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1.503 ian 19: <h2>April, 2006</h2>
20: <ul>
21: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.508 ian 22: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/34/1/">
23: Using OpenBSD</a>, Software In Review, April 24, 2006
24: </strong></font><br>
25: Jem Matzan gives a brief overview of using the system.
26: Covers ports and packages, use of SMP kernel, and more.
27: Capsule summary of how our security policy affects the administrator:
28: "Because it is secure by default, you may have to do more initial
29: configuration with OpenBSD than with most other Unix and Unix-like
30: operating systems, but you'll spend a lot less time securing it --
31: maybe no time at all, if you follow the instructions in the manual
32: pages."
33: <p>
34:
35: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.511 ! djm 36: [FRENCH]
1.509 djm 37: <a href="http://developpeur.journaldunet.com/itws/060419-itw-openssh-openbsd-miller.shtml">
1.511 ! djm 38: JDN Développeurs interviews Damien Miller</a>,
1.509 djm 39: JDN Développeurs, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
40: Interview with Damien Miller, discussing OpenSSH security, the OpenBSD
41: development approach, the problem of blobby drivers and the recent request
1.510 djm 42: for funding.
1.509 djm 43: <p>
44:
45: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.507 cloder 46: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6497">
47: Interview with developers Jonathan Gray and Damien Bergamini</a>,
48: Kerneltrap, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
49: An interview with the authors of OpenBSD's new NVIDIA Ethernet driver. OpenBSD's
50: policy forbidding binary driver blobs is discussed, and the developers give a good
51: overview of how they went about implementing the new driver.
52: <p>
53:
54: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.506 aanriot 55: [FRENCH] Principles and usage of OpenSSH,
56: <a href="http://www.gnulinuxmag.com/">Linux Magazine France</a>,
57: issue 82, April 2006, p. 28-33
58: </strong></font><br>
59: A 6 pages article from Alexandre Courbot focusses on OpenSSH and its
1.507 cloder 60: basics. It begins with an history of the different implementations, and
1.506 aanriot 61: is punctuated with examples.
62: Tunneling features are described, as well as
63: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=0">scp</a>,
64: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent&sektion=0">ssh-agent</a>,
65: and
66: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=0">sftp</a>.
67: <p>
68:
69: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.503 ian 70: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71658">
71: Mozilla Foundation spendet für OpenBSD</a>, heise online, April 4, 2006
72: </strong></font><br>
73: Short article mentioning the donation the Mozilla Foundation made in support of
74: further OpenSSH development.
75: The article emphasizes the opportunity to wire money through the project's
76: new European account - this one donation will not meet the
77: project's funding needs for all time.
78: <p>
1.504 bernd 79: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
80: [GERMAN] "OpenBSD mit finanziellen Problemen", c't 8/06, p. 45.,
81: April 3, 2006
82: </strong></font><br>
83: A very short article about OpenBSD's financial problems. They mention that
84: this could compromise future hackathons.
85: <p>
1.503 ian 86:
87: </ul>
88:
1.487 ian 89: <h2>March, 2006</h2>
90: <ul>
1.495 ian 91: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.500 ian 92: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/theo_interview.html">
1.501 ian 93: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>, DaemonNews, March, 2006
1.500 ian 94: </strong></font><br>
95: Chris Silva conducts a lightweight but wide-ranging and fun interview with Theo
96: on topics including "Puffy",
97: the logos used by certain other BSD projects -
98: Theo quips that "I really like how they make absolutely no statement at all" -
99: what's new in 3.9,
100: and of course project expenses.
101: Theo notes that "The electric bill is about $100 USD per week".
102: <!--
103: ... must be what comes from heating your house with VAXen.
104: -->
105: The interviewer nicely ends with a link to our donations page.
106: <p>
107:
108: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 109: <a href="http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/239/1/">
110: Linux supporters fiddle while OpenSSH burns</a>, The Jem Report, March 28, 2006
111: </strong></font><br>
1.499 ian 112: This write-up focusses on OpenBSD/OpenSSH funding, and has some
113: original legwork to go with it.
1.498 ian 114: Writer Jem Matzan took the trouble to
115: contact many of the companies who charge a lot for products
116: featuring OpenSSH and yet give nothing to OpenSSH in return.
117: Companies like SCO, IBM, Apple, and Sun.
118: Sun apparently did the worst job of responding:
119: "Since the release of Solaris 10, who has been a larger open source
120: software cheerleader than Sun Microsystems?", Matzan asks. "I asked Sun
121: representatives what they would do if OpenSSH were to disappear. The only response
122: I got was that there are parts of Solaris that compete with OpenSSH,
123: and that because of this, the company would rather not comment
124: further on the issue." What the Sun teleprompter-readers don't seem to realize -
125: but Matzan does - is that
126: <a href="http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/cmd/ssh/ssh/ssh.c">
127: SunSSH <em>is</em> OpenSSH</a>.
128: Or, at least, a mangled version of it...
129: IBM, on the other hand, is still trying to formulate their response.
130: <br/>
131: <p>
132:
133: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
134: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/20/2050223.shtml?tid=8">
135: Interview: Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD</a>, NewsForge, March 28, 2006
136: </strong></font><br>
137: A wide-ranging interview with Theo about new stuff in 3.9, security, funding,
138: "blob" drivers, and more.
139: Theo notes that "We've had 10 years of nearly fanatical devotion
140: to anything which can make OpenBSD more secure. A very important
141: part of that is that we have not been afraid to completely overhaul
142: anything even if it breaks backward compatibility. Secondly, when
143: we have found a flaw in any part of the system we have assumed that
144: the same mistake was made elsewhere, and gone on a hunt to fix them
145: all. Thirdly, we have developed and incorporated a collection of
146: methods that make software flaws very difficult to attack..."
147: Ends by trying to shame the companies that use OpenSSH without contributing
148: anything back - Sun is given especial mention here - and ends with
149: the tantalizing line ".. if an OpenSSH hole is found that applies to SunSSH,
150: Sun will not be informed. Or maybe that has happened already." Hmmmm.
151: <p>
152:
153: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 154: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259254,00.htm">
155: OpenBSD 3.9 adds sensor framework</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
156: </strong></font><br>
157: It's easy to focus on our project's security, but we innovate in other areas too.
158: This article highlights the "sensors" framework added in 3.9 to provide and integrated
159: approach to handling Dell PowerEdge servers' Embedded Server Management (ESM), IPMI, and
160: in general temperature and environmental issues.
161: "There is a significant new sensor framework [in OpenBSD 3.9], which
162: supports voltage sensors, fan sensors, temperature sensors, and so
163: on," said de Raadt. "Such a feature is still missing in Linux and
164: other major operating systems." ...
165: De Raadt has already been using the sensor framework to monitor the
166: machines running in
167: <a href="images/newrack.jpg">the project's server room</a>. "I now get a call
168: on my cell phone whenever something is wrong in the machine room,"
169: <p>
170:
171: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
172: <a href="http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/other/0,39020682,39259281,00.htm">
173: Paying for free software may be the bargain of a lifetime</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
174: </strong></font><br>
175: Starts with a Theo quote from the previous article on ZDNet:
176: "A culture of entitlement is starting to damage the open source community".
177: The article argues that mega-computer-companies that use open source tend to use BSD:
178: "The open BSDs may be less famous than Linux, but they are arguably
179: superior in stability and security. This has made it popular in
180: ISPs and elsewhere - Apple, for example, adopted BSD within OS X.
181: BSD, unlike software released under the GPL, carrys no legal
182: obligations for the adopter to provide anything for the community in return."
183: Goes on to argue that these companies <em>ought</em> to be fair enough
184: to send a small bit of their money back into funding open source.
185: "In the time it takes to read this article, we calculate that Apple
186: will have easily made enough to pay-off OpenBSD's annual losses,
187: with a little left over to buy black turtlenecks for all. It's not
188: just Apple's baby - other companies owe far more to OpenBSD - but
189: in open source a little symbolism goes a long way."
190: <p>
191:
1.487 ian 192: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.494 bernd 193: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71174">
194: OpenBSD muss an den Sparstrumpf</a>, heise online, March 23, 2006
195: </strong></font><br>
1.495 ian 196: OpenBSD is touching its savings - Small news article about the project's
1.494 bernd 197: financial situation.
198: <p>
199:
200: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 201: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259042,00.htm">
202: OpenBSD Founder Makes Funding Plea</a>, ZDNet UK, March 23, 2006
203: </strong></font><br>
204: One of the first mainstream sites to pick up on Marco's article (below),
205: this one reports the funding figures on how much it really costs to
206: produce our favorite operating system.
207: "Although OpenBSD has a number of commercial users, including many
208: ISPs, de Raadt claimed that all of its donations come from individuals
209: rather than companies many of who claim the have no budget to pay
210: for the operating system. "The culture of entitlement is starting
211: to damage the open source community," he said."
1.496 ian 212: <br/>
213: Also online at
214: <a href="http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/software/stories/135760.html">ZDNet India</a>.
215: <p>
216:
217: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
218: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/03/22/OpenBSD-money.html">
219: OpenBSD in Financial Trouble</a>, Ping Wales, March 21, 2006
220: </strong></font><br>
221: David Chisnall reports that "OpenBSD is one of my favourite platforms;
222: its focus on security and ease-of-use makes it a very simple and
223: safe system to use. Unfortunately, the OpenBSD organisation is now
224: experiencing financial difficulty. For the last two years, the
225: project has made a $20,000/year loss, something which it cannot
226: sustain indefinitely."
227: Goes on to report on the growing use of OpenBSD in commercial software
228: (and hardware!), and that none of the "big guys" has given anything back.
229: Unlike most of the articles on this topic, this one is kind enough to
230: include a direct link to our orders page and recommend its readers
231: to buy a copy of the CD to help fund the project.
1.495 ian 232: <p>
233:
234: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 235: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/06/03/21/1555243.shtml">
236: OpenBSD Project in Financial Danger</a>, Slashdot, March 21, 2006
237: </strong></font><br>
238: Slashdot mentions and quotes from Marco's article (below),
239: with a reminder that
240: "The OpenBSD team is the one that also develops the OpenSSH suite,
241: used nowadays almost everywhere."
242: Ends with this quote from Marco:
243: "Without naming entities or projects by name, there are others out
244: there that are sitting on some cash. It would be wonderful if these
245: entities could share some of the wealth to keep us going."
246: <p>
247:
248: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.505 grunk 249: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060321034114">
1.495 ian 250: OpenBSD Finances</a>, OpenBSD Journal, March 21, 2006
251: </strong></font><br>
252: Marco Peereboom's article notes that
253: "OpenBSD for the past 2 years has turned a loss of approximately $20K USD" per year.
254: Hackathons - where a lot of developers get together in critical mass and churn out
255: new ideas and new code in great quantity - cost from US$10K-30K each, and we try to run
256: a few of them each year.
257: Meanwhile, compananies that use OpenBSD and companies - many of them highly profitable -
258: that incorporate OpenSSH into operating systems and even routers and other appliances
259: have not been forthcoming: no major computer company has given funding
260: to the OpenBSD project.
261: It's time for them to do so.
262: <p>
263:
264: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.497 ian 265: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/08/1646257.shtml?tid=8">
266: Software RAID on OpenBSD using RAIDframe</a>, NewsForge, March 14, 2006
267: </strong></font><br>
268: "Software RAID provides an easy way to add redundancy or speed up a system
269: without spending lots of money on a RAID adapter."
270: Manolis Tzanidakis talks us through setting up RAID using OpenBSD.
271: He describes the detailed steps, and recommends careful testing
272: before putting the system into production, including taking one disk
273: out of service and ensuring that it gets reloaded correctly.
274: Ends with a technique for monitoring clean operation on an ongoing basis.
275: <p>
276:
277: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.489 deraadt 278: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">Report on Business Television</a>
279: March 10, 5:45pm MST</strong></font><br>
1.490 deraadt 280: Theo de Raadt was interviewed by Howard Green on <b>The Business Show</b>:<br>
281: <!-- North America mirror:
282: <a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB avi file</a>
1.491 deraadt 283: -->
1.490 deraadt 284: European mirror:
285: <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/20060310/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB AVI file</a>
286: <br>
287: A longer segment is also available at <a href="http://www.robtv.ca">www.robtv.ca</a>.
1.489 deraadt 288: <p>
289:
290: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.487 ian 291: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/openbgpd.html">OpenBGPd in OpenBSD</a>
292: Daemon News, March, 2006</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 293: Check out the notes and slides from Henning Brauer's presentation at
1.487 ian 294: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0602/">NANOG 36</a>;
295: the text and questions cover everything from how and why OpenBGPd got created,
296: through configuration and tools, to integration with pf and CARP,
297: to technical issues regarding use of IPSEC to provide security for BGP packets.
298: Along the way there's considerable discussion on how the program was
299: designed to provide reliability and security.
300: <p>
301:
302: </ul>
303:
1.485 ian 304: <h2>February, 2006</h2>
305: <ul>
306: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.486 ian 307: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1859">Zero to IPSec in 4 minutes</a>
308: Security Focus, February 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
309: This article, as its lead-in says,
1.497 ian 310: "looks at how to get a fully functional IPSec VPN up and running between two fresh OpenBSD
1.486 ian 311: installations in about four minutes flat".
312: If you've shied away from setting up an IPSEC VPN because of config file complexity,
313: now is the time to reconsider.
1.497 ian 314: Dragos Ruiu shows you how the ipsecctl command (introduced to the world in OpenBSD 3.8)
1.486 ian 315: makes it really easy to set up a VPN between consenting OpenBSD machines.
316: He states that he and a colleague were able to get two machines talking over IPSEC
317: in a few minutes, and only changing a few configuration files.
318: He also comments on the relative ease of installing our favorite OS, and hopes
319: that our ipsecctl will be adopted by the other BSDs (hopefully in a compatible way)
320: to make firewall setups easier all around the network.
321: But you don't need to wait for that if you're running OpenBSD 3.8; just follow
322: the steps in the article.
323: <p>
324:
325: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.485 ian 326: <a href="http://www.networkmagazineindia.com/200602/vendorvoice02.shtml">The Worm in the Machine</a>
327: Network Magazine India, February 2006</strong></font><br>
328: Dilip Ranade elaborates on several reasons why software is drearily buggy and endlessly insecure,
329: particularly in comparison with other technologies.
330: Imagines how very bad shape the automotive industry would be in if you had to sign the
331: same disclaimer of (non-)usability that almost every commercial EULA requires of computer users.
