
3020: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
3021:
3022: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
3023: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
3024:
1.301 jose 3025: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
3026: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
3027:
1.191 jufi 3028: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
3029: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
3030:
3031: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 3032: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 3033:
1.192 jufi 3034: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
3035: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 3036: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 3037:
1.193 deraadt 3038: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
3039: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 3040: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 3041:
1.247 jufi 3042: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 3043: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
3044:
1.247 jufi 3045: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 3046: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
3047: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
3048:
1.213 horacio 3049: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 3050: 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 3051: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
3052:
1.190 horacio 3053: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 3054: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
3055: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
3056: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
3057: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
3058: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
3059: <p>
1.190 horacio 3060:
1.247 jufi 3061: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3062: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
3063: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
3064: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 3065: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3066:
1.195 jufi 3067: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 3068: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
3069: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
3070: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 3071: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
3072: <p>
3073:
1.247 jufi 3074: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3075: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 3076: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
3077: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
3078: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3079:
1.191 jufi 3080: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 3081: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
3082: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
3083: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
3084: <p>
3085:
3086: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3087: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
3088: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3089: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
3090:
3091: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
3092: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 3093: <p>
1.247 jufi 3094: </ul>
1.190 horacio 3095:
1.191 jufi 3096:
1.186 jufi 3097: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3098: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 3099:
1.247 jufi 3100: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 3101: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 3102: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
3103: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 3104: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 3105:
1.188 jufi 3106: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 3107: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 3108: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 3109: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
3110: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 3111: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 3112: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 3113: <p>
3114:
1.301 jose 3115: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3116: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
3117: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3118: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
3119:
3120: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
3121: <p>
1.191 jufi 3122:
1.247 jufi 3123: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 3124: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
3125: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3126: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 5, 2001
1.191 jufi 3127: </strong></font><br>
3128:
3129: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
3130: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
3131: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
3132: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
3133: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
3134: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
3135: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
3136: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
3137: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
3138: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
3139: familiar?
3140: <p>
1.247 jufi 3141: </ul>
1.191 jufi 3142:
1.178 louis 3143: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3144: <ul>
1.178 louis 3145:
1.247 jufi 3146: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 3147: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 3148: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
3149: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 3150: </strong></font><br>
3151:
3152: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
3153: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
3154: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
3155: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
3156: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
3157: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
3158: <p>
3159:
1.247 jufi 3160: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3161: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
3162: Open source under the hood</a>,
3163: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 3164: </strong></font><br>
3165:
3166: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
3167: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
3168: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
3169: <p>
3170:
1.247 jufi 3171: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3172: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
3173: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
3174: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 3175: </strong></font><br>
3176:
3177: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
3178: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
3179: <p>
1.247 jufi 3180: </ul>
1.179 louis 3181:
1.174 louis 3182:
1.175 louis 3183: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3184: <ul>
1.175 louis 3185:
1.247 jufi 3186: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3187: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
3188: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
3189: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 3190: </strong></font><br>
3191:
3192: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
3193: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
3194: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
3195: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
3196: <p>
3197:
1.247 jufi 3198: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3199: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
3200: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
3201: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 3202: </strong></font><br>
3203:
3204: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 3205: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 3206: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
3207: <p>
1.247 jufi 3208: </ul>
1.175 louis 3209:
1.176 louis 3210:
1.172 mickey 3211: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3212: <ul>
1.172 mickey 3213:
1.247 jufi 3214: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3215: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
3216: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 3217: </strong></font><br>
3218:
3219: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
3220: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
3221: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 3222: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 3223: <p>
3224:
1.247 jufi 3225: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 3226: <a
1.269 deraadt 3227: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
3228: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
3229: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 3230: </strong></font><br>
3231:
3232: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
3233: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
3234: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
3235: <p>
3236:
1.247 jufi 3237: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3238: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 3239: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
3240: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 3241: </strong></font><br>
3242:
3243: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
3244: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
3245: <p>
3246:
1.247 jufi 3247: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3248: <a
1.269 deraadt 3249: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
3250: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 3251: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
3252: </strong></font><br>
3253:
3254: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
3255: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
3256: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
3257: our own Theo de Raadt.
3258: <p>
3259:
1.247 jufi 3260: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3261: <a
1.269 deraadt 3262: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
3263: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
3264: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 3265: </strong></font><br>
3266:
3267: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
3268: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
3269: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
3270: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
3271: shut down.]
