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1.514 ian 19: <h2>May, 2006</h2>
20: <ul>
1.518 ian 21:
22: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
23: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/35/1/">
24: OpenBSD 3.9 Review</a>, Software In Review, May 3, 2006
25: </strong></font><br>
26: Jem Matzan takes the 3.9 release out for a spin, and likes it.
27: Noting that each release consists of a lot of small changes
28: and some major improvements - and mentioning hardware support, sensors,
29: and "blob removal" - he clearly thinks the project is doing a lot of things right.
30: "Everything you get in the release is production-ready, secure by
31: default... and comes with possibly the finest integrated documentation
32: in the Unix-clone world. While you might find a poorly programmed
33: driver or other base system component in other BSDs and GNU/Linux
34: distributions, in OpenBSD if something is supported, it works."
35: <p>
36:
37: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
38: [GERMAN]
39: <a href="http://www.linux-magazin.de/Artikel/ausgabe/2006/06/news_zut/news_zut.html">
40: Mozilla greift OpenBSD unter die Arme</a>, Linux Magazin, Issue 06/06, May 2006, p. 18
41: </strong></font><br>
42: The German <a href="http://www.linux-magazin.de/">Linux Magazin</a> has a short
43: article about OpenBSD's financial situation and Marco Peerebroom's
44: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060321034114">call for donations</a>
45: on undeadly.org. The article further mentions how OpenSSH development
46: is connected to OpenBSD.
47: <p>
48:
1.514 ian 49: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
50: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6550">
51: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, KernelTrap, May 2, 2006
52: </strong></font><br>
53: Jeremy Andrews conducts a free-ranging interview, focused mainly on 3.9 and drivers,
54: that gives Theo a chance to explain how the big North American chip vendors'
55: business practices make it harder for open source projects,
1.515 ian 56: talk about "binary blobs" vs firmware in drivers, and more.
1.514 ian 57: There's also coverage of where the project is going up to and after 3.9 and where
1.516 steven 58: it might (or might not) go in the future, why doing things right (and
1.514 ian 59: running this project) is so important to Theo,
60: and even why he does mountain biking!
61: <p>
62:
63: </ul>
64:
1.503 ian 65: <h2>April, 2006</h2>
66: <ul>
67: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.512 ian 68: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6557">
69: OpenBSD 3.9: Blob-Busters Interviewed</a>, OnLAMP, April 27, 2006
70: </strong></font><br>
71: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several of the developers on improvements
72: in 3.9: the continuing absence of "blob drivers", IPMI and sensors, apmd performance
73: adjustment, Macs, rthreads, multicast, trunk, hostapd, and more.
1.513 saad 74: jsg clarifies the issue of "binary blob" drivers vs "firmware", and
1.512 ian 75: discusses the NVIDIA nForce Ethernet driver he did after NVIDIA did refuse
76: to give out documentation; they can't stop us, but they can slow us down.
77: The result: "There aren't any drivers in OpenBSD with binary-only components;
78: this is quite a contrast to pretty much everyone else out there."
79: marco comments on the IPMI work in 3.9, and adds:
80: "IPMI is a standard, but there are vendors out there
1.513 saad 81: that have reading comprehension issues...".
1.512 ian 82: A long list of other developers explain their contributions
83: and other changes that make 3.9 one of our best releases yet.
84: <p>
85:
86: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.517 mbalmer 87: [GERMAN]
88: <a href="http://www.guug.de/uptimes/index.html">
89: Stop BLOB!</a>, UpTimes, April 25, 2006
90: </strong></font><br>
91: Wilhelm Bühler gives an overview in a short article about Blobs, what they
92: are and why they are bad.
93: <p>
94:
95: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.508 ian 96: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/34/1/">
97: Using OpenBSD</a>, Software In Review, April 24, 2006
98: </strong></font><br>
99: Jem Matzan gives a brief overview of using the system.
100: Covers ports and packages, use of SMP kernel, and more.
101: Capsule summary of how our security policy affects the administrator:
102: "Because it is secure by default, you may have to do more initial
103: configuration with OpenBSD than with most other Unix and Unix-like
104: operating systems, but you'll spend a lot less time securing it --
105: maybe no time at all, if you follow the instructions in the manual
106: pages."
107: <p>
108:
109: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.519 ! ian 110: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/16/1749215.shtml?tid=8">
! 111: Using OpenBSD on the desktop</a>, NewsForge, April 21, 2006
! 112: </strong></font><br>
! 113: Considers the use of OpenBSD as a desktop operating system,
! 114: starting with "Secure by default" - who wants to have their desktop hacked? -
! 115: and continues:
! 116: "OpenBSD's clean code and design also provide rock-solid stability.
! 117: I used to have lots of problems and crashes with new versions of
! 118: Linux (kernel 2.6.x) and FreeBSD (versions 5.x and 6.x). The main
! 119: focus of OpenBSD developers is to provide programs that work ...
! 120: [they] prefer to improve their code rather than just
! 121: add more new features and end up with a bloated and unstable product."
! 122: Covers X, ports/packages, window managers, what is and is not supported,
! 123: and more. Final thought:
! 124: "OpenBSD's clean design and remarkable stability, along with its
! 125: proactive security, not only make OpenBSD a potential candidate for
! 126: home desktop users but also every system administrator's dream come
! 127: true for business environments."
! 128: <p>
! 129:
! 130: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.511 djm 131: [FRENCH]
1.509 djm 132: <a href="http://developpeur.journaldunet.com/itws/060419-itw-openssh-openbsd-miller.shtml">
1.511 djm 133: JDN Développeurs interviews Damien Miller</a>,
1.509 djm 134: JDN Développeurs, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
135: Interview with Damien Miller, discussing OpenSSH security, the OpenBSD
136: development approach, the problem of blobby drivers and the recent request
1.510 djm 137: for funding.
1.509 djm 138: <p>
139:
140: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.507 cloder 141: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6497">
142: Interview with developers Jonathan Gray and Damien Bergamini</a>,
143: Kerneltrap, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
144: An interview with the authors of OpenBSD's new NVIDIA Ethernet driver. OpenBSD's
145: policy forbidding binary driver blobs is discussed, and the developers give a good
146: overview of how they went about implementing the new driver.
147: <p>
148:
149: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.506 aanriot 150: [FRENCH] Principles and usage of OpenSSH,
151: <a href="http://www.gnulinuxmag.com/">Linux Magazine France</a>,
152: issue 82, April 2006, p. 28-33
153: </strong></font><br>
154: A 6 pages article from Alexandre Courbot focusses on OpenSSH and its
1.507 cloder 155: basics. It begins with an history of the different implementations, and
1.506 aanriot 156: is punctuated with examples.
157: Tunneling features are described, as well as
158: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=0">scp</a>,
159: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent&sektion=0">ssh-agent</a>,
160: and
161: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=0">sftp</a>.
162: <p>
163:
164: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.503 ian 165: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71658">
166: Mozilla Foundation spendet für OpenBSD</a>, heise online, April 4, 2006
167: </strong></font><br>
168: Short article mentioning the donation the Mozilla Foundation made in support of
169: further OpenSSH development.
170: The article emphasizes the opportunity to wire money through the project's
171: new European account - this one donation will not meet the
172: project's funding needs for all time.
173: <p>
1.504 bernd 174: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
175: [GERMAN] "OpenBSD mit finanziellen Problemen", c't 8/06, p. 45.,
176: April 3, 2006
177: </strong></font><br>
178: A very short article about OpenBSD's financial problems. They mention that
179: this could compromise future hackathons.
180: <p>
1.503 ian 181:
182: </ul>
183:
1.487 ian 184: <h2>March, 2006</h2>
185: <ul>
1.495 ian 186: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.500 ian 187: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/theo_interview.html">
1.501 ian 188: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>, DaemonNews, March, 2006
1.500 ian 189: </strong></font><br>
190: Chris Silva conducts a lightweight but wide-ranging and fun interview with Theo
191: on topics including "Puffy",
192: the logos used by certain other BSD projects -
193: Theo quips that "I really like how they make absolutely no statement at all" -
194: what's new in 3.9,
195: and of course project expenses.
196: Theo notes that "The electric bill is about $100 USD per week".
197: <!--
198: ... must be what comes from heating your house with VAXen.
199: -->
200: The interviewer nicely ends with a link to our donations page.
201: <p>
202:
203: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 204: <a href="http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/239/1/">
205: Linux supporters fiddle while OpenSSH burns</a>, The Jem Report, March 28, 2006
206: </strong></font><br>
1.499 ian 207: This write-up focusses on OpenBSD/OpenSSH funding, and has some
208: original legwork to go with it.
1.498 ian 209: Writer Jem Matzan took the trouble to
210: contact many of the companies who charge a lot for products
211: featuring OpenSSH and yet give nothing to OpenSSH in return.
212: Companies like SCO, IBM, Apple, and Sun.
213: Sun apparently did the worst job of responding:
214: "Since the release of Solaris 10, who has been a larger open source
215: software cheerleader than Sun Microsystems?", Matzan asks. "I asked Sun
216: representatives what they would do if OpenSSH were to disappear. The only response
217: I got was that there are parts of Solaris that compete with OpenSSH,
218: and that because of this, the company would rather not comment
219: further on the issue." What the Sun teleprompter-readers don't seem to realize -
220: but Matzan does - is that
221: <a href="http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/cmd/ssh/ssh/ssh.c">
222: SunSSH <em>is</em> OpenSSH</a>.
223: Or, at least, a mangled version of it...
224: IBM, on the other hand, is still trying to formulate their response.
225: <br/>
226: <p>
227:
228: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
229: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/20/2050223.shtml?tid=8">
230: Interview: Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD</a>, NewsForge, March 28, 2006
231: </strong></font><br>
232: A wide-ranging interview with Theo about new stuff in 3.9, security, funding,
233: "blob" drivers, and more.
234: Theo notes that "We've had 10 years of nearly fanatical devotion
235: to anything which can make OpenBSD more secure. A very important
236: part of that is that we have not been afraid to completely overhaul
237: anything even if it breaks backward compatibility. Secondly, when
238: we have found a flaw in any part of the system we have assumed that
239: the same mistake was made elsewhere, and gone on a hunt to fix them
240: all. Thirdly, we have developed and incorporated a collection of
241: methods that make software flaws very difficult to attack..."
242: Ends by trying to shame the companies that use OpenSSH without contributing
243: anything back - Sun is given especial mention here - and ends with
244: the tantalizing line ".. if an OpenSSH hole is found that applies to SunSSH,
245: Sun will not be informed. Or maybe that has happened already." Hmmmm.
246: <p>
247:
248: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 249: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259254,00.htm">
250: OpenBSD 3.9 adds sensor framework</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
251: </strong></font><br>
252: It's easy to focus on our project's security, but we innovate in other areas too.
253: This article highlights the "sensors" framework added in 3.9 to provide and integrated
254: approach to handling Dell PowerEdge servers' Embedded Server Management (ESM), IPMI, and
255: in general temperature and environmental issues.
256: "There is a significant new sensor framework [in OpenBSD 3.9], which
257: supports voltage sensors, fan sensors, temperature sensors, and so
258: on," said de Raadt. "Such a feature is still missing in Linux and
259: other major operating systems." ...
260: De Raadt has already been using the sensor framework to monitor the
261: machines running in
262: <a href="images/newrack.jpg">the project's server room</a>. "I now get a call
263: on my cell phone whenever something is wrong in the machine room,"
264: <p>
265:
266: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
267: <a href="http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/other/0,39020682,39259281,00.htm">
268: Paying for free software may be the bargain of a lifetime</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
269: </strong></font><br>
270: Starts with a Theo quote from the previous article on ZDNet:
271: "A culture of entitlement is starting to damage the open source community".
272: The article argues that mega-computer-companies that use open source tend to use BSD:
273: "The open BSDs may be less famous than Linux, but they are arguably
274: superior in stability and security. This has made it popular in
275: ISPs and elsewhere - Apple, for example, adopted BSD within OS X.
276: BSD, unlike software released under the GPL, carrys no legal
277: obligations for the adopter to provide anything for the community in return."
278: Goes on to argue that these companies <em>ought</em> to be fair enough
279: to send a small bit of their money back into funding open source.
280: "In the time it takes to read this article, we calculate that Apple
281: will have easily made enough to pay-off OpenBSD's annual losses,
282: with a little left over to buy black turtlenecks for all. It's not
283: just Apple's baby - other companies owe far more to OpenBSD - but
284: in open source a little symbolism goes a long way."
285: <p>
286:
1.487 ian 287: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.494 bernd 288: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71174">
289: OpenBSD muss an den Sparstrumpf</a>, heise online, March 23, 2006
290: </strong></font><br>
1.495 ian 291: OpenBSD is touching its savings - Small news article about the project's
1.494 bernd 292: financial situation.
293: <p>
294:
295: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 296: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259042,00.htm">
297: OpenBSD Founder Makes Funding Plea</a>, ZDNet UK, March 23, 2006
298: </strong></font><br>
299: One of the first mainstream sites to pick up on Marco's article (below),
300: this one reports the funding figures on how much it really costs to
301: produce our favorite operating system.
302: "Although OpenBSD has a number of commercial users, including many
303: ISPs, de Raadt claimed that all of its donations come from individuals
304: rather than companies many of who claim the have no budget to pay
305: for the operating system. "The culture of entitlement is starting
306: to damage the open source community," he said."
1.496 ian 307: <br/>
308: Also online at
309: <a href="http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/software/stories/135760.html">ZDNet India</a>.
310: <p>
311:
312: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
313: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/03/22/OpenBSD-money.html">
314: OpenBSD in Financial Trouble</a>, Ping Wales, March 21, 2006
315: </strong></font><br>
316: David Chisnall reports that "OpenBSD is one of my favourite platforms;
317: its focus on security and ease-of-use makes it a very simple and
318: safe system to use. Unfortunately, the OpenBSD organisation is now
319: experiencing financial difficulty. For the last two years, the
320: project has made a $20,000/year loss, something which it cannot
321: sustain indefinitely."
322: Goes on to report on the growing use of OpenBSD in commercial software
323: (and hardware!), and that none of the "big guys" has given anything back.
324: Unlike most of the articles on this topic, this one is kind enough to
325: include a direct link to our orders page and recommend its readers
326: to buy a copy of the CD to help fund the project.
1.495 ian 327: <p>
328:
329: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 330: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/06/03/21/1555243.shtml">
331: OpenBSD Project in Financial Danger</a>, Slashdot, March 21, 2006
332: </strong></font><br>
333: Slashdot mentions and quotes from Marco's article (below),
334: with a reminder that
335: "The OpenBSD team is the one that also develops the OpenSSH suite,
336: used nowadays almost everywhere."
337: Ends with this quote from Marco:
338: "Without naming entities or projects by name, there are others out
339: there that are sitting on some cash. It would be wonderful if these
340: entities could share some of the wealth to keep us going."
341: <p>
342:
343: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.505 grunk 344: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060321034114">
1.495 ian 345: OpenBSD Finances</a>, OpenBSD Journal, March 21, 2006
346: </strong></font><br>
347: Marco Peereboom's article notes that
348: "OpenBSD for the past 2 years has turned a loss of approximately $20K USD" per year.
