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1.503 ian 19: <h2>April, 2006</h2>
20: <ul>
21: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
22: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71658">
23: Mozilla Foundation spendet für OpenBSD</a>, heise online, April 4, 2006
24: </strong></font><br>
25: Short article mentioning the donation the Mozilla Foundation made in support of
26: further OpenSSH development.
27: The article emphasizes the opportunity to wire money through the project's
28: new European account - this one donation will not meet the
29: project's funding needs for all time.
30: <p>
1.504 bernd 31: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
32: [GERMAN] "OpenBSD mit finanziellen Problemen", c't 8/06, p. 45.,
33: April 3, 2006
34: </strong></font><br>
35: A very short article about OpenBSD's financial problems. They mention that
36: this could compromise future hackathons.
37: <p>
1.503 ian 38:
39: </ul>
40:
1.487 ian 41: <h2>March, 2006</h2>
42: <ul>
1.495 ian 43: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.500 ian 44: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/theo_interview.html">
1.501 ian 45: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>, DaemonNews, March, 2006
1.500 ian 46: </strong></font><br>
47: Chris Silva conducts a lightweight but wide-ranging and fun interview with Theo
48: on topics including "Puffy",
49: the logos used by certain other BSD projects -
50: Theo quips that "I really like how they make absolutely no statement at all" -
51: what's new in 3.9,
52: and of course project expenses.
53: Theo notes that "The electric bill is about $100 USD per week".
54: <!--
55: ... must be what comes from heating your house with VAXen.
56: -->
57: The interviewer nicely ends with a link to our donations page.
58: <p>
59:
60: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 61: <a href="http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/239/1/">
62: Linux supporters fiddle while OpenSSH burns</a>, The Jem Report, March 28, 2006
63: </strong></font><br>
1.499 ian 64: This write-up focusses on OpenBSD/OpenSSH funding, and has some
65: original legwork to go with it.
1.498 ian 66: Writer Jem Matzan took the trouble to
67: contact many of the companies who charge a lot for products
68: featuring OpenSSH and yet give nothing to OpenSSH in return.
69: Companies like SCO, IBM, Apple, and Sun.
70: Sun apparently did the worst job of responding:
71: "Since the release of Solaris 10, who has been a larger open source
72: software cheerleader than Sun Microsystems?", Matzan asks. "I asked Sun
73: representatives what they would do if OpenSSH were to disappear. The only response
74: I got was that there are parts of Solaris that compete with OpenSSH,
75: and that because of this, the company would rather not comment
76: further on the issue." What the Sun teleprompter-readers don't seem to realize -
77: but Matzan does - is that
78: <a href="http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/cmd/ssh/ssh/ssh.c">
79: SunSSH <em>is</em> OpenSSH</a>.
80: Or, at least, a mangled version of it...
81: IBM, on the other hand, is still trying to formulate their response.
82: <br/>
83: <p>
84:
85: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
86: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/20/2050223.shtml?tid=8">
87: Interview: Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD</a>, NewsForge, March 28, 2006
88: </strong></font><br>
89: A wide-ranging interview with Theo about new stuff in 3.9, security, funding,
90: "blob" drivers, and more.
91: Theo notes that "We've had 10 years of nearly fanatical devotion
92: to anything which can make OpenBSD more secure. A very important
93: part of that is that we have not been afraid to completely overhaul
94: anything even if it breaks backward compatibility. Secondly, when
95: we have found a flaw in any part of the system we have assumed that
96: the same mistake was made elsewhere, and gone on a hunt to fix them
97: all. Thirdly, we have developed and incorporated a collection of
98: methods that make software flaws very difficult to attack..."
99: Ends by trying to shame the companies that use OpenSSH without contributing
100: anything back - Sun is given especial mention here - and ends with
101: the tantalizing line ".. if an OpenSSH hole is found that applies to SunSSH,
102: Sun will not be informed. Or maybe that has happened already." Hmmmm.
103: <p>
104:
105: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 106: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259254,00.htm">
107: OpenBSD 3.9 adds sensor framework</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
108: </strong></font><br>
109: It's easy to focus on our project's security, but we innovate in other areas too.
110: This article highlights the "sensors" framework added in 3.9 to provide and integrated
111: approach to handling Dell PowerEdge servers' Embedded Server Management (ESM), IPMI, and
112: in general temperature and environmental issues.
113: "There is a significant new sensor framework [in OpenBSD 3.9], which
114: supports voltage sensors, fan sensors, temperature sensors, and so
115: on," said de Raadt. "Such a feature is still missing in Linux and
116: other major operating systems." ...
117: De Raadt has already been using the sensor framework to monitor the
118: machines running in
119: <a href="images/newrack.jpg">the project's server room</a>. "I now get a call
120: on my cell phone whenever something is wrong in the machine room,"
121: <p>
122:
123: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
124: <a href="http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/other/0,39020682,39259281,00.htm">
125: Paying for free software may be the bargain of a lifetime</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
126: </strong></font><br>
127: Starts with a Theo quote from the previous article on ZDNet:
128: "A culture of entitlement is starting to damage the open source community".
129: The article argues that mega-computer-companies that use open source tend to use BSD:
130: "The open BSDs may be less famous than Linux, but they are arguably
131: superior in stability and security. This has made it popular in
132: ISPs and elsewhere - Apple, for example, adopted BSD within OS X.
133: BSD, unlike software released under the GPL, carrys no legal
134: obligations for the adopter to provide anything for the community in return."
135: Goes on to argue that these companies <em>ought</em> to be fair enough
136: to send a small bit of their money back into funding open source.
137: "In the time it takes to read this article, we calculate that Apple
138: will have easily made enough to pay-off OpenBSD's annual losses,
139: with a little left over to buy black turtlenecks for all. It's not
140: just Apple's baby - other companies owe far more to OpenBSD - but
141: in open source a little symbolism goes a long way."
142: <p>
143:
1.487 ian 144: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.494 bernd 145: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71174">
146: OpenBSD muss an den Sparstrumpf</a>, heise online, March 23, 2006
147: </strong></font><br>
1.495 ian 148: OpenBSD is touching its savings - Small news article about the project's
1.494 bernd 149: financial situation.
150: <p>
151:
152: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 153: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259042,00.htm">
154: OpenBSD Founder Makes Funding Plea</a>, ZDNet UK, March 23, 2006
155: </strong></font><br>
156: One of the first mainstream sites to pick up on Marco's article (below),
157: this one reports the funding figures on how much it really costs to
158: produce our favorite operating system.
159: "Although OpenBSD has a number of commercial users, including many
160: ISPs, de Raadt claimed that all of its donations come from individuals
161: rather than companies many of who claim the have no budget to pay
162: for the operating system. "The culture of entitlement is starting
163: to damage the open source community," he said."
1.496 ian 164: <br/>
165: Also online at
166: <a href="http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/software/stories/135760.html">ZDNet India</a>.
167: <p>
168:
169: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
170: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/03/22/OpenBSD-money.html">
171: OpenBSD in Financial Trouble</a>, Ping Wales, March 21, 2006
172: </strong></font><br>
173: David Chisnall reports that "OpenBSD is one of my favourite platforms;
174: its focus on security and ease-of-use makes it a very simple and
175: safe system to use. Unfortunately, the OpenBSD organisation is now
176: experiencing financial difficulty. For the last two years, the
177: project has made a $20,000/year loss, something which it cannot
178: sustain indefinitely."
179: Goes on to report on the growing use of OpenBSD in commercial software
180: (and hardware!), and that none of the "big guys" has given anything back.
181: Unlike most of the articles on this topic, this one is kind enough to
182: include a direct link to our orders page and recommend its readers
183: to buy a copy of the CD to help fund the project.
1.495 ian 184: <p>
185:
186: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 187: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/06/03/21/1555243.shtml">
188: OpenBSD Project in Financial Danger</a>, Slashdot, March 21, 2006
189: </strong></font><br>
190: Slashdot mentions and quotes from Marco's article (below),
191: with a reminder that
192: "The OpenBSD team is the one that also develops the OpenSSH suite,
193: used nowadays almost everywhere."
194: Ends with this quote from Marco:
195: "Without naming entities or projects by name, there are others out
196: there that are sitting on some cash. It would be wonderful if these
197: entities could share some of the wealth to keep us going."
198: <p>
199:
200: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.505 ! grunk 201: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060321034114">
1.495 ian 202: OpenBSD Finances</a>, OpenBSD Journal, March 21, 2006
203: </strong></font><br>
204: Marco Peereboom's article notes that
205: "OpenBSD for the past 2 years has turned a loss of approximately $20K USD" per year.
206: Hackathons - where a lot of developers get together in critical mass and churn out
207: new ideas and new code in great quantity - cost from US$10K-30K each, and we try to run
208: a few of them each year.
209: Meanwhile, compananies that use OpenBSD and companies - many of them highly profitable -
210: that incorporate OpenSSH into operating systems and even routers and other appliances
211: have not been forthcoming: no major computer company has given funding
212: to the OpenBSD project.
213: It's time for them to do so.
214: <p>
215:
216: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.497 ian 217: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/08/1646257.shtml?tid=8">
218: Software RAID on OpenBSD using RAIDframe</a>, NewsForge, March 14, 2006
219: </strong></font><br>
220: "Software RAID provides an easy way to add redundancy or speed up a system
221: without spending lots of money on a RAID adapter."
222: Manolis Tzanidakis talks us through setting up RAID using OpenBSD.
223: He describes the detailed steps, and recommends careful testing
224: before putting the system into production, including taking one disk
225: out of service and ensuring that it gets reloaded correctly.
226: Ends with a technique for monitoring clean operation on an ongoing basis.
227: <p>
228:
229: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.489 deraadt 230: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">Report on Business Television</a>
231: March 10, 5:45pm MST</strong></font><br>
1.490 deraadt 232: Theo de Raadt was interviewed by Howard Green on <b>The Business Show</b>:<br>
233: <!-- North America mirror:
234: <a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB avi file</a>
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1.490 deraadt 236: European mirror:
237: <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/20060310/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB AVI file</a>
238: <br>
239: A longer segment is also available at <a href="http://www.robtv.ca">www.robtv.ca</a>.
1.489 deraadt 240: <p>
241:
242: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.487 ian 243: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/openbgpd.html">OpenBGPd in OpenBSD</a>
244: Daemon News, March, 2006</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 245: Check out the notes and slides from Henning Brauer's presentation at
1.487 ian 246: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0602/">NANOG 36</a>;
247: the text and questions cover everything from how and why OpenBGPd got created,
248: through configuration and tools, to integration with pf and CARP,
249: to technical issues regarding use of IPSEC to provide security for BGP packets.
250: Along the way there's considerable discussion on how the program was
251: designed to provide reliability and security.
252: <p>
253:
254: </ul>
255:
1.485 ian 256: <h2>February, 2006</h2>
257: <ul>
258: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.486 ian 259: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1859">Zero to IPSec in 4 minutes</a>
260: Security Focus, February 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
261: This article, as its lead-in says,
1.497 ian 262: "looks at how to get a fully functional IPSec VPN up and running between two fresh OpenBSD
1.486 ian 263: installations in about four minutes flat".
264: If you've shied away from setting up an IPSEC VPN because of config file complexity,
265: now is the time to reconsider.
1.497 ian 266: Dragos Ruiu shows you how the ipsecctl command (introduced to the world in OpenBSD 3.8)
1.486 ian 267: makes it really easy to set up a VPN between consenting OpenBSD machines.
268: He states that he and a colleague were able to get two machines talking over IPSEC
269: in a few minutes, and only changing a few configuration files.
270: He also comments on the relative ease of installing our favorite OS, and hopes
271: that our ipsecctl will be adopted by the other BSDs (hopefully in a compatible way)
272: to make firewall setups easier all around the network.
273: But you don't need to wait for that if you're running OpenBSD 3.8; just follow
274: the steps in the article.
275: <p>
276:
277: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.485 ian 278: <a href="http://www.networkmagazineindia.com/200602/vendorvoice02.shtml">The Worm in the Machine</a>
279: Network Magazine India, February 2006</strong></font><br>
280: Dilip Ranade elaborates on several reasons why software is drearily buggy and endlessly insecure,
281: particularly in comparison with other technologies.
282: Imagines how very bad shape the automotive industry would be in if you had to sign the
283: same disclaimer of (non-)usability that almost every commercial EULA requires of computer users.
284: Ends with "I once dreamt that all the computer users in the world
285: arose in revolt and switched to hardened OpenBSD", though he admits that there's "fat chance" of it
286: happening in real life.
287: <p>
288:
289: </ul>
290:
1.492 ian 291: <h2>January, 2006</h2>
292: <ul>
293: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
294: <a href="http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2006/01/28.html">Kevin Mitnick on
295: Coast to Coast AM Radio Show with Art Bell</a>, Jan 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
296: Art Bell interviewed Kevin Mitnick on his call-in show;
297: Paul Zacharzewski from Edmonton called to ask Mitnick for his opinion of OpenBSD.
298: If you don't want to download the whole show from coasttocoastam.com,
299: you can listen to an
1.497 ian 300: <a href="http://unworkable.org/misc/mitnick.mp3">MP3 excerpt of this call</a>
1.492 ian 301: in which Mitnick says: "Well, I actually use OpenBSD, so I do like it".
302: </ul>
303:
1.483 ian 304: <h2>December, 2005</h2>
305: <ul>
306: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.484 djm 307: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/375/1">OpenSSH cutting edge</a>
308: SecurityFocus, December 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
309: Federico Biancuzzi interviews OpenSSH developer Damien Miller to discuss
310: features included in the upcoming version 4.3, public key crypto
311: protocols details, timing based attacks and anti-worm measures.
312: <p>
313:
314: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 315: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/11/21/175249.shtml?tid=92&tid=78">Creating
1.483 ian 316: Secure Wireless Access Points with OpenBSD and OpenVPN</a>
317: NewsForge, December 13, 2005</strong></font><br>
318: A cookbook approach to setting up a wireless interface as a secure Access Point
319: using OpenBSD's hostap, pf, and authpf.
320: Configuration examples are given with basic explanations and links
321: to sites with more information on most topics.
