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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>
1.532 ray 172: <a href="http://www.dribin.org/dave/blog/archives/2006/04/28/os_x_passwords_2/">
173: Mac OS X Password Implementation Compared to OpenBSD's</a>, April 28, 2006
174: </strong></font><br>
175: Dave Dribin analyzes Mac OS X's password implementation
176: and compares it with OpenBSD's:
177: "The king of the hill has to go to OpenBSD,
178: which uses a hash based on the Blowfish block cipher called bcrypt.
179: The benefit of [bcrypt] is best stated on their website:
180: <blockquote>
181: The most important property of bcrypt (and thus crypt_blowfish)
182: is that it is adaptable to future processor performance improvements,
183: allowing you to arbitrarily increase the processing cost of checking a
184: password while still maintaining compatibility with your older password hashes.
185: Already now bcrypt hashes you would use are several orders of magnitude
186: stronger than traditional Unix DES-based or FreeBSD-style MD5-based hashes.
187: </blockquote>
188: This is just plain cool."
189: <p>
190:
191: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.512 ian 192: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6557">
193: OpenBSD 3.9: Blob-Busters Interviewed</a>, OnLAMP, April 27, 2006
194: </strong></font><br>
195: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several of the developers on improvements
196: in 3.9: the continuing absence of "blob drivers", IPMI and sensors, apmd performance
197: adjustment, Macs, rthreads, multicast, trunk, hostapd, and more.
1.513 saad 198: jsg clarifies the issue of "binary blob" drivers vs "firmware", and
1.512 ian 199: discusses the NVIDIA nForce Ethernet driver he did after NVIDIA did refuse
200: to give out documentation; they can't stop us, but they can slow us down.
201: The result: "There aren't any drivers in OpenBSD with binary-only components;
202: this is quite a contrast to pretty much everyone else out there."
203: marco comments on the IPMI work in 3.9, and adds:
204: "IPMI is a standard, but there are vendors out there
1.513 saad 205: that have reading comprehension issues...".
1.512 ian 206: A long list of other developers explain their contributions
207: and other changes that make 3.9 one of our best releases yet.
208: <p>
209:
210: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.517 mbalmer 211: [GERMAN]
212: <a href="http://www.guug.de/uptimes/index.html">
213: Stop BLOB!</a>, UpTimes, April 25, 2006
214: </strong></font><br>
215: Wilhelm Bühler gives an overview in a short article about Blobs, what they
216: are and why they are bad.
217: <p>
218:
219: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.508 ian 220: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/34/1/">
221: Using OpenBSD</a>, Software In Review, April 24, 2006
222: </strong></font><br>
223: Jem Matzan gives a brief overview of using the system.
224: Covers ports and packages, use of SMP kernel, and more.
225: Capsule summary of how our security policy affects the administrator:
226: "Because it is secure by default, you may have to do more initial
227: configuration with OpenBSD than with most other Unix and Unix-like
228: operating systems, but you'll spend a lot less time securing it --
229: maybe no time at all, if you follow the instructions in the manual
230: pages."
231: <p>
232:
233: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.519 ian 234: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/16/1749215.shtml?tid=8">
235: Using OpenBSD on the desktop</a>, NewsForge, April 21, 2006
236: </strong></font><br>
237: Considers the use of OpenBSD as a desktop operating system,
238: starting with "Secure by default" - who wants to have their desktop hacked? -
239: and continues:
240: "OpenBSD's clean code and design also provide rock-solid stability.
241: I used to have lots of problems and crashes with new versions of
242: Linux (kernel 2.6.x) and FreeBSD (versions 5.x and 6.x). The main
243: focus of OpenBSD developers is to provide programs that work ...
244: [they] prefer to improve their code rather than just
245: add more new features and end up with a bloated and unstable product."
246: Covers X, ports/packages, window managers, what is and is not supported,
247: and more. Final thought:
248: "OpenBSD's clean design and remarkable stability, along with its
249: proactive security, not only make OpenBSD a potential candidate for
250: home desktop users but also every system administrator's dream come
251: true for business environments."
252: <p>
253:
254: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.511 djm 255: [FRENCH]
1.509 djm 256: <a href="http://developpeur.journaldunet.com/itws/060419-itw-openssh-openbsd-miller.shtml">
1.511 djm 257: JDN Développeurs interviews Damien Miller</a>,
1.509 djm 258: JDN Développeurs, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
259: Interview with Damien Miller, discussing OpenSSH security, the OpenBSD
260: development approach, the problem of blobby drivers and the recent request
1.510 djm 261: for funding.
1.509 djm 262: <p>
263:
264: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.507 cloder 265: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6497">
266: Interview with developers Jonathan Gray and Damien Bergamini</a>,
267: Kerneltrap, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
268: An interview with the authors of OpenBSD's new NVIDIA Ethernet driver. OpenBSD's
269: policy forbidding binary driver blobs is discussed, and the developers give a good
270: overview of how they went about implementing the new driver.
271: <p>
272:
273: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.528 ian 274: <a href="http://www.thehostingnews.com/article2217.html">GoDaddy.com
275: Donates $10K to Open Source Development Project</a>,
276: The Hosting News, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
277: GoDaddy.com, which claims to be "the Number One registrar of domain
278: names worldwide", recently donated $10,000 to the OpenSSH project
279: because, "according to the company, OpenSSH has become a staple
280: of all free Unix and Linux operating systems in the world."
281: They use it, and their customers use it, and they recognize the
282: value of supporting an open source projects that is, as company
283: CEO Bob Parsons says, "integral to online security".
284: <br/>
1.529 ian 285: Similar articles at
1.528 ian 286: <a href="http://www.hostsearch.com/news/the_go_daddy_group_news_4366.asp">
1.529 ian 287: hostsearch.com</a> and
288: <a href="http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20060419090443506">
289: LinuxElectrons.com</a>
1.528 ian 290: <p>
291:
292: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.506 aanriot 293: [FRENCH] Principles and usage of OpenSSH,
294: <a href="http://www.gnulinuxmag.com/">Linux Magazine France</a>,
295: issue 82, April 2006, p. 28-33
296: </strong></font><br>
1.533 ! ray 297: A 6 page article from Alexandre Courbot focuses on OpenSSH and its
1.507 cloder 298: basics. It begins with an history of the different implementations, and
1.506 aanriot 299: is punctuated with examples.
300: Tunneling features are described, as well as
301: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=0">scp</a>,
302: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent&sektion=0">ssh-agent</a>,
303: and
304: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=0">sftp</a>.
305: <p>
306:
307: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.503 ian 308: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71658">
309: Mozilla Foundation spendet für OpenBSD</a>, heise online, April 4, 2006
310: </strong></font><br>
311: Short article mentioning the donation the Mozilla Foundation made in support of
312: further OpenSSH development.
313: The article emphasizes the opportunity to wire money through the project's
314: new European account - this one donation will not meet the
315: project's funding needs for all time.
316: <p>
1.504 bernd 317: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
318: [GERMAN] "OpenBSD mit finanziellen Problemen", c't 8/06, p. 45.,
319: April 3, 2006
320: </strong></font><br>
321: A very short article about OpenBSD's financial problems. They mention that
322: this could compromise future hackathons.
323: <p>
1.503 ian 324:
325: </ul>
326:
1.487 ian 327: <h2>March, 2006</h2>
328: <ul>
1.495 ian 329: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.500 ian 330: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/theo_interview.html">
1.501 ian 331: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>, DaemonNews, March, 2006
1.500 ian 332: </strong></font><br>
333: Chris Silva conducts a lightweight but wide-ranging and fun interview with Theo
334: on topics including "Puffy",
335: the logos used by certain other BSD projects -
336: Theo quips that "I really like how they make absolutely no statement at all" -
337: what's new in 3.9,
338: and of course project expenses.
339: Theo notes that "The electric bill is about $100 USD per week".
340: <!--
341: ... must be what comes from heating your house with VAXen.
342: -->
343: The interviewer nicely ends with a link to our donations page.
344: <p>
345:
346: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 347: <a href="http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/239/1/">
348: Linux supporters fiddle while OpenSSH burns</a>, The Jem Report, March 28, 2006
349: </strong></font><br>
1.499 ian 350: This write-up focusses on OpenBSD/OpenSSH funding, and has some
351: original legwork to go with it.
1.498 ian 352: Writer Jem Matzan took the trouble to
353: contact many of the companies who charge a lot for products
354: featuring OpenSSH and yet give nothing to OpenSSH in return.
355: Companies like SCO, IBM, Apple, and Sun.
356: Sun apparently did the worst job of responding:
357: "Since the release of Solaris 10, who has been a larger open source
358: software cheerleader than Sun Microsystems?", Matzan asks. "I asked Sun
359: representatives what they would do if OpenSSH were to disappear. The only response
360: I got was that there are parts of Solaris that compete with OpenSSH,
361: and that because of this, the company would rather not comment
362: further on the issue." What the Sun teleprompter-readers don't seem to realize -
363: but Matzan does - is that
364: <a href="http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/cmd/ssh/ssh/ssh.c">
365: SunSSH <em>is</em> OpenSSH</a>.
366: Or, at least, a mangled version of it...
367: IBM, on the other hand, is still trying to formulate their response.
368: <br/>
369: <p>
370:
371: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
372: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/20/2050223.shtml?tid=8">
373: Interview: Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD</a>, NewsForge, March 28, 2006
374: </strong></font><br>
375: A wide-ranging interview with Theo about new stuff in 3.9, security, funding,
376: "blob" drivers, and more.
377: Theo notes that "We've had 10 years of nearly fanatical devotion
378: to anything which can make OpenBSD more secure. A very important
379: part of that is that we have not been afraid to completely overhaul
380: anything even if it breaks backward compatibility. Secondly, when
381: we have found a flaw in any part of the system we have assumed that
382: the same mistake was made elsewhere, and gone on a hunt to fix them
383: all. Thirdly, we have developed and incorporated a collection of
384: methods that make software flaws very difficult to attack..."
385: Ends by trying to shame the companies that use OpenSSH without contributing
386: anything back - Sun is given especial mention here - and ends with
387: the tantalizing line ".. if an OpenSSH hole is found that applies to SunSSH,
388: Sun will not be informed. Or maybe that has happened already." Hmmmm.
389: <p>
390:
391: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 392: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259254,00.htm">
393: OpenBSD 3.9 adds sensor framework</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
394: </strong></font><br>
395: It's easy to focus on our project's security, but we innovate in other areas too.
396: This article highlights the "sensors" framework added in 3.9 to provide and integrated
397: approach to handling Dell PowerEdge servers' Embedded Server Management (ESM), IPMI, and
398: in general temperature and environmental issues.
399: "There is a significant new sensor framework [in OpenBSD 3.9], which
400: supports voltage sensors, fan sensors, temperature sensors, and so
401: on," said de Raadt. "Such a feature is still missing in Linux and
402: other major operating systems." ...
403: De Raadt has already been using the sensor framework to monitor the
404: machines running in
405: <a href="images/newrack.jpg">the project's server room</a>. "I now get a call
406: on my cell phone whenever something is wrong in the machine room,"
407: <p>
408:
409: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
410: <a href="http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/other/0,39020682,39259281,00.htm">
411: Paying for free software may be the bargain of a lifetime</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
412: </strong></font><br>
413: Starts with a Theo quote from the previous article on ZDNet:
414: "A culture of entitlement is starting to damage the open source community".
415: The article argues that mega-computer-companies that use open source tend to use BSD:
416: "The open BSDs may be less famous than Linux, but they are arguably
417: superior in stability and security. This has made it popular in
418: ISPs and elsewhere - Apple, for example, adopted BSD within OS X.
419: BSD, unlike software released under the GPL, carrys no legal
420: obligations for the adopter to provide anything for the community in return."
421: Goes on to argue that these companies <em>ought</em> to be fair enough
422: to send a small bit of their money back into funding open source.
423: "In the time it takes to read this article, we calculate that Apple
424: will have easily made enough to pay-off OpenBSD's annual losses,
425: with a little left over to buy black turtlenecks for all. It's not
426: just Apple's baby - other companies owe far more to OpenBSD - but
427: in open source a little symbolism goes a long way."
428: <p>
429:
1.487 ian 430: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.494 bernd 431: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71174">
432: OpenBSD muss an den Sparstrumpf</a>, heise online, March 23, 2006
433: </strong></font><br>
1.495 ian 434: OpenBSD is touching its savings - Small news article about the project's
1.494 bernd 435: financial situation.
436: <p>
437:
438: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 439: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259042,00.htm">
440: OpenBSD Founder Makes Funding Plea</a>, ZDNet UK, March 23, 2006
441: </strong></font><br>
442: One of the first mainstream sites to pick up on Marco's article (below),
443: this one reports the funding figures on how much it really costs to
444: produce our favorite operating system.
445: "Although OpenBSD has a number of commercial users, including many
446: ISPs, de Raadt claimed that all of its donations come from individuals
447: rather than companies many of who claim the have no budget to pay
448: for the operating system. "The culture of entitlement is starting
449: to damage the open source community," he said."
1.496 ian 450: <br/>
451: Also online at
452: <a href="http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/software/stories/135760.html">ZDNet India</a>.
453: <p>
454:
455: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
456: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/03/22/OpenBSD-money.html">
457: OpenBSD in Financial Trouble</a>, Ping Wales, March 21, 2006
458: </strong></font><br>
459: David Chisnall reports that "OpenBSD is one of my favourite platforms;
460: its focus on security and ease-of-use makes it a very simple and
461: safe system to use. Unfortunately, the OpenBSD organisation is now
462: experiencing financial difficulty. For the last two years, the
463: project has made a $20,000/year loss, something which it cannot
464: sustain indefinitely."
465: Goes on to report on the growing use of OpenBSD in commercial software
466: (and hardware!), and that none of the "big guys" has given anything back.
467: Unlike most of the articles on this topic, this one is kind enough to
468: include a direct link to our orders page and recommend its readers
469: to buy a copy of the CD to help fund the project.
1.495 ian 470: <p>
471:
472: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 473: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/06/03/21/1555243.shtml">
474: OpenBSD Project in Financial Danger</a>, Slashdot, March 21, 2006
475: </strong></font><br>
476: Slashdot mentions and quotes from Marco's article (below),
477: with a reminder that
478: "The OpenBSD team is the one that also develops the OpenSSH suite,
479: used nowadays almost everywhere."
480: Ends with this quote from Marco:
481: "Without naming entities or projects by name, there are others out
482: there that are sitting on some cash. It would be wonderful if these
483: entities could share some of the wealth to keep us going."
484: <p>
485:
486: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.505 grunk 487: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060321034114">
1.495 ian 488: OpenBSD Finances</a>, OpenBSD Journal, March 21, 2006
489: </strong></font><br>
490: Marco Peereboom's article notes that
491: "OpenBSD for the past 2 years has turned a loss of approximately $20K USD" per year.
492: Hackathons - where a lot of developers get together in critical mass and churn out
493: new ideas and new code in great quantity - cost from US$10K-30K each, and we try to run
494: a few of them each year.
