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1.1 deraadt 18:
1.514 ian 19: <h2>May, 2006</h2>
20: <ul>
1.518 ian 21:
22: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.520 ian 23: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/openbsd/c2k6/who1">
24: c2k6, Who's Who At the 2006 OpenBSD Hackathon, Part I</a>,
25: KernelTrap, page], May 28, 2006
26: </strong></font><br>
1.521 ! deraadt 27: Jeremy Andrews visited our developers at the Hackathon and gives
1.520 ian 28: a brief but colorful summary of some of the team members:
29: why they chose OpenBSD, how they got involved, what they do, and
30: their plans for the week.
31: <p>
32:
33: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
34: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/eur/article.php/3603961">
35: Enterprise Unix Roundup: Whither BSD?</a>, ServerWatch, May 5, 2006
36: </strong></font><br>
37: Amy Newman and Brian Proffitt state that the BSDs are often overlooked
38: because of their limited commercial acceptance.
39: The authors call this an unfortunate oversight, because recent releases of
40: the freely available BSD flavors show significant technical improvements.
41: As an example, they specifically refer to OpenBSD's sensor framework
42: (introduced with 3.9).
43: Newman and Proffitt also accuse big vendors of picking the nice parts from
44: the BSDs' code and giving nothing back to the community in return.
45: <p>
46:
47: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.518 ian 48: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/35/1/">
49: OpenBSD 3.9 Review</a>, Software In Review, May 3, 2006
50: </strong></font><br>
51: Jem Matzan takes the 3.9 release out for a spin, and likes it.
52: Noting that each release consists of a lot of small changes
53: and some major improvements - and mentioning hardware support, sensors,
54: and "blob removal" - he clearly thinks the project is doing a lot of things right.
55: "Everything you get in the release is production-ready, secure by
56: default... and comes with possibly the finest integrated documentation
57: in the Unix-clone world. While you might find a poorly programmed
58: driver or other base system component in other BSDs and GNU/Linux
59: distributions, in OpenBSD if something is supported, it works."
60: <p>
61:
62: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
63: [GERMAN]
64: <a href="http://www.linux-magazin.de/Artikel/ausgabe/2006/06/news_zut/news_zut.html">
65: Mozilla greift OpenBSD unter die Arme</a>, Linux Magazin, Issue 06/06, May 2006, p. 18
66: </strong></font><br>
67: The German <a href="http://www.linux-magazin.de/">Linux Magazin</a> has a short
68: article about OpenBSD's financial situation and Marco Peerebroom's
69: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060321034114">call for donations</a>
70: on undeadly.org. The article further mentions how OpenSSH development
71: is connected to OpenBSD.
72: <p>
73:
1.514 ian 74: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
75: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6550">
76: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, KernelTrap, May 2, 2006
77: </strong></font><br>
78: Jeremy Andrews conducts a free-ranging interview, focused mainly on 3.9 and drivers,
79: that gives Theo a chance to explain how the big North American chip vendors'
80: business practices make it harder for open source projects,
1.515 ian 81: talk about "binary blobs" vs firmware in drivers, and more.
1.514 ian 82: There's also coverage of where the project is going up to and after 3.9 and where
1.516 steven 83: it might (or might not) go in the future, why doing things right (and
1.514 ian 84: running this project) is so important to Theo,
85: and even why he does mountain biking!
86: <p>
87:
88: </ul>
89:
1.503 ian 90: <h2>April, 2006</h2>
91: <ul>
92: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.512 ian 93: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6557">
94: OpenBSD 3.9: Blob-Busters Interviewed</a>, OnLAMP, April 27, 2006
95: </strong></font><br>
96: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several of the developers on improvements
97: in 3.9: the continuing absence of "blob drivers", IPMI and sensors, apmd performance
98: adjustment, Macs, rthreads, multicast, trunk, hostapd, and more.
1.513 saad 99: jsg clarifies the issue of "binary blob" drivers vs "firmware", and
1.512 ian 100: discusses the NVIDIA nForce Ethernet driver he did after NVIDIA did refuse
101: to give out documentation; they can't stop us, but they can slow us down.
102: The result: "There aren't any drivers in OpenBSD with binary-only components;
103: this is quite a contrast to pretty much everyone else out there."
104: marco comments on the IPMI work in 3.9, and adds:
105: "IPMI is a standard, but there are vendors out there
1.513 saad 106: that have reading comprehension issues...".
1.512 ian 107: A long list of other developers explain their contributions
108: and other changes that make 3.9 one of our best releases yet.
109: <p>
110:
111: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.517 mbalmer 112: [GERMAN]
113: <a href="http://www.guug.de/uptimes/index.html">
114: Stop BLOB!</a>, UpTimes, April 25, 2006
115: </strong></font><br>
116: Wilhelm Bühler gives an overview in a short article about Blobs, what they
117: are and why they are bad.
118: <p>
119:
120: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.508 ian 121: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/34/1/">
122: Using OpenBSD</a>, Software In Review, April 24, 2006
123: </strong></font><br>
124: Jem Matzan gives a brief overview of using the system.
125: Covers ports and packages, use of SMP kernel, and more.
126: Capsule summary of how our security policy affects the administrator:
127: "Because it is secure by default, you may have to do more initial
128: configuration with OpenBSD than with most other Unix and Unix-like
129: operating systems, but you'll spend a lot less time securing it --
130: maybe no time at all, if you follow the instructions in the manual
131: pages."
132: <p>
133:
134: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.519 ian 135: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/16/1749215.shtml?tid=8">
136: Using OpenBSD on the desktop</a>, NewsForge, April 21, 2006
137: </strong></font><br>
138: Considers the use of OpenBSD as a desktop operating system,
139: starting with "Secure by default" - who wants to have their desktop hacked? -
140: and continues:
141: "OpenBSD's clean code and design also provide rock-solid stability.
142: I used to have lots of problems and crashes with new versions of
143: Linux (kernel 2.6.x) and FreeBSD (versions 5.x and 6.x). The main
144: focus of OpenBSD developers is to provide programs that work ...
145: [they] prefer to improve their code rather than just
146: add more new features and end up with a bloated and unstable product."
147: Covers X, ports/packages, window managers, what is and is not supported,
148: and more. Final thought:
149: "OpenBSD's clean design and remarkable stability, along with its
150: proactive security, not only make OpenBSD a potential candidate for
151: home desktop users but also every system administrator's dream come
152: true for business environments."
153: <p>
154:
155: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.511 djm 156: [FRENCH]
1.509 djm 157: <a href="http://developpeur.journaldunet.com/itws/060419-itw-openssh-openbsd-miller.shtml">
1.511 djm 158: JDN Développeurs interviews Damien Miller</a>,
1.509 djm 159: JDN Développeurs, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
160: Interview with Damien Miller, discussing OpenSSH security, the OpenBSD
161: development approach, the problem of blobby drivers and the recent request
1.510 djm 162: for funding.
1.509 djm 163: <p>
164:
165: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.507 cloder 166: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6497">
167: Interview with developers Jonathan Gray and Damien Bergamini</a>,
168: Kerneltrap, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
169: An interview with the authors of OpenBSD's new NVIDIA Ethernet driver. OpenBSD's
170: policy forbidding binary driver blobs is discussed, and the developers give a good
171: overview of how they went about implementing the new driver.
172: <p>
173:
174: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.506 aanriot 175: [FRENCH] Principles and usage of OpenSSH,
176: <a href="http://www.gnulinuxmag.com/">Linux Magazine France</a>,
177: issue 82, April 2006, p. 28-33
178: </strong></font><br>
179: A 6 pages article from Alexandre Courbot focusses on OpenSSH and its
1.507 cloder 180: basics. It begins with an history of the different implementations, and
1.506 aanriot 181: is punctuated with examples.
182: Tunneling features are described, as well as
183: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=0">scp</a>,
184: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent&sektion=0">ssh-agent</a>,
185: and
186: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=0">sftp</a>.
187: <p>
188:
189: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.503 ian 190: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71658">
191: Mozilla Foundation spendet für OpenBSD</a>, heise online, April 4, 2006
192: </strong></font><br>
193: Short article mentioning the donation the Mozilla Foundation made in support of
194: further OpenSSH development.
195: The article emphasizes the opportunity to wire money through the project's
196: new European account - this one donation will not meet the
197: project's funding needs for all time.
198: <p>
1.504 bernd 199: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
200: [GERMAN] "OpenBSD mit finanziellen Problemen", c't 8/06, p. 45.,
201: April 3, 2006
202: </strong></font><br>
203: A very short article about OpenBSD's financial problems. They mention that
204: this could compromise future hackathons.
205: <p>
1.503 ian 206:
207: </ul>
208:
1.487 ian 209: <h2>March, 2006</h2>
210: <ul>
1.495 ian 211: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.500 ian 212: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/theo_interview.html">
1.501 ian 213: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>, DaemonNews, March, 2006
1.500 ian 214: </strong></font><br>
215: Chris Silva conducts a lightweight but wide-ranging and fun interview with Theo
216: on topics including "Puffy",
217: the logos used by certain other BSD projects -
218: Theo quips that "I really like how they make absolutely no statement at all" -
219: what's new in 3.9,
220: and of course project expenses.
221: Theo notes that "The electric bill is about $100 USD per week".
222: <!--
223: ... must be what comes from heating your house with VAXen.
224: -->
225: The interviewer nicely ends with a link to our donations page.
226: <p>
227:
228: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 229: <a href="http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/239/1/">
230: Linux supporters fiddle while OpenSSH burns</a>, The Jem Report, March 28, 2006
231: </strong></font><br>
1.499 ian 232: This write-up focusses on OpenBSD/OpenSSH funding, and has some
233: original legwork to go with it.
1.498 ian 234: Writer Jem Matzan took the trouble to
235: contact many of the companies who charge a lot for products
236: featuring OpenSSH and yet give nothing to OpenSSH in return.
237: Companies like SCO, IBM, Apple, and Sun.
238: Sun apparently did the worst job of responding:
239: "Since the release of Solaris 10, who has been a larger open source
240: software cheerleader than Sun Microsystems?", Matzan asks. "I asked Sun
241: representatives what they would do if OpenSSH were to disappear. The only response
242: I got was that there are parts of Solaris that compete with OpenSSH,
243: and that because of this, the company would rather not comment
244: further on the issue." What the Sun teleprompter-readers don't seem to realize -
245: but Matzan does - is that
246: <a href="http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/cmd/ssh/ssh/ssh.c">
247: SunSSH <em>is</em> OpenSSH</a>.
248: Or, at least, a mangled version of it...
249: IBM, on the other hand, is still trying to formulate their response.
250: <br/>
251: <p>
252:
253: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
254: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/20/2050223.shtml?tid=8">
255: Interview: Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD</a>, NewsForge, March 28, 2006
256: </strong></font><br>
257: A wide-ranging interview with Theo about new stuff in 3.9, security, funding,
258: "blob" drivers, and more.
259: Theo notes that "We've had 10 years of nearly fanatical devotion
260: to anything which can make OpenBSD more secure. A very important
261: part of that is that we have not been afraid to completely overhaul
262: anything even if it breaks backward compatibility. Secondly, when
263: we have found a flaw in any part of the system we have assumed that
264: the same mistake was made elsewhere, and gone on a hunt to fix them
265: all. Thirdly, we have developed and incorporated a collection of
266: methods that make software flaws very difficult to attack..."
267: Ends by trying to shame the companies that use OpenSSH without contributing
268: anything back - Sun is given especial mention here - and ends with
269: the tantalizing line ".. if an OpenSSH hole is found that applies to SunSSH,
270: Sun will not be informed. Or maybe that has happened already." Hmmmm.
271: <p>
272:
273: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 274: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259254,00.htm">
275: OpenBSD 3.9 adds sensor framework</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
276: </strong></font><br>
277: It's easy to focus on our project's security, but we innovate in other areas too.
278: This article highlights the "sensors" framework added in 3.9 to provide and integrated
279: approach to handling Dell PowerEdge servers' Embedded Server Management (ESM), IPMI, and
280: in general temperature and environmental issues.
281: "There is a significant new sensor framework [in OpenBSD 3.9], which
282: supports voltage sensors, fan sensors, temperature sensors, and so
283: on," said de Raadt. "Such a feature is still missing in Linux and
284: other major operating systems." ...
285: De Raadt has already been using the sensor framework to monitor the
286: machines running in
287: <a href="images/newrack.jpg">the project's server room</a>. "I now get a call
288: on my cell phone whenever something is wrong in the machine room,"
289: <p>
290:
291: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
292: <a href="http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/other/0,39020682,39259281,00.htm">
293: Paying for free software may be the bargain of a lifetime</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
294: </strong></font><br>
295: Starts with a Theo quote from the previous article on ZDNet:
296: "A culture of entitlement is starting to damage the open source community".
297: The article argues that mega-computer-companies that use open source tend to use BSD:
298: "The open BSDs may be less famous than Linux, but they are arguably
299: superior in stability and security. This has made it popular in
300: ISPs and elsewhere - Apple, for example, adopted BSD within OS X.
301: BSD, unlike software released under the GPL, carrys no legal
302: obligations for the adopter to provide anything for the community in return."
303: Goes on to argue that these companies <em>ought</em> to be fair enough
304: to send a small bit of their money back into funding open source.
305: "In the time it takes to read this article, we calculate that Apple
306: will have easily made enough to pay-off OpenBSD's annual losses,
307: with a little left over to buy black turtlenecks for all. It's not
308: just Apple's baby - other companies owe far more to OpenBSD - but
309: in open source a little symbolism goes a long way."
310: <p>
311:
1.487 ian 312: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.494 bernd 313: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71174">
314: OpenBSD muss an den Sparstrumpf</a>, heise online, March 23, 2006
315: </strong></font><br>
1.495 ian 316: OpenBSD is touching its savings - Small news article about the project's
1.494 bernd 317: financial situation.
318: <p>
319:
320: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 321: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259042,00.htm">
322: OpenBSD Founder Makes Funding Plea</a>, ZDNet UK, March 23, 2006
323: </strong></font><br>
324: One of the first mainstream sites to pick up on Marco's article (below),
325: this one reports the funding figures on how much it really costs to
326: produce our favorite operating system.
327: "Although OpenBSD has a number of commercial users, including many
328: ISPs, de Raadt claimed that all of its donations come from individuals
329: rather than companies many of who claim the have no budget to pay
330: for the operating system. "The culture of entitlement is starting
331: to damage the open source community," he said."
1.496 ian 332: <br/>
333: Also online at
334: <a href="http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/software/stories/135760.html">ZDNet India</a>.
335: <p>
336:
337: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
338: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/03/22/OpenBSD-money.html">
339: OpenBSD in Financial Trouble</a>, Ping Wales, March 21, 2006
340: </strong></font><br>
341: David Chisnall reports that "OpenBSD is one of my favourite platforms;
342: its focus on security and ease-of-use makes it a very simple and
343: safe system to use. Unfortunately, the OpenBSD organisation is now
344: experiencing financial difficulty. For the last two years, the
345: project has made a $20,000/year loss, something which it cannot
346: sustain indefinitely."
347: Goes on to report on the growing use of OpenBSD in commercial software
348: (and hardware!), and that none of the "big guys" has given anything back.