349: Hackathons - where a lot of developers get together in critical mass and churn out
350: new ideas and new code in great quantity - cost from US$10K-30K each, and we try to run
351: a few of them each year.
352: Meanwhile, compananies that use OpenBSD and companies - many of them highly profitable -
353: that incorporate OpenSSH into operating systems and even routers and other appliances
354: have not been forthcoming: no major computer company has given funding
355: to the OpenBSD project.
356: It's time for them to do so.
357: <p>
358:
359: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.497 ian 360: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/08/1646257.shtml?tid=8">
361: Software RAID on OpenBSD using RAIDframe</a>, NewsForge, March 14, 2006
362: </strong></font><br>
363: "Software RAID provides an easy way to add redundancy or speed up a system
364: without spending lots of money on a RAID adapter."
365: Manolis Tzanidakis talks us through setting up RAID using OpenBSD.
366: He describes the detailed steps, and recommends careful testing
367: before putting the system into production, including taking one disk
368: out of service and ensuring that it gets reloaded correctly.
369: Ends with a technique for monitoring clean operation on an ongoing basis.
370: <p>
371:
372: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.489 deraadt 373: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">Report on Business Television</a>
374: March 10, 5:45pm MST</strong></font><br>
1.490 deraadt 375: Theo de Raadt was interviewed by Howard Green on <b>The Business Show</b>:<br>
376: <!-- North America mirror:
377: <a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB avi file</a>
1.491 deraadt 378: -->
1.490 deraadt 379: European mirror:
380: <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/20060310/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB AVI file</a>
381: <br>
382: A longer segment is also available at <a href="http://www.robtv.ca">www.robtv.ca</a>.
1.489 deraadt 383: <p>
384:
385: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.487 ian 386: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/openbgpd.html">OpenBGPd in OpenBSD</a>
387: Daemon News, March, 2006</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 388: Check out the notes and slides from Henning Brauer's presentation at
1.487 ian 389: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0602/">NANOG 36</a>;
390: the text and questions cover everything from how and why OpenBGPd got created,
391: through configuration and tools, to integration with pf and CARP,
392: to technical issues regarding use of IPSEC to provide security for BGP packets.
393: Along the way there's considerable discussion on how the program was
394: designed to provide reliability and security.
395: <p>
396:
397: </ul>
398:
1.485 ian 399: <h2>February, 2006</h2>
400: <ul>
401: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.486 ian 402: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1859">Zero to IPSec in 4 minutes</a>
403: Security Focus, February 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
404: This article, as its lead-in says,
1.497 ian 405: "looks at how to get a fully functional IPSec VPN up and running between two fresh OpenBSD
1.486 ian 406: installations in about four minutes flat".
407: If you've shied away from setting up an IPSEC VPN because of config file complexity,
408: now is the time to reconsider.
1.497 ian 409: Dragos Ruiu shows you how the ipsecctl command (introduced to the world in OpenBSD 3.8)
1.486 ian 410: makes it really easy to set up a VPN between consenting OpenBSD machines.
411: He states that he and a colleague were able to get two machines talking over IPSEC
412: in a few minutes, and only changing a few configuration files.
413: He also comments on the relative ease of installing our favorite OS, and hopes
414: that our ipsecctl will be adopted by the other BSDs (hopefully in a compatible way)
415: to make firewall setups easier all around the network.
416: But you don't need to wait for that if you're running OpenBSD 3.8; just follow
417: the steps in the article.
418: <p>
419:
420: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.485 ian 421: <a href="http://www.networkmagazineindia.com/200602/vendorvoice02.shtml">The Worm in the Machine</a>
422: Network Magazine India, February 2006</strong></font><br>
423: Dilip Ranade elaborates on several reasons why software is drearily buggy and endlessly insecure,
424: particularly in comparison with other technologies.
425: Imagines how very bad shape the automotive industry would be in if you had to sign the
426: same disclaimer of (non-)usability that almost every commercial EULA requires of computer users.
427: Ends with "I once dreamt that all the computer users in the world
428: arose in revolt and switched to hardened OpenBSD", though he admits that there's "fat chance" of it
429: happening in real life.
430: <p>
431:
432: </ul>
433:
1.492 ian 434: <h2>January, 2006</h2>
435: <ul>
436: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
437: <a href="http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2006/01/28.html">Kevin Mitnick on
438: Coast to Coast AM Radio Show with Art Bell</a>, Jan 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
439: Art Bell interviewed Kevin Mitnick on his call-in show;
440: Paul Zacharzewski from Edmonton called to ask Mitnick for his opinion of OpenBSD.
441: If you don't want to download the whole show from coasttocoastam.com,
442: you can listen to an
1.497 ian 443: <a href="http://unworkable.org/misc/mitnick.mp3">MP3 excerpt of this call</a>
1.492 ian 444: in which Mitnick says: "Well, I actually use OpenBSD, so I do like it".
445: </ul>
446:
1.483 ian 447: <h2>December, 2005</h2>
448: <ul>
449: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.484 djm 450: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/375/1">OpenSSH cutting edge</a>
451: SecurityFocus, December 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
452: Federico Biancuzzi interviews OpenSSH developer Damien Miller to discuss
453: features included in the upcoming version 4.3, public key crypto
454: protocols details, timing based attacks and anti-worm measures.
455: <p>
456:
457: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 458: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/11/21/175249.shtml?tid=92&tid=78">Creating
1.483 ian 459: Secure Wireless Access Points with OpenBSD and OpenVPN</a>
460: NewsForge, December 13, 2005</strong></font><br>
461: A cookbook approach to setting up a wireless interface as a secure Access Point
462: using OpenBSD's hostap, pf, and authpf.
463: Configuration examples are given with basic explanations and links
464: to sites with more information on most topics.
465: <p>
466:
467: </ul>
468:
469:
1.479 grunk 470: <h2>November, 2005</h2>
471: <ul>
472: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 473: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20051116145737">OpenBSD
1.482 ian 474: Goes to Venice</a>,
475: OpenBSD Journal, November 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 476: "What happens when you put a dozen developers on a little island with their
1.482 ian 477: laptops, power, and an internet connection?
478: <br/>
479: During the first week of November some OpenBSD developers met in a
480: little island in Venice's lagoon to hack on the ports system.
481: This was probably the first ports hackathon and was followed by
1.497 ian 482: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON</a>, a European conference
1.482 ian 483: fully dedicated to OpenBSD..."
484: Great coverage of the OpenBSD Porting Hackathon: people, ports, beer, ...
485: Contains a link to
486: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ven05-pvalchev/mgp00008.html">
487: pval's summary slides</a>.
488: <p>
489:
490: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.481 niallo 491: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1710223">
492: Trying out the new OpenBSD 3.8</a>,
493: NewsForge, November 11, 2005</strong></font><br>
494: This article describes the installation of OpenBSD 3.8 from a Linux user's
495: perspective, noting the simple elegance of the installer.
496: Although the installation process may be hard to get used to at first for
497: the average Linux user, the author tells us that one can learn a lot from
498: it. Furthermore, the article clears up the common misconception that working
1.497 ian 499: on an OpenBSD system is very different from working on a Linux system.
1.481 niallo 500: In particular, the author states that on OpenBSD, <i>"virtually the entire
501: catalog of familiar free and open source software titles is available through
502: the packages and ports system"</i>.
503: <p>
504:
505: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
506: <a href="http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3561526">
507: Return of The BSDs</a>,
508: internetnews.com, November 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
509: This article mentions that with all three major BSD flavors having had
510: a release this fall, BSD is <i>"still very much alive and kicking among
511: all the noise and buzz created by Linux"</i>. The author talks about
512: various new or improved features of 3.8, such as bioctl(8), hostapd(8),
513: network interface aggregation and sasyncd(8), and there are some
514: quotes from Bob Beck.
515: <p>
516:
517: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.479 grunk 518: <a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/051101/152/fvrlx.html">
519: OpenBSD 3.8 improves hardware support</a>,
520: ZDNet UK, November 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.480 ian 521: This article reports on OpenBSD 3.8, which was released on November 1.
522: The author gives an overview of the improvements and new
1.479 grunk 523: features that were made with 3.8, and quotes Theo on RAID management
524: and Linux.<br>
525: The 3.8 release hit the news also in some other places:
526: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1258232">Slashdot</a>
527: and <a href="http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=12482">OSNews</a>
528: also report about it, mostly repeating parts
529: of the release
530: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/ANNOUNCEMENT">ANNOUNCEMENT</a>.
531: <p>
532: </ul>
533:
1.476 ian 534: <h2>October, 2005</h2>
535: <ul>
536:
537: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
538: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1375194866;fp;16;fpid;0">
539: 'Nightmare' drove desperate user to open source</a>,
540: Computerworld, October 24, 2005</strong></font><br>
541: A great tale of how Mark Uemura of PricewaterhouseCoopers Japan
542: was forced to move to OpenBSD because the alternatives were too costly
543: and too unreliable.
544: This quote will rattle some cages:
545: "IT managers who want to deploy an open source solution but are
546: worried about company politics should go ahead and do it without
547: asking," according to Uemura, who was promoted to IT Manager of PWC Japan
548: after saving the company seven IT-samurais' salaries.
549: Further, "In Japan large organizations like Morgan Stanley and the
550: Bank of America have moved all their backend systems to open source,
551: Uemura said, because with open source you can reduce IT operating
552: costs without any commercial lock-in."
553: <p>
554:
1.477 saad 555: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
556: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6270">
557: OpenBSD 3.8: Hackers of the Lost RAID</a>,
558: ONLamp.com, October 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
559: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
560: new features in OpenBSD 3.8 including interface trunking,
561: internationalization support, Inter-Access Point Protocol (IAPP),
562: IPSec SA synchronization daemon, and RAID management. There is also some
563: discussion about future plans.
564: <p>
565:
1.478 grunk 566: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
567: <a href="http://securityfocus.com/columnists/361">
568: OpenBSD's network stack</a>,
569: SecurityFocus, October 12, 2005</strong></font><br>
570: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about OpenBSD's
571: network stack, including protection against ICMP attacks, and propagation
572: of enhancements into other BSDs and into Linux.
573: The interview also features the other protection mechanisms in the network
574: stack, a comparison to the network stack in Linux, and the history and
575: current status of <a href="http://www.openbgpd.org/">OpenBGPD</a>.
576: <p>
577:
1.476 ian 578: </ul>
579:
1.470 saad 580: <h2>September, 2005</h2>
581: <ul>
582:
583: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.474 niallo 584: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/359">
585: Security-related innovation in Unix</a>,
586: SecurityFocus, Sept. 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
587: An article examining the mmap-based malloc() implementation to be
588: included in OpenBSD 3.8. The author states that <i>"it will help OpenBSD
589: users to find bugs in software more easily, which will result in better
590: applications for everyone"</i>. He goes on to say that <i>"the more hurdles
591: that one has to jump through for good security, the less likely people will
592: go through the trouble. OpenBSD allows even the most inexperienced users to
593: take advantage of these technologies without any effort"</i>.
594: <p>
595:
596: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.473 aanriot 597: <a href="http://www.miscmag.com/articles/index.php3?page=2100">
598: [FRENCH] Champ libre : les chantiers OpenBSD</a>
599: Misc, number 21, Sept/Oct, 2005, p. 4-14</strong></font><br>
600: An interesting article about OpenBSD and associated projects. Saad Kadhi
601: and Guillaume Arcas describe useful things you can do with PF and
602: OpenSSH, and give a nice introduction to OpenNTPD and OpenCVS. If the
603: article is focused on the presentation, you can find some interesting
604: technical aspects people are not always acquainted to. A few examples
605: are shown, like a basic CARP setup, or the manner to use multiplexing
606: with OpenSSH and even how to check an OpenSSH server's keys using DNS.
607: <p>
608:
609: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 610: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/news/11306">
611: Big debate over small packets</a>,
612: SecurityFocus, Sept. 7, 2005</strong></font><br>
613: Robert Lemos discusses the ICMP denial-of-service vulnerabilities found
614: by Fernando Gont and fixed in OpenBSD. To date, OpenBSD is the only
615: system that has implemented all of the fixes recommended in the IETF
616: draft.
617: <p>
618:
619: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.471 saad 620: <a href="http://www.pcexpert.fr/">
621: [FRENCH] "Quel est le meilleur système libre pour votre
622: ordinateur ?"</a>,
623: PC Expert, number 156, p. 42-62</strong></font><br>
624: Philippe Roure compares 11 Linux and *BSD operating systems, including
625: OpenBSD 3.7, on different criteria such as security, documentation and
626: usability. OpenBSD earned a 5/5 mark (see pages 60-61) and while a mark
627: isn't necessarily objective, the author seems to grasp the OpenBSD
628: project, its goals, and how good is the operating system. The article
629: includes an interview with Saad Kadhi.
630: <p>
631:
632: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.470 saad 633: <a href="http://www.samag.com/articles/2005/0509/">
634: Monitoring PF Firewalls for Health and Performance</a>,
635: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 9, p. 37</strong></font><br>
636: Ryan Matteson describes several utilities that can be used to monitor the
637: health and performance of a PF firewall. Besides pfctl, the article
638: covers pftop, fwanalog, monitoring logs with tcpdump and graphing
639: performance data with pfstat.
640: <p>
641:
642: </ul>
643:
1.461 grunk 644: <h2>July, 2005</h2>
645: <ul>
646:
647: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.466 deraadt 648: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5382">
649: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part III</a>,
1.467 grunk 650: Kerneltrap, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.466 deraadt 651: Jeremy Andrews writes about the recent Blind ICMP attacks discovered
652: by Fernando Gont, and the fixes done by him and OpenBSD during the
653: 2005 Hackathon.
1.469 ian 654: The article goes into the technical background of the
1.467 grunk 655: attacks, mentioning blind ICMP attacks, "hard" ICMP errors, source
1.469 ian 656: quenching, and path MTU discovery;
657: many helpful RFCs and technical papers are linked from the explanations.
658: This is followed by a recap of the whole ICMP story, involving Gont's
1.467 grunk 659: struggle with other free projects, Cisco lawyers, Microsoft people,
660: and others.<br>
1.469 ian 661: The article concludes that OpenBSD was the first project
1.467 grunk 662: to take Fernando Gont's findings seriously, and also the first group to
663: be really painless to work with.
1.466 deraadt 664: <p>
665:
666: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.464 grunk 667: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/06/security_blame/">
668: Security meltdown: who's to blame?</a>,
1.466 deraadt 669: The Register, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.464 grunk 670: This article talks about various groups that are frequently blamed for
671: poor security:
1.467 grunk 672: individuals, ISPs, companies, crackers, security mailing lists,
1.464 grunk 673: and last but not least: OS vendors!
1.467 grunk 674: In the last paragraph, OpenBSD's style of <i>"dumbed-down, simplified
1.464 grunk 675: and secure systems (with a heavily audited code base)"</i> is described
676: as <i>"one of the smartest approaches to security"</i>.
677: <p>
678:
679: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.461 grunk 680: <a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-7-5/30084.html">
681: Theo de Raadt on Industry and Free Software</a>,
1.466 deraadt 682: The Epoch Times, July 5, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.463 tom 683: In this interview, Theo talks about the inception of the OpenBSD project
684: and its goals, as well as its impact on the commercial IT industry.