3272: <p>
3273:
1.247 jufi 3274: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3275: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 3276: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 3277: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
3278: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 3279: </strong></font><br>
3280:
3281: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
3282: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
3283: <p>
1.247 jufi 3284: </ul>
1.172 mickey 3285:
1.161 louis 3286: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3287: <ul>
1.161 louis 3288:
1.247 jufi 3289: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 3290: <a
1.269 deraadt 3291: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
3292: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
3293: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 3294: </strong></font><br>
3295:
3296: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
3297: by John Wolley
3298: <p>
3299:
1.247 jufi 3300: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 3301: <a
1.269 deraadt 3302: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
3303: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
3304: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 3305: </strong></font><br>
3306:
3307: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
3308: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
3309: OpenBSD).
3310: <p>
3311:
1.247 jufi 3312: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 3313: <a
1.247 jufi 3314: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 3315: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
3316: </strong></font><br>
3317:
3318: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
3319: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
3320: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
3321: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
3322: and hindsight.
3323: <p>
3324:
1.247 jufi 3325: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3326: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
3327: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
3328: </strong></font><br>
3329:
3330: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
3331: <p>
3332:
1.247 jufi 3333: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 3334: <a
1.168 provos 3335: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
3336: December 7, 2000
3337: </strong></font><br>
3338:
3339: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
3340: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
3341: us explain.
3342: <p>
3343:
1.247 jufi 3344: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 3345: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
3346: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 3347: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 3348: December 6, 2000
3349: </strong></font><br>
3350:
3351: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
3352: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
3353: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
3354: <p>
3355:
1.247 jufi 3356: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3357: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
3358: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
3359: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
3360: </strong></font><br>
3361:
3362: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
3363: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
3364: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
3365: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
3366: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
3367: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
3368: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
3369: <p>
3370:
3371: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 3372: <a
1.226 horacio 3373: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
3374: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 3375: </strong></font><br>
3376:
3377: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 3378: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 3379: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 3380: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
3381: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
3382: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 3383: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 3384: <p>
1.162 millert 3385:
1.247 jufi 3386: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 3387: <a
1.161 louis 3388: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
3389: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
3390: </strong></font><br>
3391:
3392: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
3393: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
3394: <p>
3395:
1.247 jufi 3396: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3397: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
3398: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
3399: </strong></font><br>
3400:
3401: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
3402: <p>
3403:
3404:
1.247 jufi 3405: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 3406: <a
1.226 horacio 3407: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
3408: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
3409: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 3410: </strong></font><br>
3411:
3412: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
3413: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
3414: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
3415: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
3416: <p>
1.247 jufi 3417: </ul>
1.169 louis 3418:
1.158 louis 3419: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3420: <ul>
1.147 louis 3421:
1.247 jufi 3422: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3423: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
3424: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 3425: </strong></font><br>
3426:
3427: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
3428: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
3429: <p>
3430:
1.247 jufi 3431: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3432: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
3433: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
3434: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 3435: </strong></font><br>
3436: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
3437: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
3438: <p>
3439:
1.247 jufi 3440: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 3441: <a
3442: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
3443: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
3444: </strong></font><br>
3445:
3446: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
3447: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
3448: <p>
3449:
1.247 jufi 3450: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3451: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 3452: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
3453: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 3454:
1.213 horacio 3455: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 3456: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 3457: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
3458: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
3459: <p>
1.215 horacio 3460:
1.247 jufi 3461: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3462: <a
3463: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
3464: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
3465: </strong></font><br>
3466:
3467: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
3468: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
3469: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
3470: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
3471: much of the attitude too).
3472: <p>
1.161 louis 3473:
1.247 jufi 3474: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3475: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3476: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 3477: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3478:
1.157 louis 3479: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
3480: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
3481: <p>
1.247 jufi 3482: </ul>
1.157 louis 3483:
3484: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3485: <ul>
1.157 louis 3486:
1.247 jufi 3487: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3488: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3489: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 3490: </strong></font><br>
3491:
3492: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
3493: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
3494: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
3495: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
3496: <p>
3497:
1.247 jufi 3498: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 3499: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
3500: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
3501: </strong></font><br>
3502:
3503: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
3504: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
3505: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
3506: it because they love coding...
3507: <p>
3508:
1.247 jufi 3509: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 3510: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
3511: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
3512: </strong></font><br>
3513:
3514: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
3515: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
3516: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
3517: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
3518: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
3519: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
3520: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
3521: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
3522: <p>
3523:
1.247 jufi 3524: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3525: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
3526: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
3527: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 3528: </strong></font><br>
3529:
3530: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
3531: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
3532: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
3533: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
3534: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
3535: the pizza.
