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1.1 deraadt 18:
1.487 ian 19: <h2>March, 2006</h2>
20: <ul>
21: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.489 deraadt 22: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">Report on Business Television</a>
23: March 10, 5:45pm MST</strong></font><br>
1.490 ! deraadt 24: Theo de Raadt was interviewed by Howard Green on <b>The Business Show</b>:<br>
! 25: <!-- North America mirror:
! 26: <a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB avi file</a>
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! 28: European mirror:
! 29: <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/20060310/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB AVI file</a>
! 30: <br>
! 31: A longer segment is also available at <a href="http://www.robtv.ca">www.robtv.ca</a>.
1.489 deraadt 32: <p>
33:
34: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.487 ian 35: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/openbgpd.html">OpenBGPd in OpenBSD</a>
36: Daemon News, March, 2006</strong></font><br>
37: Check out the notes and slides from Henning Brauer's presentation at
38: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0602/">NANOG 36</a>;
39: the text and questions cover everything from how and why OpenBGPd got created,
40: through configuration and tools, to integration with pf and CARP,
41: to technical issues regarding use of IPSEC to provide security for BGP packets.
42: Along the way there's considerable discussion on how the program was
43: designed to provide reliability and security.
44: <p>
45:
46: </ul>
47:
1.485 ian 48: <h2>February, 2006</h2>
49: <ul>
50: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.486 ian 51: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1859">Zero to IPSec in 4 minutes</a>
52: Security Focus, February 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
53: This article, as its lead-in says,
54: "looks at how to get a fully functional IPSec VPN up and running between two fresh OpenBSD
55: installations in about four minutes flat".
56: If you've shied away from setting up an IPSEC VPN because of config file complexity,
57: now is the time to reconsider.
58: Dragos Ruiu shows you how the ipsecctl command (introduced to the world in OpenBSD 3.8)
59: makes it really easy to set up a VPN between consenting OpenBSD machines.
60: He states that he and a colleague were able to get two machines talking over IPSEC
61: in a few minutes, and only changing a few configuration files.
62: He also comments on the relative ease of installing our favorite OS, and hopes
63: that our ipsecctl will be adopted by the other BSDs (hopefully in a compatible way)
64: to make firewall setups easier all around the network.
65: But you don't need to wait for that if you're running OpenBSD 3.8; just follow
66: the steps in the article.
67: <p>
68:
69: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.485 ian 70: <a href="http://www.networkmagazineindia.com/200602/vendorvoice02.shtml">The Worm in the Machine</a>
71: Network Magazine India, February 2006</strong></font><br>
72: Dilip Ranade elaborates on several reasons why software is drearily buggy and endlessly insecure,
73: particularly in comparison with other technologies.
74: Imagines how very bad shape the automotive industry would be in if you had to sign the
75: same disclaimer of (non-)usability that almost every commercial EULA requires of computer users.
76: Ends with "I once dreamt that all the computer users in the world
77: arose in revolt and switched to hardened OpenBSD", though he admits that there's "fat chance" of it
78: happening in real life.
79: <p>
80:
81: </ul>
82:
1.483 ian 83: <h2>December, 2005</h2>
84: <ul>
85: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.484 djm 86: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/375/1">OpenSSH cutting edge</a>
87: SecurityFocus, December 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
88: Federico Biancuzzi interviews OpenSSH developer Damien Miller to discuss
89: features included in the upcoming version 4.3, public key crypto
90: protocols details, timing based attacks and anti-worm measures.
91: <p>
92:
93: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.483 ian 94: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/11/21/175249.shtml?tid=92&tid=78">Creating
95: Secure Wireless Access Points with OpenBSD and OpenVPN</a>
96: NewsForge, December 13, 2005</strong></font><br>
97: A cookbook approach to setting up a wireless interface as a secure Access Point
98: using OpenBSD's hostap, pf, and authpf.
99: Configuration examples are given with basic explanations and links
100: to sites with more information on most topics.
101: <p>
102:
103: </ul>
104:
105:
1.479 grunk 106: <h2>November, 2005</h2>
107: <ul>
108: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.482 ian 109: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20051116145737">OpenBSD
110: Goes to Venice</a>,
111: OpenBSD Journal, November 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
112: "What happens when you put a dozen developers on a little island with their
113: laptops, power, and an internet connection?
114: <br/>
115: During the first week of November some OpenBSD developers met in a
116: little island in Venice's lagoon to hack on the ports system.
117: This was probably the first ports hackathon and was followed by
118: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON</a>, a European conference
119: fully dedicated to OpenBSD..."
120: Great coverage of the OpenBSD Porting Hackathon: people, ports, beer, ...
121: Contains a link to
122: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ven05-pvalchev/mgp00008.html">
123: pval's summary slides</a>.
124: <p>
125:
126: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.481 niallo 127: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1710223">
128: Trying out the new OpenBSD 3.8</a>,
129: NewsForge, November 11, 2005</strong></font><br>
130: This article describes the installation of OpenBSD 3.8 from a Linux user's
131: perspective, noting the simple elegance of the installer.
132: Although the installation process may be hard to get used to at first for
133: the average Linux user, the author tells us that one can learn a lot from
134: it. Furthermore, the article clears up the common misconception that working
135: on an OpenBSD system is very different from working on a Linux system.
136: In particular, the author states that on OpenBSD, <i>"virtually the entire
137: catalog of familiar free and open source software titles is available through
138: the packages and ports system"</i>.
139: <p>
140:
141: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
142: <a href="http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3561526">
143: Return of The BSDs</a>,
144: internetnews.com, November 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
145: This article mentions that with all three major BSD flavors having had
146: a release this fall, BSD is <i>"still very much alive and kicking among
147: all the noise and buzz created by Linux"</i>. The author talks about
148: various new or improved features of 3.8, such as bioctl(8), hostapd(8),
149: network interface aggregation and sasyncd(8), and there are some
150: quotes from Bob Beck.
151: <p>
152:
153: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.479 grunk 154: <a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/051101/152/fvrlx.html">
155: OpenBSD 3.8 improves hardware support</a>,
156: ZDNet UK, November 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.480 ian 157: This article reports on OpenBSD 3.8, which was released on November 1.
158: The author gives an overview of the improvements and new
1.479 grunk 159: features that were made with 3.8, and quotes Theo on RAID management
160: and Linux.<br>
161: The 3.8 release hit the news also in some other places:
162: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1258232">Slashdot</a>
163: and <a href="http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=12482">OSNews</a>
164: also report about it, mostly repeating parts
165: of the release
166: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/ANNOUNCEMENT">ANNOUNCEMENT</a>.
167: <p>
168: </ul>
169:
1.476 ian 170: <h2>October, 2005</h2>
171: <ul>
172:
173: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
174: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1375194866;fp;16;fpid;0">
175: 'Nightmare' drove desperate user to open source</a>,
176: Computerworld, October 24, 2005</strong></font><br>
177: A great tale of how Mark Uemura of PricewaterhouseCoopers Japan
178: was forced to move to OpenBSD because the alternatives were too costly
179: and too unreliable.
180: This quote will rattle some cages:
181: "IT managers who want to deploy an open source solution but are
182: worried about company politics should go ahead and do it without
183: asking," according to Uemura, who was promoted to IT Manager of PWC Japan
184: after saving the company seven IT-samurais' salaries.
185: Further, "In Japan large organizations like Morgan Stanley and the
186: Bank of America have moved all their backend systems to open source,
187: Uemura said, because with open source you can reduce IT operating
188: costs without any commercial lock-in."
189: <p>
190:
1.477 saad 191: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
192: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6270">
193: OpenBSD 3.8: Hackers of the Lost RAID</a>,
194: ONLamp.com, October 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
195: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
196: new features in OpenBSD 3.8 including interface trunking,
197: internationalization support, Inter-Access Point Protocol (IAPP),
198: IPSec SA synchronization daemon, and RAID management. There is also some
199: discussion about future plans.
200: <p>
201:
1.478 grunk 202: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
203: <a href="http://securityfocus.com/columnists/361">
204: OpenBSD's network stack</a>,
205: SecurityFocus, October 12, 2005</strong></font><br>
206: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about OpenBSD's
207: network stack, including protection against ICMP attacks, and propagation
208: of enhancements into other BSDs and into Linux.
209: The interview also features the other protection mechanisms in the network
210: stack, a comparison to the network stack in Linux, and the history and
211: current status of <a href="http://www.openbgpd.org/">OpenBGPD</a>.
212: <p>
213:
1.476 ian 214: </ul>
215:
1.470 saad 216: <h2>September, 2005</h2>
217: <ul>
218:
219: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.474 niallo 220: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/359">
221: Security-related innovation in Unix</a>,
222: SecurityFocus, Sept. 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
223: An article examining the mmap-based malloc() implementation to be
224: included in OpenBSD 3.8. The author states that <i>"it will help OpenBSD
225: users to find bugs in software more easily, which will result in better
226: applications for everyone"</i>. He goes on to say that <i>"the more hurdles
227: that one has to jump through for good security, the less likely people will
228: go through the trouble. OpenBSD allows even the most inexperienced users to
229: take advantage of these technologies without any effort"</i>.
230: <p>
231:
232: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.473 aanriot 233: <a href="http://www.miscmag.com/articles/index.php3?page=2100">
234: [FRENCH] Champ libre : les chantiers OpenBSD</a>
235: Misc, number 21, Sept/Oct, 2005, p. 4-14</strong></font><br>
236: An interesting article about OpenBSD and associated projects. Saad Kadhi
237: and Guillaume Arcas describe useful things you can do with PF and
238: OpenSSH, and give a nice introduction to OpenNTPD and OpenCVS. If the
239: article is focused on the presentation, you can find some interesting
240: technical aspects people are not always acquainted to. A few examples
241: are shown, like a basic CARP setup, or the manner to use multiplexing
242: with OpenSSH and even how to check an OpenSSH server's keys using DNS.
243: <p>
244:
245: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 246: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/news/11306">
247: Big debate over small packets</a>,
248: SecurityFocus, Sept. 7, 2005</strong></font><br>
249: Robert Lemos discusses the ICMP denial-of-service vulnerabilities found
250: by Fernando Gont and fixed in OpenBSD. To date, OpenBSD is the only
251: system that has implemented all of the fixes recommended in the IETF
252: draft.
253: <p>
254:
255: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.471 saad 256: <a href="http://www.pcexpert.fr/">
257: [FRENCH] "Quel est le meilleur système libre pour votre
258: ordinateur ?"</a>,
259: PC Expert, number 156, p. 42-62</strong></font><br>
260: Philippe Roure compares 11 Linux and *BSD operating systems, including
261: OpenBSD 3.7, on different criteria such as security, documentation and
262: usability. OpenBSD earned a 5/5 mark (see pages 60-61) and while a mark
263: isn't necessarily objective, the author seems to grasp the OpenBSD
264: project, its goals, and how good is the operating system. The article
265: includes an interview with Saad Kadhi.
266: <p>
267:
268: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.470 saad 269: <a href="http://www.samag.com/articles/2005/0509/">
270: Monitoring PF Firewalls for Health and Performance</a>,
271: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 9, p. 37</strong></font><br>
272: Ryan Matteson describes several utilities that can be used to monitor the
273: health and performance of a PF firewall. Besides pfctl, the article
274: covers pftop, fwanalog, monitoring logs with tcpdump and graphing
275: performance data with pfstat.
276: <p>
277:
278: </ul>
279:
1.461 grunk 280: <h2>July, 2005</h2>
281: <ul>
282:
283: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.466 deraadt 284: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5382">
285: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part III</a>,
1.467 grunk 286: Kerneltrap, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.466 deraadt 287: Jeremy Andrews writes about the recent Blind ICMP attacks discovered
288: by Fernando Gont, and the fixes done by him and OpenBSD during the
289: 2005 Hackathon.
1.469 ian 290: The article goes into the technical background of the
1.467 grunk 291: attacks, mentioning blind ICMP attacks, "hard" ICMP errors, source
1.469 ian 292: quenching, and path MTU discovery;
293: many helpful RFCs and technical papers are linked from the explanations.
294: This is followed by a recap of the whole ICMP story, involving Gont's
1.467 grunk 295: struggle with other free projects, Cisco lawyers, Microsoft people,
296: and others.<br>
1.469 ian 297: The article concludes that OpenBSD was the first project
1.467 grunk 298: to take Fernando Gont's findings seriously, and also the first group to
299: be really painless to work with.
1.466 deraadt 300: <p>
301:
302: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.464 grunk 303: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/06/security_blame/">
304: Security meltdown: who's to blame?</a>,
1.466 deraadt 305: The Register, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.464 grunk 306: This article talks about various groups that are frequently blamed for
307: poor security:
1.467 grunk 308: individuals, ISPs, companies, crackers, security mailing lists,
1.464 grunk 309: and last but not least: OS vendors!
