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1.1 deraadt 18:
1.514 ian 19: <h2>May, 2006</h2>
20: <ul>
1.524 ! ian 21: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
! 22: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6650">
! 23: OpenBSD: wpi, A Blob Free Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Driver</a>, KernelTrap, May 28, 2006
! 24: </strong></font><br>
! 25: Damien Bergamini wrote OpenBSD's all-open-source driver for the Intel Pro/Wireless,
! 26: a sharp contrast to other projects' bogus "open source" drivers that are just wrappers around
! 27: a "binary blob" (source code not available, sorry) provided by the vendor.
! 28: "His announcement came a little over two months after Intel released
! 29: the controversial ipw3945 driver for Linux which included
! 30: a binary-only daemon described as necessary for enforcing regulatory
! 31: limits for the radio transmitter on the wireless device."
! 32: Bergamini's work proves yet again that vendors don't have to obscure their products
! 33: to make them useful.
! 34: <p>
1.518 ian 35:
36: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.520 ian 37: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/openbsd/c2k6/who1">
1.523 ian 38: c2k6, Who's Who At the 2006 OpenBSD Hackathon, Part I</a>
39: and
40: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6662">Part II</a>,
1.522 ian 41: KernelTrap, May 28, 2006
1.520 ian 42: </strong></font><br>
1.521 deraadt 43: Jeremy Andrews visited our developers at the Hackathon and gives
1.523 ian 44: a brief but colorful summary of most of the team members:
1.520 ian 45: why they chose OpenBSD, how they got involved, what they do, and
46: their plans for the week.
47: <p>
48:
49: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.523 ian 50: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/05/22/OpenBSD-on-Flash.html">
51: Installing OpenBSD on Flash</a>,
52: Ping Wales, May 22, 2006
53: </strong></font><br>
54: David Chisnall shows how to set up an OpenBSD boot image for
55: Soekris or PC Engines machines that boot from flash memory.
56: <p>
57:
58: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.520 ian 59: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/eur/article.php/3603961">
60: Enterprise Unix Roundup: Whither BSD?</a>, ServerWatch, May 5, 2006
61: </strong></font><br>
62: Amy Newman and Brian Proffitt state that the BSDs are often overlooked
63: because of their limited commercial acceptance.
64: The authors call this an unfortunate oversight, because recent releases of
65: the freely available BSD flavors show significant technical improvements.
1.523 ian 66: As an example, they specifically refer to OpenBSD's sensor framework
1.520 ian 67: (introduced with 3.9).
68: Newman and Proffitt also accuse big vendors of picking the nice parts from
69: the BSDs' code and giving nothing back to the community in return.
70: <p>
71:
72: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.518 ian 73: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/35/1/">
74: OpenBSD 3.9 Review</a>, Software In Review, May 3, 2006
75: </strong></font><br>
76: Jem Matzan takes the 3.9 release out for a spin, and likes it.
77: Noting that each release consists of a lot of small changes
78: and some major improvements - and mentioning hardware support, sensors,
79: and "blob removal" - he clearly thinks the project is doing a lot of things right.
80: "Everything you get in the release is production-ready, secure by
81: default... and comes with possibly the finest integrated documentation
82: in the Unix-clone world. While you might find a poorly programmed
83: driver or other base system component in other BSDs and GNU/Linux
84: distributions, in OpenBSD if something is supported, it works."
85: <p>
86:
87: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
88: [GERMAN]
89: <a href="http://www.linux-magazin.de/Artikel/ausgabe/2006/06/news_zut/news_zut.html">
90: Mozilla greift OpenBSD unter die Arme</a>, Linux Magazin, Issue 06/06, May 2006, p. 18
91: </strong></font><br>
92: The German <a href="http://www.linux-magazin.de/">Linux Magazin</a> has a short
93: article about OpenBSD's financial situation and Marco Peerebroom's
94: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060321034114">call for donations</a>
95: on undeadly.org. The article further mentions how OpenSSH development
96: is connected to OpenBSD.
97: <p>
98:
1.514 ian 99: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
100: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6550">
101: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, KernelTrap, May 2, 2006
102: </strong></font><br>
103: Jeremy Andrews conducts a free-ranging interview, focused mainly on 3.9 and drivers,
104: that gives Theo a chance to explain how the big North American chip vendors'
105: business practices make it harder for open source projects,
1.515 ian 106: talk about "binary blobs" vs firmware in drivers, and more.
1.514 ian 107: There's also coverage of where the project is going up to and after 3.9 and where
1.516 steven 108: it might (or might not) go in the future, why doing things right (and
1.514 ian 109: running this project) is so important to Theo,
110: and even why he does mountain biking!
111: <p>
112:
113: </ul>
114:
1.503 ian 115: <h2>April, 2006</h2>
116: <ul>
117: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.512 ian 118: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6557">
119: OpenBSD 3.9: Blob-Busters Interviewed</a>, OnLAMP, April 27, 2006
120: </strong></font><br>
121: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several of the developers on improvements
122: in 3.9: the continuing absence of "blob drivers", IPMI and sensors, apmd performance
123: adjustment, Macs, rthreads, multicast, trunk, hostapd, and more.
1.513 saad 124: jsg clarifies the issue of "binary blob" drivers vs "firmware", and
1.512 ian 125: discusses the NVIDIA nForce Ethernet driver he did after NVIDIA did refuse
126: to give out documentation; they can't stop us, but they can slow us down.
127: The result: "There aren't any drivers in OpenBSD with binary-only components;
128: this is quite a contrast to pretty much everyone else out there."
129: marco comments on the IPMI work in 3.9, and adds:
130: "IPMI is a standard, but there are vendors out there
1.513 saad 131: that have reading comprehension issues...".
1.512 ian 132: A long list of other developers explain their contributions
133: and other changes that make 3.9 one of our best releases yet.
134: <p>
135:
136: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.517 mbalmer 137: [GERMAN]
138: <a href="http://www.guug.de/uptimes/index.html">
139: Stop BLOB!</a>, UpTimes, April 25, 2006
140: </strong></font><br>
141: Wilhelm Bühler gives an overview in a short article about Blobs, what they
142: are and why they are bad.
143: <p>
144:
145: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.508 ian 146: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/34/1/">
147: Using OpenBSD</a>, Software In Review, April 24, 2006
148: </strong></font><br>
149: Jem Matzan gives a brief overview of using the system.
150: Covers ports and packages, use of SMP kernel, and more.
151: Capsule summary of how our security policy affects the administrator:
152: "Because it is secure by default, you may have to do more initial
153: configuration with OpenBSD than with most other Unix and Unix-like
154: operating systems, but you'll spend a lot less time securing it --
155: maybe no time at all, if you follow the instructions in the manual
156: pages."
157: <p>
158:
159: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.519 ian 160: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/16/1749215.shtml?tid=8">
161: Using OpenBSD on the desktop</a>, NewsForge, April 21, 2006
162: </strong></font><br>
163: Considers the use of OpenBSD as a desktop operating system,
164: starting with "Secure by default" - who wants to have their desktop hacked? -
165: and continues:
166: "OpenBSD's clean code and design also provide rock-solid stability.
167: I used to have lots of problems and crashes with new versions of
168: Linux (kernel 2.6.x) and FreeBSD (versions 5.x and 6.x). The main
169: focus of OpenBSD developers is to provide programs that work ...
170: [they] prefer to improve their code rather than just
171: add more new features and end up with a bloated and unstable product."
172: Covers X, ports/packages, window managers, what is and is not supported,
173: and more. Final thought:
174: "OpenBSD's clean design and remarkable stability, along with its
175: proactive security, not only make OpenBSD a potential candidate for
176: home desktop users but also every system administrator's dream come
177: true for business environments."
178: <p>
179:
180: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.511 djm 181: [FRENCH]
1.509 djm 182: <a href="http://developpeur.journaldunet.com/itws/060419-itw-openssh-openbsd-miller.shtml">
1.511 djm 183: JDN Développeurs interviews Damien Miller</a>,
1.509 djm 184: JDN Développeurs, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
185: Interview with Damien Miller, discussing OpenSSH security, the OpenBSD
186: development approach, the problem of blobby drivers and the recent request
1.510 djm 187: for funding.
1.509 djm 188: <p>
189:
190: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.507 cloder 191: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6497">
192: Interview with developers Jonathan Gray and Damien Bergamini</a>,
193: Kerneltrap, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
194: An interview with the authors of OpenBSD's new NVIDIA Ethernet driver. OpenBSD's
195: policy forbidding binary driver blobs is discussed, and the developers give a good
196: overview of how they went about implementing the new driver.
197: <p>
198:
199: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.506 aanriot 200: [FRENCH] Principles and usage of OpenSSH,
201: <a href="http://www.gnulinuxmag.com/">Linux Magazine France</a>,
202: issue 82, April 2006, p. 28-33
203: </strong></font><br>
204: A 6 pages article from Alexandre Courbot focusses on OpenSSH and its
1.507 cloder 205: basics. It begins with an history of the different implementations, and
1.506 aanriot 206: is punctuated with examples.
207: Tunneling features are described, as well as
208: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=0">scp</a>,
209: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent&sektion=0">ssh-agent</a>,
210: and
211: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=0">sftp</a>.
212: <p>
213:
214: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.503 ian 215: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71658">
216: Mozilla Foundation spendet für OpenBSD</a>, heise online, April 4, 2006
217: </strong></font><br>
218: Short article mentioning the donation the Mozilla Foundation made in support of
219: further OpenSSH development.
220: The article emphasizes the opportunity to wire money through the project's
221: new European account - this one donation will not meet the
222: project's funding needs for all time.
223: <p>
1.504 bernd 224: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
225: [GERMAN] "OpenBSD mit finanziellen Problemen", c't 8/06, p. 45.,
226: April 3, 2006
227: </strong></font><br>
228: A very short article about OpenBSD's financial problems. They mention that
229: this could compromise future hackathons.
230: <p>
1.503 ian 231:
232: </ul>
233:
1.487 ian 234: <h2>March, 2006</h2>
235: <ul>
1.495 ian 236: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.500 ian 237: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/theo_interview.html">
1.501 ian 238: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>, DaemonNews, March, 2006
1.500 ian 239: </strong></font><br>
240: Chris Silva conducts a lightweight but wide-ranging and fun interview with Theo
241: on topics including "Puffy",
242: the logos used by certain other BSD projects -
243: Theo quips that "I really like how they make absolutely no statement at all" -
244: what's new in 3.9,
245: and of course project expenses.
246: Theo notes that "The electric bill is about $100 USD per week".
247: <!--
248: ... must be what comes from heating your house with VAXen.
249: -->
250: The interviewer nicely ends with a link to our donations page.
251: <p>
252:
253: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 254: <a href="http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/239/1/">
255: Linux supporters fiddle while OpenSSH burns</a>, The Jem Report, March 28, 2006
256: </strong></font><br>
1.499 ian 257: This write-up focusses on OpenBSD/OpenSSH funding, and has some
258: original legwork to go with it.
1.498 ian 259: Writer Jem Matzan took the trouble to
260: contact many of the companies who charge a lot for products
261: featuring OpenSSH and yet give nothing to OpenSSH in return.
262: Companies like SCO, IBM, Apple, and Sun.
263: Sun apparently did the worst job of responding:
264: "Since the release of Solaris 10, who has been a larger open source
265: software cheerleader than Sun Microsystems?", Matzan asks. "I asked Sun
266: representatives what they would do if OpenSSH were to disappear. The only response
267: I got was that there are parts of Solaris that compete with OpenSSH,
268: and that because of this, the company would rather not comment
269: further on the issue." What the Sun teleprompter-readers don't seem to realize -
270: but Matzan does - is that
271: <a href="http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/cmd/ssh/ssh/ssh.c">
272: SunSSH <em>is</em> OpenSSH</a>.
273: Or, at least, a mangled version of it...
274: IBM, on the other hand, is still trying to formulate their response.
275: <br/>
276: <p>
277:
278: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
279: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/20/2050223.shtml?tid=8">
280: Interview: Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD</a>, NewsForge, March 28, 2006
281: </strong></font><br>
282: A wide-ranging interview with Theo about new stuff in 3.9, security, funding,
283: "blob" drivers, and more.
284: Theo notes that "We've had 10 years of nearly fanatical devotion
285: to anything which can make OpenBSD more secure. A very important
286: part of that is that we have not been afraid to completely overhaul
287: anything even if it breaks backward compatibility. Secondly, when
288: we have found a flaw in any part of the system we have assumed that
289: the same mistake was made elsewhere, and gone on a hunt to fix them
290: all. Thirdly, we have developed and incorporated a collection of
291: methods that make software flaws very difficult to attack..."
292: Ends by trying to shame the companies that use OpenSSH without contributing
293: anything back - Sun is given especial mention here - and ends with
294: the tantalizing line ".. if an OpenSSH hole is found that applies to SunSSH,
295: Sun will not be informed. Or maybe that has happened already." Hmmmm.
296: <p>
297:
298: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 299: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259254,00.htm">
300: OpenBSD 3.9 adds sensor framework</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
301: </strong></font><br>
302: It's easy to focus on our project's security, but we innovate in other areas too.
303: This article highlights the "sensors" framework added in 3.9 to provide and integrated
304: approach to handling Dell PowerEdge servers' Embedded Server Management (ESM), IPMI, and
305: in general temperature and environmental issues.
306: "There is a significant new sensor framework [in OpenBSD 3.9], which
307: supports voltage sensors, fan sensors, temperature sensors, and so
308: on," said de Raadt. "Such a feature is still missing in Linux and
309: other major operating systems." ...
310: De Raadt has already been using the sensor framework to monitor the
311: machines running in
312: <a href="images/newrack.jpg">the project's server room</a>. "I now get a call
313: on my cell phone whenever something is wrong in the machine room,"
314: <p>
315:
316: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
317: <a href="http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/other/0,39020682,39259281,00.htm">
318: Paying for free software may be the bargain of a lifetime</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
319: </strong></font><br>
320: Starts with a Theo quote from the previous article on ZDNet:
321: "A culture of entitlement is starting to damage the open source community".
322: The article argues that mega-computer-companies that use open source tend to use BSD:
323: "The open BSDs may be less famous than Linux, but they are arguably
324: superior in stability and security. This has made it popular in
325: ISPs and elsewhere - Apple, for example, adopted BSD within OS X.
326: BSD, unlike software released under the GPL, carrys no legal
327: obligations for the adopter to provide anything for the community in return."
328: Goes on to argue that these companies <em>ought</em> to be fair enough
329: to send a small bit of their money back into funding open source.
330: "In the time it takes to read this article, we calculate that Apple
331: will have easily made enough to pay-off OpenBSD's annual losses,
332: with a little left over to buy black turtlenecks for all. It's not
333: just Apple's baby - other companies owe far more to OpenBSD - but
334: in open source a little symbolism goes a long way."
335: <p>
336:
1.487 ian 337: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.494 bernd 338: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71174">
339: OpenBSD muss an den Sparstrumpf</a>, heise online, March 23, 2006
340: </strong></font><br>
1.495 ian 341: OpenBSD is touching its savings - Small news article about the project's
1.494 bernd 342: financial situation.
343: <p>
344:
345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 346: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259042,00.htm">
347: OpenBSD Founder Makes Funding Plea</a>, ZDNet UK, March 23, 2006
348: </strong></font><br>
349: One of the first mainstream sites to pick up on Marco's article (below),
350: this one reports the funding figures on how much it really costs to
351: produce our favorite operating system.
