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1.487 ian 19: <h2>March, 2006</h2>
20: <ul>
1.495 ian 21:
22: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
23: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259254,00.htm">
24: OpenBSD 3.9 adds sensor framework</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
25: </strong></font><br>
26: It's easy to focus on our project's security, but we innovate in other areas too.
27: This article highlights the "sensors" framework added in 3.9 to provide and integrated
28: approach to handling Dell PowerEdge servers' Embedded Server Management (ESM), IPMI, and
29: in general temperature and environmental issues.
30: "There is a significant new sensor framework [in OpenBSD 3.9], which
31: supports voltage sensors, fan sensors, temperature sensors, and so
32: on," said de Raadt. "Such a feature is still missing in Linux and
33: other major operating systems." ...
34: De Raadt has already been using the sensor framework to monitor the
35: machines running in
36: <a href="images/newrack.jpg">the project's server room</a>. "I now get a call
37: on my cell phone whenever something is wrong in the machine room,"
38: <p>
39:
40: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
41: <a href="http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/other/0,39020682,39259281,00.htm">
42: Paying for free software may be the bargain of a lifetime</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
43: </strong></font><br>
44: Starts with a Theo quote from the previous article on ZDNet:
45: "A culture of entitlement is starting to damage the open source community".
46: The article argues that mega-computer-companies that use open source tend to use BSD:
47: "The open BSDs may be less famous than Linux, but they are arguably
48: superior in stability and security. This has made it popular in
49: ISPs and elsewhere - Apple, for example, adopted BSD within OS X.
50: BSD, unlike software released under the GPL, carrys no legal
51: obligations for the adopter to provide anything for the community in return."
52: Goes on to argue that these companies <em>ought</em> to be fair enough
53: to send a small bit of their money back into funding open source.
54: "In the time it takes to read this article, we calculate that Apple
55: will have easily made enough to pay-off OpenBSD's annual losses,
56: with a little left over to buy black turtlenecks for all. It's not
57: just Apple's baby - other companies owe far more to OpenBSD - but
58: in open source a little symbolism goes a long way."
59: <p>
60:
1.487 ian 61: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.494 bernd 62: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71174">
63: OpenBSD muss an den Sparstrumpf</a>, heise online, March 23, 2006
64: </strong></font><br>
1.495 ian 65: OpenBSD is touching its savings - Small news article about the project's
1.494 bernd 66: financial situation.
67: <p>
68:
69: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 70: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259042,00.htm">
71: OpenBSD Founder Makes Funding Plea</a>, ZDNet UK, March 23, 2006
72: </strong></font><br>
73: One of the first mainstream sites to pick up on Marco's article (below),
74: this one reports the funding figures on how much it really costs to
75: produce our favorite operating system.
76: "Although OpenBSD has a number of commercial users, including many
77: ISPs, de Raadt claimed that all of its donations come from individuals
78: rather than companies many of who claim the have no budget to pay
79: for the operating system. "The culture of entitlement is starting
80: to damage the open source community," he said."
1.496 ! ian 81: <br/>
! 82: Also online at
! 83: <a href="http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/software/stories/135760.html">ZDNet India</a>.
! 84: <p>
! 85:
! 86: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
! 87: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/03/22/OpenBSD-money.html">
! 88: OpenBSD in Financial Trouble</a>, Ping Wales, March 21, 2006
! 89: </strong></font><br>
! 90: David Chisnall reports that "OpenBSD is one of my favourite platforms;
! 91: its focus on security and ease-of-use makes it a very simple and
! 92: safe system to use. Unfortunately, the OpenBSD organisation is now
! 93: experiencing financial difficulty. For the last two years, the
! 94: project has made a $20,000/year loss, something which it cannot
! 95: sustain indefinitely."
! 96: Goes on to report on the growing use of OpenBSD in commercial software
! 97: (and hardware!), and that none of the "big guys" has given anything back.
! 98: Unlike most of the articles on this topic, this one is kind enough to
! 99: include a direct link to our orders page and recommend its readers
! 100: to buy a copy of the CD to help fund the project.
1.495 ian 101: <p>
102:
103: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
104: <a href="URL">
105: OpenBSD Finances</a>, OpenBSD Journal, March 21, 2006
106: </strong></font><br>
107: Marco Peereboom's article notes that
108: "OpenBSD for the past 2 years has turned a loss of approximately $20K USD" per year.
109: Hackathons - where a lot of developers get together in critical mass and churn out
110: new ideas and new code in great quantity - cost from US$10K-30K each, and we try to run
111: a few of them each year.
112: Meanwhile, compananies that use OpenBSD and companies - many of them highly profitable -
113: that incorporate OpenSSH into operating systems and even routers and other appliances
114: have not been forthcoming: no major computer company has given funding
115: to the OpenBSD project.
116: It's time for them to do so.
117: <p>
118:
119: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.489 deraadt 120: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">Report on Business Television</a>
121: March 10, 5:45pm MST</strong></font><br>
1.490 deraadt 122: Theo de Raadt was interviewed by Howard Green on <b>The Business Show</b>:<br>
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128: <br>
129: A longer segment is also available at <a href="http://www.robtv.ca">www.robtv.ca</a>.
1.489 deraadt 130: <p>
131:
132: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.487 ian 133: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/openbgpd.html">OpenBGPd in OpenBSD</a>
134: Daemon News, March, 2006</strong></font><br>
135: Check out the notes and slides from Henning Brauer's presentation at
136: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0602/">NANOG 36</a>;
137: the text and questions cover everything from how and why OpenBGPd got created,
138: through configuration and tools, to integration with pf and CARP,
139: to technical issues regarding use of IPSEC to provide security for BGP packets.
140: Along the way there's considerable discussion on how the program was
141: designed to provide reliability and security.
142: <p>
143:
144: </ul>
145:
1.485 ian 146: <h2>February, 2006</h2>
147: <ul>
148: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.486 ian 149: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1859">Zero to IPSec in 4 minutes</a>
150: Security Focus, February 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
151: This article, as its lead-in says,
152: "looks at how to get a fully functional IPSec VPN up and running between two fresh OpenBSD
153: installations in about four minutes flat".
154: If you've shied away from setting up an IPSEC VPN because of config file complexity,
155: now is the time to reconsider.
156: Dragos Ruiu shows you how the ipsecctl command (introduced to the world in OpenBSD 3.8)
157: makes it really easy to set up a VPN between consenting OpenBSD machines.
158: He states that he and a colleague were able to get two machines talking over IPSEC
159: in a few minutes, and only changing a few configuration files.
160: He also comments on the relative ease of installing our favorite OS, and hopes
161: that our ipsecctl will be adopted by the other BSDs (hopefully in a compatible way)
162: to make firewall setups easier all around the network.
163: But you don't need to wait for that if you're running OpenBSD 3.8; just follow
164: the steps in the article.
165: <p>
166:
167: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.485 ian 168: <a href="http://www.networkmagazineindia.com/200602/vendorvoice02.shtml">The Worm in the Machine</a>
169: Network Magazine India, February 2006</strong></font><br>
170: Dilip Ranade elaborates on several reasons why software is drearily buggy and endlessly insecure,
171: particularly in comparison with other technologies.
172: Imagines how very bad shape the automotive industry would be in if you had to sign the
173: same disclaimer of (non-)usability that almost every commercial EULA requires of computer users.
174: Ends with "I once dreamt that all the computer users in the world
175: arose in revolt and switched to hardened OpenBSD", though he admits that there's "fat chance" of it
176: happening in real life.
177: <p>
178:
179: </ul>
180:
1.492 ian 181: <h2>January, 2006</h2>
182: <ul>
183: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
184: <a href="http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2006/01/28.html">Kevin Mitnick on
185: Coast to Coast AM Radio Show with Art Bell</a>, Jan 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
186: Art Bell interviewed Kevin Mitnick on his call-in show;
187: Paul Zacharzewski from Edmonton called to ask Mitnick for his opinion of OpenBSD.
188: If you don't want to download the whole show from coasttocoastam.com,
189: you can listen to an
190: <a href="http://unworkable.org/misc/mitnick.mp3">MP3 excerpt of this call</a>
191: in which Mitnick says: "Well, I actually use OpenBSD, so I do like it".
192: </ul>
193:
1.483 ian 194: <h2>December, 2005</h2>
195: <ul>
196: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.484 djm 197: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/375/1">OpenSSH cutting edge</a>
198: SecurityFocus, December 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
199: Federico Biancuzzi interviews OpenSSH developer Damien Miller to discuss
200: features included in the upcoming version 4.3, public key crypto
201: protocols details, timing based attacks and anti-worm measures.
202: <p>
203:
204: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 205: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/11/21/175249.shtml?tid=92&tid=78">Creating
1.483 ian 206: Secure Wireless Access Points with OpenBSD and OpenVPN</a>
207: NewsForge, December 13, 2005</strong></font><br>
208: A cookbook approach to setting up a wireless interface as a secure Access Point
209: using OpenBSD's hostap, pf, and authpf.
210: Configuration examples are given with basic explanations and links
211: to sites with more information on most topics.
212: <p>
213:
214: </ul>
215:
216:
1.479 grunk 217: <h2>November, 2005</h2>
218: <ul>
219: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 220: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20051116145737">OpenBSD
1.482 ian 221: Goes to Venice</a>,
222: OpenBSD Journal, November 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
223: "What happens when you put a dozen developers on a little island with their
224: laptops, power, and an internet connection?
225: <br/>
226: During the first week of November some OpenBSD developers met in a
227: little island in Venice's lagoon to hack on the ports system.
228: This was probably the first ports hackathon and was followed by
229: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON</a>, a European conference
230: fully dedicated to OpenBSD..."
231: Great coverage of the OpenBSD Porting Hackathon: people, ports, beer, ...
232: Contains a link to
233: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ven05-pvalchev/mgp00008.html">
234: pval's summary slides</a>.
235: <p>
236:
237: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.481 niallo 238: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1710223">
239: Trying out the new OpenBSD 3.8</a>,
240: NewsForge, November 11, 2005</strong></font><br>
241: This article describes the installation of OpenBSD 3.8 from a Linux user's
242: perspective, noting the simple elegance of the installer.
243: Although the installation process may be hard to get used to at first for
244: the average Linux user, the author tells us that one can learn a lot from
245: it. Furthermore, the article clears up the common misconception that working
246: on an OpenBSD system is very different from working on a Linux system.
247: In particular, the author states that on OpenBSD, <i>"virtually the entire
248: catalog of familiar free and open source software titles is available through
249: the packages and ports system"</i>.
250: <p>
251:
252: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
253: <a href="http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3561526">
254: Return of The BSDs</a>,
255: internetnews.com, November 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
256: This article mentions that with all three major BSD flavors having had
257: a release this fall, BSD is <i>"still very much alive and kicking among
258: all the noise and buzz created by Linux"</i>. The author talks about
259: various new or improved features of 3.8, such as bioctl(8), hostapd(8),
260: network interface aggregation and sasyncd(8), and there are some
261: quotes from Bob Beck.
262: <p>
263:
264: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.479 grunk 265: <a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/051101/152/fvrlx.html">
266: OpenBSD 3.8 improves hardware support</a>,
267: ZDNet UK, November 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.480 ian 268: This article reports on OpenBSD 3.8, which was released on November 1.
269: The author gives an overview of the improvements and new
1.479 grunk 270: features that were made with 3.8, and quotes Theo on RAID management
271: and Linux.<br>
272: The 3.8 release hit the news also in some other places:
273: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1258232">Slashdot</a>
274: and <a href="http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=12482">OSNews</a>
275: also report about it, mostly repeating parts
276: of the release
277: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/ANNOUNCEMENT">ANNOUNCEMENT</a>.
278: <p>
279: </ul>
280:
1.476 ian 281: <h2>October, 2005</h2>
282: <ul>
283:
284: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
285: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1375194866;fp;16;fpid;0">
286: 'Nightmare' drove desperate user to open source</a>,
287: Computerworld, October 24, 2005</strong></font><br>
288: A great tale of how Mark Uemura of PricewaterhouseCoopers Japan
289: was forced to move to OpenBSD because the alternatives were too costly
290: and too unreliable.
291: This quote will rattle some cages:
292: "IT managers who want to deploy an open source solution but are
293: worried about company politics should go ahead and do it without
294: asking," according to Uemura, who was promoted to IT Manager of PWC Japan
295: after saving the company seven IT-samurais' salaries.
296: Further, "In Japan large organizations like Morgan Stanley and the
297: Bank of America have moved all their backend systems to open source,
298: Uemura said, because with open source you can reduce IT operating
299: costs without any commercial lock-in."
300: <p>
301:
1.477 saad 302: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
303: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6270">
304: OpenBSD 3.8: Hackers of the Lost RAID</a>,
305: ONLamp.com, October 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
306: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
307: new features in OpenBSD 3.8 including interface trunking,
308: internationalization support, Inter-Access Point Protocol (IAPP),
309: IPSec SA synchronization daemon, and RAID management. There is also some
310: discussion about future plans.
311: <p>
312:
1.478 grunk 313: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
314: <a href="http://securityfocus.com/columnists/361">
315: OpenBSD's network stack</a>,
316: SecurityFocus, October 12, 2005</strong></font><br>
317: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about OpenBSD's
318: network stack, including protection against ICMP attacks, and propagation
319: of enhancements into other BSDs and into Linux.
320: The interview also features the other protection mechanisms in the network
321: stack, a comparison to the network stack in Linux, and the history and
322: current status of <a href="http://www.openbgpd.org/">OpenBGPD</a>.