495: Meanwhile, compananies that use OpenBSD and companies - many of them highly profitable -
496: that incorporate OpenSSH into operating systems and even routers and other appliances
497: have not been forthcoming: no major computer company has given funding
498: to the OpenBSD project.
499: It's time for them to do so.
500: <p>
501:
502: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.497 ian 503: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/08/1646257.shtml?tid=8">
504: Software RAID on OpenBSD using RAIDframe</a>, NewsForge, March 14, 2006
505: </strong></font><br>
506: "Software RAID provides an easy way to add redundancy or speed up a system
507: without spending lots of money on a RAID adapter."
508: Manolis Tzanidakis talks us through setting up RAID using OpenBSD.
509: He describes the detailed steps, and recommends careful testing
510: before putting the system into production, including taking one disk
511: out of service and ensuring that it gets reloaded correctly.
512: Ends with a technique for monitoring clean operation on an ongoing basis.
513: <p>
514:
515: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.489 deraadt 516: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">Report on Business Television</a>
517: March 10, 5:45pm MST</strong></font><br>
1.490 deraadt 518: Theo de Raadt was interviewed by Howard Green on <b>The Business Show</b>:<br>
519: <!-- North America mirror:
520: <a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB avi file</a>
1.491 deraadt 521: -->
1.490 deraadt 522: European mirror:
523: <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/20060310/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB AVI file</a>
524: <br>
525: A longer segment is also available at <a href="http://www.robtv.ca">www.robtv.ca</a>.
1.489 deraadt 526: <p>
527:
528: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.487 ian 529: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/openbgpd.html">OpenBGPd in OpenBSD</a>
530: Daemon News, March, 2006</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 531: Check out the notes and slides from Henning Brauer's presentation at
1.487 ian 532: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0602/">NANOG 36</a>;
533: the text and questions cover everything from how and why OpenBGPd got created,
534: through configuration and tools, to integration with pf and CARP,
535: to technical issues regarding use of IPSEC to provide security for BGP packets.
536: Along the way there's considerable discussion on how the program was
537: designed to provide reliability and security.
538: <p>
539:
540: </ul>
541:
1.485 ian 542: <h2>February, 2006</h2>
543: <ul>
544: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.486 ian 545: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1859">Zero to IPSec in 4 minutes</a>
546: Security Focus, February 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
547: This article, as its lead-in says,
1.497 ian 548: "looks at how to get a fully functional IPSec VPN up and running between two fresh OpenBSD
1.486 ian 549: installations in about four minutes flat".
550: If you've shied away from setting up an IPSEC VPN because of config file complexity,
551: now is the time to reconsider.
1.497 ian 552: Dragos Ruiu shows you how the ipsecctl command (introduced to the world in OpenBSD 3.8)
1.486 ian 553: makes it really easy to set up a VPN between consenting OpenBSD machines.
554: He states that he and a colleague were able to get two machines talking over IPSEC
555: in a few minutes, and only changing a few configuration files.
556: He also comments on the relative ease of installing our favorite OS, and hopes
557: that our ipsecctl will be adopted by the other BSDs (hopefully in a compatible way)
558: to make firewall setups easier all around the network.
559: But you don't need to wait for that if you're running OpenBSD 3.8; just follow
560: the steps in the article.
561: <p>
562:
563: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.485 ian 564: <a href="http://www.networkmagazineindia.com/200602/vendorvoice02.shtml">The Worm in the Machine</a>
565: Network Magazine India, February 2006</strong></font><br>
566: Dilip Ranade elaborates on several reasons why software is drearily buggy and endlessly insecure,
567: particularly in comparison with other technologies.
568: Imagines how very bad shape the automotive industry would be in if you had to sign the
569: same disclaimer of (non-)usability that almost every commercial EULA requires of computer users.
570: Ends with "I once dreamt that all the computer users in the world
571: arose in revolt and switched to hardened OpenBSD", though he admits that there's "fat chance" of it
572: happening in real life.
573: <p>
574:
575: </ul>
576:
1.492 ian 577: <h2>January, 2006</h2>
578: <ul>
579: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
580: <a href="http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2006/01/28.html">Kevin Mitnick on
581: Coast to Coast AM Radio Show with Art Bell</a>, Jan 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
582: Art Bell interviewed Kevin Mitnick on his call-in show;
583: Paul Zacharzewski from Edmonton called to ask Mitnick for his opinion of OpenBSD.
584: If you don't want to download the whole show from coasttocoastam.com,
585: you can listen to an
1.497 ian 586: <a href="http://unworkable.org/misc/mitnick.mp3">MP3 excerpt of this call</a>
1.492 ian 587: in which Mitnick says: "Well, I actually use OpenBSD, so I do like it".
588: </ul>
589:
1.483 ian 590: <h2>December, 2005</h2>
591: <ul>
592: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.484 djm 593: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/375/1">OpenSSH cutting edge</a>
594: SecurityFocus, December 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
595: Federico Biancuzzi interviews OpenSSH developer Damien Miller to discuss
596: features included in the upcoming version 4.3, public key crypto
597: protocols details, timing based attacks and anti-worm measures.
598: <p>
599:
600: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 601: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/11/21/175249.shtml?tid=92&tid=78">Creating
1.483 ian 602: Secure Wireless Access Points with OpenBSD and OpenVPN</a>
603: NewsForge, December 13, 2005</strong></font><br>
604: A cookbook approach to setting up a wireless interface as a secure Access Point
605: using OpenBSD's hostap, pf, and authpf.
606: Configuration examples are given with basic explanations and links
607: to sites with more information on most topics.
608: <p>
609:
610: </ul>
611:
612:
1.479 grunk 613: <h2>November, 2005</h2>
614: <ul>
615: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 616: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20051116145737">OpenBSD
1.482 ian 617: Goes to Venice</a>,
618: OpenBSD Journal, November 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 619: "What happens when you put a dozen developers on a little island with their
1.482 ian 620: laptops, power, and an internet connection?
621: <br/>
622: During the first week of November some OpenBSD developers met in a
623: little island in Venice's lagoon to hack on the ports system.
624: This was probably the first ports hackathon and was followed by
1.497 ian 625: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON</a>, a European conference
1.482 ian 626: fully dedicated to OpenBSD..."
627: Great coverage of the OpenBSD Porting Hackathon: people, ports, beer, ...
628: Contains a link to
629: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ven05-pvalchev/mgp00008.html">
630: pval's summary slides</a>.
631: <p>
632:
633: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.481 niallo 634: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1710223">
635: Trying out the new OpenBSD 3.8</a>,
636: NewsForge, November 11, 2005</strong></font><br>
637: This article describes the installation of OpenBSD 3.8 from a Linux user's
638: perspective, noting the simple elegance of the installer.
639: Although the installation process may be hard to get used to at first for
640: the average Linux user, the author tells us that one can learn a lot from
641: it. Furthermore, the article clears up the common misconception that working
1.497 ian 642: on an OpenBSD system is very different from working on a Linux system.
1.481 niallo 643: In particular, the author states that on OpenBSD, <i>"virtually the entire
644: catalog of familiar free and open source software titles is available through
645: the packages and ports system"</i>.
646: <p>
647:
648: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
649: <a href="http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3561526">
650: Return of The BSDs</a>,
651: internetnews.com, November 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
652: This article mentions that with all three major BSD flavors having had
653: a release this fall, BSD is <i>"still very much alive and kicking among
654: all the noise and buzz created by Linux"</i>. The author talks about
655: various new or improved features of 3.8, such as bioctl(8), hostapd(8),
656: network interface aggregation and sasyncd(8), and there are some
657: quotes from Bob Beck.
658: <p>
659:
660: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.479 grunk 661: <a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/051101/152/fvrlx.html">
662: OpenBSD 3.8 improves hardware support</a>,
663: ZDNet UK, November 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.480 ian 664: This article reports on OpenBSD 3.8, which was released on November 1.
665: The author gives an overview of the improvements and new
1.479 grunk 666: features that were made with 3.8, and quotes Theo on RAID management
667: and Linux.<br>
668: The 3.8 release hit the news also in some other places:
669: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1258232">Slashdot</a>
670: and <a href="http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=12482">OSNews</a>
671: also report about it, mostly repeating parts
672: of the release
673: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/ANNOUNCEMENT">ANNOUNCEMENT</a>.
674: <p>
675: </ul>
676:
1.476 ian 677: <h2>October, 2005</h2>
678: <ul>
679:
680: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
681: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1375194866;fp;16;fpid;0">
682: 'Nightmare' drove desperate user to open source</a>,
683: Computerworld, October 24, 2005</strong></font><br>
684: A great tale of how Mark Uemura of PricewaterhouseCoopers Japan
685: was forced to move to OpenBSD because the alternatives were too costly
686: and too unreliable.
687: This quote will rattle some cages:
688: "IT managers who want to deploy an open source solution but are
689: worried about company politics should go ahead and do it without
690: asking," according to Uemura, who was promoted to IT Manager of PWC Japan
691: after saving the company seven IT-samurais' salaries.
692: Further, "In Japan large organizations like Morgan Stanley and the
693: Bank of America have moved all their backend systems to open source,
694: Uemura said, because with open source you can reduce IT operating
695: costs without any commercial lock-in."
696: <p>
697:
1.477 saad 698: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
699: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6270">
700: OpenBSD 3.8: Hackers of the Lost RAID</a>,
701: ONLamp.com, October 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
702: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
703: new features in OpenBSD 3.8 including interface trunking,
704: internationalization support, Inter-Access Point Protocol (IAPP),
705: IPSec SA synchronization daemon, and RAID management. There is also some
706: discussion about future plans.
707: <p>
708:
1.478 grunk 709: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
710: <a href="http://securityfocus.com/columnists/361">
711: OpenBSD's network stack</a>,
712: SecurityFocus, October 12, 2005</strong></font><br>
713: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about OpenBSD's
714: network stack, including protection against ICMP attacks, and propagation
715: of enhancements into other BSDs and into Linux.
716: The interview also features the other protection mechanisms in the network
717: stack, a comparison to the network stack in Linux, and the history and
718: current status of <a href="http://www.openbgpd.org/">OpenBGPD</a>.
719: <p>
720:
1.476 ian 721: </ul>
722:
1.470 saad 723: <h2>September, 2005</h2>
724: <ul>
725:
726: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.474 niallo 727: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/359">
728: Security-related innovation in Unix</a>,
729: SecurityFocus, Sept. 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
730: An article examining the mmap-based malloc() implementation to be
731: included in OpenBSD 3.8. The author states that <i>"it will help OpenBSD
732: users to find bugs in software more easily, which will result in better
733: applications for everyone"</i>. He goes on to say that <i>"the more hurdles
734: that one has to jump through for good security, the less likely people will
735: go through the trouble. OpenBSD allows even the most inexperienced users to
736: take advantage of these technologies without any effort"</i>.
737: <p>
738:
739: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.473 aanriot 740: <a href="http://www.miscmag.com/articles/index.php3?page=2100">
741: [FRENCH] Champ libre : les chantiers OpenBSD</a>
742: Misc, number 21, Sept/Oct, 2005, p. 4-14</strong></font><br>
743: An interesting article about OpenBSD and associated projects. Saad Kadhi
744: and Guillaume Arcas describe useful things you can do with PF and
745: OpenSSH, and give a nice introduction to OpenNTPD and OpenCVS. If the
746: article is focused on the presentation, you can find some interesting
747: technical aspects people are not always acquainted to. A few examples
748: are shown, like a basic CARP setup, or the manner to use multiplexing
749: with OpenSSH and even how to check an OpenSSH server's keys using DNS.
750: <p>
751:
752: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 753: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/news/11306">
754: Big debate over small packets</a>,
755: SecurityFocus, Sept. 7, 2005</strong></font><br>
756: Robert Lemos discusses the ICMP denial-of-service vulnerabilities found
757: by Fernando Gont and fixed in OpenBSD. To date, OpenBSD is the only
758: system that has implemented all of the fixes recommended in the IETF
759: draft.
760: <p>
761:
762: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.471 saad 763: <a href="http://www.pcexpert.fr/">
764: [FRENCH] "Quel est le meilleur système libre pour votre
765: ordinateur ?"</a>,
766: PC Expert, number 156, p. 42-62</strong></font><br>
767: Philippe Roure compares 11 Linux and *BSD operating systems, including
768: OpenBSD 3.7, on different criteria such as security, documentation and
769: usability. OpenBSD earned a 5/5 mark (see pages 60-61) and while a mark
770: isn't necessarily objective, the author seems to grasp the OpenBSD
771: project, its goals, and how good is the operating system. The article
772: includes an interview with Saad Kadhi.
773: <p>
774:
775: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.470 saad 776: <a href="http://www.samag.com/articles/2005/0509/">
777: Monitoring PF Firewalls for Health and Performance</a>,
778: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 9, p. 37</strong></font><br>
779: Ryan Matteson describes several utilities that can be used to monitor the
780: health and performance of a PF firewall. Besides pfctl, the article
781: covers pftop, fwanalog, monitoring logs with tcpdump and graphing
782: performance data with pfstat.
783: <p>
784:
785: </ul>
786:
1.461 grunk 787: <h2>July, 2005</h2>
788: <ul>
789:
790: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.466 deraadt 791: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5382">
792: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part III</a>,
1.467 grunk 793: Kerneltrap, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.466 deraadt 794: Jeremy Andrews writes about the recent Blind ICMP attacks discovered
795: by Fernando Gont, and the fixes done by him and OpenBSD during the
796: 2005 Hackathon.
1.469 ian 797: The article goes into the technical background of the
1.467 grunk 798: attacks, mentioning blind ICMP attacks, "hard" ICMP errors, source
1.469 ian 799: quenching, and path MTU discovery;
800: many helpful RFCs and technical papers are linked from the explanations.
801: This is followed by a recap of the whole ICMP story, involving Gont's
1.467 grunk 802: struggle with other free projects, Cisco lawyers, Microsoft people,
803: and others.<br>
1.469 ian 804: The article concludes that OpenBSD was the first project
1.467 grunk 805: to take Fernando Gont's findings seriously, and also the first group to
806: be really painless to work with.
1.466 deraadt 807: <p>
808:
809: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.464 grunk 810: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/06/security_blame/">
811: Security meltdown: who's to blame?</a>,
1.466 deraadt 812: The Register, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.464 grunk 813: This article talks about various groups that are frequently blamed for
814: poor security:
1.467 grunk 815: individuals, ISPs, companies, crackers, security mailing lists,
1.464 grunk 816: and last but not least: OS vendors!
1.467 grunk 817: In the last paragraph, OpenBSD's style of <i>"dumbed-down, simplified
1.464 grunk 818: and secure systems (with a heavily audited code base)"</i> is described
819: as <i>"one of the smartest approaches to security"</i>.
820: <p>
821:
822: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.461 grunk 823: <a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-7-5/30084.html">
824: Theo de Raadt on Industry and Free Software</a>,
1.466 deraadt 825: The Epoch Times, July 5, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.463 tom 826: In this interview, Theo talks about the inception of the OpenBSD project
827: and its goals, as well as its impact on the commercial IT industry.
1.461 grunk 828: He points out once more that <i>"vendors who incorporate OpenSSH have
829: given us absolutely nothing back - not a cent"</i>.