3536: <p>
3537:
1.247 jufi 3538: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 3539: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
3540: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
3541: </strong></font><br>
3542:
3543: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
3544: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
3545: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
3546: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
3547: problems.
3548: <p>
3549:
1.247 jufi 3550: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 3551: <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 3552: </strong></font><br>
3553:
1.222 miod 3554: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 3555: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
3556: - whether they like it or not.
3557: <p>
3558:
1.247 jufi 3559: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3560: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
3561: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 3562: </strong></font><br>
3563:
3564: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
3565: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
3566: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 3567: <p>
1.148 aaron 3568:
1.247 jufi 3569: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3570: <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 3571: </strong></font><br>
3572:
3573: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
3574: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
3575: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
3576: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
3577: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
3578: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
3579: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
3580: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
3581: <p>
3582:
1.247 jufi 3583: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3584: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
3585: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 3586: </strong></font><br>
3587:
3588: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
3589: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 3590: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 3591: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
3592: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
3593: <p>
1.247 jufi 3594: </ul>
1.147 louis 3595:
1.138 louis 3596: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3597: <ul>
1.138 louis 3598:
1.247 jufi 3599: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3600: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
3601: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
3602: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
3603: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 3604: </strong></font><br>
3605:
1.227 horacio 3606: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 3607: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
3608: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
3609: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
3610: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
3611: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
3612: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
3613: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 3614: <p>
3615:
1.247 jufi 3616: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 3617: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 3618: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 3619: </strong></font><br>
3620:
3621: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
3622: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
3623: groups, and even Linux.
3624: <p>
3625:
1.247 jufi 3626: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3627: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
3628: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 3629: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
3630: </strong></font><br>
3631:
3632: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
3633: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
3634: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
3635: library after installing the OS.
3636: <p>
3637:
1.247 jufi 3638: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3639: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 3640: Sys Admin, September 2000
3641: </strong></font><br>
3642:
3643: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
3644: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
3645: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
3646: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 3647: (<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>,
3648: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
3649: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
3650: <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 3651: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 3652: out of the system.
3653: <p>
3654:
1.247 jufi 3655: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 3656: <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
3657: </strong></font><br>
3658:
3659: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 3660: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 3661: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
3662: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
3663: the IP filtering and address translation.
3664: <p>
1.301 jose 3665:
3666: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3667: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
3668: </strong></font><br>
3669:
3670: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
3671: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
3672: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
3673: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
3674: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
3675: <p>
1.247 jufi 3676: </ul>
1.200 niklas 3677:
1.131 louis 3678: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3679: <ul>
1.131 louis 3680:
1.247 jufi 3681: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3682: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
3683: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
3684: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 3685: </strong></font><br>
3686:
3687: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
3688: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
3689: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
3690: <p>
3691:
1.247 jufi 3692: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 3693: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
3694: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
3695: </strong></font><br>
3696:
3697: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
3698: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
3699: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
3700: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
3701: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
3702: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
3703: note of"</i>.
3704: <p>
3705:
1.247 jufi 3706: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 3707: <a
1.247 jufi 3708: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 3709: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
3710: </strong></font><br>
3711:
3712: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
3713: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
3714: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
3715: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
3716: <p>
3717:
1.247 jufi 3718: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 3719: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 3720: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
3721: </strong></font><br>
3722:
3723: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
3724: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
3725: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
3726: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
3727: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
3728: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
3729: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
3730: <p>
3731:
1.247 jufi 3732: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 3733: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
3734: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
3735: 2000
3736: </strong></font><br>
3737:
3738: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
3739: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
3740: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
3741: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
3742: against current industry practices.
3743: <p>
3744:
1.247 jufi 3745: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 3746: <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
3747: </strong></font><br>
3748:
3749: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
3750: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
3751: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
3752: <p>
3753:
1.247 jufi 3754: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 3755: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
3756: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
3757: </strong></font><br>
3758:
3759: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
3760: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
3761: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
3762: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
3763: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
3764: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
3765: careful code reviews, he concludes.