323: <p>
324:
1.476 ian 325: </ul>
326:
1.470 saad 327: <h2>September, 2005</h2>
328: <ul>
329:
330: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.474 niallo 331: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/359">
332: Security-related innovation in Unix</a>,
333: SecurityFocus, Sept. 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
334: An article examining the mmap-based malloc() implementation to be
335: included in OpenBSD 3.8. The author states that <i>"it will help OpenBSD
336: users to find bugs in software more easily, which will result in better
337: applications for everyone"</i>. He goes on to say that <i>"the more hurdles
338: that one has to jump through for good security, the less likely people will
339: go through the trouble. OpenBSD allows even the most inexperienced users to
340: take advantage of these technologies without any effort"</i>.
341: <p>
342:
343: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.473 aanriot 344: <a href="http://www.miscmag.com/articles/index.php3?page=2100">
345: [FRENCH] Champ libre : les chantiers OpenBSD</a>
346: Misc, number 21, Sept/Oct, 2005, p. 4-14</strong></font><br>
347: An interesting article about OpenBSD and associated projects. Saad Kadhi
348: and Guillaume Arcas describe useful things you can do with PF and
349: OpenSSH, and give a nice introduction to OpenNTPD and OpenCVS. If the
350: article is focused on the presentation, you can find some interesting
351: technical aspects people are not always acquainted to. A few examples
352: are shown, like a basic CARP setup, or the manner to use multiplexing
353: with OpenSSH and even how to check an OpenSSH server's keys using DNS.
354: <p>
355:
356: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 357: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/news/11306">
358: Big debate over small packets</a>,
359: SecurityFocus, Sept. 7, 2005</strong></font><br>
360: Robert Lemos discusses the ICMP denial-of-service vulnerabilities found
361: by Fernando Gont and fixed in OpenBSD. To date, OpenBSD is the only
362: system that has implemented all of the fixes recommended in the IETF
363: draft.
364: <p>
365:
366: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.471 saad 367: <a href="http://www.pcexpert.fr/">
368: [FRENCH] "Quel est le meilleur système libre pour votre
369: ordinateur ?"</a>,
370: PC Expert, number 156, p. 42-62</strong></font><br>
371: Philippe Roure compares 11 Linux and *BSD operating systems, including
372: OpenBSD 3.7, on different criteria such as security, documentation and
373: usability. OpenBSD earned a 5/5 mark (see pages 60-61) and while a mark
374: isn't necessarily objective, the author seems to grasp the OpenBSD
375: project, its goals, and how good is the operating system. The article
376: includes an interview with Saad Kadhi.
377: <p>
378:
379: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.470 saad 380: <a href="http://www.samag.com/articles/2005/0509/">
381: Monitoring PF Firewalls for Health and Performance</a>,
382: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 9, p. 37</strong></font><br>
383: Ryan Matteson describes several utilities that can be used to monitor the
384: health and performance of a PF firewall. Besides pfctl, the article
385: covers pftop, fwanalog, monitoring logs with tcpdump and graphing
386: performance data with pfstat.
387: <p>
388:
389: </ul>
390:
1.461 grunk 391: <h2>July, 2005</h2>
392: <ul>
393:
394: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.466 deraadt 395: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5382">
396: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part III</a>,
1.467 grunk 397: Kerneltrap, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.466 deraadt 398: Jeremy Andrews writes about the recent Blind ICMP attacks discovered
399: by Fernando Gont, and the fixes done by him and OpenBSD during the
400: 2005 Hackathon.
1.469 ian 401: The article goes into the technical background of the
1.467 grunk 402: attacks, mentioning blind ICMP attacks, "hard" ICMP errors, source
1.469 ian 403: quenching, and path MTU discovery;
404: many helpful RFCs and technical papers are linked from the explanations.
405: This is followed by a recap of the whole ICMP story, involving Gont's
1.467 grunk 406: struggle with other free projects, Cisco lawyers, Microsoft people,
407: and others.<br>
1.469 ian 408: The article concludes that OpenBSD was the first project
1.467 grunk 409: to take Fernando Gont's findings seriously, and also the first group to
410: be really painless to work with.
1.466 deraadt 411: <p>
412:
413: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.464 grunk 414: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/06/security_blame/">
415: Security meltdown: who's to blame?</a>,
1.466 deraadt 416: The Register, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.464 grunk 417: This article talks about various groups that are frequently blamed for
418: poor security:
1.467 grunk 419: individuals, ISPs, companies, crackers, security mailing lists,
1.464 grunk 420: and last but not least: OS vendors!
1.467 grunk 421: In the last paragraph, OpenBSD's style of <i>"dumbed-down, simplified
1.464 grunk 422: and secure systems (with a heavily audited code base)"</i> is described
423: as <i>"one of the smartest approaches to security"</i>.
424: <p>
425:
426: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.461 grunk 427: <a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-7-5/30084.html">
428: Theo de Raadt on Industry and Free Software</a>,
1.466 deraadt 429: The Epoch Times, July 5, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.463 tom 430: In this interview, Theo talks about the inception of the OpenBSD project
431: and its goals, as well as its impact on the commercial IT industry.
1.461 grunk 432: He points out once more that <i>"vendors who incorporate OpenSSH have
433: given us absolutely nothing back - not a cent"</i>.
434: Other topics covered include the OpenBSD team, Theo's role as
435: <i>"benevolent dictator"</i>, and the security process, which he compares
436: to the security efforts led by other free software projects and some
437: commercial vendors.
438: <p>
439:
440: </ul>
441:
1.454 ian 442: <h2>June, 2005</h2>
443: <ul>
1.468 grunk 444:
445: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
446: <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/ns-ttc062205.php">
447: The true cost of computer crime</a>,
448: EurekAlert / <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/">New Scientist Magazine</a>,
449: issue June 25, 2005</strong></font><br>
450: This article looks at computer crime, especially the way upcoming
451: vulnerability reports are dealt with. It also gives a short overview of the
1.469 ian 452: institutions involved in the process (vendors, free projects, CERTs).
1.468 grunk 453: <br>
454: The author mentions the work of Andy Ozment, who researches vulnerability
455: disclosure at the University of Cambridge. Using OpenBSD as a good example
456: of how disclosure and consequent fixing of bugs helps to strengthen security,
457: he refutes the widely spread FUD that disclosing vulnerabilities leads to
458: more harm than good. Ozment's methodology was to examine OpenBSD's CVS logs
1.469 ian 459: and note when fixes were published; his research shows that
1.468 grunk 460: <i>"the number of vulnerabilities decreases as a result of disclosure"</i>.
461: <p>
462:
1.454 ian 463: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.458 niallo 464: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0704/071.html">
465: Free Bird</a>,
466: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
467: <b>(Registration required)</b> A second Forbes article about OpenBSD, more
468: focused on the project itself this time. It contains good description of the
469: history of OpenBSD along with its prime motivations. Mention is made of the
470: DARPA grant and the annual hackathon. Theo's motto "shut up and hack" finally
471: becomes famous in this piece and there are some other very insightful quotes
472: such as "All I care about is making high-quality code. If I had to work at a
473: regular job, it would drive me nuts". This is certainly an astute and perceptive
474: article, well worth reading. Do note that the big picture of Theo's machine
475: room will only be available in the print edition.
476: <p>
1.459 deraadt 477:
1.458 niallo 478: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.456 niallo 479: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html">
480: Is Linux For Losers?</a>,
481: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
482: An interesting article, if somewhat polemic in tone, which raises questions
483: about the quality of Linux code compared to OpenBSD. There is also some short
484: discussion of the OpenBSD development model and focus (push for quality above
485: everything else) including good quotes from Theo. It seems that the need for
486: high quality software is beginning to be recognised by the mainstream.
487: <p>
1.457 deraadt 488:
1.456 niallo 489: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 490: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/06/09/2132233.shtml?tid=152&tid=8&tid=2">
1.455 ian 491: BSD cognoscenti on Linux</a>,
492: NewsForge, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
493: NewsForge talks with Theo de Raadt and NetBSD's Christos Zoulas about the
494: similarities and differences between the Linux kernel and the BSD
495: operating systems. The questions asked were similar to those asked
496: of Linus Torvalds in a <a
1.462 grunk 497: href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/09/2128249&tid=2">previous
1.455 ian 498: interview.</a>
499: <p>
500:
501: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.454 ian 502: <a href="http://www.tuxjournal.net/intervista3-en.html">
503: A good morning with Theo de Raadt</a>,
504: Tux Journal, June 2, 2005</strong></font><br>
505: Brief but wide-ranging interview with Theo in which our leader
506: opines about the good things in 3.7: "The list of new developments
507: is impressive, but in my view not nearly as impressive as the small
508: little details that continue to be fixed during each development
509: cycle." And modestly credits all the developers for the project's
510: continuing success, attributing it to "The passion of the developers,
511: and the wide experience they bring into their development efforts.
512: By amazing coincidence, our users typically have the same needs as we do."
513: Manages to sidestep getting drawn into comparisons with Linux, e.g.,
514: when asked if he likes it/why/why not, deftly replies
515: "I have never used it."
516: <p>
517:
518: </ul>
519:
1.441 deraadt 520: <h2>May, 2005</h2>
521: <ul>
522: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 523: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5190">
524: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part II</a>,
525: Kerneltrap, May 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
526: In the second installment of Kerneltrap's Hackathon 2005 feature, Jeremy
527: Andrews speaks with the pf developers at length about their plans for
528: future enhancements.
529: <p>
530:
531: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.450 deraadt 532: <a href="http://www.ctv.ca">
1.448 deraadt 533: TV coverage: OpenBSD hackathon</a>,
534: CTV/CFCN, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
535: A TV spot done a Canadian national TV station about the Calgary
536: hackathon this year, with 60 developers.<br>
537: North America mirror:
538: <ul>
1.452 marco 539: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.449 jcs 540: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a><br>
541: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a>
1.448 deraadt 542: </ul>
543: European mirror:
544: <ul>
1.452 marco 545: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.448 deraadt 546: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a>
547: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a><br>
548: </ul>
549: <p>
550:
551: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 552: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5186">
553: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part I</a>,
554: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
555: Jeremy Andrews of KernelTrap does a good job of describing what it's like
556: to be at the Hackathon in Part I of KernelTrap's Hackathon feature. Several
557: developers are interviewed in detail about what they are working on.
558: <p>
559:
560: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 561: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5184">
562: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005: Day 6?</a>,
563: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
564: Kjell Wooding describes a typical day at the Hackathon in this entertaining
565: first-hand account.
566: <p>
567:
568: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.447 cloder 569: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/05/20/1426216.shtml?tid=8">
570: Review: OpenBSD 3.7</a>,
571: NewsForge.com, May 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
572: "OpenBSD is not only highly polished and easy to
573: configure because of its documentation, it's also totally free-as-in-rights.
574: With an obsession with security, freedom of source code, and quality of
575: programming technique, OpenBSD 3.7 continues the legacy established by
576: its previous releases," writes Jem Matzan in this nice, small review.
577: <p>
578:
579: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.446 cloder 580: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/05/19/openbsd_3_7.html">
581: OpenBSD 3.7: The Wizard of OS</a>,
582: ONLamp.com, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
583: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
584: new features in OpenBSD 3.7, including new wireless chipsets, new
585: spam-fighting features, zaurus, pf improvements, propolice, and
586: many other things. A good overview of what's new in this release,
587: plus some interesting comments about future direction.
588: <p>
589:
590: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.444 niallo 591: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/software/openbsd-3.7-released.html">
1.445 niallo 592: Next incarnation of OpenBSD released</a>,
1.444 niallo 593: Ping Wales, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
594: "OpenBSD is often unjustly overlooked as a free UNIX-like system in favour of
595: the more-hyped Linux. While it receives a lot less publicity than other
596: operating systems, this is not due to lack of technical merit." says David
597: Chisnall, in what is a clear and concise overview of the new features
598: in 3.7 and indeed the project as a whole.
599: <p>
600:
601: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
602: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5114">
1.445 niallo 603: 2005 Calgary Hackathon, KernelTrap Coverage</a>,
1.444 niallo 604: Kerneltrap, May 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
605: A great article about the annual OpenBSD Hackathon, detailing how the event
606: functions, work done at previous Hackathons and features which may come out
607: of this one. Includes many relevant quotes from developers themselves, and of
608: course information about the legendary Hackathon BBQ!
609: <p>
610:
611: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.442 deraadt 612: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9658/sam0505e/">
613: "Failover Firewalls with OpenBSD and CARP"</a>,
614: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 5, p. 33
1.441 deraadt 615: </strong></font><br>
616: Jason Dixon discusses the history of the CARP and pfsync protocols
617: and demonstrates using them to create redundant stateful firewalls
618: with OpenBSD.
619: </ul>
620:
1.436 henning 621: <h2>April, 2005</h2>
622: <ul>
623: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.440 ian 624: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39195801,00.htm">
625: Security guru wants access to bug databases</a>,
626: ZDNet UK, April 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
627: Ingrid Marson reports on Cambridge professor Ross Anderson's call for analysis of
628: software maintenance records to determine whether open source code is more secure
629: than closed source, as we have long contended.
630: "One of Anderson's research students, Andy Ozment, has already done
631: research using empirical data on bugs found in the open source
632: operating system OpenBSD between 1997 and 2000. This research found
633: that finding and fixing bugs results in a more secure product..."
634: Just as the OpenBSD project has been saying for years.
635: <p>
636: This article can also be found online as
637: <a href="http://uk.builder.com/manage/project/0,39026588,39244080,00.htm">Academic
638: calls for better bug tracking</a> (uk.builder.com).