1.467 grunk 310: In the last paragraph, OpenBSD's style of <i>"dumbed-down, simplified
1.464 grunk 311: and secure systems (with a heavily audited code base)"</i> is described
312: as <i>"one of the smartest approaches to security"</i>.
313: <p>
314:
315: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.461 grunk 316: <a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-7-5/30084.html">
317: Theo de Raadt on Industry and Free Software</a>,
1.466 deraadt 318: The Epoch Times, July 5, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.463 tom 319: In this interview, Theo talks about the inception of the OpenBSD project
320: and its goals, as well as its impact on the commercial IT industry.
1.461 grunk 321: He points out once more that <i>"vendors who incorporate OpenSSH have
322: given us absolutely nothing back - not a cent"</i>.
323: Other topics covered include the OpenBSD team, Theo's role as
324: <i>"benevolent dictator"</i>, and the security process, which he compares
325: to the security efforts led by other free software projects and some
326: commercial vendors.
327: <p>
328:
329: </ul>
330:
1.454 ian 331: <h2>June, 2005</h2>
332: <ul>
1.468 grunk 333:
334: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
335: <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/ns-ttc062205.php">
336: The true cost of computer crime</a>,
337: EurekAlert / <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/">New Scientist Magazine</a>,
338: issue June 25, 2005</strong></font><br>
339: This article looks at computer crime, especially the way upcoming
340: vulnerability reports are dealt with. It also gives a short overview of the
1.469 ian 341: institutions involved in the process (vendors, free projects, CERTs).
1.468 grunk 342: <br>
343: The author mentions the work of Andy Ozment, who researches vulnerability
344: disclosure at the University of Cambridge. Using OpenBSD as a good example
345: of how disclosure and consequent fixing of bugs helps to strengthen security,
346: he refutes the widely spread FUD that disclosing vulnerabilities leads to
347: more harm than good. Ozment's methodology was to examine OpenBSD's CVS logs
1.469 ian 348: and note when fixes were published; his research shows that
1.468 grunk 349: <i>"the number of vulnerabilities decreases as a result of disclosure"</i>.
350: <p>
351:
1.454 ian 352: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.458 niallo 353: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0704/071.html">
354: Free Bird</a>,
355: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
356: <b>(Registration required)</b> A second Forbes article about OpenBSD, more
357: focused on the project itself this time. It contains good description of the
358: history of OpenBSD along with its prime motivations. Mention is made of the
359: DARPA grant and the annual hackathon. Theo's motto "shut up and hack" finally
360: becomes famous in this piece and there are some other very insightful quotes
361: such as "All I care about is making high-quality code. If I had to work at a
362: regular job, it would drive me nuts". This is certainly an astute and perceptive
363: article, well worth reading. Do note that the big picture of Theo's machine
364: room will only be available in the print edition.
365: <p>
1.459 deraadt 366:
1.458 niallo 367: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.456 niallo 368: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html">
369: Is Linux For Losers?</a>,
370: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
371: An interesting article, if somewhat polemic in tone, which raises questions
372: about the quality of Linux code compared to OpenBSD. There is also some short
373: discussion of the OpenBSD development model and focus (push for quality above
374: everything else) including good quotes from Theo. It seems that the need for
375: high quality software is beginning to be recognised by the mainstream.
376: <p>
1.457 deraadt 377:
1.456 niallo 378: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 379: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/06/09/2132233.shtml?tid=152&tid=8&tid=2">
1.455 ian 380: BSD cognoscenti on Linux</a>,
381: NewsForge, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
382: NewsForge talks with Theo de Raadt and NetBSD's Christos Zoulas about the
383: similarities and differences between the Linux kernel and the BSD
384: operating systems. The questions asked were similar to those asked
385: of Linus Torvalds in a <a
1.462 grunk 386: href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/09/2128249&tid=2">previous
1.455 ian 387: interview.</a>
388: <p>
389:
390: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.454 ian 391: <a href="http://www.tuxjournal.net/intervista3-en.html">
392: A good morning with Theo de Raadt</a>,
393: Tux Journal, June 2, 2005</strong></font><br>
394: Brief but wide-ranging interview with Theo in which our leader
395: opines about the good things in 3.7: "The list of new developments
396: is impressive, but in my view not nearly as impressive as the small
397: little details that continue to be fixed during each development
398: cycle." And modestly credits all the developers for the project's
399: continuing success, attributing it to "The passion of the developers,
400: and the wide experience they bring into their development efforts.
401: By amazing coincidence, our users typically have the same needs as we do."
402: Manages to sidestep getting drawn into comparisons with Linux, e.g.,
403: when asked if he likes it/why/why not, deftly replies
404: "I have never used it."
405: <p>
406:
407: </ul>
408:
1.441 deraadt 409: <h2>May, 2005</h2>
410: <ul>
411: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 412: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5190">
413: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part II</a>,
414: Kerneltrap, May 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
415: In the second installment of Kerneltrap's Hackathon 2005 feature, Jeremy
416: Andrews speaks with the pf developers at length about their plans for
417: future enhancements.
418: <p>
419:
420: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.450 deraadt 421: <a href="http://www.ctv.ca">
1.448 deraadt 422: TV coverage: OpenBSD hackathon</a>,
423: CTV/CFCN, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
424: A TV spot done a Canadian national TV station about the Calgary
425: hackathon this year, with 60 developers.<br>
426: North America mirror:
427: <ul>
1.452 marco 428: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.449 jcs 429: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a><br>
430: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a>
1.448 deraadt 431: </ul>
432: European mirror:
433: <ul>
1.452 marco 434: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.448 deraadt 435: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a>
436: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a><br>
437: </ul>
438: <p>
439:
440: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 441: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5186">
442: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part I</a>,
443: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
444: Jeremy Andrews of KernelTrap does a good job of describing what it's like
445: to be at the Hackathon in Part I of KernelTrap's Hackathon feature. Several
446: developers are interviewed in detail about what they are working on.
447: <p>
448:
449: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 450: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5184">
451: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005: Day 6?</a>,
452: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
453: Kjell Wooding describes a typical day at the Hackathon in this entertaining
454: first-hand account.
455: <p>
456:
457: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.447 cloder 458: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/05/20/1426216.shtml?tid=8">
459: Review: OpenBSD 3.7</a>,
460: NewsForge.com, May 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
461: "OpenBSD is not only highly polished and easy to
462: configure because of its documentation, it's also totally free-as-in-rights.
463: With an obsession with security, freedom of source code, and quality of
464: programming technique, OpenBSD 3.7 continues the legacy established by
465: its previous releases," writes Jem Matzan in this nice, small review.
466: <p>
467:
468: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.446 cloder 469: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/05/19/openbsd_3_7.html">
470: OpenBSD 3.7: The Wizard of OS</a>,
471: ONLamp.com, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
472: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
473: new features in OpenBSD 3.7, including new wireless chipsets, new
474: spam-fighting features, zaurus, pf improvements, propolice, and
475: many other things. A good overview of what's new in this release,
476: plus some interesting comments about future direction.
477: <p>
478:
479: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.444 niallo 480: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/software/openbsd-3.7-released.html">
1.445 niallo 481: Next incarnation of OpenBSD released</a>,
1.444 niallo 482: Ping Wales, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
483: "OpenBSD is often unjustly overlooked as a free UNIX-like system in favour of
484: the more-hyped Linux. While it receives a lot less publicity than other
485: operating systems, this is not due to lack of technical merit." says David
486: Chisnall, in what is a clear and concise overview of the new features
487: in 3.7 and indeed the project as a whole.
488: <p>
489:
490: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
491: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5114">
1.445 niallo 492: 2005 Calgary Hackathon, KernelTrap Coverage</a>,
1.444 niallo 493: Kerneltrap, May 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
494: A great article about the annual OpenBSD Hackathon, detailing how the event
495: functions, work done at previous Hackathons and features which may come out
496: of this one. Includes many relevant quotes from developers themselves, and of
497: course information about the legendary Hackathon BBQ!
498: <p>
499:
500: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.442 deraadt 501: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9658/sam0505e/">
502: "Failover Firewalls with OpenBSD and CARP"</a>,
503: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 5, p. 33
1.441 deraadt 504: </strong></font><br>
505: Jason Dixon discusses the history of the CARP and pfsync protocols
506: and demonstrates using them to create redundant stateful firewalls
507: with OpenBSD.
508: </ul>
509:
1.436 henning 510: <h2>April, 2005</h2>
511: <ul>
512: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.440 ian 513: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39195801,00.htm">
514: Security guru wants access to bug databases</a>,
515: ZDNet UK, April 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
516: Ingrid Marson reports on Cambridge professor Ross Anderson's call for analysis of
517: software maintenance records to determine whether open source code is more secure
518: than closed source, as we have long contended.
519: "One of Anderson's research students, Andy Ozment, has already done
520: research using empirical data on bugs found in the open source
521: operating system OpenBSD between 1997 and 2000. This research found
522: that finding and fixing bugs results in a more secure product..."
523: Just as the OpenBSD project has been saying for years.
524: <p>
525: This article can also be found online as
526: <a href="http://uk.builder.com/manage/project/0,39026588,39244080,00.htm">Academic
527: calls for better bug tracking</a> (uk.builder.com).
528: <p>
529:
530: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.439 espie 531: [FRENCH] "PC Expert", number 152, p. 58
532: </strong></font><br>
533: Very short interview of Marc Espie about OpenBSD as a free OS focusing
534: on security, part of a larger dossier «les secrets des hackers».
535: <p>
536:
537: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.436 henning 538: [GERMAN] "Doppelwacht", iX 5/2005, p. 150.
539: </strong></font><br>
540: Stephan Tesch gives an introduction to CARP and using a pair of
541: OpenBSD boxes as Firewalls in High Availibility scenarios. He goes
1.438 martin 542: on explaining CARP and pfsync protocols, and does not forget to cover
1.436 henning 543: the issues we had with IETF.
544: </ul>
545:
1.431 ian 546: <h2>March, 2005</h2>
547: <ul>
548: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.435 reyk 549: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/4818">
550: OpenBSD's "Out of the Box" Wireless Support</a>,
551: Kerneltrap, March 8, 2005</strong></font><br>
552: This article is about the upcoming wireless support in OpenBSD 3.7 and
553: the outcome of the work to open wireless chipsets. Jeremy Andrews
554: talked with Theo de Raadt and the developers Damien Bergamini and Reyk
555: Floeter who did some efforts to implement free and functional drivers.
556: <p>
557:
558: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.431 ian 559: <a href="http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/01/1109546842718.html">
560: OpenBSD to support more wireless chipsets</a>,
561: The Age, March 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
562: "The forthcoming 3.7 release of the OpenBSD operating system has
563: added support for five more wireless chipsets, according to
564: OpenBSD project founder Theo de Raadt...
1.432 ian 565: OpenBSD 3.7 will also have have new drivers for Intel wireless
1.431 ian 566: parts that do not work without the non-redistributable firmware,"
567: namely the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11B
568: and 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11A/B/G wireless network adapters.
569: Mentions OpenBSD's activism in getting vendors to release chip specs.
570: Referring to vendors that still refuse to play ball with open source
571: projects, quotes Damien Miller as saying "Given the number of
572: appliance devices that are built on free OSs, I think that the
573: recalcitrant vendors are missing an important boat."
574:
575: </ul>
576:
1.427 matthieu 577: <h2>February, 2005</h2>
578: <ul>
579:
580: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.428 david 581: <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsaward2004.html">
582: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
583: FSF, February 26, 2005</strong></font><br>
584: The Free Software Foundation awarded Theo de Raadt their "2004 Free Software
585: Award" for his unwavering commitment to free software. Most recently he has
586: been fighting hardware manufacturers for free redistribution of wireless card
587: firmware.
1.434 ian 588: Similar articles can be found online at:
589: <ul>
590: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
591: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=419">
592: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
593: Tectonic.za, March 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
594: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
595: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article4362.phtml">
596: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
597: OSDir, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
598: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
599: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/De-Raadt-gets-free-software-award/2005/02/28/1109546758523.html?oneclick=true">
600: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
601: The Age, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
602: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 603: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/02/27/1413255.shtml?tid=99&tid=7">
1.434 ian 604: Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award</a>,
605: Slashdot, February 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
606: </ul>
1.427 matthieu 607: </ul>
608:
1.426 ian 609: <h2>January, 2005</h2>
610: <ul>
611:
612: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
613: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363731">
614: Systrace in OpenBSD</a>,
615: informit.com, January 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
616: This article talks about our systrace
1.462 grunk 617: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&sektion=1">systrace(1)</a>
1.426 ian 618: mechanism: what it is and why and
619: how to use it, with examples.
620: Another excerpt from the book
621: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
622: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
623: <p>
624:
625: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
626: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363732">
627: Overview of OpenBSD</a>,
628: informit.com, January 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
629: "OpenBSD is one of the most secure and well-designed operating
630: systems available today. It has its roots in countless hours of
631: research and development based on some of the best UNIX flavors of
632: the past, and it boasts all the features of modern operating systems.