322: <p>
323:
324: </ul>
325:
326:
1.479 grunk 327: <h2>November, 2005</h2>
328: <ul>
329: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 330: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20051116145737">OpenBSD
1.482 ian 331: Goes to Venice</a>,
332: OpenBSD Journal, November 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 333: "What happens when you put a dozen developers on a little island with their
1.482 ian 334: laptops, power, and an internet connection?
335: <br/>
336: During the first week of November some OpenBSD developers met in a
337: little island in Venice's lagoon to hack on the ports system.
338: This was probably the first ports hackathon and was followed by
1.497 ian 339: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON</a>, a European conference
1.482 ian 340: fully dedicated to OpenBSD..."
341: Great coverage of the OpenBSD Porting Hackathon: people, ports, beer, ...
342: Contains a link to
343: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ven05-pvalchev/mgp00008.html">
344: pval's summary slides</a>.
345: <p>
346:
347: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.481 niallo 348: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1710223">
349: Trying out the new OpenBSD 3.8</a>,
350: NewsForge, November 11, 2005</strong></font><br>
351: This article describes the installation of OpenBSD 3.8 from a Linux user's
352: perspective, noting the simple elegance of the installer.
353: Although the installation process may be hard to get used to at first for
354: the average Linux user, the author tells us that one can learn a lot from
355: it. Furthermore, the article clears up the common misconception that working
1.497 ian 356: on an OpenBSD system is very different from working on a Linux system.
1.481 niallo 357: In particular, the author states that on OpenBSD, <i>"virtually the entire
358: catalog of familiar free and open source software titles is available through
359: the packages and ports system"</i>.
360: <p>
361:
362: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
363: <a href="http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3561526">
364: Return of The BSDs</a>,
365: internetnews.com, November 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
366: This article mentions that with all three major BSD flavors having had
367: a release this fall, BSD is <i>"still very much alive and kicking among
368: all the noise and buzz created by Linux"</i>. The author talks about
369: various new or improved features of 3.8, such as bioctl(8), hostapd(8),
370: network interface aggregation and sasyncd(8), and there are some
371: quotes from Bob Beck.
372: <p>
373:
374: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.479 grunk 375: <a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/051101/152/fvrlx.html">
376: OpenBSD 3.8 improves hardware support</a>,
377: ZDNet UK, November 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.480 ian 378: This article reports on OpenBSD 3.8, which was released on November 1.
379: The author gives an overview of the improvements and new
1.479 grunk 380: features that were made with 3.8, and quotes Theo on RAID management
381: and Linux.<br>
382: The 3.8 release hit the news also in some other places:
383: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1258232">Slashdot</a>
384: and <a href="http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=12482">OSNews</a>
385: also report about it, mostly repeating parts
386: of the release
387: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/ANNOUNCEMENT">ANNOUNCEMENT</a>.
388: <p>
389: </ul>
390:
1.476 ian 391: <h2>October, 2005</h2>
392: <ul>
393:
394: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
395: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1375194866;fp;16;fpid;0">
396: 'Nightmare' drove desperate user to open source</a>,
397: Computerworld, October 24, 2005</strong></font><br>
398: A great tale of how Mark Uemura of PricewaterhouseCoopers Japan
399: was forced to move to OpenBSD because the alternatives were too costly
400: and too unreliable.
401: This quote will rattle some cages:
402: "IT managers who want to deploy an open source solution but are
403: worried about company politics should go ahead and do it without
404: asking," according to Uemura, who was promoted to IT Manager of PWC Japan
405: after saving the company seven IT-samurais' salaries.
406: Further, "In Japan large organizations like Morgan Stanley and the
407: Bank of America have moved all their backend systems to open source,
408: Uemura said, because with open source you can reduce IT operating
409: costs without any commercial lock-in."
410: <p>
411:
1.477 saad 412: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
413: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6270">
414: OpenBSD 3.8: Hackers of the Lost RAID</a>,
415: ONLamp.com, October 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
416: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
417: new features in OpenBSD 3.8 including interface trunking,
418: internationalization support, Inter-Access Point Protocol (IAPP),
419: IPSec SA synchronization daemon, and RAID management. There is also some
420: discussion about future plans.
421: <p>
422:
1.478 grunk 423: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
424: <a href="http://securityfocus.com/columnists/361">
425: OpenBSD's network stack</a>,
426: SecurityFocus, October 12, 2005</strong></font><br>
427: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about OpenBSD's
428: network stack, including protection against ICMP attacks, and propagation
429: of enhancements into other BSDs and into Linux.
430: The interview also features the other protection mechanisms in the network
431: stack, a comparison to the network stack in Linux, and the history and
432: current status of <a href="http://www.openbgpd.org/">OpenBGPD</a>.
433: <p>
434:
1.476 ian 435: </ul>
436:
1.470 saad 437: <h2>September, 2005</h2>
438: <ul>
439:
440: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.474 niallo 441: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/359">
442: Security-related innovation in Unix</a>,
443: SecurityFocus, Sept. 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
444: An article examining the mmap-based malloc() implementation to be
445: included in OpenBSD 3.8. The author states that <i>"it will help OpenBSD
446: users to find bugs in software more easily, which will result in better
447: applications for everyone"</i>. He goes on to say that <i>"the more hurdles
448: that one has to jump through for good security, the less likely people will
449: go through the trouble. OpenBSD allows even the most inexperienced users to
450: take advantage of these technologies without any effort"</i>.
451: <p>
452:
453: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.473 aanriot 454: <a href="http://www.miscmag.com/articles/index.php3?page=2100">
455: [FRENCH] Champ libre : les chantiers OpenBSD</a>
456: Misc, number 21, Sept/Oct, 2005, p. 4-14</strong></font><br>
457: An interesting article about OpenBSD and associated projects. Saad Kadhi
458: and Guillaume Arcas describe useful things you can do with PF and
459: OpenSSH, and give a nice introduction to OpenNTPD and OpenCVS. If the
460: article is focused on the presentation, you can find some interesting
461: technical aspects people are not always acquainted to. A few examples
462: are shown, like a basic CARP setup, or the manner to use multiplexing
463: with OpenSSH and even how to check an OpenSSH server's keys using DNS.
464: <p>
465:
466: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 467: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/news/11306">
468: Big debate over small packets</a>,
469: SecurityFocus, Sept. 7, 2005</strong></font><br>
470: Robert Lemos discusses the ICMP denial-of-service vulnerabilities found
471: by Fernando Gont and fixed in OpenBSD. To date, OpenBSD is the only
472: system that has implemented all of the fixes recommended in the IETF
473: draft.
474: <p>
475:
476: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.471 saad 477: <a href="http://www.pcexpert.fr/">
478: [FRENCH] "Quel est le meilleur système libre pour votre
479: ordinateur ?"</a>,
480: PC Expert, number 156, p. 42-62</strong></font><br>
481: Philippe Roure compares 11 Linux and *BSD operating systems, including
482: OpenBSD 3.7, on different criteria such as security, documentation and
483: usability. OpenBSD earned a 5/5 mark (see pages 60-61) and while a mark
484: isn't necessarily objective, the author seems to grasp the OpenBSD
485: project, its goals, and how good is the operating system. The article
486: includes an interview with Saad Kadhi.
487: <p>
488:
489: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.470 saad 490: <a href="http://www.samag.com/articles/2005/0509/">
491: Monitoring PF Firewalls for Health and Performance</a>,
492: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 9, p. 37</strong></font><br>
493: Ryan Matteson describes several utilities that can be used to monitor the
494: health and performance of a PF firewall. Besides pfctl, the article
495: covers pftop, fwanalog, monitoring logs with tcpdump and graphing
496: performance data with pfstat.
497: <p>
498:
499: </ul>
500:
1.461 grunk 501: <h2>July, 2005</h2>
502: <ul>
503:
504: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.466 deraadt 505: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5382">
506: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part III</a>,
1.467 grunk 507: Kerneltrap, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.466 deraadt 508: Jeremy Andrews writes about the recent Blind ICMP attacks discovered
509: by Fernando Gont, and the fixes done by him and OpenBSD during the
510: 2005 Hackathon.
1.469 ian 511: The article goes into the technical background of the
1.467 grunk 512: attacks, mentioning blind ICMP attacks, "hard" ICMP errors, source
1.469 ian 513: quenching, and path MTU discovery;
514: many helpful RFCs and technical papers are linked from the explanations.
515: This is followed by a recap of the whole ICMP story, involving Gont's
1.467 grunk 516: struggle with other free projects, Cisco lawyers, Microsoft people,
517: and others.<br>
1.469 ian 518: The article concludes that OpenBSD was the first project
1.467 grunk 519: to take Fernando Gont's findings seriously, and also the first group to
520: be really painless to work with.
1.466 deraadt 521: <p>
522:
523: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.464 grunk 524: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/06/security_blame/">
525: Security meltdown: who's to blame?</a>,
1.466 deraadt 526: The Register, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.464 grunk 527: This article talks about various groups that are frequently blamed for
528: poor security:
1.467 grunk 529: individuals, ISPs, companies, crackers, security mailing lists,
1.464 grunk 530: and last but not least: OS vendors!
1.467 grunk 531: In the last paragraph, OpenBSD's style of <i>"dumbed-down, simplified
1.464 grunk 532: and secure systems (with a heavily audited code base)"</i> is described
533: as <i>"one of the smartest approaches to security"</i>.
534: <p>
535:
536: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.461 grunk 537: <a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-7-5/30084.html">
538: Theo de Raadt on Industry and Free Software</a>,
1.466 deraadt 539: The Epoch Times, July 5, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.463 tom 540: In this interview, Theo talks about the inception of the OpenBSD project
541: and its goals, as well as its impact on the commercial IT industry.
1.461 grunk 542: He points out once more that <i>"vendors who incorporate OpenSSH have
543: given us absolutely nothing back - not a cent"</i>.
544: Other topics covered include the OpenBSD team, Theo's role as
545: <i>"benevolent dictator"</i>, and the security process, which he compares
546: to the security efforts led by other free software projects and some
547: commercial vendors.
548: <p>
549:
550: </ul>
551:
1.454 ian 552: <h2>June, 2005</h2>
553: <ul>
1.468 grunk 554:
555: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
556: <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/ns-ttc062205.php">
557: The true cost of computer crime</a>,
558: EurekAlert / <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/">New Scientist Magazine</a>,
559: issue June 25, 2005</strong></font><br>
560: This article looks at computer crime, especially the way upcoming
561: vulnerability reports are dealt with. It also gives a short overview of the
1.469 ian 562: institutions involved in the process (vendors, free projects, CERTs).
1.468 grunk 563: <br>
564: The author mentions the work of Andy Ozment, who researches vulnerability
565: disclosure at the University of Cambridge. Using OpenBSD as a good example
566: of how disclosure and consequent fixing of bugs helps to strengthen security,
567: he refutes the widely spread FUD that disclosing vulnerabilities leads to
568: more harm than good. Ozment's methodology was to examine OpenBSD's CVS logs
1.469 ian 569: and note when fixes were published; his research shows that
1.468 grunk 570: <i>"the number of vulnerabilities decreases as a result of disclosure"</i>.
571: <p>
572:
1.454 ian 573: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.458 niallo 574: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0704/071.html">
575: Free Bird</a>,
576: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
577: <b>(Registration required)</b> A second Forbes article about OpenBSD, more
578: focused on the project itself this time. It contains good description of the
579: history of OpenBSD along with its prime motivations. Mention is made of the
580: DARPA grant and the annual hackathon. Theo's motto "shut up and hack" finally
581: becomes famous in this piece and there are some other very insightful quotes
582: such as "All I care about is making high-quality code. If I had to work at a
583: regular job, it would drive me nuts". This is certainly an astute and perceptive
584: article, well worth reading. Do note that the big picture of Theo's machine
585: room will only be available in the print edition.
586: <p>
1.459 deraadt 587:
1.458 niallo 588: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.456 niallo 589: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html">
590: Is Linux For Losers?</a>,
591: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
592: An interesting article, if somewhat polemic in tone, which raises questions
593: about the quality of Linux code compared to OpenBSD. There is also some short
594: discussion of the OpenBSD development model and focus (push for quality above
595: everything else) including good quotes from Theo. It seems that the need for
596: high quality software is beginning to be recognised by the mainstream.
597: <p>
1.457 deraadt 598:
1.456 niallo 599: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 600: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/06/09/2132233.shtml?tid=152&tid=8&tid=2">
1.455 ian 601: BSD cognoscenti on Linux</a>,
602: NewsForge, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
603: NewsForge talks with Theo de Raadt and NetBSD's Christos Zoulas about the
604: similarities and differences between the Linux kernel and the BSD
605: operating systems. The questions asked were similar to those asked
606: of Linus Torvalds in a <a
1.462 grunk 607: href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/09/2128249&tid=2">previous
1.455 ian 608: interview.</a>
609: <p>
610:
611: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.454 ian 612: <a href="http://www.tuxjournal.net/intervista3-en.html">
613: A good morning with Theo de Raadt</a>,
614: Tux Journal, June 2, 2005</strong></font><br>
615: Brief but wide-ranging interview with Theo in which our leader
616: opines about the good things in 3.7: "The list of new developments
617: is impressive, but in my view not nearly as impressive as the small
618: little details that continue to be fixed during each development
619: cycle." And modestly credits all the developers for the project's
620: continuing success, attributing it to "The passion of the developers,
621: and the wide experience they bring into their development efforts.
622: By amazing coincidence, our users typically have the same needs as we do."
623: Manages to sidestep getting drawn into comparisons with Linux, e.g.,
624: when asked if he likes it/why/why not, deftly replies
625: "I have never used it."
626: <p>
627:
628: </ul>
629:
1.441 deraadt 630: <h2>May, 2005</h2>
631: <ul>
632: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 633: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5190">
634: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part II</a>,
635: Kerneltrap, May 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
636: In the second installment of Kerneltrap's Hackathon 2005 feature, Jeremy
637: Andrews speaks with the pf developers at length about their plans for
638: future enhancements.
