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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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1.490 deraadt 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:
1.492 ian 83: <h2>January, 2006</h2>
84: <ul>
85: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
86: <a href="http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2006/01/28.html">Kevin Mitnick on
87: Coast to Coast AM Radio Show with Art Bell</a>, Jan 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
88: Art Bell interviewed Kevin Mitnick on his call-in show;
89: Paul Zacharzewski from Edmonton called to ask Mitnick for his opinion of OpenBSD.
90: If you don't want to download the whole show from coasttocoastam.com,
91: you can listen to an
92: <a href="http://unworkable.org/misc/mitnick.mp3">MP3 excerpt of this call</a>
93: in which Mitnick says: "Well, I actually use OpenBSD, so I do like it".
94: </ul>
95:
1.483 ian 96: <h2>December, 2005</h2>
97: <ul>
98: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.484 djm 99: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/375/1">OpenSSH cutting edge</a>
100: SecurityFocus, December 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
101: Federico Biancuzzi interviews OpenSSH developer Damien Miller to discuss
102: features included in the upcoming version 4.3, public key crypto
103: protocols details, timing based attacks and anti-worm measures.
104: <p>
105:
106: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 107: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/11/21/175249.shtml?tid=92&tid=78">Creating
1.483 ian 108: Secure Wireless Access Points with OpenBSD and OpenVPN</a>
109: NewsForge, December 13, 2005</strong></font><br>
110: A cookbook approach to setting up a wireless interface as a secure Access Point
111: using OpenBSD's hostap, pf, and authpf.
112: Configuration examples are given with basic explanations and links
113: to sites with more information on most topics.
114: <p>
115:
116: </ul>
117:
118:
1.479 grunk 119: <h2>November, 2005</h2>
120: <ul>
121: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 122: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20051116145737">OpenBSD
1.482 ian 123: Goes to Venice</a>,
124: OpenBSD Journal, November 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
125: "What happens when you put a dozen developers on a little island with their
126: laptops, power, and an internet connection?
127: <br/>
128: During the first week of November some OpenBSD developers met in a
129: little island in Venice's lagoon to hack on the ports system.
130: This was probably the first ports hackathon and was followed by
131: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON</a>, a European conference
132: fully dedicated to OpenBSD..."
133: Great coverage of the OpenBSD Porting Hackathon: people, ports, beer, ...
134: Contains a link to
135: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ven05-pvalchev/mgp00008.html">
136: pval's summary slides</a>.
137: <p>
138:
139: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.481 niallo 140: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1710223">
141: Trying out the new OpenBSD 3.8</a>,
142: NewsForge, November 11, 2005</strong></font><br>
143: This article describes the installation of OpenBSD 3.8 from a Linux user's
144: perspective, noting the simple elegance of the installer.
145: Although the installation process may be hard to get used to at first for
146: the average Linux user, the author tells us that one can learn a lot from
147: it. Furthermore, the article clears up the common misconception that working
148: on an OpenBSD system is very different from working on a Linux system.
149: In particular, the author states that on OpenBSD, <i>"virtually the entire
150: catalog of familiar free and open source software titles is available through
151: the packages and ports system"</i>.
152: <p>
153:
154: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
155: <a href="http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3561526">
156: Return of The BSDs</a>,
157: internetnews.com, November 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
158: This article mentions that with all three major BSD flavors having had
159: a release this fall, BSD is <i>"still very much alive and kicking among
160: all the noise and buzz created by Linux"</i>. The author talks about
161: various new or improved features of 3.8, such as bioctl(8), hostapd(8),
162: network interface aggregation and sasyncd(8), and there are some
163: quotes from Bob Beck.
164: <p>
165:
166: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.479 grunk 167: <a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/051101/152/fvrlx.html">
168: OpenBSD 3.8 improves hardware support</a>,
169: ZDNet UK, November 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.480 ian 170: This article reports on OpenBSD 3.8, which was released on November 1.
171: The author gives an overview of the improvements and new
1.479 grunk 172: features that were made with 3.8, and quotes Theo on RAID management
173: and Linux.<br>
174: The 3.8 release hit the news also in some other places:
175: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1258232">Slashdot</a>
176: and <a href="http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=12482">OSNews</a>
177: also report about it, mostly repeating parts
178: of the release
179: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/ANNOUNCEMENT">ANNOUNCEMENT</a>.
180: <p>
181: </ul>
182:
1.476 ian 183: <h2>October, 2005</h2>
184: <ul>
185:
186: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
187: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1375194866;fp;16;fpid;0">
188: 'Nightmare' drove desperate user to open source</a>,
189: Computerworld, October 24, 2005</strong></font><br>
190: A great tale of how Mark Uemura of PricewaterhouseCoopers Japan
191: was forced to move to OpenBSD because the alternatives were too costly
192: and too unreliable.
193: This quote will rattle some cages:
194: "IT managers who want to deploy an open source solution but are
195: worried about company politics should go ahead and do it without
196: asking," according to Uemura, who was promoted to IT Manager of PWC Japan
197: after saving the company seven IT-samurais' salaries.
198: Further, "In Japan large organizations like Morgan Stanley and the
199: Bank of America have moved all their backend systems to open source,
200: Uemura said, because with open source you can reduce IT operating
201: costs without any commercial lock-in."
202: <p>
203:
1.477 saad 204: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
205: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6270">
206: OpenBSD 3.8: Hackers of the Lost RAID</a>,
207: ONLamp.com, October 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
208: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
209: new features in OpenBSD 3.8 including interface trunking,
210: internationalization support, Inter-Access Point Protocol (IAPP),
211: IPSec SA synchronization daemon, and RAID management. There is also some
212: discussion about future plans.
213: <p>
214:
1.478 grunk 215: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
216: <a href="http://securityfocus.com/columnists/361">
217: OpenBSD's network stack</a>,
218: SecurityFocus, October 12, 2005</strong></font><br>
219: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about OpenBSD's
220: network stack, including protection against ICMP attacks, and propagation
221: of enhancements into other BSDs and into Linux.
222: The interview also features the other protection mechanisms in the network
223: stack, a comparison to the network stack in Linux, and the history and
224: current status of <a href="http://www.openbgpd.org/">OpenBGPD</a>.
225: <p>
226:
1.476 ian 227: </ul>
228:
1.470 saad 229: <h2>September, 2005</h2>
230: <ul>
231:
232: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.474 niallo 233: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/359">
234: Security-related innovation in Unix</a>,
235: SecurityFocus, Sept. 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
236: An article examining the mmap-based malloc() implementation to be
237: included in OpenBSD 3.8. The author states that <i>"it will help OpenBSD
238: users to find bugs in software more easily, which will result in better
239: applications for everyone"</i>. He goes on to say that <i>"the more hurdles
240: that one has to jump through for good security, the less likely people will
241: go through the trouble. OpenBSD allows even the most inexperienced users to
242: take advantage of these technologies without any effort"</i>.
243: <p>
244:
245: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.473 aanriot 246: <a href="http://www.miscmag.com/articles/index.php3?page=2100">
247: [FRENCH] Champ libre : les chantiers OpenBSD</a>
248: Misc, number 21, Sept/Oct, 2005, p. 4-14</strong></font><br>
249: An interesting article about OpenBSD and associated projects. Saad Kadhi
250: and Guillaume Arcas describe useful things you can do with PF and
251: OpenSSH, and give a nice introduction to OpenNTPD and OpenCVS. If the
252: article is focused on the presentation, you can find some interesting
253: technical aspects people are not always acquainted to. A few examples
254: are shown, like a basic CARP setup, or the manner to use multiplexing
255: with OpenSSH and even how to check an OpenSSH server's keys using DNS.
256: <p>
257:
258: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 259: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/news/11306">
260: Big debate over small packets</a>,
261: SecurityFocus, Sept. 7, 2005</strong></font><br>
262: Robert Lemos discusses the ICMP denial-of-service vulnerabilities found
263: by Fernando Gont and fixed in OpenBSD. To date, OpenBSD is the only
264: system that has implemented all of the fixes recommended in the IETF
265: draft.
266: <p>
267:
268: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.471 saad 269: <a href="http://www.pcexpert.fr/">
270: [FRENCH] "Quel est le meilleur système libre pour votre
271: ordinateur ?"</a>,
272: PC Expert, number 156, p. 42-62</strong></font><br>
273: Philippe Roure compares 11 Linux and *BSD operating systems, including
274: OpenBSD 3.7, on different criteria such as security, documentation and
275: usability. OpenBSD earned a 5/5 mark (see pages 60-61) and while a mark
276: isn't necessarily objective, the author seems to grasp the OpenBSD
277: project, its goals, and how good is the operating system. The article
278: includes an interview with Saad Kadhi.
279: <p>
280:
281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.470 saad 282: <a href="http://www.samag.com/articles/2005/0509/">
283: Monitoring PF Firewalls for Health and Performance</a>,
284: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 9, p. 37</strong></font><br>
285: Ryan Matteson describes several utilities that can be used to monitor the
286: health and performance of a PF firewall. Besides pfctl, the article
287: covers pftop, fwanalog, monitoring logs with tcpdump and graphing
288: performance data with pfstat.
289: <p>
290:
291: </ul>
292:
1.461 grunk 293: <h2>July, 2005</h2>
294: <ul>
295:
296: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.466 deraadt 297: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5382">
298: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part III</a>,
1.467 grunk 299: Kerneltrap, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.466 deraadt 300: Jeremy Andrews writes about the recent Blind ICMP attacks discovered
301: by Fernando Gont, and the fixes done by him and OpenBSD during the
302: 2005 Hackathon.
1.469 ian 303: The article goes into the technical background of the
1.467 grunk 304: attacks, mentioning blind ICMP attacks, "hard" ICMP errors, source
1.469 ian 305: quenching, and path MTU discovery;
306: many helpful RFCs and technical papers are linked from the explanations.
307: This is followed by a recap of the whole ICMP story, involving Gont's
1.467 grunk 308: struggle with other free projects, Cisco lawyers, Microsoft people,
309: and others.<br>
1.469 ian 310: The article concludes that OpenBSD was the first project
1.467 grunk 311: to take Fernando Gont's findings seriously, and also the first group to
312: be really painless to work with.
1.466 deraadt 313: <p>
314:
315: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.464 grunk 316: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/06/security_blame/">
317: Security meltdown: who's to blame?</a>,
1.466 deraadt 318: The Register, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.464 grunk 319: This article talks about various groups that are frequently blamed for
320: poor security:
1.467 grunk 321: individuals, ISPs, companies, crackers, security mailing lists,
1.464 grunk 322: and last but not least: OS vendors!
1.467 grunk 323: In the last paragraph, OpenBSD's style of <i>"dumbed-down, simplified
1.464 grunk 324: and secure systems (with a heavily audited code base)"</i> is described
325: as <i>"one of the smartest approaches to security"</i>.
326: <p>
327:
328: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.461 grunk 329: <a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-7-5/30084.html">
330: Theo de Raadt on Industry and Free Software</a>,
1.466 deraadt 331: The Epoch Times, July 5, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.463 tom 332: In this interview, Theo talks about the inception of the OpenBSD project
333: and its goals, as well as its impact on the commercial IT industry.
1.461 grunk 334: He points out once more that <i>"vendors who incorporate OpenSSH have
335: given us absolutely nothing back - not a cent"</i>.
336: Other topics covered include the OpenBSD team, Theo's role as
337: <i>"benevolent dictator"</i>, and the security process, which he compares
338: to the security efforts led by other free software projects and some
339: commercial vendors.
340: <p>
341:
342: </ul>
343:
1.454 ian 344: <h2>June, 2005</h2>
345: <ul>
1.468 grunk 346:
347: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
348: <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/ns-ttc062205.php">
349: The true cost of computer crime</a>,
350: EurekAlert / <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/">New Scientist Magazine</a>,
351: issue June 25, 2005</strong></font><br>
352: This article looks at computer crime, especially the way upcoming
353: vulnerability reports are dealt with. It also gives a short overview of the
1.469 ian 354: institutions involved in the process (vendors, free projects, CERTs).
1.468 grunk 355: <br>
356: The author mentions the work of Andy Ozment, who researches vulnerability
357: disclosure at the University of Cambridge. Using OpenBSD as a good example
358: of how disclosure and consequent fixing of bugs helps to strengthen security,
359: he refutes the widely spread FUD that disclosing vulnerabilities leads to
360: more harm than good. Ozment's methodology was to examine OpenBSD's CVS logs
1.469 ian 361: and note when fixes were published; his research shows that
1.468 grunk 362: <i>"the number of vulnerabilities decreases as a result of disclosure"</i>.