633: The OS is widely considered one of the most secure general-purpose
634: operating systems available today and it supports many key parts
635: of the global Internet infrastructure..."
636: This article is a sample chapter from
637: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
638: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
639: <p>
1.443 ian 640:
641: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 642: <a href="http://www.pcplus.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=34628&subsectionid=784">
1.443 ian 643: OpenBSD operating system</a>,
644: PCPlus.co.uk, January, 2005</strong></font><br>
645: Paul Grosse gives a brief tutorial on installing OpenBSD on i386 for people
646: moving in a Windows->Linux direction, encouraging them to go a bit further for security.
647: "While Linux out-scores Windows substantially (or completely) on [security as well as many other
648: issues], it's still possible to use a more secure operating system on the PC... OpenBSD."
649: Gives a brief but understandable walkthrough on the installation process, right up to
650: downloading and installing the third-party packages, and
651: ends with a sidebar on security.
652: <p>
1.426 ian 653: </ul>
654:
1.424 ian 655: <h2>December, 2004</h2>
656: <ul>
657:
658: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.425 ian 659: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/2329229">
660: What are the real vulnerabilities of Linux?</a>
661: NewsForge.com, December 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
662: Several security consultants were asked about "the real vulnerabilities of
663: Linux". Cybersoure CEO Con Symaris seems to get it better than the rest:
664: "One needs to approach security as a prime requirement and motivator,
665: much as the OpenBSD team do," Zymaris said... "The Linux
666: community mindset is different. Linux development is dynamic and
667: races ahead towards more and broader functionality, drawing a
668: multitude of interested parties in to make interesting extensions
669: and adaptations at a rapid rate."
670: <p>
671: "In order to do security the BSD way, however, much more effort
672: needs to be spent auditing code for holes, which is much less sexy,
673: and attracts a different set of coders," Zymaris added.
674: <p>
675:
676: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.424 ian 677: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/281">
678: Closed Source Hardware</a>
679: Security Focus, December 1, 2004</strong></font><br>
680: Symantec Threat Analyst Jason Miller analyzes the potential security threats
681: when hardware vendors won't provide device documentation and
682: instead provide "binary only" driver code for inclusion in open source
683: operating systems.
684: Miller is an open-source fan who says he uses a variety of systems, including
685: OpenBSD on his firewall.
686: Of the recent trend to closed-source binary drivers for open-source
687: systems, he writes:
688: <blockquote>
689: The closed-source component required to support this hardware is
690: completely independent of the associated operating system, and as
691: such, is also independent of the engineering team, security team,
692: auditing process, and quality control procedures normally related
693: to the operating system...
694: <br/>
695: What's possibly even more disturbing is that we're talking about
696: a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest
697: possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a
698: third-party vendor. This code could do anything once loaded, including
699: leaking active WEP keys, gathering usage statistics, sniffing and
700: disclosing traffic, and it could even introduce a subtle backdoor
701: into the operating system itself (much the same as any device driver
702: in a closed source operating system).
703: <br/>
704: [A]lthough some of these scenarios are a
705: little far-fetched, the possibility for them to exist is there...
706: Ultimately it becomes an issue of trust, which is a cornerstone of
707: good security: whom do you trust, and how much do you trust them?
708: </blockquote>
709: <p>And he comments that trust "seems to be a one-way street": vendors
710: demand that you trust them, but they won't trust you to know how
711: their hardware and software operates.
712: This lack of trust is one reason why OpenBSD has recently completed
713: reverse-engineering the
1.462 grunk 714: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4">
1.424 ian 715: Atheros wireless chipset driver</a>
716: that was originally provided as a binary insert.
717: <p>
718: </ul>
719:
1.417 pvalchev 720: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
721: <ul>
1.421 ian 722:
1.417 pvalchev 723: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.422 ian 724: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730775,00.asp">
725: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Widens Its Scope</a>
726: eWEEK, November 22, 2004</strong></font><br>
727: Jason Brooks reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and likes the changes it brings,
728: including the multi-processing support which, he notes,
729: "will be even more important as multicore processors--which occupy space
730: on the road maps of Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others--
731: become more prevalent." Comments favorably on OpenNTPD
732: ("the three-line configuration file we needed to modify ... on OpenBSD was
733: much simpler to deal with than the equivalent configuration file on
734: the Linux systems we've tested").
1.423 ian 735: Overall a favorable review of some of the new stuff in 3.6.
1.422 ian 736: <p>
737: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 otto 738: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
739: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
740: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
741: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
742: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
743: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
744: it claims to do".
745: <p>
746:
747: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 748: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109994542424009&w=2">
1.421 ian 749: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution</a>
750: misc@, November 8, 2004</strong></font><br>
751: Theo recounts the struggle to get Intel to provide redistributable
752: versions of the firmware for their wireless chipsets, and their
1.423 ian 753: ultimate refusal to allow OpenBSD to redistribute the chipsets' firmware.
1.421 ian 754: Includes a caveat about Intel's disingenuous "FAQ", typical of many
755: corporate FAQs that answer questions nobody actually thought
756: to ask, and don't truthfully answer the questions you want hard answers to.
757: At the end Theo names the names (and their emails) that need to be contacted
758: by large numbers of end-users and developers if Intel is to change
759: (yes, this is a hint).
760: Of interest is that this posting to one of our mailing lists was
761: picked up on the
762: <a href="http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1923">Screaming
763: Electron Forum</a> and from there reported on
1.462 grunk 764: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/22/1249249&from=rss">
1.421 ian 765: SlashDot</a>, where it is accompanied by a link to SlashDot's paper
766: on effective advocacy (be firm, but also be polite).
767: <p>
768:
769: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 770: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
771: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
772: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
773: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
774: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
775: questions about the significance and rationale behind
776: the current efforts.
777: <p>
778: </ul>
779:
1.407 henning 780: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
781: <ul>
782: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 783: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
784: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
785: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
786: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
787: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
788: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
789: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
790: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
791: <p>
792:
793: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 794: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
795: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
796: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
797: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
798: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
799: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
800: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
801: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
802: of the important changes in 3.6.
1.462 grunk 803: <p>
1.415 ian 804:
805: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 806: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
1.414 ian 807: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
808: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
809: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
810: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
811: overflow attacks... because
812: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
813: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
814: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
815: and propolice.
816: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
817: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
818: and that's when the science falls apart."
819: <p>
820:
821: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 822: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
823: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
824: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
825: Starts with the question:
826: <blockquote>
827: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
828: <br/>
829: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
830: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
831: <br/>
832: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
833: Should we believe them?"
834: </blockquote>
835: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
836: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
837: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
838: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
839: for your mail, web and other online activities.
840: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
841: <p>
842:
843: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 844: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
845: Simple Simon</a>,
846: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
847: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
848: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
849: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
850: routing/firewall, and more.
851: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
852: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
853: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
854: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
855: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
856: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
857: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
858: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
859: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
860: </blockquote>
861: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
862: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
863: <p>
864:
865: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 866: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
867: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 868: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 869: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 870: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
871: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
872: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 873: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 874: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
875: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
876: in spite of it
877: (registration required, but worth it).
878: <p>
879:
880: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
881: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
882: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
883: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
884: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
885: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
886: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
887: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 888: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 889: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
890: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
891: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
892: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
893: <p>
894:
895: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 896: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
897: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
898: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
899: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
900: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
901: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
902: <blockquote>
903: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
904: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
905: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
906: a lot of analysis.
907: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
908: </blockquote>
909: <p>
910: </ul>
911:
1.400 marco 912: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
913: <ul>
914: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 915: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
916: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
917: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
918: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
919: UNIX-like systems.
920: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
921: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
922: <p>
923: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 924: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
925: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 926: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
927: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
928: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
929: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
930: At one point, the article states:
931: <blockquote>
932: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
933: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
934: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
935: </blockquote>
936: And then quotes Theo as saying:
937: <blockquote>
938: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
939: fewer are reading or auditing code."
940: </blockquote>
941: <p>
942: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
943: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
944: marks its fifth birthday</a>
945: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
946: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
947: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
948: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
949: required).
950: <p>
951: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 952: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
953: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
954: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
955: </strong></font><br>
956: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
957: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
958: <p>
959: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 960: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
961: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 962: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 963: </strong></font><br>
964: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
965: <p>
966: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 967: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
968: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 969: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 970: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 971: 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 972: <p>
973: </ul>
974:
1.396 henning 975: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
976: <ul>
977: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 978: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
979: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
980: Unix Review, July, 2004
981: </strong></font><br>
982: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
983: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
1.462 grunk 984: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
1.418 ian 985: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
986: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
987: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
988: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
989: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
990: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
991: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
992: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
993: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
994: and even spelling/wording errors.
995: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
996: <p>
997: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 998: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 999: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
1000: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
1001: </strong></font><br>
1002: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
1003: <p>
1004: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 1005: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 1006: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
1007: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
1008: </strong></font><br>
1009: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
1010: <p>
1011: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 1012: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
1013: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
1014: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
1015: </strong></font><br>
1016: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
1017: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
1018: <p>
1019: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 1020: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
1021: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
1022: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
1023: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
1024: <p>
1025: </ul>
1026:
1.405 jolan 1027: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
1028: <ul>
1029: <li><font color="#00900"><strong>
1030: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
1.466 deraadt 1031: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 5, 2004</strong></font>
1.405 jolan 1032: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
1033: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
1034: details on how funds are dispersed.
1035: <p>
1036: </ul>
1037:
1.393 david 1038: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
1039: <ul>
1040: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 1041: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
1042: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
1043: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
1044: </strong></font><br>
1045: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
1046: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
1047: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
1048: on inserting large number of SQL records.
1049: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
1050: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
1051: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
1052: <p>
1053:
1054: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 1055: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
1056: Secure by Default</a>,
1057: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
1058: </strong></font><br>
1059: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
1060: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
1061: <p>
1062:
1063: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1064: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
1065: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
1066: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
1067: </strong></font><br>
1068: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
1069: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
1070: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
1071: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
1072: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
1073: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
1074: <p>
1075:
1076: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1077: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
1078: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
1079: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
1080: </strong></font><br>
1081: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
1082: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
1083: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
1084: <p>
1085:
1086: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1087: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
1088: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
1089: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
1090: </strong></font><br>
1091: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
1092: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
1093: <p>
1094: </ul>
1095:
1.388 mcbride 1096: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
1097: <ul>
1.394 jolan 1098:
1099: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1100: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
1101: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
1102: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
1103: </strong></font><br>
1104: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
1105: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
1106: available for sparc64.
1107: <p>
1108:
1.390 beck 1109: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 1110: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
1111: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
1112: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
1113: </strong></font><br>
1114: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
1115: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
1116: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
1117: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
1118: <p>
1119:
1120: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 1121: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
1122: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 1123: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 1124: </strong></font><br>
1125: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
1126: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
1127: it does: CARP provides sharing
1128: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
1129: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
1130: detail to get you started using it.
1131: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
1132: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
1133: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
1134: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
1135: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
1136: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
1137: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 1138: <p>
1.391 ian 1139:
1140: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 1141: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 1142: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
1143: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 1144: </strong></font><br>
1145: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 1146: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 1147: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 1148: <p>
1.388 mcbride 1149:
1150: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1151: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
1152: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 1153: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 1154: </strong></font><br>
1155: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
1156: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
1157: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
1158: unencumbered by patents.
1159: <p>
1160: </ul>
1161:
1.378 henning 1162: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
1163: <ul>
1.384 jose 1164:
1165: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 1166: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
1167: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
1168: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
1169: </strong></font><br>
1170: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
1171: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
1172: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
1173: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
1174: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
1175: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
1176: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
1177: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
1178: in the page tables."
1179: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
1180: <p>
1181:
1182: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1183: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
1184: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
1185: </strong></font><br>
1186: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
1187: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
1188: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
1189: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 1190: <p>
1.384 jose 1191:
1.378 henning 1192: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 1193: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
1194: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 1195: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
1196: </strong></font><br>
1197: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
1198: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
1199: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
1200: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
1201: (quote:
1202: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
1203: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 1204: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 1205: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
1206: the other developers for their work on the system.
1207: <p>
1208:
1209: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1210: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
1211: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
1212: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 1213: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 1214: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
1215: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
1216: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
1217: too.
1218: <p>
1219:
1220: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 1221: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
1222: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 1223: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 1224: OpenBSD source code using
1225: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
1226: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
1227: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
1228: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
1229: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
1230: <p>
1231: </ul>
1232:
1.374 jose 1233: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
1234: <ul>
1235: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 1236: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 1237: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
1238: </strong></font><br>
1239: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
1240: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
1241: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
1242: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
1243: it."