3766: <p>
3767:
1.247 jufi 3768: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 3769: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
3770: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
3771: </strong></font><br>
3772:
3773: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
3774: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
3775: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
3776: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
3777: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 3778: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
3779: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
3780: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 3781: <p>
1.247 jufi 3782: </ul>
1.131 louis 3783:
1.118 louis 3784: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3785: <ul>
1.118 louis 3786:
1.247 jufi 3787: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 3788: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
3789: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
3790: </strong></font><br>
3791:
3792: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
3793: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
3794: about time. The article mentions that
3795: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
3796: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
3797: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 3798: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 3799: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
3800: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 3801: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 3802: <p>
3803:
1.247 jufi 3804: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3805: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 3806: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3807: </strong></font><br>
3808:
3809: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
3810: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
3811: of OpenSSH.
3812: <p>
3813:
1.247 jufi 3814: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3815: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3816: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3817: </strong></font><br>
3818:
3819: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 3820: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 3821: bridging.
3822: <p>
3823:
1.247 jufi 3824: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3825: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
3826: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 3827: </strong></font><br>
3828:
1.121 deraadt 3829: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
3830: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 3831: <p>
3832:
1.247 jufi 3833: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3834: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
3835: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
3836: </strong></font><br>
3837:
3838: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
3839: <p>
3840:
1.247 jufi 3841: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 3842: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3843: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
3844: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 3845: </strong></font><br>
3846:
1.120 deraadt 3847: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
3848: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 3849: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
3850: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
3851: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
3852: <p>
3853:
1.247 jufi 3854: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 3855: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
3856: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
3857: </strong></font><br>
3858:
1.222 miod 3859: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 3860: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
3861: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
3862: protocols and their quirks.
3863: <p>
3864:
1.247 jufi 3865: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3866: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
3867: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 3868: </strong></font><br>
3869:
3870: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
3871: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
3872: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 3873: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 3874: <p>
3875:
1.247 jufi 3876: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 3877: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
3878: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
3879: </strong></font><br>
3880:
3881: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
3882: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
3883: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
3884: <p>
3885:
1.247 jufi 3886: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 3887: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3888: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
3889: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 3890: </strong></font><br>
3891:
3892: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
3893: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
3894: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
3895: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
3896: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
3897: <p>
1.247 jufi 3898: </ul>
1.118 louis 3899:
1.104 louis 3900: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3901: <ul>
1.104 louis 3902:
1.247 jufi 3903: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 3904: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
3905: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
3906: </strong></font><br>
3907:
3908: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
3909: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
3910: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
3911: be a bit dry.
3912: <p>
3913:
1.247 jufi 3914: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3915: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
3916: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
3917: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
3918: </strong></font><br>
3919: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
3920: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
3921: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
3922: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
3923: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
3924: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
3925: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
3926: <p>
3927:
1.247 jufi 3928: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3929: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
3930: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 3931: 2000
1.128 louis 3932: </strong></font><br>
3933:
3934: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
3935: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
3936: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
3937: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
3938: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 3939: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 3940: <p>
3941:
1.247 jufi 3942: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3943: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
3944: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 3945: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 3946:
3947: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
3948: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
3949: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
3950: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 3951: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
3952: <p>
1.110 louis 3953:
1.247 jufi 3954: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 3955: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
3956: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
3957: </strong></font><br>
3958:
3959: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
3960: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
3961: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
3962: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
3963: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
3964: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
3965: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
3966: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
3967: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
3968: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
3969: <p>
3970:
1.247 jufi 3971: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 3972: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3973: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 3974:
3975: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
3976: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 3977: <p>
1.108 louis 3978:
1.247 jufi 3979: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 3980: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
3981: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 3982: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 3983:
3984: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
3985: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
3986: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 3987: <p>
1.106 louis 3988:
1.247 jufi 3989: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 3990: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
3991: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 3992: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 3993:
3994: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
3995: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
3996: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
3997: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 3998: <p>
1.107 louis 3999:
1.247 jufi 4000: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4001: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
4002: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 4003: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 4004:
4005: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
4006: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 4007: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 4008: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
4009: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 4010: <p>
1.105 louis 4011:
1.247 jufi 4012: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 4013: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 4014: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 4015: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 4016:
1.113 naddy 4017: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
4018: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 4019: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 4020: <p>
1.104 louis 4021:
1.247 jufi 4022: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4023: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
4024: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
4025: </strong></font><br>
4026:
4027: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
4028: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
4029: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
4030: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
4031: <p>
1.301 jose 4032:
4033: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4034: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
4035: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
4036: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
4037:
4038: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
4039: hardware-supported cryptography.