1.461 grunk 685: He points out once more that <i>"vendors who incorporate OpenSSH have
686: given us absolutely nothing back - not a cent"</i>.
687: Other topics covered include the OpenBSD team, Theo's role as
688: <i>"benevolent dictator"</i>, and the security process, which he compares
689: to the security efforts led by other free software projects and some
690: commercial vendors.
691: <p>
692:
693: </ul>
694:
1.454 ian 695: <h2>June, 2005</h2>
696: <ul>
1.468 grunk 697:
698: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
699: <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/ns-ttc062205.php">
700: The true cost of computer crime</a>,
701: EurekAlert / <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/">New Scientist Magazine</a>,
702: issue June 25, 2005</strong></font><br>
703: This article looks at computer crime, especially the way upcoming
704: vulnerability reports are dealt with. It also gives a short overview of the
1.469 ian 705: institutions involved in the process (vendors, free projects, CERTs).
1.468 grunk 706: <br>
707: The author mentions the work of Andy Ozment, who researches vulnerability
708: disclosure at the University of Cambridge. Using OpenBSD as a good example
709: of how disclosure and consequent fixing of bugs helps to strengthen security,
710: he refutes the widely spread FUD that disclosing vulnerabilities leads to
711: more harm than good. Ozment's methodology was to examine OpenBSD's CVS logs
1.469 ian 712: and note when fixes were published; his research shows that
1.468 grunk 713: <i>"the number of vulnerabilities decreases as a result of disclosure"</i>.
714: <p>
715:
1.454 ian 716: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.458 niallo 717: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0704/071.html">
718: Free Bird</a>,
719: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
720: <b>(Registration required)</b> A second Forbes article about OpenBSD, more
721: focused on the project itself this time. It contains good description of the
722: history of OpenBSD along with its prime motivations. Mention is made of the
723: DARPA grant and the annual hackathon. Theo's motto "shut up and hack" finally
724: becomes famous in this piece and there are some other very insightful quotes
725: such as "All I care about is making high-quality code. If I had to work at a
726: regular job, it would drive me nuts". This is certainly an astute and perceptive
727: article, well worth reading. Do note that the big picture of Theo's machine
728: room will only be available in the print edition.
729: <p>
1.459 deraadt 730:
1.458 niallo 731: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.456 niallo 732: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html">
733: Is Linux For Losers?</a>,
734: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
735: An interesting article, if somewhat polemic in tone, which raises questions
736: about the quality of Linux code compared to OpenBSD. There is also some short
737: discussion of the OpenBSD development model and focus (push for quality above
738: everything else) including good quotes from Theo. It seems that the need for
739: high quality software is beginning to be recognised by the mainstream.
740: <p>
1.457 deraadt 741:
1.456 niallo 742: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 743: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/06/09/2132233.shtml?tid=152&tid=8&tid=2">
1.455 ian 744: BSD cognoscenti on Linux</a>,
745: NewsForge, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
746: NewsForge talks with Theo de Raadt and NetBSD's Christos Zoulas about the
747: similarities and differences between the Linux kernel and the BSD
748: operating systems. The questions asked were similar to those asked
749: of Linus Torvalds in a <a
1.462 grunk 750: href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/09/2128249&tid=2">previous
1.455 ian 751: interview.</a>
752: <p>
753:
754: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.454 ian 755: <a href="http://www.tuxjournal.net/intervista3-en.html">
756: A good morning with Theo de Raadt</a>,
757: Tux Journal, June 2, 2005</strong></font><br>
758: Brief but wide-ranging interview with Theo in which our leader
759: opines about the good things in 3.7: "The list of new developments
760: is impressive, but in my view not nearly as impressive as the small
761: little details that continue to be fixed during each development
762: cycle." And modestly credits all the developers for the project's
763: continuing success, attributing it to "The passion of the developers,
764: and the wide experience they bring into their development efforts.
765: By amazing coincidence, our users typically have the same needs as we do."
766: Manages to sidestep getting drawn into comparisons with Linux, e.g.,
767: when asked if he likes it/why/why not, deftly replies
768: "I have never used it."
769: <p>
770:
771: </ul>
772:
1.441 deraadt 773: <h2>May, 2005</h2>
774: <ul>
775: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 776: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5190">
777: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part II</a>,
778: Kerneltrap, May 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
779: In the second installment of Kerneltrap's Hackathon 2005 feature, Jeremy
780: Andrews speaks with the pf developers at length about their plans for
781: future enhancements.
782: <p>
783:
784: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.450 deraadt 785: <a href="http://www.ctv.ca">
1.448 deraadt 786: TV coverage: OpenBSD hackathon</a>,
787: CTV/CFCN, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
788: A TV spot done a Canadian national TV station about the Calgary
789: hackathon this year, with 60 developers.<br>
790: North America mirror:
791: <ul>
1.452 marco 792: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.449 jcs 793: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a><br>
794: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a>
1.448 deraadt 795: </ul>
796: European mirror:
797: <ul>
1.452 marco 798: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.448 deraadt 799: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a>
800: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a><br>
801: </ul>
802: <p>
803:
804: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 805: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5186">
806: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part I</a>,
807: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
808: Jeremy Andrews of KernelTrap does a good job of describing what it's like
809: to be at the Hackathon in Part I of KernelTrap's Hackathon feature. Several
810: developers are interviewed in detail about what they are working on.
811: <p>
812:
813: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 814: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5184">
815: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005: Day 6?</a>,
816: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
817: Kjell Wooding describes a typical day at the Hackathon in this entertaining
818: first-hand account.
819: <p>
820:
821: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.447 cloder 822: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/05/20/1426216.shtml?tid=8">
823: Review: OpenBSD 3.7</a>,
824: NewsForge.com, May 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
825: "OpenBSD is not only highly polished and easy to
826: configure because of its documentation, it's also totally free-as-in-rights.
827: With an obsession with security, freedom of source code, and quality of
828: programming technique, OpenBSD 3.7 continues the legacy established by
829: its previous releases," writes Jem Matzan in this nice, small review.
830: <p>
831:
832: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.446 cloder 833: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/05/19/openbsd_3_7.html">
834: OpenBSD 3.7: The Wizard of OS</a>,
835: ONLamp.com, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
836: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
837: new features in OpenBSD 3.7, including new wireless chipsets, new
838: spam-fighting features, zaurus, pf improvements, propolice, and
839: many other things. A good overview of what's new in this release,
840: plus some interesting comments about future direction.
841: <p>
842:
843: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.444 niallo 844: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/software/openbsd-3.7-released.html">
1.445 niallo 845: Next incarnation of OpenBSD released</a>,
1.444 niallo 846: Ping Wales, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
847: "OpenBSD is often unjustly overlooked as a free UNIX-like system in favour of
848: the more-hyped Linux. While it receives a lot less publicity than other
849: operating systems, this is not due to lack of technical merit." says David
850: Chisnall, in what is a clear and concise overview of the new features
851: in 3.7 and indeed the project as a whole.
852: <p>
853:
854: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
855: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5114">
1.445 niallo 856: 2005 Calgary Hackathon, KernelTrap Coverage</a>,
1.444 niallo 857: Kerneltrap, May 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
858: A great article about the annual OpenBSD Hackathon, detailing how the event
859: functions, work done at previous Hackathons and features which may come out
860: of this one. Includes many relevant quotes from developers themselves, and of
861: course information about the legendary Hackathon BBQ!
862: <p>
863:
864: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.442 deraadt 865: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9658/sam0505e/">
866: "Failover Firewalls with OpenBSD and CARP"</a>,
867: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 5, p. 33
1.441 deraadt 868: </strong></font><br>
869: Jason Dixon discusses the history of the CARP and pfsync protocols
870: and demonstrates using them to create redundant stateful firewalls
871: with OpenBSD.
872: </ul>
873:
1.436 henning 874: <h2>April, 2005</h2>
875: <ul>
876: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.440 ian 877: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39195801,00.htm">
878: Security guru wants access to bug databases</a>,
879: ZDNet UK, April 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
880: Ingrid Marson reports on Cambridge professor Ross Anderson's call for analysis of
881: software maintenance records to determine whether open source code is more secure
882: than closed source, as we have long contended.
883: "One of Anderson's research students, Andy Ozment, has already done
884: research using empirical data on bugs found in the open source
885: operating system OpenBSD between 1997 and 2000. This research found
886: that finding and fixing bugs results in a more secure product..."
887: Just as the OpenBSD project has been saying for years.
888: <p>
889: This article can also be found online as
890: <a href="http://uk.builder.com/manage/project/0,39026588,39244080,00.htm">Academic
891: calls for better bug tracking</a> (uk.builder.com).
892: <p>
893:
894: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.439 espie 895: [FRENCH] "PC Expert", number 152, p. 58
896: </strong></font><br>
897: Very short interview of Marc Espie about OpenBSD as a free OS focusing
898: on security, part of a larger dossier Ťles secrets des hackersť.
899: <p>
900:
901: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.436 henning 902: [GERMAN] "Doppelwacht", iX 5/2005, p. 150.
903: </strong></font><br>
904: Stephan Tesch gives an introduction to CARP and using a pair of
905: OpenBSD boxes as Firewalls in High Availibility scenarios. He goes
1.438 martin 906: on explaining CARP and pfsync protocols, and does not forget to cover
1.436 henning 907: the issues we had with IETF.
908: </ul>
909:
1.431 ian 910: <h2>March, 2005</h2>
911: <ul>
912: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.435 reyk 913: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/4818">
914: OpenBSD's "Out of the Box" Wireless Support</a>,
915: Kerneltrap, March 8, 2005</strong></font><br>
916: This article is about the upcoming wireless support in OpenBSD 3.7 and
917: the outcome of the work to open wireless chipsets. Jeremy Andrews
918: talked with Theo de Raadt and the developers Damien Bergamini and Reyk
919: Floeter who did some efforts to implement free and functional drivers.
920: <p>
921:
922: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.431 ian 923: <a href="http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/01/1109546842718.html">
924: OpenBSD to support more wireless chipsets</a>,
925: The Age, March 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
926: "The forthcoming 3.7 release of the OpenBSD operating system has
927: added support for five more wireless chipsets, according to
928: OpenBSD project founder Theo de Raadt...
1.432 ian 929: OpenBSD 3.7 will also have have new drivers for Intel wireless
1.431 ian 930: parts that do not work without the non-redistributable firmware,"
931: namely the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11B
932: and 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11A/B/G wireless network adapters.
933: Mentions OpenBSD's activism in getting vendors to release chip specs.
934: Referring to vendors that still refuse to play ball with open source
935: projects, quotes Damien Miller as saying "Given the number of
936: appliance devices that are built on free OSs, I think that the
937: recalcitrant vendors are missing an important boat."
938:
939: </ul>
940:
1.427 matthieu 941: <h2>February, 2005</h2>
942: <ul>
943:
944: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.428 david 945: <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsaward2004.html">
946: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
947: FSF, February 26, 2005</strong></font><br>
948: The Free Software Foundation awarded Theo de Raadt their "2004 Free Software
949: Award" for his unwavering commitment to free software. Most recently he has
950: been fighting hardware manufacturers for free redistribution of wireless card
951: firmware.
1.434 ian 952: Similar articles can be found online at:
953: <ul>
954: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
955: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=419">
956: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
957: Tectonic.za, March 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
958: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
959: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article4362.phtml">
960: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
961: OSDir, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
962: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
963: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/De-Raadt-gets-free-software-award/2005/02/28/1109546758523.html?oneclick=true">
964: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
965: The Age, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
966: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 967: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/02/27/1413255.shtml?tid=99&tid=7">
1.434 ian 968: Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award</a>,
969: Slashdot, February 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
970: </ul>
1.427 matthieu 971: </ul>
972:
1.426 ian 973: <h2>January, 2005</h2>
974: <ul>
975:
976: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
977: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363731">
978: Systrace in OpenBSD</a>,
979: informit.com, January 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
980: This article talks about our systrace
1.462 grunk 981: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&sektion=1">systrace(1)</a>
1.426 ian 982: mechanism: what it is and why and
983: how to use it, with examples.
984: Another excerpt from the book
985: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
986: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
987: <p>
988:
989: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
990: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363732">
991: Overview of OpenBSD</a>,
992: informit.com, January 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
993: "OpenBSD is one of the most secure and well-designed operating
994: systems available today. It has its roots in countless hours of
995: research and development based on some of the best UNIX flavors of
996: the past, and it boasts all the features of modern operating systems.
997: The OS is widely considered one of the most secure general-purpose
998: operating systems available today and it supports many key parts
999: of the global Internet infrastructure..."
1000: This article is a sample chapter from
1001: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
1002: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
1003: <p>
1.443 ian 1004:
1005: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1006: <a href="http://www.pcplus.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=34628&subsectionid=784">
1.443 ian 1007: OpenBSD operating system</a>,
1008: PCPlus.co.uk, January, 2005</strong></font><br>
1009: Paul Grosse gives a brief tutorial on installing OpenBSD on i386 for people
1010: moving in a Windows->Linux direction, encouraging them to go a bit further for security.
1011: "While Linux out-scores Windows substantially (or completely) on [security as well as many other
1012: issues], it's still possible to use a more secure operating system on the PC... OpenBSD."
1013: Gives a brief but understandable walkthrough on the installation process, right up to
1014: downloading and installing the third-party packages, and
1015: ends with a sidebar on security.
1016: <p>
1.426 ian 1017: </ul>
1018:
1.424 ian 1019: <h2>December, 2004</h2>
1020: <ul>
1021:
1022: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.425 ian 1023: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/2329229">
1024: What are the real vulnerabilities of Linux?</a>
1025: NewsForge.com, December 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1026: Several security consultants were asked about "the real vulnerabilities of
1027: Linux". Cybersoure CEO Con Symaris seems to get it better than the rest:
1028: "One needs to approach security as a prime requirement and motivator,
1029: much as the OpenBSD team do," Zymaris said... "The Linux
1030: community mindset is different. Linux development is dynamic and
1031: races ahead towards more and broader functionality, drawing a
1032: multitude of interested parties in to make interesting extensions
1033: and adaptations at a rapid rate."
1034: <p>
1035: "In order to do security the BSD way, however, much more effort
1036: needs to be spent auditing code for holes, which is much less sexy,
1037: and attracts a different set of coders," Zymaris added.
1038: <p>
1039:
1040: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.424 ian 1041: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/281">
1042: Closed Source Hardware</a>
1043: Security Focus, December 1, 2004</strong></font><br>
1044: Symantec Threat Analyst Jason Miller analyzes the potential security threats
1045: when hardware vendors won't provide device documentation and
1046: instead provide "binary only" driver code for inclusion in open source
1047: operating systems.
1048: Miller is an open-source fan who says he uses a variety of systems, including
1049: OpenBSD on his firewall.
1050: Of the recent trend to closed-source binary drivers for open-source
1051: systems, he writes:
1052: <blockquote>
1053: The closed-source component required to support this hardware is
1054: completely independent of the associated operating system, and as
1055: such, is also independent of the engineering team, security team,
1056: auditing process, and quality control procedures normally related
1057: to the operating system...