1244: <p>
1245:
1246: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 1247: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
1248: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
1249: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
1250: </strong></font><br/>
1251: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
1252: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
1253: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
1254: <p>
1255: </ul>
1256:
1.369 ian 1257: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
1258: <ul>
1259: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1260: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
1261: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
1262: </strong></font><br/>
1263: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
1264: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
1265: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
1266: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
1267: <p>
1268:
1269: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 1270: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
1271: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
1272: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
1273: </strong></font><br/>
1274: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
1275: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
1276: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
1277: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
1278: form factor.
1279: <p>
1280:
1281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1282: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
1283: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
1284: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
1285: Features</a>,
1286: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
1287: </strong></font><br/>
1288: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
1289: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
1290: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
1291: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
1292: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
1293: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
1294: <p>
1295: This article can also be found online at:
1296: <ul>
1297: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1298: <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 1299: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
1300: </strong></font>
1301: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
1302: </ul>
1303: <p>
1.392 david 1304:
1.371 jose 1305: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 1306: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
1307: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 1308: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
1309: </strong></font><br/>
1310: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
1311: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
1312: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 1313: <p>
1.371 jose 1314:
1315: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 1316: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 1317: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 1318: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 1319: </strong></font><br/>
1320: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
1321: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
1322: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
1323: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
1324: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
1325: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
1326: and its history with OpenBSD.
1327: </ul>
1328:
1.368 henning 1329: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
1330: <ul>
1331: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 1332: [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 1333: </strong></font><br>
1334: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
1335: </ul>
1336:
1.364 jose 1337: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
1338: <ul>
1339: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 1340: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
1341: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
1342: UNIX Review,
1343: July, 2003.
1344: </strong></font><br>
1345: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
1346: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
1347: who want more information.
1348: <p>
1349:
1350: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 1351: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
1352: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
1353: Government Computer News,
1354: July 22, 2003.
1355: </strong></font><br>
1356: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
1357: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
1358: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
1359: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
1360: <p>
1361:
1362: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1363: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
1364: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
1365: SANS Institute,
1366: July 22, 2003.
1367: </strong></font><br>
1368: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 1369: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 1370: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
1371: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
1372: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
1373: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
1374: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
1375: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
1376: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
1377: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
1378: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
1379: <p>
1380:
1381: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 1382: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
1383: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
1384: OnLamp.com,
1385: July 17, 2003.
1386: </strong></font><br>
1387: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
1388: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
1389: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
1390: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
1391: have been working on.
1392:
1393: </ul>
1394:
1.356 jose 1395: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 1396: <ul>
1397:
1398: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 1399: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
1400: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
1401: UNIX Review,
1402: June, 2003.
1403: </strong></font><br>
1404: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
1405: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
1406: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
1407: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
1408: <p>
1409:
1410: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 1411: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
1412: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
1413: eWeek,
1414: June 23, 2003.
1415: </strong></font><br>
1416: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
1417: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
1418: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
1419: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
1420: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
1421: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
1422: <p>
1423:
1424: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 1425: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
1426: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
1427: Software Development Online,
1428: June, 2003.
1429: </strong></font><br>
1430: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
1431: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
1432: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
1433: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
1434: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
1435: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
1436: current activities.
1437: <p>
1438:
1439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 1440: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
1441: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 1442: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
1443: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
1444: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
1445: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 1446: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 1447: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
1448: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
1449: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 1450: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 1451: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
1452: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 1453: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 1454: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
1455: decisions.
1456: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
1457: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 1458: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 1459: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 1460: <p>
1461:
1462: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 1463: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
1464: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
1465: Page 58, eWeek,
1466: June 2, 2003.
1467: </strong></font><br>
1468: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
1469: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
1470: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
1471: been addressed in -current.
1472: <p>
1473:
1.356 jose 1474: </ul>
1475:
1476: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
1477: <ul>
1478:
1.355 jose 1479: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 1480: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
1481: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
1482: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
1483: </strong></font><br>
1484: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
1485: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
1486: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
1487: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
1488: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
1489: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
1490: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
1491: <p>
1492:
1493: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 1494: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
1495: Beyond Linux</a>,
1496: InfoWorld,
1497: May 23, 2003.
1498: </strong></font><br>
1499: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
1500: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
1501: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
1502: compared to the GPL.
1503: <p>
1504:
1505: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 1506: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
1507: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
1508: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 1509: May 17, 2003.
1510: </strong></font><br>
1511: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
1512: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
1513: the business section and half of another page inside
1514: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
1515: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
1516: in talking about the project's history and goals.
1517: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
1518: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
1519: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
1520: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 1521: <br>
1522: This article can also be found online at:
1523: <ul>
1524: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1525: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
1526: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
1527: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
1528: May 17, 2003
1529: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 1530: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
1531: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1532: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
1533: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
1534: Montreal Gazette,
1535: May 21, 2003
1536: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 1537: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 1538: <p>
1.346 ian 1539:
1540: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 1541: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 1542: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 1543: May 7, 2003.
1544: </strong></font><br>
1545: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
1546: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
1547: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
1548: <p>
1549:
1550: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 1551: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
1552: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1553: OsOpinion,
1554: May 6, 2003.
1555: </strong></font><br>
1556: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
1557: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
1558: <br>
1559: This article can also be found online at:
1560: <ul>
1561: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1562: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
1563: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1564: NewsFactor Network.
1565: </strong></font>
1566: </ul>
1567: <p>
1568:
1569: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1570: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 1571: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
1572: ITBusiness,
1573: May 2, 2003.
1574: </strong></font><br>
1575: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
1576: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
1577: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
1578: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
1579: <p>
1580:
1581: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 1582: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
1583: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1584: InfoWorld,
1585: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 1586: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 1587: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
1588: <br>
1589: This article can also be found online at:
1590: <ul>
1591: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1592: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
1593: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1594: IDG Singapore.
1595: </strong></font>
1596: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1597: <p>
1598:
1.339 jose 1599: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1600: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
1601: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 1602: ZDNet,
1603: May 1, 2003.
1604: </strong></font><br>
1605: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 1606: someone using parts from previous articles.
1607: <br>
1.341 deraadt 1608: This article can also be found online at:
1609: <ul>
1610: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1611: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
1612: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1613: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 1614: </strong></font>
1615: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1616: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
1617: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1618: CNET News.com.
1619: </strong></font>
1620: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1621: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
1622: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
1623: ZDNet UK.
1624: </strong></font>
1625: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1626: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
1627: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
1628: Help Net Security, Croatia.
1629: </strong></font>
1630: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1631: <p>
1.339 jose 1632:
1.341 deraadt 1633: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1634: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 1635: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
1636: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
1637: May 1, 2003.
1638: </strong></font><br>
1639: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
1640: that have been added
1641: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
1642: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
1643: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 1644: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 1645: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
1646: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
1647: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 1648: <p>
1649:
1650: </ul>
1651:
1.253 ian 1652: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
1653: <ul>
1.255 ian 1654:
1.260 ian 1655: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1656: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 1657: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1658: TechRepublic,
1659: April 28, 2003.
1660: </strong></font><br>
1661: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
1662: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 1663: work.<br>
1664: Can also be found online at:
1665: <ul>
1666: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1667: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
1668: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1669: ZDNet UK.
1670: </strong></font>
1671: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 1672: <p>
1673:
1674: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 1675: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
1676: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
1677: IDG,
1678: April 24, 2003.
1679: </strong></font><br>
1680: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
1681: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
1682: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
1683: Can also be found online at:
1684: <ul>
1685: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1686: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
1687: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 1688: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 1689: </strong></font>
1690: </ul>
1691: <p>
1692:
1693: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1694: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 1695: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 1696: Slate,
1697: April 24, 2003.
1698: </strong></font><br>
1699: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
1700: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
1701: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
1702: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
1703: <p>
1704:
1705: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 1706: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1707: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
1708: April 24, 2003.
1709: </strong></font><br>
1710: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
1711: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
1712: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
1713: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
1714: <p>
1715:
1716: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 1717: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
1718: April 24, 2003.
1719: </strong></font><br>
1720: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
1721: the free software community".
1722: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
1723: other articles.
1724: <p>
1725:
1726: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1727: <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 1728: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
1729: </strong></font><br>
1730: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
1731: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
1732: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
1733: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
1734: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
1735: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
1736: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 1737: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 1738: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
1739: <br/>
1740: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
1741: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
1742: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
1743: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 1744: <br>
1745: Can also be found online at:
1746: <ul>
1747: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1748: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
1749: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
1750: Common Dreams NewsCenter
1751: </strong></font>
1752: </ul>
1.324 ian 1753: <p>
1754:
1755: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1756: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
1757: Wired, April 24, 2003.
1758: </strong></font><br>
1759: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
1760: article above.
1761: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
1762: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
1763: wasting them."
1.332 ian 1764: <br>
1765: Can also be found online at:
1766: <ul>
1767: <li>
1768: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
1769: </strong></font>
1770: </ul>
1.324 ian 1771: <p>
1772:
1773: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 1774: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
1775: </strong></font><br>
1776: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
1777: <p>
1778:
1779: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 1780: <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.
1781: </strong></font><br>
1782: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
1783: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
1784: <p>
1785:
1786: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 1787: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
1788: April 23, 2003.
1789: </strong></font><br>
1790: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
1791: <p>
1792:
1793: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 1794: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 1795: April 22, 2003.
1796: </strong></font><br>
1797: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
1798: <p>
1799:
1800: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 1801: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1802: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1803: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 1804: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 1805: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
1806: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
1807: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
1808: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
1809: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
1810: Can also be found online at:
1811: <ul>
1812: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1813: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 1814: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1815: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 1816: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 1817: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1818: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 1819: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
1820: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 1821: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 1822: </ul>
1823: <p>
1824:
1825: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 1826: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
1827: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 1828: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1829: </strong></font><br>
1830: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 1831: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
1832: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
1833: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
1834: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
1835: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
1836: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 1837: <p>
1838:
1839: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 1840: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
1841: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 1842: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
1843: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 1844: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
1845: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
1846: at UPenn and DARPA.
1847: <p>
1848:
1849: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 1850: [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,
1851: France
1.315 deraadt 1852: April 18, 2003.
1853: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 1854: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 1855: <p>
1856:
1857: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 1858: [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 1859: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1860: </strong></font><br>
1861: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
1862: <p>
1863:
1864: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 1865: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
1866: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
1867: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1868: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 1869: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
1870: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
1871: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
1872: <p>
1873:
1874: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 1875: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
1876: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1877: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 1878: </strong></font><br>
1879: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1880: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
1881: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 1882: American century.
1.267 deraadt 1883: <p>
1884:
1885: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 1886: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
1887: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1888: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 1889: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 1890: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
1891: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
1892: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
1893: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
1894: Can also be found online at:
1895: <ul>
1896: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
1897: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 1898: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 1899: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 1900: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 1901: <p>
1902:
1903: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 1904: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 1905: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1906: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 1907: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 1908: </strong></font><br>
1909: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 1910: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
1911: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
1912: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
1913: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 1914:
1915: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1916: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
1917: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1918: New York Times.
1919: </strong></font>(free registration required)
1920:
1.273 deraadt 1921: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1922: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 1923: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1924: ABC News.
1925: </strong></font>
1926:
1927: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1928: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 1929: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 1930: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 1931: </strong></font>
1932:
1933: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1934: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1935: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 1936: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 1937: </strong></font>
1938:
1939: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 1940: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
1941: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1942: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 1943: </strong></font>
1944:
1945: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1946: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1947: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 1948: Times Daily, AL.
1949: </strong></font>
1950:
1951: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1952: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
1953: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
1954: Boston.com, MA.
1955: </strong></font>
1956:
1957: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1958: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 1959: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 1960: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
1961: </strong></font>
1962:
1963: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 1964: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
1965: [Article was pulled]</a>
1966: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 1967: </strong></font>
1968:
1969: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1970: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
1971: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
1972: Infoshop News.
1973: </strong></font>
1974:
1975: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1976: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
1977: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1978: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
1979: </strong></font>
1980:
1981: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 1982: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
1983: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
1984: Raleigh News, NC.
1985: </strong></font>
1986:
1987: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1988: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 1989: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
1990: Napa News, CA.
1991: </strong></font>
1992:
1993: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1994: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 1995: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1996: NEPA News, PA.
1997: </strong></font>
1998:
1999: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2000: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
2001: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
2002: Wired News.
2003: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 2004: <br>
2005: <li>
1.333 deraadt 2006: <font color="#009000"><strong>
2007: [JAPANESE]
2008: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
2009: Wired News Japan</a>
2010: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 2011:
1.271 deraadt 2012: </ul>
2013: <p>
1.272 deraadt 2014: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
2015: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 2016: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
2017: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
2018: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
2019: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
2020: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
2021: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 2022: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 2023: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
2024: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
2025: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 2026: <p>
2027: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 2028:
2029: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2030: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 2031: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
2032: Indianapolis Star, IN.
2033: </strong></font>
2034:
2035: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 2036: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
2037: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2038: Miami Herald, FL.