639: <p>
640:
641: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.439 espie 642: [FRENCH] "PC Expert", number 152, p. 58
643: </strong></font><br>
644: Very short interview of Marc Espie about OpenBSD as a free OS focusing
645: on security, part of a larger dossier «les secrets des hackers».
646: <p>
647:
648: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.436 henning 649: [GERMAN] "Doppelwacht", iX 5/2005, p. 150.
650: </strong></font><br>
651: Stephan Tesch gives an introduction to CARP and using a pair of
652: OpenBSD boxes as Firewalls in High Availibility scenarios. He goes
1.438 martin 653: on explaining CARP and pfsync protocols, and does not forget to cover
1.436 henning 654: the issues we had with IETF.
655: </ul>
656:
1.431 ian 657: <h2>March, 2005</h2>
658: <ul>
659: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.435 reyk 660: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/4818">
661: OpenBSD's "Out of the Box" Wireless Support</a>,
662: Kerneltrap, March 8, 2005</strong></font><br>
663: This article is about the upcoming wireless support in OpenBSD 3.7 and
664: the outcome of the work to open wireless chipsets. Jeremy Andrews
665: talked with Theo de Raadt and the developers Damien Bergamini and Reyk
666: Floeter who did some efforts to implement free and functional drivers.
667: <p>
668:
669: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.431 ian 670: <a href="http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/01/1109546842718.html">
671: OpenBSD to support more wireless chipsets</a>,
672: The Age, March 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
673: "The forthcoming 3.7 release of the OpenBSD operating system has
674: added support for five more wireless chipsets, according to
675: OpenBSD project founder Theo de Raadt...
1.432 ian 676: OpenBSD 3.7 will also have have new drivers for Intel wireless
1.431 ian 677: parts that do not work without the non-redistributable firmware,"
678: namely the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11B
679: and 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11A/B/G wireless network adapters.
680: Mentions OpenBSD's activism in getting vendors to release chip specs.
681: Referring to vendors that still refuse to play ball with open source
682: projects, quotes Damien Miller as saying "Given the number of
683: appliance devices that are built on free OSs, I think that the
684: recalcitrant vendors are missing an important boat."
685:
686: </ul>
687:
1.427 matthieu 688: <h2>February, 2005</h2>
689: <ul>
690:
691: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.428 david 692: <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsaward2004.html">
693: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
694: FSF, February 26, 2005</strong></font><br>
695: The Free Software Foundation awarded Theo de Raadt their "2004 Free Software
696: Award" for his unwavering commitment to free software. Most recently he has
697: been fighting hardware manufacturers for free redistribution of wireless card
698: firmware.
1.434 ian 699: Similar articles can be found online at:
700: <ul>
701: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
702: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=419">
703: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
704: Tectonic.za, March 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
705: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
706: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article4362.phtml">
707: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
708: OSDir, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
709: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
710: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/De-Raadt-gets-free-software-award/2005/02/28/1109546758523.html?oneclick=true">
711: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
712: The Age, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
713: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 714: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/02/27/1413255.shtml?tid=99&tid=7">
1.434 ian 715: Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award</a>,
716: Slashdot, February 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
717: </ul>
1.427 matthieu 718: </ul>
719:
1.426 ian 720: <h2>January, 2005</h2>
721: <ul>
722:
723: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
724: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363731">
725: Systrace in OpenBSD</a>,
726: informit.com, January 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
727: This article talks about our systrace
1.462 grunk 728: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&sektion=1">systrace(1)</a>
1.426 ian 729: mechanism: what it is and why and
730: how to use it, with examples.
731: Another excerpt from the book
732: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
733: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
734: <p>
735:
736: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
737: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363732">
738: Overview of OpenBSD</a>,
739: informit.com, January 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
740: "OpenBSD is one of the most secure and well-designed operating
741: systems available today. It has its roots in countless hours of
742: research and development based on some of the best UNIX flavors of
743: the past, and it boasts all the features of modern operating systems.
744: The OS is widely considered one of the most secure general-purpose
745: operating systems available today and it supports many key parts
746: of the global Internet infrastructure..."
747: This article is a sample chapter from
748: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
749: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
750: <p>
1.443 ian 751:
752: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 753: <a href="http://www.pcplus.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=34628&subsectionid=784">
1.443 ian 754: OpenBSD operating system</a>,
755: PCPlus.co.uk, January, 2005</strong></font><br>
756: Paul Grosse gives a brief tutorial on installing OpenBSD on i386 for people
757: moving in a Windows->Linux direction, encouraging them to go a bit further for security.
758: "While Linux out-scores Windows substantially (or completely) on [security as well as many other
759: issues], it's still possible to use a more secure operating system on the PC... OpenBSD."
760: Gives a brief but understandable walkthrough on the installation process, right up to
761: downloading and installing the third-party packages, and
762: ends with a sidebar on security.
763: <p>
1.426 ian 764: </ul>
765:
1.424 ian 766: <h2>December, 2004</h2>
767: <ul>
768:
769: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.425 ian 770: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/2329229">
771: What are the real vulnerabilities of Linux?</a>
772: NewsForge.com, December 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
773: Several security consultants were asked about "the real vulnerabilities of
774: Linux". Cybersoure CEO Con Symaris seems to get it better than the rest:
775: "One needs to approach security as a prime requirement and motivator,
776: much as the OpenBSD team do," Zymaris said... "The Linux
777: community mindset is different. Linux development is dynamic and
778: races ahead towards more and broader functionality, drawing a
779: multitude of interested parties in to make interesting extensions
780: and adaptations at a rapid rate."
781: <p>
782: "In order to do security the BSD way, however, much more effort
783: needs to be spent auditing code for holes, which is much less sexy,
784: and attracts a different set of coders," Zymaris added.
785: <p>
786:
787: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.424 ian 788: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/281">
789: Closed Source Hardware</a>
790: Security Focus, December 1, 2004</strong></font><br>
791: Symantec Threat Analyst Jason Miller analyzes the potential security threats
792: when hardware vendors won't provide device documentation and
793: instead provide "binary only" driver code for inclusion in open source
794: operating systems.
795: Miller is an open-source fan who says he uses a variety of systems, including
796: OpenBSD on his firewall.
797: Of the recent trend to closed-source binary drivers for open-source
798: systems, he writes:
799: <blockquote>
800: The closed-source component required to support this hardware is
801: completely independent of the associated operating system, and as
802: such, is also independent of the engineering team, security team,
803: auditing process, and quality control procedures normally related
804: to the operating system...
805: <br/>
806: What's possibly even more disturbing is that we're talking about
807: a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest
808: possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a
809: third-party vendor. This code could do anything once loaded, including
810: leaking active WEP keys, gathering usage statistics, sniffing and
811: disclosing traffic, and it could even introduce a subtle backdoor
812: into the operating system itself (much the same as any device driver
813: in a closed source operating system).
814: <br/>
815: [A]lthough some of these scenarios are a
816: little far-fetched, the possibility for them to exist is there...
817: Ultimately it becomes an issue of trust, which is a cornerstone of
818: good security: whom do you trust, and how much do you trust them?
819: </blockquote>
820: <p>And he comments that trust "seems to be a one-way street": vendors
821: demand that you trust them, but they won't trust you to know how
822: their hardware and software operates.
823: This lack of trust is one reason why OpenBSD has recently completed
824: reverse-engineering the
1.462 grunk 825: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4">
1.424 ian 826: Atheros wireless chipset driver</a>
827: that was originally provided as a binary insert.
828: <p>
829: </ul>
830:
1.417 pvalchev 831: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
832: <ul>
1.421 ian 833:
1.417 pvalchev 834: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.422 ian 835: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730775,00.asp">
836: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Widens Its Scope</a>
837: eWEEK, November 22, 2004</strong></font><br>
838: Jason Brooks reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and likes the changes it brings,
839: including the multi-processing support which, he notes,
840: "will be even more important as multicore processors--which occupy space
841: on the road maps of Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others--
842: become more prevalent." Comments favorably on OpenNTPD
843: ("the three-line configuration file we needed to modify ... on OpenBSD was
844: much simpler to deal with than the equivalent configuration file on
845: the Linux systems we've tested").
1.423 ian 846: Overall a favorable review of some of the new stuff in 3.6.
1.422 ian 847: <p>
848: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 otto 849: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
850: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
851: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
852: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
853: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
854: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
855: it claims to do".
856: <p>
857:
858: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 859: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109994542424009&w=2">
1.421 ian 860: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution</a>
861: misc@, November 8, 2004</strong></font><br>
862: Theo recounts the struggle to get Intel to provide redistributable
863: versions of the firmware for their wireless chipsets, and their
1.423 ian 864: ultimate refusal to allow OpenBSD to redistribute the chipsets' firmware.
1.421 ian 865: Includes a caveat about Intel's disingenuous "FAQ", typical of many
866: corporate FAQs that answer questions nobody actually thought
867: to ask, and don't truthfully answer the questions you want hard answers to.
868: At the end Theo names the names (and their emails) that need to be contacted
869: by large numbers of end-users and developers if Intel is to change
870: (yes, this is a hint).
871: Of interest is that this posting to one of our mailing lists was
872: picked up on the
873: <a href="http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1923">Screaming
874: Electron Forum</a> and from there reported on
1.462 grunk 875: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/22/1249249&from=rss">
1.421 ian 876: SlashDot</a>, where it is accompanied by a link to SlashDot's paper
877: on effective advocacy (be firm, but also be polite).
878: <p>
879:
880: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 881: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
882: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
883: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
884: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
885: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
886: questions about the significance and rationale behind
887: the current efforts.
888: <p>
889: </ul>
890:
1.407 henning 891: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
892: <ul>
893: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 894: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
895: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
896: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
897: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
898: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
899: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
900: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
901: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
902: <p>
903:
904: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 905: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
906: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
907: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
908: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
909: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
910: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
911: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
912: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
913: of the important changes in 3.6.
1.462 grunk 914: <p>
1.415 ian 915:
916: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 917: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
1.414 ian 918: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
919: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
920: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
921: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
922: overflow attacks... because
923: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
924: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
925: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
926: and propolice.
927: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
928: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
929: and that's when the science falls apart."
930: <p>
931:
932: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 933: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
934: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
935: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
936: Starts with the question:
937: <blockquote>
938: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
939: <br/>
940: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
941: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
942: <br/>
943: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
944: Should we believe them?"
945: </blockquote>
946: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
947: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
948: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
949: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
950: for your mail, web and other online activities.
951: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
952: <p>
953:
954: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 955: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
956: Simple Simon</a>,
957: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
958: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
959: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
960: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
961: routing/firewall, and more.
962: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
963: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
964: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
965: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
966: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
967: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
968: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
969: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
970: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
971: </blockquote>
972: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
973: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
974: <p>
975:
976: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 977: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
978: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 979: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 980: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 981: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
982: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
983: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 984: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 985: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
986: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
987: in spite of it
988: (registration required, but worth it).
989: <p>
990:
991: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
992: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
993: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
994: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
995: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
996: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
997: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
998: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 999: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 1000: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
1001: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
1002: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
1003: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
1004: <p>
1005:
1006: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 1007: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
1008: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
1009: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
1010: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
1011: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
1012: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
1013: <blockquote>
1014: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
1015: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
1016: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
1017: a lot of analysis.
1018: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
1019: </blockquote>
1020: <p>
1021: </ul>
1022:
1.400 marco 1023: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
1024: <ul>
1025: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 1026: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
1027: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
1028: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
1029: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
1030: UNIX-like systems.
1031: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
1032: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
1033: <p>
1034: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 1035: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
1036: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 1037: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1038: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
1039: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
1040: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
1041: At one point, the article states:
1042: <blockquote>
1043: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
1044: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
1045: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
1046: </blockquote>
1047: And then quotes Theo as saying:
1048: <blockquote>
1049: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
1050: fewer are reading or auditing code."
1051: </blockquote>
1052: <p>
1053: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1054: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
1055: marks its fifth birthday</a>
1056: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1057: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
1058: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
1059: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
1060: required).
1061: <p>
1062: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 1063: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
1064: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
1065: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
1066: </strong></font><br>
1067: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
1068: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
1069: <p>
1070: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 1071: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
1072: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 1073: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 1074: </strong></font><br>
1075: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
1076: <p>
1077: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 1078: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
1079: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 1080: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 1081: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 1082: 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 1083: <p>
1084: </ul>
1085:
1.396 henning 1086: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
1087: <ul>
1088: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 1089: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
1090: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
1091: Unix Review, July, 2004
1092: </strong></font><br>
1093: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
1094: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
1.462 grunk 1095: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
1.418 ian 1096: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
1097: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
1098: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
1099: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
1100: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
1101: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
1102: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
1103: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
1104: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
1105: and even spelling/wording errors.
1106: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
1107: <p>
1108: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 1109: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 1110: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
1111: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
1112: </strong></font><br>
1113: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
1114: <p>
1115: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 1116: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 1117: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
1118: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
1119: </strong></font><br>
1120: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
1121: <p>
1122: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 1123: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
1124: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
1125: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
1126: </strong></font><br>
1127: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
1128: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
1129: <p>
1130: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 1131: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
1132: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
1133: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
1134: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
1135: <p>
1136: </ul>
1137:
1.405 jolan 1138: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
1139: <ul>
1140: <li><font color="#00900"><strong>
1141: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
1.466 deraadt 1142: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 5, 2004</strong></font>
1.405 jolan 1143: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
1144: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
1145: details on how funds are dispersed.
1146: <p>
1147: </ul>
1148:
1.393 david 1149: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
1150: <ul>
1151: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 1152: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
1153: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
1154: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
1155: </strong></font><br>
1156: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
1157: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
1158: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
1159: on inserting large number of SQL records.