1058: <br/>
1059: What's possibly even more disturbing is that we're talking about
1060: a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest
1061: possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a
1062: third-party vendor. This code could do anything once loaded, including
1063: leaking active WEP keys, gathering usage statistics, sniffing and
1064: disclosing traffic, and it could even introduce a subtle backdoor
1065: into the operating system itself (much the same as any device driver
1066: in a closed source operating system).
1067: <br/>
1068: [A]lthough some of these scenarios are a
1069: little far-fetched, the possibility for them to exist is there...
1070: Ultimately it becomes an issue of trust, which is a cornerstone of
1071: good security: whom do you trust, and how much do you trust them?
1072: </blockquote>
1073: <p>And he comments that trust "seems to be a one-way street": vendors
1074: demand that you trust them, but they won't trust you to know how
1075: their hardware and software operates.
1076: This lack of trust is one reason why OpenBSD has recently completed
1077: reverse-engineering the
1.462 grunk 1078: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4">
1.424 ian 1079: Atheros wireless chipset driver</a>
1080: that was originally provided as a binary insert.
1081: <p>
1082: </ul>
1083:
1.417 pvalchev 1084: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
1085: <ul>
1.421 ian 1086:
1.417 pvalchev 1087: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.422 ian 1088: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730775,00.asp">
1089: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Widens Its Scope</a>
1090: eWEEK, November 22, 2004</strong></font><br>
1091: Jason Brooks reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and likes the changes it brings,
1092: including the multi-processing support which, he notes,
1093: "will be even more important as multicore processors--which occupy space
1094: on the road maps of Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others--
1095: become more prevalent." Comments favorably on OpenNTPD
1096: ("the three-line configuration file we needed to modify ... on OpenBSD was
1097: much simpler to deal with than the equivalent configuration file on
1098: the Linux systems we've tested").
1.423 ian 1099: Overall a favorable review of some of the new stuff in 3.6.
1.422 ian 1100: <p>
1101: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 otto 1102: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
1103: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
1104: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
1105: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
1106: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
1107: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
1108: it claims to do".
1109: <p>
1110:
1111: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1112: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109994542424009&w=2">
1.421 ian 1113: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution</a>
1114: misc@, November 8, 2004</strong></font><br>
1115: Theo recounts the struggle to get Intel to provide redistributable
1116: versions of the firmware for their wireless chipsets, and their
1.423 ian 1117: ultimate refusal to allow OpenBSD to redistribute the chipsets' firmware.
1.421 ian 1118: Includes a caveat about Intel's disingenuous "FAQ", typical of many
1119: corporate FAQs that answer questions nobody actually thought
1120: to ask, and don't truthfully answer the questions you want hard answers to.
1121: At the end Theo names the names (and their emails) that need to be contacted
1122: by large numbers of end-users and developers if Intel is to change
1123: (yes, this is a hint).
1124: Of interest is that this posting to one of our mailing lists was
1125: picked up on the
1126: <a href="http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1923">Screaming
1127: Electron Forum</a> and from there reported on
1.462 grunk 1128: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/22/1249249&from=rss">
1.421 ian 1129: SlashDot</a>, where it is accompanied by a link to SlashDot's paper
1130: on effective advocacy (be firm, but also be polite).
1131: <p>
1132:
1133: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 1134: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
1135: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
1136: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
1137: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
1138: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
1139: questions about the significance and rationale behind
1140: the current efforts.
1141: <p>
1142: </ul>
1143:
1.407 henning 1144: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
1145: <ul>
1146: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 1147: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
1148: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
1149: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
1150: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
1151: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
1152: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
1153: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
1154: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
1155: <p>
1156:
1157: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 1158: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
1159: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
1160: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1161: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
1162: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
1163: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
1164: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
1165: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
1166: of the important changes in 3.6.
1.462 grunk 1167: <p>
1.415 ian 1168:
1169: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1170: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
1.414 ian 1171: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
1172: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
1173: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
1174: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
1175: overflow attacks... because
1176: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
1177: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
1178: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
1179: and propolice.
1180: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
1181: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
1182: and that's when the science falls apart."
1183: <p>
1184:
1185: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 1186: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
1187: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
1188: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
1189: Starts with the question:
1190: <blockquote>
1191: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
1192: <br/>
1193: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
1194: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
1195: <br/>
1196: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
1197: Should we believe them?"
1198: </blockquote>
1199: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
1200: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
1201: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
1202: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
1203: for your mail, web and other online activities.
1204: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
1205: <p>
1206:
1207: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 1208: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
1209: Simple Simon</a>,
1210: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
1211: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
1212: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
1213: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
1214: routing/firewall, and more.
1215: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
1216: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
1217: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
1218: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
1219: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
1220: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
1221: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
1222: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
1223: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
1224: </blockquote>
1225: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
1226: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
1227: <p>
1228:
1229: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 1230: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
1231: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 1232: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 1233: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 1234: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
1235: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
1236: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 1237: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 1238: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
1239: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
1240: in spite of it
1241: (registration required, but worth it).
1242: <p>
1243:
1244: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1245: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
1246: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
1247: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1248: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
1249: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
1250: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
1251: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 1252: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 1253: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
1254: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
1255: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
1256: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
1257: <p>
1258:
1259: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 1260: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
1261: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
1262: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
1263: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
1264: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
1265: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
1266: <blockquote>
1267: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
1268: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
1269: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
1270: a lot of analysis.
1271: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
1272: </blockquote>
1273: <p>
1274: </ul>
1275:
1.400 marco 1276: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
1277: <ul>
1278: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 1279: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
1280: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
1281: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
1282: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
1283: UNIX-like systems.
1284: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
1285: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
1286: <p>
1287: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 1288: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
1289: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 1290: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1291: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
1292: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
1293: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
1294: At one point, the article states:
1295: <blockquote>
1296: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
1297: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
1298: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
1299: </blockquote>
1300: And then quotes Theo as saying:
1301: <blockquote>
1302: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
1303: fewer are reading or auditing code."
1304: </blockquote>
1305: <p>
1306: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1307: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
1308: marks its fifth birthday</a>
1309: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1310: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
1311: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
1312: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
1313: required).
1314: <p>
1315: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 1316: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
1317: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
1318: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
1319: </strong></font><br>
1320: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
1321: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
1322: <p>
1323: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 1324: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
1325: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 1326: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 1327: </strong></font><br>
1328: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
1329: <p>
1330: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 1331: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
1332: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 1333: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 1334: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 1335: 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 1336: <p>
1337: </ul>
1338:
1.396 henning 1339: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
1340: <ul>
1341: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 1342: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
1343: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
1344: Unix Review, July, 2004
1345: </strong></font><br>
1346: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
1347: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
1.462 grunk 1348: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
1.418 ian 1349: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
1350: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
1351: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
1352: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
1353: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
1354: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
1355: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
1356: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
1357: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
1358: and even spelling/wording errors.
1359: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
1360: <p>
1361: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 1362: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 1363: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
1364: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
1365: </strong></font><br>
1366: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
1367: <p>
1368: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 1369: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 1370: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
1371: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
1372: </strong></font><br>
1373: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
1374: <p>
1375: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 1376: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
1377: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
1378: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
1379: </strong></font><br>
1380: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
1381: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
1382: <p>
1383: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 1384: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
1385: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
1386: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
1387: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
1388: <p>
1389: </ul>
1390:
1.405 jolan 1391: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
1392: <ul>
1393: <li><font color="#00900"><strong>
1394: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
1.466 deraadt 1395: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 5, 2004</strong></font>
1.405 jolan 1396: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
1397: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
1398: details on how funds are dispersed.
1399: <p>
1400: </ul>
1401:
1.393 david 1402: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
1403: <ul>
1404: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 1405: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
1406: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
1407: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
1408: </strong></font><br>
1409: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
1410: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
1411: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
1412: on inserting large number of SQL records.
1413: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
1414: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
1415: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
1416: <p>
1417:
1418: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 1419: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
1420: Secure by Default</a>,
1421: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
1422: </strong></font><br>
1423: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
1424: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
1425: <p>
1426:
1427: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1428: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
1429: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
1430: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
1431: </strong></font><br>
1432: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
1433: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
1434: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
1435: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
1436: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
1437: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
1438: <p>
1439:
1440: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1441: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
1442: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
1443: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
1444: </strong></font><br>
1445: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
1446: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
1447: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
1448: <p>
1449:
1450: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1451: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
1452: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
1453: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
1454: </strong></font><br>
1455: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
1456: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
1457: <p>
1458: </ul>
1459:
1.388 mcbride 1460: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
1461: <ul>
1.394 jolan 1462:
1463: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1464: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
1465: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
1466: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
1467: </strong></font><br>
1468: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
1469: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
1470: available for sparc64.
1471: <p>
1472:
1.390 beck 1473: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 1474: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
1475: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
1476: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
1477: </strong></font><br>
1478: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
1479: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
1480: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
1481: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
1482: <p>
1483:
1484: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 1485: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
1486: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 1487: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 1488: </strong></font><br>
1489: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
1490: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
1491: it does: CARP provides sharing
1492: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
1493: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
1494: detail to get you started using it.
1495: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
1496: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
1497: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
1498: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
1499: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
1500: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
1501: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 1502: <p>
1.391 ian 1503:
1504: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 1505: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 1506: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
1507: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 1508: </strong></font><br>
1509: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 1510: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 1511: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 1512: <p>
1.388 mcbride 1513:
1514: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1515: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
1516: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 1517: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 1518: </strong></font><br>
1519: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
1520: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
1521: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
1522: unencumbered by patents.
1523: <p>
1524: </ul>
1525:
1.378 henning 1526: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
1527: <ul>
1.384 jose 1528:
1529: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 1530: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
1531: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
1532: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
1533: </strong></font><br>
1534: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
1535: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
1536: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
1537: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
1538: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
1539: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
1540: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
1541: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
1542: in the page tables."
1543: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
1544: <p>
1545:
1546: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1547: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
1548: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
1549: </strong></font><br>
1550: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
1551: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
1552: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
1553: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 1554: <p>
1.384 jose 1555:
1.378 henning 1556: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 1557: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
1558: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 1559: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
1560: </strong></font><br>
1561: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
1562: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
1563: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
1564: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
1565: (quote:
1566: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
1567: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 1568: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 1569: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
1570: the other developers for their work on the system.
1571: <p>
1572:
1573: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1574: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
1575: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
1576: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 1577: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 1578: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
1579: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
1580: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
1581: too.
1582: <p>
1583:
1584: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 1585: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
1586: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 1587: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 1588: OpenBSD source code using
1589: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
1590: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
1591: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
1592: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
1593: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
1594: <p>
1595: </ul>
1596:
1.374 jose 1597: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
1598: <ul>
1599: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 1600: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 1601: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
1602: </strong></font><br>
1603: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
1604: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
1605: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
1606: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
1607: it."
1608: <p>
1609:
1610: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 1611: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
1612: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
1613: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
1614: </strong></font><br/>
1615: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
1616: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
1617: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
1618: <p>
1619: </ul>
1620:
1.369 ian 1621: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
1622: <ul>
1623: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1624: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
1625: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
1626: </strong></font><br/>
1627: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
1628: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
1629: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
1630: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
1631: <p>
1632:
1633: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 1634: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
1635: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
1636: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
1637: </strong></font><br/>
1638: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
1639: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
1640: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
1641: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
1642: form factor.
1643: <p>
1644:
1645: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1646: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
1647: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
1648: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
1649: Features</a>,
1650: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
1651: </strong></font><br/>
1652: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
1653: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
1654: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
1655: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
1656: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
1657: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
1658: <p>
1659: This article can also be found online at:
1660: <ul>
1661: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1662: <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 1663: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
1664: </strong></font>
1665: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
1666: </ul>
1667: <p>
1.392 david 1668:
1.371 jose 1669: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 1670: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
1671: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 1672: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
1673: </strong></font><br/>
1674: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
1675: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
1676: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 1677: <p>
1.371 jose 1678:
1679: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 1680: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 1681: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 1682: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 1683: </strong></font><br/>
1684: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
1685: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
1686: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
1687: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
1688: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
1689: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
1690: and its history with OpenBSD.
1691: </ul>
1692:
1.368 henning 1693: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
1694: <ul>
1695: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 1696: [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 1697: </strong></font><br>
1698: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
1699: </ul>
1700:
1.364 jose 1701: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
1702: <ul>
1703: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 1704: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
1705: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
1706: UNIX Review,
1707: July, 2003.
1708: </strong></font><br>
1709: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
1710: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
1711: who want more information.
1712: <p>
1713:
1714: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 1715: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
1716: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
1717: Government Computer News,
1718: July 22, 2003.
1719: </strong></font><br>
1720: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
1721: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
1722: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
1723: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
1724: <p>
1725:
1726: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1727: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
1728: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
1729: SANS Institute,
1730: July 22, 2003.
1731: </strong></font><br>
1732: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 1733: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 1734: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
1735: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
1736: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
1737: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
1738: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
1739: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
1740: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
1741: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
1742: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
1743: <p>
1744:
1745: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 1746: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
1747: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
1748: OnLamp.com,
1749: July 17, 2003.
1750: </strong></font><br>
1751: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
1752: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
1753: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
1754: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
1755: have been working on.
1756:
1757: </ul>
1758:
1.356 jose 1759: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 1760: <ul>
1761:
1762: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 1763: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
1764: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
1765: UNIX Review,
1766: June, 2003.
1767: </strong></font><br>
1768: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
1769: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
1770: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
1771: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
1772: <p>
1773:
1774: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 1775: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
1776: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
1777: eWeek,
1778: June 23, 2003.
1779: </strong></font><br>
1780: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
1781: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
1782: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
1783: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
1784: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
1785: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
1786: <p>
1787:
1788: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 1789: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
1790: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
1791: Software Development Online,
1792: June, 2003.
1793: </strong></font><br>
1794: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
1795: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
1796: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
1797: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
1798: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
1799: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
1800: current activities.
1801: <p>
1802:
1803: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 1804: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
1805: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 1806: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
1807: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
1808: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
1809: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 1810: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 1811: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
1812: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
1813: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 1814: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 1815: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
1816: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 1817: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 1818: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
1819: decisions.
1820: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
1821: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 1822: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 1823: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 1824: <p>
1825:
1826: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 1827: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
1828: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
1829: Page 58, eWeek,
1830: June 2, 2003.
1831: </strong></font><br>
1832: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
1833: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
1834: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
1835: been addressed in -current.
1836: <p>
1837:
1.356 jose 1838: </ul>
1839:
1840: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
1841: <ul>
1842:
1.355 jose 1843: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 1844: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
1845: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
1846: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
1847: </strong></font><br>
1848: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
1849: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
1850: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
1851: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
1852: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
1853: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
1854: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
1855: <p>
1856:
1857: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 1858: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
1859: Beyond Linux</a>,
1860: InfoWorld,
1861: May 23, 2003.
1862: </strong></font><br>
1863: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
1864: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
1865: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
1866: compared to the GPL.
1867: <p>
1868:
1869: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 1870: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
1871: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
1872: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 1873: May 17, 2003.
