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1.1 deraadt 18:
1.531 ! ian 19: <h2>July, 2006</h2>
! 20: <ul>
! 21: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
! 22: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/case-studies--profiles/founder-breathes-the-open-air/2006/07/17/1152988468274.html">
! 23: Founder breathes the Open air</a>, The Age, July 18, 2006
! 24: </strong></font><br>
! 25: Subtitled "Hiking in exotic climes is a brain adventure for the founder of OpenBSD", this is
! 26: as much about hiking and learning new symbols as about software, but our leader
! 27: manages to do both, and bring both into the interview.
! 28: The article quotes Theo as saying
! 29: "Another major lesson I have learnt is that most people only care
! 30: about things working for themselves, and thus it is very easy in a
! 31: group to build poorly thought-out solutions. It is very simple to
! 32: write small hacks and end up with unmaintainable systems in the long term."
! 33: Describes the hackathons as an important part of the project's process
! 34: and describes the funding issues as well.
! 35: <p>
! 36:
! 37: </ul>
! 38:
1.525 ian 39: <h2>June, 2006</h2>
40: <ul>
41: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.530 ian 42: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=472693&rl=1">
43: Alternatives to LAMP</a>, informit.com, June 2, 2006
44: </strong></font><br>
45: While "Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP" get most of the attention,
46: there are alternatives to each that are, in some way, better.
47: David Chisnal starts this article with a look at OS alternatives,
48: and OpenBSD gets the most detailed coverage, including this:
49: "When it comes to security, OpenBSD has a well-earned reputation
50: as the operating system for the truly paranoid. The entire kernel
51: and base system, including the OpenBSD fork of Apache, undergoes a
52: constant auditing process. The OpenBSD attitude is that any bug is
53: potentially exploitable, and when a bug is found by the auditing
54: team the next step is to attempt to remove every single occurrence
55: of that category of bug. This approach leads to an incredibly secure
56: system." Also talks about our pioneering use of W^X and the
57: "incredibly powerful and easy to configure" packet filter, pf.
58: <p>
59:
60: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.527 ian 61: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article8785.phtml">
1.525 ian 62: Microsoft adopts open-source security feature</a>, OSDir.com, June 1, 2006
63: </strong></font><br>
64: Microsoft borrows one of OpenBSD's security features for Vista, stack/library randomization,
65: under the name Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR).
66: "Until now, the feature has been most prominently used in the OpenBSD Unix variant and
67: the PaX and Exec Shield security patches for Linux"
68: (despite the article's title, there is nothing open-source about Microsoft's implementation).
69: <p>
70:
1.526 ian 71: </ul>
1.525 ian 72:
1.514 ian 73: <h2>May, 2006</h2>
74: <ul>
1.524 ian 75: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
76: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6650">
77: OpenBSD: wpi, A Blob Free Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Driver</a>, KernelTrap, May 28, 2006
78: </strong></font><br>
79: Damien Bergamini wrote OpenBSD's all-open-source driver for the Intel Pro/Wireless,
80: a sharp contrast to other projects' bogus "open source" drivers that are just wrappers around
81: a "binary blob" (source code not available, sorry) provided by the vendor.
82: "His announcement came a little over two months after Intel released
83: the controversial ipw3945 driver for Linux which included
84: a binary-only daemon described as necessary for enforcing regulatory
85: limits for the radio transmitter on the wireless device."
86: Bergamini's work proves yet again that vendors don't have to obscure their products
87: to make them useful.
88: <p>
1.518 ian 89:
90: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.520 ian 91: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/openbsd/c2k6/who1">
1.523 ian 92: c2k6, Who's Who At the 2006 OpenBSD Hackathon, Part I</a>
93: and
94: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6662">Part II</a>,
1.522 ian 95: KernelTrap, May 28, 2006
1.520 ian 96: </strong></font><br>
1.521 deraadt 97: Jeremy Andrews visited our developers at the Hackathon and gives
1.523 ian 98: a brief but colorful summary of most of the team members:
1.520 ian 99: why they chose OpenBSD, how they got involved, what they do, and
100: their plans for the week.
101: <p>
102:
103: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.523 ian 104: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/05/22/OpenBSD-on-Flash.html">
105: Installing OpenBSD on Flash</a>,
106: Ping Wales, May 22, 2006
107: </strong></font><br>
108: David Chisnall shows how to set up an OpenBSD boot image for
109: Soekris or PC Engines machines that boot from flash memory.
110: <p>
111:
112: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.520 ian 113: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/eur/article.php/3603961">
114: Enterprise Unix Roundup: Whither BSD?</a>, ServerWatch, May 5, 2006
115: </strong></font><br>
116: Amy Newman and Brian Proffitt state that the BSDs are often overlooked
117: because of their limited commercial acceptance.
118: The authors call this an unfortunate oversight, because recent releases of
119: the freely available BSD flavors show significant technical improvements.
1.523 ian 120: As an example, they specifically refer to OpenBSD's sensor framework
1.520 ian 121: (introduced with 3.9).
122: Newman and Proffitt also accuse big vendors of picking the nice parts from
123: the BSDs' code and giving nothing back to the community in return.
124: <p>
125:
126: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.518 ian 127: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/35/1/">
128: OpenBSD 3.9 Review</a>, Software In Review, May 3, 2006
129: </strong></font><br>
130: Jem Matzan takes the 3.9 release out for a spin, and likes it.
131: Noting that each release consists of a lot of small changes
132: and some major improvements - and mentioning hardware support, sensors,
133: and "blob removal" - he clearly thinks the project is doing a lot of things right.
134: "Everything you get in the release is production-ready, secure by
135: default... and comes with possibly the finest integrated documentation
136: in the Unix-clone world. While you might find a poorly programmed
137: driver or other base system component in other BSDs and GNU/Linux
138: distributions, in OpenBSD if something is supported, it works."
139: <p>
140:
141: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
142: [GERMAN]
143: <a href="http://www.linux-magazin.de/Artikel/ausgabe/2006/06/news_zut/news_zut.html">
144: Mozilla greift OpenBSD unter die Arme</a>, Linux Magazin, Issue 06/06, May 2006, p. 18
145: </strong></font><br>
146: The German <a href="http://www.linux-magazin.de/">Linux Magazin</a> has a short
147: article about OpenBSD's financial situation and Marco Peerebroom's
148: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060321034114">call for donations</a>
149: on undeadly.org. The article further mentions how OpenSSH development
150: is connected to OpenBSD.
151: <p>
152:
1.514 ian 153: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
154: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6550">
155: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, KernelTrap, May 2, 2006
156: </strong></font><br>
157: Jeremy Andrews conducts a free-ranging interview, focused mainly on 3.9 and drivers,
158: that gives Theo a chance to explain how the big North American chip vendors'
159: business practices make it harder for open source projects,
1.515 ian 160: talk about "binary blobs" vs firmware in drivers, and more.
1.514 ian 161: There's also coverage of where the project is going up to and after 3.9 and where
1.516 steven 162: it might (or might not) go in the future, why doing things right (and
1.514 ian 163: running this project) is so important to Theo,
164: and even why he does mountain biking!
165: <p>
166:
167: </ul>
168:
1.503 ian 169: <h2>April, 2006</h2>
170: <ul>
171: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.512 ian 172: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6557">
173: OpenBSD 3.9: Blob-Busters Interviewed</a>, OnLAMP, April 27, 2006
174: </strong></font><br>
175: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several of the developers on improvements
176: in 3.9: the continuing absence of "blob drivers", IPMI and sensors, apmd performance
177: adjustment, Macs, rthreads, multicast, trunk, hostapd, and more.
1.513 saad 178: jsg clarifies the issue of "binary blob" drivers vs "firmware", and
1.512 ian 179: discusses the NVIDIA nForce Ethernet driver he did after NVIDIA did refuse
180: to give out documentation; they can't stop us, but they can slow us down.
181: The result: "There aren't any drivers in OpenBSD with binary-only components;
182: this is quite a contrast to pretty much everyone else out there."
183: marco comments on the IPMI work in 3.9, and adds:
184: "IPMI is a standard, but there are vendors out there
1.513 saad 185: that have reading comprehension issues...".
1.512 ian 186: A long list of other developers explain their contributions
187: and other changes that make 3.9 one of our best releases yet.
188: <p>
189:
190: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.517 mbalmer 191: [GERMAN]
192: <a href="http://www.guug.de/uptimes/index.html">
193: Stop BLOB!</a>, UpTimes, April 25, 2006
194: </strong></font><br>
195: Wilhelm Bühler gives an overview in a short article about Blobs, what they
196: are and why they are bad.
197: <p>
198:
199: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.508 ian 200: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/34/1/">
201: Using OpenBSD</a>, Software In Review, April 24, 2006
202: </strong></font><br>
203: Jem Matzan gives a brief overview of using the system.
204: Covers ports and packages, use of SMP kernel, and more.
205: Capsule summary of how our security policy affects the administrator:
206: "Because it is secure by default, you may have to do more initial
207: configuration with OpenBSD than with most other Unix and Unix-like
208: operating systems, but you'll spend a lot less time securing it --
209: maybe no time at all, if you follow the instructions in the manual
210: pages."
211: <p>
212:
213: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.519 ian 214: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/16/1749215.shtml?tid=8">
215: Using OpenBSD on the desktop</a>, NewsForge, April 21, 2006
216: </strong></font><br>
217: Considers the use of OpenBSD as a desktop operating system,
218: starting with "Secure by default" - who wants to have their desktop hacked? -
219: and continues:
220: "OpenBSD's clean code and design also provide rock-solid stability.
221: I used to have lots of problems and crashes with new versions of
222: Linux (kernel 2.6.x) and FreeBSD (versions 5.x and 6.x). The main
223: focus of OpenBSD developers is to provide programs that work ...
224: [they] prefer to improve their code rather than just
225: add more new features and end up with a bloated and unstable product."
226: Covers X, ports/packages, window managers, what is and is not supported,
227: and more. Final thought:
228: "OpenBSD's clean design and remarkable stability, along with its
229: proactive security, not only make OpenBSD a potential candidate for
230: home desktop users but also every system administrator's dream come
231: true for business environments."
232: <p>
233:
234: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.511 djm 235: [FRENCH]
1.509 djm 236: <a href="http://developpeur.journaldunet.com/itws/060419-itw-openssh-openbsd-miller.shtml">
1.511 djm 237: JDN Développeurs interviews Damien Miller</a>,
1.509 djm 238: JDN Développeurs, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
239: Interview with Damien Miller, discussing OpenSSH security, the OpenBSD
240: development approach, the problem of blobby drivers and the recent request
1.510 djm 241: for funding.
1.509 djm 242: <p>
243:
244: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.507 cloder 245: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6497">
246: Interview with developers Jonathan Gray and Damien Bergamini</a>,
247: Kerneltrap, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
248: An interview with the authors of OpenBSD's new NVIDIA Ethernet driver. OpenBSD's
249: policy forbidding binary driver blobs is discussed, and the developers give a good
250: overview of how they went about implementing the new driver.
251: <p>
252:
253: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.528 ian 254: <a href="http://www.thehostingnews.com/article2217.html">GoDaddy.com
255: Donates $10K to Open Source Development Project</a>,
256: The Hosting News, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
257: GoDaddy.com, which claims to be "the Number One registrar of domain
258: names worldwide", recently donated $10,000 to the OpenSSH project
259: because, "according to the company, OpenSSH has become a staple
260: of all free Unix and Linux operating systems in the world."
261: They use it, and their customers use it, and they recognize the
262: value of supporting an open source projects that is, as company
263: CEO Bob Parsons says, "integral to online security".
264: <br/>
1.529 ian 265: Similar articles at
1.528 ian 266: <a href="http://www.hostsearch.com/news/the_go_daddy_group_news_4366.asp">
1.529 ian 267: hostsearch.com</a> and
268: <a href="http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20060419090443506">
269: LinuxElectrons.com</a>
1.528 ian 270: <p>
271:
272: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.506 aanriot 273: [FRENCH] Principles and usage of OpenSSH,
274: <a href="http://www.gnulinuxmag.com/">Linux Magazine France</a>,
275: issue 82, April 2006, p. 28-33
276: </strong></font><br>
277: A 6 pages article from Alexandre Courbot focusses on OpenSSH and its
1.507 cloder 278: basics. It begins with an history of the different implementations, and
1.506 aanriot 279: is punctuated with examples.
280: Tunneling features are described, as well as
281: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=0">scp</a>,
282: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent&sektion=0">ssh-agent</a>,
283: and
284: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=0">sftp</a>.
285: <p>
286:
287: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.503 ian 288: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71658">
289: Mozilla Foundation spendet für OpenBSD</a>, heise online, April 4, 2006
290: </strong></font><br>
291: Short article mentioning the donation the Mozilla Foundation made in support of
292: further OpenSSH development.
293: The article emphasizes the opportunity to wire money through the project's
294: new European account - this one donation will not meet the
295: project's funding needs for all time.
296: <p>
1.504 bernd 297: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
298: [GERMAN] "OpenBSD mit finanziellen Problemen", c't 8/06, p. 45.,
299: April 3, 2006
300: </strong></font><br>
301: A very short article about OpenBSD's financial problems. They mention that
302: this could compromise future hackathons.
303: <p>
1.503 ian 304:
305: </ul>
306:
1.487 ian 307: <h2>March, 2006</h2>
308: <ul>
1.495 ian 309: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.500 ian 310: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/theo_interview.html">
1.501 ian 311: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>, DaemonNews, March, 2006
1.500 ian 312: </strong></font><br>
313: Chris Silva conducts a lightweight but wide-ranging and fun interview with Theo
314: on topics including "Puffy",
315: the logos used by certain other BSD projects -
316: Theo quips that "I really like how they make absolutely no statement at all" -
317: what's new in 3.9,
318: and of course project expenses.
319: Theo notes that "The electric bill is about $100 USD per week".
320: <!--
321: ... must be what comes from heating your house with VAXen.
322: -->
323: The interviewer nicely ends with a link to our donations page.
324: <p>
325:
326: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 327: <a href="http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/239/1/">
328: Linux supporters fiddle while OpenSSH burns</a>, The Jem Report, March 28, 2006
329: </strong></font><br>
1.499 ian 330: This write-up focusses on OpenBSD/OpenSSH funding, and has some
331: original legwork to go with it.
1.498 ian 332: Writer Jem Matzan took the trouble to
333: contact many of the companies who charge a lot for products
334: featuring OpenSSH and yet give nothing to OpenSSH in return.
335: Companies like SCO, IBM, Apple, and Sun.
336: Sun apparently did the worst job of responding:
337: "Since the release of Solaris 10, who has been a larger open source
338: software cheerleader than Sun Microsystems?", Matzan asks. "I asked Sun
339: representatives what they would do if OpenSSH were to disappear. The only response
340: I got was that there are parts of Solaris that compete with OpenSSH,
341: and that because of this, the company would rather not comment
342: further on the issue." What the Sun teleprompter-readers don't seem to realize -
343: but Matzan does - is that
344: <a href="http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/cmd/ssh/ssh/ssh.c">
345: SunSSH <em>is</em> OpenSSH</a>.
346: Or, at least, a mangled version of it...
347: IBM, on the other hand, is still trying to formulate their response.
348: <br/>
349: <p>
350:
351: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
352: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/20/2050223.shtml?tid=8">
353: Interview: Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD</a>, NewsForge, March 28, 2006
354: </strong></font><br>
355: A wide-ranging interview with Theo about new stuff in 3.9, security, funding,
356: "blob" drivers, and more.