1160: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
1161: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
1162: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
1163: <p>
1164:
1165: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 1166: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
1167: Secure by Default</a>,
1168: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
1169: </strong></font><br>
1170: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
1171: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
1172: <p>
1173:
1174: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1175: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
1176: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
1177: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
1178: </strong></font><br>
1179: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
1180: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
1181: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
1182: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
1183: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
1184: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
1185: <p>
1186:
1187: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1188: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
1189: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
1190: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
1191: </strong></font><br>
1192: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
1193: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
1194: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
1195: <p>
1196:
1197: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1198: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
1199: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
1200: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
1201: </strong></font><br>
1202: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
1203: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
1204: <p>
1205: </ul>
1206:
1.388 mcbride 1207: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
1208: <ul>
1.394 jolan 1209:
1210: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1211: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
1212: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
1213: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
1214: </strong></font><br>
1215: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
1216: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
1217: available for sparc64.
1218: <p>
1219:
1.390 beck 1220: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 1221: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
1222: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
1223: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
1224: </strong></font><br>
1225: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
1226: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
1227: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
1228: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
1229: <p>
1230:
1231: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 1232: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
1233: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 1234: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 1235: </strong></font><br>
1236: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
1237: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
1238: it does: CARP provides sharing
1239: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
1240: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
1241: detail to get you started using it.
1242: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
1243: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
1244: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
1245: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
1246: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
1247: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
1248: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 1249: <p>
1.391 ian 1250:
1251: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 1252: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 1253: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
1254: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 1255: </strong></font><br>
1256: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 1257: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 1258: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 1259: <p>
1.388 mcbride 1260:
1261: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1262: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
1263: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 1264: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 1265: </strong></font><br>
1266: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
1267: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
1268: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
1269: unencumbered by patents.
1270: <p>
1271: </ul>
1272:
1.378 henning 1273: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
1274: <ul>
1.384 jose 1275:
1276: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 1277: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
1278: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
1279: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
1280: </strong></font><br>
1281: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
1282: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
1283: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
1284: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
1285: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
1286: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
1287: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
1288: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
1289: in the page tables."
1290: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
1291: <p>
1292:
1293: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1294: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
1295: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
1296: </strong></font><br>
1297: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
1298: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
1299: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
1300: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 1301: <p>
1.384 jose 1302:
1.378 henning 1303: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 1304: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
1305: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 1306: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
1307: </strong></font><br>
1308: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
1309: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
1310: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
1311: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
1312: (quote:
1313: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
1314: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 1315: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 1316: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
1317: the other developers for their work on the system.
1318: <p>
1319:
1320: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1321: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
1322: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
1323: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 1324: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 1325: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
1326: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
1327: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
1328: too.
1329: <p>
1330:
1331: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 1332: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
1333: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 1334: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 1335: OpenBSD source code using
1336: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
1337: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
1338: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
1339: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
1340: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
1341: <p>
1342: </ul>
1343:
1.374 jose 1344: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
1345: <ul>
1346: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 1347: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 1348: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
1349: </strong></font><br>
1350: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
1351: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
1352: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
1353: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
1354: it."
1355: <p>
1356:
1357: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 1358: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
1359: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
1360: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
1361: </strong></font><br/>
1362: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
1363: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
1364: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
1365: <p>
1366: </ul>
1367:
1.369 ian 1368: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
1369: <ul>
1370: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1371: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
1372: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
1373: </strong></font><br/>
1374: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
1375: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
1376: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
1377: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
1378: <p>
1379:
1380: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 1381: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
1382: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
1383: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
1384: </strong></font><br/>
1385: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
1386: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
1387: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
1388: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
1389: form factor.
1390: <p>
1391:
1392: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1393: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
1394: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
1395: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
1396: Features</a>,
1397: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
1398: </strong></font><br/>
1399: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
1400: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
1401: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
1402: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
1403: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
1404: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
1405: <p>
1406: This article can also be found online at:
1407: <ul>
1408: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1409: <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 1410: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
1411: </strong></font>
1412: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
1413: </ul>
1414: <p>
1.392 david 1415:
1.371 jose 1416: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 1417: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
1418: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 1419: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
1420: </strong></font><br/>
1421: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
1422: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
1423: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 1424: <p>
1.371 jose 1425:
1426: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 1427: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 1428: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 1429: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 1430: </strong></font><br/>
1431: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
1432: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
1433: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
1434: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
1435: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
1436: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
1437: and its history with OpenBSD.
1438: </ul>
1439:
1.368 henning 1440: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
1441: <ul>
1442: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 1443: [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 1444: </strong></font><br>
1445: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
1446: </ul>
1447:
1.364 jose 1448: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
1449: <ul>
1450: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 1451: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
1452: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
1453: UNIX Review,
1454: July, 2003.
1455: </strong></font><br>
1456: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
1457: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
1458: who want more information.
1459: <p>
1460:
1461: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 1462: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
1463: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
1464: Government Computer News,
1465: July 22, 2003.
1466: </strong></font><br>
1467: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
1468: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
1469: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
1470: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
1471: <p>
1472:
1473: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1474: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
1475: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
1476: SANS Institute,
1477: July 22, 2003.
1478: </strong></font><br>
1479: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 1480: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 1481: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
1482: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
1483: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
1484: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
1485: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
1486: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
1487: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
1488: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
1489: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
1490: <p>
1491:
1492: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 1493: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
1494: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
1495: OnLamp.com,
1496: July 17, 2003.
1497: </strong></font><br>
1498: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
1499: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
1500: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
1501: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
1502: have been working on.
1503:
1504: </ul>
1505:
1.356 jose 1506: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 1507: <ul>
1508:
1509: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 1510: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
1511: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
1512: UNIX Review,
1513: June, 2003.
1514: </strong></font><br>
1515: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
1516: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
1517: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
1518: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
1519: <p>
1520:
1521: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 1522: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
1523: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
1524: eWeek,
1525: June 23, 2003.
1526: </strong></font><br>
1527: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
1528: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
1529: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
1530: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
1531: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
1532: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
1533: <p>
1534:
1535: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 1536: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
1537: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
1538: Software Development Online,
1539: June, 2003.
1540: </strong></font><br>
1541: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
1542: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
1543: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
1544: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
1545: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
1546: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
1547: current activities.
1548: <p>
1549:
1550: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 1551: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
1552: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 1553: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
1554: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
1555: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
1556: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 1557: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 1558: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
1559: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
1560: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 1561: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 1562: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
1563: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 1564: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 1565: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
1566: decisions.
1567: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
1568: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 1569: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 1570: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 1571: <p>
1572:
1573: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 1574: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
1575: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
1576: Page 58, eWeek,
1577: June 2, 2003.
1578: </strong></font><br>
1579: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
1580: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
1581: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
1582: been addressed in -current.
1583: <p>
1584:
1.356 jose 1585: </ul>
1586:
1587: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
1588: <ul>
1589:
1.355 jose 1590: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 1591: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
1592: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
1593: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
1594: </strong></font><br>
1595: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
1596: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
1597: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
1598: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
1599: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
1600: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
1601: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
1602: <p>
1603:
1604: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 1605: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
1606: Beyond Linux</a>,
1607: InfoWorld,
1608: May 23, 2003.
1609: </strong></font><br>
1610: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
1611: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
1612: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
1613: compared to the GPL.
1614: <p>
1615:
1616: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 1617: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
1618: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
1619: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 1620: May 17, 2003.
1621: </strong></font><br>
1622: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
1623: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
1624: the business section and half of another page inside
1625: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
1626: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
1627: in talking about the project's history and goals.
1628: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
1629: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
1630: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
1631: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 1632: <br>
1633: This article can also be found online at:
1634: <ul>
1635: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1636: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
1637: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
1638: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
1639: May 17, 2003
1640: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 1641: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
1642: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1643: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
1644: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
1645: Montreal Gazette,
1646: May 21, 2003
1647: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 1648: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 1649: <p>
1.346 ian 1650:
1651: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 1652: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 1653: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 1654: May 7, 2003.
1655: </strong></font><br>
1656: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
1657: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
1658: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
1659: <p>
1660:
1661: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 1662: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
1663: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1664: OsOpinion,
1665: May 6, 2003.
1666: </strong></font><br>
1667: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
1668: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
1669: <br>
1670: This article can also be found online at:
1671: <ul>
1672: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1673: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
1674: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1675: NewsFactor Network.
1676: </strong></font>
1677: </ul>
1678: <p>
1679:
1680: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1681: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 1682: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
1683: ITBusiness,
1684: May 2, 2003.
1685: </strong></font><br>
1686: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
1687: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
1688: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
1689: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
1690: <p>
1691:
1692: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 1693: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
1694: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1695: InfoWorld,
1696: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 1697: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 1698: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
1699: <br>
1700: This article can also be found online at:
1701: <ul>
1702: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1703: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
1704: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1705: IDG Singapore.
1706: </strong></font>
1707: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1708: <p>
1709:
1.339 jose 1710: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1711: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
1712: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 1713: ZDNet,
1714: May 1, 2003.
1715: </strong></font><br>
1716: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 1717: someone using parts from previous articles.
1718: <br>
1.341 deraadt 1719: This article can also be found online at:
1720: <ul>
1721: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1722: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
1723: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1724: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 1725: </strong></font>
1726: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1727: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
1728: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1729: CNET News.com.
1730: </strong></font>
1731: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1732: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
1733: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
1734: ZDNet UK.
1735: </strong></font>
1736: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1737: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
1738: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
1739: Help Net Security, Croatia.
1740: </strong></font>
1741: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1742: <p>
1.339 jose 1743:
1.341 deraadt 1744: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1745: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 1746: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
1747: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
1748: May 1, 2003.
1749: </strong></font><br>
1750: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
1751: that have been added
1752: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
1753: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
1754: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 1755: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 1756: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
1757: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
1758: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 1759: <p>
1760:
1761: </ul>
1762:
1.253 ian 1763: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
1764: <ul>
1.255 ian 1765:
1.260 ian 1766: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1767: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 1768: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1769: TechRepublic,
1770: April 28, 2003.
1771: </strong></font><br>
1772: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
1773: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 1774: work.<br>
1775: Can also be found online at:
1776: <ul>
1777: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1778: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
1779: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1780: ZDNet UK.
1781: </strong></font>
1782: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 1783: <p>
1784:
1785: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 1786: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
1787: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
1788: IDG,
1789: April 24, 2003.
1790: </strong></font><br>
1791: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
1792: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
1793: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
1794: Can also be found online at:
1795: <ul>
1796: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1797: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
1798: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 1799: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 1800: </strong></font>
1801: </ul>
1802: <p>
1803:
1804: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1805: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 1806: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 1807: Slate,
1808: April 24, 2003.
1809: </strong></font><br>
1810: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
1811: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
1812: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
1813: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
1814: <p>
1815:
1816: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 1817: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1818: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
1819: April 24, 2003.
1820: </strong></font><br>
1821: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
1822: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
1823: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
1824: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
1825: <p>
1826:
1827: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 1828: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
1829: April 24, 2003.
1830: </strong></font><br>
1831: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
1832: the free software community".
1833: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
1834: other articles.
1835: <p>
1836:
1837: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1838: <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 1839: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
1840: </strong></font><br>
1841: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
1842: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
1843: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
1844: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
1845: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
1846: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
1847: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 1848: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 1849: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
1850: <br/>
1851: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
1852: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
1853: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
1854: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 1855: <br>
1856: Can also be found online at:
1857: <ul>
1858: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1859: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
1860: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
1861: Common Dreams NewsCenter
1862: </strong></font>
1863: </ul>
1.324 ian 1864: <p>
1865:
1866: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1867: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
1868: Wired, April 24, 2003.
1869: </strong></font><br>
1870: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
1871: article above.
1872: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
1873: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
1874: wasting them."
1.332 ian 1875: <br>
1876: Can also be found online at:
1877: <ul>
1878: <li>
1879: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
1880: </strong></font>
1881: </ul>
1.324 ian 1882: <p>
1883:
1884: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 1885: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
1886: </strong></font><br>
1887: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
1888: <p>
1889:
1890: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 1891: <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.
1892: </strong></font><br>
1893: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
1894: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
1895: <p>
1896:
1897: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 1898: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
1899: April 23, 2003.
1900: </strong></font><br>
1901: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
1902: <p>
1903:
1904: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 1905: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 1906: April 22, 2003.
1907: </strong></font><br>
1908: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
1909: <p>
1910:
1911: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 1912: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1913: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1914: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 1915: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 1916: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
1917: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
1918: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
1919: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
1920: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
1921: Can also be found online at:
1922: <ul>
1923: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1924: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 1925: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
1926: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 1927: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 1928: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1929: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 1930: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
1931: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 1932: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 1933: </ul>
1934: <p>
1935:
1936: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 1937: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
1938: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 1939: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1940: </strong></font><br>
1941: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 1942: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
1943: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
1944: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
1945: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
1946: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
1947: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 1948: <p>
1949:
1950: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 1951: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
1952: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 1953: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
1954: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 1955: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
1956: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
1957: at UPenn and DARPA.
1958: <p>
1959:
1960: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 1961: [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,
1962: France
1.315 deraadt 1963: April 18, 2003.
1964: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 1965: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 1966: <p>
1967:
1968: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 1969: [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 1970: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 1971: </strong></font><br>
1972: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
1973: <p>
1974:
1975: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 1976: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
1977: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
1978: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 1979: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 1980: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
1981: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
1982: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
1983: <p>
1984:
1985: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 1986: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
1987: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1988: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 1989: </strong></font><br>
1990: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
1991: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
1992: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 1993: American century.