1874: </strong></font><br>
1875: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
1876: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
1877: the business section and half of another page inside
1878: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
1879: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
1880: in talking about the project's history and goals.
1881: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
1882: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
1883: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
1884: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 1885: <br>
1886: This article can also be found online at:
1887: <ul>
1888: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1889: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
1890: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
1891: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
1892: May 17, 2003
1893: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 1894: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
1895: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1896: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
1897: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
1898: Montreal Gazette,
1899: May 21, 2003
1900: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 1901: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 1902: <p>
1.346 ian 1903:
1904: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 1905: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 1906: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 1907: May 7, 2003.
1908: </strong></font><br>
1909: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
1910: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
1911: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
1912: <p>
1913:
1914: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 1915: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
1916: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1917: OsOpinion,
1918: May 6, 2003.
1919: </strong></font><br>
1920: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
1921: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
1922: <br>
1923: This article can also be found online at:
1924: <ul>
1925: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1926: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
1927: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1928: NewsFactor Network.
1929: </strong></font>
1930: </ul>
1931: <p>
1932:
1933: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1934: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 1935: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
1936: ITBusiness,
1937: May 2, 2003.
1938: </strong></font><br>
1939: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
1940: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
1941: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
1942: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
1943: <p>
1944:
1945: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 1946: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
1947: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1948: InfoWorld,
1949: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 1950: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 1951: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
1952: <br>
1953: This article can also be found online at:
1954: <ul>
1955: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1956: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
1957: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1958: IDG Singapore.
1959: </strong></font>
1960: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1961: <p>
1962:
1.339 jose 1963: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1964: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
1965: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 1966: ZDNet,
1967: May 1, 2003.
1968: </strong></font><br>
1969: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 1970: someone using parts from previous articles.
1971: <br>
1.341 deraadt 1972: This article can also be found online at:
1973: <ul>
1974: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1975: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
1976: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1977: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 1978: </strong></font>
1979: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1980: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
1981: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
1982: CNET News.com.
1983: </strong></font>
1984: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1985: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
1986: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
1987: ZDNet UK.
1988: </strong></font>
1989: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1990: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
1991: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
1992: Help Net Security, Croatia.
1993: </strong></font>
1994: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1995: <p>
1.339 jose 1996:
1.341 deraadt 1997: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1998: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 1999: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
2000: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
2001: May 1, 2003.
2002: </strong></font><br>
2003: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
2004: that have been added
2005: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
2006: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
2007: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 2008: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 2009: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
2010: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
2011: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 2012: <p>
2013:
2014: </ul>
2015:
1.253 ian 2016: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
2017: <ul>
1.255 ian 2018:
1.260 ian 2019: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2020: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 2021: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
2022: TechRepublic,
2023: April 28, 2003.
2024: </strong></font><br>
2025: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
2026: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 2027: work.<br>
2028: Can also be found online at:
2029: <ul>
2030: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2031: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
2032: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
2033: ZDNet UK.
2034: </strong></font>
2035: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 2036: <p>
2037:
2038: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 2039: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
2040: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
2041: IDG,
2042: April 24, 2003.
2043: </strong></font><br>
2044: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
2045: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
2046: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
2047: Can also be found online at:
2048: <ul>
2049: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2050: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
2051: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 2052: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 2053: </strong></font>
2054: </ul>
2055: <p>
2056:
2057: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2058: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 2059: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 2060: Slate,
2061: April 24, 2003.
2062: </strong></font><br>
2063: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
2064: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
2065: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
2066: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
2067: <p>
2068:
2069: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 2070: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2071: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
2072: April 24, 2003.
2073: </strong></font><br>
2074: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
2075: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
2076: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
2077: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
2078: <p>
2079:
2080: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 2081: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
2082: April 24, 2003.
2083: </strong></font><br>
2084: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
2085: the free software community".
2086: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
2087: other articles.
2088: <p>
2089:
2090: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2091: <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 2092: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
2093: </strong></font><br>
2094: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
2095: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
2096: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
2097: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
2098: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
2099: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
2100: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 2101: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 2102: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
2103: <br/>
2104: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
2105: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
2106: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
2107: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 2108: <br>
2109: Can also be found online at:
2110: <ul>
2111: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2112: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
2113: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
2114: Common Dreams NewsCenter
2115: </strong></font>
2116: </ul>
1.324 ian 2117: <p>
2118:
2119: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2120: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
2121: Wired, April 24, 2003.
2122: </strong></font><br>
2123: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
2124: article above.
2125: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
2126: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
2127: wasting them."
1.332 ian 2128: <br>
2129: Can also be found online at:
2130: <ul>
2131: <li>
2132: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
2133: </strong></font>
2134: </ul>
1.324 ian 2135: <p>
2136:
2137: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 2138: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
2139: </strong></font><br>
2140: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
2141: <p>
2142:
2143: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 2144: <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.
2145: </strong></font><br>
2146: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
2147: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
2148: <p>
2149:
2150: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 2151: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
2152: April 23, 2003.
2153: </strong></font><br>
2154: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
2155: <p>
2156:
2157: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 2158: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 2159: April 22, 2003.
2160: </strong></font><br>
2161: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
2162: <p>
2163:
2164: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 2165: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
2166: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
2167: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 2168: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 2169: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
2170: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
2171: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
2172: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
2173: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
2174: Can also be found online at:
2175: <ul>
2176: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2177: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 2178: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
2179: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 2180: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 2181: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2182: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 2183: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
2184: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 2185: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 2186: </ul>
2187: <p>
2188:
2189: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 2190: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
2191: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 2192: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2193: </strong></font><br>
2194: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 2195: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
2196: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
2197: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
2198: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
2199: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
2200: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 2201: <p>
2202:
2203: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 2204: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
2205: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 2206: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
2207: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 2208: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
2209: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
2210: at UPenn and DARPA.
2211: <p>
2212:
2213: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 2214: [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,
2215: France
1.315 deraadt 2216: April 18, 2003.
2217: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 2218: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 2219: <p>
2220:
2221: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 2222: [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 2223: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2224: </strong></font><br>
2225: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
2226: <p>
2227:
2228: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 2229: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
2230: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
2231: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 2232: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 2233: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
2234: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
2235: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
2236: <p>
2237:
2238: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 2239: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
2240: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2241: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 2242: </strong></font><br>
2243: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
2244: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
2245: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 2246: American century.
1.267 deraadt 2247: <p>
2248:
2249: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 2250: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
2251: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2252: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 2253: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 2254: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
2255: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
2256: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
2257: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
2258: Can also be found online at:
2259: <ul>
2260: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
2261: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 2262: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 2263: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 2264: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 2265: <p>
2266:
2267: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 2268: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 2269: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 2270: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 2271: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 2272: </strong></font><br>
2273: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 2274: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
2275: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
2276: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
2277: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 2278:
2279: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2280: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
2281: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
2282: New York Times.
2283: </strong></font>(free registration required)
2284:
1.273 deraadt 2285: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2286: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 2287: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 2288: ABC News.
2289: </strong></font>
2290:
2291: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2292: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 2293: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 2294: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 2295: </strong></font>
2296:
2297: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2298: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 2299: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 2300: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 2301: </strong></font>
2302:
2303: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 2304: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
2305: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 2306: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 2307: </strong></font>
2308:
2309: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2310: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 2311: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 2312: Times Daily, AL.
2313: </strong></font>
2314:
2315: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2316: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
2317: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
2318: Boston.com, MA.
2319: </strong></font>
2320:
2321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2322: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 2323: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 2324: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
2325: </strong></font>
2326:
2327: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 2328: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
2329: [Article was pulled]</a>
2330: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 2331: </strong></font>
2332:
2333: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2334: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
2335: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
2336: Infoshop News.
2337: </strong></font>
2338:
2339: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2340: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
2341: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2342: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
2343: </strong></font>
2344:
2345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 2346: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
2347: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
2348: Raleigh News, NC.
2349: </strong></font>
2350:
2351: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2352: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 2353: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
2354: Napa News, CA.
2355: </strong></font>
2356:
2357: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2358: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 2359: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2360: NEPA News, PA.
2361: </strong></font>
2362:
2363: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2364: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
2365: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
2366: Wired News.
2367: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 2368: <br>
2369: <li>
1.333 deraadt 2370: <font color="#009000"><strong>
2371: [JAPANESE]
2372: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
2373: Wired News Japan</a>
2374: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 2375:
1.271 deraadt 2376: </ul>
2377: <p>
1.272 deraadt 2378: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
2379: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 2380: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
2381: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
2382: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
2383: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
2384: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
2385: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 2386: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 2387: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
2388: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
2389: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 2390: <p>
2391: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 2392:
2393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2394: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 2395: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
2396: Indianapolis Star, IN.
2397: </strong></font>
2398:
2399: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 2400: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
2401: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2402: Miami Herald, FL.
2403: </strong></font>
2404:
2405: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 2406: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 2407: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
2408: </strong></font>
2409:
2410: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2411: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 2412: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 2413: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 2414: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 2415:
2416: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2417: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
2418: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
2419: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
2420: ABC News.
2421: </strong></font>
2422:
1.276 deraadt 2423: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2424: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 2425: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 2426: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 2427: </strong></font>
2428:
1.286 dhartmei 2429: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2430: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 2431: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2432: Wilmington Star, NC.
2433: </strong></font>
2434:
1.300 jose 2435: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2436: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
2437: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
2438: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
2439: </strong></font>
2440:
1.309 jose 2441: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2442: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
2443: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
2444: Globe Technology.
2445: </strong></font>
2446:
1.263 deraadt 2447: </ul>
1.262 beck 2448: <p>
2449:
2450: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 2451: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
2452: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2453: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 2454: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 2455: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 2456: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
2457: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
2458: <p>
2459:
2460: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 2461: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
2462: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
2463: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 2464: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 2465: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
2466: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
2467: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
2468: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
2469: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
2470: and simply restates other press reports.
2471: <p>
2472:
2473: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 2474: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
2475: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2476: OS News, April 18, 2003.
2477: </strong></font><br>
2478: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
2479: <p>
2480:
2481: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 2482: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
2483: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2484: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 2485: </strong></font><br>
2486: Another report on the DARPA funding.
2487: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
2488: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
2489: <p>
2490:
2491: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 2492: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
2493: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
2494: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
2495: April 17, 2003.
2496: </strong></font><br>
2497: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
2498: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
2499: Tech Anthems</a>
2500: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
2501: 4 so far.
2502: <p>
2503:
2504: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 2505: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
2506: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2507: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2508: </strong></font><br>
2509: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
2510: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
2511: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
2512: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
2513: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
2514: Goes on to say:
2515: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
2516: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
2517: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
2518: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 2519: This article is also found online at:
2520: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 2521: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2522: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
2523: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
2524: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 2525: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 2526: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2527: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
2528: ZDnet</a>,
2529: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 2530: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 2531: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2532: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
2533: ZDnet Australia</a>,
2534: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 2535: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 2536: </ul>
1.260 ian 2537: <p>
1.279 deraadt 2538:
1.260 ian 2539: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2540: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 2541: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 2542: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2543: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 2544: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 2545: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
2546: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
2547: without notice or justification.
2548: <p>
2549:
2550: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2551: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 2552: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 2553: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2554: </strong></font><br>
2555: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
2556: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 2557: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 2558: effective today, without any warning..."
2559: <p>
1.257 ian 2560:
2561: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 2562: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
2563: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2564: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 2565: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 2566: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
2567: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
2568: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
2569: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
2570: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 2571: <p>
2572:
2573: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 2574: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
2575: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2576: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 2577: </strong></font><br>
2578: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
2579: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
2580: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
2581: quoting two of them:
2582: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
2583: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
2584: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
2585: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
2586: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
2587: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
2588: <p>
2589:
1.255 ian 2590: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2591: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
2592: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 2593: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2594: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 2595: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 2596: <p>
2597:
2598: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 2599: [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 2600: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2601: </strong></font><br>
2602: New security concepts in OpenBSD
2603: <p>
2604:
2605: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 2606: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
2607: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2608: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 2609: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 2610: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 2611: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
2612: security experts for more than three decades."
2613: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
2614: <p>
1.261 ian 2615:
1.254 drahn 2616: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 2617: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 2618: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2619: </strong></font><br>
2620: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
2621: <p>
2622:
2623: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 2624: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
2625: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
2626: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
2627: </strong></font><br>
2628: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
2629: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
2630: discussion OpenBSD's path.
2631: <p>
2632:
2633: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 2634: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
2635: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2636: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 2637: </strong></font><br>
2638: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
2639: from US DARPA.
2640: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
2641: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
2642: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
2643: the BSD license.
2644: <p>
2645: </ul>
2646:
1.251 ian 2647: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
2648: <ul>
2649:
2650: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2651: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
2652: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
2653: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
2654: </strong></font><br>
2655:
2656: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
2657: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
2658: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
2659: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
2660: <p>
2661:
2662: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 2663: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
2664: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 2665: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 2666: </strong></font><br>
2667: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
2668: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
2669: Mentions
2670: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
2671: and
2672: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
2673: programs.
2674: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 2675: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 2676: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
2677: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
2678: <p>
1.325 ian 2679: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
2680: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 2681:
2682: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2683: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
2684: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
2685: </strong></font><br>
2686: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
2687: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
2688: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
2689: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
2690: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
2691: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
2692: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
2693: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
2694: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
2695: put into service."
2696: <p>
2697: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
2698: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
2699: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
2700: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
2701: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
2702: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
2703: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
2704: computers with security features."
2705: <p>
1.329 ian 2706:
2707: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2708: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
2709: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
2710: Slate,
2711: March 3, 2003.
2712: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 2713: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 2714: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
2715: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
2716: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
2717: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
2718: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
2719: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
2720: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
2721: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
2722: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
2723: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
2724: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
2725: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
2726: of more secure open-source solutions like
2727: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
2728: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
2729: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
2730: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
2731: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
2732: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
2733: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
2734: the Beltway."
2735: <p>
1.251 ian 2736: </ul>
2737:
1.249 jufi 2738: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
2739: <ul>
2740: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2741: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
2742: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2743: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 2744: </strong></font><br>
2745: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
2746: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 2747: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 2748: <p>
1.334 ian 2749:
2750: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2751: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
2752: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
2753: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
2754: </strong></font><br>
2755: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
2756: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
2757: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
2758: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
2759: "... the hypothetical question ...
2760: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
2761: <br>
2762: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
2763: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
2764: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
2765: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
2766: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
2767: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 2768: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 2769: support network security.
2770: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
2771: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
2772: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
2773: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
2774: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
2775: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
2776: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
2777: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
2778: <br>
2779: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
2780: <p>
2781:
1.249 jufi 2782: </ul>
2783:
1.246 jufi 2784: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2785: <ul>
1.246 jufi 2786:
1.247 jufi 2787: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2788: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 2789: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2790: CNET News.com, December 4, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2791: </strong></font><br>
2792: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
2793: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
2794: <p>
2795:
1.247 jufi 2796: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2797: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
2798: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2799: Heise News-Ticker, December 4, 2002
1.301 jose 2800: </strong></font><br>
1.460 david 2801: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III CPU
1.301 jose 2802: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
2803: <p>
2804:
2805: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2806: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 2807: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2808: eWeek, December 3, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2809: </strong></font><br>
2810: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
2811: in their annual OpenHack security test.