357: Theo notes that "We've had 10 years of nearly fanatical devotion
358: to anything which can make OpenBSD more secure. A very important
359: part of that is that we have not been afraid to completely overhaul
360: anything even if it breaks backward compatibility. Secondly, when
361: we have found a flaw in any part of the system we have assumed that
362: the same mistake was made elsewhere, and gone on a hunt to fix them
363: all. Thirdly, we have developed and incorporated a collection of
364: methods that make software flaws very difficult to attack..."
365: Ends by trying to shame the companies that use OpenSSH without contributing
366: anything back - Sun is given especial mention here - and ends with
367: the tantalizing line ".. if an OpenSSH hole is found that applies to SunSSH,
368: Sun will not be informed. Or maybe that has happened already." Hmmmm.
369: <p>
370:
371: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 372: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259254,00.htm">
373: OpenBSD 3.9 adds sensor framework</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
374: </strong></font><br>
375: It's easy to focus on our project's security, but we innovate in other areas too.
376: This article highlights the "sensors" framework added in 3.9 to provide and integrated
377: approach to handling Dell PowerEdge servers' Embedded Server Management (ESM), IPMI, and
378: in general temperature and environmental issues.
379: "There is a significant new sensor framework [in OpenBSD 3.9], which
380: supports voltage sensors, fan sensors, temperature sensors, and so
381: on," said de Raadt. "Such a feature is still missing in Linux and
382: other major operating systems." ...
383: De Raadt has already been using the sensor framework to monitor the
384: machines running in
385: <a href="images/newrack.jpg">the project's server room</a>. "I now get a call
386: on my cell phone whenever something is wrong in the machine room,"
387: <p>
388:
389: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
390: <a href="http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/other/0,39020682,39259281,00.htm">
391: Paying for free software may be the bargain of a lifetime</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
392: </strong></font><br>
393: Starts with a Theo quote from the previous article on ZDNet:
394: "A culture of entitlement is starting to damage the open source community".
395: The article argues that mega-computer-companies that use open source tend to use BSD:
396: "The open BSDs may be less famous than Linux, but they are arguably
397: superior in stability and security. This has made it popular in
398: ISPs and elsewhere - Apple, for example, adopted BSD within OS X.
399: BSD, unlike software released under the GPL, carrys no legal
400: obligations for the adopter to provide anything for the community in return."
401: Goes on to argue that these companies <em>ought</em> to be fair enough
402: to send a small bit of their money back into funding open source.
403: "In the time it takes to read this article, we calculate that Apple
404: will have easily made enough to pay-off OpenBSD's annual losses,
405: with a little left over to buy black turtlenecks for all. It's not
406: just Apple's baby - other companies owe far more to OpenBSD - but
407: in open source a little symbolism goes a long way."
408: <p>
409:
1.487 ian 410: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.494 bernd 411: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71174">
412: OpenBSD muss an den Sparstrumpf</a>, heise online, March 23, 2006
413: </strong></font><br>
1.495 ian 414: OpenBSD is touching its savings - Small news article about the project's
1.494 bernd 415: financial situation.
416: <p>
417:
418: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 419: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259042,00.htm">
420: OpenBSD Founder Makes Funding Plea</a>, ZDNet UK, March 23, 2006
421: </strong></font><br>
422: One of the first mainstream sites to pick up on Marco's article (below),
423: this one reports the funding figures on how much it really costs to
424: produce our favorite operating system.
425: "Although OpenBSD has a number of commercial users, including many
426: ISPs, de Raadt claimed that all of its donations come from individuals
427: rather than companies many of who claim the have no budget to pay
428: for the operating system. "The culture of entitlement is starting
429: to damage the open source community," he said."
1.496 ian 430: <br/>
431: Also online at
432: <a href="http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/software/stories/135760.html">ZDNet India</a>.
433: <p>
434:
435: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
436: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/03/22/OpenBSD-money.html">
437: OpenBSD in Financial Trouble</a>, Ping Wales, March 21, 2006
438: </strong></font><br>
439: David Chisnall reports that "OpenBSD is one of my favourite platforms;
440: its focus on security and ease-of-use makes it a very simple and
441: safe system to use. Unfortunately, the OpenBSD organisation is now
442: experiencing financial difficulty. For the last two years, the
443: project has made a $20,000/year loss, something which it cannot
444: sustain indefinitely."
445: Goes on to report on the growing use of OpenBSD in commercial software
446: (and hardware!), and that none of the "big guys" has given anything back.
447: Unlike most of the articles on this topic, this one is kind enough to
448: include a direct link to our orders page and recommend its readers
449: to buy a copy of the CD to help fund the project.
1.495 ian 450: <p>
451:
452: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 453: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/06/03/21/1555243.shtml">
454: OpenBSD Project in Financial Danger</a>, Slashdot, March 21, 2006
455: </strong></font><br>
456: Slashdot mentions and quotes from Marco's article (below),
457: with a reminder that
458: "The OpenBSD team is the one that also develops the OpenSSH suite,
459: used nowadays almost everywhere."
460: Ends with this quote from Marco:
461: "Without naming entities or projects by name, there are others out
462: there that are sitting on some cash. It would be wonderful if these
463: entities could share some of the wealth to keep us going."
464: <p>
465:
466: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.505 grunk 467: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060321034114">
1.495 ian 468: OpenBSD Finances</a>, OpenBSD Journal, March 21, 2006
469: </strong></font><br>
470: Marco Peereboom's article notes that
471: "OpenBSD for the past 2 years has turned a loss of approximately $20K USD" per year.
472: Hackathons - where a lot of developers get together in critical mass and churn out
473: new ideas and new code in great quantity - cost from US$10K-30K each, and we try to run
474: a few of them each year.
475: Meanwhile, compananies that use OpenBSD and companies - many of them highly profitable -
476: that incorporate OpenSSH into operating systems and even routers and other appliances
477: have not been forthcoming: no major computer company has given funding
478: to the OpenBSD project.
479: It's time for them to do so.
480: <p>
481:
482: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.497 ian 483: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/08/1646257.shtml?tid=8">
484: Software RAID on OpenBSD using RAIDframe</a>, NewsForge, March 14, 2006
485: </strong></font><br>
486: "Software RAID provides an easy way to add redundancy or speed up a system
487: without spending lots of money on a RAID adapter."
488: Manolis Tzanidakis talks us through setting up RAID using OpenBSD.
489: He describes the detailed steps, and recommends careful testing
490: before putting the system into production, including taking one disk
491: out of service and ensuring that it gets reloaded correctly.
492: Ends with a technique for monitoring clean operation on an ongoing basis.
493: <p>
494:
495: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.489 deraadt 496: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">Report on Business Television</a>
497: March 10, 5:45pm MST</strong></font><br>
1.490 deraadt 498: Theo de Raadt was interviewed by Howard Green on <b>The Business Show</b>:<br>
499: <!-- North America mirror:
500: <a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB avi file</a>
1.491 deraadt 501: -->
1.490 deraadt 502: European mirror:
503: <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/20060310/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB AVI file</a>
504: <br>
505: A longer segment is also available at <a href="http://www.robtv.ca">www.robtv.ca</a>.
1.489 deraadt 506: <p>
507:
508: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.487 ian 509: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/openbgpd.html">OpenBGPd in OpenBSD</a>
510: Daemon News, March, 2006</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 511: Check out the notes and slides from Henning Brauer's presentation at
1.487 ian 512: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0602/">NANOG 36</a>;
513: the text and questions cover everything from how and why OpenBGPd got created,
514: through configuration and tools, to integration with pf and CARP,
515: to technical issues regarding use of IPSEC to provide security for BGP packets.
516: Along the way there's considerable discussion on how the program was
517: designed to provide reliability and security.
518: <p>
519:
520: </ul>
521:
1.485 ian 522: <h2>February, 2006</h2>
523: <ul>
524: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.486 ian 525: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1859">Zero to IPSec in 4 minutes</a>
526: Security Focus, February 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
527: This article, as its lead-in says,
1.497 ian 528: "looks at how to get a fully functional IPSec VPN up and running between two fresh OpenBSD
1.486 ian 529: installations in about four minutes flat".
530: If you've shied away from setting up an IPSEC VPN because of config file complexity,
531: now is the time to reconsider.
1.497 ian 532: Dragos Ruiu shows you how the ipsecctl command (introduced to the world in OpenBSD 3.8)
1.486 ian 533: makes it really easy to set up a VPN between consenting OpenBSD machines.
534: He states that he and a colleague were able to get two machines talking over IPSEC
535: in a few minutes, and only changing a few configuration files.
536: He also comments on the relative ease of installing our favorite OS, and hopes
537: that our ipsecctl will be adopted by the other BSDs (hopefully in a compatible way)
538: to make firewall setups easier all around the network.
539: But you don't need to wait for that if you're running OpenBSD 3.8; just follow
540: the steps in the article.
541: <p>
542:
543: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.485 ian 544: <a href="http://www.networkmagazineindia.com/200602/vendorvoice02.shtml">The Worm in the Machine</a>
545: Network Magazine India, February 2006</strong></font><br>
546: Dilip Ranade elaborates on several reasons why software is drearily buggy and endlessly insecure,
547: particularly in comparison with other technologies.
548: Imagines how very bad shape the automotive industry would be in if you had to sign the
549: same disclaimer of (non-)usability that almost every commercial EULA requires of computer users.
550: Ends with "I once dreamt that all the computer users in the world
551: arose in revolt and switched to hardened OpenBSD", though he admits that there's "fat chance" of it
552: happening in real life.
553: <p>
554:
555: </ul>
556:
1.492 ian 557: <h2>January, 2006</h2>
558: <ul>
559: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
560: <a href="http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2006/01/28.html">Kevin Mitnick on
561: Coast to Coast AM Radio Show with Art Bell</a>, Jan 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
562: Art Bell interviewed Kevin Mitnick on his call-in show;
563: Paul Zacharzewski from Edmonton called to ask Mitnick for his opinion of OpenBSD.
564: If you don't want to download the whole show from coasttocoastam.com,
565: you can listen to an
1.497 ian 566: <a href="http://unworkable.org/misc/mitnick.mp3">MP3 excerpt of this call</a>
1.492 ian 567: in which Mitnick says: "Well, I actually use OpenBSD, so I do like it".
568: </ul>
569:
1.483 ian 570: <h2>December, 2005</h2>
571: <ul>
572: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.484 djm 573: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/375/1">OpenSSH cutting edge</a>
574: SecurityFocus, December 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
575: Federico Biancuzzi interviews OpenSSH developer Damien Miller to discuss
576: features included in the upcoming version 4.3, public key crypto
577: protocols details, timing based attacks and anti-worm measures.
578: <p>
579:
580: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 581: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/11/21/175249.shtml?tid=92&tid=78">Creating
1.483 ian 582: Secure Wireless Access Points with OpenBSD and OpenVPN</a>
583: NewsForge, December 13, 2005</strong></font><br>
584: A cookbook approach to setting up a wireless interface as a secure Access Point
585: using OpenBSD's hostap, pf, and authpf.
586: Configuration examples are given with basic explanations and links
587: to sites with more information on most topics.
588: <p>
589:
590: </ul>
591:
592:
1.479 grunk 593: <h2>November, 2005</h2>
594: <ul>
595: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 596: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20051116145737">OpenBSD
1.482 ian 597: Goes to Venice</a>,
598: OpenBSD Journal, November 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 599: "What happens when you put a dozen developers on a little island with their
1.482 ian 600: laptops, power, and an internet connection?
601: <br/>
602: During the first week of November some OpenBSD developers met in a
603: little island in Venice's lagoon to hack on the ports system.
604: This was probably the first ports hackathon and was followed by
1.497 ian 605: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON</a>, a European conference
1.482 ian 606: fully dedicated to OpenBSD..."
607: Great coverage of the OpenBSD Porting Hackathon: people, ports, beer, ...
608: Contains a link to
609: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ven05-pvalchev/mgp00008.html">
610: pval's summary slides</a>.
611: <p>
612:
613: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.481 niallo 614: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1710223">
615: Trying out the new OpenBSD 3.8</a>,
616: NewsForge, November 11, 2005</strong></font><br>
617: This article describes the installation of OpenBSD 3.8 from a Linux user's
618: perspective, noting the simple elegance of the installer.
619: Although the installation process may be hard to get used to at first for
620: the average Linux user, the author tells us that one can learn a lot from
621: it. Furthermore, the article clears up the common misconception that working
1.497 ian 622: on an OpenBSD system is very different from working on a Linux system.
1.481 niallo 623: In particular, the author states that on OpenBSD, <i>"virtually the entire
624: catalog of familiar free and open source software titles is available through
625: the packages and ports system"</i>.
626: <p>
627:
628: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
629: <a href="http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3561526">
630: Return of The BSDs</a>,
631: internetnews.com, November 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
632: This article mentions that with all three major BSD flavors having had
633: a release this fall, BSD is <i>"still very much alive and kicking among
634: all the noise and buzz created by Linux"</i>. The author talks about
635: various new or improved features of 3.8, such as bioctl(8), hostapd(8),
636: network interface aggregation and sasyncd(8), and there are some
637: quotes from Bob Beck.
638: <p>
639:
640: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.479 grunk 641: <a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/051101/152/fvrlx.html">
642: OpenBSD 3.8 improves hardware support</a>,
643: ZDNet UK, November 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.480 ian 644: This article reports on OpenBSD 3.8, which was released on November 1.
645: The author gives an overview of the improvements and new
1.479 grunk 646: features that were made with 3.8, and quotes Theo on RAID management
647: and Linux.<br>
648: The 3.8 release hit the news also in some other places:
649: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1258232">Slashdot</a>
650: and <a href="http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=12482">OSNews</a>
651: also report about it, mostly repeating parts
652: of the release
653: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/ANNOUNCEMENT">ANNOUNCEMENT</a>.
654: <p>
655: </ul>
656:
1.476 ian 657: <h2>October, 2005</h2>
658: <ul>
659:
660: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
661: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1375194866;fp;16;fpid;0">
662: 'Nightmare' drove desperate user to open source</a>,
663: Computerworld, October 24, 2005</strong></font><br>
664: A great tale of how Mark Uemura of PricewaterhouseCoopers Japan
665: was forced to move to OpenBSD because the alternatives were too costly
666: and too unreliable.
667: This quote will rattle some cages:
668: "IT managers who want to deploy an open source solution but are
669: worried about company politics should go ahead and do it without
670: asking," according to Uemura, who was promoted to IT Manager of PWC Japan
671: after saving the company seven IT-samurais' salaries.
672: Further, "In Japan large organizations like Morgan Stanley and the
673: Bank of America have moved all their backend systems to open source,
674: Uemura said, because with open source you can reduce IT operating
675: costs without any commercial lock-in."
676: <p>
677:
1.477 saad 678: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
679: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6270">
680: OpenBSD 3.8: Hackers of the Lost RAID</a>,
681: ONLamp.com, October 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
682: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
683: new features in OpenBSD 3.8 including interface trunking,
684: internationalization support, Inter-Access Point Protocol (IAPP),
685: IPSec SA synchronization daemon, and RAID management. There is also some
686: discussion about future plans.
687: <p>
688:
1.478 grunk 689: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
690: <a href="http://securityfocus.com/columnists/361">
691: OpenBSD's network stack</a>,
692: SecurityFocus, October 12, 2005</strong></font><br>
693: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about OpenBSD's
694: network stack, including protection against ICMP attacks, and propagation
695: of enhancements into other BSDs and into Linux.
696: The interview also features the other protection mechanisms in the network
697: stack, a comparison to the network stack in Linux, and the history and
698: current status of <a href="http://www.openbgpd.org/">OpenBGPD</a>.