332: Ends with "I once dreamt that all the computer users in the world
333: arose in revolt and switched to hardened OpenBSD", though he admits that there's "fat chance" of it
334: happening in real life.
335: <p>
336:
337: </ul>
338:
1.492 ian 339: <h2>January, 2006</h2>
340: <ul>
341: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
342: <a href="http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2006/01/28.html">Kevin Mitnick on
343: Coast to Coast AM Radio Show with Art Bell</a>, Jan 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
344: Art Bell interviewed Kevin Mitnick on his call-in show;
345: Paul Zacharzewski from Edmonton called to ask Mitnick for his opinion of OpenBSD.
346: If you don't want to download the whole show from coasttocoastam.com,
347: you can listen to an
1.497 ian 348: <a href="http://unworkable.org/misc/mitnick.mp3">MP3 excerpt of this call</a>
1.492 ian 349: in which Mitnick says: "Well, I actually use OpenBSD, so I do like it".
350: </ul>
351:
1.483 ian 352: <h2>December, 2005</h2>
353: <ul>
354: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.484 djm 355: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/375/1">OpenSSH cutting edge</a>
356: SecurityFocus, December 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
357: Federico Biancuzzi interviews OpenSSH developer Damien Miller to discuss
358: features included in the upcoming version 4.3, public key crypto
359: protocols details, timing based attacks and anti-worm measures.
360: <p>
361:
362: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 363: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/11/21/175249.shtml?tid=92&tid=78">Creating
1.483 ian 364: Secure Wireless Access Points with OpenBSD and OpenVPN</a>
365: NewsForge, December 13, 2005</strong></font><br>
366: A cookbook approach to setting up a wireless interface as a secure Access Point
367: using OpenBSD's hostap, pf, and authpf.
368: Configuration examples are given with basic explanations and links
369: to sites with more information on most topics.
370: <p>
371:
372: </ul>
373:
374:
1.479 grunk 375: <h2>November, 2005</h2>
376: <ul>
377: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 378: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20051116145737">OpenBSD
1.482 ian 379: Goes to Venice</a>,
380: OpenBSD Journal, November 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 381: "What happens when you put a dozen developers on a little island with their
1.482 ian 382: laptops, power, and an internet connection?
383: <br/>
384: During the first week of November some OpenBSD developers met in a
385: little island in Venice's lagoon to hack on the ports system.
386: This was probably the first ports hackathon and was followed by
1.497 ian 387: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON</a>, a European conference
1.482 ian 388: fully dedicated to OpenBSD..."
389: Great coverage of the OpenBSD Porting Hackathon: people, ports, beer, ...
390: Contains a link to
391: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ven05-pvalchev/mgp00008.html">
392: pval's summary slides</a>.
393: <p>
394:
395: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.481 niallo 396: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1710223">
397: Trying out the new OpenBSD 3.8</a>,
398: NewsForge, November 11, 2005</strong></font><br>
399: This article describes the installation of OpenBSD 3.8 from a Linux user's
400: perspective, noting the simple elegance of the installer.
401: Although the installation process may be hard to get used to at first for
402: the average Linux user, the author tells us that one can learn a lot from
403: it. Furthermore, the article clears up the common misconception that working
1.497 ian 404: on an OpenBSD system is very different from working on a Linux system.
1.481 niallo 405: In particular, the author states that on OpenBSD, <i>"virtually the entire
406: catalog of familiar free and open source software titles is available through
407: the packages and ports system"</i>.
408: <p>
409:
410: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
411: <a href="http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3561526">
412: Return of The BSDs</a>,
413: internetnews.com, November 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
414: This article mentions that with all three major BSD flavors having had
415: a release this fall, BSD is <i>"still very much alive and kicking among
416: all the noise and buzz created by Linux"</i>. The author talks about
417: various new or improved features of 3.8, such as bioctl(8), hostapd(8),
418: network interface aggregation and sasyncd(8), and there are some
419: quotes from Bob Beck.
420: <p>
421:
422: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.479 grunk 423: <a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/051101/152/fvrlx.html">
424: OpenBSD 3.8 improves hardware support</a>,
425: ZDNet UK, November 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.480 ian 426: This article reports on OpenBSD 3.8, which was released on November 1.
427: The author gives an overview of the improvements and new
1.479 grunk 428: features that were made with 3.8, and quotes Theo on RAID management
429: and Linux.<br>
430: The 3.8 release hit the news also in some other places:
431: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1258232">Slashdot</a>
432: and <a href="http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=12482">OSNews</a>
433: also report about it, mostly repeating parts
434: of the release
435: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/ANNOUNCEMENT">ANNOUNCEMENT</a>.
436: <p>
437: </ul>
438:
1.476 ian 439: <h2>October, 2005</h2>
440: <ul>
441:
442: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
443: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1375194866;fp;16;fpid;0">
444: 'Nightmare' drove desperate user to open source</a>,
445: Computerworld, October 24, 2005</strong></font><br>
446: A great tale of how Mark Uemura of PricewaterhouseCoopers Japan
447: was forced to move to OpenBSD because the alternatives were too costly
448: and too unreliable.
449: This quote will rattle some cages:
450: "IT managers who want to deploy an open source solution but are
451: worried about company politics should go ahead and do it without
452: asking," according to Uemura, who was promoted to IT Manager of PWC Japan
453: after saving the company seven IT-samurais' salaries.
454: Further, "In Japan large organizations like Morgan Stanley and the
455: Bank of America have moved all their backend systems to open source,
456: Uemura said, because with open source you can reduce IT operating
457: costs without any commercial lock-in."
458: <p>
459:
1.477 saad 460: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
461: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6270">
462: OpenBSD 3.8: Hackers of the Lost RAID</a>,
463: ONLamp.com, October 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
464: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
465: new features in OpenBSD 3.8 including interface trunking,
466: internationalization support, Inter-Access Point Protocol (IAPP),
467: IPSec SA synchronization daemon, and RAID management. There is also some
468: discussion about future plans.
469: <p>
470:
1.478 grunk 471: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
472: <a href="http://securityfocus.com/columnists/361">
473: OpenBSD's network stack</a>,
474: SecurityFocus, October 12, 2005</strong></font><br>
475: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about OpenBSD's
476: network stack, including protection against ICMP attacks, and propagation
477: of enhancements into other BSDs and into Linux.
478: The interview also features the other protection mechanisms in the network
479: stack, a comparison to the network stack in Linux, and the history and
480: current status of <a href="http://www.openbgpd.org/">OpenBGPD</a>.
481: <p>
482:
1.476 ian 483: </ul>
484:
1.470 saad 485: <h2>September, 2005</h2>
486: <ul>
487:
488: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.474 niallo 489: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/359">
490: Security-related innovation in Unix</a>,
491: SecurityFocus, Sept. 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
492: An article examining the mmap-based malloc() implementation to be
493: included in OpenBSD 3.8. The author states that <i>"it will help OpenBSD
494: users to find bugs in software more easily, which will result in better
495: applications for everyone"</i>. He goes on to say that <i>"the more hurdles
496: that one has to jump through for good security, the less likely people will
497: go through the trouble. OpenBSD allows even the most inexperienced users to
498: take advantage of these technologies without any effort"</i>.
499: <p>
500:
501: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.473 aanriot 502: <a href="http://www.miscmag.com/articles/index.php3?page=2100">
503: [FRENCH] Champ libre : les chantiers OpenBSD</a>
504: Misc, number 21, Sept/Oct, 2005, p. 4-14</strong></font><br>
505: An interesting article about OpenBSD and associated projects. Saad Kadhi
506: and Guillaume Arcas describe useful things you can do with PF and
507: OpenSSH, and give a nice introduction to OpenNTPD and OpenCVS. If the
508: article is focused on the presentation, you can find some interesting
509: technical aspects people are not always acquainted to. A few examples
510: are shown, like a basic CARP setup, or the manner to use multiplexing
511: with OpenSSH and even how to check an OpenSSH server's keys using DNS.
512: <p>
513:
514: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 515: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/news/11306">
516: Big debate over small packets</a>,
517: SecurityFocus, Sept. 7, 2005</strong></font><br>
518: Robert Lemos discusses the ICMP denial-of-service vulnerabilities found
519: by Fernando Gont and fixed in OpenBSD. To date, OpenBSD is the only
520: system that has implemented all of the fixes recommended in the IETF
521: draft.
522: <p>
523:
524: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.471 saad 525: <a href="http://www.pcexpert.fr/">
526: [FRENCH] "Quel est le meilleur système libre pour votre
527: ordinateur ?"</a>,
528: PC Expert, number 156, p. 42-62</strong></font><br>
529: Philippe Roure compares 11 Linux and *BSD operating systems, including
530: OpenBSD 3.7, on different criteria such as security, documentation and
531: usability. OpenBSD earned a 5/5 mark (see pages 60-61) and while a mark
532: isn't necessarily objective, the author seems to grasp the OpenBSD
533: project, its goals, and how good is the operating system. The article
534: includes an interview with Saad Kadhi.
535: <p>
536:
537: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.470 saad 538: <a href="http://www.samag.com/articles/2005/0509/">
539: Monitoring PF Firewalls for Health and Performance</a>,
540: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 9, p. 37</strong></font><br>
541: Ryan Matteson describes several utilities that can be used to monitor the
542: health and performance of a PF firewall. Besides pfctl, the article
543: covers pftop, fwanalog, monitoring logs with tcpdump and graphing
544: performance data with pfstat.
545: <p>
546:
547: </ul>
548:
1.461 grunk 549: <h2>July, 2005</h2>
550: <ul>
551:
552: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.466 deraadt 553: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5382">
554: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part III</a>,
1.467 grunk 555: Kerneltrap, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.466 deraadt 556: Jeremy Andrews writes about the recent Blind ICMP attacks discovered
557: by Fernando Gont, and the fixes done by him and OpenBSD during the
558: 2005 Hackathon.
1.469 ian 559: The article goes into the technical background of the
1.467 grunk 560: attacks, mentioning blind ICMP attacks, "hard" ICMP errors, source
1.469 ian 561: quenching, and path MTU discovery;
562: many helpful RFCs and technical papers are linked from the explanations.
563: This is followed by a recap of the whole ICMP story, involving Gont's
1.467 grunk 564: struggle with other free projects, Cisco lawyers, Microsoft people,
565: and others.<br>
1.469 ian 566: The article concludes that OpenBSD was the first project
1.467 grunk 567: to take Fernando Gont's findings seriously, and also the first group to
568: be really painless to work with.
1.466 deraadt 569: <p>
570:
571: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.464 grunk 572: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/06/security_blame/">
573: Security meltdown: who's to blame?</a>,
1.466 deraadt 574: The Register, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.464 grunk 575: This article talks about various groups that are frequently blamed for
576: poor security:
1.467 grunk 577: individuals, ISPs, companies, crackers, security mailing lists,
1.464 grunk 578: and last but not least: OS vendors!
1.467 grunk 579: In the last paragraph, OpenBSD's style of <i>"dumbed-down, simplified
1.464 grunk 580: and secure systems (with a heavily audited code base)"</i> is described
581: as <i>"one of the smartest approaches to security"</i>.
582: <p>
583:
584: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.461 grunk 585: <a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-7-5/30084.html">
586: Theo de Raadt on Industry and Free Software</a>,
1.466 deraadt 587: The Epoch Times, July 5, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.463 tom 588: In this interview, Theo talks about the inception of the OpenBSD project
589: and its goals, as well as its impact on the commercial IT industry.
1.461 grunk 590: He points out once more that <i>"vendors who incorporate OpenSSH have
591: given us absolutely nothing back - not a cent"</i>.
592: Other topics covered include the OpenBSD team, Theo's role as
593: <i>"benevolent dictator"</i>, and the security process, which he compares
594: to the security efforts led by other free software projects and some
595: commercial vendors.
596: <p>
597:
598: </ul>
599:
1.454 ian 600: <h2>June, 2005</h2>
601: <ul>
1.468 grunk 602:
603: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
604: <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/ns-ttc062205.php">
605: The true cost of computer crime</a>,
606: EurekAlert / <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/">New Scientist Magazine</a>,
607: issue June 25, 2005</strong></font><br>
608: This article looks at computer crime, especially the way upcoming
609: vulnerability reports are dealt with. It also gives a short overview of the
1.469 ian 610: institutions involved in the process (vendors, free projects, CERTs).
1.468 grunk 611: <br>
612: The author mentions the work of Andy Ozment, who researches vulnerability
613: disclosure at the University of Cambridge. Using OpenBSD as a good example
614: of how disclosure and consequent fixing of bugs helps to strengthen security,
615: he refutes the widely spread FUD that disclosing vulnerabilities leads to
616: more harm than good. Ozment's methodology was to examine OpenBSD's CVS logs
1.469 ian 617: and note when fixes were published; his research shows that
1.468 grunk 618: <i>"the number of vulnerabilities decreases as a result of disclosure"</i>.
619: <p>
620:
1.454 ian 621: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.458 niallo 622: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0704/071.html">
623: Free Bird</a>,
624: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
625: <b>(Registration required)</b> A second Forbes article about OpenBSD, more
626: focused on the project itself this time. It contains good description of the
627: history of OpenBSD along with its prime motivations. Mention is made of the
628: DARPA grant and the annual hackathon. Theo's motto "shut up and hack" finally
629: becomes famous in this piece and there are some other very insightful quotes
630: such as "All I care about is making high-quality code. If I had to work at a
631: regular job, it would drive me nuts". This is certainly an astute and perceptive
632: article, well worth reading. Do note that the big picture of Theo's machine
633: room will only be available in the print edition.
634: <p>
1.459 deraadt 635:
1.458 niallo 636: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.456 niallo 637: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html">
638: Is Linux For Losers?</a>,
639: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
640: An interesting article, if somewhat polemic in tone, which raises questions
641: about the quality of Linux code compared to OpenBSD. There is also some short
642: discussion of the OpenBSD development model and focus (push for quality above
643: everything else) including good quotes from Theo. It seems that the need for
644: high quality software is beginning to be recognised by the mainstream.