1.267 deraadt 1994: <p>
1995:
1996: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 1997: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
1998: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 1999: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 2000: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 2001: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
2002: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
2003: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
2004: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
2005: Can also be found online at:
2006: <ul>
2007: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
2008: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 2009: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 2010: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 2011: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 2012: <p>
2013:
2014: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 2015: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 2016: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 2017: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 2018: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 2019: </strong></font><br>
2020: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 2021: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
2022: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
2023: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
2024: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 2025:
2026: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2027: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
2028: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
2029: New York Times.
2030: </strong></font>(free registration required)
2031:
1.273 deraadt 2032: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2033: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 2034: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 2035: ABC News.
2036: </strong></font>
2037:
2038: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2039: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 2040: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 2041: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 2042: </strong></font>
2043:
2044: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2045: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 2046: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 2047: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 2048: </strong></font>
2049:
2050: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 2051: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
2052: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 2053: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 2054: </strong></font>
2055:
2056: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2057: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 2058: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 2059: Times Daily, AL.
2060: </strong></font>
2061:
2062: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2063: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
2064: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
2065: Boston.com, MA.
2066: </strong></font>
2067:
2068: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2069: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 2070: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 2071: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
2072: </strong></font>
2073:
2074: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 2075: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
2076: [Article was pulled]</a>
2077: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 2078: </strong></font>
2079:
2080: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2081: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
2082: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
2083: Infoshop News.
2084: </strong></font>
2085:
2086: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2087: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
2088: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2089: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
2090: </strong></font>
2091:
2092: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 2093: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
2094: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
2095: Raleigh News, NC.
2096: </strong></font>
2097:
2098: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2099: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 2100: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
2101: Napa News, CA.
2102: </strong></font>
2103:
2104: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2105: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 2106: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2107: NEPA News, PA.
2108: </strong></font>
2109:
2110: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2111: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
2112: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
2113: Wired News.
2114: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 2115: <br>
2116: <li>
1.333 deraadt 2117: <font color="#009000"><strong>
2118: [JAPANESE]
2119: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
2120: Wired News Japan</a>
2121: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 2122:
1.271 deraadt 2123: </ul>
2124: <p>
1.272 deraadt 2125: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
2126: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 2127: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
2128: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
2129: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
2130: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
2131: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
2132: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 2133: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 2134: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
2135: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
2136: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 2137: <p>
2138: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 2139:
2140: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2141: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 2142: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
2143: Indianapolis Star, IN.
2144: </strong></font>
2145:
2146: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 2147: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
2148: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2149: Miami Herald, FL.
2150: </strong></font>
2151:
2152: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 2153: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 2154: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
2155: </strong></font>
2156:
2157: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2158: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 2159: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 2160: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 2161: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 2162:
2163: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2164: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
2165: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
2166: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
2167: ABC News.
2168: </strong></font>
2169:
1.276 deraadt 2170: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2171: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 2172: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 2173: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 2174: </strong></font>
2175:
1.286 dhartmei 2176: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2177: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 2178: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2179: Wilmington Star, NC.
2180: </strong></font>
2181:
1.300 jose 2182: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2183: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
2184: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
2185: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
2186: </strong></font>
2187:
1.309 jose 2188: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2189: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
2190: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
2191: Globe Technology.
2192: </strong></font>
2193:
1.263 deraadt 2194: </ul>
1.262 beck 2195: <p>
2196:
2197: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 2198: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
2199: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2200: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 2201: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 2202: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 2203: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
2204: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
2205: <p>
2206:
2207: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 2208: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
2209: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
2210: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 2211: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 2212: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
2213: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
2214: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
2215: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
2216: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
2217: and simply restates other press reports.
2218: <p>
2219:
2220: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 2221: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
2222: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2223: OS News, April 18, 2003.
2224: </strong></font><br>
2225: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
2226: <p>
2227:
2228: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 2229: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
2230: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2231: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 2232: </strong></font><br>
2233: Another report on the DARPA funding.
2234: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
2235: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
2236: <p>
2237:
2238: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 2239: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
2240: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
2241: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
2242: April 17, 2003.
2243: </strong></font><br>
2244: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
2245: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
2246: Tech Anthems</a>
2247: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
2248: 4 so far.
2249: <p>
2250:
2251: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 2252: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
2253: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2254: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2255: </strong></font><br>
2256: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
2257: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
2258: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
2259: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
2260: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
2261: Goes on to say:
2262: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
2263: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
2264: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
2265: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 2266: This article is also found online at:
2267: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 2268: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2269: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
2270: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
2271: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 2272: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 2273: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2274: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
2275: ZDnet</a>,
2276: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 2277: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 2278: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2279: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
2280: ZDnet Australia</a>,
2281: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 2282: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 2283: </ul>
1.260 ian 2284: <p>
1.279 deraadt 2285:
1.260 ian 2286: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2287: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 2288: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 2289: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2290: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 2291: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 2292: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
2293: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
2294: without notice or justification.
2295: <p>
2296:
2297: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2298: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 2299: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 2300: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2301: </strong></font><br>
2302: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
2303: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 2304: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 2305: effective today, without any warning..."
2306: <p>
1.257 ian 2307:
2308: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 2309: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
2310: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2311: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 2312: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 2313: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
2314: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
2315: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
2316: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
2317: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 2318: <p>
2319:
2320: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 2321: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
2322: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2323: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 2324: </strong></font><br>
2325: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
2326: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
2327: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
2328: quoting two of them:
2329: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
2330: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
2331: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
2332: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
2333: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
2334: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
2335: <p>
2336:
1.255 ian 2337: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2338: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
2339: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 2340: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2341: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 2342: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 2343: <p>
2344:
2345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 2346: [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 2347: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2348: </strong></font><br>
2349: New security concepts in OpenBSD
2350: <p>
2351:
2352: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 2353: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
2354: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2355: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 2356: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 2357: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 2358: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
2359: security experts for more than three decades."
2360: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
2361: <p>
1.261 ian 2362:
1.254 drahn 2363: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 2364: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 2365: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2366: </strong></font><br>
2367: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
2368: <p>
2369:
2370: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 2371: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
2372: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
2373: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
2374: </strong></font><br>
2375: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
2376: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
2377: discussion OpenBSD's path.
2378: <p>
2379:
2380: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 2381: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
2382: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2383: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 2384: </strong></font><br>
2385: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
2386: from US DARPA.
2387: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
2388: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
2389: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
2390: the BSD license.
2391: <p>
2392: </ul>
2393:
1.251 ian 2394: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
2395: <ul>
2396:
2397: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2398: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
2399: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
2400: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
2401: </strong></font><br>
2402:
2403: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
2404: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
2405: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
2406: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
2407: <p>
2408:
2409: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 2410: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
2411: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 2412: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 2413: </strong></font><br>
2414: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
2415: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
2416: Mentions
2417: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
2418: and
2419: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
2420: programs.
2421: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 2422: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 2423: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
2424: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
2425: <p>
1.325 ian 2426: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
2427: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 2428:
2429: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2430: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
2431: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
2432: </strong></font><br>
2433: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
2434: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
2435: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
2436: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
2437: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
2438: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
2439: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
2440: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
2441: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
2442: put into service."
2443: <p>
2444: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
2445: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
2446: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
2447: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
2448: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
2449: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
2450: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
2451: computers with security features."
2452: <p>
1.329 ian 2453:
2454: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2455: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
2456: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
2457: Slate,
2458: March 3, 2003.
2459: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 2460: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 2461: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
2462: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
2463: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
2464: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
2465: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
2466: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
2467: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
2468: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
2469: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
2470: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
2471: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
2472: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
2473: of more secure open-source solutions like
2474: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
2475: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
2476: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
2477: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
2478: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
2479: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
2480: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
2481: the Beltway."
2482: <p>
1.251 ian 2483: </ul>
2484:
1.249 jufi 2485: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
2486: <ul>
2487: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2488: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
2489: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2490: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 2491: </strong></font><br>
2492: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
2493: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 2494: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 2495: <p>
1.334 ian 2496:
2497: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2498: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
2499: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
2500: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
2501: </strong></font><br>
2502: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
2503: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
2504: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
2505: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
2506: "... the hypothetical question ...
2507: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
2508: <br>
2509: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
2510: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
2511: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
2512: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
2513: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
2514: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 2515: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 2516: support network security.
2517: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
2518: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
2519: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
2520: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
2521: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
2522: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
2523: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
2524: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
2525: <br>
2526: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
2527: <p>
2528:
1.249 jufi 2529: </ul>
2530:
1.246 jufi 2531: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2532: <ul>
1.246 jufi 2533:
1.247 jufi 2534: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2535: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 2536: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2537: CNET News.com, December 4, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2538: </strong></font><br>
2539: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
2540: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
2541: <p>
2542:
1.247 jufi 2543: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2544: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
2545: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2546: Heise News-Ticker, December 4, 2002
1.301 jose 2547: </strong></font><br>
1.460 david 2548: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III CPU
1.301 jose 2549: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
2550: <p>
2551:
2552: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2553: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 2554: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2555: eWeek, December 3, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2556: </strong></font><br>
2557: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
2558: in their annual OpenHack security test.
2559: <p>
1.247 jufi 2560: </ul>
1.246 jufi 2561:
1.244 jufi 2562: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2563: <ul>
1.246 jufi 2564:
1.247 jufi 2565: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2566: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
2567: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
2568: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2569: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2570: </strong></font><br>
2571: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
2572: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
2573: md5 digests.
2574: <p>
2575:
1.247 jufi 2576: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2577: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 2578: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
2579: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2580: </strong></font><br>
2581: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
2582: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
2583: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
2584: right the first time."
2585: <p>
1.247 jufi 2586: </ul>
1.244 jufi 2587:
2588:
2589: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2590: <ul>
1.244 jufi 2591:
1.247 jufi 2592: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2593: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2594: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
2595: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2596: </strong></font><br>
2597: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
2598: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
2599: part 6</a>.
2600: <p>
2601:
1.247 jufi 2602: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2603: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 2604: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
2605: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2606: O'Reilly Network, August 8, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2607: </strong></font><br>
2608: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
2609: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
2610: <p>
1.301 jose 2611:
2612: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2613: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
2614: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
2615: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
2616: </strong></font><br>
2617:
2618: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
2619: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
2620: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
2621: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
2622: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
2623: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
2624: <i>Here's the
2625: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
2626: <p>
1.247 jufi 2627: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2628:
2629: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2630: <ul>
1.242 jufi 2631:
1.247 jufi 2632: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2633: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 2634: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2635: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2636: </strong></font><br>
2637: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
2638: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
2639: <p>
2640:
1.247 jufi 2641: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2642: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2643: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2644: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 1, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2645: </strong></font><br>
2646: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
2647: this time using pf.
2648: <p>
1.247 jufi 2649: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2650:
2651: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2652: <ul>
1.242 jufi 2653:
1.247 jufi 2654: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2655: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2656: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
2657: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2658: </strong></font><br>
2659: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
2660: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
2661: their rotation.
2662: <p>
2663:
1.247 jufi 2664: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2665: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2666: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2667: O'Reilly Network, June 6, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2668: </strong></font><br>
2669: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
2670: <p>
1.247 jufi 2671: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2672:
1.239 jufi 2673: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2674: <ul>
1.239 jufi 2675:
1.247 jufi 2676: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2677: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2678: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
2679: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2680: </strong></font><br>
2681: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
2682: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
2683: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
2684: <p>
2685:
1.247 jufi 2686: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 2687: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2688: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
2689: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 2690: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 2691: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
2692: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
2693: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 2694: <p>
1.247 jufi 2695: </ul>
1.239 jufi 2696:
1.235 lebel 2697: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2698: <ul>
1.235 lebel 2699:
1.239 jufi 2700:
1.247 jufi 2701: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 2702: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 2703: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
2704: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 2705: </strong></font><br>
2706: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
2707: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
2708: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
2709: <p>
1.301 jose 2710:
1.247 jufi 2711: </ul>
1.235 lebel 2712:
1.228 horacio 2713: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2714: <ul>
1.228 horacio 2715:
1.247 jufi 2716: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2717: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2718: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
2719: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 2720: </strong></font><br>
2721: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
2722: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
2723: <p>
2724:
1.247 jufi 2725: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 2726: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 2727: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
2728: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 2729: </strong></font><br>
2730: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
2731: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
2732: <p>
2733:
1.247 jufi 2734: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 2735: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 2736: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
2737: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 2738: </strong></font><br>
2739: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
2740: on the desktop of his parents.
2741: <p>
2742:
1.247 jufi 2743: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 2744: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 2745: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
2746: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 2747: </strong></font><br>
2748: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
2749: using IPFilter.
2750:
2751: <p>
2752:
1.247 jufi 2753: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 2754: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 2755: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
2756: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 2757: </strong></font><br>
2758: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
2759: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
2760: perspectives of the four OS.
2761: <br>
2762: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 2763: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 2764: <p>
2765:
1.247 jufi 2766: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 2767: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
2768: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 2769: software and security</a>,
2770: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 2771: </strong></font><br>
2772:
2773: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
2774: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
2775: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
2776: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
2777: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
2778: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
2779: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
2780: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
2781: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
2782: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
2783: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
2784: security conscious team beyond doubt.
2785: <p>
1.247 jufi 2786: </ul>
1.228 horacio 2787:
1.225 horacio 2788: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2789: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2790:
1.247 jufi 2791: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2792: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
2793: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 2794: Interview</a>,
2795: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 2796: </strong></font><br>
2797:
2798: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
2799: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
2800: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 2801: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 2802: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
2803: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
2804: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
2805: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
2806: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 2807: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 2808: of choice.