830: Other topics covered include the OpenBSD team, Theo's role as
831: <i>"benevolent dictator"</i>, and the security process, which he compares
832: to the security efforts led by other free software projects and some
833: commercial vendors.
834: <p>
835:
836: </ul>
837:
1.454 ian 838: <h2>June, 2005</h2>
839: <ul>
1.468 grunk 840:
841: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
842: <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/ns-ttc062205.php">
843: The true cost of computer crime</a>,
844: EurekAlert / <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/">New Scientist Magazine</a>,
845: issue June 25, 2005</strong></font><br>
846: This article looks at computer crime, especially the way upcoming
847: vulnerability reports are dealt with. It also gives a short overview of the
1.469 ian 848: institutions involved in the process (vendors, free projects, CERTs).
1.468 grunk 849: <br>
850: The author mentions the work of Andy Ozment, who researches vulnerability
851: disclosure at the University of Cambridge. Using OpenBSD as a good example
852: of how disclosure and consequent fixing of bugs helps to strengthen security,
853: he refutes the widely spread FUD that disclosing vulnerabilities leads to
854: more harm than good. Ozment's methodology was to examine OpenBSD's CVS logs
1.469 ian 855: and note when fixes were published; his research shows that
1.468 grunk 856: <i>"the number of vulnerabilities decreases as a result of disclosure"</i>.
857: <p>
858:
1.454 ian 859: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.458 niallo 860: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0704/071.html">
861: Free Bird</a>,
862: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
863: <b>(Registration required)</b> A second Forbes article about OpenBSD, more
864: focused on the project itself this time. It contains good description of the
865: history of OpenBSD along with its prime motivations. Mention is made of the
866: DARPA grant and the annual hackathon. Theo's motto "shut up and hack" finally
867: becomes famous in this piece and there are some other very insightful quotes
868: such as "All I care about is making high-quality code. If I had to work at a
869: regular job, it would drive me nuts". This is certainly an astute and perceptive
870: article, well worth reading. Do note that the big picture of Theo's machine
871: room will only be available in the print edition.
872: <p>
1.459 deraadt 873:
1.458 niallo 874: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.456 niallo 875: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html">
876: Is Linux For Losers?</a>,
877: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
878: An interesting article, if somewhat polemic in tone, which raises questions
879: about the quality of Linux code compared to OpenBSD. There is also some short
880: discussion of the OpenBSD development model and focus (push for quality above
881: everything else) including good quotes from Theo. It seems that the need for
882: high quality software is beginning to be recognised by the mainstream.
883: <p>
1.457 deraadt 884:
1.456 niallo 885: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 886: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/06/09/2132233.shtml?tid=152&tid=8&tid=2">
1.455 ian 887: BSD cognoscenti on Linux</a>,
888: NewsForge, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
889: NewsForge talks with Theo de Raadt and NetBSD's Christos Zoulas about the
890: similarities and differences between the Linux kernel and the BSD
891: operating systems. The questions asked were similar to those asked
892: of Linus Torvalds in a <a
1.462 grunk 893: href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/09/2128249&tid=2">previous
1.455 ian 894: interview.</a>
895: <p>
896:
897: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.454 ian 898: <a href="http://www.tuxjournal.net/intervista3-en.html">
899: A good morning with Theo de Raadt</a>,
900: Tux Journal, June 2, 2005</strong></font><br>
901: Brief but wide-ranging interview with Theo in which our leader
902: opines about the good things in 3.7: "The list of new developments
903: is impressive, but in my view not nearly as impressive as the small
904: little details that continue to be fixed during each development
905: cycle." And modestly credits all the developers for the project's
906: continuing success, attributing it to "The passion of the developers,
907: and the wide experience they bring into their development efforts.
908: By amazing coincidence, our users typically have the same needs as we do."
909: Manages to sidestep getting drawn into comparisons with Linux, e.g.,
910: when asked if he likes it/why/why not, deftly replies
911: "I have never used it."
912: <p>
913:
914: </ul>
915:
1.441 deraadt 916: <h2>May, 2005</h2>
917: <ul>
918: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 919: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5190">
920: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part II</a>,
921: Kerneltrap, May 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
922: In the second installment of Kerneltrap's Hackathon 2005 feature, Jeremy
923: Andrews speaks with the pf developers at length about their plans for
924: future enhancements.
925: <p>
926:
927: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.450 deraadt 928: <a href="http://www.ctv.ca">
1.448 deraadt 929: TV coverage: OpenBSD hackathon</a>,
930: CTV/CFCN, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
931: A TV spot done a Canadian national TV station about the Calgary
932: hackathon this year, with 60 developers.<br>
933: North America mirror:
934: <ul>
1.452 marco 935: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.449 jcs 936: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a><br>
937: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a>
1.448 deraadt 938: </ul>
939: European mirror:
940: <ul>
1.452 marco 941: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.448 deraadt 942: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a>
943: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a><br>
944: </ul>
945: <p>
946:
947: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 948: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5186">
949: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part I</a>,
950: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
951: Jeremy Andrews of KernelTrap does a good job of describing what it's like
952: to be at the Hackathon in Part I of KernelTrap's Hackathon feature. Several
953: developers are interviewed in detail about what they are working on.
954: <p>
955:
956: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 957: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5184">
958: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005: Day 6?</a>,
959: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
960: Kjell Wooding describes a typical day at the Hackathon in this entertaining
961: first-hand account.
962: <p>
963:
964: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.447 cloder 965: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/05/20/1426216.shtml?tid=8">
966: Review: OpenBSD 3.7</a>,
967: NewsForge.com, May 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
968: "OpenBSD is not only highly polished and easy to
969: configure because of its documentation, it's also totally free-as-in-rights.
970: With an obsession with security, freedom of source code, and quality of
971: programming technique, OpenBSD 3.7 continues the legacy established by
972: its previous releases," writes Jem Matzan in this nice, small review.
973: <p>
974:
975: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.446 cloder 976: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/05/19/openbsd_3_7.html">
977: OpenBSD 3.7: The Wizard of OS</a>,
978: ONLamp.com, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
979: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
980: new features in OpenBSD 3.7, including new wireless chipsets, new
981: spam-fighting features, zaurus, pf improvements, propolice, and
982: many other things. A good overview of what's new in this release,
983: plus some interesting comments about future direction.
984: <p>
985:
986: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.444 niallo 987: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/software/openbsd-3.7-released.html">
1.445 niallo 988: Next incarnation of OpenBSD released</a>,
1.444 niallo 989: Ping Wales, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
990: "OpenBSD is often unjustly overlooked as a free UNIX-like system in favour of
991: the more-hyped Linux. While it receives a lot less publicity than other
992: operating systems, this is not due to lack of technical merit." says David
993: Chisnall, in what is a clear and concise overview of the new features
994: in 3.7 and indeed the project as a whole.
995: <p>
996:
997: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
998: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5114">
1.445 niallo 999: 2005 Calgary Hackathon, KernelTrap Coverage</a>,
1.444 niallo 1000: Kerneltrap, May 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1001: A great article about the annual OpenBSD Hackathon, detailing how the event
1002: functions, work done at previous Hackathons and features which may come out
1003: of this one. Includes many relevant quotes from developers themselves, and of
1004: course information about the legendary Hackathon BBQ!
1005: <p>
1006:
1007: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.442 deraadt 1008: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9658/sam0505e/">
1009: "Failover Firewalls with OpenBSD and CARP"</a>,
1010: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 5, p. 33
1.441 deraadt 1011: </strong></font><br>
1012: Jason Dixon discusses the history of the CARP and pfsync protocols
1013: and demonstrates using them to create redundant stateful firewalls
1014: with OpenBSD.
1015: </ul>
1016:
1.436 henning 1017: <h2>April, 2005</h2>
1018: <ul>
1019: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.440 ian 1020: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39195801,00.htm">
1021: Security guru wants access to bug databases</a>,
1022: ZDNet UK, April 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
1023: Ingrid Marson reports on Cambridge professor Ross Anderson's call for analysis of
1024: software maintenance records to determine whether open source code is more secure
1025: than closed source, as we have long contended.
1026: "One of Anderson's research students, Andy Ozment, has already done
1027: research using empirical data on bugs found in the open source
1028: operating system OpenBSD between 1997 and 2000. This research found
1029: that finding and fixing bugs results in a more secure product..."
1030: Just as the OpenBSD project has been saying for years.
1031: <p>
1032: This article can also be found online as
1033: <a href="http://uk.builder.com/manage/project/0,39026588,39244080,00.htm">Academic
1034: calls for better bug tracking</a> (uk.builder.com).
1035: <p>
1036:
1037: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.439 espie 1038: [FRENCH] "PC Expert", number 152, p. 58
1039: </strong></font><br>
1040: Very short interview of Marc Espie about OpenBSD as a free OS focusing
1041: on security, part of a larger dossier Ťles secrets des hackersť.
1042: <p>
1043:
1044: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.436 henning 1045: [GERMAN] "Doppelwacht", iX 5/2005, p. 150.
1046: </strong></font><br>
1047: Stephan Tesch gives an introduction to CARP and using a pair of
1048: OpenBSD boxes as Firewalls in High Availibility scenarios. He goes
1.438 martin 1049: on explaining CARP and pfsync protocols, and does not forget to cover
1.436 henning 1050: the issues we had with IETF.
1051: </ul>
1052:
1.431 ian 1053: <h2>March, 2005</h2>
1054: <ul>
1055: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.435 reyk 1056: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/4818">
1057: OpenBSD's "Out of the Box" Wireless Support</a>,
1058: Kerneltrap, March 8, 2005</strong></font><br>
1059: This article is about the upcoming wireless support in OpenBSD 3.7 and
1060: the outcome of the work to open wireless chipsets. Jeremy Andrews
1061: talked with Theo de Raadt and the developers Damien Bergamini and Reyk
1062: Floeter who did some efforts to implement free and functional drivers.
1063: <p>
1064:
1065: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.431 ian 1066: <a href="http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/01/1109546842718.html">
1067: OpenBSD to support more wireless chipsets</a>,
1068: The Age, March 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1069: "The forthcoming 3.7 release of the OpenBSD operating system has
1070: added support for five more wireless chipsets, according to
1071: OpenBSD project founder Theo de Raadt...
1.432 ian 1072: OpenBSD 3.7 will also have have new drivers for Intel wireless
1.431 ian 1073: parts that do not work without the non-redistributable firmware,"
1074: namely the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11B
1075: and 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11A/B/G wireless network adapters.
1076: Mentions OpenBSD's activism in getting vendors to release chip specs.
1077: Referring to vendors that still refuse to play ball with open source
1078: projects, quotes Damien Miller as saying "Given the number of
1079: appliance devices that are built on free OSs, I think that the
1080: recalcitrant vendors are missing an important boat."
1081:
1082: </ul>
1083:
1.427 matthieu 1084: <h2>February, 2005</h2>
1085: <ul>
1086:
1087: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.428 david 1088: <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsaward2004.html">
1089: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
1090: FSF, February 26, 2005</strong></font><br>
1091: The Free Software Foundation awarded Theo de Raadt their "2004 Free Software
1092: Award" for his unwavering commitment to free software. Most recently he has
1093: been fighting hardware manufacturers for free redistribution of wireless card
1094: firmware.
1.434 ian 1095: Similar articles can be found online at:
1096: <ul>
1097: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1098: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=419">
1099: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
1100: Tectonic.za, March 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
1101: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1102: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article4362.phtml">
1103: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
1104: OSDir, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1105: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1106: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/De-Raadt-gets-free-software-award/2005/02/28/1109546758523.html?oneclick=true">
1107: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
1108: The Age, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1109: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1110: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/02/27/1413255.shtml?tid=99&tid=7">
1.434 ian 1111: Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award</a>,
1112: Slashdot, February 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1113: </ul>
1.427 matthieu 1114: </ul>
1115:
1.426 ian 1116: <h2>January, 2005</h2>
1117: <ul>
1118:
1119: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1120: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363731">
1121: Systrace in OpenBSD</a>,
1122: informit.com, January 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1123: This article talks about our systrace
1.462 grunk 1124: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&sektion=1">systrace(1)</a>
1.426 ian 1125: mechanism: what it is and why and
1126: how to use it, with examples.
1127: Another excerpt from the book
1128: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
1129: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
1130: <p>
1131:
1132: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1133: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363732">
1134: Overview of OpenBSD</a>,
1135: informit.com, January 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
1136: "OpenBSD is one of the most secure and well-designed operating
1137: systems available today. It has its roots in countless hours of
1138: research and development based on some of the best UNIX flavors of
1139: the past, and it boasts all the features of modern operating systems.
1140: The OS is widely considered one of the most secure general-purpose
1141: operating systems available today and it supports many key parts
1142: of the global Internet infrastructure..."
1143: This article is a sample chapter from
1144: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
1145: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
1146: <p>
1.443 ian 1147:
1148: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1149: <a href="http://www.pcplus.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=34628&subsectionid=784">
1.443 ian 1150: OpenBSD operating system</a>,
1151: PCPlus.co.uk, January, 2005</strong></font><br>
1152: Paul Grosse gives a brief tutorial on installing OpenBSD on i386 for people
1153: moving in a Windows->Linux direction, encouraging them to go a bit further for security.
1154: "While Linux out-scores Windows substantially (or completely) on [security as well as many other
1155: issues], it's still possible to use a more secure operating system on the PC... OpenBSD."
1156: Gives a brief but understandable walkthrough on the installation process, right up to
1157: downloading and installing the third-party packages, and
1158: ends with a sidebar on security.
1159: <p>
1.426 ian 1160: </ul>
1161:
1.424 ian 1162: <h2>December, 2004</h2>
1163: <ul>
1164:
1165: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.425 ian 1166: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/2329229">
1167: What are the real vulnerabilities of Linux?</a>
1168: NewsForge.com, December 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1169: Several security consultants were asked about "the real vulnerabilities of
1170: Linux". Cybersoure CEO Con Symaris seems to get it better than the rest:
1171: "One needs to approach security as a prime requirement and motivator,
1172: much as the OpenBSD team do," Zymaris said... "The Linux
1173: community mindset is different. Linux development is dynamic and
1174: races ahead towards more and broader functionality, drawing a
1175: multitude of interested parties in to make interesting extensions
1176: and adaptations at a rapid rate."
1177: <p>
1178: "In order to do security the BSD way, however, much more effort
1179: needs to be spent auditing code for holes, which is much less sexy,
1180: and attracts a different set of coders," Zymaris added.
1181: <p>
1182:
1183: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.424 ian 1184: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/281">
1185: Closed Source Hardware</a>
1186: Security Focus, December 1, 2004</strong></font><br>
1187: Symantec Threat Analyst Jason Miller analyzes the potential security threats
1188: when hardware vendors won't provide device documentation and
1189: instead provide "binary only" driver code for inclusion in open source
1190: operating systems.
1191: Miller is an open-source fan who says he uses a variety of systems, including
1192: OpenBSD on his firewall.
1193: Of the recent trend to closed-source binary drivers for open-source
1194: systems, he writes:
1195: <blockquote>
1196: The closed-source component required to support this hardware is
1197: completely independent of the associated operating system, and as
1198: such, is also independent of the engineering team, security team,
1199: auditing process, and quality control procedures normally related
1200: to the operating system...