2039: </strong></font>
2040:
2041: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 2042: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 2043: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
2044: </strong></font>
2045:
2046: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2047: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 2048: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 2049: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 2050: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 2051:
2052: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2053: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
2054: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
2055: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
2056: ABC News.
2057: </strong></font>
2058:
1.276 deraadt 2059: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2060: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 2061: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 2062: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 2063: </strong></font>
2064:
1.286 dhartmei 2065: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2066: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 2067: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2068: Wilmington Star, NC.
2069: </strong></font>
2070:
1.300 jose 2071: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2072: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
2073: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
2074: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
2075: </strong></font>
2076:
1.309 jose 2077: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2078: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
2079: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
2080: Globe Technology.
2081: </strong></font>
2082:
1.263 deraadt 2083: </ul>
1.262 beck 2084: <p>
2085:
2086: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 2087: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
2088: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2089: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 2090: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 2091: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 2092: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
2093: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
2094: <p>
2095:
2096: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 2097: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
2098: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
2099: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 2100: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 2101: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
2102: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
2103: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
2104: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
2105: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
2106: and simply restates other press reports.
2107: <p>
2108:
2109: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 2110: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
2111: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2112: OS News, April 18, 2003.
2113: </strong></font><br>
2114: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
2115: <p>
2116:
2117: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 2118: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
2119: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2120: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 2121: </strong></font><br>
2122: Another report on the DARPA funding.
2123: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
2124: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
2125: <p>
2126:
2127: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 2128: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
2129: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
2130: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
2131: April 17, 2003.
2132: </strong></font><br>
2133: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
2134: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
2135: Tech Anthems</a>
2136: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
2137: 4 so far.
2138: <p>
2139:
2140: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 2141: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
2142: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2143: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2144: </strong></font><br>
2145: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
2146: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
2147: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
2148: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
2149: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
2150: Goes on to say:
2151: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
2152: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
2153: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
2154: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 2155: This article is also found online at:
2156: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 2157: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2158: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
2159: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
2160: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 2161: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 2162: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2163: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
2164: ZDnet</a>,
2165: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 2166: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 2167: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2168: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
2169: ZDnet Australia</a>,
2170: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 2171: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 2172: </ul>
1.260 ian 2173: <p>
1.279 deraadt 2174:
1.260 ian 2175: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2176: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 2177: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 2178: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2179: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 2180: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 2181: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
2182: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
2183: without notice or justification.
2184: <p>
2185:
2186: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2187: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 2188: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 2189: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2190: </strong></font><br>
2191: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
2192: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 2193: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 2194: effective today, without any warning..."
2195: <p>
1.257 ian 2196:
2197: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 2198: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
2199: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2200: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 2201: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 2202: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
2203: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
2204: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
2205: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
2206: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 2207: <p>
2208:
2209: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 2210: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
2211: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2212: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 2213: </strong></font><br>
2214: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
2215: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
2216: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
2217: quoting two of them:
2218: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
2219: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
2220: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
2221: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
2222: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
2223: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
2224: <p>
2225:
1.255 ian 2226: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2227: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
2228: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 2229: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2230: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 2231: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 2232: <p>
2233:
2234: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 2235: [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 2236: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2237: </strong></font><br>
2238: New security concepts in OpenBSD
2239: <p>
2240:
2241: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 2242: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
2243: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2244: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 2245: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 2246: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 2247: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
2248: security experts for more than three decades."
2249: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
2250: <p>
1.261 ian 2251:
1.254 drahn 2252: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 2253: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 2254: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2255: </strong></font><br>
2256: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
2257: <p>
2258:
2259: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 2260: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
2261: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
2262: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
2263: </strong></font><br>
2264: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
2265: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
2266: discussion OpenBSD's path.
2267: <p>
2268:
2269: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 2270: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
2271: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2272: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 2273: </strong></font><br>
2274: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
2275: from US DARPA.
2276: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
2277: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
2278: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
2279: the BSD license.
2280: <p>
2281: </ul>
2282:
1.251 ian 2283: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
2284: <ul>
2285:
2286: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2287: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
2288: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
2289: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
2290: </strong></font><br>
2291:
2292: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
2293: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
2294: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
2295: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
2296: <p>
2297:
2298: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 2299: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
2300: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 2301: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 2302: </strong></font><br>
2303: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
2304: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
2305: Mentions
2306: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
2307: and
2308: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
2309: programs.
2310: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 2311: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 2312: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
2313: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
2314: <p>
1.325 ian 2315: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
2316: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 2317:
2318: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2319: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
2320: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
2321: </strong></font><br>
2322: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
2323: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
2324: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
2325: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
2326: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
2327: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
2328: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
2329: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
2330: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
2331: put into service."
2332: <p>
2333: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
2334: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
2335: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
2336: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
2337: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
2338: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
2339: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
2340: computers with security features."
2341: <p>
1.329 ian 2342:
2343: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2344: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
2345: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
2346: Slate,
2347: March 3, 2003.
2348: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 2349: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 2350: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
2351: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
2352: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
2353: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
2354: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
2355: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
2356: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
2357: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
2358: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
2359: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
2360: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
2361: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
2362: of more secure open-source solutions like
2363: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
2364: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
2365: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
2366: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
2367: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
2368: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
2369: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
2370: the Beltway."
2371: <p>
1.251 ian 2372: </ul>
2373:
1.249 jufi 2374: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
2375: <ul>
2376: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2377: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
2378: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2379: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 2380: </strong></font><br>
2381: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
2382: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 2383: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 2384: <p>
1.334 ian 2385:
2386: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2387: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
2388: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
2389: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
2390: </strong></font><br>
2391: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
2392: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
2393: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
2394: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
2395: "... the hypothetical question ...
2396: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
2397: <br>
2398: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
2399: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
2400: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
2401: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
2402: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
2403: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 2404: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 2405: support network security.
2406: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
2407: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
2408: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
2409: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
2410: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
2411: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
2412: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
2413: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
2414: <br>
2415: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
2416: <p>
2417:
1.249 jufi 2418: </ul>
2419:
1.246 jufi 2420: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2421: <ul>
1.246 jufi 2422:
1.247 jufi 2423: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2424: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 2425: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2426: CNET News.com, December 4, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2427: </strong></font><br>
2428: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
2429: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
2430: <p>
2431:
1.247 jufi 2432: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2433: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
2434: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2435: Heise News-Ticker, December 4, 2002
1.301 jose 2436: </strong></font><br>
1.460 david 2437: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III CPU
1.301 jose 2438: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
2439: <p>
2440:
2441: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2442: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 2443: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2444: eWeek, December 3, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2445: </strong></font><br>
2446: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
2447: in their annual OpenHack security test.
2448: <p>
1.247 jufi 2449: </ul>
1.246 jufi 2450:
1.244 jufi 2451: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2452: <ul>
1.246 jufi 2453:
1.247 jufi 2454: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2455: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
2456: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
2457: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2458: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2459: </strong></font><br>
2460: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
2461: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
2462: md5 digests.
2463: <p>
2464:
1.247 jufi 2465: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2466: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 2467: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
2468: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2469: </strong></font><br>
2470: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
2471: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
2472: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
2473: right the first time."
2474: <p>
1.247 jufi 2475: </ul>
1.244 jufi 2476:
2477:
2478: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2479: <ul>
1.244 jufi 2480:
1.247 jufi 2481: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2482: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2483: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
2484: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2485: </strong></font><br>
2486: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
2487: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
2488: part 6</a>.
2489: <p>
2490:
1.247 jufi 2491: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2492: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 2493: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
2494: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2495: O'Reilly Network, August 8, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2496: </strong></font><br>
2497: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
2498: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
2499: <p>
1.301 jose 2500:
2501: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2502: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
2503: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
2504: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
2505: </strong></font><br>
2506:
2507: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
2508: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
2509: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
2510: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
2511: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
2512: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
2513: <i>Here's the
2514: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
2515: <p>
1.247 jufi 2516: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2517:
2518: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2519: <ul>
1.242 jufi 2520:
1.247 jufi 2521: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2522: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 2523: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2524: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2525: </strong></font><br>
2526: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
2527: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
2528: <p>
2529:
1.247 jufi 2530: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2531: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2532: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2533: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 1, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2534: </strong></font><br>
2535: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
2536: this time using pf.
2537: <p>
1.247 jufi 2538: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2539:
2540: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2541: <ul>
1.242 jufi 2542:
1.247 jufi 2543: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2544: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2545: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
2546: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2547: </strong></font><br>
2548: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
2549: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
2550: their rotation.
2551: <p>
2552:
1.247 jufi 2553: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2554: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2555: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2556: O'Reilly Network, June 6, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2557: </strong></font><br>
2558: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
2559: <p>
1.247 jufi 2560: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2561:
1.239 jufi 2562: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2563: <ul>
1.239 jufi 2564:
1.247 jufi 2565: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2566: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2567: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
2568: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2569: </strong></font><br>
2570: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
2571: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
2572: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
2573: <p>
2574:
1.247 jufi 2575: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 2576: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2577: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
2578: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 2579: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 2580: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
2581: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
2582: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 2583: <p>
1.247 jufi 2584: </ul>
1.239 jufi 2585:
1.235 lebel 2586: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2587: <ul>
1.235 lebel 2588:
1.239 jufi 2589:
1.247 jufi 2590: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 2591: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 2592: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
2593: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 2594: </strong></font><br>
2595: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
2596: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
2597: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
2598: <p>
1.301 jose 2599:
1.247 jufi 2600: </ul>
1.235 lebel 2601:
1.228 horacio 2602: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2603: <ul>
1.228 horacio 2604:
1.247 jufi 2605: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2606: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2607: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
2608: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 2609: </strong></font><br>
2610: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
2611: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
2612: <p>
2613:
1.247 jufi 2614: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 2615: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 2616: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
2617: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 2618: </strong></font><br>
2619: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
2620: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
2621: <p>
2622:
1.247 jufi 2623: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 2624: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 2625: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
2626: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 2627: </strong></font><br>
2628: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
2629: on the desktop of his parents.
2630: <p>
2631:
1.247 jufi 2632: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 2633: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 2634: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
2635: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 2636: </strong></font><br>
2637: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
2638: using IPFilter.
2639:
2640: <p>
2641:
1.247 jufi 2642: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 2643: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 2644: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
2645: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 2646: </strong></font><br>
2647: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
2648: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
2649: perspectives of the four OS.
2650: <br>
2651: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 2652: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 2653: <p>
2654:
1.247 jufi 2655: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 2656: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
2657: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 2658: software and security</a>,
2659: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 2660: </strong></font><br>
2661:
2662: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
2663: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
2664: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
2665: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
2666: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
2667: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
2668: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
2669: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
2670: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
2671: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
2672: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
2673: security conscious team beyond doubt.
2674: <p>
1.247 jufi 2675: </ul>
1.228 horacio 2676:
1.225 horacio 2677: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2678: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2679:
1.247 jufi 2680: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2681: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
2682: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 2683: Interview</a>,
2684: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 2685: </strong></font><br>
2686:
2687: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
2688: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
2689: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 2690: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 2691: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
2692: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
2693: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
2694: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
2695: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 2696: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 2697: of choice.
2698: <p>
1.247 jufi 2699: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2700:
2701: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2702: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2703:
1.247 jufi 2704: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2705: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 2706: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
2707: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 2708: </strong></font><br>
2709:
2710: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
2711: <p>
2712:
1.247 jufi 2713: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2714: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 2715: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
2716: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 2717: </strong></font><br>
2718:
2719: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
2720: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
2721: <p>
1.247 jufi 2722: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2723:
1.218 horacio 2724: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2725: <ul>
1.218 horacio 2726:
1.247 jufi 2727: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 2728: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 2729: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 2730: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 2731: </strong></font><br>
2732:
2733: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
2734: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
2735: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
2736: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
2737: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
2738: subjects. Worth a read.