699: <p>
700:
1.476 ian 701: </ul>
702:
1.470 saad 703: <h2>September, 2005</h2>
704: <ul>
705:
706: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.474 niallo 707: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/359">
708: Security-related innovation in Unix</a>,
709: SecurityFocus, Sept. 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
710: An article examining the mmap-based malloc() implementation to be
711: included in OpenBSD 3.8. The author states that <i>"it will help OpenBSD
712: users to find bugs in software more easily, which will result in better
713: applications for everyone"</i>. He goes on to say that <i>"the more hurdles
714: that one has to jump through for good security, the less likely people will
715: go through the trouble. OpenBSD allows even the most inexperienced users to
716: take advantage of these technologies without any effort"</i>.
717: <p>
718:
719: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.473 aanriot 720: <a href="http://www.miscmag.com/articles/index.php3?page=2100">
721: [FRENCH] Champ libre : les chantiers OpenBSD</a>
722: Misc, number 21, Sept/Oct, 2005, p. 4-14</strong></font><br>
723: An interesting article about OpenBSD and associated projects. Saad Kadhi
724: and Guillaume Arcas describe useful things you can do with PF and
725: OpenSSH, and give a nice introduction to OpenNTPD and OpenCVS. If the
726: article is focused on the presentation, you can find some interesting
727: technical aspects people are not always acquainted to. A few examples
728: are shown, like a basic CARP setup, or the manner to use multiplexing
729: with OpenSSH and even how to check an OpenSSH server's keys using DNS.
730: <p>
731:
732: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 733: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/news/11306">
734: Big debate over small packets</a>,
735: SecurityFocus, Sept. 7, 2005</strong></font><br>
736: Robert Lemos discusses the ICMP denial-of-service vulnerabilities found
737: by Fernando Gont and fixed in OpenBSD. To date, OpenBSD is the only
738: system that has implemented all of the fixes recommended in the IETF
739: draft.
740: <p>
741:
742: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.471 saad 743: <a href="http://www.pcexpert.fr/">
744: [FRENCH] "Quel est le meilleur système libre pour votre
745: ordinateur ?"</a>,
746: PC Expert, number 156, p. 42-62</strong></font><br>
747: Philippe Roure compares 11 Linux and *BSD operating systems, including
748: OpenBSD 3.7, on different criteria such as security, documentation and
749: usability. OpenBSD earned a 5/5 mark (see pages 60-61) and while a mark
750: isn't necessarily objective, the author seems to grasp the OpenBSD
751: project, its goals, and how good is the operating system. The article
752: includes an interview with Saad Kadhi.
753: <p>
754:
755: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.470 saad 756: <a href="http://www.samag.com/articles/2005/0509/">
757: Monitoring PF Firewalls for Health and Performance</a>,
758: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 9, p. 37</strong></font><br>
759: Ryan Matteson describes several utilities that can be used to monitor the
760: health and performance of a PF firewall. Besides pfctl, the article
761: covers pftop, fwanalog, monitoring logs with tcpdump and graphing
762: performance data with pfstat.
763: <p>
764:
765: </ul>
766:
1.461 grunk 767: <h2>July, 2005</h2>
768: <ul>
769:
770: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.466 deraadt 771: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5382">
772: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part III</a>,
1.467 grunk 773: Kerneltrap, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.466 deraadt 774: Jeremy Andrews writes about the recent Blind ICMP attacks discovered
775: by Fernando Gont, and the fixes done by him and OpenBSD during the
776: 2005 Hackathon.
1.469 ian 777: The article goes into the technical background of the
1.467 grunk 778: attacks, mentioning blind ICMP attacks, "hard" ICMP errors, source
1.469 ian 779: quenching, and path MTU discovery;
780: many helpful RFCs and technical papers are linked from the explanations.
781: This is followed by a recap of the whole ICMP story, involving Gont's
1.467 grunk 782: struggle with other free projects, Cisco lawyers, Microsoft people,
783: and others.<br>
1.469 ian 784: The article concludes that OpenBSD was the first project
1.467 grunk 785: to take Fernando Gont's findings seriously, and also the first group to
786: be really painless to work with.
1.466 deraadt 787: <p>
788:
789: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.464 grunk 790: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/06/security_blame/">
791: Security meltdown: who's to blame?</a>,
1.466 deraadt 792: The Register, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.464 grunk 793: This article talks about various groups that are frequently blamed for
794: poor security:
1.467 grunk 795: individuals, ISPs, companies, crackers, security mailing lists,
1.464 grunk 796: and last but not least: OS vendors!
1.467 grunk 797: In the last paragraph, OpenBSD's style of <i>"dumbed-down, simplified
1.464 grunk 798: and secure systems (with a heavily audited code base)"</i> is described
799: as <i>"one of the smartest approaches to security"</i>.
800: <p>
801:
802: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.461 grunk 803: <a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-7-5/30084.html">
804: Theo de Raadt on Industry and Free Software</a>,
1.466 deraadt 805: The Epoch Times, July 5, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.463 tom 806: In this interview, Theo talks about the inception of the OpenBSD project
807: and its goals, as well as its impact on the commercial IT industry.
1.461 grunk 808: He points out once more that <i>"vendors who incorporate OpenSSH have
809: given us absolutely nothing back - not a cent"</i>.
810: Other topics covered include the OpenBSD team, Theo's role as
811: <i>"benevolent dictator"</i>, and the security process, which he compares
812: to the security efforts led by other free software projects and some
813: commercial vendors.
814: <p>
815:
816: </ul>
817:
1.454 ian 818: <h2>June, 2005</h2>
819: <ul>
1.468 grunk 820:
821: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
822: <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/ns-ttc062205.php">
823: The true cost of computer crime</a>,
824: EurekAlert / <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/">New Scientist Magazine</a>,
825: issue June 25, 2005</strong></font><br>
826: This article looks at computer crime, especially the way upcoming
827: vulnerability reports are dealt with. It also gives a short overview of the
1.469 ian 828: institutions involved in the process (vendors, free projects, CERTs).
1.468 grunk 829: <br>
830: The author mentions the work of Andy Ozment, who researches vulnerability
831: disclosure at the University of Cambridge. Using OpenBSD as a good example
832: of how disclosure and consequent fixing of bugs helps to strengthen security,
833: he refutes the widely spread FUD that disclosing vulnerabilities leads to
834: more harm than good. Ozment's methodology was to examine OpenBSD's CVS logs
1.469 ian 835: and note when fixes were published; his research shows that
1.468 grunk 836: <i>"the number of vulnerabilities decreases as a result of disclosure"</i>.
837: <p>
838:
1.454 ian 839: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.458 niallo 840: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0704/071.html">
841: Free Bird</a>,
842: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
843: <b>(Registration required)</b> A second Forbes article about OpenBSD, more
844: focused on the project itself this time. It contains good description of the
845: history of OpenBSD along with its prime motivations. Mention is made of the
846: DARPA grant and the annual hackathon. Theo's motto "shut up and hack" finally
847: becomes famous in this piece and there are some other very insightful quotes
848: such as "All I care about is making high-quality code. If I had to work at a
849: regular job, it would drive me nuts". This is certainly an astute and perceptive
850: article, well worth reading. Do note that the big picture of Theo's machine
851: room will only be available in the print edition.
852: <p>
1.459 deraadt 853:
1.458 niallo 854: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.456 niallo 855: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html">
856: Is Linux For Losers?</a>,
857: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
858: An interesting article, if somewhat polemic in tone, which raises questions
859: about the quality of Linux code compared to OpenBSD. There is also some short
860: discussion of the OpenBSD development model and focus (push for quality above
861: everything else) including good quotes from Theo. It seems that the need for
862: high quality software is beginning to be recognised by the mainstream.
863: <p>
1.457 deraadt 864:
1.456 niallo 865: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 866: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/06/09/2132233.shtml?tid=152&tid=8&tid=2">
1.455 ian 867: BSD cognoscenti on Linux</a>,
868: NewsForge, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
869: NewsForge talks with Theo de Raadt and NetBSD's Christos Zoulas about the
870: similarities and differences between the Linux kernel and the BSD
871: operating systems. The questions asked were similar to those asked
872: of Linus Torvalds in a <a
1.462 grunk 873: href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/09/2128249&tid=2">previous
1.455 ian 874: interview.</a>
875: <p>
876:
877: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.454 ian 878: <a href="http://www.tuxjournal.net/intervista3-en.html">
879: A good morning with Theo de Raadt</a>,
880: Tux Journal, June 2, 2005</strong></font><br>
881: Brief but wide-ranging interview with Theo in which our leader
882: opines about the good things in 3.7: "The list of new developments
883: is impressive, but in my view not nearly as impressive as the small
884: little details that continue to be fixed during each development
885: cycle." And modestly credits all the developers for the project's
886: continuing success, attributing it to "The passion of the developers,
887: and the wide experience they bring into their development efforts.
888: By amazing coincidence, our users typically have the same needs as we do."
889: Manages to sidestep getting drawn into comparisons with Linux, e.g.,
890: when asked if he likes it/why/why not, deftly replies
891: "I have never used it."
892: <p>
893:
894: </ul>
895:
1.441 deraadt 896: <h2>May, 2005</h2>
897: <ul>
898: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 899: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5190">
900: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part II</a>,
901: Kerneltrap, May 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
902: In the second installment of Kerneltrap's Hackathon 2005 feature, Jeremy
903: Andrews speaks with the pf developers at length about their plans for
904: future enhancements.
905: <p>
906:
907: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.450 deraadt 908: <a href="http://www.ctv.ca">
1.448 deraadt 909: TV coverage: OpenBSD hackathon</a>,
910: CTV/CFCN, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
911: A TV spot done a Canadian national TV station about the Calgary
912: hackathon this year, with 60 developers.<br>
913: North America mirror:
914: <ul>
1.452 marco 915: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.449 jcs 916: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a><br>
917: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a>
1.448 deraadt 918: </ul>
919: European mirror:
920: <ul>
1.452 marco 921: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.448 deraadt 922: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a>
923: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a><br>
924: </ul>
925: <p>
926:
927: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 928: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5186">
929: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part I</a>,
930: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
931: Jeremy Andrews of KernelTrap does a good job of describing what it's like
932: to be at the Hackathon in Part I of KernelTrap's Hackathon feature. Several
933: developers are interviewed in detail about what they are working on.
934: <p>
935:
936: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 937: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5184">
938: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005: Day 6?</a>,
939: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
940: Kjell Wooding describes a typical day at the Hackathon in this entertaining
941: first-hand account.
942: <p>
943:
944: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.447 cloder 945: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/05/20/1426216.shtml?tid=8">
946: Review: OpenBSD 3.7</a>,
947: NewsForge.com, May 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
948: "OpenBSD is not only highly polished and easy to
949: configure because of its documentation, it's also totally free-as-in-rights.
950: With an obsession with security, freedom of source code, and quality of
951: programming technique, OpenBSD 3.7 continues the legacy established by
952: its previous releases," writes Jem Matzan in this nice, small review.
953: <p>
954:
955: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.446 cloder 956: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/05/19/openbsd_3_7.html">
957: OpenBSD 3.7: The Wizard of OS</a>,
958: ONLamp.com, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
959: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
960: new features in OpenBSD 3.7, including new wireless chipsets, new
961: spam-fighting features, zaurus, pf improvements, propolice, and
962: many other things. A good overview of what's new in this release,
963: plus some interesting comments about future direction.
964: <p>
965:
966: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.444 niallo 967: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/software/openbsd-3.7-released.html">
1.445 niallo 968: Next incarnation of OpenBSD released</a>,
1.444 niallo 969: Ping Wales, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
970: "OpenBSD is often unjustly overlooked as a free UNIX-like system in favour of
971: the more-hyped Linux. While it receives a lot less publicity than other
972: operating systems, this is not due to lack of technical merit." says David
973: Chisnall, in what is a clear and concise overview of the new features
974: in 3.7 and indeed the project as a whole.
975: <p>
976:
977: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
978: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5114">
1.445 niallo 979: 2005 Calgary Hackathon, KernelTrap Coverage</a>,
1.444 niallo 980: Kerneltrap, May 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
981: A great article about the annual OpenBSD Hackathon, detailing how the event
982: functions, work done at previous Hackathons and features which may come out
983: of this one. Includes many relevant quotes from developers themselves, and of
984: course information about the legendary Hackathon BBQ!
985: <p>
986:
987: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.442 deraadt 988: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9658/sam0505e/">
989: "Failover Firewalls with OpenBSD and CARP"</a>,
990: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 5, p. 33
1.441 deraadt 991: </strong></font><br>
992: Jason Dixon discusses the history of the CARP and pfsync protocols
993: and demonstrates using them to create redundant stateful firewalls
994: with OpenBSD.
995: </ul>
996:
1.436 henning 997: <h2>April, 2005</h2>
998: <ul>
999: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.440 ian 1000: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39195801,00.htm">
1001: Security guru wants access to bug databases</a>,
1002: ZDNet UK, April 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
1003: Ingrid Marson reports on Cambridge professor Ross Anderson's call for analysis of
1004: software maintenance records to determine whether open source code is more secure
1005: than closed source, as we have long contended.
1006: "One of Anderson's research students, Andy Ozment, has already done
1007: research using empirical data on bugs found in the open source
1008: operating system OpenBSD between 1997 and 2000. This research found
1009: that finding and fixing bugs results in a more secure product..."
1010: Just as the OpenBSD project has been saying for years.
1011: <p>
1012: This article can also be found online as
1013: <a href="http://uk.builder.com/manage/project/0,39026588,39244080,00.htm">Academic
1014: calls for better bug tracking</a> (uk.builder.com).
1015: <p>
1016:
1017: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.439 espie 1018: [FRENCH] "PC Expert", number 152, p. 58
1019: </strong></font><br>
1020: Very short interview of Marc Espie about OpenBSD as a free OS focusing
1021: on security, part of a larger dossier Ťles secrets des hackersť.
1022: <p>
1023:
1024: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.436 henning 1025: [GERMAN] "Doppelwacht", iX 5/2005, p. 150.
1026: </strong></font><br>
1027: Stephan Tesch gives an introduction to CARP and using a pair of
1028: OpenBSD boxes as Firewalls in High Availibility scenarios. He goes
1.438 martin 1029: on explaining CARP and pfsync protocols, and does not forget to cover
1.436 henning 1030: the issues we had with IETF.
1031: </ul>
1032:
1.431 ian 1033: <h2>March, 2005</h2>
1034: <ul>
1035: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.435 reyk 1036: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/4818">
1037: OpenBSD's "Out of the Box" Wireless Support</a>,
1038: Kerneltrap, March 8, 2005</strong></font><br>
1039: This article is about the upcoming wireless support in OpenBSD 3.7 and
1040: the outcome of the work to open wireless chipsets. Jeremy Andrews
1041: talked with Theo de Raadt and the developers Damien Bergamini and Reyk
1042: Floeter who did some efforts to implement free and functional drivers.
1043: <p>
1044:
1045: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.431 ian 1046: <a href="http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/01/1109546842718.html">
1047: OpenBSD to support more wireless chipsets</a>,
1048: The Age, March 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1049: "The forthcoming 3.7 release of the OpenBSD operating system has
1050: added support for five more wireless chipsets, according to
1051: OpenBSD project founder Theo de Raadt...
1.432 ian 1052: OpenBSD 3.7 will also have have new drivers for Intel wireless
1.431 ian 1053: parts that do not work without the non-redistributable firmware,"
1054: namely the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11B
1055: and 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11A/B/G wireless network adapters.
1056: Mentions OpenBSD's activism in getting vendors to release chip specs.
1057: Referring to vendors that still refuse to play ball with open source
1058: projects, quotes Damien Miller as saying "Given the number of
1059: appliance devices that are built on free OSs, I think that the
1060: recalcitrant vendors are missing an important boat."