2809: <p>
1.247 jufi 2810: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2811:
2812: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2813: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2814:
1.247 jufi 2815: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2816: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 2817: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
2818: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 2819: </strong></font><br>
2820:
2821: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
2822: <p>
2823:
1.247 jufi 2824: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2825: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 2826: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
2827: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 2828: </strong></font><br>
2829:
2830: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
2831: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
2832: <p>
1.247 jufi 2833: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2834:
1.218 horacio 2835: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2836: <ul>
1.218 horacio 2837:
1.247 jufi 2838: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 2839: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 2840: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 2841: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 2842: </strong></font><br>
2843:
2844: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
2845: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
2846: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
2847: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
2848: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
2849: subjects. Worth a read.
2850: <p>
2851:
2852:
1.247 jufi 2853: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 2854: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 2855: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
2856: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 2857: </strong></font><br>
2858:
2859: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
2860: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
2861: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
2862: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
2863: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
2864: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
2865: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
2866: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
2867: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 2868: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 2869: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
2870: on other operating systems.<br>
2871: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
2872: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
2873: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
2874: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
2875: <p>
2876:
1.247 jufi 2877: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2878: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 2879: Operating System 2010</a>,
2880: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 2881: </strong></font><br>
2882:
2883: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
2884: covering the level of software integration into the core
2885: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
2886: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
2887: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
2888: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
2889: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
2890: <p>
2891:
1.247 jufi 2892: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 2893: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2894: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
2895: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 2896: </strong></font><br>
2897:
2898: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
2899: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
2900: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
2901: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
2902: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
2903: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
2904: <p>
1.247 jufi 2905: </ul>
1.221 horacio 2906:
1.210 jufi 2907: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2908: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2909:
1.247 jufi 2910: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2911: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 2912: Already a Contender</a>,
2913: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 2914: </strong></font><br>
2915:
2916: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
2917: source software in response to an article which claimed that
2918: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
2919: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
2920: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
2921: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
2922: <p>
2923:
1.247 jufi 2924: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 2925: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 2926: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
2927: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 2928: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 2929:
1.224 horacio 2930: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
2931: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
2932: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
2933: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
2934: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
2935: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 2936: <p>
1.247 jufi 2937: </ul>
1.215 horacio 2938:
2939: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2940: <ul>
1.215 horacio 2941:
1.247 jufi 2942: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2943: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
2944: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 2945: Division</a>,
2946: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 2947: </strong></font><br>
2948:
2949: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
2950: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 2951: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 2952: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
2953: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
2954: investment</em>.<br>
2955: The implementation details can be seen on their
2956: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
2957: <p>
2958:
1.247 jufi 2959: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2960: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
2961: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
2962: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
2963: </strong></font><br>
2964:
2965: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
2966: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
2967: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1.475 grunk 2968: laptops and T-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1.301 jose 2969: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
2970: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
2971: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
2972: <p>
2973:
2974: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2975: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2976: Thinking about Security</a>,
2977: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2978: </strong></font><br>
2979:
2980: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
2981: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
2982: security and says that even secured operating systems running
2983: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
2984: to time.<br>
2985: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
2986: system and just the most secure system.
2987: <p>
2988:
1.247 jufi 2989: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2990: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 2991: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
2992: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 2993: </strong></font><br>
2994:
2995: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
2996: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
2997: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
2998: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
2999: choice:<br>
3000: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
3001: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
3002: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
3003: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
3004: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
3005: network security devices and as such must be well
3006: armored."</em><br>
3007: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
3008: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
3009: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
3010: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
3011: <br>
3012: Bravo!
3013: <p>
1.247 jufi 3014: </ul>
1.210 jufi 3015:
1.207 ian 3016: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3017: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3018:
1.247 jufi 3019: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 3020: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
3021: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
3022: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 3023:
1.207 ian 3024: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
3025: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 3026: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 3027: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
3028: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
3029: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 3030: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 3031: <p>
1.247 jufi 3032: </ul>
1.207 ian 3033:
1.194 jufi 3034: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3035: <ul>
1.194 jufi 3036:
1.247 jufi 3037: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3038: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 3039: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
3040: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 3041: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3042:
1.240 miod 3043: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 3044: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
3045: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
3046: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
3047: <p>
3048:
1.247 jufi 3049: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3050: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
3051: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
3052: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
3053:
3054: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
3055: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
3056: <p>
3057:
3058: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3059: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
3060: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3061: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
3062:
3063: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
3064: <p>
3065:
3066: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3067: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 3068: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
3069: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
3070: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3071:
1.240 miod 3072: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 3073: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 3074: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
3075: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 3076: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 3077: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 3078: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
3079: <br>
1.413 deraadt 3080: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 3081: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
3082: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
3083: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
3084: <p>
3085:
1.247 jufi 3086: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 3087: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
3088: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 3089: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 3090: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3091:
1.194 jufi 3092: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
3093: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
3094: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
3095: <br>
3096: The new
3097: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 3098: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 3099: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
3100: <p>
1.247 jufi 3101: </ul>
1.194 jufi 3102:
1.190 horacio 3103: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3104: <ul>
1.190 horacio 3105:
1.247 jufi 3106: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 3107:
3108: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
3109: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
3110:
1.301 jose 3111:
1.191 jufi 3112: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
3113: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
3114:
3115: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
3116: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
3117:
1.212 horacio 3118: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
3119: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 3120: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
3121:
1.211 horacio 3122: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
3123: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 3124: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
3125:
1.247 jufi 3126: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 3127: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
3128:
1.247 jufi 3129: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 3130: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
3131:
1.212 horacio 3132: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
3133: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 3134: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
3135:
3136: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
3137: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
3138:
3139: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
3140: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
3141:
1.301 jose 3142: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
3143: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
3144:
1.191 jufi 3145: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
3146: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
3147:
3148: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 3149: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 3150:
1.192 jufi 3151: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
3152: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 3153: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 3154:
1.193 deraadt 3155: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
3156: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 3157: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 3158:
1.247 jufi 3159: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 3160: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
3161:
1.247 jufi 3162: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 3163: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
3164: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
3165:
1.213 horacio 3166: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 3167: 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 3168: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
3169:
1.190 horacio 3170: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 3171: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
3172: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
3173: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
3174: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
3175: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
3176: <p>
1.190 horacio 3177:
1.247 jufi 3178: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3179: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
3180: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
3181: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 3182: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3183:
1.195 jufi 3184: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 3185: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
3186: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
3187: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 3188: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
3189: <p>
3190:
1.247 jufi 3191: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3192: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 3193: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
3194: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
3195: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3196:
1.191 jufi 3197: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 3198: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
3199: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
3200: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
3201: <p>
3202:
3203: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3204: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
3205: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3206: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
3207:
3208: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
3209: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 3210: <p>
1.247 jufi 3211: </ul>
1.190 horacio 3212:
1.191 jufi 3213:
1.186 jufi 3214: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3215: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 3216:
1.247 jufi 3217: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 3218: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 3219: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
3220: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 3221: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 3222:
1.188 jufi 3223: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 3224: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 3225: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 3226: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
3227: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 3228: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 3229: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 3230: <p>
3231:
1.301 jose 3232: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3233: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
3234: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3235: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
3236:
3237: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
3238: <p>
1.191 jufi 3239:
1.247 jufi 3240: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 3241: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
3242: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3243: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 5, 2001
1.191 jufi 3244: </strong></font><br>
3245:
3246: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
3247: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
3248: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
3249: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
3250: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
3251: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
3252: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
3253: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
3254: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
3255: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
3256: familiar?
3257: <p>
1.247 jufi 3258: </ul>
1.191 jufi 3259:
1.178 louis 3260: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3261: <ul>
1.178 louis 3262:
1.247 jufi 3263: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 3264: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 3265: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
3266: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 3267: </strong></font><br>
3268:
3269: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
3270: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
3271: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
3272: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
3273: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
3274: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
3275: <p>
3276:
1.247 jufi 3277: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3278: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
3279: Open source under the hood</a>,
3280: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 3281: </strong></font><br>
3282:
3283: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
3284: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
3285: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
3286: <p>
3287:
1.247 jufi 3288: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3289: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
3290: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
3291: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 3292: </strong></font><br>
3293:
3294: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
3295: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
3296: <p>
1.247 jufi 3297: </ul>
1.179 louis 3298:
1.174 louis 3299:
1.175 louis 3300: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3301: <ul>
1.175 louis 3302:
1.247 jufi 3303: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3304: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
3305: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
3306: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 3307: </strong></font><br>
3308:
3309: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
3310: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
3311: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
3312: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
3313: <p>
3314:
1.247 jufi 3315: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3316: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
3317: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
3318: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 3319: </strong></font><br>
3320:
3321: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 3322: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 3323: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
3324: <p>
1.247 jufi 3325: </ul>
1.175 louis 3326:
1.176 louis 3327:
1.172 mickey 3328: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3329: <ul>
1.172 mickey 3330:
1.247 jufi 3331: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3332: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
3333: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 3334: </strong></font><br>
3335:
3336: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
3337: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
3338: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 3339: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 3340: <p>
3341:
1.247 jufi 3342: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 3343: <a
1.269 deraadt 3344: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
3345: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
3346: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 3347: </strong></font><br>
3348:
3349: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
3350: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
3351: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
3352: <p>
3353:
1.247 jufi 3354: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3355: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 3356: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
3357: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 3358: </strong></font><br>
3359:
3360: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
3361: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
3362: <p>
3363:
1.247 jufi 3364: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3365: <a
1.269 deraadt 3366: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
3367: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 3368: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
3369: </strong></font><br>
3370:
3371: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
3372: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
3373: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
3374: our own Theo de Raadt.
3375: <p>
3376:
1.247 jufi 3377: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3378: <a
1.269 deraadt 3379: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
3380: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
3381: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 3382: </strong></font><br>
3383:
3384: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
3385: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
3386: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
3387: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
3388: shut down.]
3389: <p>
3390:
1.247 jufi 3391: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3392: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 3393: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 3394: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
3395: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 3396: </strong></font><br>
3397:
3398: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
3399: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
3400: <p>
1.247 jufi 3401: </ul>
1.172 mickey 3402:
1.161 louis 3403: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3404: <ul>
1.161 louis 3405:
1.247 jufi 3406: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 3407: <a
1.269 deraadt 3408: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
3409: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
3410: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 3411: </strong></font><br>
3412:
3413: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
3414: by John Wolley
3415: <p>
3416:
1.247 jufi 3417: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 3418: <a
1.269 deraadt 3419: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
3420: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
3421: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 3422: </strong></font><br>
3423:
3424: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
3425: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
3426: OpenBSD).
3427: <p>
3428:
1.247 jufi 3429: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 3430: <a
1.247 jufi 3431: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 3432: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
3433: </strong></font><br>
3434:
3435: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
3436: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
3437: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
3438: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
3439: and hindsight.
3440: <p>
3441:
1.247 jufi 3442: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3443: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
3444: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
3445: </strong></font><br>
3446:
3447: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
3448: <p>
3449:
1.247 jufi 3450: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 3451: <a
1.168 provos 3452: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
3453: December 7, 2000
3454: </strong></font><br>
3455:
3456: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
3457: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
3458: us explain.
3459: <p>
3460:
1.247 jufi 3461: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 3462: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
3463: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 3464: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 3465: December 6, 2000
3466: </strong></font><br>
3467:
3468: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
3469: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
3470: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
3471: <p>
3472:
1.247 jufi 3473: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3474: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
3475: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
3476: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
3477: </strong></font><br>
3478:
3479: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
3480: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
3481: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
3482: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
3483: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
3484: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
3485: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
3486: <p>
3487:
3488: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 3489: <a
1.226 horacio 3490: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
3491: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 3492: </strong></font><br>
3493:
3494: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 3495: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 3496: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 3497: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
3498: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
3499: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 3500: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 3501: <p>
1.162 millert 3502:
1.247 jufi 3503: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 3504: <a
1.161 louis 3505: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
3506: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
3507: </strong></font><br>
3508:
3509: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
3510: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
3511: <p>
3512:
1.247 jufi 3513: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3514: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
3515: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
3516: </strong></font><br>
3517:
3518: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
3519: <p>
3520:
3521:
1.247 jufi 3522: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 3523: <a
1.226 horacio 3524: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
3525: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
3526: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 3527: </strong></font><br>
3528:
3529: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
3530: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
3531: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
3532: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
3533: <p>
1.247 jufi 3534: </ul>
1.169 louis 3535:
1.158 louis 3536: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3537: <ul>
1.147 louis 3538:
1.247 jufi 3539: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3540: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
3541: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 3542: </strong></font><br>
3543:
3544: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
3545: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
3546: <p>
3547:
1.247 jufi 3548: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3549: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
3550: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
3551: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 3552: </strong></font><br>
3553: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
3554: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
3555: <p>
3556:
1.247 jufi 3557: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 3558: <a
3559: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
3560: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
3561: </strong></font><br>
3562:
3563: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
3564: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
3565: <p>
3566:
1.247 jufi 3567: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3568: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 3569: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
3570: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 3571:
1.213 horacio 3572: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 3573: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 3574: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
3575: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
3576: <p>
1.215 horacio 3577:
1.247 jufi 3578: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3579: <a
3580: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
3581: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
3582: </strong></font><br>
3583:
3584: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
3585: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
3586: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
3587: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
3588: much of the attitude too).