4040: <p>
1.247 jufi 4041: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 4042:
1.85 louis 4043: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4044: <ul>
1.85 louis 4045:
1.247 jufi 4046: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4047: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 4048: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 4049: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 4050:
4051: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
4052: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
4053: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
4054: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
4055: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
4056: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
4057: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 4058: <p>
1.99 louis 4059:
1.247 jufi 4060: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4061: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 4062: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 4063: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 4064:
4065: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
4066: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
4067: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
4068: conditions.
1.113 naddy 4069: <p>
1.100 louis 4070:
1.247 jufi 4071: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4072: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 4073: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 4074: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 4075:
4076: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
4077: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
4078: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
4079: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 4080: <p>
1.95 louis 4081:
1.247 jufi 4082: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4083: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 4084: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 4085: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 4086:
4087: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
4088: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 4089: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 4090: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
4091: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4092: <p>
1.92 louis 4093:
1.247 jufi 4094: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4095: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 4096: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 4097: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 4098:
4099: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
4100: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
4101: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
4102: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
4103: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
4104: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 4105: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 4106: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 4107: <p>
1.91 louis 4108:
1.247 jufi 4109: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4110: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
4111: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 4112: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 4113:
4114: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
4115: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
4116: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
4117: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
4118: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
4119: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
4120: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
4121: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
4122: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 4123: <p>
1.90 louis 4124:
1.247 jufi 4125: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 4126: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
4127: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
4128: </strong></font><br>
4129: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
4130: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
4131: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
4132: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
4133: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
4134: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
4135: <p>
4136:
1.247 jufi 4137: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 4138: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
4139: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 4140: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 4141:
1.113 naddy 4142: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
4143: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 4144: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
4145: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
4146: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
4147: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
4148: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 4149: <p>
1.87 louis 4150:
1.247 jufi 4151: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 4152: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
4153: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 4154: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 4155:
4156: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 4157: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 4158: <p>
1.85 louis 4159:
1.247 jufi 4160: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4161: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
4162: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4163: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
4164:
4165: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
4166: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
4167: <p>
4168:
4169: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 4170: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
4171: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 4172: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 4173:
4174: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 4175: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 4176: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
4177: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 4178: <p>
1.89 louis 4179:
1.247 jufi 4180: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 4181: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
4182: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 4183: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 4184:
4185: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
4186: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
4187: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
4188: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
4189: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 4190: </ul>
1.85 louis 4191:
1.78 deraadt 4192: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4193: <ul>
1.74 louis 4194:
1.247 jufi 4195: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4196: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 4197: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 4198: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 4199: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 4200:
4201: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
4202: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
4203: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4204: <p>
1.83 louis 4205:
1.247 jufi 4206: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 4207: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
4208: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 4209: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 4210:
4211: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
4212: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 4213: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 4214: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
4215: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 4216: <p>
1.93 louis 4217:
1.247 jufi 4218: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4219: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
4220: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
4221: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 4222: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 4223:
1.83 louis 4224: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
4225: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
4226: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
4227: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
4228: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 4229: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
4230: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
4231: <p>
1.82 aaron 4232:
1.247 jufi 4233: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4234: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 4235: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 4236: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 4237:
1.83 louis 4238: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
4239: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
4240: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 4241: <p>
1.80 louis 4242:
1.247 jufi 4243: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4244: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 4245: Bad Press</a>,
4246: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 4247: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 4248:
4249: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 4250: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 4251: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
4252: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
4253: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 4254: <p>
1.247 jufi 4255: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 4256:
4257: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4258: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 4259:
1.247 jufi 4260: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4261: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
4262: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 4263: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 4264: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 4265:
4266: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
4267: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
4268: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
4269: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 4270: <p>
1.74 louis 4271:
1.247 jufi 4272: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 4273: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
4274: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 4275: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 4276:
1.219 horacio 4277: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
4278: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
4279: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
4280: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
4281: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
4282: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
4283: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 4284: <p>
1.88 louis 4285:
1.247 jufi 4286: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 4287: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 4288: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 4289: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 4290:
4291: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
4292: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
4293: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
4294: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 4295: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 4296: <p>
1.81 louis 4297:
1.247 jufi 4298: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4299: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 4300: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 4301: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 4302:
4303: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
4304: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
4305: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
4306: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
4307: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
4308: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
4309: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 4310: <p>
1.90 louis 4311:
1.247 jufi 4312: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4313: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 4314: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 4315: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 4316:
4317: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
4318: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
4319: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 4320: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 4321: <p>
1.247 jufi 4322: </ul>
1.71 louis 4323:
1.69 deraadt 4324: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4325: <ul>
1.70 louis 4326:
1.247 jufi 4327: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4328: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
4329: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 4330: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 4331:
4332: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
4333: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
4334: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 4335: <p>
1.70 louis 4336:
1.247 jufi 4337: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4338: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
4339: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 4340: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 4341:
4342: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 4343: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 4344: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 4345: <p>
1.68 louis 4346:
1.247 jufi 4347: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4348: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
4349: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 4350: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 4351: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 4352:
1.111 jufi 4353: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
4354: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 4355: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 4356: "secure by default" installation.