1061:
1062: </ul>
1063:
1.427 matthieu 1064: <h2>February, 2005</h2>
1065: <ul>
1066:
1067: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.428 david 1068: <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsaward2004.html">
1069: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
1070: FSF, February 26, 2005</strong></font><br>
1071: The Free Software Foundation awarded Theo de Raadt their "2004 Free Software
1072: Award" for his unwavering commitment to free software. Most recently he has
1073: been fighting hardware manufacturers for free redistribution of wireless card
1074: firmware.
1.434 ian 1075: Similar articles can be found online at:
1076: <ul>
1077: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1078: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=419">
1079: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
1080: Tectonic.za, March 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
1081: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1082: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article4362.phtml">
1083: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
1084: OSDir, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1085: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1086: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/De-Raadt-gets-free-software-award/2005/02/28/1109546758523.html?oneclick=true">
1087: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
1088: The Age, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1089: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1090: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/02/27/1413255.shtml?tid=99&tid=7">
1.434 ian 1091: Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award</a>,
1092: Slashdot, February 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1093: </ul>
1.427 matthieu 1094: </ul>
1095:
1.426 ian 1096: <h2>January, 2005</h2>
1097: <ul>
1098:
1099: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1100: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363731">
1101: Systrace in OpenBSD</a>,
1102: informit.com, January 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1103: This article talks about our systrace
1.462 grunk 1104: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&sektion=1">systrace(1)</a>
1.426 ian 1105: mechanism: what it is and why and
1106: how to use it, with examples.
1107: Another excerpt from the book
1108: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
1109: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
1110: <p>
1111:
1112: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1113: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363732">
1114: Overview of OpenBSD</a>,
1115: informit.com, January 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
1116: "OpenBSD is one of the most secure and well-designed operating
1117: systems available today. It has its roots in countless hours of
1118: research and development based on some of the best UNIX flavors of
1119: the past, and it boasts all the features of modern operating systems.
1120: The OS is widely considered one of the most secure general-purpose
1121: operating systems available today and it supports many key parts
1122: of the global Internet infrastructure..."
1123: This article is a sample chapter from
1124: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
1125: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
1126: <p>
1.443 ian 1127:
1128: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1129: <a href="http://www.pcplus.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=34628&subsectionid=784">
1.443 ian 1130: OpenBSD operating system</a>,
1131: PCPlus.co.uk, January, 2005</strong></font><br>
1132: Paul Grosse gives a brief tutorial on installing OpenBSD on i386 for people
1133: moving in a Windows->Linux direction, encouraging them to go a bit further for security.
1134: "While Linux out-scores Windows substantially (or completely) on [security as well as many other
1135: issues], it's still possible to use a more secure operating system on the PC... OpenBSD."
1136: Gives a brief but understandable walkthrough on the installation process, right up to
1137: downloading and installing the third-party packages, and
1138: ends with a sidebar on security.
1139: <p>
1.426 ian 1140: </ul>
1141:
1.424 ian 1142: <h2>December, 2004</h2>
1143: <ul>
1144:
1145: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.425 ian 1146: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/2329229">
1147: What are the real vulnerabilities of Linux?</a>
1148: NewsForge.com, December 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1149: Several security consultants were asked about "the real vulnerabilities of
1150: Linux". Cybersoure CEO Con Symaris seems to get it better than the rest:
1151: "One needs to approach security as a prime requirement and motivator,
1152: much as the OpenBSD team do," Zymaris said... "The Linux
1153: community mindset is different. Linux development is dynamic and
1154: races ahead towards more and broader functionality, drawing a
1155: multitude of interested parties in to make interesting extensions
1156: and adaptations at a rapid rate."
1157: <p>
1158: "In order to do security the BSD way, however, much more effort
1159: needs to be spent auditing code for holes, which is much less sexy,
1160: and attracts a different set of coders," Zymaris added.
1161: <p>
1162:
1163: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.424 ian 1164: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/281">
1165: Closed Source Hardware</a>
1166: Security Focus, December 1, 2004</strong></font><br>
1167: Symantec Threat Analyst Jason Miller analyzes the potential security threats
1168: when hardware vendors won't provide device documentation and
1169: instead provide "binary only" driver code for inclusion in open source
1170: operating systems.
1171: Miller is an open-source fan who says he uses a variety of systems, including
1172: OpenBSD on his firewall.
1173: Of the recent trend to closed-source binary drivers for open-source
1174: systems, he writes:
1175: <blockquote>
1176: The closed-source component required to support this hardware is
1177: completely independent of the associated operating system, and as
1178: such, is also independent of the engineering team, security team,
1179: auditing process, and quality control procedures normally related
1180: to the operating system...
1181: <br/>
1182: What's possibly even more disturbing is that we're talking about
1183: a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest
1184: possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a
1185: third-party vendor. This code could do anything once loaded, including
1186: leaking active WEP keys, gathering usage statistics, sniffing and
1187: disclosing traffic, and it could even introduce a subtle backdoor
1188: into the operating system itself (much the same as any device driver
1189: in a closed source operating system).
1190: <br/>
1191: [A]lthough some of these scenarios are a
1192: little far-fetched, the possibility for them to exist is there...
1193: Ultimately it becomes an issue of trust, which is a cornerstone of
1194: good security: whom do you trust, and how much do you trust them?
1195: </blockquote>
1196: <p>And he comments that trust "seems to be a one-way street": vendors
1197: demand that you trust them, but they won't trust you to know how
1198: their hardware and software operates.
1199: This lack of trust is one reason why OpenBSD has recently completed
1200: reverse-engineering the
1.462 grunk 1201: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4">
1.424 ian 1202: Atheros wireless chipset driver</a>
1203: that was originally provided as a binary insert.
1204: <p>
1205: </ul>
1206:
1.417 pvalchev 1207: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
1208: <ul>
1.421 ian 1209:
1.417 pvalchev 1210: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.422 ian 1211: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730775,00.asp">
1212: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Widens Its Scope</a>
1213: eWEEK, November 22, 2004</strong></font><br>
1214: Jason Brooks reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and likes the changes it brings,
1215: including the multi-processing support which, he notes,
1216: "will be even more important as multicore processors--which occupy space
1217: on the road maps of Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others--
1218: become more prevalent." Comments favorably on OpenNTPD
1219: ("the three-line configuration file we needed to modify ... on OpenBSD was
1220: much simpler to deal with than the equivalent configuration file on
1221: the Linux systems we've tested").
1.423 ian 1222: Overall a favorable review of some of the new stuff in 3.6.
1.422 ian 1223: <p>
1224: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 otto 1225: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
1226: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
1227: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
1228: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
1229: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
1230: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
1231: it claims to do".
1232: <p>
1233:
1234: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1235: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109994542424009&w=2">
1.421 ian 1236: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution</a>
1237: misc@, November 8, 2004</strong></font><br>
1238: Theo recounts the struggle to get Intel to provide redistributable
1239: versions of the firmware for their wireless chipsets, and their
1.423 ian 1240: ultimate refusal to allow OpenBSD to redistribute the chipsets' firmware.
1.421 ian 1241: Includes a caveat about Intel's disingenuous "FAQ", typical of many
1242: corporate FAQs that answer questions nobody actually thought
1243: to ask, and don't truthfully answer the questions you want hard answers to.
1244: At the end Theo names the names (and their emails) that need to be contacted
1245: by large numbers of end-users and developers if Intel is to change
1246: (yes, this is a hint).
1247: Of interest is that this posting to one of our mailing lists was
1248: picked up on the
1249: <a href="http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1923">Screaming
1250: Electron Forum</a> and from there reported on
1.462 grunk 1251: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/22/1249249&from=rss">
1.421 ian 1252: SlashDot</a>, where it is accompanied by a link to SlashDot's paper
1253: on effective advocacy (be firm, but also be polite).
1254: <p>
1255:
1256: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 1257: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
1258: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
1259: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
1260: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
1261: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
1262: questions about the significance and rationale behind
1263: the current efforts.
1264: <p>
1265: </ul>
1266:
1.407 henning 1267: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
1268: <ul>
1269: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 1270: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
1271: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
1272: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
1273: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
1274: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
1275: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
1276: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
1277: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
1278: <p>
1279:
1280: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 1281: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
1282: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
1283: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1284: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
1285: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
1286: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
1287: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
1288: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
1289: of the important changes in 3.6.
1.462 grunk 1290: <p>
1.415 ian 1291:
1292: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1293: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
1.414 ian 1294: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
1295: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
1296: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
1297: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
1298: overflow attacks... because
1299: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
1300: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
1301: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
1302: and propolice.
1303: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
1304: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
1305: and that's when the science falls apart."
1306: <p>
1307:
1308: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 1309: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
1310: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
1311: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
1312: Starts with the question:
1313: <blockquote>
1314: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
1315: <br/>
1316: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
1317: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
1318: <br/>
1319: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
1320: Should we believe them?"
1321: </blockquote>
1322: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
1323: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
1324: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
1325: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
1326: for your mail, web and other online activities.
1327: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
1328: <p>
1329:
1330: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 1331: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
1332: Simple Simon</a>,
1333: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
1334: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
1335: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
1336: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
1337: routing/firewall, and more.
1338: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
1339: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
1340: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
1341: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
1342: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
1343: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
1344: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
1345: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
1346: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
1347: </blockquote>
1348: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
1349: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
1350: <p>
1351:
1352: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 1353: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
1354: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 1355: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 1356: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 1357: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
1358: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
1359: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 1360: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 1361: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
1362: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
1363: in spite of it
1364: (registration required, but worth it).
1365: <p>
1366:
1367: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1368: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
1369: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
1370: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1371: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
1372: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
1373: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
1374: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 1375: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 1376: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
1377: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
1378: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
1379: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
1380: <p>
1381:
1382: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 1383: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
1384: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
1385: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
1386: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
1387: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
1388: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
1389: <blockquote>
1390: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
1391: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
1392: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
1393: a lot of analysis.
1394: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
1395: </blockquote>
1396: <p>
1397: </ul>
1398:
1.400 marco 1399: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
1400: <ul>
1401: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 1402: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
1403: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
1404: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
1405: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
1406: UNIX-like systems.
1407: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
1408: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
1409: <p>
1410: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 1411: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
1412: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 1413: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1414: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
1415: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
1416: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
1417: At one point, the article states:
1418: <blockquote>
1419: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
1420: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
1421: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
1422: </blockquote>
1423: And then quotes Theo as saying:
1424: <blockquote>
1425: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
1426: fewer are reading or auditing code."
1427: </blockquote>
1428: <p>
1429: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1430: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
1431: marks its fifth birthday</a>
1432: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1433: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
1434: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
1435: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
1436: required).
1437: <p>
1438: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 1439: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
1440: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
1441: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
1442: </strong></font><br>
1443: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
1444: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
1445: <p>
1446: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 1447: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
1448: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 1449: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 1450: </strong></font><br>
1451: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
1452: <p>
1453: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 1454: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
1455: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 1456: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 1457: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 1458: 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 1459: <p>
1460: </ul>
1461:
1.396 henning 1462: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
1463: <ul>
1464: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 1465: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
1466: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
1467: Unix Review, July, 2004
1468: </strong></font><br>
1469: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
1470: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
1.462 grunk 1471: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
1.418 ian 1472: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
1473: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
1474: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
1475: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
1476: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
1477: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
1478: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
1479: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
1480: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
1481: and even spelling/wording errors.
1482: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
1483: <p>
1484: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 1485: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 1486: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
1487: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
1488: </strong></font><br>
1489: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
1490: <p>
1491: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 1492: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 1493: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
1494: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
1495: </strong></font><br>
1496: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
1497: <p>
1498: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 1499: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
1500: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
1501: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
1502: </strong></font><br>
1503: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
1504: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
1505: <p>
1506: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 1507: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
1508: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
1509: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
1510: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
1511: <p>
1512: </ul>
1513:
1.405 jolan 1514: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
1515: <ul>
1516: <li><font color="#00900"><strong>
1517: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
1.466 deraadt 1518: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 5, 2004</strong></font>
1.405 jolan 1519: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
1520: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
1521: details on how funds are dispersed.
1522: <p>
1523: </ul>
1524:
1.393 david 1525: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
1526: <ul>
1527: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 1528: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
1529: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
1530: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
1531: </strong></font><br>
1532: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
1533: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
1534: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
1535: on inserting large number of SQL records.
1536: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
1537: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
1538: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
1539: <p>
1540:
1541: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 1542: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
1543: Secure by Default</a>,
1544: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
1545: </strong></font><br>
1546: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
1547: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
1548: <p>
1549:
1550: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1551: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
1552: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
1553: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
1554: </strong></font><br>
1555: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
1556: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
1557: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
1558: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
1559: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
1560: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
1561: <p>
1562:
1563: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1564: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
1565: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
1566: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
1567: </strong></font><br>
1568: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
1569: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
1570: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
1571: <p>
1572:
1573: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1574: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
1575: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
1576: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
1577: </strong></font><br>
1578: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
1579: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
1580: <p>
1581: </ul>
1582:
1.388 mcbride 1583: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
1584: <ul>
1.394 jolan 1585:
1586: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1587: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
1588: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
1589: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
1590: </strong></font><br>
1591: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
1592: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
1593: available for sparc64.
1594: <p>
1595:
1.390 beck 1596: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 1597: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
1598: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
1599: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
1600: </strong></font><br>
1601: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
1602: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
1603: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
1604: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
1605: <p>
1606:
1607: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 1608: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
1609: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 1610: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 1611: </strong></font><br>
1612: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
1613: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
1614: it does: CARP provides sharing
1615: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
1616: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
1617: detail to get you started using it.
1618: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
1619: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
1620: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
1621: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
1622: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
1623: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
1624: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 1625: <p>
1.391 ian 1626:
1627: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 1628: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 1629: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
1630: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 1631: </strong></font><br>
1632: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 1633: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 1634: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 1635: <p>
1.388 mcbride 1636:
1637: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1638: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
1639: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 1640: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 1641: </strong></font><br>
1642: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
1643: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
1644: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
1645: unencumbered by patents.
1646: <p>
1647: </ul>
1648:
1.378 henning 1649: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
1650: <ul>
1.384 jose 1651:
1652: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 1653: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
1654: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
1655: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
1656: </strong></font><br>
1657: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
1658: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
1659: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
1660: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
1661: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
1662: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
1663: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
1664: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
1665: in the page tables."
1666: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
1667: <p>
1668:
1669: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1670: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
1671: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
1672: </strong></font><br>
1673: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
1674: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
1675: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
1676: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 1677: <p>
1.384 jose 1678:
1.378 henning 1679: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 1680: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
1681: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 1682: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
1683: </strong></font><br>
1684: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
1685: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
1686: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
1687: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
1688: (quote:
1689: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
1690: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 1691: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 1692: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
1693: the other developers for their work on the system.
1694: <p>
1695:
1696: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1697: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
1698: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
1699: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 1700: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 1701: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
1702: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
1703: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
1704: too.
1705: <p>
1706:
1707: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 1708: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
1709: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 1710: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 1711: OpenBSD source code using
1712: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
1713: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
1714: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
1715: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
1716: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
1717: <p>
1718: </ul>
1719:
1.374 jose 1720: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
1721: <ul>
1722: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 1723: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 1724: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
1725: </strong></font><br>
1726: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
1727: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
1728: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
1729: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
1730: it."
1731: <p>
1732:
1733: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 1734: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
1735: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
1736: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
1737: </strong></font><br/>
1738: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
1739: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
1740: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
1741: <p>
1742: </ul>
1743:
1.369 ian 1744: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
1745: <ul>
1746: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1747: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
1748: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
1749: </strong></font><br/>
1750: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
1751: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
1752: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
1753: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
1754: <p>
1755:
1756: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 1757: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
1758: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
1759: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
1760: </strong></font><br/>
1761: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
1762: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
1763: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
1764: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
1765: form factor.