349: Unlike most of the articles on this topic, this one is kind enough to
350: include a direct link to our orders page and recommend its readers
351: to buy a copy of the CD to help fund the project.
1.495 ian 352: <p>
353:
354: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 355: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/06/03/21/1555243.shtml">
356: OpenBSD Project in Financial Danger</a>, Slashdot, March 21, 2006
357: </strong></font><br>
358: Slashdot mentions and quotes from Marco's article (below),
359: with a reminder that
360: "The OpenBSD team is the one that also develops the OpenSSH suite,
361: used nowadays almost everywhere."
362: Ends with this quote from Marco:
363: "Without naming entities or projects by name, there are others out
364: there that are sitting on some cash. It would be wonderful if these
365: entities could share some of the wealth to keep us going."
366: <p>
367:
368: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.505 grunk 369: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060321034114">
1.495 ian 370: OpenBSD Finances</a>, OpenBSD Journal, March 21, 2006
371: </strong></font><br>
372: Marco Peereboom's article notes that
373: "OpenBSD for the past 2 years has turned a loss of approximately $20K USD" per year.
374: Hackathons - where a lot of developers get together in critical mass and churn out
375: new ideas and new code in great quantity - cost from US$10K-30K each, and we try to run
376: a few of them each year.
377: Meanwhile, compananies that use OpenBSD and companies - many of them highly profitable -
378: that incorporate OpenSSH into operating systems and even routers and other appliances
379: have not been forthcoming: no major computer company has given funding
380: to the OpenBSD project.
381: It's time for them to do so.
382: <p>
383:
384: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.497 ian 385: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/08/1646257.shtml?tid=8">
386: Software RAID on OpenBSD using RAIDframe</a>, NewsForge, March 14, 2006
387: </strong></font><br>
388: "Software RAID provides an easy way to add redundancy or speed up a system
389: without spending lots of money on a RAID adapter."
390: Manolis Tzanidakis talks us through setting up RAID using OpenBSD.
391: He describes the detailed steps, and recommends careful testing
392: before putting the system into production, including taking one disk
393: out of service and ensuring that it gets reloaded correctly.
394: Ends with a technique for monitoring clean operation on an ongoing basis.
395: <p>
396:
397: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.489 deraadt 398: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">Report on Business Television</a>
399: March 10, 5:45pm MST</strong></font><br>
1.490 deraadt 400: Theo de Raadt was interviewed by Howard Green on <b>The Business Show</b>:<br>
401: <!-- North America mirror:
402: <a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB avi file</a>
1.491 deraadt 403: -->
1.490 deraadt 404: European mirror:
405: <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/20060310/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB AVI file</a>
406: <br>
407: A longer segment is also available at <a href="http://www.robtv.ca">www.robtv.ca</a>.
1.489 deraadt 408: <p>
409:
410: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.487 ian 411: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/openbgpd.html">OpenBGPd in OpenBSD</a>
412: Daemon News, March, 2006</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 413: Check out the notes and slides from Henning Brauer's presentation at
1.487 ian 414: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0602/">NANOG 36</a>;
415: the text and questions cover everything from how and why OpenBGPd got created,
416: through configuration and tools, to integration with pf and CARP,
417: to technical issues regarding use of IPSEC to provide security for BGP packets.
418: Along the way there's considerable discussion on how the program was
419: designed to provide reliability and security.
420: <p>
421:
422: </ul>
423:
1.485 ian 424: <h2>February, 2006</h2>
425: <ul>
426: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.486 ian 427: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1859">Zero to IPSec in 4 minutes</a>
428: Security Focus, February 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
429: This article, as its lead-in says,
1.497 ian 430: "looks at how to get a fully functional IPSec VPN up and running between two fresh OpenBSD
1.486 ian 431: installations in about four minutes flat".
432: If you've shied away from setting up an IPSEC VPN because of config file complexity,
433: now is the time to reconsider.
1.497 ian 434: Dragos Ruiu shows you how the ipsecctl command (introduced to the world in OpenBSD 3.8)
1.486 ian 435: makes it really easy to set up a VPN between consenting OpenBSD machines.
436: He states that he and a colleague were able to get two machines talking over IPSEC
437: in a few minutes, and only changing a few configuration files.
438: He also comments on the relative ease of installing our favorite OS, and hopes
439: that our ipsecctl will be adopted by the other BSDs (hopefully in a compatible way)
440: to make firewall setups easier all around the network.
441: But you don't need to wait for that if you're running OpenBSD 3.8; just follow
442: the steps in the article.
443: <p>
444:
445: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.485 ian 446: <a href="http://www.networkmagazineindia.com/200602/vendorvoice02.shtml">The Worm in the Machine</a>
447: Network Magazine India, February 2006</strong></font><br>
448: Dilip Ranade elaborates on several reasons why software is drearily buggy and endlessly insecure,
449: particularly in comparison with other technologies.
450: Imagines how very bad shape the automotive industry would be in if you had to sign the
451: same disclaimer of (non-)usability that almost every commercial EULA requires of computer users.
452: Ends with "I once dreamt that all the computer users in the world
453: arose in revolt and switched to hardened OpenBSD", though he admits that there's "fat chance" of it
454: happening in real life.
455: <p>
456:
457: </ul>
458:
1.492 ian 459: <h2>January, 2006</h2>
460: <ul>
461: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
462: <a href="http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2006/01/28.html">Kevin Mitnick on
463: Coast to Coast AM Radio Show with Art Bell</a>, Jan 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
464: Art Bell interviewed Kevin Mitnick on his call-in show;
465: Paul Zacharzewski from Edmonton called to ask Mitnick for his opinion of OpenBSD.
466: If you don't want to download the whole show from coasttocoastam.com,
467: you can listen to an
1.497 ian 468: <a href="http://unworkable.org/misc/mitnick.mp3">MP3 excerpt of this call</a>
1.492 ian 469: in which Mitnick says: "Well, I actually use OpenBSD, so I do like it".
470: </ul>
471:
1.483 ian 472: <h2>December, 2005</h2>
473: <ul>
474: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.484 djm 475: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/375/1">OpenSSH cutting edge</a>
476: SecurityFocus, December 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
477: Federico Biancuzzi interviews OpenSSH developer Damien Miller to discuss
478: features included in the upcoming version 4.3, public key crypto
479: protocols details, timing based attacks and anti-worm measures.
480: <p>
481:
482: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 483: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/11/21/175249.shtml?tid=92&tid=78">Creating
1.483 ian 484: Secure Wireless Access Points with OpenBSD and OpenVPN</a>
485: NewsForge, December 13, 2005</strong></font><br>
486: A cookbook approach to setting up a wireless interface as a secure Access Point
487: using OpenBSD's hostap, pf, and authpf.
488: Configuration examples are given with basic explanations and links
489: to sites with more information on most topics.
490: <p>
491:
492: </ul>
493:
494:
1.479 grunk 495: <h2>November, 2005</h2>
496: <ul>
497: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 498: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20051116145737">OpenBSD
1.482 ian 499: Goes to Venice</a>,
500: OpenBSD Journal, November 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 501: "What happens when you put a dozen developers on a little island with their
1.482 ian 502: laptops, power, and an internet connection?
503: <br/>
504: During the first week of November some OpenBSD developers met in a
505: little island in Venice's lagoon to hack on the ports system.
506: This was probably the first ports hackathon and was followed by
1.497 ian 507: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON</a>, a European conference
1.482 ian 508: fully dedicated to OpenBSD..."
509: Great coverage of the OpenBSD Porting Hackathon: people, ports, beer, ...
510: Contains a link to
511: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ven05-pvalchev/mgp00008.html">
512: pval's summary slides</a>.
513: <p>
514:
515: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.481 niallo 516: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1710223">
517: Trying out the new OpenBSD 3.8</a>,
518: NewsForge, November 11, 2005</strong></font><br>
519: This article describes the installation of OpenBSD 3.8 from a Linux user's
520: perspective, noting the simple elegance of the installer.
521: Although the installation process may be hard to get used to at first for
522: the average Linux user, the author tells us that one can learn a lot from
523: it. Furthermore, the article clears up the common misconception that working
1.497 ian 524: on an OpenBSD system is very different from working on a Linux system.
1.481 niallo 525: In particular, the author states that on OpenBSD, <i>"virtually the entire
526: catalog of familiar free and open source software titles is available through
527: the packages and ports system"</i>.
528: <p>
529:
530: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
531: <a href="http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3561526">
532: Return of The BSDs</a>,
533: internetnews.com, November 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
534: This article mentions that with all three major BSD flavors having had
535: a release this fall, BSD is <i>"still very much alive and kicking among
536: all the noise and buzz created by Linux"</i>. The author talks about
537: various new or improved features of 3.8, such as bioctl(8), hostapd(8),
538: network interface aggregation and sasyncd(8), and there are some
539: quotes from Bob Beck.
540: <p>
541:
542: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.479 grunk 543: <a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/051101/152/fvrlx.html">
544: OpenBSD 3.8 improves hardware support</a>,
545: ZDNet UK, November 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.480 ian 546: This article reports on OpenBSD 3.8, which was released on November 1.
547: The author gives an overview of the improvements and new
1.479 grunk 548: features that were made with 3.8, and quotes Theo on RAID management
549: and Linux.<br>
550: The 3.8 release hit the news also in some other places:
551: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1258232">Slashdot</a>
552: and <a href="http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=12482">OSNews</a>
553: also report about it, mostly repeating parts
554: of the release
555: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/ANNOUNCEMENT">ANNOUNCEMENT</a>.
556: <p>
557: </ul>
558:
1.476 ian 559: <h2>October, 2005</h2>
560: <ul>
561:
562: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
563: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1375194866;fp;16;fpid;0">
564: 'Nightmare' drove desperate user to open source</a>,
565: Computerworld, October 24, 2005</strong></font><br>
566: A great tale of how Mark Uemura of PricewaterhouseCoopers Japan
567: was forced to move to OpenBSD because the alternatives were too costly
568: and too unreliable.
569: This quote will rattle some cages:
570: "IT managers who want to deploy an open source solution but are
571: worried about company politics should go ahead and do it without
572: asking," according to Uemura, who was promoted to IT Manager of PWC Japan
573: after saving the company seven IT-samurais' salaries.
574: Further, "In Japan large organizations like Morgan Stanley and the
575: Bank of America have moved all their backend systems to open source,
576: Uemura said, because with open source you can reduce IT operating
577: costs without any commercial lock-in."
578: <p>
579:
1.477 saad 580: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
581: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6270">
582: OpenBSD 3.8: Hackers of the Lost RAID</a>,
583: ONLamp.com, October 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
584: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
585: new features in OpenBSD 3.8 including interface trunking,
586: internationalization support, Inter-Access Point Protocol (IAPP),
587: IPSec SA synchronization daemon, and RAID management. There is also some
588: discussion about future plans.
589: <p>
590:
1.478 grunk 591: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
592: <a href="http://securityfocus.com/columnists/361">
593: OpenBSD's network stack</a>,
594: SecurityFocus, October 12, 2005</strong></font><br>
595: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about OpenBSD's
596: network stack, including protection against ICMP attacks, and propagation
597: of enhancements into other BSDs and into Linux.
598: The interview also features the other protection mechanisms in the network
599: stack, a comparison to the network stack in Linux, and the history and
600: current status of <a href="http://www.openbgpd.org/">OpenBGPD</a>.
601: <p>
602:
1.476 ian 603: </ul>
604:
1.470 saad 605: <h2>September, 2005</h2>
606: <ul>
607:
608: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.474 niallo 609: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/359">
610: Security-related innovation in Unix</a>,
611: SecurityFocus, Sept. 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
612: An article examining the mmap-based malloc() implementation to be
613: included in OpenBSD 3.8. The author states that <i>"it will help OpenBSD
614: users to find bugs in software more easily, which will result in better
615: applications for everyone"</i>. He goes on to say that <i>"the more hurdles
616: that one has to jump through for good security, the less likely people will
617: go through the trouble. OpenBSD allows even the most inexperienced users to
618: take advantage of these technologies without any effort"</i>.
619: <p>
620:
621: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.473 aanriot 622: <a href="http://www.miscmag.com/articles/index.php3?page=2100">
623: [FRENCH] Champ libre : les chantiers OpenBSD</a>
624: Misc, number 21, Sept/Oct, 2005, p. 4-14</strong></font><br>
625: An interesting article about OpenBSD and associated projects. Saad Kadhi
626: and Guillaume Arcas describe useful things you can do with PF and
627: OpenSSH, and give a nice introduction to OpenNTPD and OpenCVS. If the
628: article is focused on the presentation, you can find some interesting
629: technical aspects people are not always acquainted to. A few examples
630: are shown, like a basic CARP setup, or the manner to use multiplexing
631: with OpenSSH and even how to check an OpenSSH server's keys using DNS.
632: <p>
633:
634: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 635: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/news/11306">
636: Big debate over small packets</a>,
637: SecurityFocus, Sept. 7, 2005</strong></font><br>
638: Robert Lemos discusses the ICMP denial-of-service vulnerabilities found
639: by Fernando Gont and fixed in OpenBSD. To date, OpenBSD is the only
640: system that has implemented all of the fixes recommended in the IETF
641: draft.
642: <p>
643:
644: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.471 saad 645: <a href="http://www.pcexpert.fr/">
646: [FRENCH] "Quel est le meilleur système libre pour votre
647: ordinateur ?"</a>,
648: PC Expert, number 156, p. 42-62</strong></font><br>
649: Philippe Roure compares 11 Linux and *BSD operating systems, including
650: OpenBSD 3.7, on different criteria such as security, documentation and
651: usability. OpenBSD earned a 5/5 mark (see pages 60-61) and while a mark
652: isn't necessarily objective, the author seems to grasp the OpenBSD
653: project, its goals, and how good is the operating system. The article
654: includes an interview with Saad Kadhi.
655: <p>
656:
657: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.470 saad 658: <a href="http://www.samag.com/articles/2005/0509/">
659: Monitoring PF Firewalls for Health and Performance</a>,
660: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 9, p. 37</strong></font><br>
661: Ryan Matteson describes several utilities that can be used to monitor the
662: health and performance of a PF firewall. Besides pfctl, the article
663: covers pftop, fwanalog, monitoring logs with tcpdump and graphing
664: performance data with pfstat.
665: <p>
666:
667: </ul>
668:
1.461 grunk 669: <h2>July, 2005</h2>
670: <ul>
671:
672: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.466 deraadt 673: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5382">
674: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part III</a>,
1.467 grunk 675: Kerneltrap, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.466 deraadt 676: Jeremy Andrews writes about the recent Blind ICMP attacks discovered
677: by Fernando Gont, and the fixes done by him and OpenBSD during the
678: 2005 Hackathon.
1.469 ian 679: The article goes into the technical background of the
1.467 grunk 680: attacks, mentioning blind ICMP attacks, "hard" ICMP errors, source
1.469 ian 681: quenching, and path MTU discovery;
682: many helpful RFCs and technical papers are linked from the explanations.
683: This is followed by a recap of the whole ICMP story, involving Gont's
1.467 grunk 684: struggle with other free projects, Cisco lawyers, Microsoft people,
685: and others.<br>
1.469 ian 686: The article concludes that OpenBSD was the first project
1.467 grunk 687: to take Fernando Gont's findings seriously, and also the first group to
688: be really painless to work with.