352: "Although OpenBSD has a number of commercial users, including many
353: ISPs, de Raadt claimed that all of its donations come from individuals
354: rather than companies many of who claim the have no budget to pay
355: for the operating system. "The culture of entitlement is starting
356: to damage the open source community," he said."
1.496 ian 357: <br/>
358: Also online at
359: <a href="http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/software/stories/135760.html">ZDNet India</a>.
360: <p>
361:
362: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
363: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/03/22/OpenBSD-money.html">
364: OpenBSD in Financial Trouble</a>, Ping Wales, March 21, 2006
365: </strong></font><br>
366: David Chisnall reports that "OpenBSD is one of my favourite platforms;
367: its focus on security and ease-of-use makes it a very simple and
368: safe system to use. Unfortunately, the OpenBSD organisation is now
369: experiencing financial difficulty. For the last two years, the
370: project has made a $20,000/year loss, something which it cannot
371: sustain indefinitely."
372: Goes on to report on the growing use of OpenBSD in commercial software
373: (and hardware!), and that none of the "big guys" has given anything back.
374: Unlike most of the articles on this topic, this one is kind enough to
375: include a direct link to our orders page and recommend its readers
376: to buy a copy of the CD to help fund the project.
1.495 ian 377: <p>
378:
379: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 380: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/06/03/21/1555243.shtml">
381: OpenBSD Project in Financial Danger</a>, Slashdot, March 21, 2006
382: </strong></font><br>
383: Slashdot mentions and quotes from Marco's article (below),
384: with a reminder that
385: "The OpenBSD team is the one that also develops the OpenSSH suite,
386: used nowadays almost everywhere."
387: Ends with this quote from Marco:
388: "Without naming entities or projects by name, there are others out
389: there that are sitting on some cash. It would be wonderful if these
390: entities could share some of the wealth to keep us going."
391: <p>
392:
393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.505 grunk 394: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060321034114">
1.495 ian 395: OpenBSD Finances</a>, OpenBSD Journal, March 21, 2006
396: </strong></font><br>
397: Marco Peereboom's article notes that
398: "OpenBSD for the past 2 years has turned a loss of approximately $20K USD" per year.
399: Hackathons - where a lot of developers get together in critical mass and churn out
400: new ideas and new code in great quantity - cost from US$10K-30K each, and we try to run
401: a few of them each year.
402: Meanwhile, compananies that use OpenBSD and companies - many of them highly profitable -
403: that incorporate OpenSSH into operating systems and even routers and other appliances
404: have not been forthcoming: no major computer company has given funding
405: to the OpenBSD project.
406: It's time for them to do so.
407: <p>
408:
409: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.497 ian 410: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/08/1646257.shtml?tid=8">
411: Software RAID on OpenBSD using RAIDframe</a>, NewsForge, March 14, 2006
412: </strong></font><br>
413: "Software RAID provides an easy way to add redundancy or speed up a system
414: without spending lots of money on a RAID adapter."
415: Manolis Tzanidakis talks us through setting up RAID using OpenBSD.
416: He describes the detailed steps, and recommends careful testing
417: before putting the system into production, including taking one disk
418: out of service and ensuring that it gets reloaded correctly.
419: Ends with a technique for monitoring clean operation on an ongoing basis.
420: <p>
421:
422: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.489 deraadt 423: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">Report on Business Television</a>
424: March 10, 5:45pm MST</strong></font><br>
1.490 deraadt 425: Theo de Raadt was interviewed by Howard Green on <b>The Business Show</b>:<br>
426: <!-- North America mirror:
427: <a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB avi file</a>
1.491 deraadt 428: -->
1.490 deraadt 429: European mirror:
430: <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/20060310/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB AVI file</a>
431: <br>
432: A longer segment is also available at <a href="http://www.robtv.ca">www.robtv.ca</a>.
1.489 deraadt 433: <p>
434:
435: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.487 ian 436: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/openbgpd.html">OpenBGPd in OpenBSD</a>
437: Daemon News, March, 2006</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 438: Check out the notes and slides from Henning Brauer's presentation at
1.487 ian 439: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0602/">NANOG 36</a>;
440: the text and questions cover everything from how and why OpenBGPd got created,
441: through configuration and tools, to integration with pf and CARP,
442: to technical issues regarding use of IPSEC to provide security for BGP packets.
443: Along the way there's considerable discussion on how the program was
444: designed to provide reliability and security.
445: <p>
446:
447: </ul>
448:
1.485 ian 449: <h2>February, 2006</h2>
450: <ul>
451: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.486 ian 452: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1859">Zero to IPSec in 4 minutes</a>
453: Security Focus, February 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
454: This article, as its lead-in says,
1.497 ian 455: "looks at how to get a fully functional IPSec VPN up and running between two fresh OpenBSD
1.486 ian 456: installations in about four minutes flat".
457: If you've shied away from setting up an IPSEC VPN because of config file complexity,
458: now is the time to reconsider.
1.497 ian 459: Dragos Ruiu shows you how the ipsecctl command (introduced to the world in OpenBSD 3.8)
1.486 ian 460: makes it really easy to set up a VPN between consenting OpenBSD machines.
461: He states that he and a colleague were able to get two machines talking over IPSEC
462: in a few minutes, and only changing a few configuration files.
463: He also comments on the relative ease of installing our favorite OS, and hopes
464: that our ipsecctl will be adopted by the other BSDs (hopefully in a compatible way)
465: to make firewall setups easier all around the network.
466: But you don't need to wait for that if you're running OpenBSD 3.8; just follow
467: the steps in the article.
468: <p>
469:
470: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.485 ian 471: <a href="http://www.networkmagazineindia.com/200602/vendorvoice02.shtml">The Worm in the Machine</a>
472: Network Magazine India, February 2006</strong></font><br>
473: Dilip Ranade elaborates on several reasons why software is drearily buggy and endlessly insecure,
474: particularly in comparison with other technologies.
475: Imagines how very bad shape the automotive industry would be in if you had to sign the
476: same disclaimer of (non-)usability that almost every commercial EULA requires of computer users.
477: Ends with "I once dreamt that all the computer users in the world
478: arose in revolt and switched to hardened OpenBSD", though he admits that there's "fat chance" of it
479: happening in real life.
480: <p>
481:
482: </ul>
483:
1.492 ian 484: <h2>January, 2006</h2>
485: <ul>
486: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
487: <a href="http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2006/01/28.html">Kevin Mitnick on
488: Coast to Coast AM Radio Show with Art Bell</a>, Jan 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
489: Art Bell interviewed Kevin Mitnick on his call-in show;
490: Paul Zacharzewski from Edmonton called to ask Mitnick for his opinion of OpenBSD.
491: If you don't want to download the whole show from coasttocoastam.com,
492: you can listen to an
1.497 ian 493: <a href="http://unworkable.org/misc/mitnick.mp3">MP3 excerpt of this call</a>
1.492 ian 494: in which Mitnick says: "Well, I actually use OpenBSD, so I do like it".
495: </ul>
496:
1.483 ian 497: <h2>December, 2005</h2>
498: <ul>
499: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.484 djm 500: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/375/1">OpenSSH cutting edge</a>
501: SecurityFocus, December 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
502: Federico Biancuzzi interviews OpenSSH developer Damien Miller to discuss
503: features included in the upcoming version 4.3, public key crypto
504: protocols details, timing based attacks and anti-worm measures.
505: <p>
506:
507: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 508: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/11/21/175249.shtml?tid=92&tid=78">Creating
1.483 ian 509: Secure Wireless Access Points with OpenBSD and OpenVPN</a>
510: NewsForge, December 13, 2005</strong></font><br>
511: A cookbook approach to setting up a wireless interface as a secure Access Point
512: using OpenBSD's hostap, pf, and authpf.
513: Configuration examples are given with basic explanations and links
514: to sites with more information on most topics.
515: <p>
516:
517: </ul>
518:
519:
1.479 grunk 520: <h2>November, 2005</h2>
521: <ul>
522: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 523: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20051116145737">OpenBSD
1.482 ian 524: Goes to Venice</a>,
525: OpenBSD Journal, November 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 526: "What happens when you put a dozen developers on a little island with their
1.482 ian 527: laptops, power, and an internet connection?
528: <br/>
529: During the first week of November some OpenBSD developers met in a
530: little island in Venice's lagoon to hack on the ports system.
531: This was probably the first ports hackathon and was followed by
1.497 ian 532: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON</a>, a European conference
1.482 ian 533: fully dedicated to OpenBSD..."
534: Great coverage of the OpenBSD Porting Hackathon: people, ports, beer, ...
535: Contains a link to
536: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ven05-pvalchev/mgp00008.html">
537: pval's summary slides</a>.
538: <p>
539:
540: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.481 niallo 541: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1710223">
542: Trying out the new OpenBSD 3.8</a>,
543: NewsForge, November 11, 2005</strong></font><br>
544: This article describes the installation of OpenBSD 3.8 from a Linux user's
545: perspective, noting the simple elegance of the installer.
546: Although the installation process may be hard to get used to at first for
547: the average Linux user, the author tells us that one can learn a lot from
548: it. Furthermore, the article clears up the common misconception that working
1.497 ian 549: on an OpenBSD system is very different from working on a Linux system.
1.481 niallo 550: In particular, the author states that on OpenBSD, <i>"virtually the entire
551: catalog of familiar free and open source software titles is available through
552: the packages and ports system"</i>.
553: <p>
554:
555: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
556: <a href="http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3561526">
557: Return of The BSDs</a>,
558: internetnews.com, November 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
559: This article mentions that with all three major BSD flavors having had
560: a release this fall, BSD is <i>"still very much alive and kicking among
561: all the noise and buzz created by Linux"</i>. The author talks about
562: various new or improved features of 3.8, such as bioctl(8), hostapd(8),
563: network interface aggregation and sasyncd(8), and there are some
564: quotes from Bob Beck.
565: <p>
566:
567: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.479 grunk 568: <a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/051101/152/fvrlx.html">
569: OpenBSD 3.8 improves hardware support</a>,
570: ZDNet UK, November 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.480 ian 571: This article reports on OpenBSD 3.8, which was released on November 1.
572: The author gives an overview of the improvements and new
1.479 grunk 573: features that were made with 3.8, and quotes Theo on RAID management
574: and Linux.<br>
575: The 3.8 release hit the news also in some other places:
576: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1258232">Slashdot</a>
577: and <a href="http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=12482">OSNews</a>
578: also report about it, mostly repeating parts
579: of the release
580: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/ANNOUNCEMENT">ANNOUNCEMENT</a>.
581: <p>
582: </ul>
583:
1.476 ian 584: <h2>October, 2005</h2>
585: <ul>
586:
587: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
588: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1375194866;fp;16;fpid;0">
589: 'Nightmare' drove desperate user to open source</a>,
590: Computerworld, October 24, 2005</strong></font><br>
591: A great tale of how Mark Uemura of PricewaterhouseCoopers Japan
592: was forced to move to OpenBSD because the alternatives were too costly
593: and too unreliable.
594: This quote will rattle some cages:
595: "IT managers who want to deploy an open source solution but are
596: worried about company politics should go ahead and do it without
597: asking," according to Uemura, who was promoted to IT Manager of PWC Japan
598: after saving the company seven IT-samurais' salaries.
599: Further, "In Japan large organizations like Morgan Stanley and the
600: Bank of America have moved all their backend systems to open source,
601: Uemura said, because with open source you can reduce IT operating
602: costs without any commercial lock-in."
603: <p>
604:
1.477 saad 605: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
606: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6270">
607: OpenBSD 3.8: Hackers of the Lost RAID</a>,
608: ONLamp.com, October 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
609: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
610: new features in OpenBSD 3.8 including interface trunking,
611: internationalization support, Inter-Access Point Protocol (IAPP),
612: IPSec SA synchronization daemon, and RAID management. There is also some
613: discussion about future plans.
614: <p>
615:
1.478 grunk 616: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
617: <a href="http://securityfocus.com/columnists/361">
618: OpenBSD's network stack</a>,
619: SecurityFocus, October 12, 2005</strong></font><br>
620: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about OpenBSD's
621: network stack, including protection against ICMP attacks, and propagation
622: of enhancements into other BSDs and into Linux.
623: The interview also features the other protection mechanisms in the network
624: stack, a comparison to the network stack in Linux, and the history and
625: current status of <a href="http://www.openbgpd.org/">OpenBGPD</a>.
626: <p>
627:
1.476 ian 628: </ul>
629:
1.470 saad 630: <h2>September, 2005</h2>
631: <ul>
632:
633: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.474 niallo 634: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/359">
635: Security-related innovation in Unix</a>,
636: SecurityFocus, Sept. 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
637: An article examining the mmap-based malloc() implementation to be
638: included in OpenBSD 3.8. The author states that <i>"it will help OpenBSD
639: users to find bugs in software more easily, which will result in better
640: applications for everyone"</i>. He goes on to say that <i>"the more hurdles
641: that one has to jump through for good security, the less likely people will
642: go through the trouble. OpenBSD allows even the most inexperienced users to
643: take advantage of these technologies without any effort"</i>.
644: <p>
645:
646: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.473 aanriot 647: <a href="http://www.miscmag.com/articles/index.php3?page=2100">
648: [FRENCH] Champ libre : les chantiers OpenBSD</a>
649: Misc, number 21, Sept/Oct, 2005, p. 4-14</strong></font><br>
650: An interesting article about OpenBSD and associated projects. Saad Kadhi
651: and Guillaume Arcas describe useful things you can do with PF and
652: OpenSSH, and give a nice introduction to OpenNTPD and OpenCVS. If the
653: article is focused on the presentation, you can find some interesting
654: technical aspects people are not always acquainted to. A few examples
655: are shown, like a basic CARP setup, or the manner to use multiplexing
656: with OpenSSH and even how to check an OpenSSH server's keys using DNS.
657: <p>
658:
659: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 660: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/news/11306">
661: Big debate over small packets</a>,
662: SecurityFocus, Sept. 7, 2005</strong></font><br>
663: Robert Lemos discusses the ICMP denial-of-service vulnerabilities found
664: by Fernando Gont and fixed in OpenBSD. To date, OpenBSD is the only
665: system that has implemented all of the fixes recommended in the IETF
666: draft.
667: <p>
668:
669: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.471 saad 670: <a href="http://www.pcexpert.fr/">
671: [FRENCH] "Quel est le meilleur système libre pour votre
672: ordinateur ?"</a>,
673: PC Expert, number 156, p. 42-62</strong></font><br>
674: Philippe Roure compares 11 Linux and *BSD operating systems, including
675: OpenBSD 3.7, on different criteria such as security, documentation and
676: usability. OpenBSD earned a 5/5 mark (see pages 60-61) and while a mark
677: isn't necessarily objective, the author seems to grasp the OpenBSD
678: project, its goals, and how good is the operating system. The article
679: includes an interview with Saad Kadhi.
680: <p>
681:
682: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.470 saad 683: <a href="http://www.samag.com/articles/2005/0509/">
684: Monitoring PF Firewalls for Health and Performance</a>,
685: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 9, p. 37</strong></font><br>
686: Ryan Matteson describes several utilities that can be used to monitor the
687: health and performance of a PF firewall. Besides pfctl, the article
688: covers pftop, fwanalog, monitoring logs with tcpdump and graphing
689: performance data with pfstat.