645: <p>
1.457 deraadt 646:
1.456 niallo 647: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 648: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/06/09/2132233.shtml?tid=152&tid=8&tid=2">
1.455 ian 649: BSD cognoscenti on Linux</a>,
650: NewsForge, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
651: NewsForge talks with Theo de Raadt and NetBSD's Christos Zoulas about the
652: similarities and differences between the Linux kernel and the BSD
653: operating systems. The questions asked were similar to those asked
654: of Linus Torvalds in a <a
1.462 grunk 655: href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/09/2128249&tid=2">previous
1.455 ian 656: interview.</a>
657: <p>
658:
659: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.454 ian 660: <a href="http://www.tuxjournal.net/intervista3-en.html">
661: A good morning with Theo de Raadt</a>,
662: Tux Journal, June 2, 2005</strong></font><br>
663: Brief but wide-ranging interview with Theo in which our leader
664: opines about the good things in 3.7: "The list of new developments
665: is impressive, but in my view not nearly as impressive as the small
666: little details that continue to be fixed during each development
667: cycle." And modestly credits all the developers for the project's
668: continuing success, attributing it to "The passion of the developers,
669: and the wide experience they bring into their development efforts.
670: By amazing coincidence, our users typically have the same needs as we do."
671: Manages to sidestep getting drawn into comparisons with Linux, e.g.,
672: when asked if he likes it/why/why not, deftly replies
673: "I have never used it."
674: <p>
675:
676: </ul>
677:
1.441 deraadt 678: <h2>May, 2005</h2>
679: <ul>
680: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 681: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5190">
682: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part II</a>,
683: Kerneltrap, May 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
684: In the second installment of Kerneltrap's Hackathon 2005 feature, Jeremy
685: Andrews speaks with the pf developers at length about their plans for
686: future enhancements.
687: <p>
688:
689: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.450 deraadt 690: <a href="http://www.ctv.ca">
1.448 deraadt 691: TV coverage: OpenBSD hackathon</a>,
692: CTV/CFCN, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
693: A TV spot done a Canadian national TV station about the Calgary
694: hackathon this year, with 60 developers.<br>
695: North America mirror:
696: <ul>
1.452 marco 697: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.449 jcs 698: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a><br>
699: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a>
1.448 deraadt 700: </ul>
701: European mirror:
702: <ul>
1.452 marco 703: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.448 deraadt 704: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a>
705: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a><br>
706: </ul>
707: <p>
708:
709: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 710: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5186">
711: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part I</a>,
712: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
713: Jeremy Andrews of KernelTrap does a good job of describing what it's like
714: to be at the Hackathon in Part I of KernelTrap's Hackathon feature. Several
715: developers are interviewed in detail about what they are working on.
716: <p>
717:
718: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 719: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5184">
720: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005: Day 6?</a>,
721: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
722: Kjell Wooding describes a typical day at the Hackathon in this entertaining
723: first-hand account.
724: <p>
725:
726: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.447 cloder 727: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/05/20/1426216.shtml?tid=8">
728: Review: OpenBSD 3.7</a>,
729: NewsForge.com, May 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
730: "OpenBSD is not only highly polished and easy to
731: configure because of its documentation, it's also totally free-as-in-rights.
732: With an obsession with security, freedom of source code, and quality of
733: programming technique, OpenBSD 3.7 continues the legacy established by
734: its previous releases," writes Jem Matzan in this nice, small review.
735: <p>
736:
737: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.446 cloder 738: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/05/19/openbsd_3_7.html">
739: OpenBSD 3.7: The Wizard of OS</a>,
740: ONLamp.com, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
741: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
742: new features in OpenBSD 3.7, including new wireless chipsets, new
743: spam-fighting features, zaurus, pf improvements, propolice, and
744: many other things. A good overview of what's new in this release,
745: plus some interesting comments about future direction.
746: <p>
747:
748: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.444 niallo 749: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/software/openbsd-3.7-released.html">
1.445 niallo 750: Next incarnation of OpenBSD released</a>,
1.444 niallo 751: Ping Wales, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
752: "OpenBSD is often unjustly overlooked as a free UNIX-like system in favour of
753: the more-hyped Linux. While it receives a lot less publicity than other
754: operating systems, this is not due to lack of technical merit." says David
755: Chisnall, in what is a clear and concise overview of the new features
756: in 3.7 and indeed the project as a whole.
757: <p>
758:
759: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
760: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5114">
1.445 niallo 761: 2005 Calgary Hackathon, KernelTrap Coverage</a>,
1.444 niallo 762: Kerneltrap, May 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
763: A great article about the annual OpenBSD Hackathon, detailing how the event
764: functions, work done at previous Hackathons and features which may come out
765: of this one. Includes many relevant quotes from developers themselves, and of
766: course information about the legendary Hackathon BBQ!
767: <p>
768:
769: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.442 deraadt 770: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9658/sam0505e/">
771: "Failover Firewalls with OpenBSD and CARP"</a>,
772: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 5, p. 33
1.441 deraadt 773: </strong></font><br>
774: Jason Dixon discusses the history of the CARP and pfsync protocols
775: and demonstrates using them to create redundant stateful firewalls
776: with OpenBSD.
777: </ul>
778:
1.436 henning 779: <h2>April, 2005</h2>
780: <ul>
781: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.440 ian 782: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39195801,00.htm">
783: Security guru wants access to bug databases</a>,
784: ZDNet UK, April 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
785: Ingrid Marson reports on Cambridge professor Ross Anderson's call for analysis of
786: software maintenance records to determine whether open source code is more secure
787: than closed source, as we have long contended.
788: "One of Anderson's research students, Andy Ozment, has already done
789: research using empirical data on bugs found in the open source
790: operating system OpenBSD between 1997 and 2000. This research found
791: that finding and fixing bugs results in a more secure product..."
792: Just as the OpenBSD project has been saying for years.
793: <p>
794: This article can also be found online as
795: <a href="http://uk.builder.com/manage/project/0,39026588,39244080,00.htm">Academic
796: calls for better bug tracking</a> (uk.builder.com).
797: <p>
798:
799: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.439 espie 800: [FRENCH] "PC Expert", number 152, p. 58
801: </strong></font><br>
802: Very short interview of Marc Espie about OpenBSD as a free OS focusing
803: on security, part of a larger dossier Ťles secrets des hackersť.
804: <p>
805:
806: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.436 henning 807: [GERMAN] "Doppelwacht", iX 5/2005, p. 150.
808: </strong></font><br>
809: Stephan Tesch gives an introduction to CARP and using a pair of
810: OpenBSD boxes as Firewalls in High Availibility scenarios. He goes
1.438 martin 811: on explaining CARP and pfsync protocols, and does not forget to cover
1.436 henning 812: the issues we had with IETF.
813: </ul>
814:
1.431 ian 815: <h2>March, 2005</h2>
816: <ul>
817: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.435 reyk 818: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/4818">
819: OpenBSD's "Out of the Box" Wireless Support</a>,
820: Kerneltrap, March 8, 2005</strong></font><br>
821: This article is about the upcoming wireless support in OpenBSD 3.7 and
822: the outcome of the work to open wireless chipsets. Jeremy Andrews
823: talked with Theo de Raadt and the developers Damien Bergamini and Reyk
824: Floeter who did some efforts to implement free and functional drivers.
825: <p>
826:
827: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.431 ian 828: <a href="http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/01/1109546842718.html">
829: OpenBSD to support more wireless chipsets</a>,
830: The Age, March 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
831: "The forthcoming 3.7 release of the OpenBSD operating system has
832: added support for five more wireless chipsets, according to
833: OpenBSD project founder Theo de Raadt...
1.432 ian 834: OpenBSD 3.7 will also have have new drivers for Intel wireless
1.431 ian 835: parts that do not work without the non-redistributable firmware,"
836: namely the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11B
837: and 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11A/B/G wireless network adapters.
838: Mentions OpenBSD's activism in getting vendors to release chip specs.
839: Referring to vendors that still refuse to play ball with open source
840: projects, quotes Damien Miller as saying "Given the number of
841: appliance devices that are built on free OSs, I think that the
842: recalcitrant vendors are missing an important boat."
843:
844: </ul>
845:
1.427 matthieu 846: <h2>February, 2005</h2>
847: <ul>
848:
849: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.428 david 850: <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsaward2004.html">
851: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
852: FSF, February 26, 2005</strong></font><br>
853: The Free Software Foundation awarded Theo de Raadt their "2004 Free Software
854: Award" for his unwavering commitment to free software. Most recently he has
855: been fighting hardware manufacturers for free redistribution of wireless card
856: firmware.
1.434 ian 857: Similar articles can be found online at:
858: <ul>
859: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
860: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=419">
861: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
862: Tectonic.za, March 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
863: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
864: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article4362.phtml">
865: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
866: OSDir, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
867: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
868: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/De-Raadt-gets-free-software-award/2005/02/28/1109546758523.html?oneclick=true">
869: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
870: The Age, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
871: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 872: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/02/27/1413255.shtml?tid=99&tid=7">
1.434 ian 873: Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award</a>,
874: Slashdot, February 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
875: </ul>
1.427 matthieu 876: </ul>
877:
1.426 ian 878: <h2>January, 2005</h2>
879: <ul>
880:
881: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
882: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363731">
883: Systrace in OpenBSD</a>,
884: informit.com, January 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
885: This article talks about our systrace
1.462 grunk 886: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&sektion=1">systrace(1)</a>
1.426 ian 887: mechanism: what it is and why and
888: how to use it, with examples.
889: Another excerpt from the book
890: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
891: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
892: <p>
893:
894: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
895: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363732">
896: Overview of OpenBSD</a>,
897: informit.com, January 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
898: "OpenBSD is one of the most secure and well-designed operating
899: systems available today. It has its roots in countless hours of
900: research and development based on some of the best UNIX flavors of
901: the past, and it boasts all the features of modern operating systems.
902: The OS is widely considered one of the most secure general-purpose
903: operating systems available today and it supports many key parts
904: of the global Internet infrastructure..."
905: This article is a sample chapter from
906: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
907: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
908: <p>
1.443 ian 909:
910: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 911: <a href="http://www.pcplus.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=34628&subsectionid=784">
1.443 ian 912: OpenBSD operating system</a>,
913: PCPlus.co.uk, January, 2005</strong></font><br>
914: Paul Grosse gives a brief tutorial on installing OpenBSD on i386 for people
915: moving in a Windows->Linux direction, encouraging them to go a bit further for security.
916: "While Linux out-scores Windows substantially (or completely) on [security as well as many other
917: issues], it's still possible to use a more secure operating system on the PC... OpenBSD."
918: Gives a brief but understandable walkthrough on the installation process, right up to
919: downloading and installing the third-party packages, and
920: ends with a sidebar on security.
921: <p>
1.426 ian 922: </ul>
923:
1.424 ian 924: <h2>December, 2004</h2>
925: <ul>
926:
927: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.425 ian 928: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/2329229">
929: What are the real vulnerabilities of Linux?</a>
930: NewsForge.com, December 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
931: Several security consultants were asked about "the real vulnerabilities of
932: Linux". Cybersoure CEO Con Symaris seems to get it better than the rest:
933: "One needs to approach security as a prime requirement and motivator,
934: much as the OpenBSD team do," Zymaris said... "The Linux
935: community mindset is different. Linux development is dynamic and
936: races ahead towards more and broader functionality, drawing a
937: multitude of interested parties in to make interesting extensions
938: and adaptations at a rapid rate."
939: <p>
940: "In order to do security the BSD way, however, much more effort
941: needs to be spent auditing code for holes, which is much less sexy,
942: and attracts a different set of coders," Zymaris added.
943: <p>
944:
945: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.424 ian 946: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/281">
947: Closed Source Hardware</a>
948: Security Focus, December 1, 2004</strong></font><br>
949: Symantec Threat Analyst Jason Miller analyzes the potential security threats
950: when hardware vendors won't provide device documentation and
951: instead provide "binary only" driver code for inclusion in open source
952: operating systems.
953: Miller is an open-source fan who says he uses a variety of systems, including
954: OpenBSD on his firewall.
955: Of the recent trend to closed-source binary drivers for open-source
956: systems, he writes:
957: <blockquote>
958: The closed-source component required to support this hardware is
959: completely independent of the associated operating system, and as
960: such, is also independent of the engineering team, security team,
961: auditing process, and quality control procedures normally related
962: to the operating system...
963: <br/>
964: What's possibly even more disturbing is that we're talking about
965: a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest
966: possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a
967: third-party vendor. This code could do anything once loaded, including
968: leaking active WEP keys, gathering usage statistics, sniffing and
969: disclosing traffic, and it could even introduce a subtle backdoor
970: into the operating system itself (much the same as any device driver
971: in a closed source operating system).
972: <br/>
973: [A]lthough some of these scenarios are a
974: little far-fetched, the possibility for them to exist is there...
975: Ultimately it becomes an issue of trust, which is a cornerstone of
976: good security: whom do you trust, and how much do you trust them?
977: </blockquote>
978: <p>And he comments that trust "seems to be a one-way street": vendors
979: demand that you trust them, but they won't trust you to know how
980: their hardware and software operates.
981: This lack of trust is one reason why OpenBSD has recently completed
982: reverse-engineering the
1.462 grunk 983: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4">
1.424 ian 984: Atheros wireless chipset driver</a>
985: that was originally provided as a binary insert.
986: <p>
987: </ul>
988:
1.417 pvalchev 989: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
990: <ul>
1.421 ian 991:
1.417 pvalchev 992: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.422 ian 993: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730775,00.asp">
994: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Widens Its Scope</a>
995: eWEEK, November 22, 2004</strong></font><br>
996: Jason Brooks reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and likes the changes it brings,
997: including the multi-processing support which, he notes,
998: "will be even more important as multicore processors--which occupy space
999: on the road maps of Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others--
1000: become more prevalent." Comments favorably on OpenNTPD
1001: ("the three-line configuration file we needed to modify ... on OpenBSD was
1002: much simpler to deal with than the equivalent configuration file on
1003: the Linux systems we've tested").
1.423 ian 1004: Overall a favorable review of some of the new stuff in 3.6.
1.422 ian 1005: <p>
1006: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 otto 1007: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
1008: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
1009: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
1010: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
1011: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
1012: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
1013: it claims to do".
1014: <p>
1015:
1016: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1017: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109994542424009&w=2">
1.421 ian 1018: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution</a>
1019: misc@, November 8, 2004</strong></font><br>
1020: Theo recounts the struggle to get Intel to provide redistributable
1021: versions of the firmware for their wireless chipsets, and their
1.423 ian 1022: ultimate refusal to allow OpenBSD to redistribute the chipsets' firmware.
1.421 ian 1023: Includes a caveat about Intel's disingenuous "FAQ", typical of many
1024: corporate FAQs that answer questions nobody actually thought
1025: to ask, and don't truthfully answer the questions you want hard answers to.
1026: At the end Theo names the names (and their emails) that need to be contacted
1027: by large numbers of end-users and developers if Intel is to change
1028: (yes, this is a hint).