1766: <p>
1767:
1768: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1769: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
1770: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
1771: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
1772: Features</a>,
1773: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
1774: </strong></font><br/>
1775: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
1776: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
1777: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
1778: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
1779: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
1780: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
1781: <p>
1782: This article can also be found online at:
1783: <ul>
1784: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1785: <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 1786: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
1787: </strong></font>
1788: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
1789: </ul>
1790: <p>
1.392 david 1791:
1.371 jose 1792: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 1793: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
1794: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 1795: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
1796: </strong></font><br/>
1797: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
1798: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
1799: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 1800: <p>
1.371 jose 1801:
1802: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 1803: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 1804: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 1805: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 1806: </strong></font><br/>
1807: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
1808: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
1809: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
1810: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
1811: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
1812: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
1813: and its history with OpenBSD.
1814: </ul>
1815:
1.368 henning 1816: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
1817: <ul>
1818: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 1819: [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 1820: </strong></font><br>
1821: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
1822: </ul>
1823:
1.364 jose 1824: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
1825: <ul>
1826: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 1827: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
1828: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
1829: UNIX Review,
1830: July, 2003.
1831: </strong></font><br>
1832: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
1833: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
1834: who want more information.
1835: <p>
1836:
1837: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 1838: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
1839: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
1840: Government Computer News,
1841: July 22, 2003.
1842: </strong></font><br>
1843: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
1844: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
1845: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
1846: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
1847: <p>
1848:
1849: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1850: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
1851: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
1852: SANS Institute,
1853: July 22, 2003.
1854: </strong></font><br>
1855: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 1856: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 1857: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
1858: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
1859: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
1860: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
1861: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
1862: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
1863: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
1864: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
1865: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
1866: <p>
1867:
1868: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 1869: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
1870: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
1871: OnLamp.com,
1872: July 17, 2003.
1873: </strong></font><br>
1874: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
1875: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
1876: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
1877: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
1878: have been working on.
1879:
1880: </ul>
1881:
1.356 jose 1882: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 1883: <ul>
1884:
1885: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 1886: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
1887: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
1888: UNIX Review,
1889: June, 2003.
1890: </strong></font><br>
1891: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
1892: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
1893: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
1894: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
1895: <p>
1896:
1897: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 1898: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
1899: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
1900: eWeek,
1901: June 23, 2003.
1902: </strong></font><br>
1903: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
1904: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
1905: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
1906: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
1907: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
1908: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
1909: <p>
1910:
1911: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 1912: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
1913: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
1914: Software Development Online,
1915: June, 2003.
1916: </strong></font><br>
1917: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
1918: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
1919: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
1920: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
1921: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
1922: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
1923: current activities.
1924: <p>
1925:
1926: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 1927: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
1928: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 1929: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
1930: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
1931: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
1932: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 1933: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 1934: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
1935: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
1936: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 1937: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 1938: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
1939: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 1940: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 1941: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
1942: decisions.
1943: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
1944: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 1945: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 1946: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 1947: <p>
1948:
1949: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 1950: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
1951: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
1952: Page 58, eWeek,
1953: June 2, 2003.
1954: </strong></font><br>
1955: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
1956: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
1957: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
1958: been addressed in -current.
1959: <p>
1960:
1.356 jose 1961: </ul>
1962:
1963: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
1964: <ul>
1965:
1.355 jose 1966: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 1967: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
1968: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
1969: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
1970: </strong></font><br>
1971: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
1972: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
1973: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
1974: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
1975: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
1976: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
1977: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
1978: <p>
1979:
1980: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 1981: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
1982: Beyond Linux</a>,
1983: InfoWorld,
1984: May 23, 2003.
1985: </strong></font><br>
1986: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
1987: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
1988: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
1989: compared to the GPL.
1990: <p>
1991:
1992: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 1993: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
1994: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
1995: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 1996: May 17, 2003.
1997: </strong></font><br>
1998: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
1999: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
2000: the business section and half of another page inside
2001: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
2002: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
2003: in talking about the project's history and goals.
2004: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
2005: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
2006: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
2007: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 2008: <br>
2009: This article can also be found online at:
2010: <ul>
2011: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2012: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
2013: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
2014: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
2015: May 17, 2003
2016: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 2017: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
2018: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2019: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
2020: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
2021: Montreal Gazette,
2022: May 21, 2003
2023: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 2024: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 2025: <p>
1.346 ian 2026:
2027: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 2028: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 2029: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 2030: May 7, 2003.
2031: </strong></font><br>
2032: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
2033: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
2034: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
2035: <p>
2036:
2037: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 2038: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
2039: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2040: OsOpinion,
2041: May 6, 2003.
2042: </strong></font><br>
2043: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
2044: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
2045: <br>
2046: This article can also be found online at:
2047: <ul>
2048: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2049: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
2050: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2051: NewsFactor Network.
2052: </strong></font>
2053: </ul>
2054: <p>
2055:
2056: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2057: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 2058: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
2059: ITBusiness,
2060: May 2, 2003.
2061: </strong></font><br>
2062: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
2063: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
2064: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
2065: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
2066: <p>
2067:
2068: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 2069: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
2070: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
2071: InfoWorld,
2072: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 2073: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 2074: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
2075: <br>
2076: This article can also be found online at:
2077: <ul>
2078: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2079: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
2080: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
2081: IDG Singapore.
2082: </strong></font>
2083: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 2084: <p>
2085:
1.339 jose 2086: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2087: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
2088: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 2089: ZDNet,
2090: May 1, 2003.
2091: </strong></font><br>
2092: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 2093: someone using parts from previous articles.
2094: <br>
1.341 deraadt 2095: This article can also be found online at:
2096: <ul>
2097: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2098: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
2099: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
2100: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 2101: </strong></font>
2102: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2103: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
2104: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
2105: CNET News.com.
2106: </strong></font>
2107: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2108: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
2109: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
2110: ZDNet UK.
2111: </strong></font>
2112: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2113: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
2114: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
2115: Help Net Security, Croatia.
2116: </strong></font>
2117: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 2118: <p>
1.339 jose 2119:
1.341 deraadt 2120: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2121: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 2122: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
2123: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
2124: May 1, 2003.
2125: </strong></font><br>
2126: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
2127: that have been added
2128: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
2129: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
2130: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 2131: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 2132: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
2133: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
2134: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 2135: <p>
2136:
2137: </ul>
2138:
1.253 ian 2139: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
2140: <ul>
1.255 ian 2141:
1.260 ian 2142: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2143: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 2144: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
2145: TechRepublic,
2146: April 28, 2003.
2147: </strong></font><br>
2148: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
2149: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 2150: work.<br>
2151: Can also be found online at:
2152: <ul>
2153: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2154: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
2155: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
2156: ZDNet UK.
2157: </strong></font>
2158: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 2159: <p>
2160:
2161: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 2162: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
2163: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
2164: IDG,
2165: April 24, 2003.
2166: </strong></font><br>
2167: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
2168: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
2169: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
2170: Can also be found online at:
2171: <ul>
2172: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2173: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
2174: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 2175: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 2176: </strong></font>
2177: </ul>
2178: <p>
2179:
2180: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2181: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 2182: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 2183: Slate,
2184: April 24, 2003.
2185: </strong></font><br>
2186: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
2187: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
2188: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
2189: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
2190: <p>
2191:
2192: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 2193: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2194: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
2195: April 24, 2003.
2196: </strong></font><br>
2197: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
2198: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
2199: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
2200: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
2201: <p>
2202:
2203: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 2204: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
2205: April 24, 2003.
2206: </strong></font><br>
2207: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
2208: the free software community".
2209: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
2210: other articles.
2211: <p>
2212:
2213: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2214: <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 2215: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
2216: </strong></font><br>
2217: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
2218: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
2219: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
2220: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
2221: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
2222: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
2223: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 2224: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 2225: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
2226: <br/>
2227: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
2228: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
2229: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
2230: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 2231: <br>
2232: Can also be found online at:
2233: <ul>
2234: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2235: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
2236: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
2237: Common Dreams NewsCenter
2238: </strong></font>
2239: </ul>
1.324 ian 2240: <p>
2241:
2242: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2243: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
2244: Wired, April 24, 2003.
2245: </strong></font><br>
2246: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
2247: article above.
2248: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
2249: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
2250: wasting them."
1.332 ian 2251: <br>
2252: Can also be found online at:
2253: <ul>
2254: <li>
2255: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
2256: </strong></font>
2257: </ul>
1.324 ian 2258: <p>
2259:
2260: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 2261: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
2262: </strong></font><br>
2263: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
2264: <p>
2265:
2266: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 2267: <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.
2268: </strong></font><br>
2269: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
2270: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
2271: <p>
2272:
2273: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 2274: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
2275: April 23, 2003.
2276: </strong></font><br>
2277: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
2278: <p>
2279:
2280: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 2281: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 2282: April 22, 2003.
2283: </strong></font><br>
2284: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
2285: <p>
2286:
2287: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 2288: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
2289: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
2290: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 2291: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 2292: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
2293: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
2294: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
2295: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
2296: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
2297: Can also be found online at:
2298: <ul>
2299: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2300: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 2301: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
2302: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 2303: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 2304: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2305: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 2306: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
2307: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 2308: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 2309: </ul>
2310: <p>
2311:
2312: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 2313: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
2314: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 2315: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2316: </strong></font><br>
2317: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 2318: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
2319: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
2320: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
2321: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
2322: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
2323: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 2324: <p>
2325:
2326: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 2327: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
2328: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 2329: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
2330: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 2331: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
2332: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
2333: at UPenn and DARPA.
2334: <p>
2335:
2336: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 2337: [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,
2338: France
1.315 deraadt 2339: April 18, 2003.
2340: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 2341: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 2342: <p>
2343:
2344: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 2345: [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 2346: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2347: </strong></font><br>
2348: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
2349: <p>
2350:
2351: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 2352: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
2353: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
2354: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 2355: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 2356: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
2357: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
2358: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
2359: <p>
2360:
2361: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 2362: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
2363: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2364: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 2365: </strong></font><br>
2366: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
2367: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
2368: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 2369: American century.
1.267 deraadt 2370: <p>
2371:
2372: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 2373: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
2374: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2375: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 2376: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 2377: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
2378: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
2379: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
2380: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
2381: Can also be found online at:
2382: <ul>
2383: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
2384: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 2385: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 2386: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 2387: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 2388: <p>
2389:
2390: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 2391: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 2392: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 2393: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 2394: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 2395: </strong></font><br>
2396: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 2397: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
2398: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
2399: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
2400: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 2401:
2402: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2403: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
2404: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
2405: New York Times.
2406: </strong></font>(free registration required)
2407:
1.273 deraadt 2408: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2409: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 2410: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 2411: ABC News.
2412: </strong></font>
2413:
2414: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2415: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 2416: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 2417: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 2418: </strong></font>
2419:
2420: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2421: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 2422: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 2423: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 2424: </strong></font>
2425:
2426: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 2427: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
2428: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 2429: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 2430: </strong></font>
2431:
2432: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2433: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 2434: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 2435: Times Daily, AL.
2436: </strong></font>
2437:
2438: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2439: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
2440: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
2441: Boston.com, MA.
2442: </strong></font>
2443:
2444: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2445: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 2446: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 2447: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
2448: </strong></font>
2449:
2450: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 2451: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
2452: [Article was pulled]</a>
2453: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 2454: </strong></font>
2455:
2456: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2457: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
2458: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
2459: Infoshop News.
2460: </strong></font>
2461:
2462: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2463: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
2464: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2465: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
2466: </strong></font>
2467:
2468: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 2469: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
2470: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
2471: Raleigh News, NC.
2472: </strong></font>
2473:
2474: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2475: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 2476: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
2477: Napa News, CA.
2478: </strong></font>
2479:
2480: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2481: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 2482: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2483: NEPA News, PA.
2484: </strong></font>
2485:
2486: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2487: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
2488: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
2489: Wired News.
2490: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 2491: <br>
2492: <li>
1.333 deraadt 2493: <font color="#009000"><strong>
2494: [JAPANESE]
2495: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
2496: Wired News Japan</a>
2497: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 2498:
1.271 deraadt 2499: </ul>
2500: <p>
1.272 deraadt 2501: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
2502: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 2503: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
2504: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
2505: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
2506: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
2507: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
2508: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 2509: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 2510: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
2511: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
2512: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 2513: <p>
2514: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 2515:
2516: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2517: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 2518: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
2519: Indianapolis Star, IN.
2520: </strong></font>
2521:
2522: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 2523: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
2524: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2525: Miami Herald, FL.
2526: </strong></font>
2527:
2528: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 2529: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 2530: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
2531: </strong></font>
2532:
2533: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2534: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 2535: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 2536: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 2537: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 2538:
2539: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2540: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
2541: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
2542: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
2543: ABC News.
2544: </strong></font>
2545:
1.276 deraadt 2546: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2547: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 2548: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 2549: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 2550: </strong></font>
2551:
1.286 dhartmei 2552: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2553: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 2554: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2555: Wilmington Star, NC.
2556: </strong></font>
2557:
1.300 jose 2558: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2559: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
2560: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
2561: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
2562: </strong></font>
2563:
1.309 jose 2564: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2565: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
2566: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
2567: Globe Technology.
2568: </strong></font>
2569:
1.263 deraadt 2570: </ul>
1.262 beck 2571: <p>
2572:
2573: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 2574: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
2575: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2576: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 2577: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 2578: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 2579: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
2580: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
2581: <p>
2582:
2583: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 2584: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
2585: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
2586: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 2587: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 2588: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
2589: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
2590: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
2591: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
2592: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
2593: and simply restates other press reports.
2594: <p>
2595:
2596: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 2597: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
2598: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2599: OS News, April 18, 2003.
2600: </strong></font><br>
2601: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
2602: <p>
2603:
2604: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 2605: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
2606: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2607: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 2608: </strong></font><br>
2609: Another report on the DARPA funding.
2610: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
2611: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
2612: <p>
2613:
2614: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 2615: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
2616: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
2617: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
2618: April 17, 2003.
2619: </strong></font><br>
2620: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
2621: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
2622: Tech Anthems</a>
2623: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
2624: 4 so far.
2625: <p>
2626:
2627: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 2628: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
2629: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2630: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2631: </strong></font><br>
2632: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
2633: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
2634: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
2635: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
2636: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
2637: Goes on to say:
2638: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
2639: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
2640: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
2641: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 2642: This article is also found online at:
2643: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 2644: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2645: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
2646: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
2647: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 2648: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 2649: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2650: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
2651: ZDnet</a>,
2652: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 2653: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 2654: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2655: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
2656: ZDnet Australia</a>,
2657: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 2658: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 2659: </ul>
1.260 ian 2660: <p>
1.279 deraadt 2661:
1.260 ian 2662: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2663: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 2664: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 2665: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2666: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 2667: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 2668: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
2669: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
2670: without notice or justification.
2671: <p>
2672:
2673: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2674: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 2675: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 2676: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2677: </strong></font><br>
2678: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
2679: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 2680: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 2681: effective today, without any warning..."
2682: <p>
1.257 ian 2683:
2684: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 2685: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
2686: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2687: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 2688: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 2689: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
2690: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
2691: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
2692: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
2693: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 2694: <p>
2695:
2696: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 2697: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
2698: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2699: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 2700: </strong></font><br>
2701: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
2702: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
2703: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
2704: quoting two of them:
2705: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
2706: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
2707: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
2708: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
2709: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
2710: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
2711: <p>
2712:
1.255 ian 2713: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2714: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
2715: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 2716: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2717: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 2718: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 2719: <p>
2720:
2721: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 2722: [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 2723: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2724: </strong></font><br>
2725: New security concepts in OpenBSD
2726: <p>
2727:
2728: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 2729: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
2730: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2731: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 2732: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 2733: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 2734: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
2735: security experts for more than three decades."