4357: <p>
1.64 louis 4358:
1.247 jufi 4359: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 4360: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 4361: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 4362: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 4363:
1.113 naddy 4364: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 4365: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 4366: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 4367: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
4368: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
4369: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 4370: <p>
1.66 louis 4371:
1.247 jufi 4372: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4373: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 4374: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4375: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 4376:
4377: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 4378: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 4379: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
4380: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
4381: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 4382: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
4383: <p>
1.83 louis 4384:
1.247 jufi 4385: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4386: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 4387: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4388: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 4389:
4390: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 4391: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
4392: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 4393: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
4394: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 4395: <p>
1.64 louis 4396:
1.247 jufi 4397: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4398: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 4399: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4400: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 4401:
4402: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
4403: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 4404: <p>
1.301 jose 4405:
4406: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4407: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
4408: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
4409: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
4410: </strong></font><br>
4411:
4412: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
4413: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
4414: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
4415: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
4416: Giving way to
4417: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
4418: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
4419: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
4420: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
4421: <p>
1.247 jufi 4422: </ul>
1.65 louis 4423:
1.69 deraadt 4424: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4425: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4426:
1.247 jufi 4427: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4428: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 4429: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 4430: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 4431:
4432: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
4433: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
4434: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
4435: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 4436: <p>
1.88 louis 4437:
1.247 jufi 4438: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4439: <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 4440: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 4441:
4442: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 4443: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
4444: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 4445: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
4446: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 4447: <p>
1.60 louis 4448:
1.247 jufi 4449: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 4450: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 4451: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 4452: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 4453: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4454:
4455: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
4456: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
4457: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 4458: <p>
1.58 louis 4459:
1.247 jufi 4460: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 4461: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 4462: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 4463:
4464: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
4465: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 4466: <p>
1.53 louis 4467:
1.247 jufi 4468: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 4469: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
4470: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 4471: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 4472:
4473: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
4474: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
4475: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 4476: <p>
1.99 louis 4477:
1.247 jufi 4478: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 4479: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 4480: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4481:
4482: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
4483: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 4484: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 4485: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 4486: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 4487:
1.247 jufi 4488: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4489: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
4490: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 4491: </strong></font><br>
4492:
4493: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
4494: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
4495: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
4496: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
4497: <p>
4498:
1.247 jufi 4499: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4500: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 4501: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 4502: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4503:
4504: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
4505: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 4506: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 4507:
1.247 jufi 4508: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 4509: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 4510: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 4511:
4512: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 4513: in
1.247 jufi 4514: <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 4515: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 4516: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 4517: <p>
1.53 louis 4518:
1.247 jufi 4519: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4520: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 4521: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
4522: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 4523: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 4524:
1.58 louis 4525: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4526: <p>
1.301 jose 4527:
4528: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4529: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
4530: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
4531: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
4532: Informacyjny, January 2000
4533: </strong></font><br>
4534:
4535: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
4536: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
4537: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
4538: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
4539: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
4540: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
4541: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
4542: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
4543: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
4544: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 4545: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
4546: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 4547: <p>
4548:
4549: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4550: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4551: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
4552: </strong></font><br>
4553:
4554: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
4555: <p>
4556: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 4557:
1.69 deraadt 4558: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4559: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4560:
1.247 jufi 4561: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4562: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
4563: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
4564: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 4565: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4566:
1.58 louis 4567: Kurt Seifried
4568: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4569: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
4570: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 4571: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 4572:
1.247 jufi 4573: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4574: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 4575: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4576: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 4577:
4578: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 4579: <p>
1.96 louis 4580:
1.247 jufi 4581: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4582: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
4583: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
4584: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
4585: </strong></font><br>
4586:
4587: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
4588: <p>
4589:
4590: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4591: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 4592: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 4593: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 4594:
4595: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
4596: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 4597: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 4598: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 4599: <p>
1.247 jufi 4600: </ul>
1.86 louis 4601:
1.69 deraadt 4602: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4603: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4604:
1.247 jufi 4605: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4606: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
4607: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 4608: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 4609:
4610: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
4611: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 4612: <p>
1.61 louis 4613:
1.247 jufi 4614: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4615: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 4616: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
4617: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4618: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 4619:
4620: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 4621: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 4622: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
4623: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 4624: right -- or at least strives to".