639: <p>
640:
641: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.450 deraadt 642: <a href="http://www.ctv.ca">
1.448 deraadt 643: TV coverage: OpenBSD hackathon</a>,
644: CTV/CFCN, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
645: A TV spot done a Canadian national TV station about the Calgary
646: hackathon this year, with 60 developers.<br>
647: North America mirror:
648: <ul>
1.452 marco 649: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.449 jcs 650: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a><br>
651: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a>
1.448 deraadt 652: </ul>
653: European mirror:
654: <ul>
1.452 marco 655: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.448 deraadt 656: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a>
657: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a><br>
658: </ul>
659: <p>
660:
661: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 662: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5186">
663: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part I</a>,
664: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
665: Jeremy Andrews of KernelTrap does a good job of describing what it's like
666: to be at the Hackathon in Part I of KernelTrap's Hackathon feature. Several
667: developers are interviewed in detail about what they are working on.
668: <p>
669:
670: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 671: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5184">
672: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005: Day 6?</a>,
673: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
674: Kjell Wooding describes a typical day at the Hackathon in this entertaining
675: first-hand account.
676: <p>
677:
678: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.447 cloder 679: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/05/20/1426216.shtml?tid=8">
680: Review: OpenBSD 3.7</a>,
681: NewsForge.com, May 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
682: "OpenBSD is not only highly polished and easy to
683: configure because of its documentation, it's also totally free-as-in-rights.
684: With an obsession with security, freedom of source code, and quality of
685: programming technique, OpenBSD 3.7 continues the legacy established by
686: its previous releases," writes Jem Matzan in this nice, small review.
687: <p>
688:
689: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.446 cloder 690: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/05/19/openbsd_3_7.html">
691: OpenBSD 3.7: The Wizard of OS</a>,
692: ONLamp.com, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
693: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
694: new features in OpenBSD 3.7, including new wireless chipsets, new
695: spam-fighting features, zaurus, pf improvements, propolice, and
696: many other things. A good overview of what's new in this release,
697: plus some interesting comments about future direction.
698: <p>
699:
700: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.444 niallo 701: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/software/openbsd-3.7-released.html">
1.445 niallo 702: Next incarnation of OpenBSD released</a>,
1.444 niallo 703: Ping Wales, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
704: "OpenBSD is often unjustly overlooked as a free UNIX-like system in favour of
705: the more-hyped Linux. While it receives a lot less publicity than other
706: operating systems, this is not due to lack of technical merit." says David
707: Chisnall, in what is a clear and concise overview of the new features
708: in 3.7 and indeed the project as a whole.
709: <p>
710:
711: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
712: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5114">
1.445 niallo 713: 2005 Calgary Hackathon, KernelTrap Coverage</a>,
1.444 niallo 714: Kerneltrap, May 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
715: A great article about the annual OpenBSD Hackathon, detailing how the event
716: functions, work done at previous Hackathons and features which may come out
717: of this one. Includes many relevant quotes from developers themselves, and of
718: course information about the legendary Hackathon BBQ!
719: <p>
720:
721: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.442 deraadt 722: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9658/sam0505e/">
723: "Failover Firewalls with OpenBSD and CARP"</a>,
724: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 5, p. 33
1.441 deraadt 725: </strong></font><br>
726: Jason Dixon discusses the history of the CARP and pfsync protocols
727: and demonstrates using them to create redundant stateful firewalls
728: with OpenBSD.
729: </ul>
730:
1.436 henning 731: <h2>April, 2005</h2>
732: <ul>
733: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.440 ian 734: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39195801,00.htm">
735: Security guru wants access to bug databases</a>,
736: ZDNet UK, April 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
737: Ingrid Marson reports on Cambridge professor Ross Anderson's call for analysis of
738: software maintenance records to determine whether open source code is more secure
739: than closed source, as we have long contended.
740: "One of Anderson's research students, Andy Ozment, has already done
741: research using empirical data on bugs found in the open source
742: operating system OpenBSD between 1997 and 2000. This research found
743: that finding and fixing bugs results in a more secure product..."
744: Just as the OpenBSD project has been saying for years.
745: <p>
746: This article can also be found online as
747: <a href="http://uk.builder.com/manage/project/0,39026588,39244080,00.htm">Academic
748: calls for better bug tracking</a> (uk.builder.com).
749: <p>
750:
751: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.439 espie 752: [FRENCH] "PC Expert", number 152, p. 58
753: </strong></font><br>
754: Very short interview of Marc Espie about OpenBSD as a free OS focusing
755: on security, part of a larger dossier «les secrets des hackers».
756: <p>
757:
758: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.436 henning 759: [GERMAN] "Doppelwacht", iX 5/2005, p. 150.
760: </strong></font><br>
761: Stephan Tesch gives an introduction to CARP and using a pair of
762: OpenBSD boxes as Firewalls in High Availibility scenarios. He goes
1.438 martin 763: on explaining CARP and pfsync protocols, and does not forget to cover
1.436 henning 764: the issues we had with IETF.
765: </ul>
766:
1.431 ian 767: <h2>March, 2005</h2>
768: <ul>
769: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.435 reyk 770: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/4818">
771: OpenBSD's "Out of the Box" Wireless Support</a>,
772: Kerneltrap, March 8, 2005</strong></font><br>
773: This article is about the upcoming wireless support in OpenBSD 3.7 and
774: the outcome of the work to open wireless chipsets. Jeremy Andrews
775: talked with Theo de Raadt and the developers Damien Bergamini and Reyk
776: Floeter who did some efforts to implement free and functional drivers.
777: <p>
778:
779: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.431 ian 780: <a href="http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/01/1109546842718.html">
781: OpenBSD to support more wireless chipsets</a>,
782: The Age, March 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
783: "The forthcoming 3.7 release of the OpenBSD operating system has
784: added support for five more wireless chipsets, according to
785: OpenBSD project founder Theo de Raadt...
1.432 ian 786: OpenBSD 3.7 will also have have new drivers for Intel wireless
1.431 ian 787: parts that do not work without the non-redistributable firmware,"
788: namely the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11B
789: and 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11A/B/G wireless network adapters.
790: Mentions OpenBSD's activism in getting vendors to release chip specs.
791: Referring to vendors that still refuse to play ball with open source
792: projects, quotes Damien Miller as saying "Given the number of
793: appliance devices that are built on free OSs, I think that the
794: recalcitrant vendors are missing an important boat."
795:
796: </ul>
797:
1.427 matthieu 798: <h2>February, 2005</h2>
799: <ul>
800:
801: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.428 david 802: <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsaward2004.html">
803: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
804: FSF, February 26, 2005</strong></font><br>
805: The Free Software Foundation awarded Theo de Raadt their "2004 Free Software
806: Award" for his unwavering commitment to free software. Most recently he has
807: been fighting hardware manufacturers for free redistribution of wireless card
808: firmware.
1.434 ian 809: Similar articles can be found online at:
810: <ul>
811: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
812: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=419">
813: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
814: Tectonic.za, March 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
815: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
816: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article4362.phtml">
817: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
818: OSDir, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
819: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
820: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/De-Raadt-gets-free-software-award/2005/02/28/1109546758523.html?oneclick=true">
821: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
822: The Age, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
823: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 824: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/02/27/1413255.shtml?tid=99&tid=7">
1.434 ian 825: Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award</a>,
826: Slashdot, February 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
827: </ul>
1.427 matthieu 828: </ul>
829:
1.426 ian 830: <h2>January, 2005</h2>
831: <ul>
832:
833: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
834: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363731">
835: Systrace in OpenBSD</a>,
836: informit.com, January 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
837: This article talks about our systrace
1.462 grunk 838: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&sektion=1">systrace(1)</a>
1.426 ian 839: mechanism: what it is and why and
840: how to use it, with examples.
841: Another excerpt from the book
842: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
843: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
844: <p>
845:
846: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
847: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363732">
848: Overview of OpenBSD</a>,
849: informit.com, January 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
850: "OpenBSD is one of the most secure and well-designed operating
851: systems available today. It has its roots in countless hours of
852: research and development based on some of the best UNIX flavors of
853: the past, and it boasts all the features of modern operating systems.
854: The OS is widely considered one of the most secure general-purpose
855: operating systems available today and it supports many key parts
856: of the global Internet infrastructure..."
857: This article is a sample chapter from
858: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
859: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
860: <p>
1.443 ian 861:
862: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 863: <a href="http://www.pcplus.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=34628&subsectionid=784">
1.443 ian 864: OpenBSD operating system</a>,
865: PCPlus.co.uk, January, 2005</strong></font><br>
866: Paul Grosse gives a brief tutorial on installing OpenBSD on i386 for people
867: moving in a Windows->Linux direction, encouraging them to go a bit further for security.
868: "While Linux out-scores Windows substantially (or completely) on [security as well as many other
869: issues], it's still possible to use a more secure operating system on the PC... OpenBSD."
870: Gives a brief but understandable walkthrough on the installation process, right up to
871: downloading and installing the third-party packages, and
872: ends with a sidebar on security.
873: <p>
1.426 ian 874: </ul>
875:
1.424 ian 876: <h2>December, 2004</h2>
877: <ul>
878:
879: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.425 ian 880: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/2329229">
881: What are the real vulnerabilities of Linux?</a>
882: NewsForge.com, December 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
883: Several security consultants were asked about "the real vulnerabilities of
884: Linux". Cybersoure CEO Con Symaris seems to get it better than the rest:
885: "One needs to approach security as a prime requirement and motivator,
886: much as the OpenBSD team do," Zymaris said... "The Linux
887: community mindset is different. Linux development is dynamic and
888: races ahead towards more and broader functionality, drawing a
889: multitude of interested parties in to make interesting extensions
890: and adaptations at a rapid rate."
891: <p>
892: "In order to do security the BSD way, however, much more effort
893: needs to be spent auditing code for holes, which is much less sexy,
894: and attracts a different set of coders," Zymaris added.
895: <p>
896:
897: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.424 ian 898: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/281">
899: Closed Source Hardware</a>
900: Security Focus, December 1, 2004</strong></font><br>
901: Symantec Threat Analyst Jason Miller analyzes the potential security threats
902: when hardware vendors won't provide device documentation and
903: instead provide "binary only" driver code for inclusion in open source
904: operating systems.
905: Miller is an open-source fan who says he uses a variety of systems, including
906: OpenBSD on his firewall.
907: Of the recent trend to closed-source binary drivers for open-source
908: systems, he writes:
909: <blockquote>
910: The closed-source component required to support this hardware is
911: completely independent of the associated operating system, and as
912: such, is also independent of the engineering team, security team,
913: auditing process, and quality control procedures normally related
914: to the operating system...
915: <br/>
916: What's possibly even more disturbing is that we're talking about
917: a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest
918: possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a
919: third-party vendor. This code could do anything once loaded, including
920: leaking active WEP keys, gathering usage statistics, sniffing and
921: disclosing traffic, and it could even introduce a subtle backdoor
922: into the operating system itself (much the same as any device driver
923: in a closed source operating system).
924: <br/>
925: [A]lthough some of these scenarios are a
926: little far-fetched, the possibility for them to exist is there...
927: Ultimately it becomes an issue of trust, which is a cornerstone of
928: good security: whom do you trust, and how much do you trust them?
929: </blockquote>
930: <p>And he comments that trust "seems to be a one-way street": vendors
931: demand that you trust them, but they won't trust you to know how
932: their hardware and software operates.
933: This lack of trust is one reason why OpenBSD has recently completed
934: reverse-engineering the
1.462 grunk 935: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4">
1.424 ian 936: Atheros wireless chipset driver</a>
937: that was originally provided as a binary insert.
938: <p>
939: </ul>
940:
1.417 pvalchev 941: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
942: <ul>
1.421 ian 943:
1.417 pvalchev 944: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.422 ian 945: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730775,00.asp">
946: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Widens Its Scope</a>
947: eWEEK, November 22, 2004</strong></font><br>
948: Jason Brooks reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and likes the changes it brings,
949: including the multi-processing support which, he notes,
950: "will be even more important as multicore processors--which occupy space
951: on the road maps of Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others--
952: become more prevalent." Comments favorably on OpenNTPD
953: ("the three-line configuration file we needed to modify ... on OpenBSD was
954: much simpler to deal with than the equivalent configuration file on
955: the Linux systems we've tested").
1.423 ian 956: Overall a favorable review of some of the new stuff in 3.6.
1.422 ian 957: <p>
958: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 otto 959: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
960: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
961: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
962: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
963: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
964: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
965: it claims to do".
966: <p>
967:
968: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 969: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109994542424009&w=2">
1.421 ian 970: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution</a>
971: misc@, November 8, 2004</strong></font><br>
972: Theo recounts the struggle to get Intel to provide redistributable
973: versions of the firmware for their wireless chipsets, and their
1.423 ian 974: ultimate refusal to allow OpenBSD to redistribute the chipsets' firmware.
1.421 ian 975: Includes a caveat about Intel's disingenuous "FAQ", typical of many
976: corporate FAQs that answer questions nobody actually thought
977: to ask, and don't truthfully answer the questions you want hard answers to.
978: At the end Theo names the names (and their emails) that need to be contacted
979: by large numbers of end-users and developers if Intel is to change
980: (yes, this is a hint).
981: Of interest is that this posting to one of our mailing lists was
982: picked up on the
983: <a href="http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1923">Screaming
984: Electron Forum</a> and from there reported on
1.462 grunk 985: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/22/1249249&from=rss">
1.421 ian 986: SlashDot</a>, where it is accompanied by a link to SlashDot's paper
987: on effective advocacy (be firm, but also be polite).
988: <p>
989:
990: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 991: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
992: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
993: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
994: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
995: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
996: questions about the significance and rationale behind
997: the current efforts.
998: <p>
999: </ul>
1000:
1.407 henning 1001: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
1002: <ul>
1003: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 1004: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
1005: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
1006: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
1007: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
1008: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
1009: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
1010: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
1011: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
1012: <p>
1013:
1014: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 1015: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
1016: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
1017: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1018: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
1019: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
1020: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
1021: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
1022: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
1023: of the important changes in 3.6.
1.462 grunk 1024: <p>
1.415 ian 1025:
1026: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1027: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
1.414 ian 1028: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
1029: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
1030: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
1031: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
1032: overflow attacks... because
1033: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
1034: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
1035: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
1036: and propolice.
1037: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
1038: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
1039: and that's when the science falls apart."
1040: <p>
1041:
1042: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 1043: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
1044: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
1045: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
1046: Starts with the question:
1047: <blockquote>
1048: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
1049: <br/>
1050: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
1051: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
1052: <br/>
1053: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
1054: Should we believe them?"