690: <p>
691:
692: </ul>
693:
1.461 grunk 694: <h2>July, 2005</h2>
695: <ul>
696:
697: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.466 deraadt 698: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5382">
699: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part III</a>,
1.467 grunk 700: Kerneltrap, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.466 deraadt 701: Jeremy Andrews writes about the recent Blind ICMP attacks discovered
702: by Fernando Gont, and the fixes done by him and OpenBSD during the
703: 2005 Hackathon.
1.469 ian 704: The article goes into the technical background of the
1.467 grunk 705: attacks, mentioning blind ICMP attacks, "hard" ICMP errors, source
1.469 ian 706: quenching, and path MTU discovery;
707: many helpful RFCs and technical papers are linked from the explanations.
708: This is followed by a recap of the whole ICMP story, involving Gont's
1.467 grunk 709: struggle with other free projects, Cisco lawyers, Microsoft people,
710: and others.<br>
1.469 ian 711: The article concludes that OpenBSD was the first project
1.467 grunk 712: to take Fernando Gont's findings seriously, and also the first group to
713: be really painless to work with.
1.466 deraadt 714: <p>
715:
716: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.464 grunk 717: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/06/security_blame/">
718: Security meltdown: who's to blame?</a>,
1.466 deraadt 719: The Register, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.464 grunk 720: This article talks about various groups that are frequently blamed for
721: poor security:
1.467 grunk 722: individuals, ISPs, companies, crackers, security mailing lists,
1.464 grunk 723: and last but not least: OS vendors!
1.467 grunk 724: In the last paragraph, OpenBSD's style of <i>"dumbed-down, simplified
1.464 grunk 725: and secure systems (with a heavily audited code base)"</i> is described
726: as <i>"one of the smartest approaches to security"</i>.
727: <p>
728:
729: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.461 grunk 730: <a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-7-5/30084.html">
731: Theo de Raadt on Industry and Free Software</a>,
1.466 deraadt 732: The Epoch Times, July 5, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.463 tom 733: In this interview, Theo talks about the inception of the OpenBSD project
734: and its goals, as well as its impact on the commercial IT industry.
1.461 grunk 735: He points out once more that <i>"vendors who incorporate OpenSSH have
736: given us absolutely nothing back - not a cent"</i>.
737: Other topics covered include the OpenBSD team, Theo's role as
738: <i>"benevolent dictator"</i>, and the security process, which he compares
739: to the security efforts led by other free software projects and some
740: commercial vendors.
741: <p>
742:
743: </ul>
744:
1.454 ian 745: <h2>June, 2005</h2>
746: <ul>
1.468 grunk 747:
748: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
749: <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/ns-ttc062205.php">
750: The true cost of computer crime</a>,
751: EurekAlert / <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/">New Scientist Magazine</a>,
752: issue June 25, 2005</strong></font><br>
753: This article looks at computer crime, especially the way upcoming
754: vulnerability reports are dealt with. It also gives a short overview of the
1.469 ian 755: institutions involved in the process (vendors, free projects, CERTs).
1.468 grunk 756: <br>
757: The author mentions the work of Andy Ozment, who researches vulnerability
758: disclosure at the University of Cambridge. Using OpenBSD as a good example
759: of how disclosure and consequent fixing of bugs helps to strengthen security,
760: he refutes the widely spread FUD that disclosing vulnerabilities leads to
761: more harm than good. Ozment's methodology was to examine OpenBSD's CVS logs
1.469 ian 762: and note when fixes were published; his research shows that
1.468 grunk 763: <i>"the number of vulnerabilities decreases as a result of disclosure"</i>.
764: <p>
765:
1.454 ian 766: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.458 niallo 767: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0704/071.html">
768: Free Bird</a>,
769: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
770: <b>(Registration required)</b> A second Forbes article about OpenBSD, more
771: focused on the project itself this time. It contains good description of the
772: history of OpenBSD along with its prime motivations. Mention is made of the
773: DARPA grant and the annual hackathon. Theo's motto "shut up and hack" finally
774: becomes famous in this piece and there are some other very insightful quotes
775: such as "All I care about is making high-quality code. If I had to work at a
776: regular job, it would drive me nuts". This is certainly an astute and perceptive
777: article, well worth reading. Do note that the big picture of Theo's machine
778: room will only be available in the print edition.
779: <p>
1.459 deraadt 780:
1.458 niallo 781: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.456 niallo 782: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html">
783: Is Linux For Losers?</a>,
784: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
785: An interesting article, if somewhat polemic in tone, which raises questions
786: about the quality of Linux code compared to OpenBSD. There is also some short
787: discussion of the OpenBSD development model and focus (push for quality above
788: everything else) including good quotes from Theo. It seems that the need for
789: high quality software is beginning to be recognised by the mainstream.
790: <p>
1.457 deraadt 791:
1.456 niallo 792: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 793: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/06/09/2132233.shtml?tid=152&tid=8&tid=2">
1.455 ian 794: BSD cognoscenti on Linux</a>,
795: NewsForge, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
796: NewsForge talks with Theo de Raadt and NetBSD's Christos Zoulas about the
797: similarities and differences between the Linux kernel and the BSD
798: operating systems. The questions asked were similar to those asked
799: of Linus Torvalds in a <a
1.462 grunk 800: href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/09/2128249&tid=2">previous
1.455 ian 801: interview.</a>
802: <p>
803:
804: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.454 ian 805: <a href="http://www.tuxjournal.net/intervista3-en.html">
806: A good morning with Theo de Raadt</a>,
807: Tux Journal, June 2, 2005</strong></font><br>
808: Brief but wide-ranging interview with Theo in which our leader
809: opines about the good things in 3.7: "The list of new developments
810: is impressive, but in my view not nearly as impressive as the small
811: little details that continue to be fixed during each development
812: cycle." And modestly credits all the developers for the project's
813: continuing success, attributing it to "The passion of the developers,
814: and the wide experience they bring into their development efforts.
815: By amazing coincidence, our users typically have the same needs as we do."
816: Manages to sidestep getting drawn into comparisons with Linux, e.g.,
817: when asked if he likes it/why/why not, deftly replies
818: "I have never used it."
819: <p>
820:
821: </ul>
822:
1.441 deraadt 823: <h2>May, 2005</h2>
824: <ul>
825: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 826: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5190">
827: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part II</a>,
828: Kerneltrap, May 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
829: In the second installment of Kerneltrap's Hackathon 2005 feature, Jeremy
830: Andrews speaks with the pf developers at length about their plans for
831: future enhancements.
832: <p>
833:
834: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.450 deraadt 835: <a href="http://www.ctv.ca">
1.448 deraadt 836: TV coverage: OpenBSD hackathon</a>,
837: CTV/CFCN, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
838: A TV spot done a Canadian national TV station about the Calgary
839: hackathon this year, with 60 developers.<br>
840: North America mirror:
841: <ul>
1.452 marco 842: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.449 jcs 843: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a><br>
844: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a>
1.448 deraadt 845: </ul>
846: European mirror:
847: <ul>
1.452 marco 848: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.448 deraadt 849: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a>
850: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a><br>
851: </ul>
852: <p>
853:
854: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 855: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5186">
856: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part I</a>,
857: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
858: Jeremy Andrews of KernelTrap does a good job of describing what it's like
859: to be at the Hackathon in Part I of KernelTrap's Hackathon feature. Several
860: developers are interviewed in detail about what they are working on.
861: <p>
862:
863: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 864: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5184">
865: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005: Day 6?</a>,
866: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
867: Kjell Wooding describes a typical day at the Hackathon in this entertaining
868: first-hand account.
869: <p>
870:
871: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.447 cloder 872: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/05/20/1426216.shtml?tid=8">
873: Review: OpenBSD 3.7</a>,
874: NewsForge.com, May 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
875: "OpenBSD is not only highly polished and easy to
876: configure because of its documentation, it's also totally free-as-in-rights.
877: With an obsession with security, freedom of source code, and quality of
878: programming technique, OpenBSD 3.7 continues the legacy established by
879: its previous releases," writes Jem Matzan in this nice, small review.
880: <p>
881:
882: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.446 cloder 883: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/05/19/openbsd_3_7.html">
884: OpenBSD 3.7: The Wizard of OS</a>,
885: ONLamp.com, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
886: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
887: new features in OpenBSD 3.7, including new wireless chipsets, new
888: spam-fighting features, zaurus, pf improvements, propolice, and
889: many other things. A good overview of what's new in this release,
890: plus some interesting comments about future direction.
891: <p>
892:
893: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.444 niallo 894: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/software/openbsd-3.7-released.html">
1.445 niallo 895: Next incarnation of OpenBSD released</a>,
1.444 niallo 896: Ping Wales, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
897: "OpenBSD is often unjustly overlooked as a free UNIX-like system in favour of
898: the more-hyped Linux. While it receives a lot less publicity than other
899: operating systems, this is not due to lack of technical merit." says David
900: Chisnall, in what is a clear and concise overview of the new features
901: in 3.7 and indeed the project as a whole.
902: <p>
903:
904: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
905: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5114">
1.445 niallo 906: 2005 Calgary Hackathon, KernelTrap Coverage</a>,
1.444 niallo 907: Kerneltrap, May 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
908: A great article about the annual OpenBSD Hackathon, detailing how the event
909: functions, work done at previous Hackathons and features which may come out
910: of this one. Includes many relevant quotes from developers themselves, and of
911: course information about the legendary Hackathon BBQ!
912: <p>
913:
914: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.442 deraadt 915: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9658/sam0505e/">
916: "Failover Firewalls with OpenBSD and CARP"</a>,
917: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 5, p. 33
1.441 deraadt 918: </strong></font><br>
919: Jason Dixon discusses the history of the CARP and pfsync protocols
920: and demonstrates using them to create redundant stateful firewalls
921: with OpenBSD.
922: </ul>
923:
1.436 henning 924: <h2>April, 2005</h2>
925: <ul>
926: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.440 ian 927: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39195801,00.htm">
928: Security guru wants access to bug databases</a>,
929: ZDNet UK, April 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
930: Ingrid Marson reports on Cambridge professor Ross Anderson's call for analysis of
931: software maintenance records to determine whether open source code is more secure
932: than closed source, as we have long contended.
933: "One of Anderson's research students, Andy Ozment, has already done
934: research using empirical data on bugs found in the open source
935: operating system OpenBSD between 1997 and 2000. This research found
936: that finding and fixing bugs results in a more secure product..."
937: Just as the OpenBSD project has been saying for years.
938: <p>
939: This article can also be found online as
940: <a href="http://uk.builder.com/manage/project/0,39026588,39244080,00.htm">Academic
941: calls for better bug tracking</a> (uk.builder.com).
942: <p>
943:
944: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.439 espie 945: [FRENCH] "PC Expert", number 152, p. 58
946: </strong></font><br>
947: Very short interview of Marc Espie about OpenBSD as a free OS focusing
948: on security, part of a larger dossier Ťles secrets des hackersť.
949: <p>
950:
951: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.436 henning 952: [GERMAN] "Doppelwacht", iX 5/2005, p. 150.
953: </strong></font><br>
954: Stephan Tesch gives an introduction to CARP and using a pair of
955: OpenBSD boxes as Firewalls in High Availibility scenarios. He goes
1.438 martin 956: on explaining CARP and pfsync protocols, and does not forget to cover
1.436 henning 957: the issues we had with IETF.
958: </ul>
959:
1.431 ian 960: <h2>March, 2005</h2>
961: <ul>
962: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.435 reyk 963: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/4818">
964: OpenBSD's "Out of the Box" Wireless Support</a>,
965: Kerneltrap, March 8, 2005</strong></font><br>
966: This article is about the upcoming wireless support in OpenBSD 3.7 and
967: the outcome of the work to open wireless chipsets. Jeremy Andrews
968: talked with Theo de Raadt and the developers Damien Bergamini and Reyk
969: Floeter who did some efforts to implement free and functional drivers.
970: <p>
971:
972: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.431 ian 973: <a href="http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/01/1109546842718.html">
974: OpenBSD to support more wireless chipsets</a>,
975: The Age, March 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
976: "The forthcoming 3.7 release of the OpenBSD operating system has
977: added support for five more wireless chipsets, according to
978: OpenBSD project founder Theo de Raadt...
1.432 ian 979: OpenBSD 3.7 will also have have new drivers for Intel wireless
1.431 ian 980: parts that do not work without the non-redistributable firmware,"
981: namely the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11B
982: and 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11A/B/G wireless network adapters.
983: Mentions OpenBSD's activism in getting vendors to release chip specs.
984: Referring to vendors that still refuse to play ball with open source
985: projects, quotes Damien Miller as saying "Given the number of
986: appliance devices that are built on free OSs, I think that the
987: recalcitrant vendors are missing an important boat."
988:
989: </ul>
990:
1.427 matthieu 991: <h2>February, 2005</h2>
992: <ul>
993:
994: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.428 david 995: <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsaward2004.html">
996: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
997: FSF, February 26, 2005</strong></font><br>
998: The Free Software Foundation awarded Theo de Raadt their "2004 Free Software
999: Award" for his unwavering commitment to free software. Most recently he has
1000: been fighting hardware manufacturers for free redistribution of wireless card
1001: firmware.
1.434 ian 1002: Similar articles can be found online at:
1003: <ul>
1004: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1005: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=419">
1006: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
1007: Tectonic.za, March 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
1008: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1009: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article4362.phtml">
1010: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
1011: OSDir, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1012: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1013: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/De-Raadt-gets-free-software-award/2005/02/28/1109546758523.html?oneclick=true">
1014: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
1015: The Age, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1016: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1017: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/02/27/1413255.shtml?tid=99&tid=7">
1.434 ian 1018: Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award</a>,
1019: Slashdot, February 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1020: </ul>
1.427 matthieu 1021: </ul>
1022:
1.426 ian 1023: <h2>January, 2005</h2>
1024: <ul>
1025:
1026: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1027: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363731">
1028: Systrace in OpenBSD</a>,
1029: informit.com, January 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1030: This article talks about our systrace
1.462 grunk 1031: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&sektion=1">systrace(1)</a>
1.426 ian 1032: mechanism: what it is and why and
1033: how to use it, with examples.
1034: Another excerpt from the book
1035: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
1036: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
1037: <p>
1038:
1039: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1040: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363732">
1041: Overview of OpenBSD</a>,
1042: informit.com, January 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
1043: "OpenBSD is one of the most secure and well-designed operating
1044: systems available today. It has its roots in countless hours of
1045: research and development based on some of the best UNIX flavors of
1046: the past, and it boasts all the features of modern operating systems.
1047: The OS is widely considered one of the most secure general-purpose
1048: operating systems available today and it supports many key parts
1049: of the global Internet infrastructure..."
1050: This article is a sample chapter from
1051: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
1052: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
1053: <p>
1.443 ian 1054:
1055: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1056: <a href="http://www.pcplus.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=34628&subsectionid=784">
1.443 ian 1057: OpenBSD operating system</a>,
1058: PCPlus.co.uk, January, 2005</strong></font><br>
1059: Paul Grosse gives a brief tutorial on installing OpenBSD on i386 for people
1060: moving in a Windows->Linux direction, encouraging them to go a bit further for security.
1061: "While Linux out-scores Windows substantially (or completely) on [security as well as many other
1062: issues], it's still possible to use a more secure operating system on the PC... OpenBSD."
1063: Gives a brief but understandable walkthrough on the installation process, right up to
1064: downloading and installing the third-party packages, and
1065: ends with a sidebar on security.