4625: <p>
1.48 louis 4626:
1.247 jufi 4627: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4628: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
4629: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4630: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 4631: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
4632: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
4633: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
4634: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 4635: <p>
1.61 louis 4636:
1.247 jufi 4637: <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 4638: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4639: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 4640:
4641: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
4642: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
4643: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
4644: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 4645: <p>
1.46 louis 4646:
1.247 jufi 4647: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4648: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
4649: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4650: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4651:
4652: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
4653: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 4654: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 4655:
1.247 jufi 4656: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 4657: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
4658: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 4659: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 4660:
4661: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
4662: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
4663: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
4664: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 4665: <p>
1.247 jufi 4666: </ul>
1.70 louis 4667:
1.69 deraadt 4668: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4669: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4670:
1.247 jufi 4671: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4672: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
4673: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 4674: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 4675: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 4676:
4677: Kurt Seifried
4678: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4679: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
4680: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 4681: <p>
1.44 philen 4682:
1.247 jufi 4683: <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 4684: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 4685: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 4686:
4687: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 4688: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 4689:
1.247 jufi 4690: <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 4691: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 4692: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 4693:
4694: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 4695: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 4696:
1.247 jufi 4697: <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 4698: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 4699: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 4700:
4701: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
4702: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
4703: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
4704: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 4705: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 4706:
1.247 jufi 4707: <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 4708: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 4709: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 4710:
1.36 louis 4711: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 4712: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 4713:
1.247 jufi 4714: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 4715: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
4716: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 4717: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4718:
4719: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 4720: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 4721: </ul>
1.38 louis 4722:
1.69 deraadt 4723: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4724: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4725:
1.247 jufi 4726: <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 4727: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 4728: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 4729:
4730: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
4731: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 4732: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 4733:
1.113 naddy 4734: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 4735: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 4736: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 4737: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 4738:
4739: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
4740: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 4741: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
4742: terminal:
1.113 naddy 4743: <blockquote>
4744: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
4745: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
4746: <br>
4747: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
4748: </code>
4749: </blockquote>
4750: <p>
4751:
1.247 jufi 4752: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 4753: <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 4754: <p>
4755:
4756: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4757: <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 4758: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 4759:
4760: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
4761: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 4762: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 4763: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 4764:
1.247 jufi 4765: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4766: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
4767: Sept. 28, 1999
4768: </strong></font><br>
4769:
4770: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
4771: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
4772: translating and reprinting articles from
4773: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
4774: <p>
4775:
4776: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 4777: <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 4778: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 4779:
4780: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
4781: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
4782: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
4783: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
4784: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 4785: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 4786: <p>
1.19 louis 4787:
1.113 naddy 4788: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 4789: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 4790: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 4791:
4792: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
4793: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
4794: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 4795: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
4796: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 4797: <p>
1.16 louis 4798:
1.247 jufi 4799: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4800: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 4801: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 4802: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 4803:
1.57 louis 4804: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
4805: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
4806: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 4807: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 4808:
1.247 jufi 4809: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4810: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.466 deraadt 4811: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4812: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4813:
1.113 naddy 4814: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 4815:
1.247 jufi 4816: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4817: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
4818: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4819: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 4820:
1.23 louis 4821: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
4822: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
4823: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
4824: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
4825: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 4826: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 4827:
1.247 jufi 4828: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 4829: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
4830: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4831: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 4832:
1.199 pvalchev 4833: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 4834: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
4835: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
4836: installation.
1.113 naddy 4837: <p>
1.47 louis 4838:
1.247 jufi 4839: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4840: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 4841: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 4842: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4843:
1.301 jose 4844: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
4845: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
4846: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4847: </ul>
1.57 louis 4848:
1.69 deraadt 4849: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4850: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4851:
1.247 jufi 4852: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 4853: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 4854: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 4855: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 4856:
4857: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
4858: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 4859: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4860: <p>
1.12 louis 4861:
1.247 jufi 4862: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 4863: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 4864: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 4865: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 4866:
4867: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
4868: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 4869: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
4870: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
4871: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
4872: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
4873: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 4874: <p>
1.247 jufi 4875: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 4876:
1.69 deraadt 4877: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4878: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 4879:
1.247 jufi 4880: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 4881: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 4882: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 4883:
4884: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
4885: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
4886: available."