2812: <p>
1.247 jufi 2813: </ul>
1.246 jufi 2814:
1.244 jufi 2815: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2816: <ul>
1.246 jufi 2817:
1.247 jufi 2818: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2819: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
2820: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
2821: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2822: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2823: </strong></font><br>
2824: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
2825: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
2826: md5 digests.
2827: <p>
2828:
1.247 jufi 2829: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2830: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 2831: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
2832: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2833: </strong></font><br>
2834: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
2835: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
2836: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
2837: right the first time."
2838: <p>
1.247 jufi 2839: </ul>
1.244 jufi 2840:
2841:
2842: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2843: <ul>
1.244 jufi 2844:
1.247 jufi 2845: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2846: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2847: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
2848: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2849: </strong></font><br>
2850: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
2851: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
2852: part 6</a>.
2853: <p>
2854:
1.247 jufi 2855: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2856: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 2857: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
2858: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2859: O'Reilly Network, August 8, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2860: </strong></font><br>
2861: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
2862: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
2863: <p>
1.301 jose 2864:
2865: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2866: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
2867: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
2868: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
2869: </strong></font><br>
2870:
2871: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
2872: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
2873: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
2874: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
2875: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
2876: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
2877: <i>Here's the
2878: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
2879: <p>
1.247 jufi 2880: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2881:
2882: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2883: <ul>
1.242 jufi 2884:
1.247 jufi 2885: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2886: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 2887: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2888: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2889: </strong></font><br>
2890: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
2891: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
2892: <p>
2893:
1.247 jufi 2894: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2895: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2896: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2897: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 1, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2898: </strong></font><br>
2899: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
2900: this time using pf.
2901: <p>
1.247 jufi 2902: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2903:
2904: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2905: <ul>
1.242 jufi 2906:
1.247 jufi 2907: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2908: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2909: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
2910: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2911: </strong></font><br>
2912: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
2913: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
2914: their rotation.
2915: <p>
2916:
1.247 jufi 2917: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2918: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2919: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2920: O'Reilly Network, June 6, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2921: </strong></font><br>
2922: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
2923: <p>
1.247 jufi 2924: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2925:
1.239 jufi 2926: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2927: <ul>
1.239 jufi 2928:
1.247 jufi 2929: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2930: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2931: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
2932: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2933: </strong></font><br>
2934: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
2935: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
2936: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
2937: <p>
2938:
1.247 jufi 2939: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 2940: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2941: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
2942: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 2943: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 2944: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
2945: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
2946: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 2947: <p>
1.247 jufi 2948: </ul>
1.239 jufi 2949:
1.235 lebel 2950: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2951: <ul>
1.235 lebel 2952:
1.239 jufi 2953:
1.247 jufi 2954: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 2955: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 2956: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
2957: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 2958: </strong></font><br>
2959: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
2960: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
2961: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
2962: <p>
1.301 jose 2963:
1.247 jufi 2964: </ul>
1.235 lebel 2965:
1.228 horacio 2966: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2967: <ul>
1.228 horacio 2968:
1.247 jufi 2969: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2970: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2971: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
2972: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 2973: </strong></font><br>
2974: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
2975: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
2976: <p>
2977:
1.247 jufi 2978: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 2979: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 2980: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
2981: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 2982: </strong></font><br>
2983: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
2984: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
2985: <p>
2986:
1.247 jufi 2987: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 2988: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 2989: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
2990: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 2991: </strong></font><br>
2992: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
2993: on the desktop of his parents.
2994: <p>
2995:
1.247 jufi 2996: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 2997: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 2998: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
2999: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 3000: </strong></font><br>
3001: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
3002: using IPFilter.
3003:
3004: <p>
3005:
1.247 jufi 3006: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 3007: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 3008: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
3009: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 3010: </strong></font><br>
3011: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
3012: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
3013: perspectives of the four OS.
3014: <br>
3015: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 3016: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 3017: <p>
3018:
1.247 jufi 3019: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 3020: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
3021: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 3022: software and security</a>,
3023: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 3024: </strong></font><br>
3025:
3026: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
3027: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
3028: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
3029: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
3030: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
3031: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
3032: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
3033: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
3034: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
3035: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
3036: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
3037: security conscious team beyond doubt.
3038: <p>
1.247 jufi 3039: </ul>
1.228 horacio 3040:
1.225 horacio 3041: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3042: <ul>
1.225 horacio 3043:
1.247 jufi 3044: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3045: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
3046: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 3047: Interview</a>,
3048: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 3049: </strong></font><br>
3050:
3051: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
3052: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
3053: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 3054: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 3055: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
3056: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
3057: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
3058: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
3059: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 3060: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 3061: of choice.
3062: <p>
1.247 jufi 3063: </ul>
1.225 horacio 3064:
3065: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3066: <ul>
1.225 horacio 3067:
1.247 jufi 3068: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3069: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 3070: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
3071: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 3072: </strong></font><br>
3073:
3074: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
3075: <p>
3076:
1.247 jufi 3077: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3078: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 3079: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
3080: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 3081: </strong></font><br>
3082:
3083: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
3084: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
3085: <p>
1.247 jufi 3086: </ul>
1.225 horacio 3087:
1.218 horacio 3088: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3089: <ul>
1.218 horacio 3090:
1.247 jufi 3091: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 3092: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 3093: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 3094: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 3095: </strong></font><br>
3096:
3097: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
3098: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
3099: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
3100: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
3101: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
3102: subjects. Worth a read.
3103: <p>
3104:
3105:
1.247 jufi 3106: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 3107: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 3108: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
3109: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 3110: </strong></font><br>
3111:
3112: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
3113: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
3114: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
3115: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
3116: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
3117: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
3118: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
3119: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
3120: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 3121: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 3122: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
3123: on other operating systems.<br>
3124: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
3125: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
3126: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
3127: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
3128: <p>
3129:
1.247 jufi 3130: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3131: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 3132: Operating System 2010</a>,
3133: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 3134: </strong></font><br>
3135:
3136: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
3137: covering the level of software integration into the core
3138: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
3139: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
3140: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
3141: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
3142: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
3143: <p>
3144:
1.247 jufi 3145: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 3146: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 3147: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
3148: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 3149: </strong></font><br>
3150:
3151: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
3152: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
3153: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
3154: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
3155: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
3156: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
3157: <p>
1.247 jufi 3158: </ul>
1.221 horacio 3159:
1.210 jufi 3160: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3161: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3162:
1.247 jufi 3163: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3164: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 3165: Already a Contender</a>,
3166: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 3167: </strong></font><br>
3168:
3169: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
3170: source software in response to an article which claimed that
3171: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
3172: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
3173: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
3174: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
3175: <p>
3176:
1.247 jufi 3177: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 3178: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 3179: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
3180: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 3181: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3182:
1.224 horacio 3183: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
3184: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
3185: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
3186: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
3187: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
3188: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 3189: <p>
1.247 jufi 3190: </ul>
1.215 horacio 3191:
3192: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3193: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3194:
1.247 jufi 3195: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3196: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
3197: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 3198: Division</a>,
3199: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 3200: </strong></font><br>
3201:
3202: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
3203: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 3204: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 3205: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
3206: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
3207: investment</em>.<br>
3208: The implementation details can be seen on their
3209: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
3210: <p>
3211:
1.247 jufi 3212: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3213: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
3214: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
3215: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
3216: </strong></font><br>
3217:
3218: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
3219: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
3220: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1.475 grunk 3221: laptops and T-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1.301 jose 3222: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
3223: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
3224: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
3225: <p>
3226:
3227: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3228: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 3229: Thinking about Security</a>,
3230: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 3231: </strong></font><br>
3232:
3233: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
3234: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
3235: security and says that even secured operating systems running
3236: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
3237: to time.<br>
3238: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
3239: system and just the most secure system.
3240: <p>
3241:
1.247 jufi 3242: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3243: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 3244: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
3245: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 3246: </strong></font><br>
3247:
3248: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
3249: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
3250: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
3251: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
3252: choice:<br>
3253: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
3254: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
3255: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
3256: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
3257: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
3258: network security devices and as such must be well
3259: armored."</em><br>
3260: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
3261: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
3262: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
3263: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
3264: <br>
3265: Bravo!
3266: <p>
1.247 jufi 3267: </ul>
1.210 jufi 3268:
1.207 ian 3269: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3270: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3271:
1.247 jufi 3272: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 3273: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
3274: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
3275: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 3276:
1.207 ian 3277: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
3278: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 3279: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 3280: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
3281: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
3282: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 3283: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 3284: <p>
1.247 jufi 3285: </ul>
1.207 ian 3286:
1.194 jufi 3287: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3288: <ul>
1.194 jufi 3289:
1.247 jufi 3290: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3291: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 3292: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
3293: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 3294: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3295:
1.240 miod 3296: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 3297: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
3298: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
3299: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
3300: <p>
3301:
1.247 jufi 3302: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3303: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
3304: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
3305: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
3306:
3307: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
3308: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
3309: <p>
3310:
3311: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3312: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
3313: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3314: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
3315:
3316: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
3317: <p>
3318:
3319: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3320: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 3321: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
3322: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
3323: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3324:
1.240 miod 3325: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 3326: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 3327: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
3328: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 3329: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 3330: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 3331: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
3332: <br>
1.413 deraadt 3333: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 3334: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
3335: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
3336: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
3337: <p>
3338:
1.247 jufi 3339: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 3340: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
3341: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 3342: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 3343: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3344:
1.194 jufi 3345: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
3346: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
3347: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
3348: <br>
3349: The new
3350: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 3351: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 3352: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
3353: <p>
1.247 jufi 3354: </ul>
1.194 jufi 3355:
1.190 horacio 3356: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3357: <ul>
1.190 horacio 3358:
1.247 jufi 3359: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 3360:
3361: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
3362: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
3363:
1.301 jose 3364:
1.191 jufi 3365: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
3366: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
3367:
3368: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
3369: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
3370:
1.212 horacio 3371: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
3372: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 3373: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
3374:
1.211 horacio 3375: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
3376: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 3377: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
3378:
1.247 jufi 3379: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 3380: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
3381:
1.247 jufi 3382: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 3383: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
3384:
1.212 horacio 3385: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
3386: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 3387: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
3388:
3389: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
3390: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
3391:
3392: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
3393: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
3394:
1.301 jose 3395: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
3396: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
3397:
1.191 jufi 3398: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
3399: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
3400:
3401: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 3402: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 3403:
1.192 jufi 3404: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
3405: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 3406: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 3407:
1.193 deraadt 3408: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
3409: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 3410: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 3411:
1.247 jufi 3412: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 3413: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
3414:
1.247 jufi 3415: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 3416: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
3417: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
3418:
1.213 horacio 3419: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 3420: 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 3421: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
3422:
1.190 horacio 3423: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 3424: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
3425: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
3426: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
3427: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
3428: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
3429: <p>
1.190 horacio 3430:
1.247 jufi 3431: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3432: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
3433: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
3434: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 3435: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3436:
1.195 jufi 3437: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 3438: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
3439: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
3440: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 3441: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
3442: <p>
3443:
1.247 jufi 3444: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3445: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 3446: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
3447: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
3448: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3449:
1.191 jufi 3450: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 3451: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
3452: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
3453: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
3454: <p>
3455:
3456: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3457: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
3458: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3459: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
3460:
3461: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
3462: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 3463: <p>
1.247 jufi 3464: </ul>
1.190 horacio 3465:
1.191 jufi 3466:
1.186 jufi 3467: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3468: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 3469:
1.247 jufi 3470: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 3471: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 3472: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
3473: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 3474: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 3475:
1.188 jufi 3476: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 3477: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 3478: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 3479: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
3480: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 3481: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 3482: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 3483: <p>
3484:
1.301 jose 3485: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3486: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
3487: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3488: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
3489:
3490: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
3491: <p>
1.191 jufi 3492:
1.247 jufi 3493: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 3494: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
3495: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3496: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 5, 2001
1.191 jufi 3497: </strong></font><br>
3498:
3499: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
3500: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
3501: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
3502: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
3503: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
3504: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
3505: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
3506: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
3507: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
3508: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
3509: familiar?
3510: <p>
1.247 jufi 3511: </ul>
1.191 jufi 3512:
1.178 louis 3513: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3514: <ul>
1.178 louis 3515:
1.247 jufi 3516: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 3517: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 3518: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
3519: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 3520: </strong></font><br>
3521:
3522: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
3523: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
3524: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
3525: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
3526: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
3527: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
3528: <p>
3529:
1.247 jufi 3530: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3531: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
3532: Open source under the hood</a>,
3533: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 3534: </strong></font><br>
3535:
3536: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
3537: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
3538: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
3539: <p>
3540:
1.247 jufi 3541: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3542: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
3543: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
3544: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 3545: </strong></font><br>
3546:
3547: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
3548: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
3549: <p>
1.247 jufi 3550: </ul>
1.179 louis 3551:
1.174 louis 3552:
1.175 louis 3553: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3554: <ul>
1.175 louis 3555:
1.247 jufi 3556: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3557: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
3558: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
3559: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 3560: </strong></font><br>
3561:
3562: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
3563: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
3564: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
3565: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
3566: <p>
3567:
1.247 jufi 3568: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3569: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
3570: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
3571: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 3572: </strong></font><br>
3573:
3574: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 3575: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 3576: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
3577: <p>
1.247 jufi 3578: </ul>
1.175 louis 3579:
1.176 louis 3580:
1.172 mickey 3581: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3582: <ul>
1.172 mickey 3583:
1.247 jufi 3584: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3585: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
3586: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 3587: </strong></font><br>
3588:
3589: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
3590: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
3591: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 3592: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 3593: <p>
3594:
1.247 jufi 3595: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 3596: <a
1.269 deraadt 3597: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
3598: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
3599: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 3600: </strong></font><br>
3601:
3602: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
3603: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
3604: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
3605: <p>
3606:
1.247 jufi 3607: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3608: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 3609: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
3610: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 3611: </strong></font><br>
3612:
3613: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
3614: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
3615: <p>
3616:
1.247 jufi 3617: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3618: <a
1.269 deraadt 3619: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
3620: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 3621: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
3622: </strong></font><br>
3623:
3624: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
3625: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
3626: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
3627: our own Theo de Raadt.
3628: <p>
3629:
1.247 jufi 3630: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3631: <a
1.269 deraadt 3632: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
3633: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
3634: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 3635: </strong></font><br>
3636:
3637: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
3638: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
3639: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
3640: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
3641: shut down.]
3642: <p>
3643:
1.247 jufi 3644: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3645: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 3646: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 3647: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
3648: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 3649: </strong></font><br>
3650:
3651: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
3652: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
3653: <p>
1.247 jufi 3654: </ul>
1.172 mickey 3655:
1.161 louis 3656: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3657: <ul>
1.161 louis 3658:
1.247 jufi 3659: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 3660: <a
1.269 deraadt 3661: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
3662: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
3663: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 3664: </strong></font><br>
3665:
3666: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
3667: by John Wolley
3668: <p>
3669:
1.247 jufi 3670: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 3671: <a
1.269 deraadt 3672: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
3673: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
3674: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 3675: </strong></font><br>
3676:
3677: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
3678: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
3679: OpenBSD).