363: <p>
364:
1.454 ian 365: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.458 niallo 366: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0704/071.html">
367: Free Bird</a>,
368: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
369: <b>(Registration required)</b> A second Forbes article about OpenBSD, more
370: focused on the project itself this time. It contains good description of the
371: history of OpenBSD along with its prime motivations. Mention is made of the
372: DARPA grant and the annual hackathon. Theo's motto "shut up and hack" finally
373: becomes famous in this piece and there are some other very insightful quotes
374: such as "All I care about is making high-quality code. If I had to work at a
375: regular job, it would drive me nuts". This is certainly an astute and perceptive
376: article, well worth reading. Do note that the big picture of Theo's machine
377: room will only be available in the print edition.
378: <p>
1.459 deraadt 379:
1.458 niallo 380: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.456 niallo 381: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html">
382: Is Linux For Losers?</a>,
383: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
384: An interesting article, if somewhat polemic in tone, which raises questions
385: about the quality of Linux code compared to OpenBSD. There is also some short
386: discussion of the OpenBSD development model and focus (push for quality above
387: everything else) including good quotes from Theo. It seems that the need for
388: high quality software is beginning to be recognised by the mainstream.
389: <p>
1.457 deraadt 390:
1.456 niallo 391: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 392: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/06/09/2132233.shtml?tid=152&tid=8&tid=2">
1.455 ian 393: BSD cognoscenti on Linux</a>,
394: NewsForge, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
395: NewsForge talks with Theo de Raadt and NetBSD's Christos Zoulas about the
396: similarities and differences between the Linux kernel and the BSD
397: operating systems. The questions asked were similar to those asked
398: of Linus Torvalds in a <a
1.462 grunk 399: href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/09/2128249&tid=2">previous
1.455 ian 400: interview.</a>
401: <p>
402:
403: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.454 ian 404: <a href="http://www.tuxjournal.net/intervista3-en.html">
405: A good morning with Theo de Raadt</a>,
406: Tux Journal, June 2, 2005</strong></font><br>
407: Brief but wide-ranging interview with Theo in which our leader
408: opines about the good things in 3.7: "The list of new developments
409: is impressive, but in my view not nearly as impressive as the small
410: little details that continue to be fixed during each development
411: cycle." And modestly credits all the developers for the project's
412: continuing success, attributing it to "The passion of the developers,
413: and the wide experience they bring into their development efforts.
414: By amazing coincidence, our users typically have the same needs as we do."
415: Manages to sidestep getting drawn into comparisons with Linux, e.g.,
416: when asked if he likes it/why/why not, deftly replies
417: "I have never used it."
418: <p>
419:
420: </ul>
421:
1.441 deraadt 422: <h2>May, 2005</h2>
423: <ul>
424: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 425: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5190">
426: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part II</a>,
427: Kerneltrap, May 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
428: In the second installment of Kerneltrap's Hackathon 2005 feature, Jeremy
429: Andrews speaks with the pf developers at length about their plans for
430: future enhancements.
431: <p>
432:
433: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.450 deraadt 434: <a href="http://www.ctv.ca">
1.448 deraadt 435: TV coverage: OpenBSD hackathon</a>,
436: CTV/CFCN, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
437: A TV spot done a Canadian national TV station about the Calgary
438: hackathon this year, with 60 developers.<br>
439: North America mirror:
440: <ul>
1.452 marco 441: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.449 jcs 442: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a><br>
443: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a>
1.448 deraadt 444: </ul>
445: European mirror:
446: <ul>
1.452 marco 447: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.448 deraadt 448: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a>
449: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a><br>
450: </ul>
451: <p>
452:
453: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 454: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5186">
455: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part I</a>,
456: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
457: Jeremy Andrews of KernelTrap does a good job of describing what it's like
458: to be at the Hackathon in Part I of KernelTrap's Hackathon feature. Several
459: developers are interviewed in detail about what they are working on.
460: <p>
461:
462: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 463: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5184">
464: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005: Day 6?</a>,
465: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
466: Kjell Wooding describes a typical day at the Hackathon in this entertaining
467: first-hand account.
468: <p>
469:
470: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.447 cloder 471: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/05/20/1426216.shtml?tid=8">
472: Review: OpenBSD 3.7</a>,
473: NewsForge.com, May 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
474: "OpenBSD is not only highly polished and easy to
475: configure because of its documentation, it's also totally free-as-in-rights.
476: With an obsession with security, freedom of source code, and quality of
477: programming technique, OpenBSD 3.7 continues the legacy established by
478: its previous releases," writes Jem Matzan in this nice, small review.
479: <p>
480:
481: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.446 cloder 482: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/05/19/openbsd_3_7.html">
483: OpenBSD 3.7: The Wizard of OS</a>,
484: ONLamp.com, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
485: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
486: new features in OpenBSD 3.7, including new wireless chipsets, new
487: spam-fighting features, zaurus, pf improvements, propolice, and
488: many other things. A good overview of what's new in this release,
489: plus some interesting comments about future direction.
490: <p>
491:
492: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.444 niallo 493: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/software/openbsd-3.7-released.html">
1.445 niallo 494: Next incarnation of OpenBSD released</a>,
1.444 niallo 495: Ping Wales, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
496: "OpenBSD is often unjustly overlooked as a free UNIX-like system in favour of
497: the more-hyped Linux. While it receives a lot less publicity than other
498: operating systems, this is not due to lack of technical merit." says David
499: Chisnall, in what is a clear and concise overview of the new features
500: in 3.7 and indeed the project as a whole.
501: <p>
502:
503: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
504: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5114">
1.445 niallo 505: 2005 Calgary Hackathon, KernelTrap Coverage</a>,
1.444 niallo 506: Kerneltrap, May 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
507: A great article about the annual OpenBSD Hackathon, detailing how the event
508: functions, work done at previous Hackathons and features which may come out
509: of this one. Includes many relevant quotes from developers themselves, and of
510: course information about the legendary Hackathon BBQ!
511: <p>
512:
513: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.442 deraadt 514: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9658/sam0505e/">
515: "Failover Firewalls with OpenBSD and CARP"</a>,
516: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 5, p. 33
1.441 deraadt 517: </strong></font><br>
518: Jason Dixon discusses the history of the CARP and pfsync protocols
519: and demonstrates using them to create redundant stateful firewalls
520: with OpenBSD.
521: </ul>
522:
1.436 henning 523: <h2>April, 2005</h2>
524: <ul>
525: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.440 ian 526: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39195801,00.htm">
527: Security guru wants access to bug databases</a>,
528: ZDNet UK, April 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
529: Ingrid Marson reports on Cambridge professor Ross Anderson's call for analysis of
530: software maintenance records to determine whether open source code is more secure
531: than closed source, as we have long contended.
532: "One of Anderson's research students, Andy Ozment, has already done
533: research using empirical data on bugs found in the open source
534: operating system OpenBSD between 1997 and 2000. This research found
535: that finding and fixing bugs results in a more secure product..."
536: Just as the OpenBSD project has been saying for years.
537: <p>
538: This article can also be found online as
539: <a href="http://uk.builder.com/manage/project/0,39026588,39244080,00.htm">Academic
540: calls for better bug tracking</a> (uk.builder.com).
541: <p>
542:
543: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.439 espie 544: [FRENCH] "PC Expert", number 152, p. 58
545: </strong></font><br>
546: Very short interview of Marc Espie about OpenBSD as a free OS focusing
547: on security, part of a larger dossier «les secrets des hackers».
548: <p>
549:
550: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.436 henning 551: [GERMAN] "Doppelwacht", iX 5/2005, p. 150.
552: </strong></font><br>
553: Stephan Tesch gives an introduction to CARP and using a pair of
554: OpenBSD boxes as Firewalls in High Availibility scenarios. He goes
1.438 martin 555: on explaining CARP and pfsync protocols, and does not forget to cover
1.436 henning 556: the issues we had with IETF.
557: </ul>
558:
1.431 ian 559: <h2>March, 2005</h2>
560: <ul>
561: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.435 reyk 562: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/4818">
563: OpenBSD's "Out of the Box" Wireless Support</a>,
564: Kerneltrap, March 8, 2005</strong></font><br>
565: This article is about the upcoming wireless support in OpenBSD 3.7 and
566: the outcome of the work to open wireless chipsets. Jeremy Andrews
567: talked with Theo de Raadt and the developers Damien Bergamini and Reyk
568: Floeter who did some efforts to implement free and functional drivers.
569: <p>
570:
571: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.431 ian 572: <a href="http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/01/1109546842718.html">
573: OpenBSD to support more wireless chipsets</a>,
574: The Age, March 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
575: "The forthcoming 3.7 release of the OpenBSD operating system has
576: added support for five more wireless chipsets, according to
577: OpenBSD project founder Theo de Raadt...
1.432 ian 578: OpenBSD 3.7 will also have have new drivers for Intel wireless
1.431 ian 579: parts that do not work without the non-redistributable firmware,"
580: namely the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11B
581: and 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11A/B/G wireless network adapters.
582: Mentions OpenBSD's activism in getting vendors to release chip specs.
583: Referring to vendors that still refuse to play ball with open source
584: projects, quotes Damien Miller as saying "Given the number of
585: appliance devices that are built on free OSs, I think that the
586: recalcitrant vendors are missing an important boat."
587:
588: </ul>
589:
1.427 matthieu 590: <h2>February, 2005</h2>
591: <ul>
592:
593: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.428 david 594: <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsaward2004.html">
595: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
596: FSF, February 26, 2005</strong></font><br>
597: The Free Software Foundation awarded Theo de Raadt their "2004 Free Software
598: Award" for his unwavering commitment to free software. Most recently he has
599: been fighting hardware manufacturers for free redistribution of wireless card
600: firmware.
1.434 ian 601: Similar articles can be found online at:
602: <ul>
603: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
604: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=419">
605: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
606: Tectonic.za, March 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
607: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
608: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article4362.phtml">
609: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
610: OSDir, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
611: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
612: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/De-Raadt-gets-free-software-award/2005/02/28/1109546758523.html?oneclick=true">
613: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
614: The Age, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
615: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 616: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/02/27/1413255.shtml?tid=99&tid=7">
1.434 ian 617: Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award</a>,
618: Slashdot, February 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
619: </ul>
1.427 matthieu 620: </ul>
621:
1.426 ian 622: <h2>January, 2005</h2>
623: <ul>
624:
625: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
626: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363731">
627: Systrace in OpenBSD</a>,
628: informit.com, January 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
629: This article talks about our systrace
1.462 grunk 630: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&sektion=1">systrace(1)</a>
1.426 ian 631: mechanism: what it is and why and
632: how to use it, with examples.
633: Another excerpt from the book
634: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
635: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
636: <p>
637:
638: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
639: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363732">
640: Overview of OpenBSD</a>,
641: informit.com, January 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
642: "OpenBSD is one of the most secure and well-designed operating
643: systems available today. It has its roots in countless hours of
644: research and development based on some of the best UNIX flavors of
645: the past, and it boasts all the features of modern operating systems.
646: The OS is widely considered one of the most secure general-purpose
647: operating systems available today and it supports many key parts
648: of the global Internet infrastructure..."
649: This article is a sample chapter from
650: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
651: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
652: <p>
1.443 ian 653:
654: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 655: <a href="http://www.pcplus.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=34628&subsectionid=784">
1.443 ian 656: OpenBSD operating system</a>,
657: PCPlus.co.uk, January, 2005</strong></font><br>
658: Paul Grosse gives a brief tutorial on installing OpenBSD on i386 for people
659: moving in a Windows->Linux direction, encouraging them to go a bit further for security.
660: "While Linux out-scores Windows substantially (or completely) on [security as well as many other
661: issues], it's still possible to use a more secure operating system on the PC... OpenBSD."
662: Gives a brief but understandable walkthrough on the installation process, right up to
663: downloading and installing the third-party packages, and
664: ends with a sidebar on security.
665: <p>
1.426 ian 666: </ul>
667:
1.424 ian 668: <h2>December, 2004</h2>
669: <ul>
670:
671: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.425 ian 672: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/2329229">
673: What are the real vulnerabilities of Linux?</a>
674: NewsForge.com, December 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
675: Several security consultants were asked about "the real vulnerabilities of
676: Linux". Cybersoure CEO Con Symaris seems to get it better than the rest:
677: "One needs to approach security as a prime requirement and motivator,
678: much as the OpenBSD team do," Zymaris said... "The Linux
679: community mindset is different. Linux development is dynamic and
680: races ahead towards more and broader functionality, drawing a
681: multitude of interested parties in to make interesting extensions
682: and adaptations at a rapid rate."
683: <p>
684: "In order to do security the BSD way, however, much more effort
685: needs to be spent auditing code for holes, which is much less sexy,
686: and attracts a different set of coders," Zymaris added.