1201: <br/>
1202: What's possibly even more disturbing is that we're talking about
1203: a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest
1204: possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a
1205: third-party vendor. This code could do anything once loaded, including
1206: leaking active WEP keys, gathering usage statistics, sniffing and
1207: disclosing traffic, and it could even introduce a subtle backdoor
1208: into the operating system itself (much the same as any device driver
1209: in a closed source operating system).
1210: <br/>
1211: [A]lthough some of these scenarios are a
1212: little far-fetched, the possibility for them to exist is there...
1213: Ultimately it becomes an issue of trust, which is a cornerstone of
1214: good security: whom do you trust, and how much do you trust them?
1215: </blockquote>
1216: <p>And he comments that trust "seems to be a one-way street": vendors
1217: demand that you trust them, but they won't trust you to know how
1218: their hardware and software operates.
1219: This lack of trust is one reason why OpenBSD has recently completed
1220: reverse-engineering the
1.462 grunk 1221: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4">
1.424 ian 1222: Atheros wireless chipset driver</a>
1223: that was originally provided as a binary insert.
1224: <p>
1225: </ul>
1226:
1.417 pvalchev 1227: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
1228: <ul>
1.421 ian 1229:
1.417 pvalchev 1230: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.422 ian 1231: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730775,00.asp">
1232: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Widens Its Scope</a>
1233: eWEEK, November 22, 2004</strong></font><br>
1234: Jason Brooks reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and likes the changes it brings,
1235: including the multi-processing support which, he notes,
1236: "will be even more important as multicore processors--which occupy space
1237: on the road maps of Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others--
1238: become more prevalent." Comments favorably on OpenNTPD
1239: ("the three-line configuration file we needed to modify ... on OpenBSD was
1240: much simpler to deal with than the equivalent configuration file on
1241: the Linux systems we've tested").
1.423 ian 1242: Overall a favorable review of some of the new stuff in 3.6.
1.422 ian 1243: <p>
1244: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 otto 1245: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
1246: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
1247: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
1248: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
1249: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
1250: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
1251: it claims to do".
1252: <p>
1253:
1254: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1255: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109994542424009&w=2">
1.421 ian 1256: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution</a>
1257: misc@, November 8, 2004</strong></font><br>
1258: Theo recounts the struggle to get Intel to provide redistributable
1259: versions of the firmware for their wireless chipsets, and their
1.423 ian 1260: ultimate refusal to allow OpenBSD to redistribute the chipsets' firmware.
1.421 ian 1261: Includes a caveat about Intel's disingenuous "FAQ", typical of many
1262: corporate FAQs that answer questions nobody actually thought
1263: to ask, and don't truthfully answer the questions you want hard answers to.
1264: At the end Theo names the names (and their emails) that need to be contacted
1265: by large numbers of end-users and developers if Intel is to change
1266: (yes, this is a hint).
1267: Of interest is that this posting to one of our mailing lists was
1268: picked up on the
1269: <a href="http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1923">Screaming
1270: Electron Forum</a> and from there reported on
1.462 grunk 1271: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/22/1249249&from=rss">
1.421 ian 1272: SlashDot</a>, where it is accompanied by a link to SlashDot's paper
1273: on effective advocacy (be firm, but also be polite).
1274: <p>
1275:
1276: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 1277: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
1278: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
1279: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
1280: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
1281: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
1282: questions about the significance and rationale behind
1283: the current efforts.
1284: <p>
1285: </ul>
1286:
1.407 henning 1287: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
1288: <ul>
1289: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 1290: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
1291: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
1292: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
1293: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
1294: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
1295: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
1296: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
1297: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
1298: <p>
1299:
1300: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 1301: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
1302: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
1303: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1304: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
1305: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
1306: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
1307: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
1308: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
1309: of the important changes in 3.6.
1.462 grunk 1310: <p>
1.415 ian 1311:
1312: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1313: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
1.414 ian 1314: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
1315: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
1316: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
1317: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
1318: overflow attacks... because
1319: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
1320: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
1321: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
1322: and propolice.
1323: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
1324: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
1325: and that's when the science falls apart."
1326: <p>
1327:
1328: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 1329: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
1330: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
1331: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
1332: Starts with the question:
1333: <blockquote>
1334: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
1335: <br/>
1336: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
1337: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
1338: <br/>
1339: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
1340: Should we believe them?"
1341: </blockquote>
1342: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
1343: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
1344: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
1345: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
1346: for your mail, web and other online activities.
1347: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
1348: <p>
1349:
1350: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 1351: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
1352: Simple Simon</a>,
1353: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
1354: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
1355: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
1356: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
1357: routing/firewall, and more.
1358: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
1359: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
1360: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
1361: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
1362: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
1363: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
1364: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
1365: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
1366: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
1367: </blockquote>
1368: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
1369: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
1370: <p>
1371:
1372: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 1373: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
1374: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 1375: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 1376: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 1377: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
1378: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
1379: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 1380: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 1381: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
1382: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
1383: in spite of it
1384: (registration required, but worth it).
1385: <p>
1386:
1387: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1388: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
1389: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
1390: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1391: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
1392: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
1393: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
1394: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 1395: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 1396: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
1397: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
1398: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
1399: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
1400: <p>
1401:
1402: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 1403: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
1404: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
1405: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
1406: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
1407: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
1408: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
1409: <blockquote>
1410: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
1411: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
1412: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
1413: a lot of analysis.
1414: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
1415: </blockquote>
1416: <p>
1417: </ul>
1418:
1.400 marco 1419: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
1420: <ul>
1421: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 1422: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
1423: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
1424: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
1425: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
1426: UNIX-like systems.
1427: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
1428: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
1429: <p>
1430: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 1431: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
1432: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 1433: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1434: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
1435: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
1436: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
1437: At one point, the article states:
1438: <blockquote>
1439: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
1440: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
1441: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
1442: </blockquote>
1443: And then quotes Theo as saying:
1444: <blockquote>
1445: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
1446: fewer are reading or auditing code."
1447: </blockquote>
1448: <p>
1449: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1450: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
1451: marks its fifth birthday</a>
1452: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1453: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
1454: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
1455: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
1456: required).
1457: <p>
1458: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 1459: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
1460: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
1461: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
1462: </strong></font><br>
1463: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
1464: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
1465: <p>
1466: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 1467: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
1468: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 1469: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 1470: </strong></font><br>
1471: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
1472: <p>
1473: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 1474: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
1475: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 1476: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 1477: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 1478: 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 1479: <p>
1480: </ul>
1481:
1.396 henning 1482: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
1483: <ul>
1484: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 1485: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
1486: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
1487: Unix Review, July, 2004
1488: </strong></font><br>
1489: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
1490: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
1.462 grunk 1491: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
1.418 ian 1492: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
1493: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
1494: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
1495: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
1496: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
1497: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
1498: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
1499: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
1500: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
1501: and even spelling/wording errors.
1502: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
1503: <p>
1504: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 1505: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 1506: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
1507: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
1508: </strong></font><br>
1509: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
1510: <p>
1511: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 1512: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 1513: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
1514: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
1515: </strong></font><br>
1516: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
1517: <p>
1518: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 1519: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
1520: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
1521: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
1522: </strong></font><br>
1523: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
1524: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
1525: <p>
1526: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 1527: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
1528: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
1529: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
1530: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
1531: <p>
1532: </ul>
1533:
1.405 jolan 1534: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
1535: <ul>
1536: <li><font color="#00900"><strong>
1537: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
1.466 deraadt 1538: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 5, 2004</strong></font>
1.405 jolan 1539: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
1540: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
1541: details on how funds are dispersed.
1542: <p>
1543: </ul>
1544:
1.393 david 1545: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
1546: <ul>
1547: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 1548: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
1549: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
1550: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
1551: </strong></font><br>
1552: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
1553: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
1554: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
1555: on inserting large number of SQL records.
1556: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
1557: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
1558: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
1559: <p>
1560:
1561: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 1562: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
1563: Secure by Default</a>,
1564: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
1565: </strong></font><br>
1566: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
1567: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
1568: <p>
1569:
1570: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1571: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
1572: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
1573: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
1574: </strong></font><br>
1575: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
1576: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
1577: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
1578: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
1579: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
1580: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
1581: <p>
1582:
1583: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1584: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
1585: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
1586: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
1587: </strong></font><br>
1588: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
1589: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
1590: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
1591: <p>
1592:
1593: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1594: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
1595: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
1596: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
1597: </strong></font><br>
1598: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
1599: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
1600: <p>
1601: </ul>
1602:
1.388 mcbride 1603: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
1604: <ul>
1.394 jolan 1605:
1606: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1607: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
1608: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
1609: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
1610: </strong></font><br>
1611: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
1612: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
1613: available for sparc64.
1614: <p>
1615:
1.390 beck 1616: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 1617: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
1618: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
1619: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
1620: </strong></font><br>
1621: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
1622: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
1623: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
1624: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
1625: <p>
1626:
1627: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 1628: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
1629: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 1630: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 1631: </strong></font><br>
1632: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
1633: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
1634: it does: CARP provides sharing
1635: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
1636: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
1637: detail to get you started using it.
1638: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
1639: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
1640: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
1641: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
1642: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
1643: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
1644: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 1645: <p>
1.391 ian 1646:
1647: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 1648: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 1649: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
1650: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 1651: </strong></font><br>
1652: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 1653: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 1654: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 1655: <p>
1.388 mcbride 1656:
1657: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1658: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
1659: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 1660: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 1661: </strong></font><br>
1662: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
1663: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
1664: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
1665: unencumbered by patents.
1666: <p>
1667: </ul>
1668:
1.378 henning 1669: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
1670: <ul>
1.384 jose 1671:
1672: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 1673: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
1674: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
1675: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
1676: </strong></font><br>
1677: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
1678: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
1679: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
1680: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
1681: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
1682: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
1683: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
1684: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
1685: in the page tables."
1686: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
1687: <p>
1688:
1689: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1690: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
1691: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
1692: </strong></font><br>
1693: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
1694: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
1695: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
1696: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 1697: <p>
1.384 jose 1698:
1.378 henning 1699: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 1700: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
1701: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 1702: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
1703: </strong></font><br>
1704: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
1705: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
1706: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
1707: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
1708: (quote:
1709: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
1710: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 1711: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 1712: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
1713: the other developers for their work on the system.
1714: <p>
1715:
1716: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1717: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
1718: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
1719: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 1720: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 1721: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
1722: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
1723: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
1724: too.
1725: <p>
1726:
1727: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 1728: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
1729: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 1730: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 1731: OpenBSD source code using
1732: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
1733: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
1734: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
1735: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
1736: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
1737: <p>
1738: </ul>
1739:
1.374 jose 1740: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
1741: <ul>
1742: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 1743: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 1744: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
1745: </strong></font><br>
1746: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
1747: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
1748: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
1749: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
1750: it."
1751: <p>
1752:
1753: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 1754: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
1755: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
1756: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
1757: </strong></font><br/>
1758: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
1759: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
1760: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
1761: <p>
1762: </ul>
1763:
1.369 ian 1764: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
1765: <ul>
1766: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1767: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
1768: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
1769: </strong></font><br/>
1770: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
1771: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
1772: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
1773: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
1774: <p>
1775:
1776: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 1777: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
1778: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
1779: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
1780: </strong></font><br/>
1781: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
1782: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
1783: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
1784: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
1785: form factor.
1786: <p>
1787:
1788: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1789: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
1790: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
1791: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
1792: Features</a>,
1793: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
1794: </strong></font><br/>
1795: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
1796: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
1797: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
1798: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
1799: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
1800: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
1801: <p>
1802: This article can also be found online at:
1803: <ul>
1804: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1805: <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 1806: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
1807: </strong></font>
1808: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
1809: </ul>
1810: <p>
1.392 david 1811:
1.371 jose 1812: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 1813: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
1814: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 1815: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
1816: </strong></font><br/>
1817: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
1818: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
1819: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 1820: <p>
1.371 jose 1821:
1822: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 1823: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 1824: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 1825: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 1826: </strong></font><br/>
1827: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
1828: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
1829: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
1830: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
1831: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
1832: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
1833: and its history with OpenBSD.
1834: </ul>
1835:
1.368 henning 1836: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
1837: <ul>
1838: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 1839: [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 1840: </strong></font><br>
1841: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
1842: </ul>
1843:
1.364 jose 1844: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
1845: <ul>
1846: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 1847: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
1848: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
1849: UNIX Review,
1850: July, 2003.
1851: </strong></font><br>
1852: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
1853: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
1854: who want more information.
1855: <p>
1856:
1857: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 1858: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
1859: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
1860: Government Computer News,
1861: July 22, 2003.
1862: </strong></font><br>
1863: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
1864: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
1865: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
1866: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
1867: <p>
1868:
1869: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1870: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
1871: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
1872: SANS Institute,
1873: July 22, 2003.
1874: </strong></font><br>
1875: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 1876: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 1877: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
1878: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
1879: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
1880: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
1881: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
1882: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
1883: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
1884: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
1885: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
1886: <p>
1887:
1888: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 1889: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
1890: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
1891: OnLamp.com,
1892: July 17, 2003.
1893: </strong></font><br>
1894: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
1895: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
1896: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
1897: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
1898: have been working on.
1899:
1900: </ul>
1901:
1.356 jose 1902: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 1903: <ul>
1904:
1905: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 1906: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
1907: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
1908: UNIX Review,
1909: June, 2003.
1910: </strong></font><br>
1911: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
1912: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
1913: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
1914: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
1915: <p>
1916:
1917: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 1918: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
1919: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
1920: eWeek,
1921: June 23, 2003.
1922: </strong></font><br>
1923: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
1924: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
1925: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
1926: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
1927: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
1928: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
1929: <p>
1930:
1931: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 1932: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
1933: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
1934: Software Development Online,
1935: June, 2003.
1936: </strong></font><br>
1937: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
1938: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
1939: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
1940: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
1941: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
1942: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
1943: current activities.
1944: <p>
1945:
1946: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 1947: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
1948: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 1949: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
1950: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
1951: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
1952: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 1953: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 1954: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
1955: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
1956: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 1957: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 1958: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
1959: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 1960: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 1961: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
1962: decisions.
1963: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
1964: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 1965: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 1966: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 1967: <p>
1968:
1969: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 1970: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
1971: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
1972: Page 58, eWeek,
1973: June 2, 2003.
1974: </strong></font><br>
1975: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
1976: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
1977: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
1978: been addressed in -current.
1979: <p>
1980:
1.356 jose 1981: </ul>
1982:
1983: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
1984: <ul>
1985:
1.355 jose 1986: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 1987: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
1988: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
1989: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
1990: </strong></font><br>
1991: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
1992: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
1993: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
1994: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
1995: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
1996: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
1997: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
1998: <p>
1999:
2000: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 2001: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
2002: Beyond Linux</a>,
2003: InfoWorld,
2004: May 23, 2003.
2005: </strong></font><br>
2006: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
2007: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
2008: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
2009: compared to the GPL.