1029: Of interest is that this posting to one of our mailing lists was
1030: picked up on the
1031: <a href="http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1923">Screaming
1032: Electron Forum</a> and from there reported on
1.462 grunk 1033: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/22/1249249&from=rss">
1.421 ian 1034: SlashDot</a>, where it is accompanied by a link to SlashDot's paper
1035: on effective advocacy (be firm, but also be polite).
1036: <p>
1037:
1038: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 1039: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
1040: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
1041: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
1042: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
1043: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
1044: questions about the significance and rationale behind
1045: the current efforts.
1046: <p>
1047: </ul>
1048:
1.407 henning 1049: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
1050: <ul>
1051: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 1052: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
1053: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
1054: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
1055: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
1056: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
1057: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
1058: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
1059: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
1060: <p>
1061:
1062: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 1063: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
1064: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
1065: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1066: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
1067: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
1068: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
1069: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
1070: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
1071: of the important changes in 3.6.
1.462 grunk 1072: <p>
1.415 ian 1073:
1074: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1075: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
1.414 ian 1076: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
1077: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
1078: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
1079: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
1080: overflow attacks... because
1081: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
1082: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
1083: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
1084: and propolice.
1085: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
1086: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
1087: and that's when the science falls apart."
1088: <p>
1089:
1090: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 1091: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
1092: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
1093: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
1094: Starts with the question:
1095: <blockquote>
1096: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
1097: <br/>
1098: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
1099: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
1100: <br/>
1101: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
1102: Should we believe them?"
1103: </blockquote>
1104: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
1105: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
1106: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
1107: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
1108: for your mail, web and other online activities.
1109: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
1110: <p>
1111:
1112: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 1113: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
1114: Simple Simon</a>,
1115: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
1116: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
1117: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
1118: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
1119: routing/firewall, and more.
1120: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
1121: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
1122: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
1123: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
1124: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
1125: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
1126: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
1127: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
1128: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
1129: </blockquote>
1130: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
1131: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
1132: <p>
1133:
1134: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 1135: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
1136: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 1137: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 1138: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 1139: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
1140: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
1141: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 1142: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 1143: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
1144: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
1145: in spite of it
1146: (registration required, but worth it).
1147: <p>
1148:
1149: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1150: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
1151: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
1152: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1153: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
1154: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
1155: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
1156: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 1157: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 1158: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
1159: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
1160: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
1161: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
1162: <p>
1163:
1164: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 1165: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
1166: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
1167: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
1168: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
1169: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
1170: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
1171: <blockquote>
1172: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
1173: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
1174: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
1175: a lot of analysis.
1176: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
1177: </blockquote>
1178: <p>
1179: </ul>
1180:
1.400 marco 1181: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
1182: <ul>
1183: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 1184: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
1185: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
1186: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
1187: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
1188: UNIX-like systems.
1189: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
1190: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
1191: <p>
1192: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 1193: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
1194: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 1195: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1196: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
1197: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
1198: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
1199: At one point, the article states:
1200: <blockquote>
1201: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
1202: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
1203: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
1204: </blockquote>
1205: And then quotes Theo as saying:
1206: <blockquote>
1207: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
1208: fewer are reading or auditing code."
1209: </blockquote>
1210: <p>
1211: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1212: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
1213: marks its fifth birthday</a>
1214: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1215: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
1216: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
1217: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
1218: required).
1219: <p>
1220: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 1221: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
1222: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
1223: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
1224: </strong></font><br>
1225: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
1226: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
1227: <p>
1228: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 1229: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
1230: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 1231: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 1232: </strong></font><br>
1233: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
1234: <p>
1235: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 1236: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
1237: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 1238: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 1239: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 1240: 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 1241: <p>
1242: </ul>
1243:
1.396 henning 1244: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
1245: <ul>
1246: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 1247: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
1248: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
1249: Unix Review, July, 2004
1250: </strong></font><br>
1251: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
1252: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
1.462 grunk 1253: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
1.418 ian 1254: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
1255: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
1256: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
1257: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
1258: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
1259: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
1260: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
1261: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
1262: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
1263: and even spelling/wording errors.
1264: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
1265: <p>
1266: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 1267: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 1268: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
1269: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
1270: </strong></font><br>
1271: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
1272: <p>
1273: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 1274: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 1275: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
1276: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
1277: </strong></font><br>
1278: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
1279: <p>
1280: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 1281: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
1282: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
1283: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
1284: </strong></font><br>
1285: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
1286: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
1287: <p>
1288: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 1289: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
1290: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
1291: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
1292: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
1293: <p>
1294: </ul>
1295:
1.405 jolan 1296: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
1297: <ul>
1298: <li><font color="#00900"><strong>
1299: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
1.466 deraadt 1300: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 5, 2004</strong></font>
1.405 jolan 1301: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
1302: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
1303: details on how funds are dispersed.
1304: <p>
1305: </ul>
1306:
1.393 david 1307: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
1308: <ul>
1309: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 1310: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
1311: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
1312: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
1313: </strong></font><br>
1314: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
1315: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
1316: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
1317: on inserting large number of SQL records.
1318: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
1319: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
1320: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
1321: <p>
1322:
1323: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 1324: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
1325: Secure by Default</a>,
1326: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
1327: </strong></font><br>
1328: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
1329: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
1330: <p>
1331:
1332: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1333: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
1334: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
1335: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
1336: </strong></font><br>
1337: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
1338: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
1339: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
1340: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
1341: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
1342: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
1343: <p>
1344:
1345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1346: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
1347: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
1348: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
1349: </strong></font><br>
1350: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
1351: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
1352: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
1353: <p>
1354:
1355: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1356: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
1357: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
1358: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
1359: </strong></font><br>
1360: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
1361: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
1362: <p>
1363: </ul>
1364:
1.388 mcbride 1365: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
1366: <ul>
1.394 jolan 1367:
1368: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1369: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
1370: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
1371: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
1372: </strong></font><br>
1373: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
1374: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
1375: available for sparc64.
1376: <p>
1377:
1.390 beck 1378: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 1379: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
1380: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
1381: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
1382: </strong></font><br>
1383: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
1384: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
1385: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
1386: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
1387: <p>
1388:
1389: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 1390: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
1391: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 1392: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 1393: </strong></font><br>
1394: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
1395: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
1396: it does: CARP provides sharing
1397: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
1398: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
1399: detail to get you started using it.
1400: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
1401: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
1402: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
1403: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
1404: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
1405: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
1406: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 1407: <p>
1.391 ian 1408:
1409: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 1410: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 1411: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
1412: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 1413: </strong></font><br>
1414: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 1415: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 1416: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 1417: <p>
1.388 mcbride 1418:
1419: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1420: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
1421: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 1422: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 1423: </strong></font><br>
1424: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
1425: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
1426: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
1427: unencumbered by patents.
1428: <p>
1429: </ul>
1430:
1.378 henning 1431: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
1432: <ul>
1.384 jose 1433:
1434: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 1435: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
1436: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
1437: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
1438: </strong></font><br>
1439: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
1440: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
1441: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
1442: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
1443: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
1444: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
1445: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
1446: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
1447: in the page tables."
1448: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
1449: <p>
1450:
1451: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1452: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
1453: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
1454: </strong></font><br>
1455: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
1456: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
1457: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
1458: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 1459: <p>
1.384 jose 1460:
1.378 henning 1461: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 1462: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
1463: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 1464: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
1465: </strong></font><br>
1466: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
1467: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
1468: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
1469: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
1470: (quote:
1471: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
1472: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 1473: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 1474: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
1475: the other developers for their work on the system.
1476: <p>
1477:
1478: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1479: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
1480: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
1481: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 1482: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 1483: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
1484: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
1485: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
1486: too.
1487: <p>
1488:
1489: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 1490: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
1491: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 1492: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 1493: OpenBSD source code using
1494: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
1495: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
1496: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
1497: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
1498: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
1499: <p>
1500: </ul>
1501:
1.374 jose 1502: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
1503: <ul>
1504: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 1505: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 1506: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
1507: </strong></font><br>
1508: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
1509: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
1510: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
1511: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
1512: it."
1513: <p>
1514:
1515: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 1516: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
1517: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
1518: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
1519: </strong></font><br/>
1520: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
1521: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
1522: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
1523: <p>
1524: </ul>
1525:
1.369 ian 1526: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
1527: <ul>
1528: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1529: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
1530: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
1531: </strong></font><br/>
1532: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
1533: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
1534: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
1535: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
1536: <p>
1537:
1538: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 1539: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
1540: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
1541: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
1542: </strong></font><br/>
1543: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
1544: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
1545: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
1546: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
1547: form factor.
1548: <p>
1549:
1550: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1551: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
1552: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
1553: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
1554: Features</a>,
1555: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
1556: </strong></font><br/>
1557: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
1558: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
1559: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
1560: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
1561: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
1562: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
1563: <p>
1564: This article can also be found online at:
1565: <ul>
1566: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1567: <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 1568: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
1569: </strong></font>
1570: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
1571: </ul>
1572: <p>
1.392 david 1573:
1.371 jose 1574: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 1575: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
1576: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 1577: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
1578: </strong></font><br/>
1579: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
1580: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
1581: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 1582: <p>
1.371 jose 1583:
1584: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 1585: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 1586: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 1587: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 1588: </strong></font><br/>
1589: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
1590: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
1591: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
1592: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
1593: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
1594: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
1595: and its history with OpenBSD.
1596: </ul>
1597:
1.368 henning 1598: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
1599: <ul>
1600: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 1601: [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 1602: </strong></font><br>
1603: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
1604: </ul>
1605:
1.364 jose 1606: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
1607: <ul>
1608: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 1609: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
1610: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
1611: UNIX Review,
1612: July, 2003.
1613: </strong></font><br>
1614: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
1615: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
1616: who want more information.
1617: <p>
1618:
1619: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 1620: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
1621: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
1622: Government Computer News,
1623: July 22, 2003.
1624: </strong></font><br>
1625: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
1626: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
1627: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
1628: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
1629: <p>
1630:
1631: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1632: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
1633: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
1634: SANS Institute,
1635: July 22, 2003.
1636: </strong></font><br>
1637: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 1638: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 1639: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
1640: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
1641: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
1642: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
1643: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
1644: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
1645: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
1646: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
1647: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
1648: <p>
1649:
1650: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 1651: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
1652: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
1653: OnLamp.com,
1654: July 17, 2003.
1655: </strong></font><br>
1656: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
1657: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
1658: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
1659: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
1660: have been working on.
1661:
1662: </ul>
1663:
1.356 jose 1664: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 1665: <ul>
1666:
1667: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 1668: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
1669: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
1670: UNIX Review,
1671: June, 2003.
1672: </strong></font><br>
1673: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
1674: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
1675: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
1676: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
1677: <p>
1678:
1679: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 1680: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
1681: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
1682: eWeek,
1683: June 23, 2003.
1684: </strong></font><br>
1685: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
1686: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
1687: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
1688: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
1689: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
1690: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
1691: <p>
1692:
1693: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 1694: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
1695: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
1696: Software Development Online,
1697: June, 2003.
1698: </strong></font><br>
1699: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
1700: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
1701: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
1702: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
1703: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
1704: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
1705: current activities.
1706: <p>
1707:
1708: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 1709: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
1710: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 1711: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
1712: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
1713: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
1714: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 1715: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 1716: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
1717: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
1718: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 1719: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 1720: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
1721: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 1722: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 1723: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
1724: decisions.
1725: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
1726: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 1727: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 1728: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 1729: <p>
1730:
1731: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 1732: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
1733: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
1734: Page 58, eWeek,
1735: June 2, 2003.
1736: </strong></font><br>
1737: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
1738: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
1739: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
1740: been addressed in -current.
1741: <p>
1742:
1.356 jose 1743: </ul>
1744:
1745: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
1746: <ul>
1747:
1.355 jose 1748: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 1749: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
1750: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
1751: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
1752: </strong></font><br>
1753: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
1754: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
1755: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
1756: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
1757: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
1758: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
1759: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
1760: <p>
1761:
1762: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 1763: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
1764: Beyond Linux</a>,
1765: InfoWorld,
1766: May 23, 2003.
1767: </strong></font><br>
1768: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
1769: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
1770: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
1771: compared to the GPL.
1772: <p>
1773:
1774: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 1775: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
1776: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
1777: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 1778: May 17, 2003.
1779: </strong></font><br>
1780: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
1781: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
1782: the business section and half of another page inside
1783: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
1784: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
1785: in talking about the project's history and goals.
1786: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
1787: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
1788: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
1789: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 1790: <br>
1791: This article can also be found online at:
1792: <ul>
1793: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1794: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
1795: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
1796: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
1797: May 17, 2003
1798: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 1799: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
1800: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1801: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
1802: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
1803: Montreal Gazette,
1804: May 21, 2003
1805: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 1806: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 1807: <p>
1.346 ian 1808:
1809: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 1810: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 1811: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 1812: May 7, 2003.
1813: </strong></font><br>
1814: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
1815: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
1816: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
1817: <p>
1818:
1819: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 1820: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
1821: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1822: OsOpinion,
1823: May 6, 2003.
1824: </strong></font><br>
1825: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
1826: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
1827: <br>
1828: This article can also be found online at:
1829: <ul>
1830: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1831: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
1832: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1833: NewsFactor Network.
1834: </strong></font>
1835: </ul>
1836: <p>
1837:
1838: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1839: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 1840: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
1841: ITBusiness,
1842: May 2, 2003.
1843: </strong></font><br>
1844: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
1845: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
1846: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
1847: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
1848: <p>
1849:
1850: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 1851: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
1852: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1853: InfoWorld,
1854: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 1855: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 1856: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
1857: <br>
1858: This article can also be found online at:
1859: <ul>
1860: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1861: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
1862: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1863: IDG Singapore.
1864: </strong></font>
1865: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1866: <p>
1867:
1.339 jose 1868: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1869: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
1870: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 1871: ZDNet,
1872: May 1, 2003.
1873: </strong></font><br>
1874: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 1875: someone using parts from previous articles.
1876: <br>
1.341 deraadt 1877: This article can also be found online at:
1878: <ul>
1879: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1880: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
1881: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1882: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 1883: </strong></font>
1884: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1885: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
1886: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1887: CNET News.com.
1888: </strong></font>
1889: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1890: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
1891: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
1892: ZDNet UK.
1893: </strong></font>
1894: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1895: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
1896: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
1897: Help Net Security, Croatia.
1898: </strong></font>
1899: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1900: <p>
1.339 jose 1901:
1.341 deraadt 1902: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1903: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 1904: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
1905: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
1906: May 1, 2003.