1.466 deraadt 689: <p>
690:
691: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.464 grunk 692: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/06/security_blame/">
693: Security meltdown: who's to blame?</a>,
1.466 deraadt 694: The Register, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.464 grunk 695: This article talks about various groups that are frequently blamed for
696: poor security:
1.467 grunk 697: individuals, ISPs, companies, crackers, security mailing lists,
1.464 grunk 698: and last but not least: OS vendors!
1.467 grunk 699: In the last paragraph, OpenBSD's style of <i>"dumbed-down, simplified
1.464 grunk 700: and secure systems (with a heavily audited code base)"</i> is described
701: as <i>"one of the smartest approaches to security"</i>.
702: <p>
703:
704: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.461 grunk 705: <a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-7-5/30084.html">
706: Theo de Raadt on Industry and Free Software</a>,
1.466 deraadt 707: The Epoch Times, July 5, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.463 tom 708: In this interview, Theo talks about the inception of the OpenBSD project
709: and its goals, as well as its impact on the commercial IT industry.
1.461 grunk 710: He points out once more that <i>"vendors who incorporate OpenSSH have
711: given us absolutely nothing back - not a cent"</i>.
712: Other topics covered include the OpenBSD team, Theo's role as
713: <i>"benevolent dictator"</i>, and the security process, which he compares
714: to the security efforts led by other free software projects and some
715: commercial vendors.
716: <p>
717:
718: </ul>
719:
1.454 ian 720: <h2>June, 2005</h2>
721: <ul>
1.468 grunk 722:
723: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
724: <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/ns-ttc062205.php">
725: The true cost of computer crime</a>,
726: EurekAlert / <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/">New Scientist Magazine</a>,
727: issue June 25, 2005</strong></font><br>
728: This article looks at computer crime, especially the way upcoming
729: vulnerability reports are dealt with. It also gives a short overview of the
1.469 ian 730: institutions involved in the process (vendors, free projects, CERTs).
1.468 grunk 731: <br>
732: The author mentions the work of Andy Ozment, who researches vulnerability
733: disclosure at the University of Cambridge. Using OpenBSD as a good example
734: of how disclosure and consequent fixing of bugs helps to strengthen security,
735: he refutes the widely spread FUD that disclosing vulnerabilities leads to
736: more harm than good. Ozment's methodology was to examine OpenBSD's CVS logs
1.469 ian 737: and note when fixes were published; his research shows that
1.468 grunk 738: <i>"the number of vulnerabilities decreases as a result of disclosure"</i>.
739: <p>
740:
1.454 ian 741: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.458 niallo 742: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0704/071.html">
743: Free Bird</a>,
744: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
745: <b>(Registration required)</b> A second Forbes article about OpenBSD, more
746: focused on the project itself this time. It contains good description of the
747: history of OpenBSD along with its prime motivations. Mention is made of the
748: DARPA grant and the annual hackathon. Theo's motto "shut up and hack" finally
749: becomes famous in this piece and there are some other very insightful quotes
750: such as "All I care about is making high-quality code. If I had to work at a
751: regular job, it would drive me nuts". This is certainly an astute and perceptive
752: article, well worth reading. Do note that the big picture of Theo's machine
753: room will only be available in the print edition.
754: <p>
1.459 deraadt 755:
1.458 niallo 756: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.456 niallo 757: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html">
758: Is Linux For Losers?</a>,
759: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
760: An interesting article, if somewhat polemic in tone, which raises questions
761: about the quality of Linux code compared to OpenBSD. There is also some short
762: discussion of the OpenBSD development model and focus (push for quality above
763: everything else) including good quotes from Theo. It seems that the need for
764: high quality software is beginning to be recognised by the mainstream.
765: <p>
1.457 deraadt 766:
1.456 niallo 767: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 768: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/06/09/2132233.shtml?tid=152&tid=8&tid=2">
1.455 ian 769: BSD cognoscenti on Linux</a>,
770: NewsForge, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
771: NewsForge talks with Theo de Raadt and NetBSD's Christos Zoulas about the
772: similarities and differences between the Linux kernel and the BSD
773: operating systems. The questions asked were similar to those asked
774: of Linus Torvalds in a <a
1.462 grunk 775: href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/09/2128249&tid=2">previous
1.455 ian 776: interview.</a>
777: <p>
778:
779: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.454 ian 780: <a href="http://www.tuxjournal.net/intervista3-en.html">
781: A good morning with Theo de Raadt</a>,
782: Tux Journal, June 2, 2005</strong></font><br>
783: Brief but wide-ranging interview with Theo in which our leader
784: opines about the good things in 3.7: "The list of new developments
785: is impressive, but in my view not nearly as impressive as the small
786: little details that continue to be fixed during each development
787: cycle." And modestly credits all the developers for the project's
788: continuing success, attributing it to "The passion of the developers,
789: and the wide experience they bring into their development efforts.
790: By amazing coincidence, our users typically have the same needs as we do."
791: Manages to sidestep getting drawn into comparisons with Linux, e.g.,
792: when asked if he likes it/why/why not, deftly replies
793: "I have never used it."
794: <p>
795:
796: </ul>
797:
1.441 deraadt 798: <h2>May, 2005</h2>
799: <ul>
800: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 801: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5190">
802: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part II</a>,
803: Kerneltrap, May 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
804: In the second installment of Kerneltrap's Hackathon 2005 feature, Jeremy
805: Andrews speaks with the pf developers at length about their plans for
806: future enhancements.
807: <p>
808:
809: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.450 deraadt 810: <a href="http://www.ctv.ca">
1.448 deraadt 811: TV coverage: OpenBSD hackathon</a>,
812: CTV/CFCN, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
813: A TV spot done a Canadian national TV station about the Calgary
814: hackathon this year, with 60 developers.<br>
815: North America mirror:
816: <ul>
1.452 marco 817: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.449 jcs 818: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a><br>
819: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a>
1.448 deraadt 820: </ul>
821: European mirror:
822: <ul>
1.452 marco 823: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.448 deraadt 824: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a>
825: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a><br>
826: </ul>
827: <p>
828:
829: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 830: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5186">
831: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part I</a>,
832: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
833: Jeremy Andrews of KernelTrap does a good job of describing what it's like
834: to be at the Hackathon in Part I of KernelTrap's Hackathon feature. Several
835: developers are interviewed in detail about what they are working on.
836: <p>
837:
838: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 839: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5184">
840: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005: Day 6?</a>,
841: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
842: Kjell Wooding describes a typical day at the Hackathon in this entertaining
843: first-hand account.
844: <p>
845:
846: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.447 cloder 847: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/05/20/1426216.shtml?tid=8">
848: Review: OpenBSD 3.7</a>,
849: NewsForge.com, May 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
850: "OpenBSD is not only highly polished and easy to
851: configure because of its documentation, it's also totally free-as-in-rights.
852: With an obsession with security, freedom of source code, and quality of
853: programming technique, OpenBSD 3.7 continues the legacy established by
854: its previous releases," writes Jem Matzan in this nice, small review.
855: <p>
856:
857: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.446 cloder 858: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/05/19/openbsd_3_7.html">
859: OpenBSD 3.7: The Wizard of OS</a>,
860: ONLamp.com, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
861: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
862: new features in OpenBSD 3.7, including new wireless chipsets, new
863: spam-fighting features, zaurus, pf improvements, propolice, and
864: many other things. A good overview of what's new in this release,
865: plus some interesting comments about future direction.
866: <p>
867:
868: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.444 niallo 869: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/software/openbsd-3.7-released.html">
1.445 niallo 870: Next incarnation of OpenBSD released</a>,
1.444 niallo 871: Ping Wales, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
872: "OpenBSD is often unjustly overlooked as a free UNIX-like system in favour of
873: the more-hyped Linux. While it receives a lot less publicity than other
874: operating systems, this is not due to lack of technical merit." says David
875: Chisnall, in what is a clear and concise overview of the new features
876: in 3.7 and indeed the project as a whole.
877: <p>
878:
879: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
880: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5114">
1.445 niallo 881: 2005 Calgary Hackathon, KernelTrap Coverage</a>,
1.444 niallo 882: Kerneltrap, May 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
883: A great article about the annual OpenBSD Hackathon, detailing how the event
884: functions, work done at previous Hackathons and features which may come out
885: of this one. Includes many relevant quotes from developers themselves, and of
886: course information about the legendary Hackathon BBQ!
887: <p>
888:
889: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.442 deraadt 890: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9658/sam0505e/">
891: "Failover Firewalls with OpenBSD and CARP"</a>,
892: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 5, p. 33
1.441 deraadt 893: </strong></font><br>
894: Jason Dixon discusses the history of the CARP and pfsync protocols
895: and demonstrates using them to create redundant stateful firewalls
896: with OpenBSD.
897: </ul>
898:
1.436 henning 899: <h2>April, 2005</h2>
900: <ul>
901: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.440 ian 902: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39195801,00.htm">
903: Security guru wants access to bug databases</a>,
904: ZDNet UK, April 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
905: Ingrid Marson reports on Cambridge professor Ross Anderson's call for analysis of
906: software maintenance records to determine whether open source code is more secure
907: than closed source, as we have long contended.
908: "One of Anderson's research students, Andy Ozment, has already done
909: research using empirical data on bugs found in the open source
910: operating system OpenBSD between 1997 and 2000. This research found
911: that finding and fixing bugs results in a more secure product..."
912: Just as the OpenBSD project has been saying for years.
913: <p>
914: This article can also be found online as
915: <a href="http://uk.builder.com/manage/project/0,39026588,39244080,00.htm">Academic
916: calls for better bug tracking</a> (uk.builder.com).
917: <p>
918:
919: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.439 espie 920: [FRENCH] "PC Expert", number 152, p. 58
921: </strong></font><br>
922: Very short interview of Marc Espie about OpenBSD as a free OS focusing
923: on security, part of a larger dossier Ťles secrets des hackersť.
924: <p>
925:
926: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.436 henning 927: [GERMAN] "Doppelwacht", iX 5/2005, p. 150.
928: </strong></font><br>
929: Stephan Tesch gives an introduction to CARP and using a pair of
930: OpenBSD boxes as Firewalls in High Availibility scenarios. He goes
1.438 martin 931: on explaining CARP and pfsync protocols, and does not forget to cover
1.436 henning 932: the issues we had with IETF.
933: </ul>
934:
1.431 ian 935: <h2>March, 2005</h2>
936: <ul>
937: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.435 reyk 938: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/4818">
939: OpenBSD's "Out of the Box" Wireless Support</a>,
940: Kerneltrap, March 8, 2005</strong></font><br>
941: This article is about the upcoming wireless support in OpenBSD 3.7 and
942: the outcome of the work to open wireless chipsets. Jeremy Andrews
943: talked with Theo de Raadt and the developers Damien Bergamini and Reyk
944: Floeter who did some efforts to implement free and functional drivers.
945: <p>
946:
947: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.431 ian 948: <a href="http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/01/1109546842718.html">
949: OpenBSD to support more wireless chipsets</a>,
950: The Age, March 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
951: "The forthcoming 3.7 release of the OpenBSD operating system has
952: added support for five more wireless chipsets, according to
953: OpenBSD project founder Theo de Raadt...
1.432 ian 954: OpenBSD 3.7 will also have have new drivers for Intel wireless
1.431 ian 955: parts that do not work without the non-redistributable firmware,"
956: namely the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11B
957: and 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11A/B/G wireless network adapters.
958: Mentions OpenBSD's activism in getting vendors to release chip specs.
959: Referring to vendors that still refuse to play ball with open source
960: projects, quotes Damien Miller as saying "Given the number of
961: appliance devices that are built on free OSs, I think that the
962: recalcitrant vendors are missing an important boat."
963:
964: </ul>
965:
1.427 matthieu 966: <h2>February, 2005</h2>
967: <ul>
968:
969: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.428 david 970: <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsaward2004.html">
971: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
972: FSF, February 26, 2005</strong></font><br>
973: The Free Software Foundation awarded Theo de Raadt their "2004 Free Software
974: Award" for his unwavering commitment to free software. Most recently he has
975: been fighting hardware manufacturers for free redistribution of wireless card
976: firmware.
1.434 ian 977: Similar articles can be found online at:
978: <ul>
979: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
980: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=419">
981: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
982: Tectonic.za, March 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
983: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
984: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article4362.phtml">
985: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
986: OSDir, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
987: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
988: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/De-Raadt-gets-free-software-award/2005/02/28/1109546758523.html?oneclick=true">
989: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
990: The Age, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
991: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 992: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/02/27/1413255.shtml?tid=99&tid=7">
1.434 ian 993: Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award</a>,
994: Slashdot, February 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
995: </ul>
1.427 matthieu 996: </ul>
997:
1.426 ian 998: <h2>January, 2005</h2>
999: <ul>
1000:
1001: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1002: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363731">
1003: Systrace in OpenBSD</a>,
1004: informit.com, January 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1005: This article talks about our systrace
1.462 grunk 1006: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&sektion=1">systrace(1)</a>
1.426 ian 1007: mechanism: what it is and why and
1008: how to use it, with examples.
1009: Another excerpt from the book
1010: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
1011: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
1012: <p>
1013:
1014: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1015: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363732">
1016: Overview of OpenBSD</a>,
1017: informit.com, January 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
1018: "OpenBSD is one of the most secure and well-designed operating
1019: systems available today. It has its roots in countless hours of
1020: research and development based on some of the best UNIX flavors of
1021: the past, and it boasts all the features of modern operating systems.
1022: The OS is widely considered one of the most secure general-purpose
1023: operating systems available today and it supports many key parts
1024: of the global Internet infrastructure..."
1025: This article is a sample chapter from
1026: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
1027: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
1028: <p>
1.443 ian 1029:
1030: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1031: <a href="http://www.pcplus.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=34628&subsectionid=784">
1.443 ian 1032: OpenBSD operating system</a>,
1033: PCPlus.co.uk, January, 2005</strong></font><br>
1034: Paul Grosse gives a brief tutorial on installing OpenBSD on i386 for people
1035: moving in a Windows->Linux direction, encouraging them to go a bit further for security.
1036: "While Linux out-scores Windows substantially (or completely) on [security as well as many other
1037: issues], it's still possible to use a more secure operating system on the PC... OpenBSD."
1038: Gives a brief but understandable walkthrough on the installation process, right up to
1039: downloading and installing the third-party packages, and
1040: ends with a sidebar on security.
1041: <p>
1.426 ian 1042: </ul>
1043:
1.424 ian 1044: <h2>December, 2004</h2>
1045: <ul>
1046:
1047: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.425 ian 1048: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/2329229">
1049: What are the real vulnerabilities of Linux?</a>
1050: NewsForge.com, December 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1051: Several security consultants were asked about "the real vulnerabilities of
1052: Linux". Cybersoure CEO Con Symaris seems to get it better than the rest:
1053: "One needs to approach security as a prime requirement and motivator,
1054: much as the OpenBSD team do," Zymaris said... "The Linux
1055: community mindset is different. Linux development is dynamic and
1056: races ahead towards more and broader functionality, drawing a
1057: multitude of interested parties in to make interesting extensions
1058: and adaptations at a rapid rate."
1059: <p>
1060: "In order to do security the BSD way, however, much more effort
1061: needs to be spent auditing code for holes, which is much less sexy,
1062: and attracts a different set of coders," Zymaris added.