687: <p>
688:
689: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.424 ian 690: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/281">
691: Closed Source Hardware</a>
692: Security Focus, December 1, 2004</strong></font><br>
693: Symantec Threat Analyst Jason Miller analyzes the potential security threats
694: when hardware vendors won't provide device documentation and
695: instead provide "binary only" driver code for inclusion in open source
696: operating systems.
697: Miller is an open-source fan who says he uses a variety of systems, including
698: OpenBSD on his firewall.
699: Of the recent trend to closed-source binary drivers for open-source
700: systems, he writes:
701: <blockquote>
702: The closed-source component required to support this hardware is
703: completely independent of the associated operating system, and as
704: such, is also independent of the engineering team, security team,
705: auditing process, and quality control procedures normally related
706: to the operating system...
707: <br/>
708: What's possibly even more disturbing is that we're talking about
709: a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest
710: possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a
711: third-party vendor. This code could do anything once loaded, including
712: leaking active WEP keys, gathering usage statistics, sniffing and
713: disclosing traffic, and it could even introduce a subtle backdoor
714: into the operating system itself (much the same as any device driver
715: in a closed source operating system).
716: <br/>
717: [A]lthough some of these scenarios are a
718: little far-fetched, the possibility for them to exist is there...
719: Ultimately it becomes an issue of trust, which is a cornerstone of
720: good security: whom do you trust, and how much do you trust them?
721: </blockquote>
722: <p>And he comments that trust "seems to be a one-way street": vendors
723: demand that you trust them, but they won't trust you to know how
724: their hardware and software operates.
725: This lack of trust is one reason why OpenBSD has recently completed
726: reverse-engineering the
1.462 grunk 727: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4">
1.424 ian 728: Atheros wireless chipset driver</a>
729: that was originally provided as a binary insert.
730: <p>
731: </ul>
732:
1.417 pvalchev 733: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
734: <ul>
1.421 ian 735:
1.417 pvalchev 736: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.422 ian 737: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730775,00.asp">
738: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Widens Its Scope</a>
739: eWEEK, November 22, 2004</strong></font><br>
740: Jason Brooks reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and likes the changes it brings,
741: including the multi-processing support which, he notes,
742: "will be even more important as multicore processors--which occupy space
743: on the road maps of Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others--
744: become more prevalent." Comments favorably on OpenNTPD
745: ("the three-line configuration file we needed to modify ... on OpenBSD was
746: much simpler to deal with than the equivalent configuration file on
747: the Linux systems we've tested").
1.423 ian 748: Overall a favorable review of some of the new stuff in 3.6.
1.422 ian 749: <p>
750: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 otto 751: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
752: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
753: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
754: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
755: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
756: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
757: it claims to do".
758: <p>
759:
760: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 761: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109994542424009&w=2">
1.421 ian 762: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution</a>
763: misc@, November 8, 2004</strong></font><br>
764: Theo recounts the struggle to get Intel to provide redistributable
765: versions of the firmware for their wireless chipsets, and their
1.423 ian 766: ultimate refusal to allow OpenBSD to redistribute the chipsets' firmware.
1.421 ian 767: Includes a caveat about Intel's disingenuous "FAQ", typical of many
768: corporate FAQs that answer questions nobody actually thought
769: to ask, and don't truthfully answer the questions you want hard answers to.
770: At the end Theo names the names (and their emails) that need to be contacted
771: by large numbers of end-users and developers if Intel is to change
772: (yes, this is a hint).
773: Of interest is that this posting to one of our mailing lists was
774: picked up on the
775: <a href="http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1923">Screaming
776: Electron Forum</a> and from there reported on
1.462 grunk 777: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/22/1249249&from=rss">
1.421 ian 778: SlashDot</a>, where it is accompanied by a link to SlashDot's paper
779: on effective advocacy (be firm, but also be polite).
780: <p>
781:
782: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 783: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
784: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
785: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
786: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
787: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
788: questions about the significance and rationale behind
789: the current efforts.
790: <p>
791: </ul>
792:
1.407 henning 793: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
794: <ul>
795: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 796: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
797: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
798: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
799: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
800: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
801: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
802: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
803: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
804: <p>
805:
806: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 807: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
808: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
809: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
810: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
811: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
812: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
813: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
814: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
815: of the important changes in 3.6.
1.462 grunk 816: <p>
1.415 ian 817:
818: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 819: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
1.414 ian 820: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
821: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
822: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
823: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
824: overflow attacks... because
825: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
826: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
827: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
828: and propolice.
829: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
830: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
831: and that's when the science falls apart."
832: <p>
833:
834: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 835: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
836: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
837: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
838: Starts with the question:
839: <blockquote>
840: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
841: <br/>
842: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
843: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
844: <br/>
845: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
846: Should we believe them?"
847: </blockquote>
848: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
849: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
850: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
851: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
852: for your mail, web and other online activities.
853: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
854: <p>
855:
856: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 857: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
858: Simple Simon</a>,
859: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
860: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
861: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
862: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
863: routing/firewall, and more.
864: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
865: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
866: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
867: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
868: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
869: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
870: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
871: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
872: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
873: </blockquote>
874: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
875: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
876: <p>
877:
878: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 879: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
880: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 881: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 882: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 883: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
884: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
885: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 886: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 887: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
888: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
889: in spite of it
890: (registration required, but worth it).
891: <p>
892:
893: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
894: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
895: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
896: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
897: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
898: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
899: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
900: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 901: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 902: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
903: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
904: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
905: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
906: <p>
907:
908: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 909: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
910: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
911: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
912: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
913: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
914: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
915: <blockquote>
916: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
917: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
918: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
919: a lot of analysis.
920: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
921: </blockquote>
922: <p>
923: </ul>
924:
1.400 marco 925: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
926: <ul>
927: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 928: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
929: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
930: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
931: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
932: UNIX-like systems.
933: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
934: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
935: <p>
936: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 937: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
938: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 939: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
940: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
941: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
942: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
943: At one point, the article states:
944: <blockquote>
945: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
946: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
947: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
948: </blockquote>
949: And then quotes Theo as saying:
950: <blockquote>
951: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
952: fewer are reading or auditing code."
953: </blockquote>
954: <p>
955: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
956: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
957: marks its fifth birthday</a>
958: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
959: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
960: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
961: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
962: required).
963: <p>
964: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 965: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
966: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
967: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
968: </strong></font><br>
969: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
970: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
971: <p>
972: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 973: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
974: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 975: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 976: </strong></font><br>
977: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
978: <p>
979: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 980: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
981: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 982: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 983: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 984: 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 985: <p>
986: </ul>
987:
1.396 henning 988: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
989: <ul>
990: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 991: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
992: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
993: Unix Review, July, 2004
994: </strong></font><br>
995: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
996: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
1.462 grunk 997: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
1.418 ian 998: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
999: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
1000: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
1001: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
1002: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
1003: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
1004: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
1005: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
1006: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
1007: and even spelling/wording errors.
1008: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
1009: <p>
1010: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 1011: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 1012: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
1013: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
1014: </strong></font><br>
1015: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
1016: <p>
1017: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 1018: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 1019: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
1020: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
1021: </strong></font><br>
1022: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
1023: <p>
1024: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 1025: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
1026: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
1027: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
1028: </strong></font><br>
1029: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
1030: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
1031: <p>
1032: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 1033: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
1034: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
1035: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
1036: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
1037: <p>
1038: </ul>
1039:
1.405 jolan 1040: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
1041: <ul>
1042: <li><font color="#00900"><strong>
1043: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
1.466 deraadt 1044: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 5, 2004</strong></font>
1.405 jolan 1045: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
1046: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
1047: details on how funds are dispersed.
1048: <p>
1049: </ul>
1050:
1.393 david 1051: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
1052: <ul>
1053: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 1054: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
1055: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
1056: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
1057: </strong></font><br>
1058: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
1059: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
1060: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
1061: on inserting large number of SQL records.
1062: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
1063: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
1064: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
1065: <p>
1066:
1067: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 1068: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
1069: Secure by Default</a>,
1070: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
1071: </strong></font><br>
1072: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
1073: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
1074: <p>
1075:
1076: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1077: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
1078: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
1079: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
1080: </strong></font><br>
1081: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
1082: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
1083: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
1084: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
1085: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
1086: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
1087: <p>
1088:
1089: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1090: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
1091: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
1092: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
1093: </strong></font><br>
1094: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
1095: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
1096: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
1097: <p>
1098:
1099: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1100: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
1101: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
1102: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
1103: </strong></font><br>
1104: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
1105: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
1106: <p>
1107: </ul>
1108:
1.388 mcbride 1109: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
1110: <ul>
1.394 jolan 1111:
1112: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1113: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
1114: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
1115: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
1116: </strong></font><br>
1117: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
1118: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
1119: available for sparc64.
1120: <p>
1121:
1.390 beck 1122: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 1123: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
1124: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
1125: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
1126: </strong></font><br>
1127: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
1128: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
1129: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
1130: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
1131: <p>
1132:
1133: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 1134: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
1135: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 1136: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 1137: </strong></font><br>
1138: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
1139: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
1140: it does: CARP provides sharing
1141: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
1142: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
1143: detail to get you started using it.
1144: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
1145: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
1146: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
1147: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
1148: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
1149: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
1150: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 1151: <p>
1.391 ian 1152:
1153: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 1154: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 1155: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
1156: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 1157: </strong></font><br>
1158: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 1159: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 1160: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 1161: <p>
1.388 mcbride 1162:
1163: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1164: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
1165: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 1166: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 1167: </strong></font><br>
1168: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
1169: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
1170: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
1171: unencumbered by patents.
1172: <p>
1173: </ul>
1174:
1.378 henning 1175: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
1176: <ul>
1.384 jose 1177:
1178: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 1179: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
1180: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
1181: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
1182: </strong></font><br>
1183: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
1184: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
1185: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
1186: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
1187: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
1188: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
1189: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
1190: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
1191: in the page tables."
1192: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
1193: <p>
1194:
1195: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1196: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
1197: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
1198: </strong></font><br>
1199: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
1200: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
1201: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
1202: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 1203: <p>
1.384 jose 1204:
1.378 henning 1205: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 1206: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
1207: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 1208: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
1209: </strong></font><br>
1210: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
1211: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
1212: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
1213: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
1214: (quote:
1215: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
1216: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 1217: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 1218: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
1219: the other developers for their work on the system.
1220: <p>
1221:
1222: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1223: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
1224: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
1225: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 1226: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 1227: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
1228: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
1229: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
1230: too.
1231: <p>
1232:
1233: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 1234: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
1235: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 1236: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 1237: OpenBSD source code using
1238: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
1239: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
1240: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
1241: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
1242: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
1243: <p>
1244: </ul>
1245:
1.374 jose 1246: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
1247: <ul>
1248: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 1249: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 1250: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
1251: </strong></font><br>
1252: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
1253: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
1254: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
1255: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
1256: it."
1257: <p>
1258:
1259: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 1260: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
1261: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
1262: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
1263: </strong></font><br/>
1264: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
1265: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
1266: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
1267: <p>
1268: </ul>
1269:
1.369 ian 1270: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
1271: <ul>
1272: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1273: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
1274: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
1275: </strong></font><br/>
1276: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
1277: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
1278: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
1279: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
1280: <p>
1281:
1282: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 1283: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
1284: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
1285: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
1286: </strong></font><br/>
1287: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
1288: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
1289: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
1290: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
1291: form factor.
1292: <p>
1293:
1294: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1295: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
1296: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
1297: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
1298: Features</a>,
1299: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
1300: </strong></font><br/>
1301: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
1302: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
1303: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
1304: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
1305: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
1306: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
1307: <p>
1308: This article can also be found online at:
1309: <ul>
1310: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1311: <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 1312: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
1313: </strong></font>
1314: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
1315: </ul>
1316: <p>
1.392 david 1317:
1.371 jose 1318: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 1319: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
1320: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 1321: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
1322: </strong></font><br/>
1323: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
1324: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
1325: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 1326: <p>
1.371 jose 1327:
1328: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 1329: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 1330: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 1331: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 1332: </strong></font><br/>
1333: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
1334: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
1335: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
1336: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
1337: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
1338: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
1339: and its history with OpenBSD.
1340: </ul>
1341:
1.368 henning 1342: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
1343: <ul>
1344: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 1345: [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 1346: </strong></font><br>
1347: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
1348: </ul>
1349:
1.364 jose 1350: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
1351: <ul>
1352: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 1353: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
1354: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
1355: UNIX Review,
1356: July, 2003.
1357: </strong></font><br>
1358: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
1359: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
1360: who want more information.