2010: <p>
2011:
2012: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 2013: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
2014: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
2015: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 2016: May 17, 2003.
2017: </strong></font><br>
2018: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
2019: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
2020: the business section and half of another page inside
2021: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
2022: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
2023: in talking about the project's history and goals.
2024: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
2025: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
2026: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
2027: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 2028: <br>
2029: This article can also be found online at:
2030: <ul>
2031: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2032: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
2033: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
2034: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
2035: May 17, 2003
2036: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 2037: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
2038: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2039: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
2040: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
2041: Montreal Gazette,
2042: May 21, 2003
2043: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 2044: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 2045: <p>
1.346 ian 2046:
2047: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 2048: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 2049: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 2050: May 7, 2003.
2051: </strong></font><br>
2052: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
2053: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
2054: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
2055: <p>
2056:
2057: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 2058: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
2059: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2060: OsOpinion,
2061: May 6, 2003.
2062: </strong></font><br>
2063: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
2064: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
2065: <br>
2066: This article can also be found online at:
2067: <ul>
2068: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2069: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
2070: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2071: NewsFactor Network.
2072: </strong></font>
2073: </ul>
2074: <p>
2075:
2076: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2077: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 2078: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
2079: ITBusiness,
2080: May 2, 2003.
2081: </strong></font><br>
2082: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
2083: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
2084: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
2085: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
2086: <p>
2087:
2088: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 2089: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
2090: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
2091: InfoWorld,
2092: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 2093: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 2094: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
2095: <br>
2096: This article can also be found online at:
2097: <ul>
2098: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2099: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
2100: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
2101: IDG Singapore.
2102: </strong></font>
2103: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 2104: <p>
2105:
1.339 jose 2106: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2107: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
2108: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 2109: ZDNet,
2110: May 1, 2003.
2111: </strong></font><br>
2112: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 2113: someone using parts from previous articles.
2114: <br>
1.341 deraadt 2115: This article can also be found online at:
2116: <ul>
2117: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2118: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
2119: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
2120: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 2121: </strong></font>
2122: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2123: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
2124: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
2125: CNET News.com.
2126: </strong></font>
2127: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2128: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
2129: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
2130: ZDNet UK.
2131: </strong></font>
2132: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2133: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
2134: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
2135: Help Net Security, Croatia.
2136: </strong></font>
2137: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 2138: <p>
1.339 jose 2139:
1.341 deraadt 2140: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2141: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 2142: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
2143: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
2144: May 1, 2003.
2145: </strong></font><br>
2146: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
2147: that have been added
2148: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
2149: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
2150: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 2151: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 2152: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
2153: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
2154: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 2155: <p>
2156:
2157: </ul>
2158:
1.253 ian 2159: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
2160: <ul>
1.255 ian 2161:
1.260 ian 2162: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2163: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 2164: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
2165: TechRepublic,
2166: April 28, 2003.
2167: </strong></font><br>
2168: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
2169: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 2170: work.<br>
2171: Can also be found online at:
2172: <ul>
2173: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2174: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
2175: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
2176: ZDNet UK.
2177: </strong></font>
2178: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 2179: <p>
2180:
2181: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 2182: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
2183: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
2184: IDG,
2185: April 24, 2003.
2186: </strong></font><br>
2187: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
2188: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
2189: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
2190: Can also be found online at:
2191: <ul>
2192: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2193: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
2194: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 2195: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 2196: </strong></font>
2197: </ul>
2198: <p>
2199:
2200: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2201: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 2202: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 2203: Slate,
2204: April 24, 2003.
2205: </strong></font><br>
2206: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
2207: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
2208: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
2209: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
2210: <p>
2211:
2212: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 2213: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2214: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
2215: April 24, 2003.
2216: </strong></font><br>
2217: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
2218: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
2219: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
2220: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
2221: <p>
2222:
2223: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 2224: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
2225: April 24, 2003.
2226: </strong></font><br>
2227: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
2228: the free software community".
2229: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
2230: other articles.
2231: <p>
2232:
2233: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2234: <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 2235: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
2236: </strong></font><br>
2237: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
2238: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
2239: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
2240: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
2241: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
2242: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
2243: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 2244: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 2245: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
2246: <br/>
2247: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
2248: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
2249: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
2250: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 2251: <br>
2252: Can also be found online at:
2253: <ul>
2254: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2255: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
2256: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
2257: Common Dreams NewsCenter
2258: </strong></font>
2259: </ul>
1.324 ian 2260: <p>
2261:
2262: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2263: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
2264: Wired, April 24, 2003.
2265: </strong></font><br>
2266: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
2267: article above.
2268: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
2269: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
2270: wasting them."
1.332 ian 2271: <br>
2272: Can also be found online at:
2273: <ul>
2274: <li>
2275: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
2276: </strong></font>
2277: </ul>
1.324 ian 2278: <p>
2279:
2280: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 2281: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
2282: </strong></font><br>
2283: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
2284: <p>
2285:
2286: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 2287: <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.
2288: </strong></font><br>
2289: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
2290: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
2291: <p>
2292:
2293: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 2294: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
2295: April 23, 2003.
2296: </strong></font><br>
2297: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
2298: <p>
2299:
2300: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 2301: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 2302: April 22, 2003.
2303: </strong></font><br>
2304: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
2305: <p>
2306:
2307: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 2308: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
2309: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
2310: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 2311: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 2312: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
2313: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
2314: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
2315: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
2316: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
2317: Can also be found online at:
2318: <ul>
2319: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2320: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 2321: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
2322: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 2323: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 2324: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2325: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 2326: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
2327: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 2328: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 2329: </ul>
2330: <p>
2331:
2332: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 2333: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
2334: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 2335: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2336: </strong></font><br>
2337: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 2338: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
2339: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
2340: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
2341: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
2342: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
2343: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 2344: <p>
2345:
2346: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 2347: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
2348: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 2349: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
2350: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 2351: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
2352: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
2353: at UPenn and DARPA.
2354: <p>
2355:
2356: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 2357: [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,
2358: France
1.315 deraadt 2359: April 18, 2003.
2360: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 2361: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 2362: <p>
2363:
2364: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 2365: [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 2366: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2367: </strong></font><br>
2368: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
2369: <p>
2370:
2371: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 2372: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
2373: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
2374: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 2375: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 2376: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
2377: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
2378: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
2379: <p>
2380:
2381: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 2382: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
2383: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2384: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 2385: </strong></font><br>
2386: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
2387: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
2388: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 2389: American century.
1.267 deraadt 2390: <p>
2391:
2392: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 2393: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
2394: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2395: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 2396: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 2397: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
2398: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
2399: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
2400: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
2401: Can also be found online at:
2402: <ul>
2403: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
2404: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 2405: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 2406: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 2407: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 2408: <p>
2409:
2410: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 2411: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 2412: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 2413: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 2414: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 2415: </strong></font><br>
2416: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 2417: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
2418: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
2419: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
2420: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 2421:
2422: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2423: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
2424: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
2425: New York Times.
2426: </strong></font>(free registration required)
2427:
1.273 deraadt 2428: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2429: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 2430: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 2431: ABC News.
2432: </strong></font>
2433:
2434: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2435: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 2436: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 2437: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 2438: </strong></font>
2439:
2440: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2441: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 2442: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 2443: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 2444: </strong></font>
2445:
2446: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 2447: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
2448: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 2449: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 2450: </strong></font>
2451:
2452: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2453: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 2454: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 2455: Times Daily, AL.
2456: </strong></font>
2457:
2458: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2459: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
2460: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
2461: Boston.com, MA.
2462: </strong></font>
2463:
2464: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2465: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 2466: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 2467: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
2468: </strong></font>
2469:
2470: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 2471: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
2472: [Article was pulled]</a>
2473: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 2474: </strong></font>
2475:
2476: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2477: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
2478: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
2479: Infoshop News.
2480: </strong></font>
2481:
2482: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2483: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
2484: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2485: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
2486: </strong></font>
2487:
2488: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 2489: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
2490: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
2491: Raleigh News, NC.
2492: </strong></font>
2493:
2494: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2495: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 2496: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
2497: Napa News, CA.
2498: </strong></font>
2499:
2500: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2501: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 2502: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2503: NEPA News, PA.
2504: </strong></font>
2505:
2506: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2507: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
2508: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
2509: Wired News.
2510: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 2511: <br>
2512: <li>
1.333 deraadt 2513: <font color="#009000"><strong>
2514: [JAPANESE]
2515: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
2516: Wired News Japan</a>
2517: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 2518:
1.271 deraadt 2519: </ul>
2520: <p>
1.272 deraadt 2521: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
2522: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 2523: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
2524: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
2525: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
2526: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
2527: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
2528: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 2529: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 2530: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
2531: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
2532: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 2533: <p>
2534: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 2535:
2536: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2537: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 2538: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
2539: Indianapolis Star, IN.
2540: </strong></font>
2541:
2542: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 2543: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
2544: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2545: Miami Herald, FL.
2546: </strong></font>
2547:
2548: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 2549: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 2550: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
2551: </strong></font>
2552:
2553: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2554: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 2555: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 2556: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 2557: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 2558:
2559: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2560: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
2561: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
2562: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
2563: ABC News.
2564: </strong></font>
2565:
1.276 deraadt 2566: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2567: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 2568: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 2569: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 2570: </strong></font>
2571:
1.286 dhartmei 2572: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2573: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 2574: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2575: Wilmington Star, NC.
2576: </strong></font>
2577:
1.300 jose 2578: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2579: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
2580: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
2581: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
2582: </strong></font>
2583:
1.309 jose 2584: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2585: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
2586: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
2587: Globe Technology.
2588: </strong></font>
2589:
1.263 deraadt 2590: </ul>
1.262 beck 2591: <p>
2592:
2593: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 2594: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
2595: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2596: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 2597: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 2598: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 2599: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
2600: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
2601: <p>
2602:
2603: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 2604: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
2605: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
2606: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 2607: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 2608: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
2609: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
2610: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
2611: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
2612: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
2613: and simply restates other press reports.
2614: <p>
2615:
2616: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 2617: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
2618: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2619: OS News, April 18, 2003.
2620: </strong></font><br>
2621: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
2622: <p>
2623:
2624: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 2625: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
2626: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2627: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 2628: </strong></font><br>
2629: Another report on the DARPA funding.
2630: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
2631: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
2632: <p>
2633:
2634: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 2635: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
2636: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
2637: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
2638: April 17, 2003.
2639: </strong></font><br>
2640: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
2641: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
2642: Tech Anthems</a>
2643: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
2644: 4 so far.
2645: <p>
2646:
2647: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 2648: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
2649: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2650: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2651: </strong></font><br>
2652: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
2653: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
2654: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
2655: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
2656: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
2657: Goes on to say:
2658: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
2659: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
2660: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
2661: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 2662: This article is also found online at:
2663: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 2664: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2665: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
2666: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
2667: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 2668: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 2669: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2670: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
2671: ZDnet</a>,
2672: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 2673: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 2674: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2675: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
2676: ZDnet Australia</a>,
2677: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 2678: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 2679: </ul>
1.260 ian 2680: <p>
1.279 deraadt 2681:
1.260 ian 2682: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2683: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 2684: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 2685: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2686: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 2687: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 2688: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
2689: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
2690: without notice or justification.
2691: <p>
2692:
2693: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2694: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 2695: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 2696: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2697: </strong></font><br>
2698: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
2699: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 2700: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 2701: effective today, without any warning..."
2702: <p>
1.257 ian 2703:
2704: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 2705: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
2706: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2707: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 2708: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 2709: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
2710: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
2711: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
2712: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
2713: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 2714: <p>
2715:
2716: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 2717: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
2718: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2719: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 2720: </strong></font><br>
2721: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
2722: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
2723: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
2724: quoting two of them:
2725: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
2726: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
2727: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
2728: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
2729: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
2730: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
2731: <p>
2732:
1.255 ian 2733: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2734: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
2735: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 2736: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2737: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 2738: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 2739: <p>
2740:
2741: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 2742: [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 2743: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2744: </strong></font><br>
2745: New security concepts in OpenBSD
2746: <p>
2747:
2748: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 2749: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
2750: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2751: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 2752: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 2753: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 2754: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
2755: security experts for more than three decades."
2756: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
2757: <p>
1.261 ian 2758:
1.254 drahn 2759: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 2760: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 2761: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2762: </strong></font><br>
2763: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
2764: <p>
2765:
2766: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 2767: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
2768: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
2769: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
2770: </strong></font><br>
2771: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
2772: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
2773: discussion OpenBSD's path.
2774: <p>
2775:
2776: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 2777: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
2778: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2779: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 2780: </strong></font><br>
2781: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
2782: from US DARPA.
2783: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
2784: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
2785: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
2786: the BSD license.
2787: <p>
2788: </ul>
2789:
1.251 ian 2790: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
2791: <ul>
2792:
2793: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2794: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
2795: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
2796: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
2797: </strong></font><br>
2798:
2799: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
2800: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
2801: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
2802: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
2803: <p>
2804:
2805: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 2806: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
2807: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 2808: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 2809: </strong></font><br>
2810: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
2811: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
2812: Mentions
2813: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
2814: and
2815: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
2816: programs.
2817: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 2818: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 2819: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
2820: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
2821: <p>
1.325 ian 2822: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
2823: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 2824:
2825: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2826: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
2827: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
2828: </strong></font><br>
2829: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
2830: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
2831: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
2832: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
2833: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
2834: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
2835: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
2836: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
2837: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
2838: put into service."
2839: <p>
2840: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
2841: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
2842: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
2843: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
2844: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
2845: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
2846: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
2847: computers with security features."
2848: <p>
1.329 ian 2849:
2850: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2851: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
2852: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
2853: Slate,
2854: March 3, 2003.
2855: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 2856: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 2857: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
2858: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
2859: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
2860: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
2861: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
2862: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
2863: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
2864: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
2865: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
2866: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
2867: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
2868: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
2869: of more secure open-source solutions like
2870: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
2871: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
2872: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
2873: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
2874: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
2875: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
2876: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
2877: the Beltway."
2878: <p>
1.251 ian 2879: </ul>
2880:
1.249 jufi 2881: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
2882: <ul>
2883: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2884: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
2885: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2886: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 2887: </strong></font><br>
2888: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
2889: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 2890: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 2891: <p>
1.334 ian 2892:
2893: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2894: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
2895: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
2896: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
2897: </strong></font><br>
2898: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
2899: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
2900: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
2901: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
2902: "... the hypothetical question ...
2903: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
2904: <br>
2905: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
2906: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
2907: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
2908: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
2909: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
2910: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 2911: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 2912: support network security.
2913: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
2914: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
2915: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
2916: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
2917: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
2918: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
2919: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
2920: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
2921: <br>
2922: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
2923: <p>
2924:
1.249 jufi 2925: </ul>
2926:
1.246 jufi 2927: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2928: <ul>
1.246 jufi 2929:
1.247 jufi 2930: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2931: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 2932: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2933: CNET News.com, December 4, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2934: </strong></font><br>
2935: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
2936: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
2937: <p>
2938:
1.247 jufi 2939: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2940: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
2941: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2942: Heise News-Ticker, December 4, 2002
1.301 jose 2943: </strong></font><br>
1.460 david 2944: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III CPU
1.301 jose 2945: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
2946: <p>
2947:
2948: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2949: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 2950: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1.466 deraadt 2951: eWeek, December 3, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2952: </strong></font><br>
2953: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
2954: in their annual OpenHack security test.