1063: <p>
1064:
1065: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.424 ian 1066: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/281">
1067: Closed Source Hardware</a>
1068: Security Focus, December 1, 2004</strong></font><br>
1069: Symantec Threat Analyst Jason Miller analyzes the potential security threats
1070: when hardware vendors won't provide device documentation and
1071: instead provide "binary only" driver code for inclusion in open source
1072: operating systems.
1073: Miller is an open-source fan who says he uses a variety of systems, including
1074: OpenBSD on his firewall.
1075: Of the recent trend to closed-source binary drivers for open-source
1076: systems, he writes:
1077: <blockquote>
1078: The closed-source component required to support this hardware is
1079: completely independent of the associated operating system, and as
1080: such, is also independent of the engineering team, security team,
1081: auditing process, and quality control procedures normally related
1082: to the operating system...
1083: <br/>
1084: What's possibly even more disturbing is that we're talking about
1085: a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest
1086: possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a
1087: third-party vendor. This code could do anything once loaded, including
1088: leaking active WEP keys, gathering usage statistics, sniffing and
1089: disclosing traffic, and it could even introduce a subtle backdoor
1090: into the operating system itself (much the same as any device driver
1091: in a closed source operating system).
1092: <br/>
1093: [A]lthough some of these scenarios are a
1094: little far-fetched, the possibility for them to exist is there...
1095: Ultimately it becomes an issue of trust, which is a cornerstone of
1096: good security: whom do you trust, and how much do you trust them?
1097: </blockquote>
1098: <p>And he comments that trust "seems to be a one-way street": vendors
1099: demand that you trust them, but they won't trust you to know how
1100: their hardware and software operates.
1101: This lack of trust is one reason why OpenBSD has recently completed
1102: reverse-engineering the
1.462 grunk 1103: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4">
1.424 ian 1104: Atheros wireless chipset driver</a>
1105: that was originally provided as a binary insert.
1106: <p>
1107: </ul>
1108:
1.417 pvalchev 1109: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
1110: <ul>
1.421 ian 1111:
1.417 pvalchev 1112: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.422 ian 1113: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730775,00.asp">
1114: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Widens Its Scope</a>
1115: eWEEK, November 22, 2004</strong></font><br>
1116: Jason Brooks reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and likes the changes it brings,
1117: including the multi-processing support which, he notes,
1118: "will be even more important as multicore processors--which occupy space
1119: on the road maps of Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others--
1120: become more prevalent." Comments favorably on OpenNTPD
1121: ("the three-line configuration file we needed to modify ... on OpenBSD was
1122: much simpler to deal with than the equivalent configuration file on
1123: the Linux systems we've tested").
1.423 ian 1124: Overall a favorable review of some of the new stuff in 3.6.
1.422 ian 1125: <p>
1126: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 otto 1127: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
1128: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
1129: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
1130: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
1131: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
1132: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
1133: it claims to do".
1134: <p>
1135:
1136: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1137: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109994542424009&w=2">
1.421 ian 1138: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution</a>
1139: misc@, November 8, 2004</strong></font><br>
1140: Theo recounts the struggle to get Intel to provide redistributable
1141: versions of the firmware for their wireless chipsets, and their
1.423 ian 1142: ultimate refusal to allow OpenBSD to redistribute the chipsets' firmware.
1.421 ian 1143: Includes a caveat about Intel's disingenuous "FAQ", typical of many
1144: corporate FAQs that answer questions nobody actually thought
1145: to ask, and don't truthfully answer the questions you want hard answers to.
1146: At the end Theo names the names (and their emails) that need to be contacted
1147: by large numbers of end-users and developers if Intel is to change
1148: (yes, this is a hint).
1149: Of interest is that this posting to one of our mailing lists was
1150: picked up on the
1151: <a href="http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1923">Screaming
1152: Electron Forum</a> and from there reported on
1.462 grunk 1153: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/22/1249249&from=rss">
1.421 ian 1154: SlashDot</a>, where it is accompanied by a link to SlashDot's paper
1155: on effective advocacy (be firm, but also be polite).
1156: <p>
1157:
1158: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 1159: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
1160: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
1161: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
1162: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
1163: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
1164: questions about the significance and rationale behind
1165: the current efforts.
1166: <p>
1167: </ul>
1168:
1.407 henning 1169: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
1170: <ul>
1171: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 1172: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
1173: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
1174: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
1175: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
1176: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
1177: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
1178: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
1179: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
1180: <p>
1181:
1182: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 1183: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
1184: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
1185: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1186: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
1187: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
1188: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
1189: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
1190: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
1191: of the important changes in 3.6.
1.462 grunk 1192: <p>
1.415 ian 1193:
1194: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1195: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
1.414 ian 1196: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
1197: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
1198: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
1199: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
1200: overflow attacks... because
1201: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
1202: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
1203: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
1204: and propolice.
1205: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
1206: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
1207: and that's when the science falls apart."
1208: <p>
1209:
1210: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 1211: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
1212: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
1213: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
1214: Starts with the question:
1215: <blockquote>
1216: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
1217: <br/>
1218: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
1219: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
1220: <br/>
1221: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
1222: Should we believe them?"
1223: </blockquote>
1224: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
1225: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
1226: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
1227: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
1228: for your mail, web and other online activities.
1229: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
1230: <p>
1231:
1232: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 1233: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
1234: Simple Simon</a>,
1235: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
1236: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
1237: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
1238: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
1239: routing/firewall, and more.
1240: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
1241: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
1242: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
1243: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
1244: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
1245: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
1246: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
1247: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
1248: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
1249: </blockquote>
1250: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
1251: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
1252: <p>
1253:
1254: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 1255: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
1256: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 1257: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 1258: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 1259: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
1260: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
1261: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 1262: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 1263: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
1264: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
1265: in spite of it
1266: (registration required, but worth it).
1267: <p>
1268:
1269: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1270: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
1271: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
1272: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1273: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
1274: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
1275: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
1276: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 1277: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 1278: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
1279: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
1280: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
1281: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
1282: <p>
1283:
1284: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 1285: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
1286: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
1287: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
1288: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
1289: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
1290: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
1291: <blockquote>
1292: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
1293: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
1294: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
1295: a lot of analysis.
1296: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
1297: </blockquote>
1298: <p>
1299: </ul>
1300:
1.400 marco 1301: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
1302: <ul>
1303: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 1304: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
1305: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
1306: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
1307: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
1308: UNIX-like systems.
1309: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
1310: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
1311: <p>
1312: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 1313: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
1314: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 1315: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1316: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
1317: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
1318: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
1319: At one point, the article states:
1320: <blockquote>
1321: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
1322: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
1323: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
1324: </blockquote>
1325: And then quotes Theo as saying:
1326: <blockquote>
1327: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
1328: fewer are reading or auditing code."
1329: </blockquote>
1330: <p>
1331: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1332: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
1333: marks its fifth birthday</a>
1334: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1335: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
1336: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
1337: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
1338: required).
1339: <p>
1340: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 1341: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
1342: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
1343: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
1344: </strong></font><br>
1345: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
1346: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
1347: <p>
1348: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 1349: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
1350: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 1351: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 1352: </strong></font><br>
1353: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
1354: <p>
1355: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 1356: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
1357: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 1358: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 1359: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 1360: 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 1361: <p>
1362: </ul>
1363:
1.396 henning 1364: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
1365: <ul>
1366: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 1367: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
1368: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
1369: Unix Review, July, 2004
1370: </strong></font><br>
1371: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
1372: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
1.462 grunk 1373: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
1.418 ian 1374: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
1375: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
1376: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
1377: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
1378: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
1379: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
1380: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
1381: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
1382: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
1383: and even spelling/wording errors.
1384: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
1385: <p>
1386: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 1387: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 1388: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
1389: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
1390: </strong></font><br>
1391: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
1392: <p>
1393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 1394: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 1395: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
1396: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
1397: </strong></font><br>
1398: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
1399: <p>
1400: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 1401: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
1402: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
1403: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
1404: </strong></font><br>
1405: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
1406: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
1407: <p>
1408: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 1409: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
1410: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
1411: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
1412: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
1413: <p>
1414: </ul>
1415:
1.405 jolan 1416: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
1417: <ul>
1418: <li><font color="#00900"><strong>
1419: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
1.466 deraadt 1420: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 5, 2004</strong></font>
1.405 jolan 1421: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
1422: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
1423: details on how funds are dispersed.
1424: <p>
1425: </ul>
1426:
1.393 david 1427: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
1428: <ul>
1429: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 1430: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
1431: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
1432: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
1433: </strong></font><br>
1434: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
1435: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
1436: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
1437: on inserting large number of SQL records.
1438: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
1439: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
1440: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
1441: <p>
1442:
1443: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 1444: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
1445: Secure by Default</a>,
1446: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
1447: </strong></font><br>
1448: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
1449: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
1450: <p>
1451:
1452: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1453: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
1454: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
1455: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
1456: </strong></font><br>
1457: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
1458: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
1459: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
1460: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
1461: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
1462: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
1463: <p>
1464:
1465: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1466: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
1467: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
1468: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
1469: </strong></font><br>
1470: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
1471: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
1472: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
1473: <p>
1474:
1475: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1476: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
1477: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
1478: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
1479: </strong></font><br>
1480: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
1481: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
1482: <p>
1483: </ul>
1484:
1.388 mcbride 1485: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
1486: <ul>
1.394 jolan 1487:
1488: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1489: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
1490: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
1491: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
1492: </strong></font><br>
1493: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
1494: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
1495: available for sparc64.
1496: <p>
1497:
1.390 beck 1498: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 1499: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
1500: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
1501: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
1502: </strong></font><br>
1503: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
1504: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
1505: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
1506: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
1507: <p>
1508:
1509: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 1510: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
1511: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 1512: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 1513: </strong></font><br>
1514: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
1515: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
1516: it does: CARP provides sharing
1517: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
1518: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
1519: detail to get you started using it.
1520: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
1521: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
1522: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
1523: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
1524: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
1525: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
1526: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 1527: <p>
1.391 ian 1528:
1529: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 1530: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 1531: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
1532: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 1533: </strong></font><br>
1534: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 1535: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 1536: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 1537: <p>
1.388 mcbride 1538:
1539: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1540: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
1541: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 1542: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 1543: </strong></font><br>
1544: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
1545: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
1546: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
1547: unencumbered by patents.
1548: <p>
1549: </ul>
1550:
1.378 henning 1551: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
1552: <ul>
1.384 jose 1553:
1554: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 1555: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
1556: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
1557: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
1558: </strong></font><br>
1559: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
1560: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
1561: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
1562: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
1563: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
1564: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
1565: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
1566: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
1567: in the page tables."
1568: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
1569: <p>
1570:
1571: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1572: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
1573: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
1574: </strong></font><br>
1575: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
1576: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
1577: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
1578: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 1579: <p>
1.384 jose 1580:
1.378 henning 1581: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 1582: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
1583: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 1584: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
1585: </strong></font><br>
1586: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
1587: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
1588: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
1589: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
1590: (quote:
1591: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
1592: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 1593: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 1594: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
1595: the other developers for their work on the system.
1596: <p>
1597:
1598: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1599: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
1600: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
1601: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 1602: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 1603: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
1604: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
1605: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
1606: too.
1607: <p>
1608:
1609: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 1610: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
1611: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 1612: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 1613: OpenBSD source code using
1614: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
1615: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
1616: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
1617: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
1618: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
1619: <p>
1620: </ul>
1621:
1.374 jose 1622: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
1623: <ul>
1624: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 1625: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 1626: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
1627: </strong></font><br>
1628: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
1629: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
1630: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
1631: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
1632: it."
1633: <p>
1634:
1635: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 1636: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
1637: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
1638: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
1639: </strong></font><br/>
1640: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
1641: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
1642: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
1643: <p>
1644: </ul>
1645:
1.369 ian 1646: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
1647: <ul>
1648: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1649: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
1650: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
1651: </strong></font><br/>
1652: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
1653: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
1654: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
1655: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
1656: <p>
1657:
1658: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 1659: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
1660: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
1661: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
1662: </strong></font><br/>
1663: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
1664: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
1665: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
1666: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
1667: form factor.
1668: <p>
1669:
1670: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1671: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
1672: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
1673: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
1674: Features</a>,
1675: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
1676: </strong></font><br/>
1677: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
1678: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
1679: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
1680: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
1681: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
1682: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
1683: <p>
1684: This article can also be found online at:
1685: <ul>
1686: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1687: <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 1688: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
1689: </strong></font>
1690: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
1691: </ul>
1692: <p>
1.392 david 1693:
1.371 jose 1694: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 1695: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
1696: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 1697: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
1698: </strong></font><br/>
1699: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
1700: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
1701: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 1702: <p>
1.371 jose 1703:
1704: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 1705: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 1706: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 1707: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 1708: </strong></font><br/>
1709: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
1710: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
1711: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
1712: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
1713: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
1714: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
1715: and its history with OpenBSD.
1716: </ul>
1717:
1.368 henning 1718: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
1719: <ul>
1720: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 1721: [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 1722: </strong></font><br>
1723: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
1724: </ul>
1725:
1.364 jose 1726: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
1727: <ul>
1728: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 1729: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
1730: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
1731: UNIX Review,
1732: July, 2003.
1733: </strong></font><br>
1734: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
1735: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
1736: who want more information.
1737: <p>
1738:
1739: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 1740: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
1741: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
1742: Government Computer News,
1743: July 22, 2003.
1744: </strong></font><br>
1745: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
1746: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
1747: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
1748: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
1749: <p>
1750:
1751: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1752: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
1753: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
1754: SANS Institute,
1755: July 22, 2003.
1756: </strong></font><br>
1757: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 1758: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 1759: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
1760: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
1761: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
1762: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
1763: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
1764: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
1765: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
1766: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
1767: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
1768: <p>
1769:
1770: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 1771: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
1772: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
1773: OnLamp.com,
1774: July 17, 2003.
1775: </strong></font><br>
1776: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
1777: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
1778: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
1779: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
1780: have been working on.
1781:
1782: </ul>
1783:
1.356 jose 1784: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 1785: <ul>
1786:
1787: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 1788: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
1789: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
1790: UNIX Review,
1791: June, 2003.
1792: </strong></font><br>
1793: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
1794: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
1795: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
1796: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
1797: <p>
1798:
1799: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 1800: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
1801: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
1802: eWeek,
1803: June 23, 2003.
1804: </strong></font><br>
1805: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
1806: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
1807: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
1808: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
1809: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
1810: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
1811: <p>
1812:
1813: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 1814: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
1815: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
1816: Software Development Online,
1817: June, 2003.
1818: </strong></font><br>
1819: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
1820: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
1821: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
1822: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
1823: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
1824: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
1825: current activities.
1826: <p>
1827:
1828: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 1829: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
1830: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 1831: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
1832: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
1833: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
1834: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 1835: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 1836: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
1837: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
1838: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 1839: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 1840: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
1841: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 1842: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 1843: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
1844: decisions.
1845: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
1846: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 1847: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 1848: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 1849: <p>
1850:
1851: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 1852: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
1853: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
1854: Page 58, eWeek,
1855: June 2, 2003.
1856: </strong></font><br>
1857: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
1858: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
1859: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
1860: been addressed in -current.