1907: </strong></font><br>
1908: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
1909: that have been added
1910: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
1911: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
1912: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 1913: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 1914: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
1915: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
1916: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 1917: <p>
1918:
1919: </ul>
1920:
1.253 ian 1921: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
1922: <ul>
1.255 ian 1923:
1.260 ian 1924: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1925: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 1926: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1927: TechRepublic,
1928: April 28, 2003.
1929: </strong></font><br>
1930: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
1931: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 1932: work.<br>
1933: Can also be found online at:
1934: <ul>
1935: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1936: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
1937: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
1938: ZDNet UK.
1939: </strong></font>
1940: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 1941: <p>
1942:
1943: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 1944: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
1945: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
1946: IDG,
1947: April 24, 2003.
1948: </strong></font><br>
1949: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
1950: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
1951: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
1952: Can also be found online at:
1953: <ul>
1954: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1955: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
1956: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 1957: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 1958: </strong></font>
1959: </ul>
1960: <p>
1961:
1962: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1963: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 1964: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 1965: Slate,
1966: April 24, 2003.
1967: </strong></font><br>
1968: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
1969: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
1970: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
1971: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
1972: <p>
1973:
1974: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 1975: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1976: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
1977: April 24, 2003.
1978: </strong></font><br>
1979: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
1980: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
1981: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
1982: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
1983: <p>
1984:
1985: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 1986: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
1987: April 24, 2003.
1988: </strong></font><br>
1989: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
1990: the free software community".
1991: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
1992: other articles.
1993: <p>
1994:
1995: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1996: <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 1997: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
1998: </strong></font><br>
1999: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
2000: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
2001: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
2002: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
2003: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
2004: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
2005: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 2006: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 2007: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
2008: <br/>
2009: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
2010: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
2011: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
2012: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 2013: <br>
2014: Can also be found online at:
2015: <ul>
2016: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2017: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
2018: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
2019: Common Dreams NewsCenter
2020: </strong></font>
2021: </ul>
1.324 ian 2022: <p>
2023:
2024: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2025: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
2026: Wired, April 24, 2003.
2027: </strong></font><br>
2028: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
2029: article above.
2030: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
2031: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
2032: wasting them."
1.332 ian 2033: <br>
2034: Can also be found online at:
2035: <ul>
2036: <li>
2037: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
2038: </strong></font>
2039: </ul>
1.324 ian 2040: <p>
2041:
2042: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 2043: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
2044: </strong></font><br>
2045: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
2046: <p>
2047:
2048: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 2049: <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.
2050: </strong></font><br>
2051: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
2052: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
2053: <p>
2054:
2055: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 2056: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
2057: April 23, 2003.
2058: </strong></font><br>
2059: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
2060: <p>
2061:
2062: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 2063: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 2064: April 22, 2003.
2065: </strong></font><br>
2066: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
2067: <p>
2068:
2069: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 2070: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
2071: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
2072: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 2073: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 2074: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
2075: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
2076: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
2077: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
2078: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
2079: Can also be found online at:
2080: <ul>
2081: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2082: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 2083: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
2084: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 2085: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 2086: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2087: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 2088: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
2089: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 2090: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 2091: </ul>
2092: <p>
2093:
2094: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 2095: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
2096: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 2097: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2098: </strong></font><br>
2099: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 2100: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
2101: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
2102: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
2103: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
2104: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
2105: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 2106: <p>
2107:
2108: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 2109: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
2110: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 2111: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
2112: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 2113: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
2114: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
2115: at UPenn and DARPA.
2116: <p>
2117:
2118: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 2119: [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,
2120: France
1.315 deraadt 2121: April 18, 2003.
2122: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 2123: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 2124: <p>
2125:
2126: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 2127: [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 2128: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2129: </strong></font><br>
2130: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
2131: <p>
2132:
2133: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 2134: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
2135: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
2136: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 2137: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 2138: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
2139: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
2140: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
2141: <p>
2142:
2143: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 2144: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
2145: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2146: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 2147: </strong></font><br>
2148: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
2149: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
2150: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 2151: American century.
1.267 deraadt 2152: <p>
2153:
2154: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 2155: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
2156: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2157: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 2158: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 2159: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
2160: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
2161: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
2162: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
2163: Can also be found online at:
2164: <ul>
2165: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
2166: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 2167: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 2168: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 2169: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 2170: <p>
2171:
2172: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 2173: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 2174: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 2175: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 2176: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 2177: </strong></font><br>
2178: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 2179: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
2180: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
2181: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
2182: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 2183:
2184: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2185: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
2186: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
2187: New York Times.
2188: </strong></font>(free registration required)
2189:
1.273 deraadt 2190: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2191: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 2192: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 2193: ABC News.
2194: </strong></font>
2195:
2196: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2197: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 2198: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 2199: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 2200: </strong></font>
2201:
2202: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2203: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 2204: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 2205: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 2206: </strong></font>
2207:
2208: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 2209: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
2210: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 2211: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 2212: </strong></font>
2213:
2214: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2215: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 2216: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 2217: Times Daily, AL.
2218: </strong></font>
2219:
2220: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2221: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
2222: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
2223: Boston.com, MA.
2224: </strong></font>
2225:
2226: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2227: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 2228: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 2229: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
2230: </strong></font>
2231:
2232: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 2233: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
2234: [Article was pulled]</a>
2235: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 2236: </strong></font>
2237:
2238: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2239: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
2240: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
2241: Infoshop News.
2242: </strong></font>
2243:
2244: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2245: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
2246: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2247: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
2248: </strong></font>
2249:
2250: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 2251: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
2252: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
2253: Raleigh News, NC.
2254: </strong></font>
2255:
2256: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2257: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 2258: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
2259: Napa News, CA.
2260: </strong></font>
2261:
2262: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2263: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 2264: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2265: NEPA News, PA.
2266: </strong></font>
2267:
2268: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2269: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
2270: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
2271: Wired News.
2272: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 2273: <br>
2274: <li>
1.333 deraadt 2275: <font color="#009000"><strong>
2276: [JAPANESE]
2277: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
2278: Wired News Japan</a>
2279: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 2280:
1.271 deraadt 2281: </ul>
2282: <p>
1.272 deraadt 2283: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
2284: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 2285: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
2286: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
2287: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
2288: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
2289: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
2290: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 2291: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 2292: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
2293: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
2294: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 2295: <p>
2296: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 2297:
2298: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2299: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 2300: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
2301: Indianapolis Star, IN.
2302: </strong></font>
2303:
2304: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 2305: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
2306: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2307: Miami Herald, FL.
2308: </strong></font>
2309:
2310: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 2311: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 2312: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
2313: </strong></font>
2314:
2315: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2316: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 2317: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 2318: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 2319: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 2320:
2321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2322: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
2323: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
2324: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
2325: ABC News.
2326: </strong></font>
2327:
1.276 deraadt 2328: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2329: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 2330: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 2331: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 2332: </strong></font>
2333:
1.286 dhartmei 2334: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2335: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 2336: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2337: Wilmington Star, NC.
2338: </strong></font>
2339:
1.300 jose 2340: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2341: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
2342: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
2343: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
2344: </strong></font>
2345:
1.309 jose 2346: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2347: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
2348: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
2349: Globe Technology.
2350: </strong></font>
2351:
1.263 deraadt 2352: </ul>
1.262 beck 2353: <p>
2354:
2355: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 2356: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
2357: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2358: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 2359: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 2360: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 2361: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
2362: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
2363: <p>
2364:
2365: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 2366: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
2367: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
2368: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 2369: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 2370: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
2371: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
2372: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
2373: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
2374: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
2375: and simply restates other press reports.
2376: <p>
2377:
2378: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 2379: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
2380: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2381: OS News, April 18, 2003.
2382: </strong></font><br>
2383: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
2384: <p>
2385:
2386: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 2387: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
2388: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2389: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 2390: </strong></font><br>
2391: Another report on the DARPA funding.
2392: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
2393: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
2394: <p>
2395:
2396: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 2397: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
2398: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
2399: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
2400: April 17, 2003.
2401: </strong></font><br>
2402: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
2403: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
2404: Tech Anthems</a>
2405: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
2406: 4 so far.
2407: <p>
2408:
2409: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 2410: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
2411: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2412: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2413: </strong></font><br>
2414: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
2415: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
2416: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
2417: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
2418: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
2419: Goes on to say:
2420: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
2421: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
2422: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
2423: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 2424: This article is also found online at:
2425: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 2426: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2427: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
2428: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
2429: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 2430: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 2431: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2432: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
2433: ZDnet</a>,
2434: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 2435: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 2436: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2437: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
2438: ZDnet Australia</a>,
2439: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 2440: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 2441: </ul>
1.260 ian 2442: <p>
1.279 deraadt 2443:
1.260 ian 2444: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2445: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 2446: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 2447: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2448: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 2449: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 2450: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
2451: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
2452: without notice or justification.
2453: <p>
2454:
2455: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2456: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 2457: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 2458: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2459: </strong></font><br>
2460: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
2461: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 2462: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 2463: effective today, without any warning..."
2464: <p>
1.257 ian 2465:
2466: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 2467: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
2468: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2469: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 2470: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 2471: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
2472: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
2473: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
2474: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
2475: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 2476: <p>
2477:
2478: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 2479: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
2480: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2481: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 2482: </strong></font><br>
2483: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
2484: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
2485: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
2486: quoting two of them:
2487: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
2488: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
2489: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
2490: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
2491: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
2492: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
2493: <p>
2494:
1.255 ian 2495: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2496: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
2497: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 2498: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2499: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 2500: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 2501: <p>
2502:
2503: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 2504: [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 2505: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2506: </strong></font><br>
2507: New security concepts in OpenBSD
2508: <p>
2509:
2510: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 2511: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
2512: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2513: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 2514: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 2515: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 2516: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
2517: security experts for more than three decades."
2518: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
2519: <p>
1.261 ian 2520:
1.254 drahn 2521: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 2522: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 2523: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2524: </strong></font><br>
2525: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
2526: <p>
2527:
2528: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 2529: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
2530: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
2531: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
2532: </strong></font><br>
2533: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
2534: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
2535: discussion OpenBSD's path.
2536: <p>
2537:
2538: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 2539: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
2540: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2541: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 2542: </strong></font><br>
2543: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
2544: from US DARPA.
2545: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
2546: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
2547: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
2548: the BSD license.
2549: <p>
2550: </ul>
2551:
1.251 ian 2552: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
2553: <ul>
2554:
2555: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2556: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
2557: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
2558: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
2559: </strong></font><br>
2560:
2561: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
2562: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
2563: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
2564: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
2565: <p>
2566:
2567: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 2568: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
2569: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 2570: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 2571: </strong></font><br>
2572: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
2573: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
2574: Mentions
2575: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
2576: and
2577: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
2578: programs.
2579: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 2580: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 2581: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
2582: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
2583: <p>
1.325 ian 2584: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
2585: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 2586:
2587: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2588: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
2589: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
2590: </strong></font><br>
2591: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
2592: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
2593: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
2594: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
2595: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
2596: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
2597: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
2598: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
2599: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
2600: put into service."
2601: <p>
2602: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
2603: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
2604: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
2605: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
2606: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
2607: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
2608: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
2609: computers with security features."
2610: <p>
1.329 ian 2611:
2612: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2613: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
2614: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
2615: Slate,
2616: March 3, 2003.
2617: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 2618: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 2619: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
2620: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
2621: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
2622: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
2623: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
2624: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
2625: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
2626: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
2627: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
2628: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
2629: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
2630: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
2631: of more secure open-source solutions like
2632: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
2633: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
2634: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
2635: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
2636: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
2637: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
2638: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
2639: the Beltway."
2640: <p>
1.251 ian 2641: </ul>
2642:
1.249 jufi 2643: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
2644: <ul>
2645: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2646: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
2647: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2648: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 2649: </strong></font><br>
2650: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
2651: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 2652: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 2653: <p>
1.334 ian 2654:
2655: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2656: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
2657: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
2658: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
2659: </strong></font><br>
2660: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
2661: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
2662: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
2663: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
2664: "... the hypothetical question ...
2665: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
2666: <br>
2667: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
2668: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
2669: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
2670: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
2671: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
2672: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 2673: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 2674: support network security.
2675: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
2676: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
2677: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
2678: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
2679: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
2680: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
2681: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
2682: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
2683: <br>
2684: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
2685: <p>
2686:
1.249 jufi 2687: </ul>
2688:
1.246 jufi 2689: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2690: <ul>
1.246 jufi 2691:
1.247 jufi 2692: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2693: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 2694: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2695: CNET News.com, December 4, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2696: </strong></font><br>
2697: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
2698: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
2699: <p>
2700:
1.247 jufi 2701: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2702: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
2703: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2704: Heise News-Ticker, December 4, 2002
1.301 jose 2705: </strong></font><br>
1.460 david 2706: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III CPU
1.301 jose 2707: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
2708: <p>
2709:
2710: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2711: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 2712: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2713: eWeek, December 3, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2714: </strong></font><br>
2715: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
2716: in their annual OpenHack security test.
2717: <p>
1.247 jufi 2718: </ul>
1.246 jufi 2719:
1.244 jufi 2720: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2721: <ul>
1.246 jufi 2722:
1.247 jufi 2723: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2724: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
2725: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
2726: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2727: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2728: </strong></font><br>
2729: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
2730: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
2731: md5 digests.
2732: <p>
2733:
1.247 jufi 2734: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2735: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 2736: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
2737: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2738: </strong></font><br>
2739: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
2740: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
2741: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
2742: right the first time."
2743: <p>
1.247 jufi 2744: </ul>
1.244 jufi 2745:
2746:
2747: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2748: <ul>
1.244 jufi 2749:
1.247 jufi 2750: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2751: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2752: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
2753: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2754: </strong></font><br>
2755: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
2756: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
2757: part 6</a>.
2758: <p>
2759:
1.247 jufi 2760: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2761: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 2762: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
2763: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2764: O'Reilly Network, August 8, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2765: </strong></font><br>
2766: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
2767: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
2768: <p>
1.301 jose 2769:
2770: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2771: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
2772: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
2773: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
2774: </strong></font><br>
2775:
2776: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
2777: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
2778: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
2779: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
2780: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
2781: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
2782: <i>Here's the
2783: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
2784: <p>
1.247 jufi 2785: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2786:
2787: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2788: <ul>
1.242 jufi 2789:
1.247 jufi 2790: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2791: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 2792: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2793: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2794: </strong></font><br>
2795: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
2796: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
2797: <p>
2798:
1.247 jufi 2799: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2800: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2801: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2802: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 1, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2803: </strong></font><br>
2804: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
2805: this time using pf.