2739: <p>
2740:
2741:
1.247 jufi 2742: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 2743: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 2744: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
2745: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 2746: </strong></font><br>
2747:
2748: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
2749: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
2750: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
2751: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
2752: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
2753: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
2754: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
2755: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
2756: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 2757: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 2758: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
2759: on other operating systems.<br>
2760: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
2761: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
2762: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
2763: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
2764: <p>
2765:
1.247 jufi 2766: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2767: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 2768: Operating System 2010</a>,
2769: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 2770: </strong></font><br>
2771:
2772: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
2773: covering the level of software integration into the core
2774: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
2775: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
2776: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
2777: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
2778: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
2779: <p>
2780:
1.247 jufi 2781: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 2782: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2783: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
2784: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 2785: </strong></font><br>
2786:
2787: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
2788: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
2789: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
2790: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
2791: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
2792: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
2793: <p>
1.247 jufi 2794: </ul>
1.221 horacio 2795:
1.210 jufi 2796: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2797: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2798:
1.247 jufi 2799: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2800: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2801: Already a Contender</a>,
2802: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 2803: </strong></font><br>
2804:
2805: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
2806: source software in response to an article which claimed that
2807: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
2808: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
2809: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
2810: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
2811: <p>
2812:
1.247 jufi 2813: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 2814: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 2815: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
2816: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 2817: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2818:
1.224 horacio 2819: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
2820: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
2821: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
2822: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
2823: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
2824: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 2825: <p>
1.247 jufi 2826: </ul>
1.215 horacio 2827:
2828: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2829: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2830:
1.247 jufi 2831: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2832: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
2833: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 2834: Division</a>,
2835: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 2836: </strong></font><br>
2837:
2838: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
2839: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 2840: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 2841: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
2842: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
2843: investment</em>.<br>
2844: The implementation details can be seen on their
2845: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
2846: <p>
2847:
1.247 jufi 2848: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2849: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
2850: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
2851: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
2852: </strong></font><br>
2853:
2854: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
2855: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
2856: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1.475 grunk 2857: laptops and T-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1.301 jose 2858: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
2859: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
2860: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
2861: <p>
2862:
2863: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2864: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2865: Thinking about Security</a>,
2866: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2867: </strong></font><br>
2868:
2869: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
2870: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
2871: security and says that even secured operating systems running
2872: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
2873: to time.<br>
2874: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
2875: system and just the most secure system.
2876: <p>
2877:
1.247 jufi 2878: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2879: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2880: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
2881: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2882: </strong></font><br>
2883:
2884: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
2885: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
2886: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
2887: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
2888: choice:<br>
2889: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
2890: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
2891: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
2892: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
2893: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
2894: network security devices and as such must be well
2895: armored."</em><br>
2896: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
2897: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
2898: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
2899: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
2900: <br>
2901: Bravo!
2902: <p>
1.247 jufi 2903: </ul>
1.210 jufi 2904:
1.207 ian 2905: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2906: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2907:
1.247 jufi 2908: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 2909: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
2910: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
2911: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 2912:
1.207 ian 2913: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
2914: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 2915: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 2916: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
2917: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
2918: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 2919: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 2920: <p>
1.247 jufi 2921: </ul>
1.207 ian 2922:
1.194 jufi 2923: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2924: <ul>
1.194 jufi 2925:
1.247 jufi 2926: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2927: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 2928: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
2929: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 2930: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2931:
1.240 miod 2932: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 2933: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
2934: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
2935: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
2936: <p>
2937:
1.247 jufi 2938: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2939: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
2940: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
2941: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
2942:
2943: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
2944: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
2945: <p>
2946:
2947: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2948: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
2949: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2950: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
2951:
2952: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
2953: <p>
2954:
2955: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2956: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 2957: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
2958: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
2959: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2960:
1.240 miod 2961: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 2962: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 2963: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
2964: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 2965: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 2966: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 2967: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
2968: <br>
1.413 deraadt 2969: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 2970: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
2971: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
2972: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
2973: <p>
2974:
1.247 jufi 2975: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 2976: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
2977: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 2978: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 2979: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2980:
1.194 jufi 2981: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
2982: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
2983: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
2984: <br>
2985: The new
2986: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 2987: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 2988: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
2989: <p>
1.247 jufi 2990: </ul>
1.194 jufi 2991:
1.190 horacio 2992: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2993: <ul>
1.190 horacio 2994:
1.247 jufi 2995: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 2996:
2997: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
2998: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
2999:
1.301 jose 3000:
1.191 jufi 3001: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
3002: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
3003:
3004: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
3005: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
3006:
1.212 horacio 3007: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
3008: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 3009: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
3010:
1.211 horacio 3011: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
3012: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 3013: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
3014:
1.247 jufi 3015: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 3016: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
3017:
1.247 jufi 3018: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 3019: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
3020:
1.212 horacio 3021: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
3022: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 3023: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
3024:
3025: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
3026: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
3027:
3028: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
3029: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
3030:
1.301 jose 3031: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
3032: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
3033:
1.191 jufi 3034: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
3035: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
3036:
3037: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 3038: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 3039:
1.192 jufi 3040: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
3041: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 3042: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 3043:
1.193 deraadt 3044: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
3045: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 3046: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 3047:
1.247 jufi 3048: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 3049: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
3050:
1.247 jufi 3051: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 3052: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
3053: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
3054:
1.213 horacio 3055: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 3056: 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 3057: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
3058:
1.190 horacio 3059: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 3060: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
3061: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
3062: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
3063: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
3064: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
3065: <p>
1.190 horacio 3066:
1.247 jufi 3067: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3068: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
3069: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
3070: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 3071: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3072:
1.195 jufi 3073: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 3074: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
3075: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
3076: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 3077: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
3078: <p>
3079:
1.247 jufi 3080: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3081: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 3082: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
3083: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
3084: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3085:
1.191 jufi 3086: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 3087: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
3088: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
3089: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
3090: <p>
3091:
3092: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3093: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
3094: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3095: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
3096:
3097: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
3098: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 3099: <p>
1.247 jufi 3100: </ul>
1.190 horacio 3101:
1.191 jufi 3102:
1.186 jufi 3103: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3104: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 3105:
1.247 jufi 3106: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 3107: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 3108: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
3109: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 3110: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 3111:
1.188 jufi 3112: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 3113: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 3114: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 3115: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
3116: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 3117: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 3118: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 3119: <p>
3120:
1.301 jose 3121: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3122: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
3123: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3124: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
3125:
3126: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
3127: <p>
1.191 jufi 3128:
1.247 jufi 3129: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 3130: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
3131: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3132: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 5, 2001
1.191 jufi 3133: </strong></font><br>
3134:
3135: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
3136: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
3137: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
3138: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
3139: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
3140: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
3141: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
3142: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
3143: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
3144: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
3145: familiar?
3146: <p>
1.247 jufi 3147: </ul>
1.191 jufi 3148:
1.178 louis 3149: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3150: <ul>
1.178 louis 3151:
1.247 jufi 3152: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 3153: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 3154: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
3155: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 3156: </strong></font><br>
3157:
3158: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
3159: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
3160: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
3161: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
3162: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
3163: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
3164: <p>
3165:
1.247 jufi 3166: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3167: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
3168: Open source under the hood</a>,
3169: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 3170: </strong></font><br>
3171:
3172: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
3173: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
3174: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
3175: <p>
3176:
1.247 jufi 3177: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3178: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
3179: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
3180: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 3181: </strong></font><br>
3182:
3183: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
3184: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
3185: <p>
1.247 jufi 3186: </ul>
1.179 louis 3187:
1.174 louis 3188:
1.175 louis 3189: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3190: <ul>
1.175 louis 3191:
1.247 jufi 3192: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3193: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
3194: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
3195: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 3196: </strong></font><br>
3197:
3198: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
3199: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
3200: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
3201: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
3202: <p>
3203:
1.247 jufi 3204: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3205: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
3206: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
3207: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 3208: </strong></font><br>
3209:
3210: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 3211: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 3212: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
3213: <p>
1.247 jufi 3214: </ul>
1.175 louis 3215:
1.176 louis 3216:
1.172 mickey 3217: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3218: <ul>
1.172 mickey 3219:
1.247 jufi 3220: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3221: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
3222: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 3223: </strong></font><br>
3224:
3225: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
3226: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
3227: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 3228: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 3229: <p>
3230:
1.247 jufi 3231: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 3232: <a
1.269 deraadt 3233: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
3234: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
3235: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 3236: </strong></font><br>
3237:
3238: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
3239: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
3240: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
3241: <p>
3242:
1.247 jufi 3243: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3244: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 3245: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
3246: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 3247: </strong></font><br>
3248:
3249: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
3250: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
3251: <p>
3252:
1.247 jufi 3253: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3254: <a
1.269 deraadt 3255: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
3256: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 3257: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
3258: </strong></font><br>
3259:
3260: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
3261: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
3262: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
3263: our own Theo de Raadt.
3264: <p>
3265:
1.247 jufi 3266: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3267: <a
1.269 deraadt 3268: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
3269: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
3270: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 3271: </strong></font><br>
3272:
3273: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
3274: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
3275: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
3276: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
3277: shut down.]
3278: <p>
3279:
1.247 jufi 3280: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3281: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 3282: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 3283: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
3284: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 3285: </strong></font><br>
3286:
3287: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
3288: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
3289: <p>
1.247 jufi 3290: </ul>
1.172 mickey 3291:
1.161 louis 3292: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3293: <ul>
1.161 louis 3294:
1.247 jufi 3295: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 3296: <a
1.269 deraadt 3297: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
3298: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
3299: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 3300: </strong></font><br>
3301:
3302: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
3303: by John Wolley
3304: <p>
3305:
1.247 jufi 3306: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 3307: <a
1.269 deraadt 3308: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
3309: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
3310: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 3311: </strong></font><br>
3312:
3313: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
3314: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
3315: OpenBSD).
3316: <p>
3317:
1.247 jufi 3318: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 3319: <a
1.247 jufi 3320: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 3321: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
3322: </strong></font><br>
3323:
3324: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
3325: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
3326: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
3327: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
3328: and hindsight.
3329: <p>
3330:
1.247 jufi 3331: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3332: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
3333: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
3334: </strong></font><br>
3335:
3336: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
3337: <p>
3338:
1.247 jufi 3339: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 3340: <a
1.168 provos 3341: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
3342: December 7, 2000
3343: </strong></font><br>
3344:
3345: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
3346: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
3347: us explain.
3348: <p>
3349:
1.247 jufi 3350: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 3351: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
3352: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 3353: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 3354: December 6, 2000
3355: </strong></font><br>
3356:
3357: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
3358: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
3359: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
3360: <p>
3361:
1.247 jufi 3362: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3363: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
3364: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
3365: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
3366: </strong></font><br>
3367:
3368: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
3369: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
3370: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
3371: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
3372: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
3373: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
3374: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
3375: <p>
3376:
3377: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 3378: <a
1.226 horacio 3379: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
3380: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 3381: </strong></font><br>
3382:
3383: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 3384: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 3385: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 3386: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
3387: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
3388: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 3389: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 3390: <p>
1.162 millert 3391:
1.247 jufi 3392: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 3393: <a
1.161 louis 3394: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
3395: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
3396: </strong></font><br>
3397:
3398: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
3399: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
3400: <p>
3401:
1.247 jufi 3402: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3403: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
3404: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
3405: </strong></font><br>
3406:
3407: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
3408: <p>
3409:
3410:
1.247 jufi 3411: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 3412: <a
1.226 horacio 3413: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
3414: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
3415: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 3416: </strong></font><br>
3417:
3418: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
3419: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
3420: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
3421: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
3422: <p>
1.247 jufi 3423: </ul>
1.169 louis 3424:
1.158 louis 3425: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3426: <ul>
1.147 louis 3427:
1.247 jufi 3428: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3429: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
3430: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 3431: </strong></font><br>
3432:
3433: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
3434: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
3435: <p>
3436:
1.247 jufi 3437: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3438: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
3439: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
3440: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 3441: </strong></font><br>
3442: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
3443: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
3444: <p>
3445:
1.247 jufi 3446: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 3447: <a
3448: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
3449: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
3450: </strong></font><br>
3451:
3452: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
3453: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
3454: <p>
3455:
1.247 jufi 3456: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3457: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 3458: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
3459: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 3460:
1.213 horacio 3461: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 3462: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 3463: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
3464: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
3465: <p>
1.215 horacio 3466:
1.247 jufi 3467: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3468: <a
3469: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
3470: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
3471: </strong></font><br>
3472:
3473: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
3474: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
3475: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
3476: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
3477: much of the attitude too).
3478: <p>
1.161 louis 3479:
1.247 jufi 3480: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3481: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3482: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 3483: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3484:
1.157 louis 3485: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
3486: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
3487: <p>
1.247 jufi 3488: </ul>
1.157 louis 3489:
3490: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3491: <ul>
1.157 louis 3492:
1.247 jufi 3493: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3494: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3495: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 3496: </strong></font><br>
3497:
3498: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
3499: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
3500: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
3501: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
3502: <p>
3503:
1.247 jufi 3504: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 3505: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
3506: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
3507: </strong></font><br>
3508:
3509: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
3510: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
3511: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
3512: it because they love coding...
3513: <p>
3514:
1.247 jufi 3515: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 3516: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
3517: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
3518: </strong></font><br>
3519:
3520: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
3521: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
3522: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
3523: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
3524: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
3525: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
3526: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
3527: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
3528: <p>
3529:
1.247 jufi 3530: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3531: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
3532: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
3533: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 3534: </strong></font><br>
3535:
3536: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
3537: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
3538: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
3539: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
3540: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
3541: the pizza.
3542: <p>
3543:
1.247 jufi 3544: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 3545: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
3546: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
3547: </strong></font><br>
3548:
3549: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
3550: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
3551: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
3552: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
3553: problems.
3554: <p>
3555:
1.247 jufi 3556: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 3557: <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 3558: </strong></font><br>
3559:
1.222 miod 3560: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 3561: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
3562: - whether they like it or not.