1861: <p>
1862:
1.356 jose 1863: </ul>
1864:
1865: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
1866: <ul>
1867:
1.355 jose 1868: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 1869: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
1870: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
1871: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
1872: </strong></font><br>
1873: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
1874: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
1875: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
1876: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
1877: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
1878: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
1879: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
1880: <p>
1881:
1882: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 1883: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
1884: Beyond Linux</a>,
1885: InfoWorld,
1886: May 23, 2003.
1887: </strong></font><br>
1888: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
1889: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
1890: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
1891: compared to the GPL.
1892: <p>
1893:
1894: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 1895: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
1896: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
1897: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 1898: May 17, 2003.
1899: </strong></font><br>
1900: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
1901: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
1902: the business section and half of another page inside
1903: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
1904: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
1905: in talking about the project's history and goals.
1906: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
1907: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
1908: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
1909: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 1910: <br>
1911: This article can also be found online at:
1912: <ul>
1913: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1914: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
1915: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
1916: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
1917: May 17, 2003
1918: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 1919: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
1920: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1921: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
1922: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
1923: Montreal Gazette,
1924: May 21, 2003
1925: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 1926: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 1927: <p>
1.346 ian 1928:
1929: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 1930: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 1931: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 1932: May 7, 2003.
1933: </strong></font><br>
1934: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
1935: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
1936: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
1937: <p>
1938:
1939: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 1940: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
1941: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1942: OsOpinion,
1943: May 6, 2003.
1944: </strong></font><br>
1945: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
1946: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
1947: <br>
1948: This article can also be found online at:
1949: <ul>
1950: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1951: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
1952: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1953: NewsFactor Network.
1954: </strong></font>
1955: </ul>
1956: <p>
1957:
1958: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1959: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 1960: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
1961: ITBusiness,
1962: May 2, 2003.
1963: </strong></font><br>
1964: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
1965: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
1966: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
1967: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
1968: <p>
1969:
1970: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 1971: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
1972: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1973: InfoWorld,
1974: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 1975: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 1976: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
1977: <br>
1978: This article can also be found online at:
1979: <ul>
1980: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1981: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
1982: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1983: IDG Singapore.
1984: </strong></font>
1985: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 1986: <p>
1987:
1.339 jose 1988: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1989: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
1990: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 1991: ZDNet,
1992: May 1, 2003.
1993: </strong></font><br>
1994: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 1995: someone using parts from previous articles.
1996: <br>
1.341 deraadt 1997: This article can also be found online at:
1998: <ul>
1999: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2000: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
2001: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
2002: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 2003: </strong></font>
2004: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2005: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
2006: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
2007: CNET News.com.
2008: </strong></font>
2009: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2010: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
2011: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
2012: ZDNet UK.
2013: </strong></font>
2014: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2015: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
2016: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
2017: Help Net Security, Croatia.
2018: </strong></font>
2019: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 2020: <p>
1.339 jose 2021:
1.341 deraadt 2022: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2023: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 2024: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
2025: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
2026: May 1, 2003.
2027: </strong></font><br>
2028: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
2029: that have been added
2030: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
2031: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
2032: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 2033: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 2034: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
2035: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
2036: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 2037: <p>
2038:
2039: </ul>
2040:
1.253 ian 2041: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
2042: <ul>
1.255 ian 2043:
1.260 ian 2044: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2045: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 2046: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
2047: TechRepublic,
2048: April 28, 2003.
2049: </strong></font><br>
2050: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
2051: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 2052: work.<br>
2053: Can also be found online at:
2054: <ul>
2055: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2056: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
2057: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
2058: ZDNet UK.
2059: </strong></font>
2060: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 2061: <p>
2062:
2063: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 2064: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
2065: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
2066: IDG,
2067: April 24, 2003.
2068: </strong></font><br>
2069: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
2070: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
2071: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
2072: Can also be found online at:
2073: <ul>
2074: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2075: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
2076: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 2077: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 2078: </strong></font>
2079: </ul>
2080: <p>
2081:
2082: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2083: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 2084: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 2085: Slate,
2086: April 24, 2003.
2087: </strong></font><br>
2088: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
2089: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
2090: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
2091: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
2092: <p>
2093:
2094: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 2095: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2096: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
2097: April 24, 2003.
2098: </strong></font><br>
2099: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
2100: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
2101: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
2102: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
2103: <p>
2104:
2105: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 2106: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
2107: April 24, 2003.
2108: </strong></font><br>
2109: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
2110: the free software community".
2111: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
2112: other articles.
2113: <p>
2114:
2115: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2116: <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 2117: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
2118: </strong></font><br>
2119: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
2120: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
2121: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
2122: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
2123: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
2124: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
2125: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 2126: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 2127: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
2128: <br/>
2129: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
2130: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
2131: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
2132: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 2133: <br>
2134: Can also be found online at:
2135: <ul>
2136: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2137: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
2138: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
2139: Common Dreams NewsCenter
2140: </strong></font>
2141: </ul>
1.324 ian 2142: <p>
2143:
2144: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2145: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
2146: Wired, April 24, 2003.
2147: </strong></font><br>
2148: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
2149: article above.
2150: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
2151: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
2152: wasting them."
1.332 ian 2153: <br>
2154: Can also be found online at:
2155: <ul>
2156: <li>
2157: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
2158: </strong></font>
2159: </ul>
1.324 ian 2160: <p>
2161:
2162: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 2163: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
2164: </strong></font><br>
2165: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
2166: <p>
2167:
2168: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 2169: <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.
2170: </strong></font><br>
2171: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
2172: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
2173: <p>
2174:
2175: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 2176: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
2177: April 23, 2003.
2178: </strong></font><br>
2179: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
2180: <p>
2181:
2182: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 2183: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 2184: April 22, 2003.
2185: </strong></font><br>
2186: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
2187: <p>
2188:
2189: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 2190: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
2191: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
2192: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 2193: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 2194: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
2195: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
2196: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
2197: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
2198: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
2199: Can also be found online at:
2200: <ul>
2201: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2202: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 2203: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
2204: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 2205: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 2206: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2207: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 2208: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
2209: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 2210: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 2211: </ul>
2212: <p>
2213:
2214: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 2215: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
2216: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 2217: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2218: </strong></font><br>
2219: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 2220: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
2221: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
2222: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
2223: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
2224: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
2225: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 2226: <p>
2227:
2228: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 2229: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
2230: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 2231: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
2232: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 2233: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
2234: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
2235: at UPenn and DARPA.
2236: <p>
2237:
2238: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 2239: [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,
2240: France
1.315 deraadt 2241: April 18, 2003.
2242: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 2243: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 2244: <p>
2245:
2246: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 2247: [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 2248: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2249: </strong></font><br>
2250: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
2251: <p>
2252:
2253: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 2254: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
2255: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
2256: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 2257: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 2258: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
2259: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
2260: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
2261: <p>
2262:
2263: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 2264: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
2265: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2266: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 2267: </strong></font><br>
2268: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
2269: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
2270: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 2271: American century.
1.267 deraadt 2272: <p>
2273:
2274: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 2275: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
2276: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2277: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 2278: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 2279: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
2280: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
2281: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
2282: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
2283: Can also be found online at:
2284: <ul>
2285: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
2286: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 2287: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 2288: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 2289: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 2290: <p>
2291:
2292: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 2293: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 2294: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 2295: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 2296: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 2297: </strong></font><br>
2298: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 2299: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
2300: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
2301: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
2302: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 2303:
2304: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2305: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
2306: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
2307: New York Times.
2308: </strong></font>(free registration required)
2309:
1.273 deraadt 2310: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2311: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 2312: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 2313: ABC News.
2314: </strong></font>
2315:
2316: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2317: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 2318: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 2319: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 2320: </strong></font>
2321:
2322: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2323: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 2324: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 2325: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 2326: </strong></font>
2327:
2328: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 2329: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
2330: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 2331: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 2332: </strong></font>
2333:
2334: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2335: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 2336: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 2337: Times Daily, AL.
2338: </strong></font>
2339:
2340: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2341: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
2342: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
2343: Boston.com, MA.
2344: </strong></font>
2345:
2346: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2347: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 2348: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 2349: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
2350: </strong></font>
2351:
2352: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 2353: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
2354: [Article was pulled]</a>
2355: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 2356: </strong></font>
2357:
2358: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2359: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
2360: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
2361: Infoshop News.
2362: </strong></font>
2363:
2364: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2365: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
2366: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2367: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
2368: </strong></font>
2369:
2370: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 2371: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
2372: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
2373: Raleigh News, NC.
2374: </strong></font>
2375:
2376: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2377: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 2378: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
2379: Napa News, CA.
2380: </strong></font>
2381:
2382: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2383: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 2384: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2385: NEPA News, PA.
2386: </strong></font>
2387:
2388: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2389: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
2390: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
2391: Wired News.
2392: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 2393: <br>
2394: <li>
1.333 deraadt 2395: <font color="#009000"><strong>
2396: [JAPANESE]
2397: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
2398: Wired News Japan</a>
2399: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 2400:
1.271 deraadt 2401: </ul>
2402: <p>
1.272 deraadt 2403: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
2404: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 2405: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
2406: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
2407: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
2408: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
2409: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
2410: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 2411: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 2412: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
2413: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
2414: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 2415: <p>
2416: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 2417:
2418: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2419: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 2420: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
2421: Indianapolis Star, IN.
2422: </strong></font>
2423:
2424: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 2425: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
2426: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2427: Miami Herald, FL.
2428: </strong></font>
2429:
2430: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 2431: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 2432: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
2433: </strong></font>
2434:
2435: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2436: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 2437: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 2438: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 2439: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 2440:
2441: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2442: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
2443: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
2444: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
2445: ABC News.
2446: </strong></font>
2447:
1.276 deraadt 2448: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2449: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 2450: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 2451: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 2452: </strong></font>
2453:
1.286 dhartmei 2454: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2455: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 2456: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2457: Wilmington Star, NC.
2458: </strong></font>
2459:
1.300 jose 2460: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2461: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
2462: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
2463: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
2464: </strong></font>
2465:
1.309 jose 2466: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2467: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
2468: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
2469: Globe Technology.
2470: </strong></font>
2471:
1.263 deraadt 2472: </ul>
1.262 beck 2473: <p>
2474:
2475: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 2476: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
2477: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2478: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 2479: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 2480: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 2481: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
2482: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
2483: <p>
2484:
2485: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 2486: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
2487: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
2488: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 2489: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 2490: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
2491: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
2492: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
2493: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
2494: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
2495: and simply restates other press reports.
2496: <p>
2497:
2498: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 2499: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
2500: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2501: OS News, April 18, 2003.
2502: </strong></font><br>
2503: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
2504: <p>
2505:
2506: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 2507: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
2508: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2509: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 2510: </strong></font><br>
2511: Another report on the DARPA funding.
2512: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
2513: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
2514: <p>
2515:
2516: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 2517: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
2518: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
2519: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
2520: April 17, 2003.
2521: </strong></font><br>
2522: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
2523: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
2524: Tech Anthems</a>
2525: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
2526: 4 so far.
2527: <p>
2528:
2529: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 2530: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
2531: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2532: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2533: </strong></font><br>
2534: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
2535: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
2536: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
2537: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
2538: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
2539: Goes on to say:
2540: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
2541: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
2542: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
2543: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 2544: This article is also found online at:
2545: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 2546: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2547: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
2548: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
2549: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 2550: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 2551: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2552: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
2553: ZDnet</a>,
2554: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 2555: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 2556: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2557: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
2558: ZDnet Australia</a>,
2559: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 2560: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 2561: </ul>
1.260 ian 2562: <p>
1.279 deraadt 2563:
1.260 ian 2564: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2565: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 2566: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 2567: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2568: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 2569: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 2570: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
2571: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
2572: without notice or justification.
2573: <p>
2574:
2575: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2576: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 2577: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 2578: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2579: </strong></font><br>
2580: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
2581: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 2582: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 2583: effective today, without any warning..."
2584: <p>
1.257 ian 2585:
2586: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 2587: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
2588: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2589: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 2590: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 2591: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
2592: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
2593: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
2594: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
2595: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 2596: <p>
2597:
2598: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 2599: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
2600: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2601: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 2602: </strong></font><br>
2603: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
2604: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
2605: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
2606: quoting two of them:
2607: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
2608: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
2609: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
2610: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
2611: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
2612: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
2613: <p>
2614:
1.255 ian 2615: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2616: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
2617: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 2618: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2619: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 2620: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 2621: <p>
2622:
2623: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 2624: [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 2625: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2626: </strong></font><br>
2627: New security concepts in OpenBSD
2628: <p>
2629:
2630: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 2631: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
2632: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2633: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 2634: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 2635: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 2636: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
2637: security experts for more than three decades."
2638: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
2639: <p>
1.261 ian 2640:
1.254 drahn 2641: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 2642: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 2643: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2644: </strong></font><br>
2645: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
2646: <p>
2647:
2648: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 2649: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
2650: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
2651: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
2652: </strong></font><br>
2653: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
2654: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
2655: discussion OpenBSD's path.
2656: <p>
2657:
2658: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 2659: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
2660: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2661: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 2662: </strong></font><br>
2663: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
2664: from US DARPA.
2665: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
2666: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
2667: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
2668: the BSD license.
2669: <p>
2670: </ul>
2671:
1.251 ian 2672: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
2673: <ul>
2674:
2675: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2676: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
2677: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
2678: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
2679: </strong></font><br>
2680:
2681: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
2682: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
2683: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
2684: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
2685: <p>
2686:
2687: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 2688: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
2689: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 2690: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 2691: </strong></font><br>
2692: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
2693: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
2694: Mentions
2695: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
2696: and
2697: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
2698: programs.
2699: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 2700: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 2701: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
2702: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
2703: <p>
1.325 ian 2704: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
2705: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 2706:
2707: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2708: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
2709: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
2710: </strong></font><br>
2711: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
2712: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
2713: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
2714: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
2715: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
2716: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
2717: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
2718: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
2719: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
2720: put into service."
2721: <p>
2722: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
2723: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
2724: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
2725: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
2726: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
2727: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
2728: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
2729: computers with security features."
2730: <p>
1.329 ian 2731:
2732: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2733: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
2734: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
2735: Slate,
2736: March 3, 2003.
2737: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 2738: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 2739: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
2740: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
2741: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
2742: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
2743: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
2744: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
2745: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
2746: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
2747: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
2748: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
2749: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
2750: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
2751: of more secure open-source solutions like
2752: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
2753: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
2754: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
2755: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
2756: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
2757: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
2758: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
2759: the Beltway."
2760: <p>
1.251 ian 2761: </ul>
2762:
1.249 jufi 2763: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
2764: <ul>
2765: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2766: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
2767: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2768: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 2769: </strong></font><br>
2770: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
2771: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 2772: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 2773: <p>
1.334 ian 2774:
2775: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2776: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
2777: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
2778: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
2779: </strong></font><br>
2780: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
2781: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
2782: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
2783: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
2784: "... the hypothetical question ...
2785: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
2786: <br>
2787: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
2788: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
2789: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
2790: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
2791: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
2792: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 2793: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 2794: support network security.