2736: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
2737: <p>
1.261 ian 2738:
1.254 drahn 2739: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 2740: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 2741: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2742: </strong></font><br>
2743: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
2744: <p>
2745:
2746: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 2747: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
2748: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
2749: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
2750: </strong></font><br>
2751: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
2752: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
2753: discussion OpenBSD's path.
2754: <p>
2755:
2756: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 2757: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
2758: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2759: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 2760: </strong></font><br>
2761: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
2762: from US DARPA.
2763: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
2764: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
2765: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
2766: the BSD license.
2767: <p>
2768: </ul>
2769:
1.251 ian 2770: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
2771: <ul>
2772:
2773: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2774: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
2775: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
2776: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
2777: </strong></font><br>
2778:
2779: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
2780: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
2781: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
2782: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
2783: <p>
2784:
2785: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 2786: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
2787: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 2788: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 2789: </strong></font><br>
2790: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
2791: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
2792: Mentions
2793: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
2794: and
2795: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
2796: programs.
2797: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 2798: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 2799: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
2800: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
2801: <p>
1.325 ian 2802: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
2803: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 2804:
2805: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2806: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
2807: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
2808: </strong></font><br>
2809: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
2810: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
2811: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
2812: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
2813: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
2814: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
2815: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
2816: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
2817: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
2818: put into service."
2819: <p>
2820: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
2821: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
2822: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
2823: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
2824: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
2825: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
2826: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
2827: computers with security features."
2828: <p>
1.329 ian 2829:
2830: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2831: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
2832: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
2833: Slate,
2834: March 3, 2003.
2835: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 2836: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 2837: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
2838: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
2839: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
2840: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
2841: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
2842: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
2843: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
2844: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
2845: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
2846: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
2847: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
2848: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
2849: of more secure open-source solutions like
2850: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
2851: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
2852: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
2853: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
2854: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
2855: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
2856: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
2857: the Beltway."
2858: <p>
1.251 ian 2859: </ul>
2860:
1.249 jufi 2861: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
2862: <ul>
2863: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2864: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
2865: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2866: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 2867: </strong></font><br>
2868: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
2869: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 2870: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 2871: <p>
1.334 ian 2872:
2873: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2874: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
2875: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
2876: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
2877: </strong></font><br>
2878: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
2879: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
2880: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
2881: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
2882: "... the hypothetical question ...
2883: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
2884: <br>
2885: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
2886: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
2887: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
2888: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
2889: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
2890: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 2891: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 2892: support network security.
2893: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
2894: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
2895: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
2896: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
2897: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
2898: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
2899: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
2900: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
2901: <br>
2902: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
2903: <p>
2904:
1.249 jufi 2905: </ul>
2906:
1.246 jufi 2907: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2908: <ul>
1.246 jufi 2909:
1.247 jufi 2910: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2911: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 2912: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2913: CNET News.com, December 4, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2914: </strong></font><br>
2915: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
2916: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
2917: <p>
2918:
1.247 jufi 2919: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2920: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
2921: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2922: Heise News-Ticker, December 4, 2002
1.301 jose 2923: </strong></font><br>
1.460 david 2924: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III CPU
1.301 jose 2925: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
2926: <p>
2927:
2928: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2929: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 2930: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2931: eWeek, December 3, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2932: </strong></font><br>
2933: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
2934: in their annual OpenHack security test.
2935: <p>
1.247 jufi 2936: </ul>
1.246 jufi 2937:
1.244 jufi 2938: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2939: <ul>
1.246 jufi 2940:
1.247 jufi 2941: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2942: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
2943: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
2944: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2945: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2946: </strong></font><br>
2947: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
2948: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
2949: md5 digests.
2950: <p>
2951:
1.247 jufi 2952: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2953: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 2954: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
2955: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2956: </strong></font><br>
2957: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
2958: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
2959: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
2960: right the first time."
2961: <p>
1.247 jufi 2962: </ul>
1.244 jufi 2963:
2964:
2965: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2966: <ul>
1.244 jufi 2967:
1.247 jufi 2968: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2969: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2970: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
2971: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2972: </strong></font><br>
2973: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
2974: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
2975: part 6</a>.
2976: <p>
2977:
1.247 jufi 2978: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2979: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 2980: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
2981: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2982: O'Reilly Network, August 8, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2983: </strong></font><br>
2984: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
2985: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
2986: <p>
1.301 jose 2987:
2988: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2989: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
2990: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
2991: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
2992: </strong></font><br>
2993:
2994: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
2995: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
2996: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
2997: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
2998: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
2999: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
3000: <i>Here's the
3001: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
3002: <p>
1.247 jufi 3003: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3004:
3005: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3006: <ul>
1.242 jufi 3007:
1.247 jufi 3008: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3009: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 3010: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3011: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3012: </strong></font><br>
3013: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
3014: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
3015: <p>
3016:
1.247 jufi 3017: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3018: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3019: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3020: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 1, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3021: </strong></font><br>
3022: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
3023: this time using pf.
3024: <p>
1.247 jufi 3025: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3026:
3027: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3028: <ul>
1.242 jufi 3029:
1.247 jufi 3030: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3031: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3032: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
3033: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3034: </strong></font><br>
3035: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
3036: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
3037: their rotation.
3038: <p>
3039:
1.247 jufi 3040: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3041: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3042: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3043: O'Reilly Network, June 6, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3044: </strong></font><br>
3045: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
3046: <p>
1.247 jufi 3047: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3048:
1.239 jufi 3049: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3050: <ul>
1.239 jufi 3051:
1.247 jufi 3052: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3053: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 3054: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
3055: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3056: </strong></font><br>
3057: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
3058: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
3059: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
3060: <p>
3061:
1.247 jufi 3062: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 3063: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 3064: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
3065: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 3066: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 3067: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
3068: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
3069: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 3070: <p>
1.247 jufi 3071: </ul>
1.239 jufi 3072:
1.235 lebel 3073: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3074: <ul>
1.235 lebel 3075:
1.239 jufi 3076:
1.247 jufi 3077: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 3078: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 3079: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
3080: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 3081: </strong></font><br>
3082: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
3083: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
3084: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
3085: <p>
1.301 jose 3086:
1.247 jufi 3087: </ul>
1.235 lebel 3088:
1.228 horacio 3089: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3090: <ul>
1.228 horacio 3091:
1.247 jufi 3092: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3093: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3094: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
3095: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 3096: </strong></font><br>
3097: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
3098: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
3099: <p>
3100:
1.247 jufi 3101: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 3102: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 3103: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
3104: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 3105: </strong></font><br>
3106: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
3107: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
3108: <p>
3109:
1.247 jufi 3110: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 3111: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 3112: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
3113: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 3114: </strong></font><br>
3115: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
3116: on the desktop of his parents.
3117: <p>
3118:
1.247 jufi 3119: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 3120: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 3121: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
3122: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 3123: </strong></font><br>
3124: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
3125: using IPFilter.
3126:
3127: <p>
3128:
1.247 jufi 3129: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 3130: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 3131: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
3132: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 3133: </strong></font><br>
3134: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
3135: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
3136: perspectives of the four OS.
3137: <br>
3138: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 3139: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 3140: <p>
3141:
1.247 jufi 3142: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 3143: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
3144: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 3145: software and security</a>,
3146: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 3147: </strong></font><br>
3148:
3149: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
3150: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
3151: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
3152: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
3153: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
3154: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
3155: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
3156: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
3157: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
3158: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
3159: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
3160: security conscious team beyond doubt.
3161: <p>
1.247 jufi 3162: </ul>
1.228 horacio 3163:
1.225 horacio 3164: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3165: <ul>
1.225 horacio 3166:
1.247 jufi 3167: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3168: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
3169: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 3170: Interview</a>,
3171: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 3172: </strong></font><br>
3173:
3174: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
3175: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
3176: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 3177: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 3178: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
3179: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
3180: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
3181: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
3182: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 3183: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 3184: of choice.
3185: <p>
1.247 jufi 3186: </ul>
1.225 horacio 3187:
3188: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3189: <ul>
1.225 horacio 3190:
1.247 jufi 3191: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3192: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 3193: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
3194: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 3195: </strong></font><br>
3196:
3197: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
3198: <p>
3199:
1.247 jufi 3200: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3201: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 3202: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
3203: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 3204: </strong></font><br>
3205:
3206: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
3207: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
3208: <p>
1.247 jufi 3209: </ul>
1.225 horacio 3210:
1.218 horacio 3211: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3212: <ul>
1.218 horacio 3213:
1.247 jufi 3214: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 3215: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 3216: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 3217: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 3218: </strong></font><br>
3219:
3220: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
3221: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
3222: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
3223: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
3224: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
3225: subjects. Worth a read.
3226: <p>
3227:
3228:
1.247 jufi 3229: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 3230: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 3231: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
3232: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 3233: </strong></font><br>
3234:
3235: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
3236: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
3237: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
3238: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
3239: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
3240: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
3241: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
3242: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
3243: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 3244: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 3245: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
3246: on other operating systems.<br>
3247: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
3248: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
3249: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
3250: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
3251: <p>
3252:
1.247 jufi 3253: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3254: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 3255: Operating System 2010</a>,
3256: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 3257: </strong></font><br>
3258:
3259: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
3260: covering the level of software integration into the core
3261: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
3262: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
3263: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
3264: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
3265: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
3266: <p>
3267:
1.247 jufi 3268: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 3269: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 3270: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
3271: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 3272: </strong></font><br>
3273:
3274: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
3275: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
3276: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
3277: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
3278: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
3279: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
3280: <p>
1.247 jufi 3281: </ul>
1.221 horacio 3282:
1.210 jufi 3283: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3284: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3285:
1.247 jufi 3286: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3287: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 3288: Already a Contender</a>,
3289: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 3290: </strong></font><br>
3291:
3292: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
3293: source software in response to an article which claimed that
3294: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
3295: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
3296: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
3297: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
3298: <p>
3299:
1.247 jufi 3300: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 3301: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 3302: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
3303: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 3304: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3305:
1.224 horacio 3306: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
3307: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
3308: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
3309: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
3310: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
3311: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 3312: <p>
1.247 jufi 3313: </ul>
1.215 horacio 3314:
3315: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3316: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3317:
1.247 jufi 3318: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3319: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
3320: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 3321: Division</a>,
3322: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 3323: </strong></font><br>
3324:
3325: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
3326: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 3327: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 3328: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
3329: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
3330: investment</em>.<br>
3331: The implementation details can be seen on their
3332: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
3333: <p>
3334:
1.247 jufi 3335: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3336: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
3337: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
3338: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
3339: </strong></font><br>
3340:
3341: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
3342: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
3343: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1.475 grunk 3344: laptops and T-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1.301 jose 3345: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
3346: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
3347: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
3348: <p>
3349:
3350: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3351: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 3352: Thinking about Security</a>,
3353: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 3354: </strong></font><br>
3355:
3356: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
3357: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
3358: security and says that even secured operating systems running
3359: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
3360: to time.<br>
3361: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
3362: system and just the most secure system.
3363: <p>
3364:
1.247 jufi 3365: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3366: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 3367: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
3368: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 3369: </strong></font><br>
3370:
3371: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
3372: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
3373: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
3374: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
3375: choice:<br>
3376: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
3377: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
3378: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
3379: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
3380: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
3381: network security devices and as such must be well
3382: armored."</em><br>
3383: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
3384: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
3385: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
3386: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
3387: <br>
3388: Bravo!
3389: <p>
1.247 jufi 3390: </ul>
1.210 jufi 3391:
1.207 ian 3392: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3393: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3394:
1.247 jufi 3395: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 3396: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
3397: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
3398: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 3399:
1.207 ian 3400: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
3401: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 3402: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 3403: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
3404: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
3405: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 3406: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 3407: <p>
1.247 jufi 3408: </ul>
1.207 ian 3409:
1.194 jufi 3410: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3411: <ul>
1.194 jufi 3412:
1.247 jufi 3413: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3414: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 3415: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
3416: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 3417: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3418:
1.240 miod 3419: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 3420: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
3421: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
3422: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
3423: <p>
3424:
1.247 jufi 3425: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3426: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
3427: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
3428: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
3429:
3430: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
3431: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
3432: <p>
3433:
3434: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3435: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
3436: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3437: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
3438:
3439: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
3440: <p>
3441:
3442: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3443: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 3444: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
3445: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
3446: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3447:
1.240 miod 3448: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 3449: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 3450: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
3451: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 3452: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 3453: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 3454: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
3455: <br>
1.413 deraadt 3456: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 3457: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
3458: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
3459: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
3460: <p>
3461:
1.247 jufi 3462: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 3463: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
3464: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 3465: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 3466: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3467:
1.194 jufi 3468: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
3469: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
3470: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
3471: <br>
3472: The new
3473: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 3474: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 3475: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
3476: <p>
1.247 jufi 3477: </ul>
1.194 jufi 3478:
1.190 horacio 3479: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3480: <ul>
1.190 horacio 3481:
1.247 jufi 3482: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 3483:
3484: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
3485: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
3486:
1.301 jose 3487:
1.191 jufi 3488: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
3489: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
3490:
3491: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
3492: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
3493:
1.212 horacio 3494: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
3495: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 3496: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
3497:
1.211 horacio 3498: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
3499: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 3500: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
3501:
1.247 jufi 3502: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 3503: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
3504:
1.247 jufi 3505: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 3506: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
3507:
1.212 horacio 3508: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
3509: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 3510: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
3511:
3512: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
3513: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
3514:
3515: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
3516: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
3517:
1.301 jose 3518: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
3519: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
3520:
1.191 jufi 3521: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
3522: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
3523:
3524: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 3525: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 3526:
1.192 jufi 3527: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
3528: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 3529: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 3530:
1.193 deraadt 3531: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
3532: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 3533: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 3534:
1.247 jufi 3535: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 3536: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
3537:
1.247 jufi 3538: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 3539: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
3540: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
3541:
1.213 horacio 3542: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 3543: 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 3544: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
3545:
1.190 horacio 3546: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 3547: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
3548: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
3549: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
3550: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
3551: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
3552: <p>
1.190 horacio 3553:
1.247 jufi 3554: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3555: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
3556: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
3557: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 3558: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3559:
1.195 jufi 3560: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 3561: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
3562: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
3563: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 3564: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
3565: <p>
3566:
1.247 jufi 3567: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3568: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 3569: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
3570: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
3571: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3572:
1.191 jufi 3573: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 3574: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
3575: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
3576: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
3577: <p>
3578:
3579: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3580: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
3581: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3582: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
3583:
3584: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
3585: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 3586: <p>
1.247 jufi 3587: </ul>
1.190 horacio 3588:
1.191 jufi 3589:
1.186 jufi 3590: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3591: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 3592:
1.247 jufi 3593: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 3594: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 3595: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
3596: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 3597: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 3598:
1.188 jufi 3599: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 3600: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 3601: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 3602: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
3603: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 3604: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 3605: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 3606: <p>
3607:
1.301 jose 3608: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3609: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
3610: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3611: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
3612:
3613: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
3614: <p>
1.191 jufi 3615:
1.247 jufi 3616: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 3617: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
3618: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3619: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 5, 2001
1.191 jufi 3620: </strong></font><br>
3621:
3622: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
3623: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
3624: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
3625: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
3626: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
3627: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
3628: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
3629: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
3630: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
3631: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
3632: familiar?