1066: <p>
1.426 ian 1067: </ul>
1068:
1.424 ian 1069: <h2>December, 2004</h2>
1070: <ul>
1071:
1072: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.425 ian 1073: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/2329229">
1074: What are the real vulnerabilities of Linux?</a>
1075: NewsForge.com, December 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1076: Several security consultants were asked about "the real vulnerabilities of
1077: Linux". Cybersoure CEO Con Symaris seems to get it better than the rest:
1078: "One needs to approach security as a prime requirement and motivator,
1079: much as the OpenBSD team do," Zymaris said... "The Linux
1080: community mindset is different. Linux development is dynamic and
1081: races ahead towards more and broader functionality, drawing a
1082: multitude of interested parties in to make interesting extensions
1083: and adaptations at a rapid rate."
1084: <p>
1085: "In order to do security the BSD way, however, much more effort
1086: needs to be spent auditing code for holes, which is much less sexy,
1087: and attracts a different set of coders," Zymaris added.
1088: <p>
1089:
1090: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.424 ian 1091: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/281">
1092: Closed Source Hardware</a>
1093: Security Focus, December 1, 2004</strong></font><br>
1094: Symantec Threat Analyst Jason Miller analyzes the potential security threats
1095: when hardware vendors won't provide device documentation and
1096: instead provide "binary only" driver code for inclusion in open source
1097: operating systems.
1098: Miller is an open-source fan who says he uses a variety of systems, including
1099: OpenBSD on his firewall.
1100: Of the recent trend to closed-source binary drivers for open-source
1101: systems, he writes:
1102: <blockquote>
1103: The closed-source component required to support this hardware is
1104: completely independent of the associated operating system, and as
1105: such, is also independent of the engineering team, security team,
1106: auditing process, and quality control procedures normally related
1107: to the operating system...
1108: <br/>
1109: What's possibly even more disturbing is that we're talking about
1110: a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest
1111: possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a
1112: third-party vendor. This code could do anything once loaded, including
1113: leaking active WEP keys, gathering usage statistics, sniffing and
1114: disclosing traffic, and it could even introduce a subtle backdoor
1115: into the operating system itself (much the same as any device driver
1116: in a closed source operating system).
1117: <br/>
1118: [A]lthough some of these scenarios are a
1119: little far-fetched, the possibility for them to exist is there...
1120: Ultimately it becomes an issue of trust, which is a cornerstone of
1121: good security: whom do you trust, and how much do you trust them?
1122: </blockquote>
1123: <p>And he comments that trust "seems to be a one-way street": vendors
1124: demand that you trust them, but they won't trust you to know how
1125: their hardware and software operates.
1126: This lack of trust is one reason why OpenBSD has recently completed
1127: reverse-engineering the
1.462 grunk 1128: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4">
1.424 ian 1129: Atheros wireless chipset driver</a>
1130: that was originally provided as a binary insert.
1131: <p>
1132: </ul>
1133:
1.417 pvalchev 1134: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
1135: <ul>
1.421 ian 1136:
1.417 pvalchev 1137: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.422 ian 1138: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730775,00.asp">
1139: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Widens Its Scope</a>
1140: eWEEK, November 22, 2004</strong></font><br>
1141: Jason Brooks reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and likes the changes it brings,
1142: including the multi-processing support which, he notes,
1143: "will be even more important as multicore processors--which occupy space
1144: on the road maps of Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others--
1145: become more prevalent." Comments favorably on OpenNTPD
1146: ("the three-line configuration file we needed to modify ... on OpenBSD was
1147: much simpler to deal with than the equivalent configuration file on
1148: the Linux systems we've tested").
1.423 ian 1149: Overall a favorable review of some of the new stuff in 3.6.
1.422 ian 1150: <p>
1151: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 otto 1152: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
1153: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
1154: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
1155: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
1156: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
1157: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
1158: it claims to do".
1159: <p>
1160:
1161: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1162: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109994542424009&w=2">
1.421 ian 1163: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution</a>
1164: misc@, November 8, 2004</strong></font><br>
1165: Theo recounts the struggle to get Intel to provide redistributable
1166: versions of the firmware for their wireless chipsets, and their
1.423 ian 1167: ultimate refusal to allow OpenBSD to redistribute the chipsets' firmware.
1.421 ian 1168: Includes a caveat about Intel's disingenuous "FAQ", typical of many
1169: corporate FAQs that answer questions nobody actually thought
1170: to ask, and don't truthfully answer the questions you want hard answers to.
1171: At the end Theo names the names (and their emails) that need to be contacted
1172: by large numbers of end-users and developers if Intel is to change
1173: (yes, this is a hint).
1174: Of interest is that this posting to one of our mailing lists was
1175: picked up on the
1176: <a href="http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1923">Screaming
1177: Electron Forum</a> and from there reported on
1.462 grunk 1178: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/22/1249249&from=rss">
1.421 ian 1179: SlashDot</a>, where it is accompanied by a link to SlashDot's paper
1180: on effective advocacy (be firm, but also be polite).
1181: <p>
1182:
1183: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 1184: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
1185: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
1186: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
1187: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
1188: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
1189: questions about the significance and rationale behind
1190: the current efforts.
1191: <p>
1192: </ul>
1193:
1.407 henning 1194: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
1195: <ul>
1196: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 1197: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
1198: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
1199: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
1200: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
1201: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
1202: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
1203: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
1204: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
1205: <p>
1206:
1207: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 1208: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
1209: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
1210: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1211: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
1212: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
1213: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
1214: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
1215: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
1216: of the important changes in 3.6.
1.462 grunk 1217: <p>
1.415 ian 1218:
1219: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1220: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
1.414 ian 1221: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
1222: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
1223: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
1224: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
1225: overflow attacks... because
1226: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
1227: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
1228: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
1229: and propolice.
1230: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
1231: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
1232: and that's when the science falls apart."
1233: <p>
1234:
1235: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 1236: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
1237: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
1238: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
1239: Starts with the question:
1240: <blockquote>
1241: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
1242: <br/>
1243: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
1244: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
1245: <br/>
1246: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
1247: Should we believe them?"
1248: </blockquote>
1249: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
1250: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
1251: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
1252: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
1253: for your mail, web and other online activities.
1254: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
1255: <p>
1256:
1257: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 1258: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
1259: Simple Simon</a>,
1260: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
1261: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
1262: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
1263: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
1264: routing/firewall, and more.
1265: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
1266: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
1267: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
1268: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
1269: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
1270: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
1271: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
1272: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
1273: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
1274: </blockquote>
1275: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
1276: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
1277: <p>
1278:
1279: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 1280: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
1281: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 1282: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 1283: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 1284: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
1285: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
1286: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 1287: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 1288: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
1289: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
1290: in spite of it
1291: (registration required, but worth it).
1292: <p>
1293:
1294: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1295: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
1296: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
1297: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1298: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
1299: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
1300: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
1301: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 1302: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 1303: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
1304: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
1305: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
1306: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
1307: <p>
1308:
1309: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 1310: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
1311: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
1312: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
1313: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
1314: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
1315: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
1316: <blockquote>
1317: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
1318: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
1319: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
1320: a lot of analysis.
1321: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
1322: </blockquote>
1323: <p>
1324: </ul>
1325:
1.400 marco 1326: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
1327: <ul>
1328: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 1329: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
1330: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
1331: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
1332: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
1333: UNIX-like systems.
1334: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
1335: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
1336: <p>
1337: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 1338: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
1339: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 1340: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1341: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
1342: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
1343: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
1344: At one point, the article states:
1345: <blockquote>
1346: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
1347: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
1348: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
1349: </blockquote>
1350: And then quotes Theo as saying:
1351: <blockquote>
1352: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
1353: fewer are reading or auditing code."
1354: </blockquote>
1355: <p>
1356: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1357: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
1358: marks its fifth birthday</a>
1359: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1360: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
1361: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
1362: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
1363: required).
1364: <p>
1365: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 1366: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
1367: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
1368: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
1369: </strong></font><br>
1370: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
1371: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
1372: <p>
1373: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 1374: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
1375: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 1376: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 1377: </strong></font><br>
1378: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
1379: <p>
1380: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 1381: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
1382: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 1383: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 1384: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 1385: 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 1386: <p>
1387: </ul>
1388:
1.396 henning 1389: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
1390: <ul>
1391: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 1392: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
1393: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
1394: Unix Review, July, 2004
1395: </strong></font><br>
1396: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
1397: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
1.462 grunk 1398: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
1.418 ian 1399: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
1400: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
1401: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
1402: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
1403: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
1404: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
1405: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
1406: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
1407: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
1408: and even spelling/wording errors.
1409: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
1410: <p>
1411: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 1412: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 1413: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
1414: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
1415: </strong></font><br>
1416: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
1417: <p>
1418: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 1419: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 1420: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
1421: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
1422: </strong></font><br>
1423: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
1424: <p>
1425: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 1426: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
1427: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
1428: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
1429: </strong></font><br>
1430: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
1431: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
1432: <p>
1433: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 1434: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
1435: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
1436: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
1437: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
1438: <p>
1439: </ul>
1440:
1.405 jolan 1441: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
1442: <ul>
1443: <li><font color="#00900"><strong>
1444: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
1.466 deraadt 1445: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 5, 2004</strong></font>
1.405 jolan 1446: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
1447: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
1448: details on how funds are dispersed.
1449: <p>
1450: </ul>
1451:
1.393 david 1452: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
1453: <ul>
1454: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 1455: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
1456: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
1457: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
1458: </strong></font><br>
1459: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
1460: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
1461: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
1462: on inserting large number of SQL records.
1463: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
1464: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
1465: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
1466: <p>
1467:
1468: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 1469: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
1470: Secure by Default</a>,
1471: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
1472: </strong></font><br>
1473: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
1474: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
1475: <p>
1476:
1477: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1478: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
1479: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
1480: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
1481: </strong></font><br>
1482: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
1483: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
1484: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
1485: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
1486: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
1487: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
1488: <p>
1489:
1490: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1491: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
1492: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
1493: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
1494: </strong></font><br>
1495: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
1496: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
1497: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
1498: <p>
1499:
1500: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1501: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
1502: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
1503: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
1504: </strong></font><br>
1505: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
1506: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
1507: <p>
1508: </ul>
1509:
1.388 mcbride 1510: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
1511: <ul>
1.394 jolan 1512:
1513: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1514: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
1515: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
1516: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
1517: </strong></font><br>
1518: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
1519: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
1520: available for sparc64.
1521: <p>
1522:
1.390 beck 1523: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 1524: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
1525: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
1526: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
1527: </strong></font><br>
1528: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
1529: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
1530: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
1531: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
1532: <p>
1533:
1534: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 1535: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
1536: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 1537: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 1538: </strong></font><br>
1539: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
1540: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
1541: it does: CARP provides sharing
1542: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
1543: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
1544: detail to get you started using it.
1545: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
1546: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
1547: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
1548: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
1549: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
1550: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
1551: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 1552: <p>
1.391 ian 1553:
1554: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 1555: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 1556: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
1557: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 1558: </strong></font><br>
1559: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 1560: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 1561: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 1562: <p>
1.388 mcbride 1563:
1564: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1565: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
1566: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 1567: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 1568: </strong></font><br>
1569: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
1570: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
1571: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
1572: unencumbered by patents.
1573: <p>
1574: </ul>
1575:
1.378 henning 1576: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
1577: <ul>
1.384 jose 1578:
1579: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 1580: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
1581: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
1582: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
1583: </strong></font><br>
1584: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
1585: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
1586: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
1587: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
1588: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
1589: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
1590: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
1591: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
1592: in the page tables."
1593: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
1594: <p>
1595:
1596: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1597: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
1598: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
1599: </strong></font><br>
1600: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
1601: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
1602: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
1603: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 1604: <p>
1.384 jose 1605:
1.378 henning 1606: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 1607: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
1608: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 1609: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
1610: </strong></font><br>
1611: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
1612: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
1613: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
1614: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
1615: (quote:
1616: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
1617: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 1618: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 1619: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
1620: the other developers for their work on the system.
1621: <p>
1622:
1623: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1624: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
1625: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
1626: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 1627: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 1628: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
1629: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
1630: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
1631: too.
1632: <p>
1633:
1634: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 1635: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
1636: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 1637: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 1638: OpenBSD source code using
1639: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
1640: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
1641: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
1642: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
1643: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
1644: <p>
1645: </ul>
1646:
1.374 jose 1647: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
1648: <ul>
1649: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 1650: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 1651: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
1652: </strong></font><br>
1653: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
1654: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
1655: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
1656: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
1657: it."
1658: <p>
1659:
1660: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 1661: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
1662: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
1663: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
1664: </strong></font><br/>
1665: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
1666: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
1667: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
1668: <p>
1669: </ul>
1670:
1.369 ian 1671: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
1672: <ul>
1673: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1674: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
1675: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
1676: </strong></font><br/>
1677: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
1678: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
1679: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
1680: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
1681: <p>
1682:
1683: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 1684: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
1685: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
1686: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
1687: </strong></font><br/>
1688: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
1689: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
1690: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
1691: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
1692: form factor.
1693: <p>
1694:
1695: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1696: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
1697: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
1698: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
1699: Features</a>,
1700: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
1701: </strong></font><br/>
1702: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
1703: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
1704: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
1705: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
1706: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
1707: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
1708: <p>
1709: This article can also be found online at:
1710: <ul>
1711: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1712: <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 1713: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
1714: </strong></font>
1715: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
1716: </ul>
1717: <p>
1.392 david 1718:
1.371 jose 1719: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 1720: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
1721: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 1722: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
1723: </strong></font><br/>
1724: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
1725: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
1726: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 1727: <p>
1.371 jose 1728:
1729: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 1730: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 1731: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 1732: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 1733: </strong></font><br/>
1734: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
1735: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
1736: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
1737: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
1738: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
1739: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
1740: and its history with OpenBSD.
1741: </ul>
1742:
1.368 henning 1743: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
1744: <ul>
1745: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 1746: [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 1747: </strong></font><br>
1748: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
1749: </ul>
1750:
1.364 jose 1751: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
1752: <ul>
1753: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 1754: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
1755: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
1756: UNIX Review,
1757: July, 2003.
1758: </strong></font><br>
1759: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
1760: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
1761: who want more information.
1762: <p>
1763:
1764: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 1765: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
1766: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
1767: Government Computer News,
1768: July 22, 2003.
1769: </strong></font><br>
1770: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
1771: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
1772: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
1773: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
1774: <p>
1775:
1776: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1777: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
1778: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
1779: SANS Institute,
1780: July 22, 2003.
1781: </strong></font><br>
1782: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 1783: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 1784: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
1785: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
1786: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
1787: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
1788: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
1789: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
1790: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
1791: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
1792: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
1793: <p>
1794:
1795: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 1796: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
1797: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
1798: OnLamp.com,
1799: July 17, 2003.
1800: </strong></font><br>
1801: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
1802: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
1803: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
1804: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
1805: have been working on.
1806:
1807: </ul>
1808:
1.356 jose 1809: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 1810: <ul>
1811:
1812: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 1813: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
1814: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
1815: UNIX Review,
1816: June, 2003.
1817: </strong></font><br>
1818: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
1819: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
1820: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
1821: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
1822: <p>
1823:
1824: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 1825: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
1826: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
1827: eWeek,
1828: June 23, 2003.
1829: </strong></font><br>
1830: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
1831: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
1832: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
1833: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
1834: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
1835: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
1836: <p>
1837:
1838: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 1839: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
1840: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
1841: Software Development Online,
1842: June, 2003.