2795: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
2796: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
2797: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
2798: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
2799: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
2800: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
2801: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
2802: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
2803: <br>
2804: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
2805: <p>
2806:
1.249 jufi 2807: </ul>
2808:
1.246 jufi 2809: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2810: <ul>
1.246 jufi 2811:
1.247 jufi 2812: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2813: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 2814: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2815: CNET News.com, December 4, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2816: </strong></font><br>
2817: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
2818: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
2819: <p>
2820:
1.247 jufi 2821: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2822: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
2823: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2824: Heise News-Ticker, December 4, 2002
1.301 jose 2825: </strong></font><br>
1.460 david 2826: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III CPU
1.301 jose 2827: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
2828: <p>
2829:
2830: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2831: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 2832: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2833: eWeek, December 3, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2834: </strong></font><br>
2835: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
2836: in their annual OpenHack security test.
2837: <p>
1.247 jufi 2838: </ul>
1.246 jufi 2839:
1.244 jufi 2840: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2841: <ul>
1.246 jufi 2842:
1.247 jufi 2843: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2844: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
2845: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
2846: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2847: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2848: </strong></font><br>
2849: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
2850: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
2851: md5 digests.
2852: <p>
2853:
1.247 jufi 2854: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2855: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 2856: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
2857: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2858: </strong></font><br>
2859: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
2860: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
2861: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
2862: right the first time."
2863: <p>
1.247 jufi 2864: </ul>
1.244 jufi 2865:
2866:
2867: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2868: <ul>
1.244 jufi 2869:
1.247 jufi 2870: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2871: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2872: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
2873: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2874: </strong></font><br>
2875: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
2876: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
2877: part 6</a>.
2878: <p>
2879:
1.247 jufi 2880: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2881: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 2882: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
2883: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2884: O'Reilly Network, August 8, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2885: </strong></font><br>
2886: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
2887: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
2888: <p>
1.301 jose 2889:
2890: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2891: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
2892: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
2893: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
2894: </strong></font><br>
2895:
2896: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
2897: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
2898: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
2899: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
2900: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
2901: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
2902: <i>Here's the
2903: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
2904: <p>
1.247 jufi 2905: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2906:
2907: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2908: <ul>
1.242 jufi 2909:
1.247 jufi 2910: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2911: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 2912: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2913: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2914: </strong></font><br>
2915: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
2916: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
2917: <p>
2918:
1.247 jufi 2919: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2920: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2921: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2922: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 1, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2923: </strong></font><br>
2924: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
2925: this time using pf.
2926: <p>
1.247 jufi 2927: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2928:
2929: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2930: <ul>
1.242 jufi 2931:
1.247 jufi 2932: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2933: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2934: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
2935: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2936: </strong></font><br>
2937: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
2938: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
2939: their rotation.
2940: <p>
2941:
1.247 jufi 2942: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2943: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2944: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2945: O'Reilly Network, June 6, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2946: </strong></font><br>
2947: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
2948: <p>
1.247 jufi 2949: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2950:
1.239 jufi 2951: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2952: <ul>
1.239 jufi 2953:
1.247 jufi 2954: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2955: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2956: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
2957: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2958: </strong></font><br>
2959: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
2960: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
2961: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
2962: <p>
2963:
1.247 jufi 2964: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 2965: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2966: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
2967: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 2968: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 2969: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
2970: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
2971: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 2972: <p>
1.247 jufi 2973: </ul>
1.239 jufi 2974:
1.235 lebel 2975: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2976: <ul>
1.235 lebel 2977:
1.239 jufi 2978:
1.247 jufi 2979: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 2980: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 2981: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
2982: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 2983: </strong></font><br>
2984: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
2985: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
2986: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
2987: <p>
1.301 jose 2988:
1.247 jufi 2989: </ul>
1.235 lebel 2990:
1.228 horacio 2991: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2992: <ul>
1.228 horacio 2993:
1.247 jufi 2994: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2995: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2996: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
2997: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 2998: </strong></font><br>
2999: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
3000: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
3001: <p>
3002:
1.247 jufi 3003: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 3004: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 3005: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
3006: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 3007: </strong></font><br>
3008: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
3009: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
3010: <p>
3011:
1.247 jufi 3012: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 3013: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 3014: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
3015: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 3016: </strong></font><br>
3017: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
3018: on the desktop of his parents.
3019: <p>
3020:
1.247 jufi 3021: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 3022: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 3023: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
3024: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 3025: </strong></font><br>
3026: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
3027: using IPFilter.
3028:
3029: <p>
3030:
1.247 jufi 3031: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 3032: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 3033: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
3034: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 3035: </strong></font><br>
3036: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
3037: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
3038: perspectives of the four OS.
3039: <br>
3040: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 3041: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 3042: <p>
3043:
1.247 jufi 3044: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 3045: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
3046: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 3047: software and security</a>,
3048: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 3049: </strong></font><br>
3050:
3051: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
3052: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
3053: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
3054: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
3055: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
3056: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
3057: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
3058: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
3059: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
3060: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
3061: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
3062: security conscious team beyond doubt.
3063: <p>
1.247 jufi 3064: </ul>
1.228 horacio 3065:
1.225 horacio 3066: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3067: <ul>
1.225 horacio 3068:
1.247 jufi 3069: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3070: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
3071: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 3072: Interview</a>,
3073: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 3074: </strong></font><br>
3075:
3076: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
3077: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
3078: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 3079: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 3080: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
3081: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
3082: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
3083: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
3084: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 3085: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 3086: of choice.
3087: <p>
1.247 jufi 3088: </ul>
1.225 horacio 3089:
3090: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3091: <ul>
1.225 horacio 3092:
1.247 jufi 3093: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3094: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 3095: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
3096: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 3097: </strong></font><br>
3098:
3099: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
3100: <p>
3101:
1.247 jufi 3102: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3103: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 3104: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
3105: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 3106: </strong></font><br>
3107:
3108: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
3109: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
3110: <p>
1.247 jufi 3111: </ul>
1.225 horacio 3112:
1.218 horacio 3113: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3114: <ul>
1.218 horacio 3115:
1.247 jufi 3116: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 3117: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 3118: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 3119: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 3120: </strong></font><br>
3121:
3122: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
3123: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
3124: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
3125: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
3126: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
3127: subjects. Worth a read.
3128: <p>
3129:
3130:
1.247 jufi 3131: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 3132: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 3133: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
3134: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 3135: </strong></font><br>
3136:
3137: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
3138: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
3139: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
3140: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
3141: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
3142: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
3143: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
3144: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
3145: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 3146: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 3147: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
3148: on other operating systems.<br>
3149: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
3150: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
3151: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
3152: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
3153: <p>
3154:
1.247 jufi 3155: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3156: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 3157: Operating System 2010</a>,
3158: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 3159: </strong></font><br>
3160:
3161: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
3162: covering the level of software integration into the core
3163: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
3164: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
3165: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
3166: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
3167: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
3168: <p>
3169:
1.247 jufi 3170: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 3171: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 3172: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
3173: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 3174: </strong></font><br>
3175:
3176: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
3177: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
3178: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
3179: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
3180: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
3181: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
3182: <p>
1.247 jufi 3183: </ul>
1.221 horacio 3184:
1.210 jufi 3185: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3186: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3187:
1.247 jufi 3188: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3189: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 3190: Already a Contender</a>,
3191: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 3192: </strong></font><br>
3193:
3194: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
3195: source software in response to an article which claimed that
3196: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
3197: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
3198: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
3199: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
3200: <p>
3201:
1.247 jufi 3202: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 3203: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 3204: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
3205: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 3206: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3207:
1.224 horacio 3208: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
3209: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
3210: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
3211: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
3212: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
3213: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 3214: <p>
1.247 jufi 3215: </ul>
1.215 horacio 3216:
3217: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3218: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3219:
1.247 jufi 3220: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3221: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
3222: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 3223: Division</a>,
3224: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 3225: </strong></font><br>
3226:
3227: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
3228: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 3229: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 3230: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
3231: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
3232: investment</em>.<br>
3233: The implementation details can be seen on their
3234: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
3235: <p>
3236:
1.247 jufi 3237: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3238: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
3239: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
3240: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
3241: </strong></font><br>
3242:
3243: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
3244: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
3245: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1.475 grunk 3246: laptops and T-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1.301 jose 3247: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
3248: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
3249: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
3250: <p>
3251:
3252: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3253: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 3254: Thinking about Security</a>,
3255: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 3256: </strong></font><br>
3257:
3258: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
3259: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
3260: security and says that even secured operating systems running
3261: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
3262: to time.<br>
3263: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
3264: system and just the most secure system.
3265: <p>
3266:
1.247 jufi 3267: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3268: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 3269: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
3270: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 3271: </strong></font><br>
3272:
3273: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
3274: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
3275: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
3276: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
3277: choice:<br>
3278: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
3279: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
3280: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
3281: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
3282: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
3283: network security devices and as such must be well
3284: armored."</em><br>
3285: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
3286: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
3287: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
3288: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
3289: <br>
3290: Bravo!
3291: <p>
1.247 jufi 3292: </ul>
1.210 jufi 3293:
1.207 ian 3294: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3295: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3296:
1.247 jufi 3297: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 3298: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
3299: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
3300: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 3301:
1.207 ian 3302: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
3303: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 3304: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 3305: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
3306: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
3307: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 3308: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 3309: <p>
1.247 jufi 3310: </ul>
1.207 ian 3311:
1.194 jufi 3312: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3313: <ul>
1.194 jufi 3314:
1.247 jufi 3315: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3316: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 3317: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
3318: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 3319: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3320:
1.240 miod 3321: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 3322: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
3323: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
3324: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
3325: <p>
3326:
1.247 jufi 3327: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3328: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
3329: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
3330: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
3331:
3332: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
3333: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
3334: <p>
3335:
3336: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3337: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
3338: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3339: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
3340:
3341: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
3342: <p>
3343:
3344: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3345: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 3346: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
3347: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
3348: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3349:
1.240 miod 3350: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 3351: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 3352: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
3353: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 3354: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 3355: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 3356: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
3357: <br>
1.413 deraadt 3358: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 3359: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
3360: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
3361: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
3362: <p>
3363:
1.247 jufi 3364: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 3365: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
3366: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 3367: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 3368: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3369:
1.194 jufi 3370: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
3371: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
3372: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
3373: <br>
3374: The new
3375: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 3376: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 3377: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
3378: <p>
1.247 jufi 3379: </ul>
1.194 jufi 3380:
1.190 horacio 3381: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3382: <ul>
1.190 horacio 3383:
1.247 jufi 3384: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 3385:
3386: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
3387: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
3388:
1.301 jose 3389:
1.191 jufi 3390: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
3391: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
3392:
3393: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
3394: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
3395:
1.212 horacio 3396: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
3397: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 3398: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
3399:
1.211 horacio 3400: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
3401: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 3402: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
3403:
1.247 jufi 3404: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 3405: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
3406:
1.247 jufi 3407: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 3408: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
3409:
1.212 horacio 3410: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
3411: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 3412: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
3413:
3414: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
3415: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
3416:
3417: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
3418: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
3419:
1.301 jose 3420: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
3421: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
3422:
1.191 jufi 3423: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
3424: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
3425:
3426: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 3427: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 3428:
1.192 jufi 3429: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
3430: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 3431: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 3432:
1.193 deraadt 3433: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
3434: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 3435: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 3436:
1.247 jufi 3437: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 3438: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
3439:
1.247 jufi 3440: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 3441: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
3442: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
3443:
1.213 horacio 3444: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 3445: 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 3446: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
3447:
1.190 horacio 3448: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 3449: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
3450: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
3451: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
3452: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
3453: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
3454: <p>
1.190 horacio 3455:
1.247 jufi 3456: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3457: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
3458: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
3459: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 3460: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3461:
1.195 jufi 3462: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 3463: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
3464: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
3465: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 3466: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
3467: <p>
3468:
1.247 jufi 3469: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3470: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 3471: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
3472: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
3473: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3474:
1.191 jufi 3475: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 3476: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
3477: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
3478: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
3479: <p>
3480:
3481: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3482: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
3483: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3484: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
3485:
3486: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
3487: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 3488: <p>
1.247 jufi 3489: </ul>
1.190 horacio 3490:
1.191 jufi 3491:
1.186 jufi 3492: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3493: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 3494:
1.247 jufi 3495: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 3496: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 3497: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
3498: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 3499: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 3500:
1.188 jufi 3501: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 3502: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 3503: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 3504: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
3505: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 3506: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 3507: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 3508: <p>
3509:
1.301 jose 3510: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3511: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
3512: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3513: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
3514:
3515: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
3516: <p>
1.191 jufi 3517:
1.247 jufi 3518: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 3519: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
3520: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3521: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 5, 2001
1.191 jufi 3522: </strong></font><br>
3523:
3524: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
3525: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
3526: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
3527: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
3528: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
3529: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
3530: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
3531: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
3532: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
3533: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
3534: familiar?
3535: <p>
1.247 jufi 3536: </ul>
1.191 jufi 3537:
1.178 louis 3538: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3539: <ul>
1.178 louis 3540:
1.247 jufi 3541: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 3542: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 3543: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
3544: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 3545: </strong></font><br>
3546:
3547: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
3548: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
3549: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
3550: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
3551: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
3552: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
3553: <p>
3554:
1.247 jufi 3555: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3556: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
3557: Open source under the hood</a>,
3558: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 3559: </strong></font><br>
3560:
3561: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
3562: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
3563: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
3564: <p>
3565:
1.247 jufi 3566: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3567: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
3568: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
3569: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 3570: </strong></font><br>
3571:
3572: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
3573: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
3574: <p>
1.247 jufi 3575: </ul>
1.179 louis 3576:
1.174 louis 3577:
1.175 louis 3578: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3579: <ul>
1.175 louis 3580:
1.247 jufi 3581: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3582: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
3583: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
3584: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 3585: </strong></font><br>
3586:
3587: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
3588: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
3589: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
3590: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
3591: <p>
3592:
1.247 jufi 3593: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3594: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
3595: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
3596: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 3597: </strong></font><br>
3598:
3599: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 3600: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 3601: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
3602: <p>
1.247 jufi 3603: </ul>
1.175 louis 3604:
1.176 louis 3605:
1.172 mickey 3606: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3607: <ul>
1.172 mickey 3608:
1.247 jufi 3609: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3610: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
3611: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 3612: </strong></font><br>
3613:
3614: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
3615: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
3616: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 3617: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 3618: <p>
3619:
1.247 jufi 3620: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 3621: <a
1.269 deraadt 3622: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
3623: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
3624: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 3625: </strong></font><br>
3626:
3627: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
3628: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
3629: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
3630: <p>
3631:
1.247 jufi 3632: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3633: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 3634: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
3635: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 3636: </strong></font><br>
3637:
3638: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
3639: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
3640: <p>
3641:
1.247 jufi 3642: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3643: <a
1.269 deraadt 3644: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
3645: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 3646: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
3647: </strong></font><br>
3648:
3649: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
3650: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
3651: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
3652: our own Theo de Raadt.
3653: <p>
3654:
1.247 jufi 3655: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3656: <a
1.269 deraadt 3657: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
3658: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
3659: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 3660: </strong></font><br>
3661:
3662: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
3663: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
3664: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
3665: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
3666: shut down.]