3563: <p>
3564:
1.247 jufi 3565: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3566: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
3567: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 3568: </strong></font><br>
3569:
3570: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
3571: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
3572: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 3573: <p>
1.148 aaron 3574:
1.247 jufi 3575: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3576: <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 3577: </strong></font><br>
3578:
3579: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
3580: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
3581: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
3582: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
3583: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
3584: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
3585: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
3586: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
3587: <p>
3588:
1.247 jufi 3589: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3590: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
3591: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 3592: </strong></font><br>
3593:
3594: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
3595: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 3596: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 3597: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
3598: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
3599: <p>
1.247 jufi 3600: </ul>
1.147 louis 3601:
1.138 louis 3602: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3603: <ul>
1.138 louis 3604:
1.247 jufi 3605: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3606: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
3607: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
3608: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
3609: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 3610: </strong></font><br>
3611:
1.227 horacio 3612: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 3613: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
3614: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
3615: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
3616: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
3617: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
3618: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
3619: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 3620: <p>
3621:
1.247 jufi 3622: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 3623: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 3624: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 3625: </strong></font><br>
3626:
3627: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
3628: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
3629: groups, and even Linux.
3630: <p>
3631:
1.247 jufi 3632: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3633: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
3634: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 3635: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
3636: </strong></font><br>
3637:
3638: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
3639: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
3640: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
3641: library after installing the OS.
3642: <p>
3643:
1.247 jufi 3644: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3645: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 3646: Sys Admin, September 2000
3647: </strong></font><br>
3648:
3649: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
3650: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
3651: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
3652: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 3653: (<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>,
3654: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
3655: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
3656: <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 3657: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 3658: out of the system.
3659: <p>
3660:
1.247 jufi 3661: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 3662: <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
3663: </strong></font><br>
3664:
3665: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 3666: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 3667: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
3668: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
3669: the IP filtering and address translation.
3670: <p>
1.301 jose 3671:
3672: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3673: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
3674: </strong></font><br>
3675:
3676: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
3677: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
3678: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
3679: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
3680: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
3681: <p>
1.247 jufi 3682: </ul>
1.200 niklas 3683:
1.131 louis 3684: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3685: <ul>
1.131 louis 3686:
1.247 jufi 3687: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3688: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
3689: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
3690: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 3691: </strong></font><br>
3692:
3693: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
3694: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
3695: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
3696: <p>
3697:
1.247 jufi 3698: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 3699: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
3700: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
3701: </strong></font><br>
3702:
3703: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
3704: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
3705: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
3706: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
3707: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
3708: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
3709: note of"</i>.
3710: <p>
3711:
1.247 jufi 3712: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 3713: <a
1.247 jufi 3714: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 3715: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
3716: </strong></font><br>
3717:
3718: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
3719: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
3720: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
3721: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
3722: <p>
3723:
1.247 jufi 3724: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 3725: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 3726: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
3727: </strong></font><br>
3728:
3729: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
3730: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
3731: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
3732: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
3733: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
3734: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
3735: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
3736: <p>
3737:
1.247 jufi 3738: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 3739: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
3740: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
3741: 2000
3742: </strong></font><br>
3743:
3744: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
3745: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
3746: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
3747: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
3748: against current industry practices.
3749: <p>
3750:
1.247 jufi 3751: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 3752: <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
3753: </strong></font><br>
3754:
3755: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
3756: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
3757: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
3758: <p>
3759:
1.247 jufi 3760: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 3761: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
3762: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
3763: </strong></font><br>
3764:
3765: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
3766: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
3767: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
3768: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
3769: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
3770: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
3771: careful code reviews, he concludes.
3772: <p>
3773:
1.247 jufi 3774: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 3775: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
3776: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
3777: </strong></font><br>
3778:
3779: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
3780: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
3781: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
3782: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
3783: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 3784: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
3785: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
3786: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 3787: <p>
1.247 jufi 3788: </ul>
1.131 louis 3789:
1.118 louis 3790: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3791: <ul>
1.118 louis 3792:
1.247 jufi 3793: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 3794: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
3795: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
3796: </strong></font><br>
3797:
3798: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
3799: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
3800: about time. The article mentions that
3801: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
3802: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
3803: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 3804: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 3805: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
3806: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 3807: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 3808: <p>
3809:
1.247 jufi 3810: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3811: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 3812: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3813: </strong></font><br>
3814:
3815: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
3816: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
3817: of OpenSSH.
3818: <p>
3819:
1.247 jufi 3820: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3821: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3822: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3823: </strong></font><br>
3824:
3825: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 3826: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 3827: bridging.
3828: <p>
3829:
1.247 jufi 3830: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3831: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
3832: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 3833: </strong></font><br>
3834:
1.121 deraadt 3835: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
3836: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 3837: <p>
3838:
1.247 jufi 3839: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3840: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
3841: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
3842: </strong></font><br>
3843:
3844: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
3845: <p>
3846:
1.247 jufi 3847: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 3848: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3849: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
3850: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 3851: </strong></font><br>
3852:
1.120 deraadt 3853: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
3854: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 3855: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
3856: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
3857: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
3858: <p>
3859:
1.247 jufi 3860: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 3861: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
3862: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
3863: </strong></font><br>
3864:
1.222 miod 3865: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 3866: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
3867: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
3868: protocols and their quirks.
3869: <p>
3870:
1.247 jufi 3871: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3872: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
3873: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 3874: </strong></font><br>
3875:
3876: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
3877: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
3878: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 3879: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 3880: <p>
3881:
1.247 jufi 3882: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 3883: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
3884: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
3885: </strong></font><br>
3886:
3887: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
3888: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
3889: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
3890: <p>
3891:
1.247 jufi 3892: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 3893: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3894: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
3895: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 3896: </strong></font><br>
3897:
3898: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
3899: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
3900: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
3901: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
3902: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
3903: <p>
1.247 jufi 3904: </ul>
1.118 louis 3905:
1.104 louis 3906: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3907: <ul>
1.104 louis 3908:
1.247 jufi 3909: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 3910: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
3911: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
3912: </strong></font><br>
3913:
3914: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
3915: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
3916: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
3917: be a bit dry.
3918: <p>
3919:
1.247 jufi 3920: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3921: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
3922: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
3923: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
3924: </strong></font><br>
3925: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
3926: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
3927: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
3928: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
3929: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
3930: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
3931: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
3932: <p>
3933:
1.247 jufi 3934: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3935: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
3936: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 3937: 2000
1.128 louis 3938: </strong></font><br>
3939:
3940: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
3941: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
3942: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
3943: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
3944: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 3945: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 3946: <p>
3947:
1.247 jufi 3948: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3949: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
3950: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 3951: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 3952:
3953: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
3954: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
3955: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
3956: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 3957: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
3958: <p>
1.110 louis 3959:
1.247 jufi 3960: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 3961: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
3962: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
3963: </strong></font><br>
3964:
3965: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
3966: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
3967: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
3968: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
3969: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
3970: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
3971: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
3972: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
3973: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
3974: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
3975: <p>
3976:
1.247 jufi 3977: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 3978: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3979: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 3980:
3981: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
3982: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 3983: <p>
1.108 louis 3984:
1.247 jufi 3985: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 3986: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
3987: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 3988: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 3989:
3990: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
3991: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
3992: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 3993: <p>
1.106 louis 3994:
1.247 jufi 3995: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 3996: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
3997: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 3998: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 3999:
4000: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
4001: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
4002: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
4003: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 4004: <p>
1.107 louis 4005:
1.247 jufi 4006: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4007: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
4008: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 4009: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 4010:
4011: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
4012: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 4013: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 4014: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
4015: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 4016: <p>
1.105 louis 4017:
1.247 jufi 4018: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 4019: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 4020: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 4021: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 4022:
1.113 naddy 4023: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
4024: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 4025: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 4026: <p>
1.104 louis 4027:
1.247 jufi 4028: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4029: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
4030: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
4031: </strong></font><br>
4032:
4033: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
4034: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
4035: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
4036: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
4037: <p>
1.301 jose 4038:
4039: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4040: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
4041: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
4042: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
4043:
4044: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
4045: hardware-supported cryptography.
4046: <p>
1.247 jufi 4047: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 4048:
1.85 louis 4049: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4050: <ul>
1.85 louis 4051:
1.247 jufi 4052: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4053: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 4054: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 4055: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 4056:
4057: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
4058: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
4059: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
4060: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
4061: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
4062: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
4063: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 4064: <p>
1.99 louis 4065:
1.247 jufi 4066: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4067: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 4068: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 4069: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 4070:
4071: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
4072: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
4073: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
4074: conditions.
1.113 naddy 4075: <p>
1.100 louis 4076:
1.247 jufi 4077: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4078: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 4079: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 4080: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 4081:
4082: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
4083: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
4084: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
4085: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 4086: <p>
1.95 louis 4087:
1.247 jufi 4088: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4089: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 4090: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 4091: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 4092:
4093: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
4094: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 4095: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 4096: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
4097: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4098: <p>
1.92 louis 4099:
1.247 jufi 4100: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4101: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 4102: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 4103: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 4104:
4105: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
4106: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
4107: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
4108: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
4109: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
4110: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 4111: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 4112: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 4113: <p>
1.91 louis 4114:
1.247 jufi 4115: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4116: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
4117: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 4118: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 4119:
4120: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
4121: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
4122: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
4123: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
4124: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
4125: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
4126: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
4127: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
4128: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 4129: <p>
1.90 louis 4130:
1.247 jufi 4131: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 4132: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
4133: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
4134: </strong></font><br>
4135: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
4136: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
4137: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
4138: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
4139: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
4140: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
4141: <p>
4142:
1.247 jufi 4143: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 4144: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
4145: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 4146: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 4147:
1.113 naddy 4148: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
4149: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 4150: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
4151: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
4152: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
4153: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
4154: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 4155: <p>
1.87 louis 4156:
1.247 jufi 4157: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 4158: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
4159: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 4160: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 4161:
4162: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 4163: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 4164: <p>
1.85 louis 4165:
1.247 jufi 4166: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4167: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
4168: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4169: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
4170:
4171: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
4172: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
4173: <p>
4174:
4175: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 4176: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
4177: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 4178: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 4179:
4180: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 4181: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 4182: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
4183: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 4184: <p>
1.89 louis 4185:
1.247 jufi 4186: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 4187: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
4188: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 4189: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 4190:
4191: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
4192: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
4193: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
4194: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
4195: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 4196: </ul>
1.85 louis 4197:
1.78 deraadt 4198: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4199: <ul>
1.74 louis 4200:
1.247 jufi 4201: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4202: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 4203: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 4204: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 4205: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 4206:
4207: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
4208: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
4209: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4210: <p>
1.83 louis 4211:
1.247 jufi 4212: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 4213: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
4214: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 4215: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 4216:
4217: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
4218: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 4219: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 4220: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
4221: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 4222: <p>
1.93 louis 4223:
1.247 jufi 4224: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4225: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
4226: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
4227: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 4228: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 4229:
1.83 louis 4230: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
4231: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
4232: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
4233: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
4234: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 4235: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
4236: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
4237: <p>
1.82 aaron 4238:
1.247 jufi 4239: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4240: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 4241: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 4242: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 4243:
1.83 louis 4244: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
4245: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
4246: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 4247: <p>
1.80 louis 4248:
1.247 jufi 4249: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4250: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 4251: Bad Press</a>,
4252: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 4253: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 4254:
4255: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 4256: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 4257: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
4258: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
4259: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 4260: <p>
1.247 jufi 4261: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 4262:
4263: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4264: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 4265:
1.247 jufi 4266: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4267: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
4268: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 4269: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 4270: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 4271:
4272: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
4273: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
4274: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
4275: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 4276: <p>
1.74 louis 4277:
1.247 jufi 4278: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 4279: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
4280: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 4281: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 4282:
1.219 horacio 4283: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
4284: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
4285: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
4286: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
4287: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
4288: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
4289: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 4290: <p>
1.88 louis 4291:
1.247 jufi 4292: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 4293: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 4294: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 4295: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 4296:
4297: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
4298: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
4299: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
4300: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 4301: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 4302: <p>
1.81 louis 4303:
1.247 jufi 4304: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4305: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 4306: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 4307: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 4308:
4309: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
4310: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
4311: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
4312: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
4313: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
4314: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
4315: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 4316: <p>
1.90 louis 4317:
1.247 jufi 4318: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4319: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 4320: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 4321: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 4322:
4323: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
4324: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
4325: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 4326: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 4327: <p>
1.247 jufi 4328: </ul>
1.71 louis 4329:
1.69 deraadt 4330: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4331: <ul>
1.70 louis 4332:
1.247 jufi 4333: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4334: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
4335: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 4336: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 4337:
4338: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
4339: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
4340: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 4341: <p>
1.70 louis 4342:
1.247 jufi 4343: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4344: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
4345: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 4346: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 4347:
4348: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 4349: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 4350: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 4351: <p>
1.68 louis 4352:
1.247 jufi 4353: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4354: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
4355: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 4356: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 4357: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 4358:
1.111 jufi 4359: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
4360: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 4361: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 4362: "secure by default" installation.