3633: <p>
1.247 jufi 3634: </ul>
1.191 jufi 3635:
1.178 louis 3636: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3637: <ul>
1.178 louis 3638:
1.247 jufi 3639: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 3640: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 3641: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
3642: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 3643: </strong></font><br>
3644:
3645: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
3646: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
3647: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
3648: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
3649: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
3650: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
3651: <p>
3652:
1.247 jufi 3653: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3654: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
3655: Open source under the hood</a>,
3656: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 3657: </strong></font><br>
3658:
3659: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
3660: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
3661: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
3662: <p>
3663:
1.247 jufi 3664: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3665: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
3666: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
3667: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 3668: </strong></font><br>
3669:
3670: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
3671: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
3672: <p>
1.247 jufi 3673: </ul>
1.179 louis 3674:
1.174 louis 3675:
1.175 louis 3676: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3677: <ul>
1.175 louis 3678:
1.247 jufi 3679: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3680: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
3681: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
3682: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 3683: </strong></font><br>
3684:
3685: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
3686: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
3687: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
3688: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
3689: <p>
3690:
1.247 jufi 3691: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3692: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
3693: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
3694: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 3695: </strong></font><br>
3696:
3697: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 3698: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 3699: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
3700: <p>
1.247 jufi 3701: </ul>
1.175 louis 3702:
1.176 louis 3703:
1.172 mickey 3704: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3705: <ul>
1.172 mickey 3706:
1.247 jufi 3707: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3708: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
3709: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 3710: </strong></font><br>
3711:
3712: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
3713: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
3714: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 3715: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 3716: <p>
3717:
1.247 jufi 3718: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 3719: <a
1.269 deraadt 3720: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
3721: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
3722: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 3723: </strong></font><br>
3724:
3725: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
3726: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
3727: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
3728: <p>
3729:
1.247 jufi 3730: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3731: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 3732: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
3733: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 3734: </strong></font><br>
3735:
3736: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
3737: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
3738: <p>
3739:
1.247 jufi 3740: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3741: <a
1.269 deraadt 3742: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
3743: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 3744: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
3745: </strong></font><br>
3746:
3747: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
3748: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
3749: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
3750: our own Theo de Raadt.
3751: <p>
3752:
1.247 jufi 3753: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3754: <a
1.269 deraadt 3755: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
3756: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
3757: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 3758: </strong></font><br>
3759:
3760: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
3761: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
3762: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
3763: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
3764: shut down.]
3765: <p>
3766:
1.247 jufi 3767: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3768: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 3769: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 3770: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
3771: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 3772: </strong></font><br>
3773:
3774: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
3775: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
3776: <p>
1.247 jufi 3777: </ul>
1.172 mickey 3778:
1.161 louis 3779: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3780: <ul>
1.161 louis 3781:
1.247 jufi 3782: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 3783: <a
1.269 deraadt 3784: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
3785: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
3786: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 3787: </strong></font><br>
3788:
3789: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
3790: by John Wolley
3791: <p>
3792:
1.247 jufi 3793: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 3794: <a
1.269 deraadt 3795: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
3796: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
3797: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 3798: </strong></font><br>
3799:
3800: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
3801: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
3802: OpenBSD).
3803: <p>
3804:
1.247 jufi 3805: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 3806: <a
1.247 jufi 3807: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 3808: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
3809: </strong></font><br>
3810:
3811: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
3812: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
3813: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
3814: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
3815: and hindsight.
3816: <p>
3817:
1.247 jufi 3818: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3819: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
3820: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
3821: </strong></font><br>
3822:
3823: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
3824: <p>
3825:
1.247 jufi 3826: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 3827: <a
1.168 provos 3828: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
3829: December 7, 2000
3830: </strong></font><br>
3831:
3832: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
3833: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
3834: us explain.
3835: <p>
3836:
1.247 jufi 3837: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 3838: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
3839: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 3840: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 3841: December 6, 2000
3842: </strong></font><br>
3843:
3844: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
3845: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
3846: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
3847: <p>
3848:
1.247 jufi 3849: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3850: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
3851: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
3852: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
3853: </strong></font><br>
3854:
3855: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
3856: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
3857: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
3858: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
3859: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
3860: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
3861: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
3862: <p>
3863:
3864: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 3865: <a
1.226 horacio 3866: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
3867: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 3868: </strong></font><br>
3869:
3870: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 3871: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 3872: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 3873: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
3874: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
3875: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 3876: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 3877: <p>
1.162 millert 3878:
1.247 jufi 3879: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 3880: <a
1.161 louis 3881: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
3882: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
3883: </strong></font><br>
3884:
3885: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
3886: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
3887: <p>
3888:
1.247 jufi 3889: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3890: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
3891: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
3892: </strong></font><br>
3893:
3894: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
3895: <p>
3896:
3897:
1.247 jufi 3898: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 3899: <a
1.226 horacio 3900: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
3901: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
3902: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 3903: </strong></font><br>
3904:
3905: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
3906: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
3907: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
3908: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
3909: <p>
1.247 jufi 3910: </ul>
1.169 louis 3911:
1.158 louis 3912: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3913: <ul>
1.147 louis 3914:
1.247 jufi 3915: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3916: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
3917: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 3918: </strong></font><br>
3919:
3920: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
3921: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
3922: <p>
3923:
1.247 jufi 3924: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3925: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
3926: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
3927: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 3928: </strong></font><br>
3929: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
3930: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
3931: <p>
3932:
1.247 jufi 3933: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 3934: <a
3935: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
3936: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
3937: </strong></font><br>
3938:
3939: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
3940: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
3941: <p>
3942:
1.247 jufi 3943: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3944: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 3945: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
3946: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 3947:
1.213 horacio 3948: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 3949: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 3950: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
3951: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
3952: <p>
1.215 horacio 3953:
1.247 jufi 3954: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3955: <a
3956: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
3957: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
3958: </strong></font><br>
3959:
3960: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
3961: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
3962: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
3963: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
3964: much of the attitude too).
3965: <p>
1.161 louis 3966:
1.247 jufi 3967: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3968: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3969: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 3970: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3971:
1.157 louis 3972: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
3973: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
3974: <p>
1.247 jufi 3975: </ul>
1.157 louis 3976:
3977: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3978: <ul>
1.157 louis 3979:
1.247 jufi 3980: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3981: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3982: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 3983: </strong></font><br>
3984:
3985: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
3986: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
3987: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
3988: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
3989: <p>
3990:
1.247 jufi 3991: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 3992: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
3993: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
3994: </strong></font><br>
3995:
3996: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
3997: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
3998: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
3999: it because they love coding...
4000: <p>
4001:
1.247 jufi 4002: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 4003: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
4004: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
4005: </strong></font><br>
4006:
4007: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
4008: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
4009: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
4010: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
4011: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
4012: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
4013: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
4014: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
4015: <p>
4016:
1.247 jufi 4017: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4018: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
4019: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
4020: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 4021: </strong></font><br>
4022:
4023: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
4024: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
4025: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
4026: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
4027: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
4028: the pizza.
4029: <p>
4030:
1.247 jufi 4031: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 4032: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
4033: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
4034: </strong></font><br>
4035:
4036: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
4037: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
4038: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
4039: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
4040: problems.
4041: <p>
4042:
1.247 jufi 4043: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 4044: <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 4045: </strong></font><br>
4046:
1.222 miod 4047: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 4048: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
4049: - whether they like it or not.
4050: <p>
4051:
1.247 jufi 4052: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4053: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
4054: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 4055: </strong></font><br>
4056:
4057: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
4058: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
4059: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 4060: <p>
1.148 aaron 4061:
1.247 jufi 4062: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4063: <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 4064: </strong></font><br>
4065:
4066: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
4067: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
4068: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
4069: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
4070: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
4071: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
4072: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
4073: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
4074: <p>
4075:
1.247 jufi 4076: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4077: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
4078: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 4079: </strong></font><br>
4080:
4081: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
4082: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 4083: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 4084: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
4085: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
4086: <p>
1.247 jufi 4087: </ul>
1.147 louis 4088:
1.138 louis 4089: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4090: <ul>
1.138 louis 4091:
1.247 jufi 4092: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4093: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
4094: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
4095: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
4096: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 4097: </strong></font><br>
4098:
1.227 horacio 4099: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 4100: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
4101: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
4102: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
4103: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
4104: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
4105: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
4106: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 4107: <p>
4108:
1.247 jufi 4109: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 4110: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 4111: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 4112: </strong></font><br>
4113:
4114: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
4115: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
4116: groups, and even Linux.
4117: <p>
4118:
1.247 jufi 4119: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4120: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
4121: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 4122: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
4123: </strong></font><br>
4124:
4125: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
4126: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
4127: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
4128: library after installing the OS.
4129: <p>
4130:
1.247 jufi 4131: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4132: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 4133: Sys Admin, September 2000
4134: </strong></font><br>
4135:
4136: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
4137: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
4138: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
4139: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 4140: (<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>,
4141: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
4142: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
4143: <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 4144: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 4145: out of the system.
4146: <p>
4147:
1.247 jufi 4148: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 4149: <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
4150: </strong></font><br>
4151:
4152: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 4153: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 4154: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
4155: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
4156: the IP filtering and address translation.
4157: <p>
1.301 jose 4158:
4159: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4160: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
4161: </strong></font><br>
4162:
4163: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
4164: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
4165: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
4166: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
4167: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
4168: <p>
1.247 jufi 4169: </ul>
1.200 niklas 4170:
1.131 louis 4171: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4172: <ul>
1.131 louis 4173:
1.247 jufi 4174: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4175: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
4176: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
4177: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 4178: </strong></font><br>
4179:
4180: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
4181: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
4182: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
4183: <p>
4184:
1.247 jufi 4185: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 4186: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
4187: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
4188: </strong></font><br>
4189:
4190: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
4191: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
4192: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
4193: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
4194: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
4195: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
4196: note of"</i>.
4197: <p>
4198:
1.247 jufi 4199: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 4200: <a
1.247 jufi 4201: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 4202: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
4203: </strong></font><br>
4204:
4205: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
4206: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
4207: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
4208: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
4209: <p>
4210:
1.247 jufi 4211: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 4212: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 4213: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
4214: </strong></font><br>
4215:
4216: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
4217: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
4218: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
4219: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
4220: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
4221: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
4222: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
4223: <p>
4224:
1.247 jufi 4225: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 4226: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
4227: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
4228: 2000
4229: </strong></font><br>
4230:
4231: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
4232: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
4233: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
4234: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
4235: against current industry practices.
4236: <p>
4237:
1.247 jufi 4238: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 4239: <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
4240: </strong></font><br>
4241:
4242: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
4243: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
4244: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
4245: <p>
4246:
1.247 jufi 4247: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 4248: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
4249: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
4250: </strong></font><br>
4251:
4252: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
4253: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
4254: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
4255: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
4256: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
4257: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
4258: careful code reviews, he concludes.
4259: <p>
4260:
1.247 jufi 4261: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 4262: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
4263: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
4264: </strong></font><br>
4265:
4266: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
4267: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
4268: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
4269: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
4270: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 4271: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
4272: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
4273: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 4274: <p>
1.247 jufi 4275: </ul>
1.131 louis 4276:
1.118 louis 4277: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4278: <ul>
1.118 louis 4279:
1.247 jufi 4280: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 4281: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
4282: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
4283: </strong></font><br>
4284:
4285: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
4286: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
4287: about time. The article mentions that
4288: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
4289: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
4290: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 4291: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 4292: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
4293: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 4294: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 4295: <p>
4296:
1.247 jufi 4297: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4298: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 4299: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 4300: </strong></font><br>
4301:
4302: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
4303: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
4304: of OpenSSH.
4305: <p>
4306:
1.247 jufi 4307: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4308: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4309: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 4310: </strong></font><br>
4311:
4312: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 4313: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 4314: bridging.
4315: <p>
4316:
1.247 jufi 4317: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4318: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
4319: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 4320: </strong></font><br>
4321:
1.121 deraadt 4322: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
4323: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 4324: <p>
4325:
1.247 jufi 4326: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 4327: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
4328: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
4329: </strong></font><br>
4330:
4331: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
4332: <p>
4333:
1.247 jufi 4334: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 4335: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 4336: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
4337: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 4338: </strong></font><br>
4339:
1.120 deraadt 4340: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
4341: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 4342: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
4343: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
4344: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
4345: <p>
4346:
1.247 jufi 4347: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 4348: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
4349: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
4350: </strong></font><br>
4351:
1.222 miod 4352: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 4353: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
4354: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
4355: protocols and their quirks.
4356: <p>
4357:
1.247 jufi 4358: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4359: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
4360: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 4361: </strong></font><br>
4362:
4363: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
4364: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
4365: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 4366: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 4367: <p>
4368:
1.247 jufi 4369: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 4370: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
4371: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
4372: </strong></font><br>
4373:
4374: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
4375: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
4376: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
4377: <p>
4378:
1.247 jufi 4379: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 4380: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 4381: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
4382: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 4383: </strong></font><br>
4384:
4385: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
4386: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
4387: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
4388: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
4389: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
4390: <p>
1.247 jufi 4391: </ul>
1.118 louis 4392:
1.104 louis 4393: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4394: <ul>
1.104 louis 4395:
1.247 jufi 4396: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 4397: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
4398: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
4399: </strong></font><br>
4400:
4401: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
4402: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
4403: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
4404: be a bit dry.
4405: <p>
4406:
1.247 jufi 4407: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4408: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
4409: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
4410: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
4411: </strong></font><br>
4412: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
4413: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
4414: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
4415: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
4416: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
4417: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
4418: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
4419: <p>
4420:
1.247 jufi 4421: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4422: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
4423: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 4424: 2000
1.128 louis 4425: </strong></font><br>
4426:
4427: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
4428: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
4429: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
4430: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
4431: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 4432: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 4433: <p>
4434:
1.247 jufi 4435: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4436: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
4437: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 4438: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 4439:
4440: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
4441: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
4442: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
4443: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 4444: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
4445: <p>
1.110 louis 4446:
1.247 jufi 4447: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 4448: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
4449: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
4450: </strong></font><br>
4451:
4452: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
4453: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
4454: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
4455: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
4456: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
4457: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
4458: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
4459: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
4460: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
4461: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
4462: <p>
4463:
1.247 jufi 4464: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 4465: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 4466: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 4467:
4468: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
4469: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 4470: <p>
1.108 louis 4471:
1.247 jufi 4472: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 4473: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
4474: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 4475: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 4476:
4477: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
4478: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
4479: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 4480: <p>
1.106 louis 4481:
1.247 jufi 4482: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 4483: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
4484: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 4485: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 4486:
4487: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
4488: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
4489: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
4490: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 4491: <p>
1.107 louis 4492:
1.247 jufi 4493: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4494: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
4495: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 4496: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 4497:
4498: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
4499: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 4500: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 4501: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
4502: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 4503: <p>
1.105 louis 4504:
1.247 jufi 4505: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 4506: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 4507: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 4508: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 4509:
1.113 naddy 4510: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
4511: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 4512: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 4513: <p>
1.104 louis 4514:
1.247 jufi 4515: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4516: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
4517: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
4518: </strong></font><br>
4519:
4520: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
4521: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
4522: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
4523: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
4524: <p>
1.301 jose 4525:
4526: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4527: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
4528: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
4529: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
4530:
4531: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
4532: hardware-supported cryptography.
4533: <p>
1.247 jufi 4534: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 4535:
1.85 louis 4536: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4537: <ul>
1.85 louis 4538:
1.247 jufi 4539: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4540: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 4541: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 4542: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 4543:
4544: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
4545: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
4546: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
4547: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
4548: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
4549: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
4550: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 4551: <p>
1.99 louis 4552:
1.247 jufi 4553: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4554: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 4555: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 4556: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 4557:
4558: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
4559: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
4560: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
4561: conditions.