1843: </strong></font><br>
1844: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
1845: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
1846: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
1847: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
1848: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
1849: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
1850: current activities.
1851: <p>
1852:
1853: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 1854: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
1855: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 1856: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
1857: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
1858: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
1859: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 1860: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 1861: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
1862: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
1863: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 1864: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 1865: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
1866: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 1867: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 1868: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
1869: decisions.
1870: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
1871: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 1872: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 1873: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 1874: <p>
1875:
1876: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 1877: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
1878: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
1879: Page 58, eWeek,
1880: June 2, 2003.
1881: </strong></font><br>
1882: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
1883: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
1884: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
1885: been addressed in -current.
1886: <p>
1887:
1.356 jose 1888: </ul>
1889:
1890: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
1891: <ul>
1892:
1.355 jose 1893: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 1894: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
1895: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
1896: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
1897: </strong></font><br>
1898: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
1899: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
1900: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
1901: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
1902: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
1903: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
1904: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
1905: <p>
1906:
1907: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 1908: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
1909: Beyond Linux</a>,
1910: InfoWorld,
1911: May 23, 2003.
1912: </strong></font><br>
1913: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
1914: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
1915: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
1916: compared to the GPL.
1917: <p>
1918:
1919: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 1920: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
1921: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
1922: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 1923: May 17, 2003.
1924: </strong></font><br>
1925: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
1926: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
1927: the business section and half of another page inside
1928: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
1929: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
1930: in talking about the project's history and goals.
1931: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
1932: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
1933: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
1934: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 1935: <br>
1936: This article can also be found online at:
1937: <ul>
1938: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1939: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
1940: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
1941: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
1942: May 17, 2003
1943: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 1944: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
1945: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1946: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
1947: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
1948: Montreal Gazette,
1949: May 21, 2003
1950: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 1951: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 1952: <p>
1.346 ian 1953:
1954: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 1955: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 1956: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 1957: May 7, 2003.
1958: </strong></font><br>
1959: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
1960: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
1961: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
1962: <p>
1963:
1964: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 1965: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
1966: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1967: OsOpinion,
1968: May 6, 2003.
1969: </strong></font><br>
1970: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
1971: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
1972: <br>
1973: This article can also be found online at:
1974: <ul>
1975: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1976: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
1977: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1978: NewsFactor Network.
1979: </strong></font>
1980: </ul>
1981: <p>
1982:
1983: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 1984: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 1985: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
1986: ITBusiness,
1987: May 2, 2003.
1988: </strong></font><br>
1989: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
1990: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
1991: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
1992: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
1993: <p>
1994:
1995: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 1996: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
1997: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
1998: InfoWorld,
1999: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 2000: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 2001: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
2002: <br>
2003: This article can also be found online at:
2004: <ul>
2005: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2006: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
2007: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
2008: IDG Singapore.
2009: </strong></font>
2010: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 2011: <p>
2012:
1.339 jose 2013: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2014: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
2015: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 2016: ZDNet,
2017: May 1, 2003.
2018: </strong></font><br>
2019: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 2020: someone using parts from previous articles.
2021: <br>
1.341 deraadt 2022: This article can also be found online at:
2023: <ul>
2024: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2025: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
2026: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
2027: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 2028: </strong></font>
2029: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2030: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
2031: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
2032: CNET News.com.
2033: </strong></font>
2034: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2035: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
2036: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
2037: ZDNet UK.
2038: </strong></font>
2039: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2040: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
2041: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
2042: Help Net Security, Croatia.
2043: </strong></font>
2044: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 2045: <p>
1.339 jose 2046:
1.341 deraadt 2047: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2048: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 2049: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
2050: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
2051: May 1, 2003.
2052: </strong></font><br>
2053: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
2054: that have been added
2055: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
2056: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
2057: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 2058: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 2059: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
2060: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
2061: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 2062: <p>
2063:
2064: </ul>
2065:
1.253 ian 2066: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
2067: <ul>
1.255 ian 2068:
1.260 ian 2069: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2070: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 2071: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
2072: TechRepublic,
2073: April 28, 2003.
2074: </strong></font><br>
2075: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
2076: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 2077: work.<br>
2078: Can also be found online at:
2079: <ul>
2080: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2081: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
2082: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
2083: ZDNet UK.
2084: </strong></font>
2085: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 2086: <p>
2087:
2088: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 2089: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
2090: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
2091: IDG,
2092: April 24, 2003.
2093: </strong></font><br>
2094: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
2095: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
2096: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
2097: Can also be found online at:
2098: <ul>
2099: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2100: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
2101: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 2102: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 2103: </strong></font>
2104: </ul>
2105: <p>
2106:
2107: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2108: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 2109: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 2110: Slate,
2111: April 24, 2003.
2112: </strong></font><br>
2113: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
2114: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
2115: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
2116: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
2117: <p>
2118:
2119: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 2120: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2121: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
2122: April 24, 2003.
2123: </strong></font><br>
2124: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
2125: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
2126: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
2127: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
2128: <p>
2129:
2130: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 2131: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
2132: April 24, 2003.
2133: </strong></font><br>
2134: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
2135: the free software community".
2136: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
2137: other articles.
2138: <p>
2139:
2140: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2141: <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 2142: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
2143: </strong></font><br>
2144: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
2145: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
2146: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
2147: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
2148: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
2149: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
2150: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 2151: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 2152: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
2153: <br/>
2154: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
2155: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
2156: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
2157: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 2158: <br>
2159: Can also be found online at:
2160: <ul>
2161: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2162: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
2163: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
2164: Common Dreams NewsCenter
2165: </strong></font>
2166: </ul>
1.324 ian 2167: <p>
2168:
2169: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2170: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
2171: Wired, April 24, 2003.
2172: </strong></font><br>
2173: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
2174: article above.
2175: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
2176: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
2177: wasting them."
1.332 ian 2178: <br>
2179: Can also be found online at:
2180: <ul>
2181: <li>
2182: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
2183: </strong></font>
2184: </ul>
1.324 ian 2185: <p>
2186:
2187: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 2188: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
2189: </strong></font><br>
2190: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
2191: <p>
2192:
2193: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 2194: <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.
2195: </strong></font><br>
2196: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
2197: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
2198: <p>
2199:
2200: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 2201: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
2202: April 23, 2003.
2203: </strong></font><br>
2204: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
2205: <p>
2206:
2207: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 2208: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 2209: April 22, 2003.
2210: </strong></font><br>
2211: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
2212: <p>
2213:
2214: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 2215: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
2216: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
2217: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 2218: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 2219: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
2220: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
2221: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
2222: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
2223: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
2224: Can also be found online at:
2225: <ul>
2226: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2227: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 2228: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
2229: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 2230: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 2231: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2232: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 2233: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
2234: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 2235: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 2236: </ul>
2237: <p>
2238:
2239: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 2240: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
2241: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 2242: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2243: </strong></font><br>
2244: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 2245: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
2246: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
2247: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
2248: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
2249: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
2250: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 2251: <p>
2252:
2253: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 2254: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
2255: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 2256: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
2257: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 2258: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
2259: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
2260: at UPenn and DARPA.
2261: <p>
2262:
2263: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 2264: [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,
2265: France
1.315 deraadt 2266: April 18, 2003.
2267: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 2268: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 2269: <p>
2270:
2271: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 2272: [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 2273: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2274: </strong></font><br>
2275: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
2276: <p>
2277:
2278: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 2279: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
2280: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
2281: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 2282: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 2283: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
2284: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
2285: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
2286: <p>
2287:
2288: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 2289: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
2290: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2291: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 2292: </strong></font><br>
2293: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
2294: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
2295: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 2296: American century.
1.267 deraadt 2297: <p>
2298:
2299: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 2300: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
2301: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2302: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 2303: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 2304: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
2305: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
2306: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
2307: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
2308: Can also be found online at:
2309: <ul>
2310: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
2311: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 2312: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 2313: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 2314: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 2315: <p>
2316:
2317: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 2318: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 2319: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 2320: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 2321: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 2322: </strong></font><br>
2323: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 2324: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
2325: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
2326: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
2327: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 2328:
2329: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2330: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
2331: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
2332: New York Times.
2333: </strong></font>(free registration required)
2334:
1.273 deraadt 2335: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2336: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 2337: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 2338: ABC News.
2339: </strong></font>
2340:
2341: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2342: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 2343: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 2344: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 2345: </strong></font>
2346:
2347: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2348: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 2349: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 2350: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 2351: </strong></font>
2352:
2353: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 2354: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
2355: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 2356: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 2357: </strong></font>
2358:
2359: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2360: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 2361: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 2362: Times Daily, AL.
2363: </strong></font>
2364:
2365: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2366: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
2367: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
2368: Boston.com, MA.
2369: </strong></font>
2370:
2371: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2372: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 2373: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 2374: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
2375: </strong></font>
2376:
2377: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 2378: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
2379: [Article was pulled]</a>
2380: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 2381: </strong></font>
2382:
2383: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2384: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
2385: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
2386: Infoshop News.
2387: </strong></font>
2388:
2389: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2390: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
2391: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2392: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
2393: </strong></font>
2394:
2395: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 2396: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
2397: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
2398: Raleigh News, NC.
2399: </strong></font>
2400:
2401: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2402: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 2403: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
2404: Napa News, CA.
2405: </strong></font>
2406:
2407: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2408: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 2409: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2410: NEPA News, PA.
2411: </strong></font>
2412:
2413: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2414: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
2415: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
2416: Wired News.
2417: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 2418: <br>
2419: <li>
1.333 deraadt 2420: <font color="#009000"><strong>
2421: [JAPANESE]
2422: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
2423: Wired News Japan</a>
2424: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 2425:
1.271 deraadt 2426: </ul>
2427: <p>
1.272 deraadt 2428: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
2429: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 2430: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
2431: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
2432: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
2433: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
2434: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
2435: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 2436: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 2437: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
2438: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
2439: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 2440: <p>
2441: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 2442:
2443: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2444: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 2445: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
2446: Indianapolis Star, IN.
2447: </strong></font>
2448:
2449: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 2450: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
2451: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2452: Miami Herald, FL.
2453: </strong></font>
2454:
2455: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 2456: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 2457: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
2458: </strong></font>
2459:
2460: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2461: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 2462: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 2463: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 2464: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 2465:
2466: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2467: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
2468: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
2469: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
2470: ABC News.
2471: </strong></font>
2472:
1.276 deraadt 2473: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2474: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 2475: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 2476: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 2477: </strong></font>
2478:
1.286 dhartmei 2479: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2480: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 2481: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2482: Wilmington Star, NC.
2483: </strong></font>
2484:
1.300 jose 2485: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2486: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
2487: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
2488: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
2489: </strong></font>
2490:
1.309 jose 2491: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2492: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
2493: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
2494: Globe Technology.
2495: </strong></font>
2496:
1.263 deraadt 2497: </ul>
1.262 beck 2498: <p>
2499:
2500: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 2501: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
2502: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2503: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 2504: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 2505: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 2506: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
2507: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
2508: <p>
2509:
2510: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 2511: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
2512: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
2513: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 2514: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 2515: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
2516: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
2517: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
2518: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
2519: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
2520: and simply restates other press reports.
2521: <p>
2522:
2523: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 2524: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
2525: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2526: OS News, April 18, 2003.
2527: </strong></font><br>
2528: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
2529: <p>
2530:
2531: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 2532: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
2533: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2534: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 2535: </strong></font><br>
2536: Another report on the DARPA funding.
2537: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
2538: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
2539: <p>
2540:
2541: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 2542: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
2543: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
2544: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
2545: April 17, 2003.
2546: </strong></font><br>
2547: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
2548: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
2549: Tech Anthems</a>
2550: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
2551: 4 so far.
2552: <p>
2553:
2554: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 2555: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
2556: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2557: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2558: </strong></font><br>
2559: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
2560: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
2561: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
2562: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
2563: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
2564: Goes on to say:
2565: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
2566: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
2567: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
2568: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 2569: This article is also found online at:
2570: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 2571: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2572: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
2573: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
2574: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 2575: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 2576: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2577: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
2578: ZDnet</a>,
2579: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 2580: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 2581: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2582: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
2583: ZDnet Australia</a>,
2584: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 2585: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 2586: </ul>
1.260 ian 2587: <p>
1.279 deraadt 2588:
1.260 ian 2589: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2590: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 2591: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 2592: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2593: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 2594: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 2595: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
2596: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
2597: without notice or justification.
2598: <p>
2599:
2600: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2601: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 2602: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 2603: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2604: </strong></font><br>
2605: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
2606: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 2607: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 2608: effective today, without any warning..."
2609: <p>
1.257 ian 2610:
2611: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 2612: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
2613: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2614: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 2615: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 2616: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
2617: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
2618: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
2619: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
2620: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 2621: <p>
2622:
2623: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 2624: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
2625: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2626: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 2627: </strong></font><br>
2628: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
2629: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
2630: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
2631: quoting two of them:
2632: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
2633: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
2634: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
2635: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
2636: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
2637: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
2638: <p>
2639:
1.255 ian 2640: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2641: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
2642: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 2643: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2644: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 2645: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 2646: <p>
2647:
2648: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 2649: [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 2650: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2651: </strong></font><br>
2652: New security concepts in OpenBSD
2653: <p>
2654:
2655: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 2656: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
2657: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2658: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 2659: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 2660: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 2661: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
2662: security experts for more than three decades."
2663: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
2664: <p>
1.261 ian 2665:
1.254 drahn 2666: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 2667: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 2668: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2669: </strong></font><br>
2670: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
2671: <p>
2672:
2673: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 2674: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
2675: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
2676: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
2677: </strong></font><br>
2678: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
2679: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
2680: discussion OpenBSD's path.
2681: <p>
2682:
2683: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 2684: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
2685: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2686: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 2687: </strong></font><br>
2688: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
2689: from US DARPA.
2690: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
2691: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
2692: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
2693: the BSD license.
2694: <p>
2695: </ul>
2696:
1.251 ian 2697: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
2698: <ul>
2699:
2700: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2701: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
2702: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
2703: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
2704: </strong></font><br>
2705:
2706: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
2707: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
2708: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
2709: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
2710: <p>
2711:
2712: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 2713: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
2714: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 2715: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 2716: </strong></font><br>
2717: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
2718: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
2719: Mentions
2720: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
2721: and
2722: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
2723: programs.
2724: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 2725: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 2726: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
2727: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
2728: <p>
1.325 ian 2729: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
2730: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 2731:
2732: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2733: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
2734: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
2735: </strong></font><br>
2736: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
2737: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
2738: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
2739: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
2740: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
2741: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
2742: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
2743: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
2744: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
2745: put into service."
2746: <p>
2747: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
2748: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
2749: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
2750: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
2751: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
2752: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
2753: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
2754: computers with security features."
2755: <p>
1.329 ian 2756:
2757: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2758: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
2759: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
2760: Slate,
2761: March 3, 2003.
2762: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 2763: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 2764: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
2765: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
2766: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
2767: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
2768: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
2769: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
2770: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
2771: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
2772: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
2773: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
2774: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
2775: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
2776: of more secure open-source solutions like
2777: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
2778: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
2779: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
2780: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
2781: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
2782: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
2783: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
2784: the Beltway."
2785: <p>
1.251 ian 2786: </ul>
2787:
1.249 jufi 2788: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
2789: <ul>
2790: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2791: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
2792: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2793: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 2794: </strong></font><br>
2795: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
2796: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 2797: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 2798: <p>
1.334 ian 2799:
2800: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2801: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
2802: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
2803: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
2804: </strong></font><br>
2805: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
2806: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
2807: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
2808: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
2809: "... the hypothetical question ...