1055: </blockquote>
1056: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
1057: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
1058: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
1059: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
1060: for your mail, web and other online activities.
1061: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
1062: <p>
1063:
1064: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 1065: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
1066: Simple Simon</a>,
1067: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
1068: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
1069: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
1070: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
1071: routing/firewall, and more.
1072: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
1073: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
1074: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
1075: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
1076: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
1077: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
1078: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
1079: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
1080: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
1081: </blockquote>
1082: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
1083: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
1084: <p>
1085:
1086: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 1087: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
1088: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 1089: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 1090: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 1091: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
1092: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
1093: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 1094: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 1095: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
1096: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
1097: in spite of it
1098: (registration required, but worth it).
1099: <p>
1100:
1101: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1102: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
1103: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
1104: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1105: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
1106: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
1107: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
1108: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 1109: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 1110: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
1111: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
1112: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
1113: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
1114: <p>
1115:
1116: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 1117: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
1118: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
1119: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
1120: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
1121: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
1122: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
1123: <blockquote>
1124: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
1125: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
1126: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
1127: a lot of analysis.
1128: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
1129: </blockquote>
1130: <p>
1131: </ul>
1132:
1.400 marco 1133: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
1134: <ul>
1135: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 1136: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
1137: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
1138: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
1139: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
1140: UNIX-like systems.
1141: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
1142: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
1143: <p>
1144: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 1145: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
1146: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 1147: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1148: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
1149: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
1150: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
1151: At one point, the article states:
1152: <blockquote>
1153: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
1154: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
1155: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
1156: </blockquote>
1157: And then quotes Theo as saying:
1158: <blockquote>
1159: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
1160: fewer are reading or auditing code."
1161: </blockquote>
1162: <p>
1163: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1164: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
1165: marks its fifth birthday</a>
1166: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1167: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
1168: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
1169: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
1170: required).
1171: <p>
1172: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 1173: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
1174: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
1175: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
1176: </strong></font><br>
1177: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
1178: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
1179: <p>
1180: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 1181: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
1182: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 1183: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 1184: </strong></font><br>
1185: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
1186: <p>
1187: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 1188: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
1189: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 1190: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 1191: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 1192: 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 1193: <p>
1194: </ul>
1195:
1.396 henning 1196: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
1197: <ul>
1198: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 1199: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
1200: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
1201: Unix Review, July, 2004
1202: </strong></font><br>
1203: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
1204: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
1.462 grunk 1205: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
1.418 ian 1206: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
1207: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
1208: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
1209: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
1210: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
1211: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
1212: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
1213: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
1214: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
1215: and even spelling/wording errors.
1216: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
1217: <p>
1218: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 1219: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 1220: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
1221: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
1222: </strong></font><br>
1223: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
1224: <p>
1225: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 1226: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 1227: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
1228: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
1229: </strong></font><br>
1230: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
1231: <p>
1232: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 1233: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
1234: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
1235: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
1236: </strong></font><br>
1237: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
1238: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
1239: <p>
1240: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 1241: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
1242: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
1243: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
1244: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
1245: <p>
1246: </ul>
1247:
1.405 jolan 1248: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
1249: <ul>
1250: <li><font color="#00900"><strong>
1251: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
1.466 deraadt 1252: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 5, 2004</strong></font>
1.405 jolan 1253: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
1254: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
1255: details on how funds are dispersed.
1256: <p>
1257: </ul>
1258:
1.393 david 1259: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
1260: <ul>
1261: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 1262: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
1263: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
1264: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
1265: </strong></font><br>
1266: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
1267: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
1268: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
1269: on inserting large number of SQL records.
1270: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
1271: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
1272: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
1273: <p>
1274:
1275: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 1276: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
1277: Secure by Default</a>,
1278: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
1279: </strong></font><br>
1280: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
1281: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
1282: <p>
1283:
1284: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1285: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
1286: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
1287: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
1288: </strong></font><br>
1289: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
1290: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
1291: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
1292: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
1293: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
1294: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
1295: <p>
1296:
1297: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1298: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
1299: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
1300: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
1301: </strong></font><br>
1302: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
1303: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
1304: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
1305: <p>
1306:
1307: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1308: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
1309: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
1310: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
1311: </strong></font><br>
1312: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
1313: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
1314: <p>
1315: </ul>
1316:
1.388 mcbride 1317: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
1318: <ul>
1.394 jolan 1319:
1320: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1321: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
1322: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
1323: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
1324: </strong></font><br>
1325: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
1326: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
1327: available for sparc64.
1328: <p>
1329:
1.390 beck 1330: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 1331: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
1332: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
1333: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
1334: </strong></font><br>
1335: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
1336: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
1337: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
1338: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
1339: <p>
1340:
1341: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 1342: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
1343: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 1344: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 1345: </strong></font><br>
1346: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
1347: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
1348: it does: CARP provides sharing
1349: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
1350: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
1351: detail to get you started using it.
1352: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
1353: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
1354: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
1355: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
1356: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
1357: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
1358: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 1359: <p>
1.391 ian 1360:
1361: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 1362: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 1363: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
1364: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 1365: </strong></font><br>
1366: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 1367: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 1368: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 1369: <p>
1.388 mcbride 1370:
1371: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1372: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
1373: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 1374: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 1375: </strong></font><br>
1376: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
1377: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
1378: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
1379: unencumbered by patents.
1380: <p>
1381: </ul>
1382:
1.378 henning 1383: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
1384: <ul>
1.384 jose 1385:
1386: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 1387: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
1388: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
1389: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
1390: </strong></font><br>
1391: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
1392: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
1393: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
1394: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
1395: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
1396: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
1397: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
1398: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
1399: in the page tables."
1400: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
1401: <p>
1402:
1403: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1404: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
1405: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
1406: </strong></font><br>
1407: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
1408: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
1409: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
1410: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 1411: <p>
1.384 jose 1412:
1.378 henning 1413: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 1414: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
1415: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 1416: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
1417: </strong></font><br>
1418: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
1419: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
1420: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
1421: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
1422: (quote:
1423: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
1424: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 1425: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 1426: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
1427: the other developers for their work on the system.
1428: <p>
1429:
1430: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1431: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
1432: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
1433: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 1434: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 1435: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
1436: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
1437: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
1438: too.
1439: <p>
1440:
1441: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 1442: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
1443: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 1444: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 1445: OpenBSD source code using
1446: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
1447: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
1448: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
1449: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
1450: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
1451: <p>
1452: </ul>
1453:
1.374 jose 1454: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
1455: <ul>
1456: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 1457: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 1458: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
1459: </strong></font><br>
1460: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
1461: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
1462: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
1463: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
1464: it."
1465: <p>
1466:
1467: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 1468: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
1469: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
1470: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
1471: </strong></font><br/>
1472: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
1473: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
1474: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
1475: <p>
1476: </ul>
1477:
1.369 ian 1478: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
1479: <ul>
1480: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1481: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
1482: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
1483: </strong></font><br/>
1484: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
1485: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
1486: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
1487: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
1488: <p>
1489:
1490: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 1491: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
1492: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
1493: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
1494: </strong></font><br/>
1495: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
1496: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
1497: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
1498: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
1499: form factor.
1500: <p>
1501:
1502: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1503: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
1504: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
1505: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
1506: Features</a>,
1507: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
1508: </strong></font><br/>
1509: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
1510: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
1511: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
1512: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
1513: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
1514: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
1515: <p>
1516: This article can also be found online at:
1517: <ul>
1518: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1519: <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 1520: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
1521: </strong></font>
1522: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
1523: </ul>
1524: <p>
1.392 david 1525:
1.371 jose 1526: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 1527: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
1528: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 1529: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
1530: </strong></font><br/>
1531: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
1532: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
1533: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 1534: <p>
1.371 jose 1535:
1536: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 1537: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 1538: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 1539: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 1540: </strong></font><br/>
1541: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
1542: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
1543: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
1544: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
1545: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
1546: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
1547: and its history with OpenBSD.
1548: </ul>
1549:
1.368 henning 1550: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
1551: <ul>
1552: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 1553: [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 1554: </strong></font><br>
1555: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
1556: </ul>
1557:
1.364 jose 1558: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
1559: <ul>
1560: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 1561: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
1562: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
1563: UNIX Review,
1564: July, 2003.
1565: </strong></font><br>
1566: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
1567: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
1568: who want more information.
1569: <p>
1570:
1571: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 1572: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
1573: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
1574: Government Computer News,
1575: July 22, 2003.
1576: </strong></font><br>
1577: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
1578: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
1579: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
1580: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
1581: <p>
1582:
1583: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1584: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
1585: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
1586: SANS Institute,
1587: July 22, 2003.
1588: </strong></font><br>
1589: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 1590: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 1591: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
1592: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
1593: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
1594: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
1595: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
1596: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
1597: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
1598: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
1599: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
1600: <p>
1601:
1602: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 1603: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
1604: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
1605: OnLamp.com,
1606: July 17, 2003.
1607: </strong></font><br>
1608: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
1609: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
1610: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
1611: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
1612: have been working on.
1613:
1614: </ul>
1615:
1.356 jose 1616: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 1617: <ul>
1618:
1619: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 1620: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
1621: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
1622: UNIX Review,
1623: June, 2003.
1624: </strong></font><br>
1625: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
1626: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
1627: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
1628: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
1629: <p>
1630:
1631: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 1632: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
1633: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
1634: eWeek,
1635: June 23, 2003.
1636: </strong></font><br>
1637: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
1638: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
1639: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
1640: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
1641: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
1642: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
1643: <p>
1644:
1645: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 1646: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
1647: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
1648: Software Development Online,
1649: June, 2003.
1650: </strong></font><br>
1651: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
1652: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
1653: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
1654: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
1655: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
1656: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
1657: current activities.
1658: <p>
1659:
1660: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 1661: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
1662: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 1663: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
1664: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
1665: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
1666: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 1667: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 1668: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
1669: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
1670: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 1671: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 1672: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
1673: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 1674: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 1675: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
1676: decisions.
1677: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
1678: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 1679: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 1680: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 1681: <p>
1682:
1683: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 1684: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
1685: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
1686: Page 58, eWeek,
1687: June 2, 2003.
1688: </strong></font><br>
1689: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
1690: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
1691: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
1692: been addressed in -current.
1693: <p>
1694:
1.356 jose 1695: </ul>
1696:
1697: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
1698: <ul>
1699:
1.355 jose 1700: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 1701: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
1702: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
1703: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
1704: </strong></font><br>
1705: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
1706: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
1707: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
1708: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
1709: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
1710: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
1711: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
1712: <p>
1713:
1714: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 1715: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
1716: Beyond Linux</a>,
1717: InfoWorld,
1718: May 23, 2003.
1719: </strong></font><br>
1720: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
1721: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
1722: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
1723: compared to the GPL.
1724: <p>
1725:
1726: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 1727: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
1728: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
1729: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 1730: May 17, 2003.
1731: </strong></font><br>
1732: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
1733: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
1734: the business section and half of another page inside
1735: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
1736: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
1737: in talking about the project's history and goals.
1738: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
1739: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
1740: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
1741: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 1742: <br>
1743: This article can also be found online at:
1744: <ul>
1745: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1746: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
1747: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
1748: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
1749: May 17, 2003
1750: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 1751: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
1752: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1753: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
1754: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
1755: Montreal Gazette,
1756: May 21, 2003
1757: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 1758: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 1759: <p>
1.346 ian 1760:
1761: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 1762: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 1763: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 1764: May 7, 2003.
1765: </strong></font><br>
1766: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
1767: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
1768: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
1769: <p>
1770:
1771: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 1772: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
1773: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1774: OsOpinion,
1775: May 6, 2003.
1776: </strong></font><br>
1777: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
1778: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
1779: <br>
1780: This article can also be found online at:
1781: <ul>
1782: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1783: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
1784: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1785: NewsFactor Network.
1786: </strong></font>
1787: </ul>
1788: <p>
1789:
1790: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1791: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 1792: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
1793: ITBusiness,
1794: May 2, 2003.
1795: </strong></font><br>
1796: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
1797: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
1798: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
1799: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
1800: <p>
1801:
1802: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 1803: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
1804: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1805: InfoWorld,
1806: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 1807: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 1808: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
1809: <br>
1810: This article can also be found online at:
1811: <ul>
1812: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1813: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
1814: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1815: IDG Singapore.
1816: </strong></font>
1817: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1818: <p>
1819:
1.339 jose 1820: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1821: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
1822: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 1823: ZDNet,
1824: May 1, 2003.
1825: </strong></font><br>
1826: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 1827: someone using parts from previous articles.
1828: <br>
1.341 deraadt 1829: This article can also be found online at:
1830: <ul>
1831: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1832: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
1833: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1834: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 1835: </strong></font>
1836: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1837: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
1838: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1839: CNET News.com.
1840: </strong></font>
1841: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1842: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
1843: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
1844: ZDNet UK.
1845: </strong></font>
1846: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1847: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
1848: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
1849: Help Net Security, Croatia.
1850: </strong></font>
1851: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1852: <p>
1.339 jose 1853:
1.341 deraadt 1854: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1855: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 1856: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
1857: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
1858: May 1, 2003.
1859: </strong></font><br>
1860: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
1861: that have been added
1862: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
1863: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
1864: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 1865: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 1866: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
1867: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
1868: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 1869: <p>
1870:
1871: </ul>
1872:
1.253 ian 1873: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
1874: <ul>
1.255 ian 1875:
1.260 ian 1876: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1877: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 1878: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1879: TechRepublic,
1880: April 28, 2003.
1881: </strong></font><br>
1882: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
1883: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 1884: work.<br>
1885: Can also be found online at:
1886: <ul>
1887: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1888: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
1889: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1890: ZDNet UK.
1891: </strong></font>
1892: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 1893: <p>
1894:
1895: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 1896: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
1897: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
1898: IDG,
1899: April 24, 2003.
1900: </strong></font><br>
1901: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
1902: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
1903: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
1904: Can also be found online at:
1905: <ul>
1906: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1907: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
1908: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 1909: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 1910: </strong></font>
1911: </ul>
1912: <p>
1913:
1914: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1915: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 1916: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 1917: Slate,
1918: April 24, 2003.