1361: <p>
1362:
1363: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 1364: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
1365: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
1366: Government Computer News,
1367: July 22, 2003.
1368: </strong></font><br>
1369: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
1370: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
1371: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
1372: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
1373: <p>
1374:
1375: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1376: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
1377: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
1378: SANS Institute,
1379: July 22, 2003.
1380: </strong></font><br>
1381: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 1382: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 1383: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
1384: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
1385: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
1386: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
1387: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
1388: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
1389: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
1390: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
1391: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
1392: <p>
1393:
1394: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 1395: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
1396: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
1397: OnLamp.com,
1398: July 17, 2003.
1399: </strong></font><br>
1400: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
1401: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
1402: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
1403: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
1404: have been working on.
1405:
1406: </ul>
1407:
1.356 jose 1408: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 1409: <ul>
1410:
1411: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 1412: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
1413: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
1414: UNIX Review,
1415: June, 2003.
1416: </strong></font><br>
1417: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
1418: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
1419: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
1420: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
1421: <p>
1422:
1423: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 1424: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
1425: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
1426: eWeek,
1427: June 23, 2003.
1428: </strong></font><br>
1429: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
1430: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
1431: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
1432: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
1433: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
1434: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
1435: <p>
1436:
1437: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 1438: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
1439: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
1440: Software Development Online,
1441: June, 2003.
1442: </strong></font><br>
1443: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
1444: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
1445: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
1446: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
1447: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
1448: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
1449: current activities.
1450: <p>
1451:
1452: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 1453: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
1454: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 1455: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
1456: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
1457: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
1458: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 1459: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 1460: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
1461: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
1462: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 1463: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 1464: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
1465: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 1466: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 1467: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
1468: decisions.
1469: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
1470: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 1471: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 1472: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 1473: <p>
1474:
1475: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 1476: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
1477: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
1478: Page 58, eWeek,
1479: June 2, 2003.
1480: </strong></font><br>
1481: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
1482: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
1483: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
1484: been addressed in -current.
1485: <p>
1486:
1.356 jose 1487: </ul>
1488:
1489: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
1490: <ul>
1491:
1.355 jose 1492: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 1493: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
1494: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
1495: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
1496: </strong></font><br>
1497: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
1498: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
1499: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
1500: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
1501: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
1502: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
1503: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
1504: <p>
1505:
1506: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 1507: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
1508: Beyond Linux</a>,
1509: InfoWorld,
1510: May 23, 2003.
1511: </strong></font><br>
1512: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
1513: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
1514: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
1515: compared to the GPL.
1516: <p>
1517:
1518: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 1519: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
1520: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
1521: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 1522: May 17, 2003.
1523: </strong></font><br>
1524: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
1525: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
1526: the business section and half of another page inside
1527: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
1528: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
1529: in talking about the project's history and goals.
1530: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
1531: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
1532: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
1533: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 1534: <br>
1535: This article can also be found online at:
1536: <ul>
1537: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1538: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
1539: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
1540: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
1541: May 17, 2003
1542: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 1543: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
1544: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1545: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
1546: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
1547: Montreal Gazette,
1548: May 21, 2003
1549: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 1550: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 1551: <p>
1.346 ian 1552:
1553: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 1554: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 1555: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 1556: May 7, 2003.
1557: </strong></font><br>
1558: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
1559: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
1560: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
1561: <p>
1562:
1563: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 1564: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
1565: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1566: OsOpinion,
1567: May 6, 2003.
1568: </strong></font><br>
1569: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
1570: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
1571: <br>
1572: This article can also be found online at:
1573: <ul>
1574: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1575: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
1576: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1577: NewsFactor Network.
1578: </strong></font>
1579: </ul>
1580: <p>
1581:
1582: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1583: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 1584: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
1585: ITBusiness,
1586: May 2, 2003.
1587: </strong></font><br>
1588: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
1589: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
1590: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
1591: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
1592: <p>
1593:
1594: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 1595: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
1596: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1597: InfoWorld,
1598: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 1599: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 1600: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
1601: <br>
1602: This article can also be found online at:
1603: <ul>
1604: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1605: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
1606: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1607: IDG Singapore.
1608: </strong></font>
1609: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1610: <p>
1611:
1.339 jose 1612: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1613: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
1614: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 1615: ZDNet,
1616: May 1, 2003.
1617: </strong></font><br>
1618: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 1619: someone using parts from previous articles.
1620: <br>
1.341 deraadt 1621: This article can also be found online at:
1622: <ul>
1623: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1624: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
1625: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1626: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 1627: </strong></font>
1628: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1629: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
1630: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1631: CNET News.com.
1632: </strong></font>
1633: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1634: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
1635: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
1636: ZDNet UK.
1637: </strong></font>
1638: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1639: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
1640: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
1641: Help Net Security, Croatia.
1642: </strong></font>
1643: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1644: <p>
1.339 jose 1645:
1.341 deraadt 1646: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1647: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 1648: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
1649: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
1650: May 1, 2003.
1651: </strong></font><br>
1652: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
1653: that have been added
1654: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
1655: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
1656: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 1657: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 1658: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
1659: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
1660: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 1661: <p>
1662:
1663: </ul>
1664:
1.253 ian 1665: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
1666: <ul>
1.255 ian 1667:
1.260 ian 1668: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1669: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 1670: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1671: TechRepublic,
1672: April 28, 2003.
1673: </strong></font><br>
1674: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
1675: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 1676: work.<br>
1677: Can also be found online at:
1678: <ul>
1679: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1680: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
1681: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1682: ZDNet UK.
1683: </strong></font>
1684: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 1685: <p>
1686:
1687: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 1688: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
1689: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
1690: IDG,
1691: April 24, 2003.
1692: </strong></font><br>
1693: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
1694: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
1695: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
1696: Can also be found online at:
1697: <ul>
1698: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1699: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
1700: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 1701: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 1702: </strong></font>
1703: </ul>
1704: <p>
1705:
1706: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1707: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 1708: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 1709: Slate,
1710: April 24, 2003.
1711: </strong></font><br>
1712: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
1713: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
1714: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
1715: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
1716: <p>
1717:
1718: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 1719: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1720: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
1721: April 24, 2003.
1722: </strong></font><br>
1723: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
1724: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
1725: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
1726: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
1727: <p>
1728:
1729: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 1730: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
1731: April 24, 2003.
1732: </strong></font><br>
1733: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
1734: the free software community".
1735: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
1736: other articles.
1737: <p>
1738:
1739: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1740: <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 1741: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
1742: </strong></font><br>
1743: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
1744: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
1745: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
1746: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
1747: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
1748: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
1749: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 1750: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 1751: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
1752: <br/>
1753: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
1754: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
1755: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
1756: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 1757: <br>
1758: Can also be found online at:
1759: <ul>
1760: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1761: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
1762: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
1763: Common Dreams NewsCenter
1764: </strong></font>
1765: </ul>
1.324 ian 1766: <p>
1767:
1768: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1769: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
1770: Wired, April 24, 2003.
1771: </strong></font><br>
1772: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
1773: article above.
1774: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
1775: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
1776: wasting them."
1.332 ian 1777: <br>
1778: Can also be found online at:
1779: <ul>
1780: <li>
1781: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
1782: </strong></font>
1783: </ul>
1.324 ian 1784: <p>
1785:
1786: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 1787: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
1788: </strong></font><br>
1789: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
1790: <p>
1791:
1792: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 1793: <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.
1794: </strong></font><br>
1795: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
1796: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
1797: <p>
1798:
1799: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 1800: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
1801: April 23, 2003.
1802: </strong></font><br>
1803: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
1804: <p>
1805:
1806: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 1807: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 1808: April 22, 2003.
1809: </strong></font><br>
1810: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
1811: <p>
1812:
1813: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 1814: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1815: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1816: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 1817: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 1818: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
1819: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
1820: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
1821: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
1822: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
1823: Can also be found online at:
1824: <ul>
1825: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1826: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 1827: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1828: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 1829: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 1830: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1831: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 1832: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
1833: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 1834: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 1835: </ul>
1836: <p>
1837:
1838: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 1839: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
1840: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 1841: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1842: </strong></font><br>
1843: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 1844: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
1845: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
1846: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
1847: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
1848: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
1849: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 1850: <p>
1851:
1852: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 1853: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
1854: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 1855: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
1856: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 1857: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
1858: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
1859: at UPenn and DARPA.
1860: <p>
1861:
1862: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 1863: [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,
1864: France
1.315 deraadt 1865: April 18, 2003.
1866: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 1867: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 1868: <p>
1869:
1870: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 1871: [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 1872: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1873: </strong></font><br>
1874: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
1875: <p>
1876:
1877: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 1878: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
1879: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
1880: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1881: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 1882: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
1883: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
1884: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
1885: <p>
1886:
1887: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 1888: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
1889: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1890: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 1891: </strong></font><br>
1892: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1893: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
1894: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 1895: American century.
1.267 deraadt 1896: <p>
1897:
1898: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 1899: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
1900: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1901: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 1902: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 1903: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
1904: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
1905: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
1906: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
1907: Can also be found online at:
1908: <ul>
1909: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
1910: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 1911: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 1912: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 1913: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 1914: <p>
1915:
1916: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 1917: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 1918: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1919: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 1920: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 1921: </strong></font><br>
1922: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 1923: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
1924: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
1925: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
1926: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 1927:
1928: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1929: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
1930: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1931: New York Times.
1932: </strong></font>(free registration required)
1933:
1.273 deraadt 1934: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1935: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 1936: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 1937: ABC News.
1938: </strong></font>
1939:
1940: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1941: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 1942: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 1943: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 1944: </strong></font>
1945:
1946: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1947: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1948: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 1949: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 1950: </strong></font>
1951:
1952: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 1953: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
1954: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 1955: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 1956: </strong></font>
1957:
1958: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1959: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 1960: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 1961: Times Daily, AL.
1962: </strong></font>
1963:
1964: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1965: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
1966: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
1967: Boston.com, MA.
1968: </strong></font>
1969:
1970: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 1971: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 1972: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 1973: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
1974: </strong></font>
1975:
1976: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 1977: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
1978: [Article was pulled]</a>
1979: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 1980: </strong></font>
1981:
1982: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1983: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
1984: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
1985: Infoshop News.
1986: </strong></font>
1987:
1988: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1989: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
1990: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1991: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
1992: </strong></font>
1993:
1994: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 1995: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
1996: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
1997: Raleigh News, NC.
1998: </strong></font>
1999:
2000: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2001: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 2002: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
2003: Napa News, CA.
2004: </strong></font>
2005:
2006: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2007: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 2008: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2009: NEPA News, PA.
2010: </strong></font>
2011:
2012: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2013: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
2014: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
2015: Wired News.
2016: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 2017: <br>
2018: <li>
1.333 deraadt 2019: <font color="#009000"><strong>
2020: [JAPANESE]
2021: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
2022: Wired News Japan</a>
2023: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 2024:
1.271 deraadt 2025: </ul>
2026: <p>
1.272 deraadt 2027: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
2028: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 2029: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
2030: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
2031: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
2032: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
2033: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
2034: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 2035: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 2036: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
2037: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
2038: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 2039: <p>
2040: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 2041:
2042: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2043: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 2044: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
2045: Indianapolis Star, IN.
2046: </strong></font>
2047:
2048: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 2049: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
2050: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2051: Miami Herald, FL.
2052: </strong></font>
2053:
2054: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 2055: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 2056: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
2057: </strong></font>
2058:
2059: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2060: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 2061: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 2062: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 2063: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 2064:
2065: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2066: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
2067: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
2068: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
2069: ABC News.
2070: </strong></font>
2071:
1.276 deraadt 2072: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2073: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 2074: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 2075: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 2076: </strong></font>
2077:
1.286 dhartmei 2078: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2079: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 2080: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2081: Wilmington Star, NC.
2082: </strong></font>
2083:
1.300 jose 2084: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2085: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
2086: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
2087: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
2088: </strong></font>
2089:
1.309 jose 2090: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2091: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
2092: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
2093: Globe Technology.
2094: </strong></font>
2095:
1.263 deraadt 2096: </ul>
1.262 beck 2097: <p>
2098:
2099: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 2100: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
2101: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2102: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 2103: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 2104: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 2105: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
2106: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
2107: <p>
2108:
2109: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 2110: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
2111: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
2112: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 2113: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 2114: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
2115: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
2116: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
2117: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
2118: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
2119: and simply restates other press reports.
2120: <p>
2121:
2122: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 2123: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
2124: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2125: OS News, April 18, 2003.
2126: </strong></font><br>
2127: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
2128: <p>
2129:
2130: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 2131: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
2132: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2133: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 2134: </strong></font><br>
2135: Another report on the DARPA funding.