2810: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
2811: <br>
2812: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
2813: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
2814: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
2815: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
2816: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
2817: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 2818: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 2819: support network security.
2820: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
2821: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
2822: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
2823: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
2824: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
2825: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
2826: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
2827: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
2828: <br>
2829: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
2830: <p>
2831:
1.249 jufi 2832: </ul>
2833:
1.246 jufi 2834: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2835: <ul>
1.246 jufi 2836:
1.247 jufi 2837: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2838: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 2839: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2840: CNET News.com, December 4, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2841: </strong></font><br>
2842: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
2843: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
2844: <p>
2845:
1.247 jufi 2846: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2847: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
2848: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2849: Heise News-Ticker, December 4, 2002
1.301 jose 2850: </strong></font><br>
1.460 david 2851: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III CPU
1.301 jose 2852: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
2853: <p>
2854:
2855: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2856: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 2857: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2858: eWeek, December 3, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2859: </strong></font><br>
2860: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
2861: in their annual OpenHack security test.
2862: <p>
1.247 jufi 2863: </ul>
1.246 jufi 2864:
1.244 jufi 2865: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2866: <ul>
1.246 jufi 2867:
1.247 jufi 2868: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2869: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
2870: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
2871: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2872: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2873: </strong></font><br>
2874: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
2875: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
2876: md5 digests.
2877: <p>
2878:
1.247 jufi 2879: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2880: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 2881: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
2882: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2883: </strong></font><br>
2884: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
2885: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
2886: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
2887: right the first time."
2888: <p>
1.247 jufi 2889: </ul>
1.244 jufi 2890:
2891:
2892: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2893: <ul>
1.244 jufi 2894:
1.247 jufi 2895: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2896: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2897: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
2898: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2899: </strong></font><br>
2900: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
2901: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
2902: part 6</a>.
2903: <p>
2904:
1.247 jufi 2905: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2906: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 2907: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
2908: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2909: O'Reilly Network, August 8, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2910: </strong></font><br>
2911: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
2912: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
2913: <p>
1.301 jose 2914:
2915: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2916: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
2917: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
2918: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
2919: </strong></font><br>
2920:
2921: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
2922: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
2923: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
2924: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
2925: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
2926: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
2927: <i>Here's the
2928: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
2929: <p>
1.247 jufi 2930: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2931:
2932: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2933: <ul>
1.242 jufi 2934:
1.247 jufi 2935: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2936: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 2937: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2938: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2939: </strong></font><br>
2940: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
2941: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
2942: <p>
2943:
1.247 jufi 2944: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2945: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2946: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2947: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 1, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2948: </strong></font><br>
2949: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
2950: this time using pf.
2951: <p>
1.247 jufi 2952: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2953:
2954: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2955: <ul>
1.242 jufi 2956:
1.247 jufi 2957: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2958: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2959: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
2960: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2961: </strong></font><br>
2962: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
2963: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
2964: their rotation.
2965: <p>
2966:
1.247 jufi 2967: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2968: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2969: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2970: O'Reilly Network, June 6, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2971: </strong></font><br>
2972: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
2973: <p>
1.247 jufi 2974: </ul>
1.242 jufi 2975:
1.239 jufi 2976: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2977: <ul>
1.239 jufi 2978:
1.247 jufi 2979: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 2980: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2981: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
2982: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 2983: </strong></font><br>
2984: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
2985: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
2986: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
2987: <p>
2988:
1.247 jufi 2989: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 2990: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 2991: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
2992: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 2993: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 2994: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
2995: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
2996: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 2997: <p>
1.247 jufi 2998: </ul>
1.239 jufi 2999:
1.235 lebel 3000: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3001: <ul>
1.235 lebel 3002:
1.239 jufi 3003:
1.247 jufi 3004: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 3005: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 3006: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
3007: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 3008: </strong></font><br>
3009: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
3010: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
3011: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
3012: <p>
1.301 jose 3013:
1.247 jufi 3014: </ul>
1.235 lebel 3015:
1.228 horacio 3016: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3017: <ul>
1.228 horacio 3018:
1.247 jufi 3019: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3020: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3021: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
3022: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 3023: </strong></font><br>
3024: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
3025: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
3026: <p>
3027:
1.247 jufi 3028: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 3029: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 3030: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
3031: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 3032: </strong></font><br>
3033: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
3034: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
3035: <p>
3036:
1.247 jufi 3037: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 3038: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 3039: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
3040: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 3041: </strong></font><br>
3042: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
3043: on the desktop of his parents.
3044: <p>
3045:
1.247 jufi 3046: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 3047: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 3048: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
3049: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 3050: </strong></font><br>
3051: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
3052: using IPFilter.
3053:
3054: <p>
3055:
1.247 jufi 3056: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 3057: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 3058: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
3059: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 3060: </strong></font><br>
3061: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
3062: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
3063: perspectives of the four OS.
3064: <br>
3065: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 3066: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 3067: <p>
3068:
1.247 jufi 3069: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 3070: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
3071: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 3072: software and security</a>,
3073: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 3074: </strong></font><br>
3075:
3076: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
3077: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
3078: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
3079: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
3080: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
3081: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
3082: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
3083: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
3084: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
3085: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
3086: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
3087: security conscious team beyond doubt.
3088: <p>
1.247 jufi 3089: </ul>
1.228 horacio 3090:
1.225 horacio 3091: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3092: <ul>
1.225 horacio 3093:
1.247 jufi 3094: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3095: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
3096: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 3097: Interview</a>,
3098: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 3099: </strong></font><br>
3100:
3101: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
3102: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
3103: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 3104: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 3105: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
3106: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
3107: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
3108: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
3109: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 3110: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 3111: of choice.
3112: <p>
1.247 jufi 3113: </ul>
1.225 horacio 3114:
3115: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3116: <ul>
1.225 horacio 3117:
1.247 jufi 3118: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3119: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 3120: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
3121: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 3122: </strong></font><br>
3123:
3124: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
3125: <p>
3126:
1.247 jufi 3127: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3128: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 3129: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
3130: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 3131: </strong></font><br>
3132:
3133: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
3134: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
3135: <p>
1.247 jufi 3136: </ul>
1.225 horacio 3137:
1.218 horacio 3138: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3139: <ul>
1.218 horacio 3140:
1.247 jufi 3141: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 3142: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 3143: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 3144: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 3145: </strong></font><br>
3146:
3147: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
3148: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
3149: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
3150: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
3151: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
3152: subjects. Worth a read.
3153: <p>
3154:
3155:
1.247 jufi 3156: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 3157: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 3158: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
3159: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 3160: </strong></font><br>
3161:
3162: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
3163: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
3164: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
3165: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
3166: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
3167: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
3168: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
3169: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
3170: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 3171: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 3172: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
3173: on other operating systems.<br>
3174: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
3175: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
3176: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
3177: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
3178: <p>
3179:
1.247 jufi 3180: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3181: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 3182: Operating System 2010</a>,
3183: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 3184: </strong></font><br>
3185:
3186: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
3187: covering the level of software integration into the core
3188: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
3189: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
3190: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
3191: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
3192: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
3193: <p>
3194:
1.247 jufi 3195: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 3196: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 3197: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
3198: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 3199: </strong></font><br>
3200:
3201: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
3202: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
3203: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
3204: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
3205: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
3206: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
3207: <p>
1.247 jufi 3208: </ul>
1.221 horacio 3209:
1.210 jufi 3210: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3211: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3212:
1.247 jufi 3213: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3214: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 3215: Already a Contender</a>,
3216: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 3217: </strong></font><br>
3218:
3219: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
3220: source software in response to an article which claimed that
3221: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
3222: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
3223: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
3224: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
3225: <p>
3226:
1.247 jufi 3227: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 3228: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 3229: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
3230: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 3231: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3232:
1.224 horacio 3233: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
3234: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
3235: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
3236: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
3237: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
3238: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 3239: <p>
1.247 jufi 3240: </ul>
1.215 horacio 3241:
3242: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3243: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3244:
1.247 jufi 3245: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3246: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
3247: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 3248: Division</a>,
3249: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 3250: </strong></font><br>
3251:
3252: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
3253: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 3254: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 3255: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
3256: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
3257: investment</em>.<br>
3258: The implementation details can be seen on their
3259: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
3260: <p>
3261:
1.247 jufi 3262: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3263: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
3264: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
3265: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
3266: </strong></font><br>
3267:
3268: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
3269: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
3270: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1.475 grunk 3271: laptops and T-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1.301 jose 3272: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
3273: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
3274: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
3275: <p>
3276:
3277: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3278: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 3279: Thinking about Security</a>,
3280: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 3281: </strong></font><br>
3282:
3283: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
3284: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
3285: security and says that even secured operating systems running
3286: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
3287: to time.<br>
3288: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
3289: system and just the most secure system.
3290: <p>
3291:
1.247 jufi 3292: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3293: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 3294: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
3295: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 3296: </strong></font><br>
3297:
3298: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
3299: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
3300: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
3301: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
3302: choice:<br>
3303: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
3304: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
3305: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
3306: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
3307: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
3308: network security devices and as such must be well
3309: armored."</em><br>
3310: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
3311: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
3312: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
3313: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
3314: <br>
3315: Bravo!
3316: <p>
1.247 jufi 3317: </ul>
1.210 jufi 3318:
1.207 ian 3319: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3320: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3321:
1.247 jufi 3322: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 3323: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
3324: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
3325: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 3326:
1.207 ian 3327: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
3328: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 3329: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 3330: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
3331: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
3332: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 3333: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 3334: <p>
1.247 jufi 3335: </ul>
1.207 ian 3336:
1.194 jufi 3337: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3338: <ul>
1.194 jufi 3339:
1.247 jufi 3340: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3341: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 3342: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
3343: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 3344: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3345:
1.240 miod 3346: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 3347: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
3348: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
3349: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
3350: <p>
3351:
1.247 jufi 3352: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3353: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
3354: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
3355: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
3356:
3357: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
3358: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
3359: <p>
3360:
3361: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3362: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
3363: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3364: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
3365:
3366: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
3367: <p>
3368:
3369: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3370: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 3371: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
3372: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
3373: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3374:
1.240 miod 3375: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 3376: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 3377: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
3378: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 3379: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 3380: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 3381: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
3382: <br>
1.413 deraadt 3383: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 3384: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
3385: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
3386: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
3387: <p>
3388:
1.247 jufi 3389: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 3390: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
3391: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 3392: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 3393: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3394:
1.194 jufi 3395: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
3396: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
3397: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
3398: <br>
3399: The new
3400: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 3401: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 3402: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
3403: <p>
1.247 jufi 3404: </ul>
1.194 jufi 3405:
1.190 horacio 3406: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3407: <ul>
1.190 horacio 3408:
1.247 jufi 3409: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 3410:
3411: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
3412: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
3413:
1.301 jose 3414:
1.191 jufi 3415: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
3416: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
3417:
3418: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
3419: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
3420:
1.212 horacio 3421: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
3422: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 3423: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
3424:
1.211 horacio 3425: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
3426: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 3427: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
3428:
1.247 jufi 3429: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 3430: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
3431:
1.247 jufi 3432: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 3433: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
3434:
1.212 horacio 3435: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
3436: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 3437: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
3438:
3439: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
3440: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
3441:
3442: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
3443: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
3444:
1.301 jose 3445: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
3446: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
3447:
1.191 jufi 3448: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
3449: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
3450:
3451: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 3452: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 3453:
1.192 jufi 3454: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
3455: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 3456: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 3457:
1.193 deraadt 3458: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
3459: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 3460: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 3461:
1.247 jufi 3462: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 3463: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
3464:
1.247 jufi 3465: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 3466: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
3467: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
3468:
1.213 horacio 3469: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 3470: 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 3471: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
3472:
1.190 horacio 3473: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 3474: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
3475: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
3476: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
3477: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
3478: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
3479: <p>
1.190 horacio 3480:
1.247 jufi 3481: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3482: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
3483: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
3484: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 3485: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3486:
1.195 jufi 3487: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 3488: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
3489: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
3490: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 3491: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
3492: <p>
3493:
1.247 jufi 3494: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3495: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 3496: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
3497: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
3498: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3499:
1.191 jufi 3500: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 3501: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
3502: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
3503: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
3504: <p>
3505:
3506: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3507: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
3508: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3509: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
3510:
3511: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
3512: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 3513: <p>
1.247 jufi 3514: </ul>
1.190 horacio 3515:
1.191 jufi 3516:
1.186 jufi 3517: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3518: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 3519:
1.247 jufi 3520: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 3521: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 3522: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
3523: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 3524: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 3525:
1.188 jufi 3526: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 3527: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 3528: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 3529: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
3530: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 3531: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 3532: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 3533: <p>
3534:
1.301 jose 3535: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3536: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
3537: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3538: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
3539:
3540: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
3541: <p>
1.191 jufi 3542:
1.247 jufi 3543: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 3544: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
3545: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3546: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 5, 2001
1.191 jufi 3547: </strong></font><br>
3548:
3549: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
3550: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
3551: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
3552: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
3553: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
3554: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
3555: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
3556: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
3557: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
3558: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
3559: familiar?
3560: <p>
1.247 jufi 3561: </ul>
1.191 jufi 3562:
1.178 louis 3563: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3564: <ul>
1.178 louis 3565:
1.247 jufi 3566: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 3567: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 3568: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
3569: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 3570: </strong></font><br>
3571:
3572: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
3573: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
3574: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
3575: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
3576: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
3577: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
3578: <p>
3579:
1.247 jufi 3580: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3581: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
3582: Open source under the hood</a>,
3583: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 3584: </strong></font><br>
3585:
3586: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
3587: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
3588: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
3589: <p>
3590:
1.247 jufi 3591: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3592: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
3593: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
3594: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 3595: </strong></font><br>
3596:
3597: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
3598: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
3599: <p>
1.247 jufi 3600: </ul>
1.179 louis 3601:
1.174 louis 3602:
1.175 louis 3603: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3604: <ul>
1.175 louis 3605:
1.247 jufi 3606: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3607: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
3608: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
3609: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 3610: </strong></font><br>
3611:
3612: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
3613: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
3614: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
3615: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
3616: <p>
3617:
1.247 jufi 3618: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3619: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
3620: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
3621: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 3622: </strong></font><br>
3623:
3624: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 3625: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 3626: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
3627: <p>
1.247 jufi 3628: </ul>
1.175 louis 3629:
1.176 louis 3630:
1.172 mickey 3631: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3632: <ul>
1.172 mickey 3633:
1.247 jufi 3634: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3635: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
3636: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 3637: </strong></font><br>
3638:
3639: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
3640: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
3641: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 3642: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 3643: <p>
3644:
1.247 jufi 3645: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 3646: <a
1.269 deraadt 3647: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
3648: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
3649: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 3650: </strong></font><br>
3651:
3652: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
3653: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
3654: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
3655: <p>
3656:
1.247 jufi 3657: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3658: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 3659: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
3660: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 3661: </strong></font><br>
3662:
3663: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
3664: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
3665: <p>
3666:
1.247 jufi 3667: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3668: <a
1.269 deraadt 3669: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
3670: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 3671: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
3672: </strong></font><br>
3673:
3674: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
3675: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
3676: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
3677: our own Theo de Raadt.