3589: <p>
1.161 louis 3590:
1.247 jufi 3591: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3592: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3593: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 3594: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3595:
1.157 louis 3596: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
3597: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
3598: <p>
1.247 jufi 3599: </ul>
1.157 louis 3600:
3601: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3602: <ul>
1.157 louis 3603:
1.247 jufi 3604: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3605: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3606: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 3607: </strong></font><br>
3608:
3609: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
3610: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
3611: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
3612: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
3613: <p>
3614:
1.247 jufi 3615: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 3616: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
3617: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
3618: </strong></font><br>
3619:
3620: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
3621: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
3622: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
3623: it because they love coding...
3624: <p>
3625:
1.247 jufi 3626: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 3627: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
3628: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
3629: </strong></font><br>
3630:
3631: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
3632: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
3633: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
3634: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
3635: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
3636: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
3637: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
3638: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
3639: <p>
3640:
1.247 jufi 3641: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3642: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
3643: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
3644: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 3645: </strong></font><br>
3646:
3647: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
3648: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
3649: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
3650: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
3651: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
3652: the pizza.
3653: <p>
3654:
1.247 jufi 3655: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 3656: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
3657: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
3658: </strong></font><br>
3659:
3660: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
3661: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
3662: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
3663: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
3664: problems.
3665: <p>
3666:
1.247 jufi 3667: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 3668: <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 3669: </strong></font><br>
3670:
1.222 miod 3671: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 3672: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
3673: - whether they like it or not.
3674: <p>
3675:
1.247 jufi 3676: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3677: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
3678: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 3679: </strong></font><br>
3680:
3681: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
3682: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
3683: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 3684: <p>
1.148 aaron 3685:
1.247 jufi 3686: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3687: <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 3688: </strong></font><br>
3689:
3690: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
3691: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
3692: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
3693: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
3694: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
3695: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
3696: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
3697: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
3698: <p>
3699:
1.247 jufi 3700: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3701: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
3702: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 3703: </strong></font><br>
3704:
3705: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
3706: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 3707: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 3708: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
3709: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
3710: <p>
1.247 jufi 3711: </ul>
1.147 louis 3712:
1.138 louis 3713: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3714: <ul>
1.138 louis 3715:
1.247 jufi 3716: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3717: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
3718: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
3719: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
3720: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 3721: </strong></font><br>
3722:
1.227 horacio 3723: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 3724: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
3725: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
3726: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
3727: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
3728: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
3729: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
3730: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 3731: <p>
3732:
1.247 jufi 3733: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 3734: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 3735: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 3736: </strong></font><br>
3737:
3738: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
3739: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
3740: groups, and even Linux.
3741: <p>
3742:
1.247 jufi 3743: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3744: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
3745: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 3746: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
3747: </strong></font><br>
3748:
3749: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
3750: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
3751: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
3752: library after installing the OS.
3753: <p>
3754:
1.247 jufi 3755: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3756: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 3757: Sys Admin, September 2000
3758: </strong></font><br>
3759:
3760: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
3761: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
3762: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
3763: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 3764: (<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>,
3765: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
3766: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
3767: <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 3768: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 3769: out of the system.
3770: <p>
3771:
1.247 jufi 3772: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 3773: <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
3774: </strong></font><br>
3775:
3776: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 3777: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 3778: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
3779: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
3780: the IP filtering and address translation.
3781: <p>
1.301 jose 3782:
3783: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3784: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
3785: </strong></font><br>
3786:
3787: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
3788: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
3789: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
3790: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
3791: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
3792: <p>
1.247 jufi 3793: </ul>
1.200 niklas 3794:
1.131 louis 3795: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3796: <ul>
1.131 louis 3797:
1.247 jufi 3798: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3799: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
3800: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
3801: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 3802: </strong></font><br>
3803:
3804: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
3805: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
3806: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
3807: <p>
3808:
1.247 jufi 3809: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 3810: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
3811: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
3812: </strong></font><br>
3813:
3814: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
3815: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
3816: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
3817: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
3818: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
3819: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
3820: note of"</i>.
3821: <p>
3822:
1.247 jufi 3823: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 3824: <a
1.247 jufi 3825: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 3826: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
3827: </strong></font><br>
3828:
3829: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
3830: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
3831: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
3832: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
3833: <p>
3834:
1.247 jufi 3835: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 3836: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 3837: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
3838: </strong></font><br>
3839:
3840: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
3841: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
3842: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
3843: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
3844: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
3845: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
3846: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
3847: <p>
3848:
1.247 jufi 3849: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 3850: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
3851: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
3852: 2000
3853: </strong></font><br>
3854:
3855: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
3856: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
3857: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
3858: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
3859: against current industry practices.
3860: <p>
3861:
1.247 jufi 3862: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 3863: <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
3864: </strong></font><br>
3865:
3866: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
3867: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
3868: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
3869: <p>
3870:
1.247 jufi 3871: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 3872: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
3873: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
3874: </strong></font><br>
3875:
3876: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
3877: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
3878: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
3879: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
3880: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
3881: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
3882: careful code reviews, he concludes.
3883: <p>
3884:
1.247 jufi 3885: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 3886: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
3887: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
3888: </strong></font><br>
3889:
3890: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
3891: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
3892: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
3893: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
3894: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 3895: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
3896: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
3897: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 3898: <p>
1.247 jufi 3899: </ul>
1.131 louis 3900:
1.118 louis 3901: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3902: <ul>
1.118 louis 3903:
1.247 jufi 3904: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 3905: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
3906: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
3907: </strong></font><br>
3908:
3909: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
3910: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
3911: about time. The article mentions that
3912: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
3913: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
3914: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 3915: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 3916: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
3917: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 3918: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 3919: <p>
3920:
1.247 jufi 3921: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3922: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 3923: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3924: </strong></font><br>
3925:
3926: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
3927: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
3928: of OpenSSH.
3929: <p>
3930:
1.247 jufi 3931: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3932: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3933: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 3934: </strong></font><br>
3935:
3936: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 3937: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 3938: bridging.
3939: <p>
3940:
1.247 jufi 3941: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 3942: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
3943: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 3944: </strong></font><br>
3945:
1.121 deraadt 3946: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
3947: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 3948: <p>
3949:
1.247 jufi 3950: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 3951: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
3952: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
3953: </strong></font><br>
3954:
3955: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
3956: <p>
3957:
1.247 jufi 3958: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 3959: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 3960: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
3961: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 3962: </strong></font><br>
3963:
1.120 deraadt 3964: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
3965: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 3966: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
3967: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
3968: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
3969: <p>
3970:
1.247 jufi 3971: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 3972: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
3973: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
3974: </strong></font><br>
3975:
1.222 miod 3976: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 3977: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
3978: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
3979: protocols and their quirks.
3980: <p>
3981:
1.247 jufi 3982: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3983: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
3984: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 3985: </strong></font><br>
3986:
3987: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
3988: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
3989: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 3990: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 3991: <p>
3992:
1.247 jufi 3993: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 3994: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
3995: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
3996: </strong></font><br>
3997:
3998: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
3999: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
4000: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
4001: <p>
4002:
1.247 jufi 4003: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 4004: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 4005: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
4006: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 4007: </strong></font><br>
4008:
4009: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
4010: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
4011: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
4012: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
4013: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
4014: <p>
1.247 jufi 4015: </ul>
1.118 louis 4016:
1.104 louis 4017: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4018: <ul>
1.104 louis 4019:
1.247 jufi 4020: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 4021: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
4022: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
4023: </strong></font><br>
4024:
4025: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
4026: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
4027: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
4028: be a bit dry.
4029: <p>
4030:
1.247 jufi 4031: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4032: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
4033: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
4034: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
4035: </strong></font><br>
4036: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
4037: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
4038: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
4039: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
4040: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
4041: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
4042: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
4043: <p>
4044:
1.247 jufi 4045: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4046: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
4047: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 4048: 2000
1.128 louis 4049: </strong></font><br>
4050:
4051: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
4052: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
4053: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
4054: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
4055: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 4056: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 4057: <p>
4058:
1.247 jufi 4059: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4060: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
4061: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 4062: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 4063:
4064: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
4065: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
4066: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
4067: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 4068: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
4069: <p>
1.110 louis 4070:
1.247 jufi 4071: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 4072: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
4073: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
4074: </strong></font><br>
4075:
4076: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
4077: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
4078: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
4079: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
4080: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
4081: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
4082: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
4083: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
4084: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
4085: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
4086: <p>
4087:
1.247 jufi 4088: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 4089: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 4090: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 4091:
4092: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
4093: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 4094: <p>
1.108 louis 4095:
1.247 jufi 4096: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 4097: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
4098: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 4099: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 4100:
4101: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
4102: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
4103: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 4104: <p>
1.106 louis 4105:
1.247 jufi 4106: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 4107: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
4108: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 4109: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 4110:
4111: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
4112: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
4113: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
4114: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 4115: <p>
1.107 louis 4116:
1.247 jufi 4117: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4118: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
4119: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 4120: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 4121:
4122: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
4123: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 4124: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 4125: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
4126: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 4127: <p>
1.105 louis 4128:
1.247 jufi 4129: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 4130: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 4131: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 4132: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 4133:
1.113 naddy 4134: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
4135: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 4136: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 4137: <p>
1.104 louis 4138:
1.247 jufi 4139: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4140: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
4141: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
4142: </strong></font><br>
4143:
4144: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
4145: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
4146: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
4147: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
4148: <p>
1.301 jose 4149:
4150: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4151: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
4152: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
4153: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
4154:
4155: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
4156: hardware-supported cryptography.
4157: <p>
1.247 jufi 4158: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 4159:
1.85 louis 4160: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4161: <ul>
1.85 louis 4162:
1.247 jufi 4163: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4164: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 4165: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 4166: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 4167:
4168: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
4169: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
4170: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
4171: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
4172: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
4173: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
4174: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 4175: <p>
1.99 louis 4176:
1.247 jufi 4177: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4178: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 4179: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 4180: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 4181:
4182: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
4183: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
4184: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
4185: conditions.
1.113 naddy 4186: <p>
1.100 louis 4187:
1.247 jufi 4188: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4189: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 4190: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 4191: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 4192:
4193: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
4194: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
4195: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
4196: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 4197: <p>
1.95 louis 4198:
1.247 jufi 4199: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4200: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 4201: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 4202: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 4203:
4204: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
4205: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 4206: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 4207: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
4208: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4209: <p>
1.92 louis 4210:
1.247 jufi 4211: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4212: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 4213: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 4214: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 4215:
4216: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
4217: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
4218: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
4219: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
4220: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
4221: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 4222: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 4223: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 4224: <p>
1.91 louis 4225:
1.247 jufi 4226: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4227: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
4228: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 4229: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 4230:
4231: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
4232: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
4233: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
4234: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
4235: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
4236: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
4237: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
4238: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
4239: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 4240: <p>
1.90 louis 4241:
1.247 jufi 4242: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 4243: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
4244: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
4245: </strong></font><br>
4246: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
4247: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
4248: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
4249: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
4250: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
4251: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
4252: <p>
4253:
1.247 jufi 4254: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 4255: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
4256: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 4257: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 4258:
1.113 naddy 4259: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
4260: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 4261: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
4262: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
4263: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
4264: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
4265: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 4266: <p>
1.87 louis 4267:
1.247 jufi 4268: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 4269: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
4270: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 4271: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 4272:
4273: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 4274: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 4275: <p>
1.85 louis 4276:
1.247 jufi 4277: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4278: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
4279: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4280: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
4281:
4282: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
4283: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
4284: <p>
4285:
4286: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 4287: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
4288: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 4289: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 4290:
4291: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 4292: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 4293: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
4294: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 4295: <p>
1.89 louis 4296:
1.247 jufi 4297: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 4298: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
1.85 louis 4299: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 4300: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 4301:
4302: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
4303: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
4304: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
4305: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
4306: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 4307: </ul>
1.85 louis 4308:
1.78 deraadt 4309: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4310: <ul>
1.74 louis 4311:
1.247 jufi 4312: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4313: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 4314: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 4315: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 4316: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 4317:
4318: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
4319: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
4320: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4321: <p>
1.83 louis 4322:
1.247 jufi 4323: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 4324: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
4325: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 4326: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 4327:
4328: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
4329: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 4330: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 4331: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
4332: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 4333: <p>
1.93 louis 4334:
1.247 jufi 4335: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4336: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
4337: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
4338: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 4339: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 4340:
1.83 louis 4341: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
4342: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
4343: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
4344: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
4345: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 4346: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
4347: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
4348: <p>
1.82 aaron 4349:
1.247 jufi 4350: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4351: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 4352: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 4353: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 4354:
1.83 louis 4355: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
4356: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
4357: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 4358: <p>
1.80 louis 4359:
1.247 jufi 4360: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4361: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 4362: Bad Press</a>,
4363: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 4364: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 4365:
4366: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 4367: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 4368: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
4369: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
4370: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 4371: <p>
1.247 jufi 4372: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 4373:
4374: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4375: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 4376:
1.247 jufi 4377: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4378: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
4379: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 4380: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 4381: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 4382:
4383: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
4384: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
4385: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
4386: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 4387: <p>
1.74 louis 4388:
1.247 jufi 4389: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 4390: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
4391: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 4392: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 4393:
1.219 horacio 4394: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
4395: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
4396: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
4397: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
4398: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
4399: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
4400: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 4401: <p>
1.88 louis 4402:
1.247 jufi 4403: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 4404: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 4405: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 4406: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 4407:
4408: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
4409: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
4410: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
4411: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 4412: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 4413: <p>
1.81 louis 4414:
1.247 jufi 4415: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4416: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 4417: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 4418: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 4419:
4420: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
4421: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
4422: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
4423: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
4424: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
4425: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
4426: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 4427: <p>
1.90 louis 4428:
1.247 jufi 4429: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4430: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 4431: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 4432: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 4433:
4434: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
4435: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
4436: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 4437: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 4438: <p>
1.247 jufi 4439: </ul>
1.71 louis 4440:
1.69 deraadt 4441: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4442: <ul>
1.70 louis 4443:
1.247 jufi 4444: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4445: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
4446: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 4447: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 4448:
4449: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
4450: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
4451: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 4452: <p>
1.70 louis 4453:
1.247 jufi 4454: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4455: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
4456: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 4457: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 4458:
4459: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 4460: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 4461: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 4462: <p>
1.68 louis 4463:
1.247 jufi 4464: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4465: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
4466: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 4467: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 4468: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 4469:
1.111 jufi 4470: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
4471: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 4472: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 4473: "secure by default" installation.