3680: <p>
3681:
1.247 jufi 3682: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 3683: <a
1.247 jufi 3684: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 3685: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
3686: </strong></font><br>
3687:
3688: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
3689: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
3690: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
3691: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
3692: and hindsight.
3693: <p>
3694:
1.247 jufi 3695: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3696: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
3697: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
3698: </strong></font><br>
3699:
3700: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
3701: <p>
3702:
1.247 jufi 3703: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 3704: <a
1.168 provos 3705: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
3706: December 7, 2000
3707: </strong></font><br>
3708:
3709: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
3710: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
3711: us explain.
3712: <p>
3713:
1.247 jufi 3714: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 3715: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
3716: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 3717: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 3718: December 6, 2000
3719: </strong></font><br>
3720:
3721: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
3722: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
3723: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
3724: <p>
3725:
1.247 jufi 3726: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3727: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
3728: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
3729: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
3730: </strong></font><br>
3731:
3732: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
3733: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
3734: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
3735: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
3736: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
3737: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
3738: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
3739: <p>
3740:
3741: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 3742: <a
1.226 horacio 3743: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
3744: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 3745: </strong></font><br>
3746:
3747: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 3748: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 3749: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 3750: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
3751: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
3752: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 3753: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 3754: <p>
1.162 millert 3755:
1.247 jufi 3756: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 3757: <a
1.161 louis 3758: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
3759: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
3760: </strong></font><br>
3761:
3762: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
3763: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
3764: <p>
3765:
1.247 jufi 3766: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3767: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
3768: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
3769: </strong></font><br>
3770:
3771: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
3772: <p>
3773:
3774:
1.247 jufi 3775: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 3776: <a
1.226 horacio 3777: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
3778: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
3779: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 3780: </strong></font><br>
3781:
3782: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
3783: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
3784: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
3785: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
3786: <p>
1.247 jufi 3787: </ul>
1.169 louis 3788:
1.158 louis 3789: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3790: <ul>
1.147 louis 3791:
1.247 jufi 3792: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3793: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
3794: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 3795: </strong></font><br>
3796:
3797: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
3798: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
3799: <p>
3800:
1.247 jufi 3801: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3802: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
3803: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
3804: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 3805: </strong></font><br>
3806: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
3807: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
3808: <p>
3809:
1.247 jufi 3810: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 3811: <a
3812: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
3813: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
3814: </strong></font><br>
3815:
3816: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
3817: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
3818: <p>
3819:
1.247 jufi 3820: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3821: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 3822: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
3823: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 3824:
1.213 horacio 3825: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 3826: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 3827: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
3828: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
3829: <p>
1.215 horacio 3830:
1.247 jufi 3831: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3832: <a
3833: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
3834: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
3835: </strong></font><br>
3836:
3837: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
3838: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
3839: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
3840: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
3841: much of the attitude too).
3842: <p>
1.161 louis 3843:
1.247 jufi 3844: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3845: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3846: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 3847: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3848:
1.157 louis 3849: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
3850: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
3851: <p>
1.247 jufi 3852: </ul>
1.157 louis 3853:
3854: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3855: <ul>
1.157 louis 3856:
1.247 jufi 3857: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3858: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3859: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 3860: </strong></font><br>
3861:
3862: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
3863: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
3864: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
3865: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
3866: <p>
3867:
1.247 jufi 3868: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 3869: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
3870: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
3871: </strong></font><br>
3872:
3873: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
3874: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
3875: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
3876: it because they love coding...
3877: <p>
3878:
1.247 jufi 3879: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 3880: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
3881: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
3882: </strong></font><br>
3883:
3884: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
3885: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
3886: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
3887: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
3888: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
3889: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
3890: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
3891: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
3892: <p>
3893:
1.247 jufi 3894: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3895: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
3896: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
3897: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 3898: </strong></font><br>
3899:
3900: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
3901: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
3902: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
3903: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
3904: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
3905: the pizza.
3906: <p>
3907:
1.247 jufi 3908: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 3909: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
3910: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
3911: </strong></font><br>
3912:
3913: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
3914: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
3915: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
3916: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
3917: problems.
3918: <p>
3919:
1.247 jufi 3920: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 3921: <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 3922: </strong></font><br>
3923:
1.222 miod 3924: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 3925: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
3926: - whether they like it or not.
3927: <p>
3928:
1.247 jufi 3929: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3930: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
3931: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 3932: </strong></font><br>
3933:
3934: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
3935: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
3936: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 3937: <p>
1.148 aaron 3938:
1.247 jufi 3939: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3940: <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 3941: </strong></font><br>
3942:
3943: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
3944: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
3945: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
3946: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
3947: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
3948: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
3949: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
3950: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
3951: <p>
3952:
1.247 jufi 3953: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3954: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
3955: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 3956: </strong></font><br>
3957:
3958: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
3959: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 3960: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 3961: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
3962: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
3963: <p>
1.247 jufi 3964: </ul>
1.147 louis 3965:
1.138 louis 3966: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3967: <ul>
1.138 louis 3968:
1.247 jufi 3969: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3970: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
3971: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
3972: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
3973: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 3974: </strong></font><br>
3975:
1.227 horacio 3976: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 3977: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
3978: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
3979: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
3980: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
3981: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
3982: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
3983: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 3984: <p>
3985:
1.247 jufi 3986: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 3987: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 3988: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 3989: </strong></font><br>
3990:
3991: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
3992: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
3993: groups, and even Linux.
3994: <p>
3995:
1.247 jufi 3996: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3997: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
3998: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 3999: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
4000: </strong></font><br>
4001:
4002: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
4003: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
4004: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
4005: library after installing the OS.
4006: <p>
4007:
1.247 jufi 4008: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4009: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 4010: Sys Admin, September 2000
4011: </strong></font><br>
4012:
4013: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
4014: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
4015: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
4016: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 4017: (<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>,
4018: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
4019: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
4020: <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 4021: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 4022: out of the system.
4023: <p>
4024:
1.247 jufi 4025: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 4026: <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
4027: </strong></font><br>
4028:
4029: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 4030: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 4031: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
4032: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
4033: the IP filtering and address translation.
4034: <p>
1.301 jose 4035:
4036: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4037: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
4038: </strong></font><br>
4039:
4040: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
4041: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
4042: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
4043: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
4044: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
4045: <p>
1.247 jufi 4046: </ul>
1.200 niklas 4047:
1.131 louis 4048: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4049: <ul>
1.131 louis 4050:
1.247 jufi 4051: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4052: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
4053: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
4054: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 4055: </strong></font><br>
4056:
4057: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
4058: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
4059: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
4060: <p>
4061:
1.247 jufi 4062: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 4063: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
4064: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
4065: </strong></font><br>
4066:
4067: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
4068: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
4069: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
4070: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
4071: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
4072: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
4073: note of"</i>.
4074: <p>
4075:
1.247 jufi 4076: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 4077: <a
1.247 jufi 4078: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 4079: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
4080: </strong></font><br>
4081:
4082: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
4083: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
4084: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
4085: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
4086: <p>
4087:
1.247 jufi 4088: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 4089: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 4090: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
4091: </strong></font><br>
4092:
4093: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
4094: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
4095: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
4096: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
4097: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
4098: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
4099: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
4100: <p>
4101:
1.247 jufi 4102: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 4103: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
4104: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
4105: 2000
4106: </strong></font><br>
4107:
4108: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
4109: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
4110: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
4111: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
4112: against current industry practices.
4113: <p>
4114:
1.247 jufi 4115: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 4116: <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
4117: </strong></font><br>
4118:
4119: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
4120: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
4121: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
4122: <p>
4123:
1.247 jufi 4124: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 4125: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
4126: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
4127: </strong></font><br>
4128:
4129: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
4130: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
4131: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
4132: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
4133: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
4134: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
4135: careful code reviews, he concludes.
4136: <p>
4137:
1.247 jufi 4138: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 4139: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
4140: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
4141: </strong></font><br>
4142:
4143: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
4144: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
4145: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
4146: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
4147: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 4148: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
4149: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
4150: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 4151: <p>
1.247 jufi 4152: </ul>
1.131 louis 4153:
1.118 louis 4154: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4155: <ul>
1.118 louis 4156:
1.247 jufi 4157: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 4158: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
4159: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
4160: </strong></font><br>
4161:
4162: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
4163: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
4164: about time. The article mentions that
4165: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
4166: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
4167: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 4168: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 4169: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
4170: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 4171: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 4172: <p>
4173:
1.247 jufi 4174: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4175: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 4176: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 4177: </strong></font><br>
4178:
4179: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
4180: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
4181: of OpenSSH.
4182: <p>
4183:
1.247 jufi 4184: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4185: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4186: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 4187: </strong></font><br>
4188:
4189: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 4190: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 4191: bridging.
4192: <p>
4193:
1.247 jufi 4194: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4195: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
4196: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 4197: </strong></font><br>
4198:
1.121 deraadt 4199: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
4200: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 4201: <p>
4202:
1.247 jufi 4203: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 4204: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
4205: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
4206: </strong></font><br>
4207:
4208: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
4209: <p>
4210:
1.247 jufi 4211: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 4212: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 4213: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
4214: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 4215: </strong></font><br>
4216:
1.120 deraadt 4217: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
4218: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 4219: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
4220: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
4221: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
4222: <p>
4223:
1.247 jufi 4224: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 4225: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
4226: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
4227: </strong></font><br>
4228:
1.222 miod 4229: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 4230: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
4231: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
4232: protocols and their quirks.
4233: <p>
4234:
1.247 jufi 4235: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4236: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
4237: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 4238: </strong></font><br>
4239:
4240: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
4241: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
4242: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 4243: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 4244: <p>
4245:
1.247 jufi 4246: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 4247: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
4248: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
4249: </strong></font><br>
4250:
4251: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
4252: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
4253: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
4254: <p>
4255:
1.247 jufi 4256: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 4257: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 4258: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
4259: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 4260: </strong></font><br>
4261:
4262: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
4263: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
4264: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
4265: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
4266: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
4267: <p>
1.247 jufi 4268: </ul>
1.118 louis 4269:
1.104 louis 4270: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4271: <ul>
1.104 louis 4272:
1.247 jufi 4273: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 4274: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
4275: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
4276: </strong></font><br>
4277:
4278: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
4279: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
4280: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
4281: be a bit dry.
4282: <p>
4283:
1.247 jufi 4284: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4285: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
4286: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
4287: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
4288: </strong></font><br>
4289: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
4290: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
4291: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
4292: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
4293: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
4294: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
4295: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
4296: <p>
4297:
1.247 jufi 4298: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4299: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
4300: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 4301: 2000
1.128 louis 4302: </strong></font><br>
4303:
4304: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
4305: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
4306: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
4307: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
4308: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 4309: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 4310: <p>
4311:
1.247 jufi 4312: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4313: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
4314: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 4315: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 4316:
4317: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
4318: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
4319: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
4320: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 4321: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
4322: <p>
1.110 louis 4323:
1.247 jufi 4324: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 4325: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
4326: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
4327: </strong></font><br>
4328:
4329: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
4330: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
4331: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
4332: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
4333: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
4334: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
4335: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
4336: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
4337: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
4338: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
4339: <p>
4340:
1.247 jufi 4341: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 4342: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 4343: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 4344:
4345: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
4346: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 4347: <p>
1.108 louis 4348:
1.247 jufi 4349: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 4350: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
4351: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 4352: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 4353:
4354: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
4355: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
4356: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 4357: <p>
1.106 louis 4358:
1.247 jufi 4359: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 4360: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
4361: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 4362: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 4363:
4364: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
4365: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
4366: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
4367: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 4368: <p>
1.107 louis 4369:
1.247 jufi 4370: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4371: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
4372: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 4373: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 4374:
4375: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
4376: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 4377: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 4378: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
4379: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 4380: <p>
1.105 louis 4381:
1.247 jufi 4382: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 4383: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 4384: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 4385: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 4386:
1.113 naddy 4387: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
4388: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 4389: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 4390: <p>
1.104 louis 4391:
1.247 jufi 4392: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4393: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
4394: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
4395: </strong></font><br>
4396:
4397: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
4398: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
4399: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
4400: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
4401: <p>
1.301 jose 4402:
4403: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4404: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
4405: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
4406: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
4407:
4408: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
4409: hardware-supported cryptography.
4410: <p>
1.247 jufi 4411: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 4412:
1.85 louis 4413: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4414: <ul>
1.85 louis 4415:
1.247 jufi 4416: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4417: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 4418: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 4419: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 4420:
4421: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
4422: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
4423: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
4424: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
4425: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
4426: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
4427: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 4428: <p>
1.99 louis 4429:
1.247 jufi 4430: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4431: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 4432: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 4433: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 4434:
4435: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
4436: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
4437: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
4438: conditions.