2136: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
2137: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
2138: <p>
2139:
2140: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 2141: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
2142: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
2143: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
2144: April 17, 2003.
2145: </strong></font><br>
2146: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
2147: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
2148: Tech Anthems</a>
2149: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
2150: 4 so far.
2151: <p>
2152:
2153: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 2154: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
2155: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2156: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2157: </strong></font><br>
2158: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
2159: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
2160: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
2161: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
2162: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
2163: Goes on to say:
2164: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
2165: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
2166: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
2167: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 2168: This article is also found online at:
2169: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 2170: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2171: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
2172: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
2173: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 2174: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 2175: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2176: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
2177: ZDnet</a>,
2178: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 2179: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 2180: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2181: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
2182: ZDnet Australia</a>,
2183: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 2184: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 2185: </ul>
1.260 ian 2186: <p>
1.279 deraadt 2187:
1.260 ian 2188: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2189: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 2190: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 2191: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2192: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 2193: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 2194: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
2195: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
2196: without notice or justification.
2197: <p>
2198:
2199: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2200: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 2201: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 2202: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2203: </strong></font><br>
2204: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
2205: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 2206: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 2207: effective today, without any warning..."
2208: <p>
1.257 ian 2209:
2210: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 2211: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
2212: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2213: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 2214: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 2215: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
2216: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
2217: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
2218: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
2219: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 2220: <p>
2221:
2222: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 2223: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
2224: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2225: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 2226: </strong></font><br>
2227: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
2228: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
2229: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
2230: quoting two of them:
2231: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
2232: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
2233: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
2234: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
2235: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
2236: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
2237: <p>
2238:
1.255 ian 2239: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2240: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
2241: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 2242: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2243: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 2244: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 2245: <p>
2246:
2247: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 2248: [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 2249: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2250: </strong></font><br>
2251: New security concepts in OpenBSD
2252: <p>
2253:
2254: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 2255: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
2256: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2257: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 2258: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 2259: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 2260: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
2261: security experts for more than three decades."
2262: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
2263: <p>
1.261 ian 2264:
1.254 drahn 2265: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 2266: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 2267: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2268: </strong></font><br>
2269: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
2270: <p>
2271:
2272: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 2273: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
2274: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
2275: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
2276: </strong></font><br>
2277: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
2278: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
2279: discussion OpenBSD's path.
2280: <p>
2281:
2282: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 2283: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
2284: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2285: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 2286: </strong></font><br>
2287: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
2288: from US DARPA.
2289: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
2290: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
2291: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
2292: the BSD license.
2293: <p>
2294: </ul>
2295:
1.251 ian 2296: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
2297: <ul>
2298:
2299: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2300: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
2301: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
2302: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
2303: </strong></font><br>
2304:
2305: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
2306: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
2307: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
2308: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
2309: <p>
2310:
2311: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 2312: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
2313: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 2314: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 2315: </strong></font><br>
2316: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
2317: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
2318: Mentions
2319: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
2320: and
2321: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
2322: programs.
2323: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 2324: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 2325: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
2326: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
2327: <p>
1.325 ian 2328: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
2329: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 2330:
2331: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2332: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
2333: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
2334: </strong></font><br>
2335: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
2336: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
2337: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
2338: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
2339: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
2340: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
2341: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
2342: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
2343: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
2344: put into service."
2345: <p>
2346: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
2347: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
2348: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
2349: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
2350: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
2351: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
2352: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
2353: computers with security features."
2354: <p>
1.329 ian 2355:
2356: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2357: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
2358: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
2359: Slate,
2360: March 3, 2003.
2361: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 2362: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 2363: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
2364: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
2365: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
2366: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
2367: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
2368: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
2369: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
2370: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
2371: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
2372: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
2373: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
2374: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
2375: of more secure open-source solutions like
2376: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
2377: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
2378: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
2379: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
2380: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
2381: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
2382: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
2383: the Beltway."
2384: <p>
1.251 ian 2385: </ul>
2386:
1.249 jufi 2387: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
2388: <ul>
2389: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2390: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
2391: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2392: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 2393: </strong></font><br>
2394: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
2395: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 2396: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 2397: <p>
1.334 ian 2398:
2399: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2400: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
2401: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
2402: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
2403: </strong></font><br>
2404: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
2405: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
2406: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
2407: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
2408: "... the hypothetical question ...
2409: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
2410: <br>
2411: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
2412: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
2413: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
2414: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
2415: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
2416: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 2417: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 2418: support network security.
2419: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
2420: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
2421: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
2422: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
2423: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
2424: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
2425: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
2426: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
2427: <br>
2428: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
2429: <p>
2430:
1.249 jufi 2431: </ul>
2432:
1.246 jufi 2433: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2434: <ul>
1.246 jufi 2435:
1.247 jufi 2436: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2437: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 2438: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2439: CNET News.com, December 4, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2440: </strong></font><br>
2441: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
2442: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
2443: <p>
2444:
1.247 jufi 2445: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2446: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
2447: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2448: Heise News-Ticker, December 4, 2002
1.301 jose 2449: </strong></font><br>
1.460 david 2450: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III CPU
1.301 jose 2451: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
2452: <p>
2453:
2454: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2455: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 2456: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2457: eWeek, December 3, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2458: </strong></font><br>
2459: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
2460: in their annual OpenHack security test.
2461: <p>
1.247 jufi 2462: </ul>
1.246 jufi 2463:
1.244 jufi 2464: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2465: <ul>
1.246 jufi 2466:
1.247 jufi 2467: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2468: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
2469: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
2470: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2471: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2472: </strong></font><br>
2473: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
2474: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
2475: md5 digests.
2476: <p>
2477:
1.247 jufi 2478: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2479: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 2480: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
2481: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2482: </strong></font><br>
2483: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
2484: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
2485: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
2486: right the first time."
2487: <p>
1.247 jufi 2488: </ul>
1.244 jufi 2489:
2490:
2491: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2492: <ul>
1.244 jufi 2493:
1.247 jufi 2494: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2495: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2496: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
2497: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2498: </strong></font><br>
2499: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
2500: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
2501: part 6</a>.
2502: <p>
2503:
1.247 jufi 2504: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2505: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 2506: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
2507: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2508: O'Reilly Network, August 8, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2509: </strong></font><br>
2510: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
2511: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
2512: <p>
1.301 jose 2513:
2514: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2515: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
2516: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
2517: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
2518: </strong></font><br>
2519:
2520: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
2521: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
2522: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
2523: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
2524: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
2525: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
2526: <i>Here's the
2527: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
2528: <p>
1.247 jufi 2529: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2530:
2531: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2532: <ul>
1.242 jufi 2533:
1.247 jufi 2534: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2535: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 2536: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2537: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2538: </strong></font><br>
2539: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
2540: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
2541: <p>
2542:
1.247 jufi 2543: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2544: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2545: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2546: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 1, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2547: </strong></font><br>
2548: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
2549: this time using pf.
2550: <p>
1.247 jufi 2551: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2552:
2553: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2554: <ul>
1.242 jufi 2555:
1.247 jufi 2556: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2557: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2558: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
2559: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2560: </strong></font><br>
2561: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
2562: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
2563: their rotation.
2564: <p>
2565:
1.247 jufi 2566: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2567: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2568: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2569: O'Reilly Network, June 6, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2570: </strong></font><br>
2571: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
2572: <p>
1.247 jufi 2573: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2574:
1.239 jufi 2575: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2576: <ul>
1.239 jufi 2577:
1.247 jufi 2578: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2579: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2580: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
2581: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2582: </strong></font><br>
2583: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
2584: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
2585: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
2586: <p>
2587:
1.247 jufi 2588: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 2589: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2590: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
2591: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 2592: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 2593: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
2594: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
2595: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 2596: <p>
1.247 jufi 2597: </ul>
1.239 jufi 2598:
1.235 lebel 2599: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2600: <ul>
1.235 lebel 2601:
1.239 jufi 2602:
1.247 jufi 2603: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 2604: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 2605: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
2606: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 2607: </strong></font><br>
2608: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
2609: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
2610: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
2611: <p>
1.301 jose 2612:
1.247 jufi 2613: </ul>
1.235 lebel 2614:
1.228 horacio 2615: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2616: <ul>
1.228 horacio 2617:
1.247 jufi 2618: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2619: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2620: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
2621: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 2622: </strong></font><br>
2623: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
2624: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
2625: <p>
2626:
1.247 jufi 2627: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 2628: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 2629: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
2630: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 2631: </strong></font><br>
2632: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
2633: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
2634: <p>
2635:
1.247 jufi 2636: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 2637: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 2638: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
2639: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 2640: </strong></font><br>
2641: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
2642: on the desktop of his parents.
2643: <p>
2644:
1.247 jufi 2645: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 2646: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 2647: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
2648: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 2649: </strong></font><br>
2650: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
2651: using IPFilter.
2652:
2653: <p>
2654:
1.247 jufi 2655: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 2656: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 2657: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
2658: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 2659: </strong></font><br>
2660: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
2661: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
2662: perspectives of the four OS.
2663: <br>
2664: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 2665: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 2666: <p>
2667:
1.247 jufi 2668: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 2669: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
2670: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 2671: software and security</a>,
2672: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 2673: </strong></font><br>
2674:
2675: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
2676: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
2677: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
2678: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
2679: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
2680: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
2681: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
2682: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
2683: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
2684: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
2685: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
2686: security conscious team beyond doubt.
2687: <p>
1.247 jufi 2688: </ul>
1.228 horacio 2689:
1.225 horacio 2690: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2691: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2692:
1.247 jufi 2693: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2694: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
2695: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 2696: Interview</a>,
2697: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 2698: </strong></font><br>
2699:
2700: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
2701: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
2702: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 2703: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 2704: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
2705: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
2706: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
2707: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
2708: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 2709: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 2710: of choice.
2711: <p>
1.247 jufi 2712: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2713:
2714: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2715: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2716:
1.247 jufi 2717: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2718: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 2719: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
2720: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 2721: </strong></font><br>
2722:
2723: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
2724: <p>
2725:
1.247 jufi 2726: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2727: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 2728: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
2729: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 2730: </strong></font><br>
2731:
2732: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
2733: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
2734: <p>
1.247 jufi 2735: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2736:
1.218 horacio 2737: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2738: <ul>
1.218 horacio 2739:
1.247 jufi 2740: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 2741: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 2742: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 2743: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 2744: </strong></font><br>
2745:
2746: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
2747: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
2748: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
2749: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
2750: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
2751: subjects. Worth a read.
2752: <p>
2753:
2754:
1.247 jufi 2755: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 2756: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 2757: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
2758: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 2759: </strong></font><br>
2760:
2761: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
2762: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
2763: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
2764: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
2765: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
2766: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
2767: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
2768: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
2769: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 2770: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 2771: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
2772: on other operating systems.<br>
2773: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
2774: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
2775: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
2776: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
2777: <p>
2778:
1.247 jufi 2779: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2780: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 2781: Operating System 2010</a>,
2782: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 2783: </strong></font><br>
2784:
2785: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
2786: covering the level of software integration into the core
2787: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
2788: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
2789: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
2790: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
2791: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
2792: <p>
2793:
1.247 jufi 2794: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 2795: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2796: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
2797: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 2798: </strong></font><br>
2799:
2800: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
2801: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
2802: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
2803: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
2804: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
2805: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
2806: <p>
1.247 jufi 2807: </ul>
1.221 horacio 2808:
1.210 jufi 2809: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2810: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2811:
1.247 jufi 2812: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2813: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2814: Already a Contender</a>,
2815: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 2816: </strong></font><br>
2817:
2818: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
2819: source software in response to an article which claimed that
2820: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
2821: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
2822: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
2823: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
2824: <p>
2825:
1.247 jufi 2826: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 2827: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 2828: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
2829: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 2830: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2831:
1.224 horacio 2832: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
2833: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
2834: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
2835: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
2836: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
2837: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 2838: <p>
1.247 jufi 2839: </ul>
1.215 horacio 2840:
2841: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2842: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2843:
1.247 jufi 2844: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2845: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
2846: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 2847: Division</a>,
2848: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 2849: </strong></font><br>
2850:
2851: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
2852: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 2853: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 2854: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
2855: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
2856: investment</em>.<br>
2857: The implementation details can be seen on their
2858: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
2859: <p>
2860:
1.247 jufi 2861: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2862: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
2863: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
2864: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
2865: </strong></font><br>
2866:
2867: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
2868: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
2869: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1.475 grunk 2870: laptops and T-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1.301 jose 2871: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
2872: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
2873: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
2874: <p>
2875:
2876: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2877: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2878: Thinking about Security</a>,
2879: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2880: </strong></font><br>
2881:
2882: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
2883: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
2884: security and says that even secured operating systems running
2885: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
2886: to time.<br>
2887: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
2888: system and just the most secure system.