3678: <p>
3679:
1.247 jufi 3680: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3681: <a
1.269 deraadt 3682: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
3683: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
3684: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 3685: </strong></font><br>
3686:
3687: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
3688: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
3689: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
3690: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
3691: shut down.]
3692: <p>
3693:
1.247 jufi 3694: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3695: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 3696: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 3697: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
3698: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 3699: </strong></font><br>
3700:
3701: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
3702: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
3703: <p>
1.247 jufi 3704: </ul>
1.172 mickey 3705:
1.161 louis 3706: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3707: <ul>
1.161 louis 3708:
1.247 jufi 3709: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 3710: <a
1.269 deraadt 3711: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
3712: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
3713: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 3714: </strong></font><br>
3715:
3716: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
3717: by John Wolley
3718: <p>
3719:
1.247 jufi 3720: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 3721: <a
1.269 deraadt 3722: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
3723: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
3724: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 3725: </strong></font><br>
3726:
3727: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
3728: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
3729: OpenBSD).
3730: <p>
3731:
1.247 jufi 3732: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 3733: <a
1.247 jufi 3734: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 3735: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
3736: </strong></font><br>
3737:
3738: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
3739: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
3740: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
3741: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
3742: and hindsight.
3743: <p>
3744:
1.247 jufi 3745: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3746: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
3747: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
3748: </strong></font><br>
3749:
3750: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
3751: <p>
3752:
1.247 jufi 3753: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 3754: <a
1.168 provos 3755: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
3756: December 7, 2000
3757: </strong></font><br>
3758:
3759: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
3760: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
3761: us explain.
3762: <p>
3763:
1.247 jufi 3764: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 3765: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
3766: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 3767: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 3768: December 6, 2000
3769: </strong></font><br>
3770:
3771: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
3772: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
3773: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
3774: <p>
3775:
1.247 jufi 3776: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3777: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
3778: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
3779: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
3780: </strong></font><br>
3781:
3782: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
3783: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
3784: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
3785: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
3786: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
3787: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
3788: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
3789: <p>
3790:
3791: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 3792: <a
1.226 horacio 3793: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
3794: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 3795: </strong></font><br>
3796:
3797: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 3798: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 3799: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 3800: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
3801: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
3802: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 3803: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 3804: <p>
1.162 millert 3805:
1.247 jufi 3806: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 3807: <a
1.161 louis 3808: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
3809: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
3810: </strong></font><br>
3811:
3812: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
3813: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
3814: <p>
3815:
1.247 jufi 3816: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3817: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
3818: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
3819: </strong></font><br>
3820:
3821: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
3822: <p>
3823:
3824:
1.247 jufi 3825: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 3826: <a
1.226 horacio 3827: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
3828: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
3829: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 3830: </strong></font><br>
3831:
3832: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
3833: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
3834: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
3835: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
3836: <p>
1.247 jufi 3837: </ul>
1.169 louis 3838:
1.158 louis 3839: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3840: <ul>
1.147 louis 3841:
1.247 jufi 3842: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3843: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
3844: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 3845: </strong></font><br>
3846:
3847: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
3848: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
3849: <p>
3850:
1.247 jufi 3851: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3852: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
3853: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
3854: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 3855: </strong></font><br>
3856: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
3857: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
3858: <p>
3859:
1.247 jufi 3860: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 3861: <a
3862: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
3863: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
3864: </strong></font><br>
3865:
3866: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
3867: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
3868: <p>
3869:
1.247 jufi 3870: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3871: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 3872: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
3873: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 3874:
1.213 horacio 3875: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 3876: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 3877: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
3878: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
3879: <p>
1.215 horacio 3880:
1.247 jufi 3881: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3882: <a
3883: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
3884: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
3885: </strong></font><br>
3886:
3887: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
3888: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
3889: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
3890: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
3891: much of the attitude too).
3892: <p>
1.161 louis 3893:
1.247 jufi 3894: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3895: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3896: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 3897: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3898:
1.157 louis 3899: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
3900: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
3901: <p>
1.247 jufi 3902: </ul>
1.157 louis 3903:
3904: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3905: <ul>
1.157 louis 3906:
1.247 jufi 3907: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3908: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3909: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 3910: </strong></font><br>
3911:
3912: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
3913: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
3914: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
3915: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
3916: <p>
3917:
1.247 jufi 3918: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 3919: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
3920: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
3921: </strong></font><br>
3922:
3923: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
3924: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
3925: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
3926: it because they love coding...
3927: <p>
3928:
1.247 jufi 3929: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 3930: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
3931: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
3932: </strong></font><br>
3933:
3934: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
3935: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
3936: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
3937: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
3938: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
3939: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
3940: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
3941: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
3942: <p>
3943:
1.247 jufi 3944: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3945: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
3946: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
3947: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 3948: </strong></font><br>
3949:
3950: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
3951: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
3952: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
3953: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
3954: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
3955: the pizza.
3956: <p>
3957:
1.247 jufi 3958: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 3959: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
3960: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
3961: </strong></font><br>
3962:
3963: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
3964: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
3965: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
3966: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
3967: problems.
3968: <p>
3969:
1.247 jufi 3970: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 3971: <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 3972: </strong></font><br>
3973:
1.222 miod 3974: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 3975: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
3976: - whether they like it or not.
3977: <p>
3978:
1.247 jufi 3979: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3980: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
3981: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 3982: </strong></font><br>
3983:
3984: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
3985: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
3986: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 3987: <p>
1.148 aaron 3988:
1.247 jufi 3989: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3990: <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 3991: </strong></font><br>
3992:
3993: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
3994: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
3995: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
3996: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
3997: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
3998: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
3999: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
4000: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
4001: <p>
4002:
1.247 jufi 4003: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4004: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
4005: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 4006: </strong></font><br>
4007:
4008: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
4009: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 4010: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 4011: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
4012: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
4013: <p>
1.247 jufi 4014: </ul>
1.147 louis 4015:
1.138 louis 4016: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4017: <ul>
1.138 louis 4018:
1.247 jufi 4019: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4020: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
4021: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
4022: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
4023: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 4024: </strong></font><br>
4025:
1.227 horacio 4026: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 4027: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
4028: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
4029: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
4030: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
4031: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
4032: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
4033: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 4034: <p>
4035:
1.247 jufi 4036: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 4037: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 4038: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 4039: </strong></font><br>
4040:
4041: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
4042: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
4043: groups, and even Linux.
4044: <p>
4045:
1.247 jufi 4046: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4047: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
4048: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 4049: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
4050: </strong></font><br>
4051:
4052: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
4053: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
4054: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
4055: library after installing the OS.
4056: <p>
4057:
1.247 jufi 4058: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4059: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 4060: Sys Admin, September 2000
4061: </strong></font><br>
4062:
4063: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
4064: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
4065: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
4066: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 4067: (<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>,
4068: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
4069: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
4070: <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 4071: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 4072: out of the system.
4073: <p>
4074:
1.247 jufi 4075: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 4076: <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
4077: </strong></font><br>
4078:
4079: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 4080: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 4081: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
4082: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
4083: the IP filtering and address translation.
4084: <p>
1.301 jose 4085:
4086: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4087: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
4088: </strong></font><br>
4089:
4090: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
4091: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
4092: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
4093: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
4094: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
4095: <p>
1.247 jufi 4096: </ul>
1.200 niklas 4097:
1.131 louis 4098: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4099: <ul>
1.131 louis 4100:
1.247 jufi 4101: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4102: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
4103: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
4104: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 4105: </strong></font><br>
4106:
4107: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
4108: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
4109: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
4110: <p>
4111:
1.247 jufi 4112: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 4113: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
4114: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
4115: </strong></font><br>
4116:
4117: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
4118: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
4119: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
4120: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
4121: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
4122: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
4123: note of"</i>.
4124: <p>
4125:
1.247 jufi 4126: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 4127: <a
1.247 jufi 4128: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 4129: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
4130: </strong></font><br>
4131:
4132: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
4133: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
4134: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
4135: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
4136: <p>
4137:
1.247 jufi 4138: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 4139: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 4140: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
4141: </strong></font><br>
4142:
4143: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
4144: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
4145: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
4146: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
4147: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
4148: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
4149: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
4150: <p>
4151:
1.247 jufi 4152: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 4153: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
4154: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
4155: 2000
4156: </strong></font><br>
4157:
4158: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
4159: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
4160: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
4161: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
4162: against current industry practices.
4163: <p>
4164:
1.247 jufi 4165: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 4166: <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
4167: </strong></font><br>
4168:
4169: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
4170: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
4171: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
4172: <p>
4173:
1.247 jufi 4174: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 4175: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
4176: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
4177: </strong></font><br>
4178:
4179: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
4180: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
4181: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
4182: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
4183: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
4184: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
4185: careful code reviews, he concludes.
4186: <p>
4187:
1.247 jufi 4188: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 4189: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
4190: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
4191: </strong></font><br>
4192:
4193: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
4194: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
4195: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
4196: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
4197: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 4198: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
4199: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
4200: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 4201: <p>
1.247 jufi 4202: </ul>
1.131 louis 4203:
1.118 louis 4204: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4205: <ul>
1.118 louis 4206:
1.247 jufi 4207: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 4208: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
4209: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
4210: </strong></font><br>
4211:
4212: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
4213: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
4214: about time. The article mentions that
4215: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
4216: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
4217: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 4218: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 4219: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
4220: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 4221: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 4222: <p>
4223:
1.247 jufi 4224: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4225: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 4226: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 4227: </strong></font><br>
4228:
4229: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
4230: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
4231: of OpenSSH.
4232: <p>
4233:
1.247 jufi 4234: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4235: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4236: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 4237: </strong></font><br>
4238:
4239: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 4240: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 4241: bridging.
4242: <p>
4243:
1.247 jufi 4244: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4245: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
4246: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 4247: </strong></font><br>
4248:
1.121 deraadt 4249: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
4250: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 4251: <p>
4252:
1.247 jufi 4253: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 4254: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
4255: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
4256: </strong></font><br>
4257:
4258: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
4259: <p>
4260:
1.247 jufi 4261: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 4262: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 4263: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
4264: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 4265: </strong></font><br>
4266:
1.120 deraadt 4267: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
4268: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 4269: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
4270: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
4271: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
4272: <p>
4273:
1.247 jufi 4274: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 4275: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
4276: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
4277: </strong></font><br>
4278:
1.222 miod 4279: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 4280: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
4281: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
4282: protocols and their quirks.
4283: <p>
4284:
1.247 jufi 4285: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4286: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
4287: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 4288: </strong></font><br>
4289:
4290: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
4291: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
4292: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 4293: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 4294: <p>
4295:
1.247 jufi 4296: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 4297: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
4298: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
4299: </strong></font><br>
4300:
4301: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
4302: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
4303: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
4304: <p>
4305:
1.247 jufi 4306: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 4307: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 4308: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
4309: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 4310: </strong></font><br>
4311:
4312: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
4313: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
4314: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
4315: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
4316: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
4317: <p>
1.247 jufi 4318: </ul>
1.118 louis 4319:
1.104 louis 4320: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4321: <ul>
1.104 louis 4322:
1.247 jufi 4323: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 4324: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
4325: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
4326: </strong></font><br>
4327:
4328: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
4329: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
4330: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
4331: be a bit dry.
4332: <p>
4333:
1.247 jufi 4334: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4335: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
4336: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
4337: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
4338: </strong></font><br>
4339: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
4340: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
4341: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
4342: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
4343: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
4344: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
4345: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
4346: <p>
4347:
1.247 jufi 4348: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4349: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
4350: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 4351: 2000
1.128 louis 4352: </strong></font><br>
4353:
4354: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
4355: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
4356: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
4357: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
4358: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 4359: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 4360: <p>
4361:
1.247 jufi 4362: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4363: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
4364: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 4365: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 4366:
4367: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
4368: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
4369: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
4370: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 4371: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
4372: <p>
1.110 louis 4373:
1.247 jufi 4374: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 4375: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
4376: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
4377: </strong></font><br>
4378:
4379: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
4380: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
4381: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
4382: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
4383: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
4384: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
4385: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
4386: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
4387: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
4388: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
4389: <p>
4390:
1.247 jufi 4391: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 4392: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 4393: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 4394:
4395: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
4396: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 4397: <p>
1.108 louis 4398:
1.247 jufi 4399: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 4400: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
4401: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 4402: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 4403:
4404: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
4405: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
4406: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 4407: <p>
1.106 louis 4408:
1.247 jufi 4409: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 4410: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
4411: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 4412: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 4413:
4414: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
4415: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
4416: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
4417: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 4418: <p>
1.107 louis 4419:
1.247 jufi 4420: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4421: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
4422: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 4423: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 4424:
4425: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
4426: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 4427: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 4428: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
4429: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 4430: <p>
1.105 louis 4431:
1.247 jufi 4432: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 4433: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 4434: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 4435: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 4436:
1.113 naddy 4437: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
4438: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 4439: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 4440: <p>
1.104 louis 4441:
1.247 jufi 4442: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4443: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
4444: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
4445: </strong></font><br>
4446:
4447: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
4448: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
4449: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
4450: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
4451: <p>
1.301 jose 4452:
4453: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4454: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
4455: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
4456: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
4457:
4458: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
4459: hardware-supported cryptography.
4460: <p>
1.247 jufi 4461: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 4462:
1.85 louis 4463: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4464: <ul>
1.85 louis 4465:
1.247 jufi 4466: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4467: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 4468: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 4469: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 4470:
4471: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
4472: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
4473: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
4474: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
4475: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
4476: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
4477: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 4478: <p>
1.99 louis 4479:
1.247 jufi 4480: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4481: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 4482: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 4483: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 4484:
4485: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
4486: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
4487: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
4488: conditions.