3667: <p>
3668:
1.247 jufi 3669: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3670: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 3671: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 3672: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
3673: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 3674: </strong></font><br>
3675:
3676: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
3677: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
3678: <p>
1.247 jufi 3679: </ul>
1.172 mickey 3680:
1.161 louis 3681: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3682: <ul>
1.161 louis 3683:
1.247 jufi 3684: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 3685: <a
1.269 deraadt 3686: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
3687: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
3688: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 3689: </strong></font><br>
3690:
3691: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
3692: by John Wolley
3693: <p>
3694:
1.247 jufi 3695: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 3696: <a
1.269 deraadt 3697: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
3698: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
3699: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 3700: </strong></font><br>
3701:
3702: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
3703: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
3704: OpenBSD).
3705: <p>
3706:
1.247 jufi 3707: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 3708: <a
1.247 jufi 3709: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 3710: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
3711: </strong></font><br>
3712:
3713: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
3714: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
3715: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
3716: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
3717: and hindsight.
3718: <p>
3719:
1.247 jufi 3720: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3721: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
3722: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
3723: </strong></font><br>
3724:
3725: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
3726: <p>
3727:
1.247 jufi 3728: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 3729: <a
1.168 provos 3730: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
3731: December 7, 2000
3732: </strong></font><br>
3733:
3734: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
3735: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
3736: us explain.
3737: <p>
3738:
1.247 jufi 3739: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 3740: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
3741: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 3742: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 3743: December 6, 2000
3744: </strong></font><br>
3745:
3746: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
3747: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
3748: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
3749: <p>
3750:
1.247 jufi 3751: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3752: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
3753: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
3754: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
3755: </strong></font><br>
3756:
3757: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
3758: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
3759: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
3760: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
3761: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
3762: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
3763: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
3764: <p>
3765:
3766: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 3767: <a
1.226 horacio 3768: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
3769: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 3770: </strong></font><br>
3771:
3772: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 3773: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 3774: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 3775: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
3776: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
3777: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 3778: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 3779: <p>
1.162 millert 3780:
1.247 jufi 3781: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 3782: <a
1.161 louis 3783: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
3784: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
3785: </strong></font><br>
3786:
3787: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
3788: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
3789: <p>
3790:
1.247 jufi 3791: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3792: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
3793: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
3794: </strong></font><br>
3795:
3796: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
3797: <p>
3798:
3799:
1.247 jufi 3800: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 3801: <a
1.226 horacio 3802: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
3803: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
3804: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 3805: </strong></font><br>
3806:
3807: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
3808: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
3809: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
3810: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
3811: <p>
1.247 jufi 3812: </ul>
1.169 louis 3813:
1.158 louis 3814: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3815: <ul>
1.147 louis 3816:
1.247 jufi 3817: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3818: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
3819: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 3820: </strong></font><br>
3821:
3822: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
3823: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
3824: <p>
3825:
1.247 jufi 3826: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3827: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
3828: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
3829: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 3830: </strong></font><br>
3831: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
3832: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
3833: <p>
3834:
1.247 jufi 3835: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 3836: <a
3837: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
3838: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
3839: </strong></font><br>
3840:
3841: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
3842: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
3843: <p>
3844:
1.247 jufi 3845: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3846: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 3847: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
3848: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 3849:
1.213 horacio 3850: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 3851: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 3852: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
3853: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
3854: <p>
1.215 horacio 3855:
1.247 jufi 3856: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3857: <a
3858: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
3859: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
3860: </strong></font><br>
3861:
3862: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
3863: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
3864: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
3865: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
3866: much of the attitude too).
3867: <p>
1.161 louis 3868:
1.247 jufi 3869: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3870: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3871: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 3872: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3873:
1.157 louis 3874: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
3875: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
3876: <p>
1.247 jufi 3877: </ul>
1.157 louis 3878:
3879: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3880: <ul>
1.157 louis 3881:
1.247 jufi 3882: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3883: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3884: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 3885: </strong></font><br>
3886:
3887: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
3888: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
3889: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
3890: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
3891: <p>
3892:
1.247 jufi 3893: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 3894: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
3895: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
3896: </strong></font><br>
3897:
3898: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
3899: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
3900: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
3901: it because they love coding...
3902: <p>
3903:
1.247 jufi 3904: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 3905: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
3906: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
3907: </strong></font><br>
3908:
3909: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
3910: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
3911: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
3912: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
3913: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
3914: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
3915: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
3916: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
3917: <p>
3918:
1.247 jufi 3919: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3920: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
3921: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
3922: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 3923: </strong></font><br>
3924:
3925: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
3926: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
3927: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
3928: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
3929: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
3930: the pizza.
3931: <p>
3932:
1.247 jufi 3933: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 3934: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
3935: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
3936: </strong></font><br>
3937:
3938: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
3939: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
3940: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
3941: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
3942: problems.
3943: <p>
3944:
1.247 jufi 3945: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 3946: <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 3947: </strong></font><br>
3948:
1.222 miod 3949: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 3950: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
3951: - whether they like it or not.
3952: <p>
3953:
1.247 jufi 3954: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3955: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
3956: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 3957: </strong></font><br>
3958:
3959: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
3960: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
3961: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 3962: <p>
1.148 aaron 3963:
1.247 jufi 3964: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3965: <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 3966: </strong></font><br>
3967:
3968: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
3969: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
3970: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
3971: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
3972: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
3973: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
3974: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
3975: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
3976: <p>
3977:
1.247 jufi 3978: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3979: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
3980: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 3981: </strong></font><br>
3982:
3983: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
3984: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 3985: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 3986: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
3987: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
3988: <p>
1.247 jufi 3989: </ul>
1.147 louis 3990:
1.138 louis 3991: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3992: <ul>
1.138 louis 3993:
1.247 jufi 3994: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3995: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
3996: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
3997: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
3998: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 3999: </strong></font><br>
4000:
1.227 horacio 4001: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 4002: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
4003: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
4004: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
4005: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
4006: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
4007: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
4008: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 4009: <p>
4010:
1.247 jufi 4011: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 4012: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 4013: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 4014: </strong></font><br>
4015:
4016: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
4017: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
4018: groups, and even Linux.
4019: <p>
4020:
1.247 jufi 4021: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4022: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
4023: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 4024: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
4025: </strong></font><br>
4026:
4027: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
4028: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
4029: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
4030: library after installing the OS.
4031: <p>
4032:
1.247 jufi 4033: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4034: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 4035: Sys Admin, September 2000
4036: </strong></font><br>
4037:
4038: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
4039: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
4040: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
4041: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 4042: (<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>,
4043: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
4044: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
4045: <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 4046: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 4047: out of the system.
4048: <p>
4049:
1.247 jufi 4050: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 4051: <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
4052: </strong></font><br>
4053:
4054: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 4055: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 4056: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
4057: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
4058: the IP filtering and address translation.
4059: <p>
1.301 jose 4060:
4061: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4062: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
4063: </strong></font><br>
4064:
4065: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
4066: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
4067: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
4068: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
4069: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
4070: <p>
1.247 jufi 4071: </ul>
1.200 niklas 4072:
1.131 louis 4073: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4074: <ul>
1.131 louis 4075:
1.247 jufi 4076: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4077: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
4078: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
4079: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 4080: </strong></font><br>
4081:
4082: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
4083: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
4084: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
4085: <p>
4086:
1.247 jufi 4087: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 4088: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
4089: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
4090: </strong></font><br>
4091:
4092: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
4093: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
4094: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
4095: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
4096: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
4097: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
4098: note of"</i>.
4099: <p>
4100:
1.247 jufi 4101: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 4102: <a
1.247 jufi 4103: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 4104: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
4105: </strong></font><br>
4106:
4107: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
4108: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
4109: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
4110: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
4111: <p>
4112:
1.247 jufi 4113: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 4114: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 4115: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
4116: </strong></font><br>
4117:
4118: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
4119: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
4120: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
4121: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
4122: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
4123: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
4124: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
4125: <p>
4126:
1.247 jufi 4127: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 4128: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
4129: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
4130: 2000
4131: </strong></font><br>
4132:
4133: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
4134: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
4135: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
4136: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
4137: against current industry practices.
4138: <p>
4139:
1.247 jufi 4140: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 4141: <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
4142: </strong></font><br>
4143:
4144: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
4145: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
4146: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
4147: <p>
4148:
1.247 jufi 4149: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 4150: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
4151: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
4152: </strong></font><br>
4153:
4154: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
4155: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
4156: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
4157: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
4158: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
4159: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
4160: careful code reviews, he concludes.
4161: <p>
4162:
1.247 jufi 4163: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 4164: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
4165: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
4166: </strong></font><br>
4167:
4168: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
4169: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
4170: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
4171: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
4172: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 4173: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
4174: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
4175: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 4176: <p>
1.247 jufi 4177: </ul>
1.131 louis 4178:
1.118 louis 4179: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4180: <ul>
1.118 louis 4181:
1.247 jufi 4182: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 4183: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
4184: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
4185: </strong></font><br>
4186:
4187: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
4188: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
4189: about time. The article mentions that
4190: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
4191: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
4192: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 4193: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 4194: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
4195: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 4196: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 4197: <p>
4198:
1.247 jufi 4199: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4200: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 4201: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 4202: </strong></font><br>
4203:
4204: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
4205: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
4206: of OpenSSH.
4207: <p>
4208:
1.247 jufi 4209: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4210: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4211: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 4212: </strong></font><br>
4213:
4214: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 4215: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 4216: bridging.
4217: <p>
4218:
1.247 jufi 4219: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4220: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
4221: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 4222: </strong></font><br>
4223:
1.121 deraadt 4224: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
4225: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 4226: <p>
4227:
1.247 jufi 4228: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 4229: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
4230: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
4231: </strong></font><br>
4232:
4233: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
4234: <p>
4235:
1.247 jufi 4236: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 4237: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 4238: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
4239: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 4240: </strong></font><br>
4241:
1.120 deraadt 4242: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
4243: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 4244: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
4245: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
4246: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
4247: <p>
4248:
1.247 jufi 4249: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 4250: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
4251: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
4252: </strong></font><br>
4253:
1.222 miod 4254: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 4255: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
4256: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
4257: protocols and their quirks.
4258: <p>
4259:
1.247 jufi 4260: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4261: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
4262: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 4263: </strong></font><br>
4264:
4265: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
4266: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
4267: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 4268: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 4269: <p>
4270:
1.247 jufi 4271: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 4272: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
4273: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
4274: </strong></font><br>
4275:
4276: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
4277: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
4278: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
4279: <p>
4280:
1.247 jufi 4281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 4282: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 4283: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
4284: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 4285: </strong></font><br>
4286:
4287: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
4288: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
4289: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
4290: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
4291: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
4292: <p>
1.247 jufi 4293: </ul>
1.118 louis 4294:
1.104 louis 4295: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4296: <ul>
1.104 louis 4297:
1.247 jufi 4298: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 4299: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
4300: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
4301: </strong></font><br>
4302:
4303: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
4304: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
4305: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
4306: be a bit dry.
4307: <p>
4308:
1.247 jufi 4309: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4310: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
4311: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
4312: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
4313: </strong></font><br>
4314: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
4315: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
4316: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
4317: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
4318: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
4319: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
4320: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
4321: <p>
4322:
1.247 jufi 4323: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4324: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
4325: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 4326: 2000
1.128 louis 4327: </strong></font><br>
4328:
4329: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
4330: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
4331: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
4332: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
4333: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 4334: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 4335: <p>
4336:
1.247 jufi 4337: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4338: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
4339: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 4340: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 4341:
4342: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
4343: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
4344: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
4345: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 4346: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
4347: <p>
1.110 louis 4348:
1.247 jufi 4349: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 4350: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
4351: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
4352: </strong></font><br>
4353:
4354: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
4355: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
4356: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
4357: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
4358: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
4359: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
4360: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
4361: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
4362: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
4363: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
4364: <p>
4365:
1.247 jufi 4366: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 4367: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 4368: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 4369:
4370: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
4371: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 4372: <p>
1.108 louis 4373:
1.247 jufi 4374: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 4375: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
4376: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 4377: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 4378:
4379: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
4380: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
4381: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 4382: <p>
1.106 louis 4383:
1.247 jufi 4384: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 4385: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
4386: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 4387: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 4388:
4389: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
4390: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
4391: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
4392: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 4393: <p>
1.107 louis 4394:
1.247 jufi 4395: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4396: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
4397: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 4398: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 4399:
4400: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
4401: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 4402: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 4403: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
4404: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 4405: <p>
1.105 louis 4406:
1.247 jufi 4407: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 4408: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 4409: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 4410: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 4411:
1.113 naddy 4412: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
4413: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 4414: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 4415: <p>
1.104 louis 4416:
1.247 jufi 4417: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4418: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
4419: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
4420: </strong></font><br>
4421:
4422: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
4423: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
4424: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
4425: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
4426: <p>
1.301 jose 4427:
4428: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4429: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
4430: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
4431: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
4432:
4433: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
4434: hardware-supported cryptography.
4435: <p>
1.247 jufi 4436: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 4437:
1.85 louis 4438: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4439: <ul>
1.85 louis 4440:
1.247 jufi 4441: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4442: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 4443: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 4444: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 4445:
4446: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
4447: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
4448: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
4449: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
4450: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
4451: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
4452: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 4453: <p>
1.99 louis 4454:
1.247 jufi 4455: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4456: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 4457: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 4458: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 4459:
4460: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
4461: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
4462: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
4463: conditions.