2889: <p>
2890:
1.247 jufi 2891: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2892: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2893: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
2894: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2895: </strong></font><br>
2896:
2897: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
2898: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
2899: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
2900: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
2901: choice:<br>
2902: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
2903: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
2904: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
2905: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
2906: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
2907: network security devices and as such must be well
2908: armored."</em><br>
2909: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
2910: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
2911: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
2912: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
2913: <br>
2914: Bravo!
2915: <p>
1.247 jufi 2916: </ul>
1.210 jufi 2917:
1.207 ian 2918: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2919: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2920:
1.247 jufi 2921: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 2922: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
2923: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
2924: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 2925:
1.207 ian 2926: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
2927: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 2928: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 2929: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
2930: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
2931: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 2932: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 2933: <p>
1.247 jufi 2934: </ul>
1.207 ian 2935:
1.194 jufi 2936: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2937: <ul>
1.194 jufi 2938:
1.247 jufi 2939: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2940: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 2941: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
2942: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 2943: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2944:
1.240 miod 2945: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 2946: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
2947: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
2948: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
2949: <p>
2950:
1.247 jufi 2951: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2952: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
2953: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
2954: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
2955:
2956: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
2957: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
2958: <p>
2959:
2960: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2961: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
2962: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2963: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
2964:
2965: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
2966: <p>
2967:
2968: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2969: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 2970: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
2971: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
2972: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2973:
1.240 miod 2974: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 2975: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 2976: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
2977: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 2978: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 2979: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 2980: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
2981: <br>
1.413 deraadt 2982: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 2983: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
2984: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
2985: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
2986: <p>
2987:
1.247 jufi 2988: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 2989: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
2990: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 2991: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 2992: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2993:
1.194 jufi 2994: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
2995: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
2996: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
2997: <br>
2998: The new
2999: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 3000: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 3001: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
3002: <p>
1.247 jufi 3003: </ul>
1.194 jufi 3004:
1.190 horacio 3005: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3006: <ul>
1.190 horacio 3007:
1.247 jufi 3008: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 3009:
3010: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
3011: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
3012:
1.301 jose 3013:
1.191 jufi 3014: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
3015: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
3016:
3017: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
3018: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
3019:
1.212 horacio 3020: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
3021: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 3022: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
3023:
1.211 horacio 3024: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
3025: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 3026: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
3027:
1.247 jufi 3028: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 3029: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
3030:
1.247 jufi 3031: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 3032: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
3033:
1.212 horacio 3034: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
3035: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 3036: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
3037:
3038: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
3039: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
3040:
3041: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
3042: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
3043:
1.301 jose 3044: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
3045: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
3046:
1.191 jufi 3047: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
3048: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
3049:
3050: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 3051: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 3052:
1.192 jufi 3053: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
3054: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 3055: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 3056:
1.193 deraadt 3057: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
3058: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 3059: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 3060:
1.247 jufi 3061: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 3062: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
3063:
1.247 jufi 3064: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 3065: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
3066: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
3067:
1.213 horacio 3068: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 3069: 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 3070: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
3071:
1.190 horacio 3072: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 3073: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
3074: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
3075: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
3076: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
3077: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
3078: <p>
1.190 horacio 3079:
1.247 jufi 3080: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3081: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
3082: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
3083: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 3084: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3085:
1.195 jufi 3086: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 3087: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
3088: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
3089: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 3090: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
3091: <p>
3092:
1.247 jufi 3093: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3094: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 3095: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
3096: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
3097: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3098:
1.191 jufi 3099: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 3100: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
3101: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
3102: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
3103: <p>
3104:
3105: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3106: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
3107: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3108: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
3109:
3110: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
3111: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 3112: <p>
1.247 jufi 3113: </ul>
1.190 horacio 3114:
1.191 jufi 3115:
1.186 jufi 3116: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3117: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 3118:
1.247 jufi 3119: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 3120: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 3121: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
3122: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 3123: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 3124:
1.188 jufi 3125: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 3126: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 3127: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 3128: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
3129: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 3130: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 3131: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 3132: <p>
3133:
1.301 jose 3134: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3135: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
3136: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3137: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
3138:
3139: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
3140: <p>
1.191 jufi 3141:
1.247 jufi 3142: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 3143: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
3144: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3145: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 5, 2001
1.191 jufi 3146: </strong></font><br>
3147:
3148: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
3149: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
3150: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
3151: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
3152: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
3153: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
3154: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
3155: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
3156: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
3157: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
3158: familiar?
3159: <p>
1.247 jufi 3160: </ul>
1.191 jufi 3161:
1.178 louis 3162: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3163: <ul>
1.178 louis 3164:
1.247 jufi 3165: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 3166: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 3167: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
3168: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 3169: </strong></font><br>
3170:
3171: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
3172: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
3173: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
3174: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
3175: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
3176: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
3177: <p>
3178:
1.247 jufi 3179: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3180: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
3181: Open source under the hood</a>,
3182: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 3183: </strong></font><br>
3184:
3185: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
3186: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
3187: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
3188: <p>
3189:
1.247 jufi 3190: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3191: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
3192: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
3193: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 3194: </strong></font><br>
3195:
3196: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
3197: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
3198: <p>
1.247 jufi 3199: </ul>
1.179 louis 3200:
1.174 louis 3201:
1.175 louis 3202: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3203: <ul>
1.175 louis 3204:
1.247 jufi 3205: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3206: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
3207: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
3208: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 3209: </strong></font><br>
3210:
3211: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
3212: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
3213: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
3214: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
3215: <p>
3216:
1.247 jufi 3217: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3218: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
3219: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
3220: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 3221: </strong></font><br>
3222:
3223: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 3224: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 3225: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
3226: <p>
1.247 jufi 3227: </ul>
1.175 louis 3228:
1.176 louis 3229:
1.172 mickey 3230: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3231: <ul>
1.172 mickey 3232:
1.247 jufi 3233: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3234: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
3235: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 3236: </strong></font><br>
3237:
3238: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
3239: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
3240: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 3241: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 3242: <p>
3243:
1.247 jufi 3244: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 3245: <a
1.269 deraadt 3246: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
3247: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
3248: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 3249: </strong></font><br>
3250:
3251: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
3252: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
3253: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
3254: <p>
3255:
1.247 jufi 3256: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3257: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 3258: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
3259: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 3260: </strong></font><br>
3261:
3262: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
3263: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
3264: <p>
3265:
1.247 jufi 3266: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3267: <a
1.269 deraadt 3268: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
3269: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 3270: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
3271: </strong></font><br>
3272:
3273: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
3274: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
3275: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
3276: our own Theo de Raadt.
3277: <p>
3278:
1.247 jufi 3279: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3280: <a
1.269 deraadt 3281: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
3282: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
3283: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 3284: </strong></font><br>
3285:
3286: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
3287: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
3288: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
3289: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
3290: shut down.]
3291: <p>
3292:
1.247 jufi 3293: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3294: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 3295: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 3296: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
3297: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 3298: </strong></font><br>
3299:
3300: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
3301: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
3302: <p>
1.247 jufi 3303: </ul>
1.172 mickey 3304:
1.161 louis 3305: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3306: <ul>
1.161 louis 3307:
1.247 jufi 3308: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 3309: <a
1.269 deraadt 3310: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
3311: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
3312: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 3313: </strong></font><br>
3314:
3315: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
3316: by John Wolley
3317: <p>
3318:
1.247 jufi 3319: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 3320: <a
1.269 deraadt 3321: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
3322: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
3323: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 3324: </strong></font><br>
3325:
3326: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
3327: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
3328: OpenBSD).
3329: <p>
3330:
1.247 jufi 3331: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 3332: <a
1.247 jufi 3333: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 3334: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
3335: </strong></font><br>
3336:
3337: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
3338: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
3339: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
3340: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
3341: and hindsight.
3342: <p>
3343:
1.247 jufi 3344: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3345: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
3346: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
3347: </strong></font><br>
3348:
3349: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
3350: <p>
3351:
1.247 jufi 3352: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 3353: <a
1.168 provos 3354: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
3355: December 7, 2000
3356: </strong></font><br>
3357:
3358: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
3359: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
3360: us explain.
3361: <p>
3362:
1.247 jufi 3363: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 3364: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
3365: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 3366: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 3367: December 6, 2000
3368: </strong></font><br>
3369:
3370: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
3371: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
3372: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
3373: <p>
3374:
1.247 jufi 3375: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3376: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
3377: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
3378: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
3379: </strong></font><br>
3380:
3381: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
3382: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
3383: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
3384: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
3385: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
3386: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
3387: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
3388: <p>
3389:
3390: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 3391: <a
1.226 horacio 3392: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
3393: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 3394: </strong></font><br>
3395:
3396: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 3397: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 3398: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 3399: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
3400: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
3401: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 3402: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 3403: <p>
1.162 millert 3404:
1.247 jufi 3405: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 3406: <a
1.161 louis 3407: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
3408: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
3409: </strong></font><br>
3410:
3411: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
3412: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
3413: <p>
3414:
1.247 jufi 3415: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3416: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
3417: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
3418: </strong></font><br>
3419:
3420: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
3421: <p>
3422:
3423:
1.247 jufi 3424: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 3425: <a
1.226 horacio 3426: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
3427: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
3428: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 3429: </strong></font><br>
3430:
3431: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
3432: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
3433: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
3434: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
3435: <p>
1.247 jufi 3436: </ul>
1.169 louis 3437:
1.158 louis 3438: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3439: <ul>
1.147 louis 3440:
1.247 jufi 3441: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3442: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
3443: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 3444: </strong></font><br>
3445:
3446: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
3447: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
3448: <p>
3449:
1.247 jufi 3450: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3451: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
3452: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
3453: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 3454: </strong></font><br>
3455: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
3456: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
3457: <p>
3458:
1.247 jufi 3459: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 3460: <a
3461: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
3462: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
3463: </strong></font><br>
3464:
3465: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
3466: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
3467: <p>
3468:
1.247 jufi 3469: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3470: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 3471: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
3472: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 3473:
1.213 horacio 3474: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 3475: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 3476: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
3477: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
3478: <p>
1.215 horacio 3479:
1.247 jufi 3480: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3481: <a
3482: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
3483: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
3484: </strong></font><br>
3485:
3486: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
3487: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
3488: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
3489: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
3490: much of the attitude too).
3491: <p>
1.161 louis 3492:
1.247 jufi 3493: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3494: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3495: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 3496: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3497:
1.157 louis 3498: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
3499: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
3500: <p>
1.247 jufi 3501: </ul>
1.157 louis 3502:
3503: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3504: <ul>
1.157 louis 3505:
1.247 jufi 3506: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3507: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3508: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 3509: </strong></font><br>
3510:
3511: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
3512: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
3513: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
3514: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
3515: <p>
3516:
1.247 jufi 3517: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 3518: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
3519: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
3520: </strong></font><br>
3521:
3522: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
3523: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
3524: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
3525: it because they love coding...
3526: <p>
3527:
1.247 jufi 3528: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 3529: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
3530: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
3531: </strong></font><br>
3532:
3533: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
3534: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
3535: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
3536: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
3537: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
3538: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
3539: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
3540: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
3541: <p>
3542:
1.247 jufi 3543: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3544: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
3545: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
3546: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 3547: </strong></font><br>
3548:
3549: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
3550: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
3551: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
3552: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
3553: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
3554: the pizza.
3555: <p>
3556:
1.247 jufi 3557: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 3558: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
3559: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
3560: </strong></font><br>
3561:
3562: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
3563: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
3564: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
3565: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
3566: problems.
3567: <p>
3568:
1.247 jufi 3569: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 3570: <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 3571: </strong></font><br>
3572:
1.222 miod 3573: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 3574: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
3575: - whether they like it or not.
3576: <p>
3577:
1.247 jufi 3578: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3579: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
3580: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 3581: </strong></font><br>
3582:
3583: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
3584: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
3585: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 3586: <p>
1.148 aaron 3587:
1.247 jufi 3588: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3589: <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 3590: </strong></font><br>
3591:
3592: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
3593: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
3594: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
3595: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
3596: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
3597: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
3598: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
3599: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
3600: <p>
3601:
1.247 jufi 3602: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3603: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
3604: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 3605: </strong></font><br>
3606:
3607: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
3608: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 3609: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 3610: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
3611: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
3612: <p>
1.247 jufi 3613: </ul>
1.147 louis 3614:
1.138 louis 3615: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3616: <ul>
1.138 louis 3617:
1.247 jufi 3618: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3619: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
3620: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
3621: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
3622: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 3623: </strong></font><br>
3624:
1.227 horacio 3625: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 3626: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
3627: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
3628: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
3629: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
3630: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
3631: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
3632: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 3633: <p>
3634:
1.247 jufi 3635: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 3636: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 3637: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 3638: </strong></font><br>
3639:
3640: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
3641: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
3642: groups, and even Linux.