2806: <p>
1.247 jufi 2807: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2808:
2809: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2810: <ul>
1.242 jufi 2811:
1.247 jufi 2812: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2813: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2814: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
2815: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2816: </strong></font><br>
2817: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
2818: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
2819: their rotation.
2820: <p>
2821:
1.247 jufi 2822: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2823: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2824: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2825: O'Reilly Network, June 6, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2826: </strong></font><br>
2827: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
2828: <p>
1.247 jufi 2829: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2830:
1.239 jufi 2831: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2832: <ul>
1.239 jufi 2833:
1.247 jufi 2834: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2835: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2836: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
2837: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2838: </strong></font><br>
2839: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
2840: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
2841: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
2842: <p>
2843:
1.247 jufi 2844: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 2845: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2846: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
2847: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 2848: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 2849: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
2850: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
2851: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 2852: <p>
1.247 jufi 2853: </ul>
1.239 jufi 2854:
1.235 lebel 2855: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2856: <ul>
1.235 lebel 2857:
1.239 jufi 2858:
1.247 jufi 2859: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 2860: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 2861: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
2862: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 2863: </strong></font><br>
2864: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
2865: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
2866: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
2867: <p>
1.301 jose 2868:
1.247 jufi 2869: </ul>
1.235 lebel 2870:
1.228 horacio 2871: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2872: <ul>
1.228 horacio 2873:
1.247 jufi 2874: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2875: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2876: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
2877: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 2878: </strong></font><br>
2879: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
2880: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
2881: <p>
2882:
1.247 jufi 2883: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 2884: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 2885: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
2886: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 2887: </strong></font><br>
2888: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
2889: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
2890: <p>
2891:
1.247 jufi 2892: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 2893: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 2894: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
2895: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 2896: </strong></font><br>
2897: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
2898: on the desktop of his parents.
2899: <p>
2900:
1.247 jufi 2901: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 2902: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 2903: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
2904: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 2905: </strong></font><br>
2906: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
2907: using IPFilter.
2908:
2909: <p>
2910:
1.247 jufi 2911: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 2912: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 2913: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
2914: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 2915: </strong></font><br>
2916: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
2917: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
2918: perspectives of the four OS.
2919: <br>
2920: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 2921: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 2922: <p>
2923:
1.247 jufi 2924: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 2925: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
2926: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 2927: software and security</a>,
2928: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 2929: </strong></font><br>
2930:
2931: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
2932: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
2933: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
2934: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
2935: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
2936: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
2937: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
2938: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
2939: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
2940: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
2941: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
2942: security conscious team beyond doubt.
2943: <p>
1.247 jufi 2944: </ul>
1.228 horacio 2945:
1.225 horacio 2946: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2947: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2948:
1.247 jufi 2949: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2950: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
2951: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 2952: Interview</a>,
2953: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 2954: </strong></font><br>
2955:
2956: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
2957: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
2958: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 2959: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 2960: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
2961: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
2962: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
2963: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
2964: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 2965: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 2966: of choice.
2967: <p>
1.247 jufi 2968: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2969:
2970: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2971: <ul>
1.225 horacio 2972:
1.247 jufi 2973: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 2974: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 2975: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
2976: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 2977: </strong></font><br>
2978:
2979: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
2980: <p>
2981:
1.247 jufi 2982: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2983: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 2984: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
2985: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 2986: </strong></font><br>
2987:
2988: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
2989: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
2990: <p>
1.247 jufi 2991: </ul>
1.225 horacio 2992:
1.218 horacio 2993: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2994: <ul>
1.218 horacio 2995:
1.247 jufi 2996: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 2997: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 2998: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 2999: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 3000: </strong></font><br>
3001:
3002: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
3003: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
3004: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
3005: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
3006: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
3007: subjects. Worth a read.
3008: <p>
3009:
3010:
1.247 jufi 3011: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 3012: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 3013: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
3014: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 3015: </strong></font><br>
3016:
3017: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
3018: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
3019: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
3020: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
3021: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
3022: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
3023: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
3024: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
3025: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 3026: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 3027: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
3028: on other operating systems.<br>
3029: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
3030: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
3031: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
3032: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
3033: <p>
3034:
1.247 jufi 3035: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3036: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 3037: Operating System 2010</a>,
3038: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 3039: </strong></font><br>
3040:
3041: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
3042: covering the level of software integration into the core
3043: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
3044: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
3045: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
3046: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
3047: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
3048: <p>
3049:
1.247 jufi 3050: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 3051: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 3052: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
3053: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 3054: </strong></font><br>
3055:
3056: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
3057: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
3058: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
3059: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
3060: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
3061: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
3062: <p>
1.247 jufi 3063: </ul>
1.221 horacio 3064:
1.210 jufi 3065: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3066: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3067:
1.247 jufi 3068: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3069: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 3070: Already a Contender</a>,
3071: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 3072: </strong></font><br>
3073:
3074: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
3075: source software in response to an article which claimed that
3076: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
3077: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
3078: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
3079: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
3080: <p>
3081:
1.247 jufi 3082: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 3083: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 3084: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
3085: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 3086: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3087:
1.224 horacio 3088: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
3089: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
3090: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
3091: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
3092: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
3093: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 3094: <p>
1.247 jufi 3095: </ul>
1.215 horacio 3096:
3097: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3098: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3099:
1.247 jufi 3100: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3101: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
3102: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 3103: Division</a>,
3104: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 3105: </strong></font><br>
3106:
3107: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
3108: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 3109: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 3110: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
3111: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
3112: investment</em>.<br>
3113: The implementation details can be seen on their
3114: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
3115: <p>
3116:
1.247 jufi 3117: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3118: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
3119: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
3120: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
3121: </strong></font><br>
3122:
3123: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
3124: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
3125: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1.475 grunk 3126: laptops and T-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1.301 jose 3127: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
3128: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
3129: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
3130: <p>
3131:
3132: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3133: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 3134: Thinking about Security</a>,
3135: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 3136: </strong></font><br>
3137:
3138: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
3139: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
3140: security and says that even secured operating systems running
3141: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
3142: to time.<br>
3143: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
3144: system and just the most secure system.
3145: <p>
3146:
1.247 jufi 3147: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3148: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 3149: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
3150: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 3151: </strong></font><br>
3152:
3153: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
3154: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
3155: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
3156: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
3157: choice:<br>
3158: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
3159: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
3160: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
3161: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
3162: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
3163: network security devices and as such must be well
3164: armored."</em><br>
3165: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
3166: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
3167: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
3168: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
3169: <br>
3170: Bravo!
3171: <p>
1.247 jufi 3172: </ul>
1.210 jufi 3173:
1.207 ian 3174: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3175: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3176:
1.247 jufi 3177: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 3178: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
3179: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
3180: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 3181:
1.207 ian 3182: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
3183: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 3184: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 3185: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
3186: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
3187: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 3188: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 3189: <p>
1.247 jufi 3190: </ul>
1.207 ian 3191:
1.194 jufi 3192: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3193: <ul>
1.194 jufi 3194:
1.247 jufi 3195: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3196: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 3197: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
3198: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 3199: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3200:
1.240 miod 3201: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 3202: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
3203: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
3204: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
3205: <p>
3206:
1.247 jufi 3207: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3208: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
3209: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
3210: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
3211:
3212: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
3213: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
3214: <p>
3215:
3216: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3217: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
3218: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3219: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
3220:
3221: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
3222: <p>
3223:
3224: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3225: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 3226: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
3227: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
3228: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3229:
1.240 miod 3230: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 3231: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 3232: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
3233: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 3234: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 3235: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 3236: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
3237: <br>
1.413 deraadt 3238: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 3239: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
3240: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
3241: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
3242: <p>
3243:
1.247 jufi 3244: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 3245: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
3246: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 3247: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 3248: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3249:
1.194 jufi 3250: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
3251: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
3252: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
3253: <br>
3254: The new
3255: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 3256: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 3257: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
3258: <p>
1.247 jufi 3259: </ul>
1.194 jufi 3260:
1.190 horacio 3261: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3262: <ul>
1.190 horacio 3263:
1.247 jufi 3264: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 3265:
3266: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
3267: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
3268:
1.301 jose 3269:
1.191 jufi 3270: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
3271: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
3272:
3273: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
3274: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
3275:
1.212 horacio 3276: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
3277: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 3278: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
3279:
1.211 horacio 3280: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
3281: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 3282: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
3283:
1.247 jufi 3284: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 3285: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
3286:
1.247 jufi 3287: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 3288: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
3289:
1.212 horacio 3290: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
3291: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 3292: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
3293:
3294: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
3295: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
3296:
3297: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
3298: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
3299:
1.301 jose 3300: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
3301: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
3302:
1.191 jufi 3303: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
3304: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
3305:
3306: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 3307: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 3308:
1.192 jufi 3309: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
3310: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 3311: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 3312:
1.193 deraadt 3313: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
3314: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 3315: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 3316:
1.247 jufi 3317: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 3318: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
3319:
1.247 jufi 3320: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 3321: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
3322: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
3323:
1.213 horacio 3324: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 3325: 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 3326: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
3327:
1.190 horacio 3328: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 3329: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
3330: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
3331: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
3332: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
3333: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
3334: <p>
1.190 horacio 3335:
1.247 jufi 3336: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3337: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
3338: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
3339: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 3340: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3341:
1.195 jufi 3342: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 3343: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
3344: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
3345: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 3346: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
3347: <p>
3348:
1.247 jufi 3349: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3350: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 3351: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
3352: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
3353: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3354:
1.191 jufi 3355: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 3356: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
3357: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
3358: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
3359: <p>
3360:
3361: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3362: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
3363: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3364: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
3365:
3366: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
3367: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 3368: <p>
1.247 jufi 3369: </ul>
1.190 horacio 3370:
1.191 jufi 3371:
1.186 jufi 3372: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3373: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 3374:
1.247 jufi 3375: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 3376: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 3377: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
3378: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 3379: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 3380:
1.188 jufi 3381: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 3382: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 3383: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 3384: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
3385: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 3386: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 3387: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 3388: <p>
3389:
1.301 jose 3390: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3391: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
3392: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3393: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
3394:
3395: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
3396: <p>
1.191 jufi 3397:
1.247 jufi 3398: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 3399: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
3400: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3401: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 5, 2001
1.191 jufi 3402: </strong></font><br>
3403:
3404: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
3405: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
3406: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
3407: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
3408: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
3409: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
3410: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
3411: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
3412: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
3413: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
3414: familiar?
3415: <p>
1.247 jufi 3416: </ul>
1.191 jufi 3417:
1.178 louis 3418: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3419: <ul>
1.178 louis 3420:
1.247 jufi 3421: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 3422: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 3423: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
3424: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 3425: </strong></font><br>
3426:
3427: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
3428: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
3429: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
3430: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
3431: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
3432: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
3433: <p>
3434:
1.247 jufi 3435: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3436: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
3437: Open source under the hood</a>,
3438: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 3439: </strong></font><br>
3440:
3441: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
3442: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
3443: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
3444: <p>
3445:
1.247 jufi 3446: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3447: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
3448: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
3449: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 3450: </strong></font><br>
3451:
3452: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
3453: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
3454: <p>
1.247 jufi 3455: </ul>
1.179 louis 3456:
1.174 louis 3457:
1.175 louis 3458: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3459: <ul>
1.175 louis 3460:
1.247 jufi 3461: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3462: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
3463: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
3464: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 3465: </strong></font><br>
3466:
3467: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
3468: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
3469: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
3470: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
3471: <p>
3472:
1.247 jufi 3473: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3474: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
3475: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
3476: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 3477: </strong></font><br>
3478:
3479: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 3480: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 3481: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
3482: <p>
1.247 jufi 3483: </ul>
1.175 louis 3484:
1.176 louis 3485:
1.172 mickey 3486: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3487: <ul>
1.172 mickey 3488:
1.247 jufi 3489: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3490: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
3491: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 3492: </strong></font><br>
3493:
3494: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
3495: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
3496: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 3497: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 3498: <p>
3499:
1.247 jufi 3500: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 3501: <a
1.269 deraadt 3502: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
3503: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
3504: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 3505: </strong></font><br>
3506:
3507: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
3508: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
3509: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
3510: <p>
3511:
1.247 jufi 3512: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3513: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 3514: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
3515: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 3516: </strong></font><br>
3517:
3518: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
3519: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
3520: <p>
3521:
1.247 jufi 3522: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3523: <a
1.269 deraadt 3524: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
3525: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 3526: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
3527: </strong></font><br>
3528:
3529: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
3530: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
3531: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
3532: our own Theo de Raadt.
3533: <p>
3534:
1.247 jufi 3535: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3536: <a
1.269 deraadt 3537: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
3538: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
3539: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 3540: </strong></font><br>
3541:
3542: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
3543: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
3544: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
3545: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
3546: shut down.]
3547: <p>
3548:
1.247 jufi 3549: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3550: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 3551: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 3552: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
3553: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 3554: </strong></font><br>
3555:
3556: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
3557: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
3558: <p>
1.247 jufi 3559: </ul>
1.172 mickey 3560:
1.161 louis 3561: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3562: <ul>
1.161 louis 3563:
1.247 jufi 3564: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 3565: <a
1.269 deraadt 3566: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
3567: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
3568: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 3569: </strong></font><br>
3570:
3571: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
3572: by John Wolley
3573: <p>
3574:
1.247 jufi 3575: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 3576: <a
1.269 deraadt 3577: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
3578: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
3579: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 3580: </strong></font><br>
3581:
3582: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
3583: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
3584: OpenBSD).
3585: <p>
3586:
1.247 jufi 3587: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 3588: <a
1.247 jufi 3589: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 3590: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
3591: </strong></font><br>
3592:
3593: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
3594: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
3595: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
3596: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
3597: and hindsight.
3598: <p>
3599:
1.247 jufi 3600: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3601: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
3602: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
3603: </strong></font><br>
3604:
3605: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
3606: <p>
3607:
1.247 jufi 3608: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 3609: <a
1.168 provos 3610: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
3611: December 7, 2000
3612: </strong></font><br>
3613:
3614: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
3615: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
3616: us explain.