1.113 naddy 4464: <p>
1.100 louis 4465:
1.247 jufi 4466: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4467: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 4468: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 4469: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 4470:
4471: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
4472: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
4473: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
4474: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 4475: <p>
1.95 louis 4476:
1.247 jufi 4477: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4478: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 4479: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 4480: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 4481:
4482: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
4483: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 4484: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 4485: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
4486: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4487: <p>
1.92 louis 4488:
1.247 jufi 4489: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4490: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 4491: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 4492: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 4493:
4494: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
4495: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
4496: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
4497: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
4498: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
4499: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 4500: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 4501: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 4502: <p>
1.91 louis 4503:
1.247 jufi 4504: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4505: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
4506: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 4507: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 4508:
4509: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
4510: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
4511: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
4512: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
4513: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
4514: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
4515: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
4516: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
4517: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 4518: <p>
1.90 louis 4519:
1.247 jufi 4520: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 4521: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
4522: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
4523: </strong></font><br>
4524: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
4525: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
4526: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
4527: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
4528: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
4529: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
4530: <p>
4531:
1.247 jufi 4532: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 4533: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
4534: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 4535: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 4536:
1.113 naddy 4537: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
4538: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 4539: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
4540: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
4541: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
4542: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
4543: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 4544: <p>
1.87 louis 4545:
1.247 jufi 4546: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 4547: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
4548: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 4549: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 4550:
4551: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 4552: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 4553: <p>
1.85 louis 4554:
1.247 jufi 4555: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4556: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
4557: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4558: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
4559:
4560: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
4561: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
4562: <p>
4563:
4564: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 4565: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
4566: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 4567: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 4568:
4569: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 4570: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 4571: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
4572: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 4573: <p>
1.89 louis 4574:
1.247 jufi 4575: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 4576: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
1.85 louis 4577: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 4578: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 4579:
4580: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
4581: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
4582: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
4583: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
4584: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 4585: </ul>
1.85 louis 4586:
1.78 deraadt 4587: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4588: <ul>
1.74 louis 4589:
1.247 jufi 4590: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4591: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 4592: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 4593: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 4594: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 4595:
4596: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
4597: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
4598: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4599: <p>
1.83 louis 4600:
1.247 jufi 4601: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 4602: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
4603: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 4604: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 4605:
4606: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
4607: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 4608: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 4609: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
4610: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 4611: <p>
1.93 louis 4612:
1.247 jufi 4613: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4614: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
4615: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
4616: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 4617: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 4618:
1.83 louis 4619: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
4620: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
4621: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
4622: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
4623: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 4624: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
4625: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
4626: <p>
1.82 aaron 4627:
1.247 jufi 4628: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4629: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 4630: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 4631: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 4632:
1.83 louis 4633: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
4634: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
4635: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 4636: <p>
1.80 louis 4637:
1.247 jufi 4638: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4639: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 4640: Bad Press</a>,
4641: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 4642: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 4643:
4644: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 4645: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 4646: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
4647: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
4648: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 4649: <p>
1.247 jufi 4650: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 4651:
4652: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4653: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 4654:
1.247 jufi 4655: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4656: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
4657: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 4658: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 4659: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 4660:
4661: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
4662: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
4663: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
4664: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 4665: <p>
1.74 louis 4666:
1.247 jufi 4667: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 4668: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
4669: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 4670: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 4671:
1.219 horacio 4672: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
4673: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
4674: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
4675: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
4676: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
4677: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
4678: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 4679: <p>
1.88 louis 4680:
1.247 jufi 4681: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 4682: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 4683: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 4684: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 4685:
4686: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
4687: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
4688: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
4689: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 4690: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 4691: <p>
1.81 louis 4692:
1.247 jufi 4693: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4694: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 4695: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 4696: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 4697:
4698: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
4699: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
4700: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
4701: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
4702: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
4703: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
4704: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 4705: <p>
1.90 louis 4706:
1.247 jufi 4707: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4708: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 4709: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 4710: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 4711:
4712: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
4713: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
4714: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 4715: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 4716: <p>
1.247 jufi 4717: </ul>
1.71 louis 4718:
1.69 deraadt 4719: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4720: <ul>
1.70 louis 4721:
1.247 jufi 4722: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4723: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
4724: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 4725: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 4726:
4727: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
4728: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
4729: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 4730: <p>
1.70 louis 4731:
1.247 jufi 4732: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4733: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
4734: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 4735: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 4736:
4737: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 4738: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 4739: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 4740: <p>
1.68 louis 4741:
1.247 jufi 4742: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4743: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
4744: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 4745: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 4746: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 4747:
1.111 jufi 4748: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
4749: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 4750: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 4751: "secure by default" installation.
4752: <p>
1.64 louis 4753:
1.247 jufi 4754: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 4755: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 4756: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 4757: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 4758:
1.113 naddy 4759: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 4760: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 4761: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 4762: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
4763: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
4764: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 4765: <p>
1.66 louis 4766:
1.247 jufi 4767: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4768: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 4769: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4770: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 4771:
4772: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 4773: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 4774: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
4775: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
4776: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 4777: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
4778: <p>
1.83 louis 4779:
1.247 jufi 4780: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4781: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 4782: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4783: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 4784:
4785: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 4786: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
4787: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 4788: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
4789: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 4790: <p>
1.64 louis 4791:
1.247 jufi 4792: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4793: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 4794: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4795: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 4796:
4797: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
4798: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 4799: <p>
1.301 jose 4800:
4801: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4802: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
4803: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
4804: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
4805: </strong></font><br>
4806:
4807: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
4808: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
4809: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
4810: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
4811: Giving way to
4812: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
4813: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
4814: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
4815: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
4816: <p>
1.247 jufi 4817: </ul>
1.65 louis 4818:
1.69 deraadt 4819: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4820: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4821:
1.247 jufi 4822: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4823: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 4824: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 4825: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 4826:
4827: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
4828: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
4829: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
4830: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 4831: <p>
1.88 louis 4832:
1.247 jufi 4833: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4834: <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 4835: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 4836:
4837: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 4838: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
4839: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 4840: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
4841: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 4842: <p>
1.60 louis 4843:
1.247 jufi 4844: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 4845: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 4846: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 4847: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 4848: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4849:
4850: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
4851: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
4852: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 4853: <p>
1.58 louis 4854:
1.247 jufi 4855: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 4856: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 4857: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 4858:
4859: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
4860: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 4861: <p>
1.53 louis 4862:
1.247 jufi 4863: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 4864: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
4865: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 4866: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 4867:
4868: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
4869: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
4870: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 4871: <p>
1.99 louis 4872:
1.247 jufi 4873: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 4874: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 4875: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4876:
4877: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
4878: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 4879: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 4880: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 4881: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 4882:
1.247 jufi 4883: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4884: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
4885: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 4886: </strong></font><br>
4887:
4888: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
4889: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
4890: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
4891: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
4892: <p>
4893:
1.247 jufi 4894: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4895: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 4896: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 4897: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4898:
4899: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
4900: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 4901: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 4902:
1.247 jufi 4903: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 4904: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 4905: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 4906:
4907: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 4908: in
1.247 jufi 4909: <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 4910: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 4911: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 4912: <p>
1.53 louis 4913:
1.247 jufi 4914: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4915: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 4916: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
4917: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 4918: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 4919:
1.58 louis 4920: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4921: <p>
1.301 jose 4922:
4923: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4924: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
4925: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
4926: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
4927: Informacyjny, January 2000
4928: </strong></font><br>
4929:
4930: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
4931: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
4932: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
4933: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
4934: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
4935: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
4936: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
4937: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
4938: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
4939: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 4940: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
4941: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 4942: <p>
4943:
4944: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4945: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4946: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
4947: </strong></font><br>
4948:
4949: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
4950: <p>
4951: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 4952:
1.69 deraadt 4953: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4954: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4955:
1.247 jufi 4956: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4957: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
4958: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
4959: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 4960: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4961:
1.58 louis 4962: Kurt Seifried
4963: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4964: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
4965: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 4966: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 4967:
1.247 jufi 4968: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4969: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 4970: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4971: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 4972:
4973: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 4974: <p>
1.96 louis 4975:
1.247 jufi 4976: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4977: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
4978: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
4979: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
4980: </strong></font><br>
4981:
4982: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
4983: <p>
4984:
4985: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4986: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 4987: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 4988: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 4989:
4990: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
4991: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 4992: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 4993: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 4994: <p>
1.247 jufi 4995: </ul>
1.86 louis 4996:
1.69 deraadt 4997: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4998: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4999:
1.247 jufi 5000: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 5001: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
5002: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 5003: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 5004:
5005: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
5006: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 5007: <p>
1.61 louis 5008:
1.247 jufi 5009: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5010: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 5011: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
5012: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5013: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 5014:
5015: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 5016: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 5017: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
5018: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 5019: right -- or at least strives to".
5020: <p>
1.48 louis 5021:
1.247 jufi 5022: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 5023: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
5024: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5025: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 5026: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
5027: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
5028: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
5029: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 5030: <p>
1.61 louis 5031:
1.247 jufi 5032: <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 5033: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 5034: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 5035:
5036: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
5037: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
5038: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
5039: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 5040: <p>
1.46 louis 5041:
1.247 jufi 5042: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 5043: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
5044: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 5045: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5046:
5047: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
5048: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 5049: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 5050:
1.247 jufi 5051: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 5052: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
5053: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 5054: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 5055:
5056: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
5057: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
5058: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
5059: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 5060: <p>
1.247 jufi 5061: </ul>
1.70 louis 5062:
1.69 deraadt 5063: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5064: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5065:
1.247 jufi 5066: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5067: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
5068: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 5069: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 5070: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 5071:
5072: Kurt Seifried
5073: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
5074: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
5075: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 5076: <p>
1.44 philen 5077:
1.247 jufi 5078: <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 5079: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 5080: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 5081:
5082: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 5083: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 5084:
1.247 jufi 5085: <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 5086: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 5087: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 5088:
5089: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 5090: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 5091:
1.247 jufi 5092: <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 5093: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 5094: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 5095:
5096: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
5097: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
5098: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
5099: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 5100: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 5101:
1.247 jufi 5102: <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 5103: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 5104: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 5105:
1.36 louis 5106: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 5107: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 5108:
1.247 jufi 5109: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5110: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
1.39 louis 5111: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 5112: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 5113:
5114: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 5115: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 5116: </ul>
1.38 louis 5117:
1.69 deraadt 5118: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5119: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5120:
1.247 jufi 5121: <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 5122: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 5123: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 5124:
5125: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
5126: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 5127: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 5128:
1.113 naddy 5129: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 5130: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 5131: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 5132: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 5133:
5134: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
5135: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 5136: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
5137: terminal:
1.113 naddy 5138: <blockquote>
5139: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
5140: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
5141: <br>
5142: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
5143: </code>
5144: </blockquote>
5145: <p>
5146:
1.247 jufi 5147: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 5148: <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 5149: <p>
5150:
5151: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5152: <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 5153: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 5154:
5155: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
5156: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 5157: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 5158: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 5159:
1.247 jufi 5160: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5161: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
5162: Sept. 28, 1999
5163: </strong></font><br>
5164:
5165: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
5166: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
5167: translating and reprinting articles from
5168: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
5169: <p>
5170:
5171: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 5172: <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 5173: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 5174:
5175: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
5176: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
5177: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
5178: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
5179: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 5180: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 5181: <p>
1.19 louis 5182:
1.113 naddy 5183: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 5184: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 5185: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 5186:
5187: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
5188: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
5189: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 5190: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
5191: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 5192: <p>
1.16 louis 5193:
1.247 jufi 5194: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5195: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 5196: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 5197: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 5198:
1.57 louis 5199: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
5200: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
5201: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 5202: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 5203:
1.247 jufi 5204: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5205: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.466 deraadt 5206: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5207: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5208:
1.113 naddy 5209: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 5210:
1.247 jufi 5211: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 5212: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
5213: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 5214: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 5215:
1.23 louis 5216: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
5217: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
5218: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
5219: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
5220: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 5221: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 5222:
1.247 jufi 5223: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 5224: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
5225: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 5226: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 5227:
1.199 pvalchev 5228: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 5229: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
5230: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
5231: installation.
1.113 naddy 5232: <p>
1.47 louis 5233:
1.247 jufi 5234: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5235: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 5236: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 5237: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5238:
1.301 jose 5239: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
5240: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
5241: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 5242: </ul>
1.57 louis 5243:
1.69 deraadt 5244: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5245: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5246:
1.247 jufi 5247: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 5248: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 5249: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 5250: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 5251:
5252: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
5253: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 5254: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5255: <p>
1.12 louis 5256:
1.247 jufi 5257: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 5258: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 5259: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 5260: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 5261:
5262: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
5263: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 5264: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
5265: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
5266: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
5267: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
5268: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 5269: <p>
1.247 jufi 5270: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 5271:
1.69 deraadt 5272: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5273: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 5274:
1.247 jufi 5275: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 5276: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 5277: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 5278:
5279: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
5280: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
5281: available."
1.113 naddy 5282: <p>
1.301 jose 5283:
5284: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5285: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
5286: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
5287: </strong></font><br>
5288:
5289: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
5290: <p>
1.247 jufi 5291: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 5292:
1.69 deraadt 5293: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5294: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5295:
1.247 jufi 5296: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 5297: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 5298: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 5299:
5300: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
5301: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
5302: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
5303: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
5304: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 5305: <p>
1.33 louis 5306:
1.247 jufi 5307: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5308: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 5309: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 5310: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5311:
1.113 naddy 5312: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
5313: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 5314: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
5315: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
5316: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 5317: <p>
1.247 jufi 5318: </ul>
1.57 louis 5319:
1.69 deraadt 5320: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5321: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5322:
1.247 jufi 5323: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5324: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 5325: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 5326: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 5327:
5328: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
5329: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 5330: <p>
1.69 deraadt 5331:
1.247 jufi 5332: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 5333: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
5334: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
5335: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 5336: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 5337:
5338: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 5339: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 5340:
1.247 jufi 5341: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5342: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 5343:
1.113 naddy 5344: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 5345:
1.247 jufi 5346: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5347: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
1.68 louis 5348: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 5349: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 5350:
5351: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 5352: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 5353: </ul>
1.23 louis 5354:
1.69 deraadt 5355: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5356: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5357:
1.247 jufi 5358: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 5359: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 5360: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 5361:
5362: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
5363: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 5364: <p>
1.2 deraadt 5365:
1.247 jufi 5366: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5367: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 5368: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5369: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5370:
5371: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
5372: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 5373: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 5374: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 5375: </ul>
1.57 louis 5376:
1.69 deraadt 5377: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5378: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5379:
1.247 jufi 5380: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5381: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
1.15 louis 5382: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 5383: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 5384:
5385: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
5386: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
5387: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
5388: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5389: <p>
1.15 louis 5390:
1.247 jufi 5391: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 5392: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
5393: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 5394: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5395:
5396: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
5397: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
5398: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
5399: columns."
1.113 naddy 5400: <p>
1.247 jufi 5401: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5402:
1.69 deraadt 5403: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5404: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5405:
1.247 jufi 5406: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5407: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 5408: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 5409: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5410:
5411: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 5412: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 5413:
1.113 naddy 5414: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5415: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 5416: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5417:
5418: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
5419: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 5420: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 5421: </ul>
1.57 louis 5422:
1.69 deraadt 5423: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5424: <ul>
1.301 jose 5425: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5426: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
5427: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
5428: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
5429:
5430: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
5431: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
5432: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
5433: <p>
5434:
5435: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5436: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
5437: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
5438: Nov 13, 1998 and
5439: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
5440: Datateknik</a>,
5441: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
5442:
1.380 saad 5443: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 5444: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
5445: explains the licensing issues and points to our
5446: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
5447: <p>
1.69 deraadt 5448:
1.113 naddy 5449: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5450: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 5451: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 5452: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 5453:
1.222 miod 5454: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 5455: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
5456: Implementation, including a brief interview with
5457: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 5458: <p>
1.247 jufi 5459: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5460:
1.69 deraadt 5461: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5462: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5463:
1.247 jufi 5464: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5465: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 5466: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5467:
1.69 deraadt 5468: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
5469: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 5470: <p>
1.247 jufi 5471: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5472:
1.69 deraadt 5473: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5474: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 5475:
1.247 jufi 5476: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 5477: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
5478: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 5479: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5480:
1.383 jcs 5481: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 5482: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 5483: <p>
1.1 deraadt 5484:
1.247 jufi 5485: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 5486: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 5487: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
5488: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 5489: <p>
1.247 jufi 5490: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5491:
1.69 deraadt 5492: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5493: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5494:
1.247 jufi 5495: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5496: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 5497: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
5498: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 5499: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 5500: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 5501:
5502: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
5503: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
5504: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 5505: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 5506: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 5507: <p>
1.247 jufi 5508: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 5509:
5510: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5511: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5512:
1.247 jufi 5513: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5514: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 5515: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 5516:
1.69 deraadt 5517: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
5518: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 5519: <p>
1.112 naddy 5520:
1.247 jufi 5521: </ul>
1.113 naddy 5522: <p>
1.1 deraadt 5523:
1.292 camield 5524: <hr>
1.216 horacio 5525: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 5526: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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1.1 deraadt 5528:
5529: </body>
5530: </html>