1919: </strong></font><br>
1920: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
1921: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
1922: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
1923: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
1924: <p>
1925:
1926: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 1927: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1928: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
1929: April 24, 2003.
1930: </strong></font><br>
1931: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
1932: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
1933: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
1934: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
1935: <p>
1936:
1937: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 1938: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
1939: April 24, 2003.
1940: </strong></font><br>
1941: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
1942: the free software community".
1943: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
1944: other articles.
1945: <p>
1946:
1947: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1948: <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 1949: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
1950: </strong></font><br>
1951: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
1952: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
1953: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
1954: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
1955: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
1956: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
1957: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 1958: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 1959: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
1960: <br/>
1961: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
1962: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
1963: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
1964: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 1965: <br>
1966: Can also be found online at:
1967: <ul>
1968: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1969: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
1970: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
1971: Common Dreams NewsCenter
1972: </strong></font>
1973: </ul>
1.324 ian 1974: <p>
1975:
1976: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1977: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
1978: Wired, April 24, 2003.
1979: </strong></font><br>
1980: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
1981: article above.
1982: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
1983: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
1984: wasting them."
1.332 ian 1985: <br>
1986: Can also be found online at:
1987: <ul>
1988: <li>
1989: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
1990: </strong></font>
1991: </ul>
1.324 ian 1992: <p>
1993:
1994: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 1995: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
1996: </strong></font><br>
1997: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
1998: <p>
1999:
2000: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 2001: <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.
2002: </strong></font><br>
2003: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
2004: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
2005: <p>
2006:
2007: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 2008: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
2009: April 23, 2003.
2010: </strong></font><br>
2011: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
2012: <p>
2013:
2014: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 2015: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 2016: April 22, 2003.
2017: </strong></font><br>
2018: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
2019: <p>
2020:
2021: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 2022: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
2023: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
2024: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 2025: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 2026: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
2027: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
2028: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
2029: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
2030: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
2031: Can also be found online at:
2032: <ul>
2033: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2034: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 2035: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
2036: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 2037: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 2038: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2039: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 2040: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
2041: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 2042: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 2043: </ul>
2044: <p>
2045:
2046: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 2047: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
2048: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 2049: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2050: </strong></font><br>
2051: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 2052: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
2053: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
2054: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
2055: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
2056: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
2057: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 2058: <p>
2059:
2060: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 2061: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
2062: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 2063: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
2064: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 2065: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
2066: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
2067: at UPenn and DARPA.
2068: <p>
2069:
2070: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 2071: [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,
2072: France
1.315 deraadt 2073: April 18, 2003.
2074: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 2075: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 2076: <p>
2077:
2078: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 2079: [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 2080: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2081: </strong></font><br>
2082: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
2083: <p>
2084:
2085: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 2086: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
2087: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
2088: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 2089: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 2090: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
2091: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
2092: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
2093: <p>
2094:
2095: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 2096: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
2097: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2098: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 2099: </strong></font><br>
2100: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
2101: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
2102: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 2103: American century.
1.267 deraadt 2104: <p>
2105:
2106: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 2107: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
2108: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2109: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 2110: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 2111: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
2112: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
2113: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
2114: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
2115: Can also be found online at:
2116: <ul>
2117: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
2118: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 2119: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 2120: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 2121: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 2122: <p>
2123:
2124: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 2125: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 2126: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 2127: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 2128: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 2129: </strong></font><br>
2130: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 2131: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
2132: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
2133: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
2134: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 2135:
2136: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2137: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
2138: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
2139: New York Times.
2140: </strong></font>(free registration required)
2141:
1.273 deraadt 2142: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2143: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 2144: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 2145: ABC News.
2146: </strong></font>
2147:
2148: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2149: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 2150: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 2151: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 2152: </strong></font>
2153:
2154: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2155: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 2156: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 2157: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 2158: </strong></font>
2159:
2160: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 2161: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
2162: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 2163: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 2164: </strong></font>
2165:
2166: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2167: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 2168: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 2169: Times Daily, AL.
2170: </strong></font>
2171:
2172: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2173: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
2174: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
2175: Boston.com, MA.
2176: </strong></font>
2177:
2178: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2179: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 2180: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 2181: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
2182: </strong></font>
2183:
2184: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 2185: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
2186: [Article was pulled]</a>
2187: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 2188: </strong></font>
2189:
2190: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2191: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
2192: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
2193: Infoshop News.
2194: </strong></font>
2195:
2196: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2197: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
2198: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2199: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
2200: </strong></font>
2201:
2202: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 2203: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
2204: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
2205: Raleigh News, NC.
2206: </strong></font>
2207:
2208: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2209: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 2210: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
2211: Napa News, CA.
2212: </strong></font>
2213:
2214: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2215: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 2216: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2217: NEPA News, PA.
2218: </strong></font>
2219:
2220: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2221: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
2222: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
2223: Wired News.
2224: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 2225: <br>
2226: <li>
1.333 deraadt 2227: <font color="#009000"><strong>
2228: [JAPANESE]
2229: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
2230: Wired News Japan</a>
2231: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 2232:
1.271 deraadt 2233: </ul>
2234: <p>
1.272 deraadt 2235: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
2236: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 2237: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
2238: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
2239: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
2240: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
2241: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
2242: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 2243: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 2244: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
2245: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
2246: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 2247: <p>
2248: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 2249:
2250: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2251: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 2252: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
2253: Indianapolis Star, IN.
2254: </strong></font>
2255:
2256: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 2257: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
2258: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2259: Miami Herald, FL.
2260: </strong></font>
2261:
2262: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 2263: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 2264: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
2265: </strong></font>
2266:
2267: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2268: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 2269: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 2270: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 2271: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 2272:
2273: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2274: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
2275: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
2276: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
2277: ABC News.
2278: </strong></font>
2279:
1.276 deraadt 2280: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2281: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 2282: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 2283: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 2284: </strong></font>
2285:
1.286 dhartmei 2286: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2287: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 2288: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2289: Wilmington Star, NC.
2290: </strong></font>
2291:
1.300 jose 2292: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2293: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
2294: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
2295: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
2296: </strong></font>
2297:
1.309 jose 2298: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2299: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
2300: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
2301: Globe Technology.
2302: </strong></font>
2303:
1.263 deraadt 2304: </ul>
1.262 beck 2305: <p>
2306:
2307: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 2308: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
2309: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2310: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 2311: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 2312: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 2313: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
2314: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
2315: <p>
2316:
2317: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 2318: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
2319: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
2320: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 2321: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 2322: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
2323: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
2324: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
2325: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
2326: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
2327: and simply restates other press reports.
2328: <p>
2329:
2330: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 2331: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
2332: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2333: OS News, April 18, 2003.
2334: </strong></font><br>
2335: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
2336: <p>
2337:
2338: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 2339: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
2340: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2341: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 2342: </strong></font><br>
2343: Another report on the DARPA funding.
2344: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
2345: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
2346: <p>
2347:
2348: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 2349: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
2350: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
2351: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
2352: April 17, 2003.
2353: </strong></font><br>
2354: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
2355: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
2356: Tech Anthems</a>
2357: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
2358: 4 so far.
2359: <p>
2360:
2361: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 2362: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
2363: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2364: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2365: </strong></font><br>
2366: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
2367: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
2368: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
2369: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
2370: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
2371: Goes on to say:
2372: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
2373: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
2374: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
2375: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 2376: This article is also found online at:
2377: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 2378: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2379: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
2380: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
2381: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 2382: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 2383: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2384: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
2385: ZDnet</a>,
2386: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 2387: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 2388: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2389: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
2390: ZDnet Australia</a>,
2391: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 2392: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 2393: </ul>
1.260 ian 2394: <p>
1.279 deraadt 2395:
1.260 ian 2396: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2397: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 2398: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 2399: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2400: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 2401: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 2402: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
2403: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
2404: without notice or justification.
2405: <p>
2406:
2407: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2408: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 2409: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 2410: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2411: </strong></font><br>
2412: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
2413: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 2414: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 2415: effective today, without any warning..."
2416: <p>
1.257 ian 2417:
2418: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 2419: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
2420: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2421: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 2422: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 2423: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
2424: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
2425: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
2426: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
2427: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 2428: <p>
2429:
2430: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 2431: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
2432: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2433: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 2434: </strong></font><br>
2435: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
2436: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
2437: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
2438: quoting two of them:
2439: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
2440: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
2441: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
2442: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
2443: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
2444: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
2445: <p>
2446:
1.255 ian 2447: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2448: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
2449: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 2450: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2451: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 2452: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 2453: <p>
2454:
2455: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 2456: [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 2457: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2458: </strong></font><br>
2459: New security concepts in OpenBSD
2460: <p>
2461:
2462: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 2463: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
2464: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2465: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 2466: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 2467: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 2468: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
2469: security experts for more than three decades."
2470: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
2471: <p>
1.261 ian 2472:
1.254 drahn 2473: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 2474: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 2475: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2476: </strong></font><br>
2477: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
2478: <p>
2479:
2480: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 2481: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
2482: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
2483: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
2484: </strong></font><br>
2485: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
2486: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
2487: discussion OpenBSD's path.
2488: <p>
2489:
2490: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 2491: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
2492: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2493: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 2494: </strong></font><br>
2495: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
2496: from US DARPA.
2497: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
2498: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
2499: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
2500: the BSD license.
2501: <p>
2502: </ul>
2503:
1.251 ian 2504: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
2505: <ul>
2506:
2507: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2508: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
2509: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
2510: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
2511: </strong></font><br>
2512:
2513: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
2514: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
2515: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
2516: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
2517: <p>
2518:
2519: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 2520: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
2521: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 2522: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 2523: </strong></font><br>
2524: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
2525: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
2526: Mentions
2527: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
2528: and
2529: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
2530: programs.
2531: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 2532: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 2533: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
2534: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
2535: <p>
1.325 ian 2536: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
2537: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 2538:
2539: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2540: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
2541: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
2542: </strong></font><br>
2543: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
2544: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
2545: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
2546: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
2547: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
2548: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
2549: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
2550: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
2551: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
2552: put into service."
2553: <p>
2554: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
2555: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
2556: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
2557: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
2558: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
2559: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
2560: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
2561: computers with security features."
2562: <p>
1.329 ian 2563:
2564: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2565: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
2566: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
2567: Slate,
2568: March 3, 2003.
2569: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 2570: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 2571: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
2572: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
2573: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
2574: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
2575: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
2576: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
2577: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
2578: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
2579: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
2580: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
2581: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
2582: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
2583: of more secure open-source solutions like
2584: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
2585: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
2586: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
2587: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
2588: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
2589: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
2590: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
2591: the Beltway."
2592: <p>
1.251 ian 2593: </ul>
2594:
1.249 jufi 2595: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
2596: <ul>
2597: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2598: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
2599: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2600: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 2601: </strong></font><br>
2602: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
2603: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 2604: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 2605: <p>
1.334 ian 2606:
2607: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2608: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
2609: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
2610: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
2611: </strong></font><br>
2612: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
2613: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
2614: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
2615: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
2616: "... the hypothetical question ...
2617: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
2618: <br>
2619: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
2620: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
2621: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
2622: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
2623: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
2624: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 2625: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 2626: support network security.
2627: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
2628: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
2629: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
2630: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
2631: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
2632: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
2633: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
2634: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
2635: <br>
2636: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
2637: <p>
2638:
1.249 jufi 2639: </ul>
2640:
1.246 jufi 2641: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2642: <ul>
1.246 jufi 2643:
1.247 jufi 2644: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2645: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 2646: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2647: CNET News.com, December 4, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2648: </strong></font><br>
2649: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
2650: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
2651: <p>
2652:
1.247 jufi 2653: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2654: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
2655: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2656: Heise News-Ticker, December 4, 2002
1.301 jose 2657: </strong></font><br>
1.460 david 2658: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III CPU
1.301 jose 2659: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
2660: <p>
2661:
2662: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2663: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 2664: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2665: eWeek, December 3, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2666: </strong></font><br>
2667: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
2668: in their annual OpenHack security test.
2669: <p>
1.247 jufi 2670: </ul>
1.246 jufi 2671:
1.244 jufi 2672: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2673: <ul>
1.246 jufi 2674:
1.247 jufi 2675: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2676: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
2677: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
2678: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2679: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2680: </strong></font><br>
2681: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
2682: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
2683: md5 digests.
2684: <p>
2685:
1.247 jufi 2686: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2687: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 2688: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
2689: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2690: </strong></font><br>
2691: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
2692: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
2693: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
2694: right the first time."
2695: <p>
1.247 jufi 2696: </ul>
1.244 jufi 2697:
2698:
2699: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2700: <ul>
1.244 jufi 2701:
1.247 jufi 2702: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2703: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2704: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
2705: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2706: </strong></font><br>
2707: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
2708: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
2709: part 6</a>.
2710: <p>
2711:
1.247 jufi 2712: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2713: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 2714: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
2715: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2716: O'Reilly Network, August 8, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2717: </strong></font><br>
2718: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
2719: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
2720: <p>
1.301 jose 2721:
2722: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2723: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
2724: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
2725: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
2726: </strong></font><br>
2727:
2728: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
2729: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
2730: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
2731: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
2732: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
2733: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
2734: <i>Here's the
2735: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
2736: <p>
1.247 jufi 2737: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2738:
2739: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2740: <ul>
1.242 jufi 2741:
1.247 jufi 2742: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2743: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 2744: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2745: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2746: </strong></font><br>
2747: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
2748: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
2749: <p>
2750:
1.247 jufi 2751: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2752: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2753: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2754: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 1, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2755: </strong></font><br>
2756: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
2757: this time using pf.
2758: <p>
1.247 jufi 2759: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2760:
2761: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2762: <ul>
1.242 jufi 2763:
1.247 jufi 2764: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2765: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2766: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
2767: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2768: </strong></font><br>
2769: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
2770: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
2771: their rotation.