2955: <p>
1.247 jufi 2956: </ul>
1.246 jufi 2957:
1.244 jufi 2958: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2959: <ul>
1.246 jufi 2960:
1.247 jufi 2961: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2962: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
2963: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
2964: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2965: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 2966: </strong></font><br>
2967: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
2968: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
2969: md5 digests.
2970: <p>
2971:
1.247 jufi 2972: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2973: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 2974: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
2975: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2976: </strong></font><br>
2977: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
2978: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
2979: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
2980: right the first time."
2981: <p>
1.247 jufi 2982: </ul>
1.244 jufi 2983:
2984:
2985: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2986: <ul>
1.244 jufi 2987:
1.247 jufi 2988: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2989: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 2990: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
2991: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 2992: </strong></font><br>
2993: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
2994: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
2995: part 6</a>.
2996: <p>
2997:
1.247 jufi 2998: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 2999: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 3000: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
3001: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3002: O'Reilly Network, August 8, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3003: </strong></font><br>
3004: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
3005: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
3006: <p>
1.301 jose 3007:
3008: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3009: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
3010: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
3011: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
3012: </strong></font><br>
3013:
3014: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
3015: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
3016: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
3017: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
3018: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
3019: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
3020: <i>Here's the
3021: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
3022: <p>
1.247 jufi 3023: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3024:
3025: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3026: <ul>
1.242 jufi 3027:
1.247 jufi 3028: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3029: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 3030: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3031: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3032: </strong></font><br>
3033: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
3034: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
3035: <p>
3036:
1.247 jufi 3037: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3038: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3039: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3040: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 1, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3041: </strong></font><br>
3042: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
3043: this time using pf.
3044: <p>
1.247 jufi 3045: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3046:
3047: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3048: <ul>
1.242 jufi 3049:
1.247 jufi 3050: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3051: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3052: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
3053: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3054: </strong></font><br>
3055: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
3056: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
3057: their rotation.
3058: <p>
3059:
1.247 jufi 3060: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3061: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3062: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3063: O'Reilly Network, June 6, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3064: </strong></font><br>
3065: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
3066: <p>
1.247 jufi 3067: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3068:
1.239 jufi 3069: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3070: <ul>
1.239 jufi 3071:
1.247 jufi 3072: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3073: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 3074: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
3075: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3076: </strong></font><br>
3077: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
3078: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
3079: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
3080: <p>
3081:
1.247 jufi 3082: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 3083: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 3084: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
3085: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 3086: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 3087: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
3088: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
3089: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 3090: <p>
1.247 jufi 3091: </ul>
1.239 jufi 3092:
1.235 lebel 3093: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3094: <ul>
1.235 lebel 3095:
1.239 jufi 3096:
1.247 jufi 3097: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 3098: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 3099: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
3100: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 3101: </strong></font><br>
3102: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
3103: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
3104: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
3105: <p>
1.301 jose 3106:
1.247 jufi 3107: </ul>
1.235 lebel 3108:
1.228 horacio 3109: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3110: <ul>
1.228 horacio 3111:
1.247 jufi 3112: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3113: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3114: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
3115: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 3116: </strong></font><br>
3117: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
3118: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
3119: <p>
3120:
1.247 jufi 3121: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 3122: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 3123: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
3124: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 3125: </strong></font><br>
3126: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
3127: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
3128: <p>
3129:
1.247 jufi 3130: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 3131: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 3132: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
3133: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 3134: </strong></font><br>
3135: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
3136: on the desktop of his parents.
3137: <p>
3138:
1.247 jufi 3139: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 3140: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 3141: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
3142: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 3143: </strong></font><br>
3144: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
3145: using IPFilter.
3146:
3147: <p>
3148:
1.247 jufi 3149: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 3150: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 3151: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
3152: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 3153: </strong></font><br>
3154: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
3155: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
3156: perspectives of the four OS.
3157: <br>
3158: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 3159: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 3160: <p>
3161:
1.247 jufi 3162: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 3163: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
3164: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 3165: software and security</a>,
3166: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 3167: </strong></font><br>
3168:
3169: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
3170: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
3171: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
3172: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
3173: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
3174: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
3175: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
3176: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
3177: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
3178: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
3179: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
3180: security conscious team beyond doubt.
3181: <p>
1.247 jufi 3182: </ul>
1.228 horacio 3183:
1.225 horacio 3184: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3185: <ul>
1.225 horacio 3186:
1.247 jufi 3187: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3188: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
3189: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 3190: Interview</a>,
3191: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 3192: </strong></font><br>
3193:
3194: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
3195: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
3196: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 3197: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 3198: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
3199: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
3200: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
3201: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
3202: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 3203: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 3204: of choice.
3205: <p>
1.247 jufi 3206: </ul>
1.225 horacio 3207:
3208: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3209: <ul>
1.225 horacio 3210:
1.247 jufi 3211: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3212: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 3213: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
3214: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 3215: </strong></font><br>
3216:
3217: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
3218: <p>
3219:
1.247 jufi 3220: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3221: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 3222: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
3223: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 3224: </strong></font><br>
3225:
3226: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
3227: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
3228: <p>
1.247 jufi 3229: </ul>
1.225 horacio 3230:
1.218 horacio 3231: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3232: <ul>
1.218 horacio 3233:
1.247 jufi 3234: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 3235: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 3236: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 3237: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 3238: </strong></font><br>
3239:
3240: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
3241: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
3242: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
3243: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
3244: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
3245: subjects. Worth a read.
3246: <p>
3247:
3248:
1.247 jufi 3249: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 3250: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 3251: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
3252: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 3253: </strong></font><br>
3254:
3255: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
3256: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
3257: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
3258: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
3259: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
3260: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
3261: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
3262: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
3263: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 3264: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 3265: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
3266: on other operating systems.<br>
3267: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
3268: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
3269: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
3270: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
3271: <p>
3272:
1.247 jufi 3273: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3274: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 3275: Operating System 2010</a>,
3276: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 3277: </strong></font><br>
3278:
3279: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
3280: covering the level of software integration into the core
3281: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
3282: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
3283: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
3284: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
3285: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
3286: <p>
3287:
1.247 jufi 3288: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 3289: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 3290: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
3291: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 3292: </strong></font><br>
3293:
3294: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
3295: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
3296: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
3297: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
3298: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
3299: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
3300: <p>
1.247 jufi 3301: </ul>
1.221 horacio 3302:
1.210 jufi 3303: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3304: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3305:
1.247 jufi 3306: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3307: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 3308: Already a Contender</a>,
3309: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 3310: </strong></font><br>
3311:
3312: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
3313: source software in response to an article which claimed that
3314: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
3315: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
3316: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
3317: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
3318: <p>
3319:
1.247 jufi 3320: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 3321: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 3322: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
3323: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 3324: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3325:
1.224 horacio 3326: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
3327: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
3328: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
3329: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
3330: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
3331: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 3332: <p>
1.247 jufi 3333: </ul>
1.215 horacio 3334:
3335: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3336: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3337:
1.247 jufi 3338: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3339: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
3340: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 3341: Division</a>,
3342: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 3343: </strong></font><br>
3344:
3345: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
3346: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 3347: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 3348: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
3349: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
3350: investment</em>.<br>
3351: The implementation details can be seen on their
3352: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
3353: <p>
3354:
1.247 jufi 3355: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3356: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
3357: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
3358: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
3359: </strong></font><br>
3360:
3361: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
3362: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
3363: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1.475 grunk 3364: laptops and T-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1.301 jose 3365: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
3366: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
3367: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
3368: <p>
3369:
3370: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3371: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 3372: Thinking about Security</a>,
3373: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 3374: </strong></font><br>
3375:
3376: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
3377: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
3378: security and says that even secured operating systems running
3379: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
3380: to time.<br>
3381: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
3382: system and just the most secure system.
3383: <p>
3384:
1.247 jufi 3385: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3386: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 3387: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
3388: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 3389: </strong></font><br>
3390:
3391: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
3392: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
3393: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
3394: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
3395: choice:<br>
3396: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
3397: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
3398: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
3399: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
3400: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
3401: network security devices and as such must be well
3402: armored."</em><br>
3403: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
3404: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
3405: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
3406: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
3407: <br>
3408: Bravo!
3409: <p>
1.247 jufi 3410: </ul>
1.210 jufi 3411:
1.207 ian 3412: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3413: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3414:
1.247 jufi 3415: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 3416: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
3417: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
3418: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 3419:
1.207 ian 3420: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
3421: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 3422: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 3423: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
3424: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
3425: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 3426: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 3427: <p>
1.247 jufi 3428: </ul>
1.207 ian 3429:
1.194 jufi 3430: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3431: <ul>
1.194 jufi 3432:
1.247 jufi 3433: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3434: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 3435: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
3436: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 3437: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3438:
1.240 miod 3439: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 3440: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
3441: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
3442: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
3443: <p>
3444:
1.247 jufi 3445: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3446: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
3447: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
3448: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
3449:
3450: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
3451: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
3452: <p>
3453:
3454: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3455: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
3456: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3457: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
3458:
3459: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
3460: <p>
3461:
3462: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3463: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 3464: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
3465: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
3466: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3467:
1.240 miod 3468: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 3469: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 3470: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
3471: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 3472: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 3473: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 3474: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
3475: <br>
1.413 deraadt 3476: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 3477: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
3478: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
3479: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
3480: <p>
3481:
1.247 jufi 3482: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 3483: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
3484: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 3485: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 3486: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3487:
1.194 jufi 3488: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
3489: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
3490: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
3491: <br>
3492: The new
3493: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 3494: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 3495: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
3496: <p>
1.247 jufi 3497: </ul>
1.194 jufi 3498:
1.190 horacio 3499: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3500: <ul>
1.190 horacio 3501:
1.247 jufi 3502: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 3503:
3504: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
3505: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
3506:
1.301 jose 3507:
1.191 jufi 3508: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
3509: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
3510:
3511: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
3512: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
3513:
1.212 horacio 3514: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
3515: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 3516: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
3517:
1.211 horacio 3518: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
3519: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 3520: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
3521:
1.247 jufi 3522: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 3523: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
3524:
1.247 jufi 3525: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 3526: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
3527:
1.212 horacio 3528: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
3529: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 3530: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
3531:
3532: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
3533: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
3534:
3535: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
3536: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
3537:
1.301 jose 3538: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
3539: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
3540:
1.191 jufi 3541: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
3542: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
3543:
3544: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 3545: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 3546:
1.192 jufi 3547: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
3548: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 3549: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 3550:
1.193 deraadt 3551: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
3552: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 3553: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 3554:
1.247 jufi 3555: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 3556: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
3557:
1.247 jufi 3558: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 3559: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
3560: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
3561:
1.213 horacio 3562: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 3563: 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 3564: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
3565:
1.190 horacio 3566: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 3567: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
3568: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
3569: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
3570: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
3571: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
3572: <p>
1.190 horacio 3573:
1.247 jufi 3574: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3575: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
3576: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
3577: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 3578: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3579:
1.195 jufi 3580: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 3581: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
3582: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
3583: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 3584: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
3585: <p>
3586:
1.247 jufi 3587: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3588: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 3589: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
3590: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
3591: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3592:
1.191 jufi 3593: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 3594: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
3595: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
3596: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
3597: <p>
3598:
3599: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3600: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
3601: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3602: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
3603:
3604: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
3605: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 3606: <p>
1.247 jufi 3607: </ul>
1.190 horacio 3608:
1.191 jufi 3609:
1.186 jufi 3610: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3611: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 3612:
1.247 jufi 3613: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 3614: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 3615: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
3616: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 3617: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 3618:
1.188 jufi 3619: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 3620: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 3621: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 3622: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
3623: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 3624: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 3625: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 3626: <p>
3627:
1.301 jose 3628: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3629: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
3630: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3631: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
3632:
3633: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
3634: <p>
1.191 jufi 3635:
1.247 jufi 3636: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 3637: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
3638: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3639: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 5, 2001
1.191 jufi 3640: </strong></font><br>
3641:
3642: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
3643: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
3644: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
3645: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
3646: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
3647: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
3648: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
3649: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
3650: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
3651: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
3652: familiar?
3653: <p>
1.247 jufi 3654: </ul>
1.191 jufi 3655:
1.178 louis 3656: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3657: <ul>
1.178 louis 3658:
1.247 jufi 3659: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 3660: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 3661: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
3662: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 3663: </strong></font><br>
3664:
3665: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
3666: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
3667: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
3668: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
3669: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
3670: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
3671: <p>
3672:
1.247 jufi 3673: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3674: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
3675: Open source under the hood</a>,
3676: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 3677: </strong></font><br>
3678:
3679: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
3680: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
3681: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
3682: <p>
3683:
1.247 jufi 3684: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3685: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
3686: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
3687: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 3688: </strong></font><br>
3689:
3690: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
3691: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
3692: <p>
1.247 jufi 3693: </ul>
1.179 louis 3694:
1.174 louis 3695:
1.175 louis 3696: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3697: <ul>
1.175 louis 3698:
1.247 jufi 3699: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3700: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
3701: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
3702: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 3703: </strong></font><br>
3704:
3705: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
3706: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
3707: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
3708: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
3709: <p>
3710:
1.247 jufi 3711: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3712: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
3713: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
3714: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 3715: </strong></font><br>
3716:
3717: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 3718: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 3719: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
3720: <p>
1.247 jufi 3721: </ul>
1.175 louis 3722:
1.176 louis 3723:
1.172 mickey 3724: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3725: <ul>
1.172 mickey 3726:
1.247 jufi 3727: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3728: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
3729: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 3730: </strong></font><br>
3731:
3732: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
3733: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
3734: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 3735: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 3736: <p>
3737:
1.247 jufi 3738: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 3739: <a
1.269 deraadt 3740: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
3741: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
3742: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 3743: </strong></font><br>
3744:
3745: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
3746: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
3747: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
3748: <p>
3749:
1.247 jufi 3750: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3751: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 3752: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
3753: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 3754: </strong></font><br>
3755:
3756: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
3757: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
3758: <p>
3759:
1.247 jufi 3760: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3761: <a
1.269 deraadt 3762: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
3763: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 3764: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
3765: </strong></font><br>
3766:
3767: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
3768: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
3769: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
3770: our own Theo de Raadt.
3771: <p>
3772:
1.247 jufi 3773: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3774: <a
1.269 deraadt 3775: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
3776: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
3777: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 3778: </strong></font><br>
3779:
3780: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
3781: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
3782: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
3783: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
3784: shut down.]