1.113 naddy 4887: <p>
1.301 jose 4888:
4889: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4890: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4891: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
4892: </strong></font><br>
4893:
4894: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
4895: <p>
1.247 jufi 4896: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 4897:
1.69 deraadt 4898: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4899: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4900:
1.247 jufi 4901: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 4902: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 4903: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 4904:
4905: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
4906: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
4907: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
4908: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
4909: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 4910: <p>
1.33 louis 4911:
1.247 jufi 4912: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4913: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 4914: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 4915: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4916:
1.113 naddy 4917: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
4918: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 4919: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
4920: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
4921: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 4922: <p>
1.247 jufi 4923: </ul>
1.57 louis 4924:
1.69 deraadt 4925: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4926: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4927:
1.247 jufi 4928: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4929: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 4930: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 4931: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4932:
4933: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
4934: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 4935: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4936:
1.247 jufi 4937: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 4938: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
4939: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
4940: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 4941: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 4942:
4943: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 4944: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 4945:
1.247 jufi 4946: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 4947: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4948:
1.113 naddy 4949: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 4950:
1.247 jufi 4951: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 4952: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
4953: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 4954: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4955:
4956: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 4957: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 4958: </ul>
1.23 louis 4959:
1.69 deraadt 4960: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4961: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4962:
1.247 jufi 4963: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 4964: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 4965: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4966:
4967: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
4968: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 4969: <p>
1.2 deraadt 4970:
1.247 jufi 4971: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4972: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 4973: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4974: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4975:
4976: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
4977: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 4978: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 4979: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4980: </ul>
1.57 louis 4981:
1.69 deraadt 4982: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4983: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4984:
1.247 jufi 4985: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 4986: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
4987: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 4988: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 4989:
4990: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
4991: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
4992: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
4993: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4994: <p>
1.15 louis 4995:
1.247 jufi 4996: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 4997: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
4998: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 4999: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5000:
5001: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
5002: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
5003: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
5004: columns."
1.113 naddy 5005: <p>
1.247 jufi 5006: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5007:
1.69 deraadt 5008: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5009: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5010:
1.247 jufi 5011: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5012: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 5013: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 5014: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5015:
5016: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 5017: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 5018:
1.113 naddy 5019: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5020: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 5021: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5022:
5023: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
5024: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 5025: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 5026: </ul>
1.57 louis 5027:
1.69 deraadt 5028: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5029: <ul>
1.301 jose 5030: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5031: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
5032: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
5033: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
5034:
5035: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
5036: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
5037: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
5038: <p>
5039:
5040: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5041: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
5042: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
5043: Nov 13, 1998 and
5044: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
5045: Datateknik</a>,
5046: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
5047:
1.380 saad 5048: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 5049: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
5050: explains the licensing issues and points to our
5051: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
5052: <p>
1.69 deraadt 5053:
1.113 naddy 5054: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 5055: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 5056: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 5057: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 5058:
1.222 miod 5059: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 5060: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
5061: Implementation, including a brief interview with
5062: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 5063: <p>
1.247 jufi 5064: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5065:
1.69 deraadt 5066: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5067: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5068:
1.247 jufi 5069: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5070: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 5071: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5072:
1.69 deraadt 5073: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
5074: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 5075: <p>
1.247 jufi 5076: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5077:
1.69 deraadt 5078: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5079: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 5080:
1.247 jufi 5081: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 5082: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
5083: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 5084: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5085:
1.383 jcs 5086: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 5087: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 5088: <p>
1.1 deraadt 5089:
1.247 jufi 5090: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 5091: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 5092: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
5093: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 5094: <p>
1.247 jufi 5095: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5096:
1.69 deraadt 5097: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5098: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5099:
1.247 jufi 5100: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5101: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 5102: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
5103: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 5104: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 5105: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 5106:
5107: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
5108: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
5109: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 5110: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 5111: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 5112: <p>
1.247 jufi 5113: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 5114:
5115: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5116: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5117:
1.247 jufi 5118: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5119: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 5120: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 5121:
1.69 deraadt 5122: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
5123: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 5124: <p>
1.112 naddy 5125:
1.247 jufi 5126: </ul>
1.113 naddy 5127: <p>
1.1 deraadt 5128:
1.292 camield 5129: <hr>
1.216 horacio 5130: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 5131: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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