2772: <p>
2773:
1.247 jufi 2774: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2775: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2776: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2777: O'Reilly Network, June 6, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2778: </strong></font><br>
2779: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
2780: <p>
1.247 jufi 2781: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2782:
1.239 jufi 2783: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2784: <ul>
1.239 jufi 2785:
1.247 jufi 2786: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2787: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2788: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
2789: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2790: </strong></font><br>
2791: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
2792: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
2793: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
2794: <p>
2795:
1.247 jufi 2796: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 2797: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2798: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
2799: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 2800: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 2801: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
2802: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
2803: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 2804: <p>
1.247 jufi 2805: </ul>
1.239 jufi 2806:
1.235 lebel 2807: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2808: <ul>
1.235 lebel 2809:
1.239 jufi 2810:
1.247 jufi 2811: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 2812: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 2813: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
2814: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 2815: </strong></font><br>
2816: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
2817: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
2818: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
2819: <p>
1.301 jose 2820:
1.247 jufi 2821: </ul>
1.235 lebel 2822:
1.228 horacio 2823: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2824: <ul>
1.228 horacio 2825:
1.247 jufi 2826: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2827: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2828: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
2829: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 2830: </strong></font><br>
2831: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
2832: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
2833: <p>
2834:
1.247 jufi 2835: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 2836: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 2837: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
2838: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 2839: </strong></font><br>
2840: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
2841: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
2842: <p>
2843:
1.247 jufi 2844: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 2845: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 2846: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
2847: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 2848: </strong></font><br>
2849: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
2850: on the desktop of his parents.
2851: <p>
2852:
1.247 jufi 2853: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 2854: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 2855: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
2856: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 2857: </strong></font><br>
2858: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
2859: using IPFilter.
2860:
2861: <p>
2862:
1.247 jufi 2863: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 2864: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 2865: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
2866: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 2867: </strong></font><br>
2868: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
2869: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
2870: perspectives of the four OS.
2871: <br>
2872: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 2873: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 2874: <p>
2875:
1.247 jufi 2876: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 2877: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
2878: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 2879: software and security</a>,
2880: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 2881: </strong></font><br>
2882:
2883: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
2884: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
2885: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
2886: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
2887: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
2888: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
2889: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
2890: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
2891: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
2892: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
2893: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
2894: security conscious team beyond doubt.
2895: <p>
1.247 jufi 2896: </ul>
1.228 horacio 2897:
1.225 horacio 2898: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2899: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2900:
1.247 jufi 2901: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2902: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
2903: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 2904: Interview</a>,
2905: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 2906: </strong></font><br>
2907:
2908: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
2909: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
2910: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 2911: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 2912: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
2913: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
2914: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
2915: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
2916: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 2917: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 2918: of choice.
2919: <p>
1.247 jufi 2920: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2921:
2922: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2923: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2924:
1.247 jufi 2925: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2926: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 2927: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
2928: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 2929: </strong></font><br>
2930:
2931: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
2932: <p>
2933:
1.247 jufi 2934: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2935: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 2936: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
2937: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 2938: </strong></font><br>
2939:
2940: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
2941: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
2942: <p>
1.247 jufi 2943: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2944:
1.218 horacio 2945: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2946: <ul>
1.218 horacio 2947:
1.247 jufi 2948: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 2949: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 2950: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 2951: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 2952: </strong></font><br>
2953:
2954: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
2955: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
2956: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
2957: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
2958: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
2959: subjects. Worth a read.
2960: <p>
2961:
2962:
1.247 jufi 2963: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 2964: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 2965: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
2966: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 2967: </strong></font><br>
2968:
2969: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
2970: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
2971: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
2972: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
2973: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
2974: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
2975: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
2976: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
2977: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 2978: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 2979: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
2980: on other operating systems.<br>
2981: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
2982: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
2983: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
2984: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
2985: <p>
2986:
1.247 jufi 2987: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2988: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 2989: Operating System 2010</a>,
2990: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 2991: </strong></font><br>
2992:
2993: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
2994: covering the level of software integration into the core
2995: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
2996: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
2997: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
2998: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
2999: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
3000: <p>
3001:
1.247 jufi 3002: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 3003: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 3004: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
3005: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 3006: </strong></font><br>
3007:
3008: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
3009: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
3010: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
3011: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
3012: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
3013: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
3014: <p>
1.247 jufi 3015: </ul>
1.221 horacio 3016:
1.210 jufi 3017: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3018: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3019:
1.247 jufi 3020: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3021: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 3022: Already a Contender</a>,
3023: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 3024: </strong></font><br>
3025:
3026: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
3027: source software in response to an article which claimed that
3028: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
3029: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
3030: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
3031: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
3032: <p>
3033:
1.247 jufi 3034: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 3035: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 3036: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
3037: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 3038: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3039:
1.224 horacio 3040: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
3041: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
3042: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
3043: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
3044: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
3045: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 3046: <p>
1.247 jufi 3047: </ul>
1.215 horacio 3048:
3049: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3050: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3051:
1.247 jufi 3052: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3053: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
3054: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 3055: Division</a>,
3056: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 3057: </strong></font><br>
3058:
3059: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
3060: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 3061: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 3062: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
3063: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
3064: investment</em>.<br>
3065: The implementation details can be seen on their
3066: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
3067: <p>
3068:
1.247 jufi 3069: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3070: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
3071: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
3072: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
3073: </strong></font><br>
3074:
3075: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
3076: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
3077: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1.475 grunk 3078: laptops and T-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1.301 jose 3079: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
3080: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
3081: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
3082: <p>
3083:
3084: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3085: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 3086: Thinking about Security</a>,
3087: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 3088: </strong></font><br>
3089:
3090: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
3091: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
3092: security and says that even secured operating systems running
3093: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
3094: to time.<br>
3095: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
3096: system and just the most secure system.
3097: <p>
3098:
1.247 jufi 3099: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3100: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 3101: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
3102: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 3103: </strong></font><br>
3104:
3105: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
3106: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
3107: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
3108: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
3109: choice:<br>
3110: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
3111: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
3112: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
3113: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
3114: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
3115: network security devices and as such must be well
3116: armored."</em><br>
3117: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
3118: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
3119: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
3120: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
3121: <br>
3122: Bravo!
3123: <p>
1.247 jufi 3124: </ul>
1.210 jufi 3125:
1.207 ian 3126: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3127: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3128:
1.247 jufi 3129: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 3130: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
3131: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
3132: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 3133:
1.207 ian 3134: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
3135: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 3136: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 3137: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
3138: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
3139: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 3140: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 3141: <p>
1.247 jufi 3142: </ul>
1.207 ian 3143:
1.194 jufi 3144: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3145: <ul>
1.194 jufi 3146:
1.247 jufi 3147: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3148: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 3149: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
3150: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 3151: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3152:
1.240 miod 3153: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 3154: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
3155: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
3156: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
3157: <p>
3158:
1.247 jufi 3159: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3160: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
3161: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
3162: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
3163:
3164: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
3165: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
3166: <p>
3167:
3168: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3169: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
3170: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3171: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
3172:
3173: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
3174: <p>
3175:
3176: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3177: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 3178: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
3179: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
3180: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3181:
1.240 miod 3182: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 3183: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 3184: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
3185: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 3186: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 3187: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 3188: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
3189: <br>
1.413 deraadt 3190: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 3191: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
3192: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
3193: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
3194: <p>
3195:
1.247 jufi 3196: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 3197: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
3198: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 3199: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 3200: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3201:
1.194 jufi 3202: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
3203: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
3204: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
3205: <br>
3206: The new
3207: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 3208: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 3209: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
3210: <p>
1.247 jufi 3211: </ul>
1.194 jufi 3212:
1.190 horacio 3213: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3214: <ul>
1.190 horacio 3215:
1.247 jufi 3216: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 3217:
3218: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
3219: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
3220:
1.301 jose 3221:
1.191 jufi 3222: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
3223: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
3224:
3225: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
3226: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
3227:
1.212 horacio 3228: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
3229: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 3230: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
3231:
1.211 horacio 3232: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
3233: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 3234: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
3235:
1.247 jufi 3236: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 3237: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
3238:
1.247 jufi 3239: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 3240: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
3241:
1.212 horacio 3242: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
3243: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 3244: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
3245:
3246: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
3247: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
3248:
3249: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
3250: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
3251:
1.301 jose 3252: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
3253: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
3254:
1.191 jufi 3255: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
3256: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
3257:
3258: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 3259: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 3260:
1.192 jufi 3261: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
3262: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 3263: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 3264:
1.193 deraadt 3265: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
3266: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 3267: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 3268:
1.247 jufi 3269: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 3270: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
3271:
1.247 jufi 3272: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 3273: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
3274: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
3275:
1.213 horacio 3276: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 3277: 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 3278: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
3279:
1.190 horacio 3280: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 3281: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
3282: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
3283: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
3284: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
3285: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
3286: <p>
1.190 horacio 3287:
1.247 jufi 3288: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3289: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
3290: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
3291: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 3292: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3293:
1.195 jufi 3294: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 3295: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
3296: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
3297: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 3298: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
3299: <p>
3300:
1.247 jufi 3301: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3302: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 3303: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
3304: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
3305: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3306:
1.191 jufi 3307: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 3308: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
3309: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
3310: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
3311: <p>
3312:
3313: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3314: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
3315: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3316: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
3317:
3318: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
3319: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 3320: <p>
1.247 jufi 3321: </ul>
1.190 horacio 3322:
1.191 jufi 3323:
1.186 jufi 3324: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3325: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 3326:
1.247 jufi 3327: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 3328: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 3329: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
3330: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 3331: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 3332:
1.188 jufi 3333: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 3334: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 3335: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 3336: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
3337: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 3338: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 3339: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 3340: <p>
3341:
1.301 jose 3342: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3343: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
3344: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3345: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
3346:
3347: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
3348: <p>
1.191 jufi 3349:
1.247 jufi 3350: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 3351: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
3352: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3353: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 5, 2001
1.191 jufi 3354: </strong></font><br>
3355:
3356: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
3357: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
3358: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
3359: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
3360: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
3361: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
3362: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
3363: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
3364: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
3365: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
3366: familiar?
3367: <p>
1.247 jufi 3368: </ul>
1.191 jufi 3369:
1.178 louis 3370: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3371: <ul>
1.178 louis 3372:
1.247 jufi 3373: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 3374: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 3375: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
3376: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 3377: </strong></font><br>
3378:
3379: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
3380: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
3381: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
3382: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
3383: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
3384: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
3385: <p>
3386:
1.247 jufi 3387: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3388: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
3389: Open source under the hood</a>,
3390: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 3391: </strong></font><br>
3392:
3393: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
3394: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
3395: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
3396: <p>
3397:
1.247 jufi 3398: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3399: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
3400: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
3401: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 3402: </strong></font><br>
3403:
3404: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
3405: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
3406: <p>
1.247 jufi 3407: </ul>
1.179 louis 3408:
1.174 louis 3409:
1.175 louis 3410: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3411: <ul>
1.175 louis 3412:
1.247 jufi 3413: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3414: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
3415: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
3416: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 3417: </strong></font><br>
3418:
3419: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
3420: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
3421: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
3422: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
3423: <p>
3424:
1.247 jufi 3425: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3426: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
3427: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
3428: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 3429: </strong></font><br>
3430:
3431: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 3432: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 3433: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
3434: <p>
1.247 jufi 3435: </ul>
1.175 louis 3436:
1.176 louis 3437:
1.172 mickey 3438: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3439: <ul>
1.172 mickey 3440:
1.247 jufi 3441: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3442: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
3443: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 3444: </strong></font><br>
3445:
3446: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
3447: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
3448: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 3449: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 3450: <p>
3451:
1.247 jufi 3452: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 3453: <a
1.269 deraadt 3454: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
3455: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
3456: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 3457: </strong></font><br>
3458:
3459: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
3460: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
3461: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
3462: <p>
3463:
1.247 jufi 3464: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3465: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 3466: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
3467: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 3468: </strong></font><br>
3469:
3470: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
3471: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
3472: <p>
3473:
1.247 jufi 3474: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3475: <a
1.269 deraadt 3476: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
3477: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 3478: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
3479: </strong></font><br>
3480:
3481: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
3482: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
3483: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
3484: our own Theo de Raadt.
3485: <p>
3486:
1.247 jufi 3487: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3488: <a
1.269 deraadt 3489: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
3490: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
3491: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 3492: </strong></font><br>
3493:
3494: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
3495: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
3496: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
3497: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
3498: shut down.]
3499: <p>
3500:
1.247 jufi 3501: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3502: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 3503: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 3504: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
3505: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 3506: </strong></font><br>
3507:
3508: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
3509: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
3510: <p>
1.247 jufi 3511: </ul>
1.172 mickey 3512:
1.161 louis 3513: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3514: <ul>
1.161 louis 3515:
1.247 jufi 3516: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 3517: <a
1.269 deraadt 3518: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
3519: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
3520: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 3521: </strong></font><br>
3522:
3523: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
3524: by John Wolley
3525: <p>
3526:
1.247 jufi 3527: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 3528: <a
1.269 deraadt 3529: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
3530: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
3531: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 3532: </strong></font><br>
3533:
3534: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
3535: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
3536: OpenBSD).
3537: <p>
3538:
1.247 jufi 3539: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 3540: <a
1.247 jufi 3541: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 3542: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
3543: </strong></font><br>
3544:
3545: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
3546: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
3547: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
3548: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
3549: and hindsight.
3550: <p>
3551:
1.247 jufi 3552: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3553: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
3554: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
3555: </strong></font><br>
3556:
3557: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
3558: <p>
3559:
1.247 jufi 3560: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 3561: <a
1.168 provos 3562: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
3563: December 7, 2000
3564: </strong></font><br>
3565:
3566: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
3567: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
3568: us explain.