1.113 naddy 4562: <p>
1.100 louis 4563:
1.247 jufi 4564: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4565: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 4566: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 4567: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 4568:
4569: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
4570: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
4571: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
4572: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 4573: <p>
1.95 louis 4574:
1.247 jufi 4575: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4576: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 4577: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 4578: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 4579:
4580: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
4581: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 4582: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 4583: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
4584: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4585: <p>
1.92 louis 4586:
1.247 jufi 4587: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4588: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 4589: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 4590: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 4591:
4592: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
4593: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
4594: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
4595: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
4596: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
4597: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 4598: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 4599: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 4600: <p>
1.91 louis 4601:
1.247 jufi 4602: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4603: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
4604: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 4605: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 4606:
4607: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
4608: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
4609: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
4610: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
4611: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
4612: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
4613: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
4614: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
4615: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 4616: <p>
1.90 louis 4617:
1.247 jufi 4618: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 4619: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
4620: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
4621: </strong></font><br>
4622: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
4623: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
4624: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
4625: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
4626: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
4627: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
4628: <p>
4629:
1.247 jufi 4630: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 4631: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
4632: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 4633: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 4634:
1.113 naddy 4635: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
4636: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 4637: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
4638: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
4639: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
4640: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
4641: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 4642: <p>
1.87 louis 4643:
1.247 jufi 4644: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 4645: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
4646: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 4647: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 4648:
4649: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 4650: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 4651: <p>
1.85 louis 4652:
1.247 jufi 4653: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4654: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
4655: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4656: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
4657:
4658: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
4659: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
4660: <p>
4661:
4662: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 4663: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
4664: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 4665: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 4666:
4667: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 4668: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 4669: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
4670: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 4671: <p>
1.89 louis 4672:
1.247 jufi 4673: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 4674: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
1.85 louis 4675: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 4676: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 4677:
4678: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
4679: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
4680: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
4681: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
4682: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 4683: </ul>
1.85 louis 4684:
1.78 deraadt 4685: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4686: <ul>
1.74 louis 4687:
1.247 jufi 4688: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4689: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 4690: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 4691: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 4692: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 4693:
4694: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
4695: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
4696: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4697: <p>
1.83 louis 4698:
1.247 jufi 4699: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 4700: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
4701: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 4702: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 4703:
4704: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
4705: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 4706: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 4707: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
4708: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 4709: <p>
1.93 louis 4710:
1.247 jufi 4711: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4712: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
4713: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
4714: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 4715: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 4716:
1.83 louis 4717: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
4718: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
4719: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
4720: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
4721: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 4722: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
4723: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
4724: <p>
1.82 aaron 4725:
1.247 jufi 4726: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4727: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 4728: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 4729: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 4730:
1.83 louis 4731: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
4732: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
4733: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 4734: <p>
1.80 louis 4735:
1.247 jufi 4736: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4737: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 4738: Bad Press</a>,
4739: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 4740: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 4741:
4742: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 4743: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 4744: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
4745: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
4746: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 4747: <p>
1.247 jufi 4748: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 4749:
4750: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4751: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 4752:
1.247 jufi 4753: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4754: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
4755: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 4756: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 4757: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 4758:
4759: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
4760: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
4761: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
4762: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 4763: <p>
1.74 louis 4764:
1.247 jufi 4765: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 4766: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
4767: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 4768: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 4769:
1.219 horacio 4770: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
4771: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
4772: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
4773: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
4774: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
4775: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
4776: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 4777: <p>
1.88 louis 4778:
1.247 jufi 4779: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 4780: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 4781: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 4782: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 4783:
4784: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
4785: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
4786: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
4787: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 4788: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 4789: <p>
1.81 louis 4790:
1.247 jufi 4791: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4792: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 4793: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 4794: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 4795:
4796: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
4797: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
4798: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
4799: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
4800: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
4801: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
4802: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 4803: <p>
1.90 louis 4804:
1.247 jufi 4805: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4806: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 4807: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 4808: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 4809:
4810: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
4811: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
4812: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 4813: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 4814: <p>
1.247 jufi 4815: </ul>
1.71 louis 4816:
1.69 deraadt 4817: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4818: <ul>
1.70 louis 4819:
1.247 jufi 4820: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4821: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
4822: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 4823: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 4824:
4825: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
4826: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
4827: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 4828: <p>
1.70 louis 4829:
1.247 jufi 4830: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4831: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
4832: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 4833: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 4834:
4835: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 4836: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 4837: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 4838: <p>
1.68 louis 4839:
1.247 jufi 4840: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4841: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
4842: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 4843: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 4844: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 4845:
1.111 jufi 4846: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
4847: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 4848: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 4849: "secure by default" installation.
4850: <p>
1.64 louis 4851:
1.247 jufi 4852: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 4853: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 4854: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 4855: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 4856:
1.113 naddy 4857: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 4858: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 4859: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 4860: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
4861: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
4862: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 4863: <p>
1.66 louis 4864:
1.247 jufi 4865: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4866: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 4867: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4868: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 4869:
4870: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 4871: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 4872: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
4873: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
4874: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 4875: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
4876: <p>
1.83 louis 4877:
1.247 jufi 4878: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4879: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 4880: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4881: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 4882:
4883: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 4884: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
4885: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 4886: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
4887: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 4888: <p>
1.64 louis 4889:
1.247 jufi 4890: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4891: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 4892: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4893: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 4894:
4895: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
4896: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 4897: <p>
1.301 jose 4898:
4899: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4900: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
4901: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
4902: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
4903: </strong></font><br>
4904:
4905: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
4906: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
4907: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
4908: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
4909: Giving way to
4910: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
4911: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
4912: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
4913: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
4914: <p>
1.247 jufi 4915: </ul>
1.65 louis 4916:
1.69 deraadt 4917: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4918: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4919:
1.247 jufi 4920: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4921: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 4922: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 4923: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 4924:
4925: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
4926: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
4927: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
4928: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 4929: <p>
1.88 louis 4930:
1.247 jufi 4931: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4932: <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 4933: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 4934:
4935: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 4936: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
4937: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 4938: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
4939: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 4940: <p>
1.60 louis 4941:
1.247 jufi 4942: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 4943: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 4944: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 4945: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 4946: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4947:
4948: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
4949: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
4950: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 4951: <p>
1.58 louis 4952:
1.247 jufi 4953: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 4954: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 4955: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 4956:
4957: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
4958: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 4959: <p>
1.53 louis 4960:
1.247 jufi 4961: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 4962: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
4963: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 4964: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 4965:
4966: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
4967: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
4968: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 4969: <p>
1.99 louis 4970:
1.247 jufi 4971: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 4972: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 4973: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4974:
4975: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
4976: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 4977: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 4978: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 4979: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 4980:
1.247 jufi 4981: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4982: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
4983: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 4984: </strong></font><br>
4985:
4986: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
4987: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
4988: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
4989: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
4990: <p>
4991:
1.247 jufi 4992: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4993: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 4994: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 4995: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4996:
4997: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
4998: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 4999: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 5000:
1.247 jufi 5001: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 5002: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 5003: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 5004:
5005: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 5006: in
1.247 jufi 5007: <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 5008: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 5009: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 5010: <p>
1.53 louis 5011:
1.247 jufi 5012: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5013: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 5014: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
5015: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 5016: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 5017:
1.58 louis 5018: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5019: <p>
1.301 jose 5020:
5021: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5022: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
5023: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
5024: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
5025: Informacyjny, January 2000
5026: </strong></font><br>
5027:
5028: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
5029: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
5030: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
5031: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
5032: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
5033: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
5034: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
5035: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
5036: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
5037: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 5038: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
5039: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 5040: <p>
5041:
5042: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5043: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
5044: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
5045: </strong></font><br>
5046:
5047: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
5048: <p>
5049: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 5050:
1.69 deraadt 5051: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5052: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5053:
1.247 jufi 5054: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 5055: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
5056: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
5057: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 5058: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5059:
1.58 louis 5060: Kurt Seifried
5061: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
5062: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
5063: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 5064: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 5065:
1.247 jufi 5066: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5067: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 5068: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 5069: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 5070:
5071: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 5072: <p>
1.96 louis 5073:
1.247 jufi 5074: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5075: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
5076: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
5077: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
5078: </strong></font><br>
5079:
5080: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
5081: <p>
5082:
5083: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5084: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 5085: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 5086: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 5087:
5088: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
5089: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 5090: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 5091: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 5092: <p>
1.247 jufi 5093: </ul>
1.86 louis 5094:
1.69 deraadt 5095: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5096: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5097:
1.247 jufi 5098: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 5099: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
5100: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 5101: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 5102:
5103: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
5104: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 5105: <p>
1.61 louis 5106:
1.247 jufi 5107: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5108: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 5109: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
5110: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5111: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 5112:
5113: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 5114: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 5115: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
5116: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 5117: right -- or at least strives to".
5118: <p>
1.48 louis 5119:
1.247 jufi 5120: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 5121: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
5122: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5123: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 5124: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
5125: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
5126: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
5127: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 5128: <p>
1.61 louis 5129:
1.247 jufi 5130: <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 5131: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 5132: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 5133:
5134: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
5135: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
5136: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
5137: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 5138: <p>
1.46 louis 5139:
1.247 jufi 5140: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 5141: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
5142: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 5143: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5144:
5145: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
5146: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 5147: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 5148:
1.247 jufi 5149: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 5150: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
5151: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 5152: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 5153:
5154: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
5155: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
5156: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
5157: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 5158: <p>
1.247 jufi 5159: </ul>
1.70 louis 5160:
1.69 deraadt 5161: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5162: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5163:
1.247 jufi 5164: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5165: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
5166: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 5167: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 5168: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 5169:
5170: Kurt Seifried
5171: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
5172: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
5173: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 5174: <p>
1.44 philen 5175:
1.247 jufi 5176: <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 5177: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 5178: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 5179:
5180: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 5181: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 5182:
1.247 jufi 5183: <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 5184: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 5185: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 5186:
5187: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 5188: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 5189:
1.247 jufi 5190: <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 5191: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 5192: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 5193:
5194: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
5195: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
5196: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
5197: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 5198: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 5199:
1.247 jufi 5200: <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 5201: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 5202: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 5203:
1.36 louis 5204: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 5205: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 5206:
1.247 jufi 5207: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5208: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
1.39 louis 5209: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 5210: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 5211:
5212: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 5213: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 5214: </ul>
1.38 louis 5215:
1.69 deraadt 5216: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5217: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5218:
1.247 jufi 5219: <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 5220: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 5221: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 5222:
5223: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
5224: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 5225: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 5226:
1.113 naddy 5227: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 5228: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 5229: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 5230: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 5231:
5232: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
5233: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 5234: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
5235: terminal:
1.113 naddy 5236: <blockquote>
5237: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
5238: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
5239: <br>
5240: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
5241: </code>
5242: </blockquote>
5243: <p>
5244:
1.247 jufi 5245: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 5246: <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 5247: <p>
5248:
5249: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5250: <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 5251: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 5252:
5253: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
5254: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 5255: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 5256: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 5257:
1.247 jufi 5258: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5259: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
5260: Sept. 28, 1999
5261: </strong></font><br>
5262:
5263: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
5264: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
5265: translating and reprinting articles from
5266: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
5267: <p>
5268:
5269: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 5270: <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 5271: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 5272:
5273: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
5274: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
5275: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
5276: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
5277: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 5278: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 5279: <p>
1.19 louis 5280:
1.113 naddy 5281: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 5282: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 5283: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 5284:
5285: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
5286: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
5287: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 5288: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
5289: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 5290: <p>
1.16 louis 5291:
1.247 jufi 5292: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5293: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 5294: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 5295: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 5296:
1.57 louis 5297: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
5298: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
5299: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 5300: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 5301:
1.247 jufi 5302: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5303: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.466 deraadt 5304: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5305: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5306:
1.113 naddy 5307: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 5308:
1.247 jufi 5309: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 5310: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
5311: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 5312: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 5313:
1.23 louis 5314: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
5315: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
5316: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
5317: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
5318: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 5319: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 5320:
1.247 jufi 5321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 5322: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
5323: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 5324: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 5325:
1.199 pvalchev 5326: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 5327: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
5328: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
5329: installation.
1.113 naddy 5330: <p>
1.47 louis 5331:
1.247 jufi 5332: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5333: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 5334: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 5335: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5336:
1.301 jose 5337: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
5338: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
5339: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 5340: </ul>
1.57 louis 5341:
1.69 deraadt 5342: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5343: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5344:
1.247 jufi 5345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 5346: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 5347: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 5348: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 5349:
5350: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
5351: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 5352: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5353: <p>
1.12 louis 5354:
1.247 jufi 5355: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 5356: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 5357: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 5358: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 5359:
5360: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
5361: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 5362: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
5363: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
5364: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
5365: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
5366: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 5367: <p>
1.247 jufi 5368: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 5369:
1.69 deraadt 5370: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5371: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 5372:
1.247 jufi 5373: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 5374: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 5375: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 5376:
5377: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
5378: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
5379: available."
1.113 naddy 5380: <p>
1.301 jose 5381:
5382: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5383: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
5384: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
5385: </strong></font><br>
5386:
5387: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
5388: <p>
1.247 jufi 5389: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 5390:
1.69 deraadt 5391: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5392: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5393:
1.247 jufi 5394: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 5395: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 5396: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 5397:
5398: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
5399: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
5400: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
5401: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
5402: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 5403: <p>
1.33 louis 5404:
1.247 jufi 5405: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5406: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 5407: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 5408: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5409:
1.113 naddy 5410: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
5411: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 5412: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
5413: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
5414: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 5415: <p>
1.247 jufi 5416: </ul>
1.57 louis 5417:
1.69 deraadt 5418: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5419: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5420:
1.247 jufi 5421: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5422: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 5423: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 5424: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 5425:
5426: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
5427: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 5428: <p>
1.69 deraadt 5429:
1.247 jufi 5430: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 5431: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
5432: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
5433: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 5434: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 5435:
5436: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 5437: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 5438:
1.247 jufi 5439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5440: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 5441:
1.113 naddy 5442: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 5443:
1.247 jufi 5444: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5445: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
1.68 louis 5446: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 5447: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 5448:
5449: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 5450: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 5451: </ul>
1.23 louis 5452:
1.69 deraadt 5453: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5454: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5455:
1.247 jufi 5456: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 5457: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 5458: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 5459:
5460: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
5461: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 5462: <p>
1.2 deraadt 5463:
1.247 jufi 5464: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5465: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 5466: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5467: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5468:
5469: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
5470: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 5471: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 5472: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 5473: </ul>
1.57 louis 5474:
1.69 deraadt 5475: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5476: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5477:
1.247 jufi 5478: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5479: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
1.15 louis 5480: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 5481: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 5482:
5483: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
5484: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
5485: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
5486: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5487: <p>
1.15 louis 5488:
1.247 jufi 5489: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 5490: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
5491: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 5492: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5493:
5494: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
5495: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
5496: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
5497: columns."
1.113 naddy 5498: <p>
1.247 jufi 5499: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5500:
1.69 deraadt 5501: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5502: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5503:
1.247 jufi 5504: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5505: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 5506: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 5507: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5508:
5509: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 5510: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 5511:
1.113 naddy 5512: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5513: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 5514: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5515:
5516: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
5517: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 5518: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 5519: </ul>
1.57 louis 5520:
1.69 deraadt 5521: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5522: <ul>
1.301 jose 5523: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5524: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
5525: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
5526: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
5527:
5528: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
5529: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
5530: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
5531: <p>
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