4363: <p>
1.64 louis 4364:
1.247 jufi 4365: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 4366: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 4367: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 4368: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 4369:
1.113 naddy 4370: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 4371: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 4372: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 4373: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
4374: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
4375: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 4376: <p>
1.66 louis 4377:
1.247 jufi 4378: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4379: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 4380: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4381: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 4382:
4383: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 4384: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 4385: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
4386: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
4387: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 4388: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
4389: <p>
1.83 louis 4390:
1.247 jufi 4391: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4392: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 4393: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4394: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 4395:
4396: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 4397: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
4398: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 4399: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
4400: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 4401: <p>
1.64 louis 4402:
1.247 jufi 4403: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4404: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 4405: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4406: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 4407:
4408: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
4409: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 4410: <p>
1.301 jose 4411:
4412: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4413: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
4414: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
4415: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
4416: </strong></font><br>
4417:
4418: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
4419: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
4420: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
4421: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
4422: Giving way to
4423: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
4424: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
4425: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
4426: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
4427: <p>
1.247 jufi 4428: </ul>
1.65 louis 4429:
1.69 deraadt 4430: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4431: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4432:
1.247 jufi 4433: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4434: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 4435: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 4436: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 4437:
4438: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
4439: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
4440: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
4441: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 4442: <p>
1.88 louis 4443:
1.247 jufi 4444: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4445: <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 4446: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 4447:
4448: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 4449: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
4450: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 4451: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
4452: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 4453: <p>
1.60 louis 4454:
1.247 jufi 4455: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 4456: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 4457: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 4458: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 4459: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4460:
4461: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
4462: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
4463: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 4464: <p>
1.58 louis 4465:
1.247 jufi 4466: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 4467: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 4468: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 4469:
4470: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
4471: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 4472: <p>
1.53 louis 4473:
1.247 jufi 4474: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 4475: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
4476: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 4477: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 4478:
4479: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
4480: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
4481: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 4482: <p>
1.99 louis 4483:
1.247 jufi 4484: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 4485: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 4486: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4487:
4488: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
4489: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 4490: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 4491: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 4492: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 4493:
1.247 jufi 4494: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4495: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
4496: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 4497: </strong></font><br>
4498:
4499: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
4500: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
4501: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
4502: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
4503: <p>
4504:
1.247 jufi 4505: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4506: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 4507: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 4508: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4509:
4510: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
4511: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 4512: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 4513:
1.247 jufi 4514: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 4515: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 4516: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 4517:
4518: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 4519: in
1.247 jufi 4520: <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 4521: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 4522: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 4523: <p>
1.53 louis 4524:
1.247 jufi 4525: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4526: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 4527: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
4528: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 4529: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 4530:
1.58 louis 4531: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4532: <p>
1.301 jose 4533:
4534: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4535: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
4536: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
4537: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
4538: Informacyjny, January 2000
4539: </strong></font><br>
4540:
4541: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
4542: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
4543: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
4544: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
4545: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
4546: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
4547: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
4548: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
4549: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
4550: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 4551: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
4552: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 4553: <p>
4554:
4555: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4556: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4557: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
4558: </strong></font><br>
4559:
4560: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
4561: <p>
4562: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 4563:
1.69 deraadt 4564: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4565: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4566:
1.247 jufi 4567: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4568: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
4569: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
4570: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 4571: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4572:
1.58 louis 4573: Kurt Seifried
4574: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4575: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
4576: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 4577: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 4578:
1.247 jufi 4579: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4580: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 4581: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4582: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 4583:
4584: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 4585: <p>
1.96 louis 4586:
1.247 jufi 4587: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4588: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
4589: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
4590: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
4591: </strong></font><br>
4592:
4593: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
4594: <p>
4595:
4596: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4597: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 4598: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 4599: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 4600:
4601: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
4602: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 4603: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 4604: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 4605: <p>
1.247 jufi 4606: </ul>
1.86 louis 4607:
1.69 deraadt 4608: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4609: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4610:
1.247 jufi 4611: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4612: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
4613: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 4614: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 4615:
4616: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
4617: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 4618: <p>
1.61 louis 4619:
1.247 jufi 4620: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4621: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 4622: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
4623: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4624: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 4625:
4626: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 4627: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 4628: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
4629: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 4630: right -- or at least strives to".
4631: <p>
1.48 louis 4632:
1.247 jufi 4633: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4634: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
4635: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4636: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 4637: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
4638: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
4639: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
4640: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 4641: <p>
1.61 louis 4642:
1.247 jufi 4643: <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 4644: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4645: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 4646:
4647: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
4648: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
4649: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
4650: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 4651: <p>
1.46 louis 4652:
1.247 jufi 4653: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4654: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
4655: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4656: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4657:
4658: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
4659: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 4660: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 4661:
1.247 jufi 4662: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 4663: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
4664: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 4665: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 4666:
4667: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
4668: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
4669: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
4670: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 4671: <p>
1.247 jufi 4672: </ul>
1.70 louis 4673:
1.69 deraadt 4674: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4675: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4676:
1.247 jufi 4677: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4678: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
4679: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 4680: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 4681: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 4682:
4683: Kurt Seifried
4684: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4685: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
4686: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 4687: <p>
1.44 philen 4688:
1.247 jufi 4689: <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 4690: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 4691: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 4692:
4693: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 4694: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 4695:
1.247 jufi 4696: <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 4697: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 4698: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 4699:
4700: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 4701: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 4702:
1.247 jufi 4703: <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 4704: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 4705: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 4706:
4707: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
4708: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
4709: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
4710: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 4711: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 4712:
1.247 jufi 4713: <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 4714: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 4715: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 4716:
1.36 louis 4717: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 4718: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 4719:
1.247 jufi 4720: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 4721: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
4722: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 4723: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4724:
4725: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 4726: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 4727: </ul>
1.38 louis 4728:
1.69 deraadt 4729: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4730: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4731:
1.247 jufi 4732: <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 4733: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 4734: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 4735:
4736: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
4737: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 4738: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 4739:
1.113 naddy 4740: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 4741: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 4742: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 4743: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 4744:
4745: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
4746: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 4747: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
4748: terminal:
1.113 naddy 4749: <blockquote>
4750: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
4751: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
4752: <br>
4753: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
4754: </code>
4755: </blockquote>
4756: <p>
4757:
1.247 jufi 4758: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 4759: <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 4760: <p>
4761:
4762: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4763: <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 4764: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 4765:
4766: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
4767: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 4768: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 4769: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 4770:
1.247 jufi 4771: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4772: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
4773: Sept. 28, 1999
4774: </strong></font><br>
4775:
4776: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
4777: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
4778: translating and reprinting articles from
4779: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
4780: <p>
4781:
4782: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 4783: <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 4784: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 4785:
4786: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
4787: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
4788: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
4789: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
4790: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 4791: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 4792: <p>
1.19 louis 4793:
1.113 naddy 4794: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 4795: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 4796: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 4797:
4798: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
4799: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
4800: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 4801: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
4802: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 4803: <p>
1.16 louis 4804:
1.247 jufi 4805: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4806: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 4807: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 4808: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 4809:
1.57 louis 4810: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
4811: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
4812: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 4813: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 4814:
1.247 jufi 4815: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4816: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.466 deraadt 4817: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4818: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4819:
1.113 naddy 4820: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 4821:
1.247 jufi 4822: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4823: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
4824: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4825: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 4826:
1.23 louis 4827: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
4828: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
4829: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
4830: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
4831: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 4832: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 4833:
1.247 jufi 4834: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 4835: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
4836: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4837: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 4838:
1.199 pvalchev 4839: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 4840: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
4841: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
4842: installation.
1.113 naddy 4843: <p>
1.47 louis 4844:
1.247 jufi 4845: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4846: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 4847: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 4848: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4849:
1.301 jose 4850: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
4851: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
4852: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4853: </ul>
1.57 louis 4854:
1.69 deraadt 4855: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4856: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4857:
1.247 jufi 4858: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 4859: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 4860: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 4861: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 4862:
4863: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
4864: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 4865: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4866: <p>
1.12 louis 4867:
1.247 jufi 4868: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 4869: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 4870: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 4871: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 4872:
4873: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
4874: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 4875: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
4876: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
4877: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
4878: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
4879: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 4880: <p>
1.247 jufi 4881: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 4882:
1.69 deraadt 4883: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4884: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 4885:
1.247 jufi 4886: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 4887: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 4888: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 4889:
4890: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
4891: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
4892: available."
1.113 naddy 4893: <p>
1.301 jose 4894:
4895: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4896: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4897: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
4898: </strong></font><br>
4899:
4900: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
4901: <p>
1.247 jufi 4902: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 4903:
1.69 deraadt 4904: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4905: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4906:
1.247 jufi 4907: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 4908: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 4909: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 4910:
4911: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
4912: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
4913: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
4914: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
4915: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 4916: <p>
1.33 louis 4917:
1.247 jufi 4918: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4919: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 4920: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 4921: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4922:
1.113 naddy 4923: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
4924: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 4925: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
4926: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
4927: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 4928: <p>
1.247 jufi 4929: </ul>
1.57 louis 4930:
1.69 deraadt 4931: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4932: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4933:
1.247 jufi 4934: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4935: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 4936: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 4937: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4938:
4939: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
4940: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 4941: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4942:
1.247 jufi 4943: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 4944: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
4945: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
4946: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 4947: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 4948:
4949: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 4950: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 4951:
1.247 jufi 4952: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 4953: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4954:
1.113 naddy 4955: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 4956:
1.247 jufi 4957: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 4958: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
4959: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 4960: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4961:
4962: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 4963: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 4964: </ul>
1.23 louis 4965:
1.69 deraadt 4966: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4967: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4968:
1.247 jufi 4969: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 4970: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 4971: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4972:
4973: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
4974: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 4975: <p>
1.2 deraadt 4976:
1.247 jufi 4977: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4978: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 4979: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4980: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4981:
4982: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
4983: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 4984: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 4985: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4986: </ul>
1.57 louis 4987:
1.69 deraadt 4988: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4989: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4990:
1.247 jufi 4991: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 4992: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
4993: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 4994: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 4995:
4996: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
4997: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
4998: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
4999: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5000: <p>
1.15 louis 5001:
1.247 jufi 5002: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 5003: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
5004: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 5005: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5006:
5007: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
5008: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
5009: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
5010: columns."
1.113 naddy 5011: <p>
1.247 jufi 5012: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5013:
1.69 deraadt 5014: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5015: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5016:
1.247 jufi 5017: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5018: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 5019: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 5020: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5021:
5022: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 5023: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 5024:
1.113 naddy 5025: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5026: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 5027: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5028:
5029: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
5030: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 5031: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 5032: </ul>
1.57 louis 5033:
1.69 deraadt 5034: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5035: <ul>
1.301 jose 5036: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5037: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
5038: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
5039: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
5040:
5041: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
5042: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
5043: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
5044: <p>
5045:
5046: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5047: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
5048: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
5049: Nov 13, 1998 and
5050: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
5051: Datateknik</a>,
5052: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
5053:
1.380 saad 5054: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 5055: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
5056: explains the licensing issues and points to our
5057: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
5058: <p>
1.69 deraadt 5059:
1.113 naddy 5060: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 5061: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 5062: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 5063: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 5064:
1.222 miod 5065: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 5066: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
5067: Implementation, including a brief interview with
5068: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 5069: <p>
1.247 jufi 5070: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5071:
1.69 deraadt 5072: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5073: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5074:
1.247 jufi 5075: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5076: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 5077: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5078:
1.69 deraadt 5079: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
5080: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 5081: <p>
1.247 jufi 5082: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5083:
1.69 deraadt 5084: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5085: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 5086:
1.247 jufi 5087: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 5088: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
5089: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 5090: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5091:
1.383 jcs 5092: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 5093: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 5094: <p>
1.1 deraadt 5095:
1.247 jufi 5096: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 5097: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 5098: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
5099: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 5100: <p>
1.247 jufi 5101: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5102:
1.69 deraadt 5103: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5104: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5105:
1.247 jufi 5106: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5107: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 5108: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
5109: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 5110: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 5111: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 5112:
5113: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
5114: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
5115: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 5116: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 5117: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 5118: <p>
1.247 jufi 5119: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 5120:
5121: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5122: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5123:
1.247 jufi 5124: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5125: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 5126: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 5127:
1.69 deraadt 5128: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
5129: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 5130: <p>
1.112 naddy 5131:
1.247 jufi 5132: </ul>
1.113 naddy 5133: <p>
1.1 deraadt 5134:
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1.216 horacio 5136: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 5137: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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