3617: <p>
3618:
1.247 jufi 3619: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 3620: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
3621: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 3622: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 3623: December 6, 2000
3624: </strong></font><br>
3625:
3626: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
3627: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
3628: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
3629: <p>
3630:
1.247 jufi 3631: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3632: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
3633: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
3634: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
3635: </strong></font><br>
3636:
3637: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
3638: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
3639: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
3640: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
3641: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
3642: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
3643: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
3644: <p>
3645:
3646: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 3647: <a
1.226 horacio 3648: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
3649: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 3650: </strong></font><br>
3651:
3652: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 3653: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 3654: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 3655: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
3656: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
3657: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 3658: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 3659: <p>
1.162 millert 3660:
1.247 jufi 3661: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 3662: <a
1.161 louis 3663: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
3664: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
3665: </strong></font><br>
3666:
3667: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
3668: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
3669: <p>
3670:
1.247 jufi 3671: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3672: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
3673: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
3674: </strong></font><br>
3675:
3676: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
3677: <p>
3678:
3679:
1.247 jufi 3680: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 3681: <a
1.226 horacio 3682: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
3683: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
3684: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 3685: </strong></font><br>
3686:
3687: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
3688: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
3689: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
3690: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
3691: <p>
1.247 jufi 3692: </ul>
1.169 louis 3693:
1.158 louis 3694: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3695: <ul>
1.147 louis 3696:
1.247 jufi 3697: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3698: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
3699: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 3700: </strong></font><br>
3701:
3702: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
3703: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
3704: <p>
3705:
1.247 jufi 3706: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3707: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
3708: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
3709: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 3710: </strong></font><br>
3711: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
3712: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
3713: <p>
3714:
1.247 jufi 3715: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 3716: <a
3717: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
3718: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
3719: </strong></font><br>
3720:
3721: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
3722: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
3723: <p>
3724:
1.247 jufi 3725: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3726: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 3727: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
3728: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 3729:
1.213 horacio 3730: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 3731: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 3732: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
3733: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
3734: <p>
1.215 horacio 3735:
1.247 jufi 3736: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3737: <a
3738: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
3739: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
3740: </strong></font><br>
3741:
3742: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
3743: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
3744: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
3745: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
3746: much of the attitude too).
3747: <p>
1.161 louis 3748:
1.247 jufi 3749: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3750: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3751: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 3752: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3753:
1.157 louis 3754: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
3755: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
3756: <p>
1.247 jufi 3757: </ul>
1.157 louis 3758:
3759: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3760: <ul>
1.157 louis 3761:
1.247 jufi 3762: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3763: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3764: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 3765: </strong></font><br>
3766:
3767: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
3768: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
3769: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
3770: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
3771: <p>
3772:
1.247 jufi 3773: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 3774: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
3775: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
3776: </strong></font><br>
3777:
3778: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
3779: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
3780: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
3781: it because they love coding...
3782: <p>
3783:
1.247 jufi 3784: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 3785: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
3786: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
3787: </strong></font><br>
3788:
3789: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
3790: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
3791: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
3792: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
3793: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
3794: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
3795: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
3796: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
3797: <p>
3798:
1.247 jufi 3799: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3800: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
3801: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
3802: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 3803: </strong></font><br>
3804:
3805: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
3806: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
3807: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
3808: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
3809: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
3810: the pizza.
3811: <p>
3812:
1.247 jufi 3813: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 3814: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
3815: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
3816: </strong></font><br>
3817:
3818: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
3819: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
3820: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
3821: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
3822: problems.
3823: <p>
3824:
1.247 jufi 3825: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 3826: <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 3827: </strong></font><br>
3828:
1.222 miod 3829: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 3830: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
3831: - whether they like it or not.
3832: <p>
3833:
1.247 jufi 3834: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3835: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
3836: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 3837: </strong></font><br>
3838:
3839: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
3840: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
3841: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 3842: <p>
1.148 aaron 3843:
1.247 jufi 3844: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3845: <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 3846: </strong></font><br>
3847:
3848: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
3849: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
3850: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
3851: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
3852: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
3853: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
3854: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
3855: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
3856: <p>
3857:
1.247 jufi 3858: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3859: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
3860: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 3861: </strong></font><br>
3862:
3863: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
3864: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 3865: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 3866: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
3867: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
3868: <p>
1.247 jufi 3869: </ul>
1.147 louis 3870:
1.138 louis 3871: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3872: <ul>
1.138 louis 3873:
1.247 jufi 3874: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3875: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
3876: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
3877: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
3878: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 3879: </strong></font><br>
3880:
1.227 horacio 3881: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 3882: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
3883: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
3884: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
3885: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
3886: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
3887: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
3888: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 3889: <p>
3890:
1.247 jufi 3891: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 3892: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 3893: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 3894: </strong></font><br>
3895:
3896: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
3897: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
3898: groups, and even Linux.
3899: <p>
3900:
1.247 jufi 3901: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3902: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
3903: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 3904: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
3905: </strong></font><br>
3906:
3907: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
3908: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
3909: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
3910: library after installing the OS.
3911: <p>
3912:
1.247 jufi 3913: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3914: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 3915: Sys Admin, September 2000
3916: </strong></font><br>
3917:
3918: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
3919: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
3920: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
3921: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 3922: (<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>,
3923: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
3924: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
3925: <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 3926: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 3927: out of the system.
3928: <p>
3929:
1.247 jufi 3930: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 3931: <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
3932: </strong></font><br>
3933:
3934: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 3935: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 3936: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
3937: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
3938: the IP filtering and address translation.
3939: <p>
1.301 jose 3940:
3941: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3942: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
3943: </strong></font><br>
3944:
3945: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
3946: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
3947: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
3948: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
3949: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
3950: <p>
1.247 jufi 3951: </ul>
1.200 niklas 3952:
1.131 louis 3953: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3954: <ul>
1.131 louis 3955:
1.247 jufi 3956: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3957: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
3958: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
3959: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 3960: </strong></font><br>
3961:
3962: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
3963: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
3964: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
3965: <p>
3966:
1.247 jufi 3967: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 3968: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
3969: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
3970: </strong></font><br>
3971:
3972: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
3973: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
3974: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
3975: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
3976: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
3977: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
3978: note of"</i>.
3979: <p>
3980:
1.247 jufi 3981: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 3982: <a
1.247 jufi 3983: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 3984: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
3985: </strong></font><br>
3986:
3987: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
3988: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
3989: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
3990: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
3991: <p>
3992:
1.247 jufi 3993: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 3994: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 3995: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
3996: </strong></font><br>
3997:
3998: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
3999: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
4000: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
4001: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
4002: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
4003: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
4004: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
4005: <p>
4006:
1.247 jufi 4007: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 4008: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
4009: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
4010: 2000
4011: </strong></font><br>
4012:
4013: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
4014: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
4015: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
4016: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
4017: against current industry practices.
4018: <p>
4019:
1.247 jufi 4020: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 4021: <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
4022: </strong></font><br>
4023:
4024: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
4025: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
4026: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
4027: <p>
4028:
1.247 jufi 4029: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 4030: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
4031: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
4032: </strong></font><br>
4033:
4034: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
4035: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
4036: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
4037: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
4038: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
4039: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
4040: careful code reviews, he concludes.
4041: <p>
4042:
1.247 jufi 4043: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 4044: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
4045: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
4046: </strong></font><br>
4047:
4048: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
4049: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
4050: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
4051: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
4052: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 4053: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
4054: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
4055: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 4056: <p>
1.247 jufi 4057: </ul>
1.131 louis 4058:
1.118 louis 4059: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4060: <ul>
1.118 louis 4061:
1.247 jufi 4062: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 4063: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
4064: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
4065: </strong></font><br>
4066:
4067: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
4068: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
4069: about time. The article mentions that
4070: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
4071: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
4072: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 4073: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 4074: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
4075: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 4076: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 4077: <p>
4078:
1.247 jufi 4079: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4080: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 4081: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 4082: </strong></font><br>
4083:
4084: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
4085: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
4086: of OpenSSH.
4087: <p>
4088:
1.247 jufi 4089: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4090: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4091: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 4092: </strong></font><br>
4093:
4094: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 4095: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 4096: bridging.
4097: <p>
4098:
1.247 jufi 4099: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4100: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
4101: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 4102: </strong></font><br>
4103:
1.121 deraadt 4104: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
4105: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 4106: <p>
4107:
1.247 jufi 4108: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 4109: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
4110: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
4111: </strong></font><br>
4112:
4113: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
4114: <p>
4115:
1.247 jufi 4116: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 4117: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 4118: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
4119: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 4120: </strong></font><br>
4121:
1.120 deraadt 4122: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
4123: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 4124: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
4125: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
4126: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
4127: <p>
4128:
1.247 jufi 4129: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 4130: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
4131: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
4132: </strong></font><br>
4133:
1.222 miod 4134: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 4135: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
4136: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
4137: protocols and their quirks.
4138: <p>
4139:
1.247 jufi 4140: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4141: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
4142: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 4143: </strong></font><br>
4144:
4145: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
4146: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
4147: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 4148: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 4149: <p>
4150:
1.247 jufi 4151: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 4152: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
4153: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
4154: </strong></font><br>
4155:
4156: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
4157: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
4158: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
4159: <p>
4160:
1.247 jufi 4161: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 4162: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 4163: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
4164: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 4165: </strong></font><br>
4166:
4167: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
4168: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
4169: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
4170: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
4171: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
4172: <p>
1.247 jufi 4173: </ul>
1.118 louis 4174:
1.104 louis 4175: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4176: <ul>
1.104 louis 4177:
1.247 jufi 4178: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 4179: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
4180: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
4181: </strong></font><br>
4182:
4183: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
4184: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
4185: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
4186: be a bit dry.
4187: <p>
4188:
1.247 jufi 4189: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4190: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
4191: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
4192: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
4193: </strong></font><br>
4194: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
4195: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
4196: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
4197: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
4198: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
4199: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
4200: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
4201: <p>
4202:
1.247 jufi 4203: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4204: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
4205: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 4206: 2000
1.128 louis 4207: </strong></font><br>
4208:
4209: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
4210: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
4211: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
4212: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
4213: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 4214: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 4215: <p>
4216:
1.247 jufi 4217: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4218: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
4219: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 4220: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 4221:
4222: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
4223: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
4224: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
4225: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 4226: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
4227: <p>
1.110 louis 4228:
1.247 jufi 4229: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 4230: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
4231: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
4232: </strong></font><br>
4233:
4234: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
4235: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
4236: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
4237: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
4238: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
4239: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
4240: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
4241: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
4242: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
4243: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
4244: <p>
4245:
1.247 jufi 4246: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 4247: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 4248: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 4249:
4250: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
4251: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 4252: <p>
1.108 louis 4253:
1.247 jufi 4254: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 4255: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
4256: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 4257: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 4258:
4259: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
4260: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
4261: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 4262: <p>
1.106 louis 4263:
1.247 jufi 4264: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 4265: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
4266: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 4267: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 4268:
4269: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
4270: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
4271: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
4272: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 4273: <p>
1.107 louis 4274:
1.247 jufi 4275: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4276: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
4277: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 4278: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 4279:
4280: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
4281: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 4282: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 4283: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
4284: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 4285: <p>
1.105 louis 4286:
1.247 jufi 4287: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 4288: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 4289: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 4290: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 4291:
1.113 naddy 4292: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
4293: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 4294: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 4295: <p>
1.104 louis 4296:
1.247 jufi 4297: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4298: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
4299: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
4300: </strong></font><br>
4301:
4302: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
4303: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
4304: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
4305: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
4306: <p>
1.301 jose 4307:
4308: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4309: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
4310: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
4311: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
4312:
4313: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
4314: hardware-supported cryptography.
4315: <p>
1.247 jufi 4316: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 4317:
1.85 louis 4318: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4319: <ul>
1.85 louis 4320:
1.247 jufi 4321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4322: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 4323: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 4324: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 4325:
4326: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
4327: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
4328: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
4329: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
4330: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
4331: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
4332: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 4333: <p>
1.99 louis 4334:
1.247 jufi 4335: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4336: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 4337: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 4338: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 4339:
4340: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
4341: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
4342: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
4343: conditions.
1.113 naddy 4344: <p>
1.100 louis 4345:
1.247 jufi 4346: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4347: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 4348: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 4349: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 4350:
4351: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
4352: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
4353: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
4354: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 4355: <p>
1.95 louis 4356:
1.247 jufi 4357: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4358: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 4359: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 4360: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 4361:
4362: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
4363: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 4364: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 4365: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
4366: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4367: <p>
1.92 louis 4368:
1.247 jufi 4369: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4370: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 4371: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 4372: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 4373:
4374: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
4375: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
4376: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
4377: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
4378: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
4379: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 4380: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 4381: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 4382: <p>
1.91 louis 4383:
1.247 jufi 4384: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4385: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
4386: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 4387: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 4388:
4389: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
4390: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
4391: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
4392: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
4393: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
4394: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
4395: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
4396: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
4397: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 4398: <p>
1.90 louis 4399:
1.247 jufi 4400: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 4401: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
4402: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
4403: </strong></font><br>
4404: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
4405: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
4406: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
4407: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
4408: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
4409: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
4410: <p>
4411:
1.247 jufi 4412: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 4413: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
4414: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 4415: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 4416:
1.113 naddy 4417: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
4418: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 4419: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
4420: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
4421: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
4422: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
4423: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 4424: <p>
1.87 louis 4425:
1.247 jufi 4426: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 4427: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
4428: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 4429: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 4430:
4431: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 4432: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 4433: <p>
1.85 louis 4434:
1.247 jufi 4435: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4436: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
4437: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4438: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
4439:
4440: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
4441: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
4442: <p>
4443:
4444: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 4445: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
4446: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 4447: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 4448:
4449: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 4450: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 4451: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
4452: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 4453: <p>
1.89 louis 4454:
1.247 jufi 4455: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 4456: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
1.85 louis 4457: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 4458: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 4459:
4460: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
4461: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
4462: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
4463: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
4464: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 4465: </ul>
1.85 louis 4466:
1.78 deraadt 4467: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4468: <ul>
1.74 louis 4469:
1.247 jufi 4470: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4471: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 4472: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 4473: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 4474: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 4475:
4476: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
4477: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
4478: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4479: <p>
1.83 louis 4480:
1.247 jufi 4481: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 4482: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
4483: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 4484: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 4485:
4486: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
4487: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 4488: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 4489: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
4490: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 4491: <p>
1.93 louis 4492:
1.247 jufi 4493: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4494: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
4495: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
4496: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 4497: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 4498:
1.83 louis 4499: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
4500: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
4501: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
4502: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
4503: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 4504: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
4505: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
4506: <p>
1.82 aaron 4507:
1.247 jufi 4508: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4509: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 4510: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 4511: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 4512:
1.83 louis 4513: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
4514: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
4515: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 4516: <p>
1.80 louis 4517:
1.247 jufi 4518: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4519: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 4520: Bad Press</a>,
4521: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 4522: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 4523:
4524: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 4525: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 4526: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
4527: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
4528: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 4529: <p>
1.247 jufi 4530: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 4531:
4532: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4533: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 4534:
1.247 jufi 4535: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4536: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
4537: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 4538: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 4539: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 4540:
4541: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
4542: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
4543: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
4544: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 4545: <p>
1.74 louis 4546:
1.247 jufi 4547: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 4548: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
4549: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 4550: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 4551:
1.219 horacio 4552: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
4553: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
4554: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
4555: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
4556: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
4557: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
4558: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 4559: <p>
1.88 louis 4560:
1.247 jufi 4561: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 4562: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 4563: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 4564: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 4565:
4566: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
4567: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
4568: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
4569: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 4570: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 4571: <p>
1.81 louis 4572:
1.247 jufi 4573: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4574: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 4575: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 4576: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 4577:
4578: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
4579: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
4580: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
4581: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
4582: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
4583: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
4584: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 4585: <p>
1.90 louis 4586:
1.247 jufi 4587: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4588: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 4589: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 4590: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 4591:
4592: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
4593: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
4594: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 4595: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 4596: <p>
1.247 jufi 4597: </ul>
1.71 louis 4598:
1.69 deraadt 4599: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4600: <ul>
1.70 louis 4601:
1.247 jufi 4602: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4603: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
4604: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 4605: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 4606:
4607: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
4608: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
4609: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 4610: <p>
1.70 louis 4611:
1.247 jufi 4612: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4613: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
4614: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 4615: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 4616:
4617: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 4618: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 4619: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 4620: <p>
1.68 louis 4621:
1.247 jufi 4622: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4623: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
4624: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 4625: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 4626: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 4627:
1.111 jufi 4628: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
4629: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 4630: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 4631: "secure by default" installation.