3569: <p>
3570:
1.247 jufi 3571: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 3572: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
3573: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 3574: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 3575: December 6, 2000
3576: </strong></font><br>
3577:
3578: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
3579: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
3580: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
3581: <p>
3582:
1.247 jufi 3583: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3584: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
3585: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
3586: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
3587: </strong></font><br>
3588:
3589: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
3590: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
3591: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
3592: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
3593: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
3594: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
3595: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
3596: <p>
3597:
3598: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 3599: <a
1.226 horacio 3600: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
3601: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 3602: </strong></font><br>
3603:
3604: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 3605: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 3606: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 3607: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
3608: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
3609: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 3610: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 3611: <p>
1.162 millert 3612:
1.247 jufi 3613: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 3614: <a
1.161 louis 3615: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
3616: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
3617: </strong></font><br>
3618:
3619: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
3620: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
3621: <p>
3622:
1.247 jufi 3623: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3624: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
3625: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
3626: </strong></font><br>
3627:
3628: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
3629: <p>
3630:
3631:
1.247 jufi 3632: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 3633: <a
1.226 horacio 3634: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
3635: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
3636: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 3637: </strong></font><br>
3638:
3639: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
3640: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
3641: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
3642: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
3643: <p>
1.247 jufi 3644: </ul>
1.169 louis 3645:
1.158 louis 3646: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3647: <ul>
1.147 louis 3648:
1.247 jufi 3649: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3650: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
3651: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 3652: </strong></font><br>
3653:
3654: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
3655: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
3656: <p>
3657:
1.247 jufi 3658: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3659: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
3660: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
3661: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 3662: </strong></font><br>
3663: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
3664: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
3665: <p>
3666:
1.247 jufi 3667: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 3668: <a
3669: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
3670: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
3671: </strong></font><br>
3672:
3673: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
3674: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
3675: <p>
3676:
1.247 jufi 3677: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3678: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 3679: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
3680: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 3681:
1.213 horacio 3682: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 3683: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 3684: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
3685: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
3686: <p>
1.215 horacio 3687:
1.247 jufi 3688: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3689: <a
3690: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
3691: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
3692: </strong></font><br>
3693:
3694: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
3695: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
3696: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
3697: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
3698: much of the attitude too).
3699: <p>
1.161 louis 3700:
1.247 jufi 3701: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3702: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3703: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 3704: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3705:
1.157 louis 3706: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
3707: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
3708: <p>
1.247 jufi 3709: </ul>
1.157 louis 3710:
3711: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3712: <ul>
1.157 louis 3713:
1.247 jufi 3714: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3715: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3716: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 3717: </strong></font><br>
3718:
3719: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
3720: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
3721: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
3722: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
3723: <p>
3724:
1.247 jufi 3725: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 3726: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
3727: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
3728: </strong></font><br>
3729:
3730: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
3731: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
3732: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
3733: it because they love coding...
3734: <p>
3735:
1.247 jufi 3736: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 3737: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
3738: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
3739: </strong></font><br>
3740:
3741: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
3742: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
3743: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
3744: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
3745: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
3746: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
3747: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
3748: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
3749: <p>
3750:
1.247 jufi 3751: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3752: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
3753: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
3754: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 3755: </strong></font><br>
3756:
3757: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
3758: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
3759: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
3760: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
3761: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
3762: the pizza.
3763: <p>
3764:
1.247 jufi 3765: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 3766: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
3767: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
3768: </strong></font><br>
3769:
3770: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
3771: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
3772: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
3773: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
3774: problems.
3775: <p>
3776:
1.247 jufi 3777: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 3778: <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 3779: </strong></font><br>
3780:
1.222 miod 3781: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 3782: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
3783: - whether they like it or not.
3784: <p>
3785:
1.247 jufi 3786: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3787: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
3788: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 3789: </strong></font><br>
3790:
3791: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
3792: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
3793: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 3794: <p>
1.148 aaron 3795:
1.247 jufi 3796: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3797: <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 3798: </strong></font><br>
3799:
3800: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
3801: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
3802: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
3803: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
3804: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
3805: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
3806: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
3807: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
3808: <p>
3809:
1.247 jufi 3810: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3811: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
3812: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 3813: </strong></font><br>
3814:
3815: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
3816: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 3817: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 3818: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
3819: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
3820: <p>
1.247 jufi 3821: </ul>
1.147 louis 3822:
1.138 louis 3823: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3824: <ul>
1.138 louis 3825:
1.247 jufi 3826: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3827: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
3828: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
3829: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
3830: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 3831: </strong></font><br>
3832:
1.227 horacio 3833: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 3834: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
3835: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
3836: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
3837: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
3838: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
3839: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
3840: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 3841: <p>
3842:
1.247 jufi 3843: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 3844: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 3845: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 3846: </strong></font><br>
3847:
3848: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
3849: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
3850: groups, and even Linux.
3851: <p>
3852:
1.247 jufi 3853: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3854: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
3855: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 3856: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
3857: </strong></font><br>
3858:
3859: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
3860: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
3861: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
3862: library after installing the OS.
3863: <p>
3864:
1.247 jufi 3865: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3866: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 3867: Sys Admin, September 2000
3868: </strong></font><br>
3869:
3870: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
3871: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
3872: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
3873: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 3874: (<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>,
3875: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
3876: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
3877: <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 3878: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 3879: out of the system.
3880: <p>
3881:
1.247 jufi 3882: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 3883: <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
3884: </strong></font><br>
3885:
3886: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 3887: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 3888: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
3889: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
3890: the IP filtering and address translation.
3891: <p>
1.301 jose 3892:
3893: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3894: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
3895: </strong></font><br>
3896:
3897: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
3898: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
3899: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
3900: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
3901: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
3902: <p>
1.247 jufi 3903: </ul>
1.200 niklas 3904:
1.131 louis 3905: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3906: <ul>
1.131 louis 3907:
1.247 jufi 3908: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3909: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
3910: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
3911: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 3912: </strong></font><br>
3913:
3914: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
3915: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
3916: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
3917: <p>
3918:
1.247 jufi 3919: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 3920: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
3921: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
3922: </strong></font><br>
3923:
3924: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
3925: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
3926: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
3927: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
3928: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
3929: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
3930: note of"</i>.
3931: <p>
3932:
1.247 jufi 3933: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 3934: <a
1.247 jufi 3935: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 3936: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
3937: </strong></font><br>
3938:
3939: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
3940: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
3941: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
3942: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
3943: <p>
3944:
1.247 jufi 3945: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 3946: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 3947: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
3948: </strong></font><br>
3949:
3950: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
3951: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
3952: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
3953: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
3954: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
3955: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
3956: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
3957: <p>
3958:
1.247 jufi 3959: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 3960: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
3961: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
3962: 2000
3963: </strong></font><br>
3964:
3965: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
3966: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
3967: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
3968: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
3969: against current industry practices.
3970: <p>
3971:
1.247 jufi 3972: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 3973: <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
3974: </strong></font><br>
3975:
3976: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
3977: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
3978: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
3979: <p>
3980:
1.247 jufi 3981: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 3982: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
3983: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
3984: </strong></font><br>
3985:
3986: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
3987: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
3988: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
3989: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
3990: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
3991: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
3992: careful code reviews, he concludes.
3993: <p>
3994:
1.247 jufi 3995: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 3996: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
3997: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
3998: </strong></font><br>
3999:
4000: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
4001: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
4002: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
4003: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
4004: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 4005: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
4006: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
4007: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 4008: <p>
1.247 jufi 4009: </ul>
1.131 louis 4010:
1.118 louis 4011: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4012: <ul>
1.118 louis 4013:
1.247 jufi 4014: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 4015: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
4016: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
4017: </strong></font><br>
4018:
4019: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
4020: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
4021: about time. The article mentions that
4022: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
4023: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
4024: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 4025: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 4026: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
4027: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 4028: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 4029: <p>
4030:
1.247 jufi 4031: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4032: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 4033: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 4034: </strong></font><br>
4035:
4036: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
4037: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
4038: of OpenSSH.
4039: <p>
4040:
1.247 jufi 4041: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4042: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4043: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 4044: </strong></font><br>
4045:
4046: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 4047: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 4048: bridging.
4049: <p>
4050:
1.247 jufi 4051: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4052: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
4053: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 4054: </strong></font><br>
4055:
1.121 deraadt 4056: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
4057: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 4058: <p>
4059:
1.247 jufi 4060: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 4061: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
4062: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
4063: </strong></font><br>
4064:
4065: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
4066: <p>
4067:
1.247 jufi 4068: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 4069: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 4070: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
4071: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 4072: </strong></font><br>
4073:
1.120 deraadt 4074: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
4075: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 4076: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
4077: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
4078: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
4079: <p>
4080:
1.247 jufi 4081: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 4082: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
4083: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
4084: </strong></font><br>
4085:
1.222 miod 4086: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 4087: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
4088: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
4089: protocols and their quirks.
4090: <p>
4091:
1.247 jufi 4092: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4093: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
4094: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 4095: </strong></font><br>
4096:
4097: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
4098: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
4099: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 4100: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 4101: <p>
4102:
1.247 jufi 4103: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 4104: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
4105: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
4106: </strong></font><br>
4107:
4108: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
4109: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
4110: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
4111: <p>
4112:
1.247 jufi 4113: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 4114: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 4115: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
4116: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 4117: </strong></font><br>
4118:
4119: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
4120: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
4121: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
4122: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
4123: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
4124: <p>
1.247 jufi 4125: </ul>
1.118 louis 4126:
1.104 louis 4127: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4128: <ul>
1.104 louis 4129:
1.247 jufi 4130: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 4131: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
4132: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
4133: </strong></font><br>
4134:
4135: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
4136: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
4137: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
4138: be a bit dry.
4139: <p>
4140:
1.247 jufi 4141: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4142: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
4143: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
4144: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
4145: </strong></font><br>
4146: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
4147: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
4148: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
4149: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
4150: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
4151: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
4152: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
4153: <p>
4154:
1.247 jufi 4155: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4156: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
4157: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 4158: 2000
1.128 louis 4159: </strong></font><br>
4160:
4161: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
4162: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
4163: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
4164: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
4165: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 4166: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 4167: <p>
4168:
1.247 jufi 4169: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4170: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
4171: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 4172: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 4173:
4174: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
4175: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
4176: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
4177: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 4178: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
4179: <p>
1.110 louis 4180:
1.247 jufi 4181: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 4182: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
4183: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
4184: </strong></font><br>
4185:
4186: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
4187: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
4188: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
4189: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
4190: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
4191: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
4192: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
4193: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
4194: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
4195: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
4196: <p>
4197:
1.247 jufi 4198: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 4199: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 4200: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 4201:
4202: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
4203: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 4204: <p>
1.108 louis 4205:
1.247 jufi 4206: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 4207: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
4208: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 4209: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 4210:
4211: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
4212: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
4213: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 4214: <p>
1.106 louis 4215:
1.247 jufi 4216: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 4217: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
4218: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 4219: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 4220:
4221: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
4222: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
4223: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
4224: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 4225: <p>
1.107 louis 4226:
1.247 jufi 4227: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4228: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
4229: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 4230: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 4231:
4232: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
4233: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 4234: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 4235: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
4236: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 4237: <p>
1.105 louis 4238:
1.247 jufi 4239: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 4240: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 4241: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 4242: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 4243:
1.113 naddy 4244: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
4245: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 4246: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 4247: <p>
1.104 louis 4248:
1.247 jufi 4249: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4250: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
4251: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
4252: </strong></font><br>
4253:
4254: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
4255: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
4256: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
4257: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
4258: <p>
1.301 jose 4259:
4260: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4261: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
4262: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
4263: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
4264:
4265: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
4266: hardware-supported cryptography.
4267: <p>
1.247 jufi 4268: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 4269:
1.85 louis 4270: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4271: <ul>
1.85 louis 4272:
1.247 jufi 4273: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4274: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 4275: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 4276: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 4277:
4278: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
4279: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
4280: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
4281: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
4282: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
4283: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
4284: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 4285: <p>
1.99 louis 4286:
1.247 jufi 4287: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4288: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 4289: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 4290: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 4291:
4292: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
4293: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
4294: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
4295: conditions.
1.113 naddy 4296: <p>
1.100 louis 4297:
1.247 jufi 4298: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4299: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 4300: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 4301: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 4302:
4303: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
4304: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
4305: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
4306: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 4307: <p>
1.95 louis 4308:
1.247 jufi 4309: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4310: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 4311: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 4312: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 4313:
4314: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
4315: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 4316: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 4317: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
4318: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4319: <p>
1.92 louis 4320:
1.247 jufi 4321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4322: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 4323: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 4324: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 4325:
4326: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
4327: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
4328: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
4329: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
4330: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
4331: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 4332: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 4333: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 4334: <p>
1.91 louis 4335:
1.247 jufi 4336: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4337: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
4338: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 4339: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 4340:
4341: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
4342: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
4343: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
4344: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
4345: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
4346: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
4347: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
4348: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
4349: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 4350: <p>
1.90 louis 4351:
1.247 jufi 4352: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 4353: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
4354: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
4355: </strong></font><br>
4356: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
4357: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
4358: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
4359: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
4360: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
4361: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
4362: <p>
4363:
1.247 jufi 4364: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 4365: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
4366: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 4367: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 4368:
1.113 naddy 4369: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
4370: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 4371: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
4372: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
4373: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
4374: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
4375: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 4376: <p>
1.87 louis 4377:
1.247 jufi 4378: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 4379: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
4380: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 4381: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 4382:
4383: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 4384: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 4385: <p>
1.85 louis 4386:
1.247 jufi 4387: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4388: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
4389: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4390: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
4391:
4392: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
4393: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
4394: <p>
4395:
4396: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 4397: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
4398: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 4399: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 4400:
4401: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 4402: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 4403: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
4404: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 4405: <p>
1.89 louis 4406:
1.247 jufi 4407: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 4408: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
1.85 louis 4409: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 4410: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 4411:
4412: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
4413: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
4414: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
4415: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
4416: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 4417: </ul>
1.85 louis 4418:
1.78 deraadt 4419: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4420: <ul>
1.74 louis 4421:
1.247 jufi 4422: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4423: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 4424: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 4425: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 4426: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 4427:
4428: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
4429: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
4430: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4431: <p>
1.83 louis 4432:
1.247 jufi 4433: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 4434: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
4435: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 4436: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 4437:
4438: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
4439: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 4440: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 4441: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
4442: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 4443: <p>
1.93 louis 4444:
1.247 jufi 4445: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4446: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
4447: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
4448: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 4449: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 4450:
1.83 louis 4451: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
4452: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
4453: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
4454: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
4455: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 4456: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
4457: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
4458: <p>
1.82 aaron 4459:
1.247 jufi 4460: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4461: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 4462: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 4463: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 4464:
1.83 louis 4465: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
4466: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
4467: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 4468: <p>
1.80 louis 4469:
1.247 jufi 4470: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4471: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 4472: Bad Press</a>,
4473: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 4474: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 4475:
4476: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 4477: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 4478: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
4479: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
4480: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 4481: <p>
1.247 jufi 4482: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 4483:
4484: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4485: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 4486:
1.247 jufi 4487: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4488: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
4489: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 4490: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 4491: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 4492:
4493: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
4494: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
4495: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
4496: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 4497: <p>
1.74 louis 4498:
1.247 jufi 4499: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 4500: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
4501: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 4502: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 4503:
1.219 horacio 4504: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
4505: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
4506: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
4507: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
4508: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
4509: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
4510: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 4511: <p>
1.88 louis 4512:
1.247 jufi 4513: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 4514: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 4515: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 4516: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 4517:
4518: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
4519: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
4520: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
4521: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 4522: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 4523: <p>
1.81 louis 4524:
1.247 jufi 4525: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4526: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 4527: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 4528: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 4529:
4530: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
4531: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
4532: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
4533: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
4534: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
4535: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
4536: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 4537: <p>
1.90 louis 4538:
1.247 jufi 4539: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4540: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 4541: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 4542: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 4543:
4544: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
4545: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
4546: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 4547: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 4548: <p>
1.247 jufi 4549: </ul>
1.71 louis 4550:
1.69 deraadt 4551: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4552: <ul>
1.70 louis 4553:
1.247 jufi 4554: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4555: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
4556: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 4557: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 4558:
4559: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
4560: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
4561: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 4562: <p>
1.70 louis 4563:
1.247 jufi 4564: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4565: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
4566: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 4567: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 4568:
4569: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 4570: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 4571: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 4572: <p>
1.68 louis 4573:
1.247 jufi 4574: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4575: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
4576: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 4577: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 4578: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 4579:
1.111 jufi 4580: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
4581: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 4582: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 4583: "secure by default" installation.