3643: <p>
3644:
1.247 jufi 3645: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3646: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
3647: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 3648: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
3649: </strong></font><br>
3650:
3651: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
3652: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
3653: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
3654: library after installing the OS.
3655: <p>
3656:
1.247 jufi 3657: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3658: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 3659: Sys Admin, September 2000
3660: </strong></font><br>
3661:
3662: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
3663: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
3664: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
3665: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 3666: (<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>,
3667: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
3668: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
3669: <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 3670: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 3671: out of the system.
3672: <p>
3673:
1.247 jufi 3674: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 3675: <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
3676: </strong></font><br>
3677:
3678: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 3679: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 3680: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
3681: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
3682: the IP filtering and address translation.
3683: <p>
1.301 jose 3684:
3685: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3686: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
3687: </strong></font><br>
3688:
3689: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
3690: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
3691: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
3692: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
3693: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
3694: <p>
1.247 jufi 3695: </ul>
1.200 niklas 3696:
1.131 louis 3697: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3698: <ul>
1.131 louis 3699:
1.247 jufi 3700: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3701: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
3702: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
3703: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 3704: </strong></font><br>
3705:
3706: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
3707: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
3708: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
3709: <p>
3710:
1.247 jufi 3711: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 3712: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
3713: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
3714: </strong></font><br>
3715:
3716: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
3717: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
3718: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
3719: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
3720: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
3721: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
3722: note of"</i>.
3723: <p>
3724:
1.247 jufi 3725: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 3726: <a
1.247 jufi 3727: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 3728: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
3729: </strong></font><br>
3730:
3731: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
3732: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
3733: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
3734: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
3735: <p>
3736:
1.247 jufi 3737: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 3738: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 3739: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
3740: </strong></font><br>
3741:
3742: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
3743: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
3744: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
3745: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
3746: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
3747: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
3748: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
3749: <p>
3750:
1.247 jufi 3751: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 3752: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
3753: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
3754: 2000
3755: </strong></font><br>
3756:
3757: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
3758: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
3759: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
3760: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
3761: against current industry practices.
3762: <p>
3763:
1.247 jufi 3764: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 3765: <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
3766: </strong></font><br>
3767:
3768: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
3769: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
3770: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
3771: <p>
3772:
1.247 jufi 3773: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 3774: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
3775: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
3776: </strong></font><br>
3777:
3778: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
3779: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
3780: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
3781: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
3782: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
3783: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
3784: careful code reviews, he concludes.
3785: <p>
3786:
1.247 jufi 3787: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 3788: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
3789: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
3790: </strong></font><br>
3791:
3792: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
3793: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
3794: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
3795: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
3796: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 3797: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
3798: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
3799: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 3800: <p>
1.247 jufi 3801: </ul>
1.131 louis 3802:
1.118 louis 3803: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3804: <ul>
1.118 louis 3805:
1.247 jufi 3806: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 3807: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
3808: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
3809: </strong></font><br>
3810:
3811: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
3812: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
3813: about time. The article mentions that
3814: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
3815: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
3816: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 3817: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 3818: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
3819: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 3820: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 3821: <p>
3822:
1.247 jufi 3823: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3824: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 3825: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3826: </strong></font><br>
3827:
3828: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
3829: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
3830: of OpenSSH.
3831: <p>
3832:
1.247 jufi 3833: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3834: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3835: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3836: </strong></font><br>
3837:
3838: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 3839: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 3840: bridging.
3841: <p>
3842:
1.247 jufi 3843: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3844: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
3845: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 3846: </strong></font><br>
3847:
1.121 deraadt 3848: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
3849: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 3850: <p>
3851:
1.247 jufi 3852: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3853: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
3854: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
3855: </strong></font><br>
3856:
3857: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
3858: <p>
3859:
1.247 jufi 3860: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 3861: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3862: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
3863: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 3864: </strong></font><br>
3865:
1.120 deraadt 3866: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
3867: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 3868: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
3869: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
3870: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
3871: <p>
3872:
1.247 jufi 3873: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 3874: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
3875: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
3876: </strong></font><br>
3877:
1.222 miod 3878: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 3879: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
3880: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
3881: protocols and their quirks.
3882: <p>
3883:
1.247 jufi 3884: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3885: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
3886: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 3887: </strong></font><br>
3888:
3889: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
3890: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
3891: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 3892: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 3893: <p>
3894:
1.247 jufi 3895: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 3896: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
3897: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
3898: </strong></font><br>
3899:
3900: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
3901: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
3902: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
3903: <p>
3904:
1.247 jufi 3905: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 3906: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3907: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
3908: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 3909: </strong></font><br>
3910:
3911: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
3912: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
3913: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
3914: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
3915: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
3916: <p>
1.247 jufi 3917: </ul>
1.118 louis 3918:
1.104 louis 3919: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3920: <ul>
1.104 louis 3921:
1.247 jufi 3922: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 3923: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
3924: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
3925: </strong></font><br>
3926:
3927: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
3928: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
3929: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
3930: be a bit dry.
3931: <p>
3932:
1.247 jufi 3933: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3934: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
3935: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
3936: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
3937: </strong></font><br>
3938: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
3939: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
3940: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
3941: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
3942: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
3943: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
3944: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
3945: <p>
3946:
1.247 jufi 3947: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3948: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
3949: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 3950: 2000
1.128 louis 3951: </strong></font><br>
3952:
3953: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
3954: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
3955: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
3956: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
3957: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 3958: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 3959: <p>
3960:
1.247 jufi 3961: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3962: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
3963: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 3964: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 3965:
3966: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
3967: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
3968: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
3969: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 3970: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
3971: <p>
1.110 louis 3972:
1.247 jufi 3973: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 3974: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
3975: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
3976: </strong></font><br>
3977:
3978: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
3979: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
3980: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
3981: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
3982: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
3983: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
3984: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
3985: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
3986: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
3987: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
3988: <p>
3989:
1.247 jufi 3990: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 3991: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 3992: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 3993:
3994: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
3995: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 3996: <p>
1.108 louis 3997:
1.247 jufi 3998: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 3999: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
4000: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 4001: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 4002:
4003: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
4004: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
4005: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 4006: <p>
1.106 louis 4007:
1.247 jufi 4008: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 4009: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
4010: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 4011: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 4012:
4013: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
4014: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
4015: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
4016: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 4017: <p>
1.107 louis 4018:
1.247 jufi 4019: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4020: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
4021: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 4022: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 4023:
4024: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
4025: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 4026: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 4027: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
4028: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 4029: <p>
1.105 louis 4030:
1.247 jufi 4031: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 4032: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 4033: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 4034: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 4035:
1.113 naddy 4036: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
4037: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 4038: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 4039: <p>
1.104 louis 4040:
1.247 jufi 4041: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4042: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
4043: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
4044: </strong></font><br>
4045:
4046: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
4047: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
4048: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
4049: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
4050: <p>
1.301 jose 4051:
4052: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4053: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
4054: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
4055: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
4056:
4057: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
4058: hardware-supported cryptography.
4059: <p>
1.247 jufi 4060: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 4061:
1.85 louis 4062: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4063: <ul>
1.85 louis 4064:
1.247 jufi 4065: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4066: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 4067: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 4068: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 4069:
4070: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
4071: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
4072: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
4073: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
4074: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
4075: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
4076: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 4077: <p>
1.99 louis 4078:
1.247 jufi 4079: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4080: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 4081: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 4082: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 4083:
4084: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
4085: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
4086: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
4087: conditions.
1.113 naddy 4088: <p>
1.100 louis 4089:
1.247 jufi 4090: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4091: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 4092: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 4093: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 4094:
4095: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
4096: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
4097: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
4098: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 4099: <p>
1.95 louis 4100:
1.247 jufi 4101: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4102: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 4103: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 4104: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 4105:
4106: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
4107: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 4108: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 4109: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
4110: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4111: <p>
1.92 louis 4112:
1.247 jufi 4113: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4114: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 4115: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 4116: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 4117:
4118: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
4119: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
4120: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
4121: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
4122: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
4123: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 4124: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 4125: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 4126: <p>
1.91 louis 4127:
1.247 jufi 4128: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4129: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
4130: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 4131: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 4132:
4133: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
4134: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
4135: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
4136: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
4137: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
4138: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
4139: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
4140: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
4141: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 4142: <p>
1.90 louis 4143:
1.247 jufi 4144: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 4145: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
4146: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
4147: </strong></font><br>
4148: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
4149: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
4150: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
4151: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
4152: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
4153: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
4154: <p>
4155:
1.247 jufi 4156: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 4157: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
4158: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 4159: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 4160:
1.113 naddy 4161: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
4162: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 4163: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
4164: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
4165: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
4166: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
4167: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 4168: <p>
1.87 louis 4169:
1.247 jufi 4170: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 4171: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
4172: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 4173: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 4174:
4175: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 4176: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 4177: <p>
1.85 louis 4178:
1.247 jufi 4179: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4180: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
4181: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4182: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
4183:
4184: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
4185: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
4186: <p>
4187:
4188: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 4189: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
4190: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 4191: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 4192:
4193: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 4194: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 4195: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
4196: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 4197: <p>
1.89 louis 4198:
1.247 jufi 4199: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 ! steven 4200: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
1.85 louis 4201: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 4202: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 4203:
4204: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
4205: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
4206: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
4207: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
4208: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 4209: </ul>
1.85 louis 4210:
1.78 deraadt 4211: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4212: <ul>
1.74 louis 4213:
1.247 jufi 4214: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4215: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 4216: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 4217: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 4218: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 4219:
4220: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
4221: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
4222: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4223: <p>
1.83 louis 4224:
1.247 jufi 4225: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 4226: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
4227: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 4228: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 4229:
4230: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
4231: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 4232: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 4233: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
4234: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 4235: <p>
1.93 louis 4236:
1.247 jufi 4237: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4238: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
4239: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
4240: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 4241: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 4242:
1.83 louis 4243: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
4244: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
4245: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
4246: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
4247: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 4248: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
4249: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
4250: <p>
1.82 aaron 4251:
1.247 jufi 4252: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4253: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 4254: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 4255: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 4256:
1.83 louis 4257: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
4258: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
4259: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 4260: <p>
1.80 louis 4261:
1.247 jufi 4262: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4263: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 4264: Bad Press</a>,
4265: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 4266: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 4267:
4268: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 4269: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 4270: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
4271: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
4272: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 4273: <p>
1.247 jufi 4274: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 4275:
4276: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4277: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 4278:
1.247 jufi 4279: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4280: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
4281: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 4282: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 4283: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 4284:
4285: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
4286: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
4287: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
4288: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 4289: <p>
1.74 louis 4290:
1.247 jufi 4291: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 4292: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
4293: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 4294: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 4295:
1.219 horacio 4296: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
4297: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
4298: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
4299: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
4300: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
4301: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
4302: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 4303: <p>
1.88 louis 4304:
1.247 jufi 4305: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 4306: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 4307: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 4308: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 4309:
4310: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
4311: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
4312: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
4313: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 4314: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 4315: <p>
1.81 louis 4316:
1.247 jufi 4317: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4318: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 4319: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 4320: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 4321:
4322: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
4323: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
4324: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
4325: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
4326: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
4327: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
4328: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 4329: <p>
1.90 louis 4330:
1.247 jufi 4331: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4332: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 4333: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 4334: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 4335:
4336: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
4337: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
4338: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 4339: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 4340: <p>
1.247 jufi 4341: </ul>
1.71 louis 4342:
1.69 deraadt 4343: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4344: <ul>
1.70 louis 4345:
1.247 jufi 4346: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4347: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
4348: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 4349: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 4350:
4351: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
4352: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
4353: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 4354: <p>
1.70 louis 4355:
1.247 jufi 4356: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4357: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
4358: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 4359: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 4360:
4361: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 4362: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 4363: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 4364: <p>
1.68 louis 4365:
1.247 jufi 4366: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4367: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
4368: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 4369: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 4370: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 4371:
1.111 jufi 4372: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
4373: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 4374: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 4375: "secure by default" installation.