3785: <p>
3786:
1.247 jufi 3787: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3788: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 3789: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 3790: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
3791: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 3792: </strong></font><br>
3793:
3794: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
3795: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
3796: <p>
1.247 jufi 3797: </ul>
1.172 mickey 3798:
1.161 louis 3799: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3800: <ul>
1.161 louis 3801:
1.247 jufi 3802: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 3803: <a
1.269 deraadt 3804: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
3805: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
3806: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 3807: </strong></font><br>
3808:
3809: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
3810: by John Wolley
3811: <p>
3812:
1.247 jufi 3813: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 3814: <a
1.269 deraadt 3815: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
3816: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
3817: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 3818: </strong></font><br>
3819:
3820: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
3821: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
3822: OpenBSD).
3823: <p>
3824:
1.247 jufi 3825: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 3826: <a
1.247 jufi 3827: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 3828: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
3829: </strong></font><br>
3830:
3831: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
3832: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
3833: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
3834: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
3835: and hindsight.
3836: <p>
3837:
1.247 jufi 3838: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3839: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
3840: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
3841: </strong></font><br>
3842:
3843: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
3844: <p>
3845:
1.247 jufi 3846: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 3847: <a
1.168 provos 3848: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
3849: December 7, 2000
3850: </strong></font><br>
3851:
3852: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
3853: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
3854: us explain.
3855: <p>
3856:
1.247 jufi 3857: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 3858: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
3859: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 3860: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 3861: December 6, 2000
3862: </strong></font><br>
3863:
3864: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
3865: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
3866: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
3867: <p>
3868:
1.247 jufi 3869: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3870: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
3871: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
3872: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
3873: </strong></font><br>
3874:
3875: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
3876: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
3877: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
3878: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
3879: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
3880: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
3881: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
3882: <p>
3883:
3884: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 3885: <a
1.226 horacio 3886: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
3887: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 3888: </strong></font><br>
3889:
3890: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 3891: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 3892: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 3893: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
3894: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
3895: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 3896: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 3897: <p>
1.162 millert 3898:
1.247 jufi 3899: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 3900: <a
1.161 louis 3901: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
3902: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
3903: </strong></font><br>
3904:
3905: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
3906: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
3907: <p>
3908:
1.247 jufi 3909: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3910: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
3911: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
3912: </strong></font><br>
3913:
3914: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
3915: <p>
3916:
3917:
1.247 jufi 3918: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 3919: <a
1.226 horacio 3920: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
3921: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
3922: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 3923: </strong></font><br>
3924:
3925: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
3926: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
3927: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
3928: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
3929: <p>
1.247 jufi 3930: </ul>
1.169 louis 3931:
1.158 louis 3932: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3933: <ul>
1.147 louis 3934:
1.247 jufi 3935: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3936: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
3937: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 3938: </strong></font><br>
3939:
3940: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
3941: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
3942: <p>
3943:
1.247 jufi 3944: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3945: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
3946: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
3947: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 3948: </strong></font><br>
3949: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
3950: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
3951: <p>
3952:
1.247 jufi 3953: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 3954: <a
3955: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
3956: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
3957: </strong></font><br>
3958:
3959: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
3960: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
3961: <p>
3962:
1.247 jufi 3963: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3964: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 3965: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
3966: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 3967:
1.213 horacio 3968: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 3969: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 3970: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
3971: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
3972: <p>
1.215 horacio 3973:
1.247 jufi 3974: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3975: <a
3976: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
3977: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
3978: </strong></font><br>
3979:
3980: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
3981: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
3982: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
3983: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
3984: much of the attitude too).
3985: <p>
1.161 louis 3986:
1.247 jufi 3987: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3988: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 3989: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 3990: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3991:
1.157 louis 3992: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
3993: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
3994: <p>
1.247 jufi 3995: </ul>
1.157 louis 3996:
3997: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3998: <ul>
1.157 louis 3999:
1.247 jufi 4000: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4001: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4002: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 4003: </strong></font><br>
4004:
4005: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
4006: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
4007: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
4008: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
4009: <p>
4010:
1.247 jufi 4011: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 4012: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
4013: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
4014: </strong></font><br>
4015:
4016: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
4017: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
4018: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
4019: it because they love coding...
4020: <p>
4021:
1.247 jufi 4022: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 4023: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
4024: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
4025: </strong></font><br>
4026:
4027: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
4028: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
4029: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
4030: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
4031: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
4032: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
4033: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
4034: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
4035: <p>
4036:
1.247 jufi 4037: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4038: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
4039: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
4040: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 4041: </strong></font><br>
4042:
4043: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
4044: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
4045: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
4046: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
4047: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
4048: the pizza.
4049: <p>
4050:
1.247 jufi 4051: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 4052: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
4053: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
4054: </strong></font><br>
4055:
4056: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
4057: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
4058: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
4059: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
4060: problems.
4061: <p>
4062:
1.247 jufi 4063: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 4064: <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 4065: </strong></font><br>
4066:
1.222 miod 4067: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 4068: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
4069: - whether they like it or not.
4070: <p>
4071:
1.247 jufi 4072: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4073: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
4074: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 4075: </strong></font><br>
4076:
4077: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
4078: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
4079: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 4080: <p>
1.148 aaron 4081:
1.247 jufi 4082: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4083: <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 4084: </strong></font><br>
4085:
4086: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
4087: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
4088: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
4089: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
4090: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
4091: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
4092: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
4093: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
4094: <p>
4095:
1.247 jufi 4096: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4097: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
4098: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 4099: </strong></font><br>
4100:
4101: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
4102: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 4103: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 4104: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
4105: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
4106: <p>
1.247 jufi 4107: </ul>
1.147 louis 4108:
1.138 louis 4109: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4110: <ul>
1.138 louis 4111:
1.247 jufi 4112: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4113: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
4114: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
4115: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
4116: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 4117: </strong></font><br>
4118:
1.227 horacio 4119: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 4120: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
4121: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
4122: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
4123: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
4124: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
4125: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
4126: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 4127: <p>
4128:
1.247 jufi 4129: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 4130: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 4131: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 4132: </strong></font><br>
4133:
4134: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
4135: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
4136: groups, and even Linux.
4137: <p>
4138:
1.247 jufi 4139: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4140: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
4141: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 4142: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
4143: </strong></font><br>
4144:
4145: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
4146: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
4147: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
4148: library after installing the OS.
4149: <p>
4150:
1.247 jufi 4151: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4152: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 4153: Sys Admin, September 2000
4154: </strong></font><br>
4155:
4156: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
4157: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
4158: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
4159: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 4160: (<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>,
4161: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
4162: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
4163: <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 4164: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 4165: out of the system.
4166: <p>
4167:
1.247 jufi 4168: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 4169: <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
4170: </strong></font><br>
4171:
4172: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 4173: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 4174: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
4175: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
4176: the IP filtering and address translation.
4177: <p>
1.301 jose 4178:
4179: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4180: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
4181: </strong></font><br>
4182:
4183: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
4184: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
4185: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
4186: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
4187: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
4188: <p>
1.247 jufi 4189: </ul>
1.200 niklas 4190:
1.131 louis 4191: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4192: <ul>
1.131 louis 4193:
1.247 jufi 4194: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4195: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
4196: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
4197: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 4198: </strong></font><br>
4199:
4200: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
4201: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
4202: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
4203: <p>
4204:
1.247 jufi 4205: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 4206: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
4207: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
4208: </strong></font><br>
4209:
4210: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
4211: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
4212: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
4213: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
4214: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
4215: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
4216: note of"</i>.
4217: <p>
4218:
1.247 jufi 4219: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 4220: <a
1.247 jufi 4221: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 4222: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
4223: </strong></font><br>
4224:
4225: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
4226: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
4227: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
4228: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
4229: <p>
4230:
1.247 jufi 4231: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 4232: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 4233: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
4234: </strong></font><br>
4235:
4236: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
4237: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
4238: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
4239: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
4240: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
4241: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
4242: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
4243: <p>
4244:
1.247 jufi 4245: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 4246: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
4247: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
4248: 2000
4249: </strong></font><br>
4250:
4251: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
4252: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
4253: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
4254: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
4255: against current industry practices.
4256: <p>
4257:
1.247 jufi 4258: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 4259: <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
4260: </strong></font><br>
4261:
4262: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
4263: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
4264: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
4265: <p>
4266:
1.247 jufi 4267: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 4268: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
4269: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
4270: </strong></font><br>
4271:
4272: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
4273: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
4274: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
4275: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
4276: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
4277: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
4278: careful code reviews, he concludes.
4279: <p>
4280:
1.247 jufi 4281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 4282: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
4283: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
4284: </strong></font><br>
4285:
4286: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
4287: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
4288: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
4289: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
4290: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 4291: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
4292: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
4293: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 4294: <p>
1.247 jufi 4295: </ul>
1.131 louis 4296:
1.118 louis 4297: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4298: <ul>
1.118 louis 4299:
1.247 jufi 4300: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 4301: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
4302: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
4303: </strong></font><br>
4304:
4305: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
4306: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
4307: about time. The article mentions that
4308: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
4309: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
4310: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 4311: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 4312: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
4313: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 4314: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 4315: <p>
4316:
1.247 jufi 4317: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4318: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 4319: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 4320: </strong></font><br>
4321:
4322: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
4323: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
4324: of OpenSSH.
4325: <p>
4326:
1.247 jufi 4327: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4328: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4329: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 4330: </strong></font><br>
4331:
4332: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 4333: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 4334: bridging.
4335: <p>
4336:
1.247 jufi 4337: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4338: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
4339: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 4340: </strong></font><br>
4341:
1.121 deraadt 4342: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
4343: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 4344: <p>
4345:
1.247 jufi 4346: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 4347: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
4348: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
4349: </strong></font><br>
4350:
4351: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
4352: <p>
4353:
1.247 jufi 4354: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 4355: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 4356: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
4357: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 4358: </strong></font><br>
4359:
1.120 deraadt 4360: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
4361: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 4362: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
4363: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
4364: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
4365: <p>
4366:
1.247 jufi 4367: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 4368: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
4369: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
4370: </strong></font><br>
4371:
1.222 miod 4372: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 4373: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
4374: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
4375: protocols and their quirks.
4376: <p>
4377:
1.247 jufi 4378: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4379: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
4380: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 4381: </strong></font><br>
4382:
4383: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
4384: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
4385: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 4386: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 4387: <p>
4388:
1.247 jufi 4389: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 4390: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
4391: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
4392: </strong></font><br>
4393:
4394: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
4395: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
4396: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
4397: <p>
4398:
1.247 jufi 4399: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 4400: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 4401: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
4402: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 4403: </strong></font><br>
4404:
4405: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
4406: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
4407: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
4408: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
4409: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
4410: <p>
1.247 jufi 4411: </ul>
1.118 louis 4412:
1.104 louis 4413: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4414: <ul>
1.104 louis 4415:
1.247 jufi 4416: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 4417: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
4418: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
4419: </strong></font><br>
4420:
4421: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
4422: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
4423: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
4424: be a bit dry.
4425: <p>
4426:
1.247 jufi 4427: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4428: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
4429: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
4430: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
4431: </strong></font><br>
4432: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
4433: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
4434: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
4435: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
4436: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
4437: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
4438: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
4439: <p>
4440:
1.247 jufi 4441: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4442: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
4443: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 4444: 2000
1.128 louis 4445: </strong></font><br>
4446:
4447: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
4448: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
4449: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
4450: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
4451: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 4452: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 4453: <p>
4454:
1.247 jufi 4455: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4456: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
4457: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 4458: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 4459:
4460: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
4461: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
4462: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
4463: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 4464: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
4465: <p>
1.110 louis 4466:
1.247 jufi 4467: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 4468: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
4469: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
4470: </strong></font><br>
4471:
4472: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
4473: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
4474: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
4475: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
4476: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
4477: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
4478: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
4479: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
4480: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
4481: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
4482: <p>
4483:
1.247 jufi 4484: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 4485: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 4486: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 4487:
4488: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
4489: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 4490: <p>
1.108 louis 4491:
1.247 jufi 4492: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 4493: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
4494: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 4495: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 4496:
4497: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
4498: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
4499: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 4500: <p>
1.106 louis 4501:
1.247 jufi 4502: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 4503: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
4504: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 4505: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 4506:
4507: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
4508: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
4509: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
4510: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 4511: <p>
1.107 louis 4512:
1.247 jufi 4513: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4514: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
4515: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 4516: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 4517:
4518: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
4519: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 4520: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 4521: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
4522: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 4523: <p>
1.105 louis 4524:
1.247 jufi 4525: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 4526: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 4527: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 4528: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 4529:
1.113 naddy 4530: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
4531: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 4532: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 4533: <p>
1.104 louis 4534:
1.247 jufi 4535: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4536: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
4537: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
4538: </strong></font><br>
4539:
4540: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
4541: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
4542: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
4543: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
4544: <p>
1.301 jose 4545:
4546: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4547: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
4548: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
4549: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
4550:
4551: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
4552: hardware-supported cryptography.
4553: <p>
1.247 jufi 4554: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 4555:
1.85 louis 4556: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4557: <ul>
1.85 louis 4558:
1.247 jufi 4559: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4560: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 4561: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 4562: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 4563:
4564: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
4565: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
4566: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
4567: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
4568: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
4569: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
4570: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 4571: <p>
1.99 louis 4572:
1.247 jufi 4573: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4574: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 4575: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 4576: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 4577:
4578: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
4579: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
4580: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
4581: conditions.