4632: <p>
1.64 louis 4633:
1.247 jufi 4634: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 4635: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 4636: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 4637: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 4638:
1.113 naddy 4639: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 4640: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 4641: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 4642: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
4643: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
4644: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 4645: <p>
1.66 louis 4646:
1.247 jufi 4647: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4648: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 4649: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4650: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 4651:
4652: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 4653: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 4654: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
4655: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
4656: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 4657: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
4658: <p>
1.83 louis 4659:
1.247 jufi 4660: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4661: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 4662: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4663: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 4664:
4665: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 4666: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
4667: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 4668: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
4669: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 4670: <p>
1.64 louis 4671:
1.247 jufi 4672: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4673: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 4674: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4675: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 4676:
4677: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
4678: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 4679: <p>
1.301 jose 4680:
4681: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4682: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
4683: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
4684: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
4685: </strong></font><br>
4686:
4687: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
4688: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
4689: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
4690: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
4691: Giving way to
4692: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
4693: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
4694: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
4695: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
4696: <p>
1.247 jufi 4697: </ul>
1.65 louis 4698:
1.69 deraadt 4699: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4700: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4701:
1.247 jufi 4702: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4703: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 4704: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 4705: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 4706:
4707: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
4708: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
4709: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
4710: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 4711: <p>
1.88 louis 4712:
1.247 jufi 4713: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4714: <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 4715: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 4716:
4717: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 4718: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
4719: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 4720: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
4721: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 4722: <p>
1.60 louis 4723:
1.247 jufi 4724: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 4725: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 4726: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 4727: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 4728: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4729:
4730: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
4731: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
4732: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 4733: <p>
1.58 louis 4734:
1.247 jufi 4735: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 4736: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 4737: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 4738:
4739: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
4740: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 4741: <p>
1.53 louis 4742:
1.247 jufi 4743: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 4744: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
4745: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 4746: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 4747:
4748: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
4749: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
4750: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 4751: <p>
1.99 louis 4752:
1.247 jufi 4753: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 4754: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 4755: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4756:
4757: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
4758: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 4759: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 4760: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 4761: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 4762:
1.247 jufi 4763: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4764: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
4765: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 4766: </strong></font><br>
4767:
4768: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
4769: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
4770: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
4771: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
4772: <p>
4773:
1.247 jufi 4774: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4775: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 4776: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 4777: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4778:
4779: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
4780: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 4781: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 4782:
1.247 jufi 4783: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 4784: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 4785: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 4786:
4787: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 4788: in
1.247 jufi 4789: <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 4790: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 4791: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 4792: <p>
1.53 louis 4793:
1.247 jufi 4794: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4795: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 4796: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
4797: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 4798: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 4799:
1.58 louis 4800: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4801: <p>
1.301 jose 4802:
4803: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4804: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
4805: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
4806: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
4807: Informacyjny, January 2000
4808: </strong></font><br>
4809:
4810: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
4811: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
4812: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
4813: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
4814: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
4815: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
4816: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
4817: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
4818: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
4819: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 4820: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
4821: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 4822: <p>
4823:
4824: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4825: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4826: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
4827: </strong></font><br>
4828:
4829: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
4830: <p>
4831: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 4832:
1.69 deraadt 4833: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4834: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4835:
1.247 jufi 4836: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4837: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
4838: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
4839: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 4840: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4841:
1.58 louis 4842: Kurt Seifried
4843: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4844: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
4845: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 4846: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 4847:
1.247 jufi 4848: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4849: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 4850: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4851: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 4852:
4853: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 4854: <p>
1.96 louis 4855:
1.247 jufi 4856: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4857: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
4858: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
4859: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
4860: </strong></font><br>
4861:
4862: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
4863: <p>
4864:
4865: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4866: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 4867: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 4868: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 4869:
4870: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
4871: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 4872: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 4873: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 4874: <p>
1.247 jufi 4875: </ul>
1.86 louis 4876:
1.69 deraadt 4877: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4878: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4879:
1.247 jufi 4880: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4881: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
4882: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 4883: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 4884:
4885: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
4886: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 4887: <p>
1.61 louis 4888:
1.247 jufi 4889: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4890: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 4891: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
4892: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4893: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 4894:
4895: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 4896: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 4897: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
4898: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 4899: right -- or at least strives to".
4900: <p>
1.48 louis 4901:
1.247 jufi 4902: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4903: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
4904: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4905: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 4906: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
4907: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
4908: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
4909: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 4910: <p>
1.61 louis 4911:
1.247 jufi 4912: <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 4913: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 4914: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 4915:
4916: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
4917: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
4918: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
4919: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 4920: <p>
1.46 louis 4921:
1.247 jufi 4922: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4923: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
4924: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4925: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4926:
4927: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
4928: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 4929: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 4930:
1.247 jufi 4931: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 4932: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
4933: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 4934: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 4935:
4936: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
4937: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
4938: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
4939: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 4940: <p>
1.247 jufi 4941: </ul>
1.70 louis 4942:
1.69 deraadt 4943: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4944: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4945:
1.247 jufi 4946: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4947: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
4948: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 4949: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 4950: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 4951:
4952: Kurt Seifried
4953: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4954: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
4955: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 4956: <p>
1.44 philen 4957:
1.247 jufi 4958: <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 4959: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 4960: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 4961:
4962: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 4963: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 4964:
1.247 jufi 4965: <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 4966: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 4967: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 4968:
4969: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 4970: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 4971:
1.247 jufi 4972: <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 4973: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 4974: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 4975:
4976: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
4977: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
4978: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
4979: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 4980: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 4981:
1.247 jufi 4982: <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 4983: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 4984: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 4985:
1.36 louis 4986: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 4987: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 4988:
1.247 jufi 4989: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 4990: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
1.39 louis 4991: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 4992: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 4993:
4994: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 4995: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 4996: </ul>
1.38 louis 4997:
1.69 deraadt 4998: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4999: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5000:
1.247 jufi 5001: <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 5002: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 5003: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 5004:
5005: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
5006: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 5007: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 5008:
1.113 naddy 5009: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 5010: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 5011: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 5012: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 5013:
5014: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
5015: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 5016: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
5017: terminal:
1.113 naddy 5018: <blockquote>
5019: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
5020: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
5021: <br>
5022: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
5023: </code>
5024: </blockquote>
5025: <p>
5026:
1.247 jufi 5027: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 5028: <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 5029: <p>
5030:
5031: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5032: <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 5033: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 5034:
5035: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
5036: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 5037: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 5038: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 5039:
1.247 jufi 5040: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5041: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
5042: Sept. 28, 1999
5043: </strong></font><br>
5044:
5045: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
5046: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
5047: translating and reprinting articles from
5048: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
5049: <p>
5050:
5051: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 5052: <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 5053: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 5054:
5055: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
5056: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
5057: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
5058: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
5059: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 5060: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 5061: <p>
1.19 louis 5062:
1.113 naddy 5063: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 5064: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 5065: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 5066:
5067: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
5068: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
5069: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 5070: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
5071: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 5072: <p>
1.16 louis 5073:
1.247 jufi 5074: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5075: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 5076: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 5077: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 5078:
1.57 louis 5079: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
5080: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
5081: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 5082: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 5083:
1.247 jufi 5084: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5085: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.466 deraadt 5086: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5087: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5088:
1.113 naddy 5089: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 5090:
1.247 jufi 5091: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 5092: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
5093: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 5094: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 5095:
1.23 louis 5096: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
5097: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
5098: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
5099: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
5100: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 5101: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 5102:
1.247 jufi 5103: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 5104: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
5105: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 5106: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 5107:
1.199 pvalchev 5108: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 5109: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
5110: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
5111: installation.
1.113 naddy 5112: <p>
1.47 louis 5113:
1.247 jufi 5114: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5115: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 5116: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 5117: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5118:
1.301 jose 5119: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
5120: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
5121: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 5122: </ul>
1.57 louis 5123:
1.69 deraadt 5124: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5125: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5126:
1.247 jufi 5127: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 5128: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 5129: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 5130: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 5131:
5132: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
5133: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 5134: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5135: <p>
1.12 louis 5136:
1.247 jufi 5137: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 5138: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 5139: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 5140: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 5141:
5142: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
5143: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 5144: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
5145: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
5146: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
5147: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
5148: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 5149: <p>
1.247 jufi 5150: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 5151:
1.69 deraadt 5152: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5153: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 5154:
1.247 jufi 5155: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 5156: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 5157: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 5158:
5159: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
5160: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
5161: available."
1.113 naddy 5162: <p>
1.301 jose 5163:
5164: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5165: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
5166: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
5167: </strong></font><br>
5168:
5169: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
5170: <p>
1.247 jufi 5171: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 5172:
1.69 deraadt 5173: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5174: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5175:
1.247 jufi 5176: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 5177: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 5178: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 5179:
5180: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
5181: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
5182: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
5183: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
5184: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 5185: <p>
1.33 louis 5186:
1.247 jufi 5187: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5188: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 5189: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 5190: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5191:
1.113 naddy 5192: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
5193: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 5194: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
5195: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
5196: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 5197: <p>
1.247 jufi 5198: </ul>
1.57 louis 5199:
1.69 deraadt 5200: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5201: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5202:
1.247 jufi 5203: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5204: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 5205: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 5206: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 5207:
5208: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
5209: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 5210: <p>
1.69 deraadt 5211:
1.247 jufi 5212: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 5213: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
5214: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
5215: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 5216: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 5217:
5218: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 5219: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 5220:
1.247 jufi 5221: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5222: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 5223:
1.113 naddy 5224: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 5225:
1.247 jufi 5226: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5227: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
1.68 louis 5228: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 5229: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 5230:
5231: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 5232: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 5233: </ul>
1.23 louis 5234:
1.69 deraadt 5235: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5236: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5237:
1.247 jufi 5238: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 5239: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 5240: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 5241:
5242: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
5243: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 5244: <p>
1.2 deraadt 5245:
1.247 jufi 5246: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5247: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 5248: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5249: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5250:
5251: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
5252: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 5253: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 5254: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 5255: </ul>
1.57 louis 5256:
1.69 deraadt 5257: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5258: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5259:
1.247 jufi 5260: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5261: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
1.15 louis 5262: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 5263: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 5264:
5265: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
5266: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
5267: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
5268: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5269: <p>
1.15 louis 5270:
1.247 jufi 5271: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 5272: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
5273: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 5274: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5275:
5276: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
5277: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
5278: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
5279: columns."
1.113 naddy 5280: <p>
1.247 jufi 5281: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5282:
1.69 deraadt 5283: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5284: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5285:
1.247 jufi 5286: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5287: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 5288: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 5289: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5290:
5291: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 5292: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 5293:
1.113 naddy 5294: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5295: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 5296: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5297:
5298: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
5299: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 5300: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 5301: </ul>
1.57 louis 5302:
1.69 deraadt 5303: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5304: <ul>
1.301 jose 5305: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5306: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
5307: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
5308: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
5309:
5310: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
5311: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
5312: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
5313: <p>
5314:
5315: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5316: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
5317: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
5318: Nov 13, 1998 and
5319: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
5320: Datateknik</a>,
5321: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
5322:
1.380 saad 5323: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 5324: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
5325: explains the licensing issues and points to our
5326: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
5327: <p>
1.69 deraadt 5328:
1.113 naddy 5329: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5330: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 5331: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 5332: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 5333:
1.222 miod 5334: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 5335: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
5336: Implementation, including a brief interview with
5337: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 5338: <p>
1.247 jufi 5339: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5340:
1.69 deraadt 5341: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5342: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5343:
1.247 jufi 5344: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5345: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 5346: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5347:
1.69 deraadt 5348: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
5349: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 5350: <p>
1.247 jufi 5351: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5352:
1.69 deraadt 5353: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5354: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 5355:
1.247 jufi 5356: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 5357: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
5358: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 5359: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5360:
1.383 jcs 5361: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 5362: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 5363: <p>
1.1 deraadt 5364:
1.247 jufi 5365: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 5366: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 5367: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
5368: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 5369: <p>
1.247 jufi 5370: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5371:
1.69 deraadt 5372: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5373: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5374:
1.247 jufi 5375: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5376: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 5377: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
5378: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 5379: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 5380: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 5381:
5382: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
5383: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
5384: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 5385: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 5386: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 5387: <p>
1.247 jufi 5388: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 5389:
5390: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5391: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5392:
1.247 jufi 5393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5394: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 5395: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 5396:
1.69 deraadt 5397: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
5398: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 5399: <p>
1.112 naddy 5400:
1.247 jufi 5401: </ul>
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1.1 deraadt 5403:
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1.216 horacio 5405: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 5406: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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