4584: <p>
1.64 louis 4585:
1.247 jufi 4586: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 4587: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 4588: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 4589: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 4590:
1.113 naddy 4591: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 4592: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 4593: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 4594: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
4595: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
4596: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 4597: <p>
1.66 louis 4598:
1.247 jufi 4599: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4600: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 4601: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4602: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 4603:
4604: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 4605: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 4606: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
4607: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
4608: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 4609: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
4610: <p>
1.83 louis 4611:
1.247 jufi 4612: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4613: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 4614: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4615: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 4616:
4617: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 4618: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
4619: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 4620: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
4621: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 4622: <p>
1.64 louis 4623:
1.247 jufi 4624: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4625: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 4626: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4627: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 4628:
4629: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
4630: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 4631: <p>
1.301 jose 4632:
4633: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4634: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
4635: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
4636: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
4637: </strong></font><br>
4638:
4639: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
4640: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
4641: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
4642: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
4643: Giving way to
4644: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
4645: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
4646: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
4647: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
4648: <p>
1.247 jufi 4649: </ul>
1.65 louis 4650:
1.69 deraadt 4651: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4652: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4653:
1.247 jufi 4654: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4655: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 4656: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 4657: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 4658:
4659: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
4660: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
4661: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
4662: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 4663: <p>
1.88 louis 4664:
1.247 jufi 4665: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4666: <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 4667: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 4668:
4669: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 4670: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
4671: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 4672: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
4673: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 4674: <p>
1.60 louis 4675:
1.247 jufi 4676: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 4677: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 4678: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 4679: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 4680: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4681:
4682: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
4683: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
4684: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 4685: <p>
1.58 louis 4686:
1.247 jufi 4687: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 4688: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 4689: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 4690:
4691: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
4692: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 4693: <p>
1.53 louis 4694:
1.247 jufi 4695: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 4696: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
4697: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 4698: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 4699:
4700: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
4701: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
4702: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 4703: <p>
1.99 louis 4704:
1.247 jufi 4705: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 4706: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 4707: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4708:
4709: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
4710: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 4711: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 4712: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 4713: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 4714:
1.247 jufi 4715: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4716: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
4717: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 4718: </strong></font><br>
4719:
4720: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
4721: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
4722: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
4723: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
4724: <p>
4725:
1.247 jufi 4726: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4727: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 4728: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 4729: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4730:
4731: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
4732: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 4733: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 4734:
1.247 jufi 4735: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 4736: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 4737: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 4738:
4739: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 4740: in
1.247 jufi 4741: <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 4742: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 4743: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 4744: <p>
1.53 louis 4745:
1.247 jufi 4746: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4747: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 4748: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
4749: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 4750: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 4751:
1.58 louis 4752: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4753: <p>
1.301 jose 4754:
4755: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4756: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
4757: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
4758: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
4759: Informacyjny, January 2000
4760: </strong></font><br>
4761:
4762: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
4763: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
4764: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
4765: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
4766: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
4767: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
4768: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
4769: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
4770: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
4771: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 4772: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
4773: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 4774: <p>
4775:
4776: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4777: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4778: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
4779: </strong></font><br>
4780:
4781: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
4782: <p>
4783: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 4784:
1.69 deraadt 4785: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4786: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4787:
1.247 jufi 4788: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4789: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
4790: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
4791: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 4792: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4793:
1.58 louis 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>, discusses
4797: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 4798: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 4799:
1.247 jufi 4800: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4801: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 4802: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4803: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 4804:
4805: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 4806: <p>
1.96 louis 4807:
1.247 jufi 4808: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4809: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
4810: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
4811: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
4812: </strong></font><br>
4813:
4814: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
4815: <p>
4816:
4817: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4818: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 4819: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 4820: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 4821:
4822: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
4823: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 4824: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 4825: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 4826: <p>
1.247 jufi 4827: </ul>
1.86 louis 4828:
1.69 deraadt 4829: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4830: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4831:
1.247 jufi 4832: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4833: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
4834: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 4835: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 4836:
4837: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
4838: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 4839: <p>
1.61 louis 4840:
1.247 jufi 4841: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4842: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 4843: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
4844: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4845: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 4846:
4847: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 4848: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 4849: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
4850: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 4851: right -- or at least strives to".
4852: <p>
1.48 louis 4853:
1.247 jufi 4854: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4855: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
4856: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4857: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 4858: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
4859: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
4860: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
4861: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 4862: <p>
1.61 louis 4863:
1.247 jufi 4864: <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 4865: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4866: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 4867:
4868: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
4869: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
4870: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
4871: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 4872: <p>
1.46 louis 4873:
1.247 jufi 4874: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4875: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
4876: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4877: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4878:
4879: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
4880: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 4881: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 4882:
1.247 jufi 4883: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 4884: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
4885: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 4886: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 4887:
4888: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
4889: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
4890: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
4891: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 4892: <p>
1.247 jufi 4893: </ul>
1.70 louis 4894:
1.69 deraadt 4895: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4896: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4897:
1.247 jufi 4898: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4899: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
4900: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 4901: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 4902: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 4903:
4904: Kurt Seifried
4905: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4906: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
4907: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 4908: <p>
1.44 philen 4909:
1.247 jufi 4910: <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 4911: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 4912: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 4913:
4914: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 4915: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 4916:
1.247 jufi 4917: <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 4918: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 4919: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 4920:
4921: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 4922: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 4923:
1.247 jufi 4924: <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 4925: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 4926: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 4927:
4928: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
4929: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
4930: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
4931: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 4932: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 4933:
1.247 jufi 4934: <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 4935: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 4936: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 4937:
1.36 louis 4938: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 4939: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 4940:
1.247 jufi 4941: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 4942: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
1.39 louis 4943: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 4944: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4945:
4946: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 4947: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 4948: </ul>
1.38 louis 4949:
1.69 deraadt 4950: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4951: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4952:
1.247 jufi 4953: <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 4954: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 4955: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 4956:
4957: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
4958: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 4959: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 4960:
1.113 naddy 4961: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 4962: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 4963: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 4964: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 4965:
4966: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
4967: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 4968: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
4969: terminal:
1.113 naddy 4970: <blockquote>
4971: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
4972: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
4973: <br>
4974: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
4975: </code>
4976: </blockquote>
4977: <p>
4978:
1.247 jufi 4979: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 4980: <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 4981: <p>
4982:
4983: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4984: <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 4985: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 4986:
4987: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
4988: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 4989: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 4990: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 4991:
1.247 jufi 4992: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4993: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
4994: Sept. 28, 1999
4995: </strong></font><br>
4996:
4997: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
4998: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
4999: translating and reprinting articles from
5000: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
5001: <p>
5002:
5003: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 5004: <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 5005: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 5006:
5007: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
5008: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
5009: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
5010: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
5011: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 5012: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 5013: <p>
1.19 louis 5014:
1.113 naddy 5015: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 5016: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 5017: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 5018:
5019: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
5020: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
5021: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 5022: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
5023: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 5024: <p>
1.16 louis 5025:
1.247 jufi 5026: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5027: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 5028: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 5029: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 5030:
1.57 louis 5031: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
5032: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
5033: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 5034: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 5035:
1.247 jufi 5036: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5037: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.466 deraadt 5038: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5039: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5040:
1.113 naddy 5041: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 5042:
1.247 jufi 5043: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 5044: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
5045: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 5046: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 5047:
1.23 louis 5048: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
5049: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
5050: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
5051: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
5052: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 5053: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 5054:
1.247 jufi 5055: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 5056: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
5057: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 5058: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 5059:
1.199 pvalchev 5060: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 5061: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
5062: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
5063: installation.
1.113 naddy 5064: <p>
1.47 louis 5065:
1.247 jufi 5066: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5067: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 5068: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 5069: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5070:
1.301 jose 5071: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
5072: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
5073: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 5074: </ul>
1.57 louis 5075:
1.69 deraadt 5076: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5077: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5078:
1.247 jufi 5079: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 5080: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 5081: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 5082: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 5083:
5084: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
5085: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 5086: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5087: <p>
1.12 louis 5088:
1.247 jufi 5089: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 5090: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 5091: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 5092: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 5093:
5094: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
5095: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 5096: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
5097: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
5098: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
5099: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
5100: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 5101: <p>
1.247 jufi 5102: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 5103:
1.69 deraadt 5104: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5105: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 5106:
1.247 jufi 5107: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 5108: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 5109: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 5110:
5111: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
5112: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
5113: available."
1.113 naddy 5114: <p>
1.301 jose 5115:
5116: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5117: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
5118: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
5119: </strong></font><br>
5120:
5121: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
5122: <p>
1.247 jufi 5123: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 5124:
1.69 deraadt 5125: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5126: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5127:
1.247 jufi 5128: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 5129: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 5130: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 5131:
5132: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
5133: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
5134: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
5135: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
5136: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 5137: <p>
1.33 louis 5138:
1.247 jufi 5139: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5140: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 5141: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 5142: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5143:
1.113 naddy 5144: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
5145: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 5146: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
5147: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
5148: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 5149: <p>
1.247 jufi 5150: </ul>
1.57 louis 5151:
1.69 deraadt 5152: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5153: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5154:
1.247 jufi 5155: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5156: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 5157: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 5158: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 5159:
5160: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
5161: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 5162: <p>
1.69 deraadt 5163:
1.247 jufi 5164: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 5165: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
5166: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
5167: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 5168: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 5169:
5170: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 5171: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 5172:
1.247 jufi 5173: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5174: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 5175:
1.113 naddy 5176: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 5177:
1.247 jufi 5178: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5179: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
1.68 louis 5180: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 5181: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 5182:
5183: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 5184: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 5185: </ul>
1.23 louis 5186:
1.69 deraadt 5187: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5188: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5189:
1.247 jufi 5190: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 5191: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 5192: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 5193:
5194: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
5195: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 5196: <p>
1.2 deraadt 5197:
1.247 jufi 5198: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5199: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 5200: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5201: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5202:
5203: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
5204: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 5205: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 5206: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 5207: </ul>
1.57 louis 5208:
1.69 deraadt 5209: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5210: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5211:
1.247 jufi 5212: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5213: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
1.15 louis 5214: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 5215: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 5216:
5217: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
5218: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
5219: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
5220: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5221: <p>
1.15 louis 5222:
1.247 jufi 5223: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 5224: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
5225: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 5226: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5227:
5228: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
5229: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
5230: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
5231: columns."
1.113 naddy 5232: <p>
1.247 jufi 5233: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5234:
1.69 deraadt 5235: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5236: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5237:
1.247 jufi 5238: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5239: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 5240: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 5241: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5242:
5243: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 5244: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 5245:
1.113 naddy 5246: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5247: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 5248: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5249:
5250: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
5251: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 5252: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 5253: </ul>
1.57 louis 5254:
1.69 deraadt 5255: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5256: <ul>
1.301 jose 5257: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5258: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
5259: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
5260: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
5261:
5262: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
5263: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
5264: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
5265: <p>
5266:
5267: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5268: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
5269: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
5270: Nov 13, 1998 and
5271: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
5272: Datateknik</a>,
5273: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
5274:
1.380 saad 5275: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 5276: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
5277: explains the licensing issues and points to our
5278: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
5279: <p>
1.69 deraadt 5280:
1.113 naddy 5281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5282: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 5283: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 5284: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 5285:
1.222 miod 5286: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 5287: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
5288: Implementation, including a brief interview with
5289: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 5290: <p>
1.247 jufi 5291: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5292:
1.69 deraadt 5293: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5294: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5295:
1.247 jufi 5296: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5297: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 5298: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5299:
1.69 deraadt 5300: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
5301: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 5302: <p>
1.247 jufi 5303: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5304:
1.69 deraadt 5305: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5306: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 5307:
1.247 jufi 5308: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 5309: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
5310: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 5311: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5312:
1.383 jcs 5313: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 5314: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 5315: <p>
1.1 deraadt 5316:
1.247 jufi 5317: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 5318: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 5319: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
5320: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 5321: <p>
1.247 jufi 5322: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5323:
1.69 deraadt 5324: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5325: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5326:
1.247 jufi 5327: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5328: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 5329: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
5330: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 5331: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 5332: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 5333:
5334: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
5335: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
5336: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 5337: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 5338: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 5339: <p>
1.247 jufi 5340: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 5341:
5342: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5343: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5344:
1.247 jufi 5345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5346: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 5347: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 5348:
1.69 deraadt 5349: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
5350: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 5351: <p>
1.112 naddy 5352:
1.247 jufi 5353: </ul>
1.113 naddy 5354: <p>
1.1 deraadt 5355:
1.292 camield 5356: <hr>
1.216 horacio 5357: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 5358: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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