4376: <p>
1.64 louis 4377:
1.247 jufi 4378: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 4379: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 4380: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 4381: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 4382:
1.113 naddy 4383: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 4384: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 4385: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 4386: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
4387: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
4388: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 4389: <p>
1.66 louis 4390:
1.247 jufi 4391: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4392: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 4393: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4394: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 4395:
4396: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 4397: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 4398: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
4399: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
4400: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 4401: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
4402: <p>
1.83 louis 4403:
1.247 jufi 4404: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4405: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 4406: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4407: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 4408:
4409: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 4410: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
4411: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 4412: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
4413: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 4414: <p>
1.64 louis 4415:
1.247 jufi 4416: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4417: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 4418: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4419: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 4420:
4421: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
4422: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 4423: <p>
1.301 jose 4424:
4425: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4426: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
4427: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
4428: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
4429: </strong></font><br>
4430:
4431: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
4432: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
4433: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
4434: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
4435: Giving way to
4436: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
4437: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
4438: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
4439: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
4440: <p>
1.247 jufi 4441: </ul>
1.65 louis 4442:
1.69 deraadt 4443: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4444: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4445:
1.247 jufi 4446: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4447: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 4448: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 4449: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 4450:
4451: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
4452: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
4453: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
4454: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 4455: <p>
1.88 louis 4456:
1.247 jufi 4457: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4458: <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 4459: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 4460:
4461: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 4462: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
4463: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 4464: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
4465: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 4466: <p>
1.60 louis 4467:
1.247 jufi 4468: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 4469: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 4470: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 4471: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 4472: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4473:
4474: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
4475: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
4476: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 4477: <p>
1.58 louis 4478:
1.247 jufi 4479: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 4480: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 4481: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 4482:
4483: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
4484: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 4485: <p>
1.53 louis 4486:
1.247 jufi 4487: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 4488: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
4489: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 4490: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 4491:
4492: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
4493: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
4494: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 4495: <p>
1.99 louis 4496:
1.247 jufi 4497: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 4498: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 4499: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4500:
4501: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
4502: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 4503: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 4504: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 4505: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 4506:
1.247 jufi 4507: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4508: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
4509: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 4510: </strong></font><br>
4511:
4512: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
4513: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
4514: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
4515: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
4516: <p>
4517:
1.247 jufi 4518: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4519: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 4520: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 4521: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4522:
4523: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
4524: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 4525: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 4526:
1.247 jufi 4527: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 4528: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 4529: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 4530:
4531: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 4532: in
1.247 jufi 4533: <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 4534: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 4535: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 4536: <p>
1.53 louis 4537:
1.247 jufi 4538: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4539: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 4540: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
4541: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 4542: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 4543:
1.58 louis 4544: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4545: <p>
1.301 jose 4546:
4547: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4548: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
4549: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
4550: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
4551: Informacyjny, January 2000
4552: </strong></font><br>
4553:
4554: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
4555: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
4556: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
4557: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
4558: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
4559: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
4560: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
4561: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
4562: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
4563: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 4564: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
4565: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 4566: <p>
4567:
4568: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4569: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4570: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
4571: </strong></font><br>
4572:
4573: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
4574: <p>
4575: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 4576:
1.69 deraadt 4577: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4578: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4579:
1.247 jufi 4580: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4581: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
4582: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
4583: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 4584: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4585:
1.58 louis 4586: Kurt Seifried
4587: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4588: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
4589: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 4590: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 4591:
1.247 jufi 4592: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4593: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 4594: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4595: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 4596:
4597: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 4598: <p>
1.96 louis 4599:
1.247 jufi 4600: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4601: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
4602: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
4603: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
4604: </strong></font><br>
4605:
4606: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
4607: <p>
4608:
4609: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4610: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 4611: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 4612: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 4613:
4614: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
4615: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 4616: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 4617: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 4618: <p>
1.247 jufi 4619: </ul>
1.86 louis 4620:
1.69 deraadt 4621: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4622: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4623:
1.247 jufi 4624: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4625: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
4626: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 4627: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 4628:
4629: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
4630: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 4631: <p>
1.61 louis 4632:
1.247 jufi 4633: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4634: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 4635: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
4636: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4637: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 4638:
4639: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 4640: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 4641: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
4642: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 4643: right -- or at least strives to".
4644: <p>
1.48 louis 4645:
1.247 jufi 4646: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4647: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
4648: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4649: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 4650: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
4651: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
4652: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
4653: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 4654: <p>
1.61 louis 4655:
1.247 jufi 4656: <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 4657: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4658: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 4659:
4660: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
4661: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
4662: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
4663: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 4664: <p>
1.46 louis 4665:
1.247 jufi 4666: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4667: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
4668: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4669: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4670:
4671: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
4672: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 4673: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 4674:
1.247 jufi 4675: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 4676: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
4677: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 4678: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 4679:
4680: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
4681: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
4682: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
4683: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 4684: <p>
1.247 jufi 4685: </ul>
1.70 louis 4686:
1.69 deraadt 4687: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4688: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4689:
1.247 jufi 4690: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4691: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
4692: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 4693: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 4694: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 4695:
4696: Kurt Seifried
4697: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4698: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
4699: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 4700: <p>
1.44 philen 4701:
1.247 jufi 4702: <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 4703: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 4704: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 4705:
4706: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 4707: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 4708:
1.247 jufi 4709: <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 4710: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 4711: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 4712:
4713: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 4714: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 4715:
1.247 jufi 4716: <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 4717: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 4718: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 4719:
4720: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
4721: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
4722: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
4723: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 4724: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 4725:
1.247 jufi 4726: <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 4727: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 4728: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 4729:
1.36 louis 4730: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 4731: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 4732:
1.247 jufi 4733: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 ! steven 4734: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
1.39 louis 4735: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 4736: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4737:
4738: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 4739: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 4740: </ul>
1.38 louis 4741:
1.69 deraadt 4742: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4743: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4744:
1.247 jufi 4745: <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 4746: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 4747: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 4748:
4749: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
4750: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 4751: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 4752:
1.113 naddy 4753: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 4754: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 4755: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 4756: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 4757:
4758: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
4759: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 4760: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
4761: terminal:
1.113 naddy 4762: <blockquote>
4763: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
4764: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
4765: <br>
4766: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
4767: </code>
4768: </blockquote>
4769: <p>
4770:
1.247 jufi 4771: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 4772: <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 4773: <p>
4774:
4775: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4776: <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 4777: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 4778:
4779: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
4780: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 4781: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 4782: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 4783:
1.247 jufi 4784: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4785: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
4786: Sept. 28, 1999
4787: </strong></font><br>
4788:
4789: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
4790: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
4791: translating and reprinting articles from
4792: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
4793: <p>
4794:
4795: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 4796: <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 4797: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 4798:
4799: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
4800: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
4801: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
4802: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
4803: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 4804: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 4805: <p>
1.19 louis 4806:
1.113 naddy 4807: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 4808: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 4809: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 4810:
4811: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
4812: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
4813: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 4814: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
4815: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 4816: <p>
1.16 louis 4817:
1.247 jufi 4818: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4819: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 4820: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 4821: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 4822:
1.57 louis 4823: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
4824: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
4825: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 4826: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 4827:
1.247 jufi 4828: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4829: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.466 deraadt 4830: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4831: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4832:
1.113 naddy 4833: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 4834:
1.247 jufi 4835: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4836: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
4837: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4838: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 4839:
1.23 louis 4840: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
4841: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
4842: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
4843: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
4844: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 4845: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 4846:
1.247 jufi 4847: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 4848: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
4849: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4850: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 4851:
1.199 pvalchev 4852: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 4853: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
4854: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
4855: installation.
1.113 naddy 4856: <p>
1.47 louis 4857:
1.247 jufi 4858: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4859: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 4860: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 4861: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4862:
1.301 jose 4863: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
4864: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
4865: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4866: </ul>
1.57 louis 4867:
1.69 deraadt 4868: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4869: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4870:
1.247 jufi 4871: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 4872: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 4873: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 4874: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 4875:
4876: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
4877: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 4878: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4879: <p>
1.12 louis 4880:
1.247 jufi 4881: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 4882: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 4883: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 4884: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 4885:
4886: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
4887: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 4888: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
4889: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
4890: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
4891: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
4892: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 4893: <p>
1.247 jufi 4894: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 4895:
1.69 deraadt 4896: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4897: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 4898:
1.247 jufi 4899: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 4900: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 4901: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 4902:
4903: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
4904: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
4905: available."
1.113 naddy 4906: <p>
1.301 jose 4907:
4908: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4909: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4910: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
4911: </strong></font><br>
4912:
4913: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
4914: <p>
1.247 jufi 4915: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 4916:
1.69 deraadt 4917: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4918: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4919:
1.247 jufi 4920: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 4921: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 4922: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 4923:
4924: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
4925: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
4926: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
4927: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
4928: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 4929: <p>
1.33 louis 4930:
1.247 jufi 4931: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4932: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 4933: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 4934: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4935:
1.113 naddy 4936: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
4937: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 4938: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
4939: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
4940: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 4941: <p>
1.247 jufi 4942: </ul>
1.57 louis 4943:
1.69 deraadt 4944: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4945: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4946:
1.247 jufi 4947: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4948: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 4949: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 4950: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 4951:
4952: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
4953: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 4954: <p>
1.69 deraadt 4955:
1.247 jufi 4956: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 4957: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
4958: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
4959: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 4960: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 4961:
4962: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 4963: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 4964:
1.247 jufi 4965: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 ! steven 4966: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4967:
1.113 naddy 4968: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 4969:
1.247 jufi 4970: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 ! steven 4971: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
1.68 louis 4972: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 4973: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 4974:
4975: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 4976: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 4977: </ul>
1.23 louis 4978:
1.69 deraadt 4979: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4980: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4981:
1.247 jufi 4982: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 4983: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 4984: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 4985:
4986: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
4987: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 4988: <p>
1.2 deraadt 4989:
1.247 jufi 4990: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4991: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 4992: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4993: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4994:
4995: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
4996: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 4997: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 4998: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4999: </ul>
1.57 louis 5000:
1.69 deraadt 5001: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5002: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5003:
1.247 jufi 5004: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 ! steven 5005: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
1.15 louis 5006: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 5007: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 5008:
5009: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
5010: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
5011: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
5012: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5013: <p>
1.15 louis 5014:
1.247 jufi 5015: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 5016: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
5017: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 5018: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5019:
5020: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
5021: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
5022: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
5023: columns."
1.113 naddy 5024: <p>
1.247 jufi 5025: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5026:
1.69 deraadt 5027: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5028: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5029:
1.247 jufi 5030: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5031: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 5032: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 5033: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5034:
5035: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 5036: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 5037:
1.113 naddy 5038: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5039: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 5040: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5041:
5042: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
5043: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 5044: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 5045: </ul>
1.57 louis 5046:
1.69 deraadt 5047: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5048: <ul>
1.301 jose 5049: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5050: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
5051: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
5052: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
5053:
5054: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
5055: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
5056: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
5057: <p>
5058:
5059: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5060: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
5061: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
5062: Nov 13, 1998 and
5063: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
5064: Datateknik</a>,
5065: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
5066:
1.380 saad 5067: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 5068: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
5069: explains the licensing issues and points to our
5070: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
5071: <p>
1.69 deraadt 5072:
1.113 naddy 5073: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 ! steven 5074: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 5075: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 5076: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 5077:
1.222 miod 5078: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 5079: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
5080: Implementation, including a brief interview with
5081: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 5082: <p>
1.247 jufi 5083: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5084:
1.69 deraadt 5085: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5086: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5087:
1.247 jufi 5088: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5089: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 5090: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5091:
1.69 deraadt 5092: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
5093: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 5094: <p>
1.247 jufi 5095: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5096:
1.69 deraadt 5097: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5098: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 5099:
1.247 jufi 5100: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 5101: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
5102: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 5103: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5104:
1.383 jcs 5105: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 5106: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 5107: <p>
1.1 deraadt 5108:
1.247 jufi 5109: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 5110: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 5111: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
5112: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 5113: <p>
1.247 jufi 5114: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5115:
1.69 deraadt 5116: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5117: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5118:
1.247 jufi 5119: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5120: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 5121: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
5122: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 5123: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 5124: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 5125:
5126: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
5127: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
5128: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 5129: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 5130: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 5131: <p>
1.247 jufi 5132: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 5133:
5134: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5135: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5136:
1.247 jufi 5137: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5138: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 5139: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 5140:
1.69 deraadt 5141: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
5142: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 5143: <p>
1.112 naddy 5144:
1.247 jufi 5145: </ul>
1.113 naddy 5146: <p>
1.1 deraadt 5147:
1.292 camield 5148: <hr>
1.216 horacio 5149: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 5150: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.493 ! steven 5151: <br><small>$OpenBSD: press.html,v 1.492 2006/03/14 17:49:02 ian Exp $</small>
1.1 deraadt 5152:
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