1.113 naddy 4489: <p>
1.100 louis 4490:
1.247 jufi 4491: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4492: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 4493: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 4494: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 4495:
4496: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
4497: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
4498: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
4499: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 4500: <p>
1.95 louis 4501:
1.247 jufi 4502: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4503: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 4504: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 4505: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 4506:
4507: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
4508: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 4509: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 4510: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
4511: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4512: <p>
1.92 louis 4513:
1.247 jufi 4514: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4515: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 4516: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 4517: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 4518:
4519: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
4520: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
4521: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
4522: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
4523: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
4524: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 4525: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 4526: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 4527: <p>
1.91 louis 4528:
1.247 jufi 4529: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4530: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
4531: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 4532: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 4533:
4534: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
4535: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
4536: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
4537: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
4538: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
4539: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
4540: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
4541: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
4542: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 4543: <p>
1.90 louis 4544:
1.247 jufi 4545: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 4546: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
4547: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
4548: </strong></font><br>
4549: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
4550: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
4551: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
4552: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
4553: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
4554: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
4555: <p>
4556:
1.247 jufi 4557: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 4558: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
4559: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 4560: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 4561:
1.113 naddy 4562: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
4563: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 4564: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
4565: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
4566: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
4567: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
4568: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 4569: <p>
1.87 louis 4570:
1.247 jufi 4571: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 4572: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
4573: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 4574: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 4575:
4576: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 4577: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 4578: <p>
1.85 louis 4579:
1.247 jufi 4580: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4581: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
4582: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4583: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
4584:
4585: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
4586: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
4587: <p>
4588:
4589: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 4590: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
4591: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 4592: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 4593:
4594: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 4595: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 4596: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
4597: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 4598: <p>
1.89 louis 4599:
1.247 jufi 4600: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 4601: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
1.85 louis 4602: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 4603: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 4604:
4605: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
4606: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
4607: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
4608: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
4609: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 4610: </ul>
1.85 louis 4611:
1.78 deraadt 4612: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4613: <ul>
1.74 louis 4614:
1.247 jufi 4615: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4616: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 4617: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 4618: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 4619: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 4620:
4621: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
4622: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
4623: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4624: <p>
1.83 louis 4625:
1.247 jufi 4626: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 4627: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
4628: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 4629: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 4630:
4631: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
4632: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 4633: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 4634: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
4635: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 4636: <p>
1.93 louis 4637:
1.247 jufi 4638: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4639: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
4640: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
4641: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 4642: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 4643:
1.83 louis 4644: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
4645: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
4646: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
4647: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
4648: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 4649: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
4650: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
4651: <p>
1.82 aaron 4652:
1.247 jufi 4653: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4654: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 4655: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 4656: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 4657:
1.83 louis 4658: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
4659: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
4660: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 4661: <p>
1.80 louis 4662:
1.247 jufi 4663: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4664: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 4665: Bad Press</a>,
4666: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 4667: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 4668:
4669: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 4670: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 4671: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
4672: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
4673: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 4674: <p>
1.247 jufi 4675: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 4676:
4677: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4678: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 4679:
1.247 jufi 4680: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4681: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
4682: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 4683: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 4684: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 4685:
4686: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
4687: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
4688: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
4689: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 4690: <p>
1.74 louis 4691:
1.247 jufi 4692: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 4693: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
4694: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 4695: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 4696:
1.219 horacio 4697: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
4698: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
4699: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
4700: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
4701: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
4702: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
4703: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 4704: <p>
1.88 louis 4705:
1.247 jufi 4706: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 4707: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 4708: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 4709: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 4710:
4711: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
4712: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
4713: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
4714: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 4715: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 4716: <p>
1.81 louis 4717:
1.247 jufi 4718: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4719: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 4720: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 4721: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 4722:
4723: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
4724: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
4725: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
4726: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
4727: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
4728: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
4729: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 4730: <p>
1.90 louis 4731:
1.247 jufi 4732: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4733: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 4734: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 4735: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 4736:
4737: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
4738: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
4739: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 4740: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 4741: <p>
1.247 jufi 4742: </ul>
1.71 louis 4743:
1.69 deraadt 4744: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4745: <ul>
1.70 louis 4746:
1.247 jufi 4747: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4748: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
4749: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 4750: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 4751:
4752: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
4753: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
4754: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 4755: <p>
1.70 louis 4756:
1.247 jufi 4757: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4758: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
4759: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 4760: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 4761:
4762: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 4763: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 4764: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 4765: <p>
1.68 louis 4766:
1.247 jufi 4767: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4768: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
4769: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 4770: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 4771: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 4772:
1.111 jufi 4773: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
4774: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 4775: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 4776: "secure by default" installation.
4777: <p>
1.64 louis 4778:
1.247 jufi 4779: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 4780: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 4781: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 4782: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 4783:
1.113 naddy 4784: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 4785: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 4786: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 4787: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
4788: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
4789: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 4790: <p>
1.66 louis 4791:
1.247 jufi 4792: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4793: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 4794: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4795: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 4796:
4797: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 4798: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 4799: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
4800: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
4801: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 4802: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
4803: <p>
1.83 louis 4804:
1.247 jufi 4805: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4806: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 4807: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4808: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 4809:
4810: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 4811: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
4812: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 4813: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
4814: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 4815: <p>
1.64 louis 4816:
1.247 jufi 4817: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4818: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 4819: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4820: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 4821:
4822: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
4823: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 4824: <p>
1.301 jose 4825:
4826: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4827: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
4828: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
4829: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
4830: </strong></font><br>
4831:
4832: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
4833: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
4834: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
4835: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
4836: Giving way to
4837: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
4838: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
4839: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
4840: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
4841: <p>
1.247 jufi 4842: </ul>
1.65 louis 4843:
1.69 deraadt 4844: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4845: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4846:
1.247 jufi 4847: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4848: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 4849: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 4850: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 4851:
4852: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
4853: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
4854: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
4855: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 4856: <p>
1.88 louis 4857:
1.247 jufi 4858: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4859: <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 4860: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 4861:
4862: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 4863: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
4864: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 4865: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
4866: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 4867: <p>
1.60 louis 4868:
1.247 jufi 4869: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 4870: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 4871: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 4872: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 4873: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4874:
4875: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
4876: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
4877: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 4878: <p>
1.58 louis 4879:
1.247 jufi 4880: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 4881: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 4882: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 4883:
4884: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
4885: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 4886: <p>
1.53 louis 4887:
1.247 jufi 4888: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 4889: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
4890: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 4891: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 4892:
4893: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
4894: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
4895: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 4896: <p>
1.99 louis 4897:
1.247 jufi 4898: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 4899: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 4900: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4901:
4902: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
4903: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 4904: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 4905: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 4906: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 4907:
1.247 jufi 4908: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4909: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
4910: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 4911: </strong></font><br>
4912:
4913: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
4914: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
4915: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
4916: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
4917: <p>
4918:
1.247 jufi 4919: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4920: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 4921: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 4922: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4923:
4924: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
4925: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 4926: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 4927:
1.247 jufi 4928: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 4929: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 4930: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 4931:
4932: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 4933: in
1.247 jufi 4934: <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 4935: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 4936: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 4937: <p>
1.53 louis 4938:
1.247 jufi 4939: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4940: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 4941: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
4942: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 4943: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 4944:
1.58 louis 4945: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4946: <p>
1.301 jose 4947:
4948: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4949: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
4950: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
4951: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
4952: Informacyjny, January 2000
4953: </strong></font><br>
4954:
4955: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
4956: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
4957: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
4958: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
4959: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
4960: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
4961: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
4962: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
4963: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
4964: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 4965: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
4966: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 4967: <p>
4968:
4969: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4970: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
4971: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
4972: </strong></font><br>
4973:
4974: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
4975: <p>
4976: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 4977:
1.69 deraadt 4978: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 4979: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4980:
1.247 jufi 4981: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4982: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
4983: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
4984: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 4985: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 4986:
1.58 louis 4987: Kurt Seifried
4988: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
4989: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
4990: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 4991: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 4992:
1.247 jufi 4993: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4994: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 4995: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 4996: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 4997:
4998: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 4999: <p>
1.96 louis 5000:
1.247 jufi 5001: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5002: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
5003: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
5004: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
5005: </strong></font><br>
5006:
5007: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
5008: <p>
5009:
5010: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5011: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 5012: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 5013: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 5014:
5015: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
5016: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 5017: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 5018: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 5019: <p>
1.247 jufi 5020: </ul>
1.86 louis 5021:
1.69 deraadt 5022: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5023: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5024:
1.247 jufi 5025: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 5026: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
5027: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 5028: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 5029:
5030: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
5031: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 5032: <p>
1.61 louis 5033:
1.247 jufi 5034: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5035: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 5036: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
5037: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5038: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 5039:
5040: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 5041: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 5042: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
5043: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 5044: right -- or at least strives to".
5045: <p>
1.48 louis 5046:
1.247 jufi 5047: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 5048: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
5049: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5050: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 5051: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
5052: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
5053: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
5054: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 5055: <p>
1.61 louis 5056:
1.247 jufi 5057: <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 5058: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 5059: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 5060:
5061: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
5062: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
5063: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
5064: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 5065: <p>
1.46 louis 5066:
1.247 jufi 5067: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 5068: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
5069: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 5070: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5071:
5072: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
5073: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 5074: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 5075:
1.247 jufi 5076: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 5077: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
5078: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 5079: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 5080:
5081: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
5082: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
5083: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
5084: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 5085: <p>
1.247 jufi 5086: </ul>
1.70 louis 5087:
1.69 deraadt 5088: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5089: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5090:
1.247 jufi 5091: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5092: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
5093: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 5094: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 5095: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 5096:
5097: Kurt Seifried
5098: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
5099: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
5100: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 5101: <p>
1.44 philen 5102:
1.247 jufi 5103: <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 5104: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 5105: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 5106:
5107: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 5108: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 5109:
1.247 jufi 5110: <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 5111: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 5112: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 5113:
5114: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 5115: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 5116:
1.247 jufi 5117: <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 5118: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 5119: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 5120:
5121: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
5122: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
5123: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
5124: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 5125: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 5126:
1.247 jufi 5127: <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 5128: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 5129: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 5130:
1.36 louis 5131: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 5132: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 5133:
1.247 jufi 5134: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5135: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
1.39 louis 5136: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 5137: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 5138:
5139: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 5140: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 5141: </ul>
1.38 louis 5142:
1.69 deraadt 5143: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5144: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5145:
1.247 jufi 5146: <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 5147: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 5148: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 5149:
5150: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
5151: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 5152: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 5153:
1.113 naddy 5154: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 5155: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 5156: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 5157: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 5158:
5159: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
5160: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 5161: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
5162: terminal:
1.113 naddy 5163: <blockquote>
5164: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
5165: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
5166: <br>
5167: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
5168: </code>
5169: </blockquote>
5170: <p>
5171:
1.247 jufi 5172: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 5173: <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 5174: <p>
5175:
5176: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5177: <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 5178: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 5179:
5180: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
5181: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 5182: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 5183: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 5184:
1.247 jufi 5185: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5186: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
5187: Sept. 28, 1999
5188: </strong></font><br>
5189:
5190: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
5191: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
5192: translating and reprinting articles from
5193: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
5194: <p>
5195:
5196: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 5197: <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 5198: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 5199:
5200: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
5201: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
5202: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
5203: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
5204: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 5205: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 5206: <p>
1.19 louis 5207:
1.113 naddy 5208: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 5209: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 5210: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 5211:
5212: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
5213: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
5214: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 5215: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
5216: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 5217: <p>
1.16 louis 5218:
1.247 jufi 5219: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5220: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 5221: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 5222: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 5223:
1.57 louis 5224: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
5225: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
5226: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 5227: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 5228:
1.247 jufi 5229: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5230: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.466 deraadt 5231: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5232: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5233:
1.113 naddy 5234: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 5235:
1.247 jufi 5236: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 5237: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
5238: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 5239: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 5240:
1.23 louis 5241: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
5242: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
5243: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
5244: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
5245: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 5246: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 5247:
1.247 jufi 5248: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 5249: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
5250: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 5251: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 5252:
1.199 pvalchev 5253: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 5254: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
5255: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
5256: installation.
1.113 naddy 5257: <p>
1.47 louis 5258:
1.247 jufi 5259: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5260: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 5261: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 5262: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5263:
1.301 jose 5264: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
5265: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
5266: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 5267: </ul>
1.57 louis 5268:
1.69 deraadt 5269: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5270: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5271:
1.247 jufi 5272: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 5273: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 5274: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 5275: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 5276:
5277: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
5278: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 5279: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5280: <p>
1.12 louis 5281:
1.247 jufi 5282: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 5283: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 5284: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 5285: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 5286:
5287: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
5288: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 5289: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
5290: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
5291: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
5292: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
5293: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 5294: <p>
1.247 jufi 5295: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 5296:
1.69 deraadt 5297: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5298: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 5299:
1.247 jufi 5300: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 5301: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 5302: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 5303:
5304: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
5305: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
5306: available."
1.113 naddy 5307: <p>
1.301 jose 5308:
5309: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5310: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
5311: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
5312: </strong></font><br>
5313:
5314: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
5315: <p>
1.247 jufi 5316: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 5317:
1.69 deraadt 5318: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5319: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5320:
1.247 jufi 5321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 5322: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 5323: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 5324:
5325: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
5326: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
5327: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
5328: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
5329: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 5330: <p>
1.33 louis 5331:
1.247 jufi 5332: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5333: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 5334: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 5335: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5336:
1.113 naddy 5337: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
5338: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 5339: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
5340: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
5341: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 5342: <p>
1.247 jufi 5343: </ul>
1.57 louis 5344:
1.69 deraadt 5345: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5346: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5347:
1.247 jufi 5348: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5349: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 5350: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 5351: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 5352:
5353: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
5354: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 5355: <p>
1.69 deraadt 5356:
1.247 jufi 5357: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 5358: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
5359: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
5360: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 5361: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 5362:
5363: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 5364: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 5365:
1.247 jufi 5366: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5367: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 5368:
1.113 naddy 5369: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 5370:
1.247 jufi 5371: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5372: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
1.68 louis 5373: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 5374: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 5375:
5376: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 5377: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 5378: </ul>
1.23 louis 5379:
1.69 deraadt 5380: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5381: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5382:
1.247 jufi 5383: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 5384: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 5385: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 5386:
5387: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
5388: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 5389: <p>
1.2 deraadt 5390:
1.247 jufi 5391: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5392: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 5393: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5394: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5395:
5396: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
5397: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 5398: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 5399: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 5400: </ul>
1.57 louis 5401:
1.69 deraadt 5402: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5403: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5404:
1.247 jufi 5405: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5406: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
1.15 louis 5407: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 5408: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 5409:
5410: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
5411: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
5412: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
5413: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5414: <p>
1.15 louis 5415:
1.247 jufi 5416: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 5417: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
5418: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 5419: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5420:
5421: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
5422: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
5423: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
5424: columns."
1.113 naddy 5425: <p>
1.247 jufi 5426: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5427:
1.69 deraadt 5428: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5429: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5430:
1.247 jufi 5431: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5432: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 5433: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 5434: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5435:
5436: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 5437: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 5438:
1.113 naddy 5439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5440: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 5441: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5442:
5443: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
5444: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 5445: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 5446: </ul>
1.57 louis 5447:
1.69 deraadt 5448: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5449: <ul>
1.301 jose 5450: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5451: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
5452: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
5453: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
5454:
5455: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
5456: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
5457: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
5458: <p>
5459:
5460: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5461: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
5462: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
5463: Nov 13, 1998 and
5464: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
5465: Datateknik</a>,
5466: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
5467:
1.380 saad 5468: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 5469: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
5470: explains the licensing issues and points to our
5471: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
5472: <p>
1.69 deraadt 5473:
1.113 naddy 5474: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5475: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 5476: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 5477: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 5478:
1.222 miod 5479: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 5480: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
5481: Implementation, including a brief interview with
5482: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 5483: <p>
1.247 jufi 5484: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5485:
1.69 deraadt 5486: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5487: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5488:
1.247 jufi 5489: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5490: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 5491: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5492:
1.69 deraadt 5493: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
5494: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 5495: <p>
1.247 jufi 5496: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5497:
1.69 deraadt 5498: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5499: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 5500:
1.247 jufi 5501: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 5502: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
5503: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 5504: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5505:
1.383 jcs 5506: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 5507: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 5508: <p>
1.1 deraadt 5509:
1.247 jufi 5510: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 5511: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 5512: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
5513: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 5514: <p>
1.247 jufi 5515: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5516:
1.69 deraadt 5517: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5518: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5519:
1.247 jufi 5520: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5521: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 5522: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
5523: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 5524: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 5525: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 5526:
5527: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
5528: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
5529: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 5530: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 5531: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 5532: <p>
1.247 jufi 5533: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 5534:
5535: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5536: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5537:
1.247 jufi 5538: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5539: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 5540: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 5541:
1.69 deraadt 5542: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
5543: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 5544: <p>
1.112 naddy 5545:
1.247 jufi 5546: </ul>
1.113 naddy 5547: <p>
1.1 deraadt 5548:
1.292 camield 5549: <hr>
1.216 horacio 5550: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 5551: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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