1.113 naddy 4439: <p>
1.100 louis 4440:
1.247 jufi 4441: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4442: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 4443: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 4444: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 4445:
4446: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
4447: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
4448: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
4449: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 4450: <p>
1.95 louis 4451:
1.247 jufi 4452: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4453: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 4454: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 4455: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 4456:
4457: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
4458: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 4459: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 4460: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
4461: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4462: <p>
1.92 louis 4463:
1.247 jufi 4464: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4465: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 4466: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 4467: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 4468:
4469: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
4470: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
4471: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
4472: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
4473: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
4474: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 4475: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 4476: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 4477: <p>
1.91 louis 4478:
1.247 jufi 4479: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4480: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
4481: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 4482: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 4483:
4484: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
4485: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
4486: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
4487: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
4488: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
4489: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
4490: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
4491: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
4492: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 4493: <p>
1.90 louis 4494:
1.247 jufi 4495: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 4496: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
4497: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
4498: </strong></font><br>
4499: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
4500: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
4501: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
4502: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
4503: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
4504: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
4505: <p>
4506:
1.247 jufi 4507: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 4508: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
4509: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 4510: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 4511:
1.113 naddy 4512: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
4513: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 4514: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
4515: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
4516: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
4517: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
4518: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 4519: <p>
1.87 louis 4520:
1.247 jufi 4521: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 4522: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
4523: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 4524: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 4525:
4526: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 4527: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 4528: <p>
1.85 louis 4529:
1.247 jufi 4530: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4531: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
4532: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4533: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
4534:
4535: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
4536: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
4537: <p>
4538:
4539: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 4540: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
4541: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 4542: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 4543:
4544: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 4545: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 4546: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
4547: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 4548: <p>
1.89 louis 4549:
1.247 jufi 4550: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 4551: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
1.85 louis 4552: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 4553: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 4554:
4555: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
4556: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
4557: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
4558: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
4559: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 4560: </ul>
1.85 louis 4561:
1.78 deraadt 4562: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4563: <ul>
1.74 louis 4564:
1.247 jufi 4565: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4566: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 4567: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 4568: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 4569: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 4570:
4571: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
4572: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
4573: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4574: <p>
1.83 louis 4575:
1.247 jufi 4576: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 4577: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
4578: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 4579: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 4580:
4581: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
4582: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 4583: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 4584: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
4585: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 4586: <p>
1.93 louis 4587:
1.247 jufi 4588: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4589: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
4590: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
4591: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 4592: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 4593:
1.83 louis 4594: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
4595: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
4596: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
4597: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
4598: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 4599: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
4600: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
4601: <p>
1.82 aaron 4602:
1.247 jufi 4603: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4604: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 4605: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 4606: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 4607:
1.83 louis 4608: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
4609: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
4610: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 4611: <p>
1.80 louis 4612:
1.247 jufi 4613: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4614: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 4615: Bad Press</a>,
4616: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 4617: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 4618:
4619: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 4620: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 4621: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
4622: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
4623: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 4624: <p>
1.247 jufi 4625: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 4626:
4627: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4628: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 4629:
1.247 jufi 4630: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4631: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
4632: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 4633: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 4634: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 4635:
4636: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
4637: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
4638: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
4639: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 4640: <p>
1.74 louis 4641:
1.247 jufi 4642: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 4643: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
4644: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 4645: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 4646:
1.219 horacio 4647: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
4648: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
4649: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
4650: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
4651: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
4652: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
4653: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 4654: <p>
1.88 louis 4655:
1.247 jufi 4656: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 4657: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 4658: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 4659: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 4660:
4661: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
4662: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
4663: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
4664: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 4665: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 4666: <p>
1.81 louis 4667:
1.247 jufi 4668: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4669: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 4670: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 4671: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 4672:
4673: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
4674: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
4675: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
4676: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
4677: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
4678: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
4679: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 4680: <p>
1.90 louis 4681:
1.247 jufi 4682: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4683: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 4684: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 4685: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 4686:
4687: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
4688: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
4689: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 4690: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 4691: <p>
1.247 jufi 4692: </ul>
1.71 louis 4693:
1.69 deraadt 4694: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4695: <ul>
1.70 louis 4696:
1.247 jufi 4697: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4698: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
4699: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 4700: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 4701:
4702: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
4703: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
4704: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 4705: <p>
1.70 louis 4706:
1.247 jufi 4707: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4708: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
4709: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 4710: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 4711:
4712: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 4713: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 4714: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 4715: <p>
1.68 louis 4716:
1.247 jufi 4717: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4718: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
4719: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 4720: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 4721: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 4722:
1.111 jufi 4723: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
4724: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 4725: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 4726: "secure by default" installation.
4727: <p>
1.64 louis 4728:
1.247 jufi 4729: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 4730: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 4731: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 4732: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 4733:
1.113 naddy 4734: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 4735: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 4736: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 4737: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
4738: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
4739: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 4740: <p>
1.66 louis 4741:
1.247 jufi 4742: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4743: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 4744: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4745: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 4746:
4747: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 4748: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 4749: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
4750: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
4751: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 4752: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
4753: <p>
1.83 louis 4754:
1.247 jufi 4755: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4756: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 4757: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4758: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 4759:
4760: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 4761: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
4762: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 4763: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
4764: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 4765: <p>
1.64 louis 4766:
1.247 jufi 4767: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4768: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 4769: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4770: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 4771:
4772: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
4773: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 4774: <p>
1.301 jose 4775:
4776: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4777: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
4778: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
4779: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
4780: </strong></font><br>
4781:
4782: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
4783: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
4784: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
4785: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
4786: Giving way to
4787: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
4788: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
4789: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
4790: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
4791: <p>
1.247 jufi 4792: </ul>
1.65 louis 4793:
1.69 deraadt 4794: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4795: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4796:
1.247 jufi 4797: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4798: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 4799: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 4800: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 4801:
4802: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
4803: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
4804: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
4805: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 4806: <p>
1.88 louis 4807:
1.247 jufi 4808: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4809: <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 4810: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 4811:
4812: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 4813: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
4814: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 4815: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
4816: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 4817: <p>
1.60 louis 4818:
1.247 jufi 4819: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 4820: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 4821: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 4822: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 4823: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4824:
4825: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
4826: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
4827: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 4828: <p>
1.58 louis 4829:
1.247 jufi 4830: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 4831: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 4832: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 4833:
4834: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
4835: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 4836: <p>
1.53 louis 4837:
1.247 jufi 4838: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 4839: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
4840: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 4841: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 4842:
4843: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
4844: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
4845: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 4846: <p>
1.99 louis 4847:
1.247 jufi 4848: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 4849: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 4850: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4851:
4852: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
4853: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 4854: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 4855: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 4856: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 4857:
1.247 jufi 4858: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4859: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
4860: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 4861: </strong></font><br>
4862:
4863: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
4864: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
4865: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
4866: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
4867: <p>
4868:
1.247 jufi 4869: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4870: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 4871: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 4872: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4873:
4874: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
4875: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 4876: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 4877:
1.247 jufi 4878: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 4879: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 4880: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 4881:
4882: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 4883: in
1.247 jufi 4884: <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 4885: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 4886: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 4887: <p>
1.53 louis 4888:
1.247 jufi 4889: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4890: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 4891: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
4892: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 4893: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 4894:
1.58 louis 4895: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4896: <p>
1.301 jose 4897:
4898: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4899: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
4900: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
4901: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
4902: Informacyjny, January 2000
4903: </strong></font><br>
4904:
4905: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
4906: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
4907: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
4908: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
4909: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
4910: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
4911: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
4912: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
4913: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
4914: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 4915: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
4916: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 4917: <p>
4918:
4919: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4920: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4921: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
4922: </strong></font><br>
4923:
4924: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
4925: <p>
4926: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 4927:
1.69 deraadt 4928: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4929: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4930:
1.247 jufi 4931: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4932: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
4933: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
4934: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 4935: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4936:
1.58 louis 4937: Kurt Seifried
4938: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4939: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
4940: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 4941: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 4942:
1.247 jufi 4943: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4944: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 4945: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4946: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 4947:
4948: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 4949: <p>
1.96 louis 4950:
1.247 jufi 4951: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4952: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
4953: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
4954: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
4955: </strong></font><br>
4956:
4957: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
4958: <p>
4959:
4960: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4961: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 4962: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 4963: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 4964:
4965: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
4966: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 4967: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 4968: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 4969: <p>
1.247 jufi 4970: </ul>
1.86 louis 4971:
1.69 deraadt 4972: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4973: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4974:
1.247 jufi 4975: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4976: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
4977: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 4978: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 4979:
4980: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
4981: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 4982: <p>
1.61 louis 4983:
1.247 jufi 4984: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4985: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 4986: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
4987: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 4988: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 4989:
4990: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 4991: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 4992: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
4993: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 4994: right -- or at least strives to".
4995: <p>
1.48 louis 4996:
1.247 jufi 4997: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 4998: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
4999: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5000: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 5001: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
5002: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
5003: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
5004: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 5005: <p>
1.61 louis 5006:
1.247 jufi 5007: <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 5008: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 5009: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 5010:
5011: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
5012: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
5013: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
5014: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 5015: <p>
1.46 louis 5016:
1.247 jufi 5017: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 5018: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
5019: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 5020: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5021:
5022: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
5023: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 5024: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 5025:
1.247 jufi 5026: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 5027: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
5028: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 5029: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 5030:
5031: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
5032: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
5033: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
5034: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 5035: <p>
1.247 jufi 5036: </ul>
1.70 louis 5037:
1.69 deraadt 5038: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5039: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5040:
1.247 jufi 5041: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5042: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
5043: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 5044: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 5045: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 5046:
5047: Kurt Seifried
5048: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
5049: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
5050: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 5051: <p>
1.44 philen 5052:
1.247 jufi 5053: <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 5054: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 5055: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 5056:
5057: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 5058: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 5059:
1.247 jufi 5060: <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 5061: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 5062: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 5063:
5064: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 5065: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 5066:
1.247 jufi 5067: <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 5068: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 5069: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 5070:
5071: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
5072: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
5073: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
5074: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 5075: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 5076:
1.247 jufi 5077: <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 5078: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 5079: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 5080:
1.36 louis 5081: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 5082: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 5083:
1.247 jufi 5084: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5085: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
1.39 louis 5086: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 5087: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 5088:
5089: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 5090: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 5091: </ul>
1.38 louis 5092:
1.69 deraadt 5093: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5094: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5095:
1.247 jufi 5096: <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 5097: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 5098: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 5099:
5100: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
5101: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 5102: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 5103:
1.113 naddy 5104: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 5105: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 5106: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 5107: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 5108:
5109: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
5110: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 5111: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
5112: terminal:
1.113 naddy 5113: <blockquote>
5114: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
5115: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
5116: <br>
5117: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
5118: </code>
5119: </blockquote>
5120: <p>
5121:
1.247 jufi 5122: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 5123: <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 5124: <p>
5125:
5126: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5127: <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 5128: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 5129:
5130: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
5131: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 5132: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 5133: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 5134:
1.247 jufi 5135: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5136: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
5137: Sept. 28, 1999
5138: </strong></font><br>
5139:
5140: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
5141: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
5142: translating and reprinting articles from
5143: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
5144: <p>
5145:
5146: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 5147: <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 5148: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 5149:
5150: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
5151: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
5152: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
5153: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
5154: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 5155: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 5156: <p>
1.19 louis 5157:
1.113 naddy 5158: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 5159: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 5160: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 5161:
5162: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
5163: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
5164: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 5165: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
5166: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 5167: <p>
1.16 louis 5168:
1.247 jufi 5169: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5170: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 5171: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 5172: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 5173:
1.57 louis 5174: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
5175: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
5176: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 5177: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 5178:
1.247 jufi 5179: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5180: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.466 deraadt 5181: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5182: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5183:
1.113 naddy 5184: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 5185:
1.247 jufi 5186: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 5187: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
5188: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 5189: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 5190:
1.23 louis 5191: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
5192: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
5193: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
5194: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
5195: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 5196: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 5197:
1.247 jufi 5198: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 5199: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
5200: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 5201: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 5202:
1.199 pvalchev 5203: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 5204: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
5205: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
5206: installation.
1.113 naddy 5207: <p>
1.47 louis 5208:
1.247 jufi 5209: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5210: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 5211: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 5212: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5213:
1.301 jose 5214: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
5215: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
5216: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 5217: </ul>
1.57 louis 5218:
1.69 deraadt 5219: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5220: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5221:
1.247 jufi 5222: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 5223: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 5224: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 5225: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 5226:
5227: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
5228: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 5229: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5230: <p>
1.12 louis 5231:
1.247 jufi 5232: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 5233: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 5234: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 5235: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 5236:
5237: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
5238: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 5239: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
5240: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
5241: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
5242: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
5243: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 5244: <p>
1.247 jufi 5245: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 5246:
1.69 deraadt 5247: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5248: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 5249:
1.247 jufi 5250: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 5251: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 5252: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 5253:
5254: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
5255: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
5256: available."
1.113 naddy 5257: <p>
1.301 jose 5258:
5259: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5260: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
5261: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
5262: </strong></font><br>
5263:
5264: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
5265: <p>
1.247 jufi 5266: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 5267:
1.69 deraadt 5268: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5269: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5270:
1.247 jufi 5271: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 5272: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 5273: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 5274:
5275: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
5276: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
5277: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
5278: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
5279: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 5280: <p>
1.33 louis 5281:
1.247 jufi 5282: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5283: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 5284: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 5285: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5286:
1.113 naddy 5287: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
5288: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 5289: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
5290: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
5291: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 5292: <p>
1.247 jufi 5293: </ul>
1.57 louis 5294:
1.69 deraadt 5295: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5296: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5297:
1.247 jufi 5298: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5299: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 5300: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 5301: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 5302:
5303: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
5304: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 5305: <p>
1.69 deraadt 5306:
1.247 jufi 5307: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 5308: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
5309: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
5310: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 5311: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 5312:
5313: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 5314: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 5315:
1.247 jufi 5316: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5317: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 5318:
1.113 naddy 5319: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 5320:
1.247 jufi 5321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5322: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
1.68 louis 5323: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 5324: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 5325:
5326: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 5327: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 5328: </ul>
1.23 louis 5329:
1.69 deraadt 5330: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5331: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5332:
1.247 jufi 5333: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 5334: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 5335: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 5336:
5337: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
5338: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 5339: <p>
1.2 deraadt 5340:
1.247 jufi 5341: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5342: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 5343: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5344: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5345:
5346: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
5347: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 5348: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 5349: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 5350: </ul>
1.57 louis 5351:
1.69 deraadt 5352: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5353: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5354:
1.247 jufi 5355: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5356: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
1.15 louis 5357: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 5358: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 5359:
5360: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
5361: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
5362: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
5363: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5364: <p>
1.15 louis 5365:
1.247 jufi 5366: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 5367: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
5368: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 5369: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5370:
5371: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
5372: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
5373: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
5374: columns."
1.113 naddy 5375: <p>
1.247 jufi 5376: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5377:
1.69 deraadt 5378: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5379: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5380:
1.247 jufi 5381: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5382: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 5383: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 5384: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5385:
5386: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 5387: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 5388:
1.113 naddy 5389: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5390: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 5391: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5392:
5393: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
5394: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 5395: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 5396: </ul>
1.57 louis 5397:
1.69 deraadt 5398: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5399: <ul>
1.301 jose 5400: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5401: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
5402: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
5403: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
5404:
5405: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
5406: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
5407: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
5408: <p>
5409:
5410: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5411: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
5412: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
5413: Nov 13, 1998 and
5414: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
5415: Datateknik</a>,
5416: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
5417:
1.380 saad 5418: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 5419: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
5420: explains the licensing issues and points to our
5421: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
5422: <p>
1.69 deraadt 5423:
1.113 naddy 5424: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5425: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 5426: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 5427: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 5428:
1.222 miod 5429: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 5430: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
5431: Implementation, including a brief interview with
5432: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 5433: <p>
1.247 jufi 5434: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5435:
1.69 deraadt 5436: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5437: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5438:
1.247 jufi 5439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5440: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 5441: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5442:
1.69 deraadt 5443: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
5444: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 5445: <p>
1.247 jufi 5446: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5447:
1.69 deraadt 5448: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5449: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 5450:
1.247 jufi 5451: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 5452: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
5453: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 5454: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5455:
1.383 jcs 5456: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 5457: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 5458: <p>
1.1 deraadt 5459:
1.247 jufi 5460: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 5461: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 5462: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
5463: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 5464: <p>
1.247 jufi 5465: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5466:
1.69 deraadt 5467: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5468: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5469:
1.247 jufi 5470: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5471: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 5472: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
5473: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 5474: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 5475: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 5476:
5477: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
5478: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
5479: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 5480: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 5481: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 5482: <p>
1.247 jufi 5483: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 5484:
5485: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5486: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5487:
1.247 jufi 5488: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5489: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 5490: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 5491:
1.69 deraadt 5492: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
5493: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 5494: <p>
1.112 naddy 5495:
1.247 jufi 5496: </ul>
1.113 naddy 5497: <p>
1.1 deraadt 5498:
1.292 camield 5499: <hr>
1.216 horacio 5500: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 5501: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.519 ! ian 5502: <br><small>$OpenBSD: press.html,v 1.518 2006/05/07 22:15:16 ian Exp $</small>
1.1 deraadt 5503:
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