4474: <p>
1.64 louis 4475:
1.247 jufi 4476: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 4477: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 4478: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 4479: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 4480:
1.113 naddy 4481: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 4482: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 4483: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 4484: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
4485: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
4486: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 4487: <p>
1.66 louis 4488:
1.247 jufi 4489: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4490: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 4491: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4492: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 4493:
4494: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 4495: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 4496: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
4497: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
4498: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 4499: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
4500: <p>
1.83 louis 4501:
1.247 jufi 4502: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4503: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 4504: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4505: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 4506:
4507: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 4508: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
4509: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 4510: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
4511: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 4512: <p>
1.64 louis 4513:
1.247 jufi 4514: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4515: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 4516: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4517: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 4518:
4519: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
4520: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 4521: <p>
1.301 jose 4522:
4523: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4524: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
4525: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
4526: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
4527: </strong></font><br>
4528:
4529: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
4530: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
4531: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
4532: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
4533: Giving way to
4534: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
4535: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
4536: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
4537: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
4538: <p>
1.247 jufi 4539: </ul>
1.65 louis 4540:
1.69 deraadt 4541: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4542: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4543:
1.247 jufi 4544: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4545: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 4546: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 4547: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 4548:
4549: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
4550: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
4551: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
4552: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 4553: <p>
1.88 louis 4554:
1.247 jufi 4555: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4556: <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 4557: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 4558:
4559: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 4560: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
4561: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 4562: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
4563: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 4564: <p>
1.60 louis 4565:
1.247 jufi 4566: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 4567: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 4568: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 4569: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 4570: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4571:
4572: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
4573: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
4574: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 4575: <p>
1.58 louis 4576:
1.247 jufi 4577: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 4578: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 4579: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 4580:
4581: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
4582: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 4583: <p>
1.53 louis 4584:
1.247 jufi 4585: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 4586: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
4587: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 4588: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 4589:
4590: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
4591: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
4592: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 4593: <p>
1.99 louis 4594:
1.247 jufi 4595: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 4596: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 4597: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4598:
4599: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
4600: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 4601: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 4602: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 4603: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 4604:
1.247 jufi 4605: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4606: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
4607: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 4608: </strong></font><br>
4609:
4610: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
4611: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
4612: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
4613: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
4614: <p>
4615:
1.247 jufi 4616: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4617: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 4618: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 4619: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4620:
4621: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
4622: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 4623: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 4624:
1.247 jufi 4625: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 4626: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 4627: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 4628:
4629: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 4630: in
1.247 jufi 4631: <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 4632: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 4633: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 4634: <p>
1.53 louis 4635:
1.247 jufi 4636: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4637: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 4638: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
4639: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 4640: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 4641:
1.58 louis 4642: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4643: <p>
1.301 jose 4644:
4645: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4646: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
4647: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
4648: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
4649: Informacyjny, January 2000
4650: </strong></font><br>
4651:
4652: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
4653: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
4654: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
4655: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
4656: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
4657: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
4658: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
4659: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
4660: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
4661: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 4662: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
4663: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 4664: <p>
4665:
4666: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4667: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4668: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
4669: </strong></font><br>
4670:
4671: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
4672: <p>
4673: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 4674:
1.69 deraadt 4675: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4676: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4677:
1.247 jufi 4678: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4679: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
4680: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
4681: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 4682: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4683:
1.58 louis 4684: Kurt Seifried
4685: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4686: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
4687: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 4688: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 4689:
1.247 jufi 4690: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4691: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 4692: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4693: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 4694:
4695: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 4696: <p>
1.96 louis 4697:
1.247 jufi 4698: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4699: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
4700: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
4701: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
4702: </strong></font><br>
4703:
4704: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
4705: <p>
4706:
4707: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4708: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 4709: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 4710: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 4711:
4712: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
4713: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 4714: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 4715: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 4716: <p>
1.247 jufi 4717: </ul>
1.86 louis 4718:
1.69 deraadt 4719: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4720: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4721:
1.247 jufi 4722: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4723: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
4724: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 4725: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 4726:
4727: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
4728: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 4729: <p>
1.61 louis 4730:
1.247 jufi 4731: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4732: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 4733: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
4734: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4735: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 4736:
4737: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 4738: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 4739: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
4740: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 4741: right -- or at least strives to".
4742: <p>
1.48 louis 4743:
1.247 jufi 4744: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4745: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
4746: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4747: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 4748: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
4749: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
4750: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
4751: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 4752: <p>
1.61 louis 4753:
1.247 jufi 4754: <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 4755: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4756: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 4757:
4758: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
4759: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
4760: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
4761: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 4762: <p>
1.46 louis 4763:
1.247 jufi 4764: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4765: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
4766: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4767: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4768:
4769: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
4770: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 4771: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 4772:
1.247 jufi 4773: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 4774: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
4775: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 4776: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 4777:
4778: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
4779: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
4780: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
4781: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 4782: <p>
1.247 jufi 4783: </ul>
1.70 louis 4784:
1.69 deraadt 4785: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4786: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4787:
1.247 jufi 4788: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4789: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
4790: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 4791: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 4792: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 4793:
4794: Kurt Seifried
4795: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4796: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
4797: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 4798: <p>
1.44 philen 4799:
1.247 jufi 4800: <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 4801: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 4802: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 4803:
4804: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 4805: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 4806:
1.247 jufi 4807: <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 4808: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 4809: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 4810:
4811: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 4812: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 4813:
1.247 jufi 4814: <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 4815: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 4816: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 4817:
4818: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
4819: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
4820: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
4821: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 4822: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 4823:
1.247 jufi 4824: <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 4825: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 4826: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 4827:
1.36 louis 4828: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 4829: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 4830:
1.247 jufi 4831: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 4832: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
1.39 louis 4833: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 4834: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4835:
4836: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 4837: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 4838: </ul>
1.38 louis 4839:
1.69 deraadt 4840: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4841: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4842:
1.247 jufi 4843: <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 4844: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 4845: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 4846:
4847: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
4848: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 4849: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 4850:
1.113 naddy 4851: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 4852: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 4853: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 4854: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 4855:
4856: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
4857: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 4858: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
4859: terminal:
1.113 naddy 4860: <blockquote>
4861: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
4862: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
4863: <br>
4864: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
4865: </code>
4866: </blockquote>
4867: <p>
4868:
1.247 jufi 4869: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 4870: <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 4871: <p>
4872:
4873: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4874: <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 4875: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 4876:
4877: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
4878: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 4879: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 4880: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 4881:
1.247 jufi 4882: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4883: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
4884: Sept. 28, 1999
4885: </strong></font><br>
4886:
4887: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
4888: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
4889: translating and reprinting articles from
4890: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
4891: <p>
4892:
4893: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 4894: <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 4895: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 4896:
4897: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
4898: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
4899: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
4900: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
4901: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 4902: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 4903: <p>
1.19 louis 4904:
1.113 naddy 4905: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 4906: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 4907: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 4908:
4909: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
4910: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
4911: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 4912: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
4913: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 4914: <p>
1.16 louis 4915:
1.247 jufi 4916: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4917: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 4918: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 4919: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 4920:
1.57 louis 4921: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
4922: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
4923: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 4924: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 4925:
1.247 jufi 4926: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4927: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.466 deraadt 4928: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4929: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4930:
1.113 naddy 4931: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 4932:
1.247 jufi 4933: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4934: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
4935: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4936: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 4937:
1.23 louis 4938: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
4939: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
4940: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
4941: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
4942: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 4943: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 4944:
1.247 jufi 4945: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 4946: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
4947: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 4948: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 4949:
1.199 pvalchev 4950: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 4951: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
4952: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
4953: installation.
1.113 naddy 4954: <p>
1.47 louis 4955:
1.247 jufi 4956: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4957: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 4958: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 4959: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4960:
1.301 jose 4961: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
4962: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
4963: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 4964: </ul>
1.57 louis 4965:
1.69 deraadt 4966: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4967: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4968:
1.247 jufi 4969: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 4970: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 4971: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 4972: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 4973:
4974: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
4975: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 4976: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4977: <p>
1.12 louis 4978:
1.247 jufi 4979: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 4980: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 4981: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 4982: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 4983:
4984: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
4985: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 4986: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
4987: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
4988: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
4989: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
4990: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 4991: <p>
1.247 jufi 4992: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 4993:
1.69 deraadt 4994: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4995: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 4996:
1.247 jufi 4997: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 4998: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 4999: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 5000:
5001: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
5002: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
5003: available."
1.113 naddy 5004: <p>
1.301 jose 5005:
5006: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5007: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
5008: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
5009: </strong></font><br>
5010:
5011: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
5012: <p>
1.247 jufi 5013: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 5014:
1.69 deraadt 5015: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5016: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5017:
1.247 jufi 5018: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 5019: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 5020: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 5021:
5022: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
5023: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
5024: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
5025: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
5026: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 5027: <p>
1.33 louis 5028:
1.247 jufi 5029: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5030: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 5031: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 5032: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5033:
1.113 naddy 5034: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
5035: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 5036: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
5037: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
5038: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 5039: <p>
1.247 jufi 5040: </ul>
1.57 louis 5041:
1.69 deraadt 5042: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5043: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5044:
1.247 jufi 5045: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5046: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 5047: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 5048: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 5049:
5050: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
5051: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 5052: <p>
1.69 deraadt 5053:
1.247 jufi 5054: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 5055: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
5056: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
5057: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 5058: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 5059:
5060: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 5061: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 5062:
1.247 jufi 5063: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5064: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 5065:
1.113 naddy 5066: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 5067:
1.247 jufi 5068: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5069: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
1.68 louis 5070: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 5071: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 5072:
5073: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 5074: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 5075: </ul>
1.23 louis 5076:
1.69 deraadt 5077: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5078: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5079:
1.247 jufi 5080: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 5081: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 5082: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 5083:
5084: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
5085: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 5086: <p>
1.2 deraadt 5087:
1.247 jufi 5088: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5089: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 5090: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5091: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5092:
5093: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
5094: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 5095: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 5096: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 5097: </ul>
1.57 louis 5098:
1.69 deraadt 5099: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5100: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5101:
1.247 jufi 5102: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5103: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
1.15 louis 5104: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 5105: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 5106:
5107: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
5108: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
5109: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
5110: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5111: <p>
1.15 louis 5112:
1.247 jufi 5113: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 5114: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
5115: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 5116: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5117:
5118: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
5119: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
5120: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
5121: columns."
1.113 naddy 5122: <p>
1.247 jufi 5123: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5124:
1.69 deraadt 5125: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5126: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5127:
1.247 jufi 5128: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5129: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 5130: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 5131: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5132:
5133: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 5134: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 5135:
1.113 naddy 5136: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5137: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 5138: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5139:
5140: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
5141: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 5142: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 5143: </ul>
1.57 louis 5144:
1.69 deraadt 5145: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5146: <ul>
1.301 jose 5147: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5148: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
5149: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
5150: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
5151:
5152: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
5153: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
5154: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
5155: <p>
5156:
5157: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5158: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
5159: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
5160: Nov 13, 1998 and
5161: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
5162: Datateknik</a>,
5163: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
5164:
1.380 saad 5165: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 5166: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
5167: explains the licensing issues and points to our
5168: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
5169: <p>
1.69 deraadt 5170:
1.113 naddy 5171: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5172: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 5173: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 5174: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 5175:
1.222 miod 5176: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 5177: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
5178: Implementation, including a brief interview with
5179: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 5180: <p>
1.247 jufi 5181: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5182:
1.69 deraadt 5183: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5184: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5185:
1.247 jufi 5186: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5187: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 5188: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5189:
1.69 deraadt 5190: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
5191: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 5192: <p>
1.247 jufi 5193: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5194:
1.69 deraadt 5195: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5196: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 5197:
1.247 jufi 5198: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 5199: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
5200: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 5201: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5202:
1.383 jcs 5203: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 5204: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 5205: <p>
1.1 deraadt 5206:
1.247 jufi 5207: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 5208: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 5209: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
5210: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 5211: <p>
1.247 jufi 5212: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5213:
1.69 deraadt 5214: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5215: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5216:
1.247 jufi 5217: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5218: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 5219: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
5220: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 5221: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 5222: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 5223:
5224: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
5225: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
5226: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 5227: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 5228: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 5229: <p>
1.247 jufi 5230: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 5231:
5232: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5233: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5234:
1.247 jufi 5235: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5236: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 5237: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 5238:
1.69 deraadt 5239: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
5240: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 5241: <p>
1.112 naddy 5242:
1.247 jufi 5243: </ul>
1.113 naddy 5244: <p>
1.1 deraadt 5245:
1.292 camield 5246: <hr>
1.216 horacio 5247: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 5248: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.496 ! ian 5249: <br><small>$OpenBSD: press.html,v 1.495 2006/03/25 17:11:42 ian Exp $</small>
1.1 deraadt 5250:
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5252: </html>