1.113 naddy 4582: <p>
1.100 louis 4583:
1.247 jufi 4584: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4585: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 4586: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 4587: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 4588:
4589: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
4590: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
4591: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
4592: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 4593: <p>
1.95 louis 4594:
1.247 jufi 4595: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4596: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 4597: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 4598: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 4599:
4600: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
4601: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 4602: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 4603: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
4604: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4605: <p>
1.92 louis 4606:
1.247 jufi 4607: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4608: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 4609: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 4610: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 4611:
4612: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
4613: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
4614: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
4615: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
4616: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
4617: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 4618: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 4619: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 4620: <p>
1.91 louis 4621:
1.247 jufi 4622: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4623: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
4624: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 4625: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 4626:
4627: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
4628: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
4629: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
4630: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
4631: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
4632: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
4633: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
4634: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
4635: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 4636: <p>
1.90 louis 4637:
1.247 jufi 4638: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 4639: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
4640: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
4641: </strong></font><br>
4642: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
4643: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
4644: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
4645: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
4646: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
4647: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
4648: <p>
4649:
1.247 jufi 4650: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 4651: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
4652: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 4653: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 4654:
1.113 naddy 4655: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
4656: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 4657: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
4658: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
4659: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
4660: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
4661: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 4662: <p>
1.87 louis 4663:
1.247 jufi 4664: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 4665: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
4666: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 4667: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 4668:
4669: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 4670: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 4671: <p>
1.85 louis 4672:
1.247 jufi 4673: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4674: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
4675: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4676: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
4677:
4678: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
4679: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
4680: <p>
4681:
4682: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 4683: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
4684: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 4685: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 4686:
4687: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 4688: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 4689: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
4690: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 4691: <p>
1.89 louis 4692:
1.247 jufi 4693: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 4694: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
1.85 louis 4695: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 4696: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 4697:
4698: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
4699: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
4700: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
4701: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
4702: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 4703: </ul>
1.85 louis 4704:
1.78 deraadt 4705: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4706: <ul>
1.74 louis 4707:
1.247 jufi 4708: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4709: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 4710: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 4711: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 4712: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 4713:
4714: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
4715: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
4716: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4717: <p>
1.83 louis 4718:
1.247 jufi 4719: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 4720: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
4721: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 4722: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 4723:
4724: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
4725: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 4726: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 4727: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
4728: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 4729: <p>
1.93 louis 4730:
1.247 jufi 4731: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4732: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
4733: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
4734: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 4735: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 4736:
1.83 louis 4737: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
4738: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
4739: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
4740: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
4741: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 4742: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
4743: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
4744: <p>
1.82 aaron 4745:
1.247 jufi 4746: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4747: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 4748: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 4749: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 4750:
1.83 louis 4751: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
4752: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
4753: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 4754: <p>
1.80 louis 4755:
1.247 jufi 4756: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4757: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 4758: Bad Press</a>,
4759: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 4760: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 4761:
4762: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 4763: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 4764: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
4765: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
4766: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 4767: <p>
1.247 jufi 4768: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 4769:
4770: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4771: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 4772:
1.247 jufi 4773: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4774: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
4775: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 4776: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 4777: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 4778:
4779: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
4780: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
4781: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
4782: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 4783: <p>
1.74 louis 4784:
1.247 jufi 4785: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 4786: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
4787: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 4788: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 4789:
1.219 horacio 4790: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
4791: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
4792: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
4793: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
4794: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
4795: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
4796: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 4797: <p>
1.88 louis 4798:
1.247 jufi 4799: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 4800: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 4801: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 4802: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 4803:
4804: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
4805: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
4806: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
4807: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 4808: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 4809: <p>
1.81 louis 4810:
1.247 jufi 4811: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4812: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 4813: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 4814: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 4815:
4816: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
4817: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
4818: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
4819: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
4820: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
4821: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
4822: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 4823: <p>
1.90 louis 4824:
1.247 jufi 4825: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4826: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 4827: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 4828: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 4829:
4830: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
4831: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
4832: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 4833: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 4834: <p>
1.247 jufi 4835: </ul>
1.71 louis 4836:
1.69 deraadt 4837: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4838: <ul>
1.70 louis 4839:
1.247 jufi 4840: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4841: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
4842: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 4843: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 4844:
4845: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
4846: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
4847: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 4848: <p>
1.70 louis 4849:
1.247 jufi 4850: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4851: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
4852: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 4853: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 4854:
4855: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 4856: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 4857: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 4858: <p>
1.68 louis 4859:
1.247 jufi 4860: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4861: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
4862: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 4863: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 4864: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 4865:
1.111 jufi 4866: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
4867: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 4868: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 4869: "secure by default" installation.
4870: <p>
1.64 louis 4871:
1.247 jufi 4872: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 4873: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 4874: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 4875: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 4876:
1.113 naddy 4877: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 4878: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 4879: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 4880: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
4881: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
4882: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 4883: <p>
1.66 louis 4884:
1.247 jufi 4885: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4886: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 4887: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4888: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 4889:
4890: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 4891: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 4892: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
4893: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
4894: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 4895: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
4896: <p>
1.83 louis 4897:
1.247 jufi 4898: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4899: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 4900: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4901: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 4902:
4903: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 4904: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
4905: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 4906: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
4907: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 4908: <p>
1.64 louis 4909:
1.247 jufi 4910: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4911: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 4912: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4913: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 4914:
4915: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
4916: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 4917: <p>
1.301 jose 4918:
4919: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4920: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
4921: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
4922: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
4923: </strong></font><br>
4924:
4925: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
4926: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
4927: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
4928: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
4929: Giving way to
4930: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
4931: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
4932: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
4933: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
4934: <p>
1.247 jufi 4935: </ul>
1.65 louis 4936:
1.69 deraadt 4937: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4938: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 4939:
1.247 jufi 4940: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4941: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 4942: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 4943: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 4944:
4945: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
4946: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
4947: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
4948: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 4949: <p>
1.88 louis 4950:
1.247 jufi 4951: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4952: <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 4953: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 4954:
4955: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 4956: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
4957: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 4958: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
4959: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 4960: <p>
1.60 louis 4961:
1.247 jufi 4962: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 4963: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 4964: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 4965: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 4966: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4967:
4968: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
4969: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
4970: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 4971: <p>
1.58 louis 4972:
1.247 jufi 4973: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 4974: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 4975: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 4976:
4977: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
4978: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 4979: <p>
1.53 louis 4980:
1.247 jufi 4981: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 4982: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
4983: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 4984: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 4985:
4986: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
4987: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
4988: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 4989: <p>
1.99 louis 4990:
1.247 jufi 4991: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 4992: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 4993: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 4994:
4995: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
4996: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 4997: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 4998: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 4999: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 5000:
1.247 jufi 5001: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 5002: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
5003: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 5004: </strong></font><br>
5005:
5006: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
5007: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
5008: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
5009: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
5010: <p>
5011:
1.247 jufi 5012: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5013: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 5014: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 5015: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5016:
5017: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
5018: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 5019: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 5020:
1.247 jufi 5021: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 5022: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 5023: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 5024:
5025: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 5026: in
1.247 jufi 5027: <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 5028: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 5029: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 5030: <p>
1.53 louis 5031:
1.247 jufi 5032: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5033: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 5034: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
5035: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 5036: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 5037:
1.58 louis 5038: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5039: <p>
1.301 jose 5040:
5041: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5042: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
5043: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
5044: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
5045: Informacyjny, January 2000
5046: </strong></font><br>
5047:
5048: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
5049: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
5050: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
5051: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
5052: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
5053: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
5054: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
5055: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
5056: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
5057: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 5058: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
5059: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 5060: <p>
5061:
5062: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5063: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
5064: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
5065: </strong></font><br>
5066:
5067: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
5068: <p>
5069: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 5070:
1.69 deraadt 5071: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5072: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5073:
1.247 jufi 5074: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 5075: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
5076: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
5077: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 5078: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5079:
1.58 louis 5080: Kurt Seifried
5081: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
5082: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
5083: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 5084: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 5085:
1.247 jufi 5086: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5087: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 5088: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 5089: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 5090:
5091: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 5092: <p>
1.96 louis 5093:
1.247 jufi 5094: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5095: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
5096: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
5097: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
5098: </strong></font><br>
5099:
5100: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
5101: <p>
5102:
5103: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5104: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 5105: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 5106: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 5107:
5108: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
5109: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 5110: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 5111: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 5112: <p>
1.247 jufi 5113: </ul>
1.86 louis 5114:
1.69 deraadt 5115: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5116: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5117:
1.247 jufi 5118: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 5119: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
5120: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 5121: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 5122:
5123: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
5124: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 5125: <p>
1.61 louis 5126:
1.247 jufi 5127: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5128: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 5129: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
5130: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5131: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 5132:
5133: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 5134: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 5135: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
5136: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 5137: right -- or at least strives to".
5138: <p>
1.48 louis 5139:
1.247 jufi 5140: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 5141: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
5142: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5143: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 5144: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
5145: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
5146: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
5147: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 5148: <p>
1.61 louis 5149:
1.247 jufi 5150: <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 5151: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 5152: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 5153:
5154: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
5155: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
5156: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
5157: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 5158: <p>
1.46 louis 5159:
1.247 jufi 5160: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 5161: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
5162: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 5163: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5164:
5165: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
5166: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 5167: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 5168:
1.247 jufi 5169: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 5170: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
5171: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 5172: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 5173:
5174: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
5175: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
5176: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
5177: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 5178: <p>
1.247 jufi 5179: </ul>
1.70 louis 5180:
1.69 deraadt 5181: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5182: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5183:
1.247 jufi 5184: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5185: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
5186: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 5187: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 5188: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 5189:
5190: Kurt Seifried
5191: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
5192: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
5193: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 5194: <p>
1.44 philen 5195:
1.247 jufi 5196: <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 5197: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 5198: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 5199:
5200: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 5201: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 5202:
1.247 jufi 5203: <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 5204: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 5205: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 5206:
5207: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 5208: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 5209:
1.247 jufi 5210: <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 5211: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 5212: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 5213:
5214: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
5215: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
5216: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
5217: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 5218: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 5219:
1.247 jufi 5220: <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 5221: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 5222: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 5223:
1.36 louis 5224: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 5225: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 5226:
1.247 jufi 5227: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5228: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
1.39 louis 5229: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 5230: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 5231:
5232: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 5233: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 5234: </ul>
1.38 louis 5235:
1.69 deraadt 5236: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5237: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5238:
1.247 jufi 5239: <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 5240: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 5241: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 5242:
5243: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
5244: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 5245: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 5246:
1.113 naddy 5247: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 5248: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 5249: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 5250: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 5251:
5252: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
5253: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 5254: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
5255: terminal:
1.113 naddy 5256: <blockquote>
5257: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
5258: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
5259: <br>
5260: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
5261: </code>
5262: </blockquote>
5263: <p>
5264:
1.247 jufi 5265: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 5266: <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 5267: <p>
5268:
5269: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5270: <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 5271: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 5272:
5273: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
5274: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 5275: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 5276: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 5277:
1.247 jufi 5278: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5279: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
5280: Sept. 28, 1999
5281: </strong></font><br>
5282:
5283: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
5284: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
5285: translating and reprinting articles from
5286: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
5287: <p>
5288:
5289: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 5290: <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 5291: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 5292:
5293: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
5294: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
5295: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
5296: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
5297: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 5298: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 5299: <p>
1.19 louis 5300:
1.113 naddy 5301: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 5302: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 5303: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 5304:
5305: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
5306: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
5307: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 5308: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
5309: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 5310: <p>
1.16 louis 5311:
1.247 jufi 5312: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5313: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 5314: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 5315: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 5316:
1.57 louis 5317: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
5318: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
5319: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 5320: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 5321:
1.247 jufi 5322: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5323: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.466 deraadt 5324: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5325: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5326:
1.113 naddy 5327: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 5328:
1.247 jufi 5329: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 5330: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
5331: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 5332: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 5333:
1.23 louis 5334: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
5335: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
5336: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
5337: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
5338: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 5339: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 5340:
1.247 jufi 5341: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 5342: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
5343: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 5344: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 5345:
1.199 pvalchev 5346: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 5347: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
5348: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
5349: installation.
1.113 naddy 5350: <p>
1.47 louis 5351:
1.247 jufi 5352: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5353: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 5354: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 5355: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5356:
1.301 jose 5357: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
5358: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
5359: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 5360: </ul>
1.57 louis 5361:
1.69 deraadt 5362: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5363: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5364:
1.247 jufi 5365: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 5366: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 5367: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 5368: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 5369:
5370: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
5371: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 5372: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5373: <p>
1.12 louis 5374:
1.247 jufi 5375: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 5376: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 5377: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 5378: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 5379:
5380: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
5381: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 5382: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
5383: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
5384: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
5385: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
5386: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 5387: <p>
1.247 jufi 5388: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 5389:
1.69 deraadt 5390: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5391: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 5392:
1.247 jufi 5393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 5394: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 5395: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 5396:
5397: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
5398: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
5399: available."
1.113 naddy 5400: <p>
1.301 jose 5401:
5402: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5403: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
5404: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
5405: </strong></font><br>
5406:
5407: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
5408: <p>
1.247 jufi 5409: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 5410:
1.69 deraadt 5411: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5412: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5413:
1.247 jufi 5414: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 5415: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 5416: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 5417:
5418: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
5419: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
5420: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
5421: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
5422: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 5423: <p>
1.33 louis 5424:
1.247 jufi 5425: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5426: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 5427: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 5428: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5429:
1.113 naddy 5430: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
5431: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 5432: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
5433: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
5434: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 5435: <p>
1.247 jufi 5436: </ul>
1.57 louis 5437:
1.69 deraadt 5438: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5439: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5440:
1.247 jufi 5441: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5442: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 5443: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 5444: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 5445:
5446: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
5447: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 5448: <p>
1.69 deraadt 5449:
1.247 jufi 5450: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 5451: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
5452: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
5453: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 5454: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 5455:
5456: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 5457: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 5458:
1.247 jufi 5459: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5460: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 5461:
1.113 naddy 5462: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 5463:
1.247 jufi 5464: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5465: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
1.68 louis 5466: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 5467: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 5468:
5469: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 5470: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 5471: </ul>
1.23 louis 5472:
1.69 deraadt 5473: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5474: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5475:
1.247 jufi 5476: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 5477: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 5478: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 5479:
5480: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
5481: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 5482: <p>
1.2 deraadt 5483:
1.247 jufi 5484: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5485: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 5486: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5487: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5488:
5489: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
5490: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 5491: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 5492: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 5493: </ul>
1.57 louis 5494:
1.69 deraadt 5495: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5496: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5497:
1.247 jufi 5498: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5499: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
1.15 louis 5500: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 5501: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 5502:
5503: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
5504: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
5505: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
5506: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5507: <p>
1.15 louis 5508:
1.247 jufi 5509: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 5510: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
5511: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 5512: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5513:
5514: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
5515: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
5516: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
5517: columns."
1.113 naddy 5518: <p>
1.247 jufi 5519: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5520:
1.69 deraadt 5521: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5522: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5523:
1.247 jufi 5524: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5525: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 5526: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 5527: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5528:
5529: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 5530: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 5531:
1.113 naddy 5532: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5533: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 5534: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5535:
5536: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
5537: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 5538: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 5539: </ul>
1.57 louis 5540:
1.69 deraadt 5541: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5542: <ul>
1.301 jose 5543: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5544: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
5545: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
5546: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
5547:
5548: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
5549: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
5550: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
5551: <p>
5552:
5553: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5554: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
5555: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
5556: Nov 13, 1998 and
5557: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
5558: Datateknik</a>,
5559: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
5560:
1.380 saad 5561: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 5562: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
5563: explains the licensing issues and points to our
5564: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
5565: <p>
1.69 deraadt 5566:
1.113 naddy 5567: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5568: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 5569: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 5570: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 5571:
1.222 miod 5572: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 5573: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
5574: Implementation, including a brief interview with
5575: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 5576: <p>
1.247 jufi 5577: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5578:
1.69 deraadt 5579: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5580: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5581:
1.247 jufi 5582: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5583: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 5584: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5585:
1.69 deraadt 5586: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
5587: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 5588: <p>
1.247 jufi 5589: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5590:
1.69 deraadt 5591: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5592: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 5593:
1.247 jufi 5594: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 5595: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
5596: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 5597: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5598:
1.383 jcs 5599: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 5600: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 5601: <p>
1.1 deraadt 5602:
1.247 jufi 5603: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 5604: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 5605: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
5606: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 5607: <p>
1.247 jufi 5608: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5609:
1.69 deraadt 5610: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5611: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5612:
1.247 jufi 5613: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5614: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 5615: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
5616: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 5617: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 5618: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 5619:
5620: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
5621: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
5622: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 5623: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 5624: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 5625: <p>
1.247 jufi 5626: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 5627:
5628: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5629: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5630:
1.247 jufi 5631: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5632: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 5633: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 5634:
1.69 deraadt 5635: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
5636: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 5637: <p>
1.112 naddy 5638:
1.247 jufi 5639: </ul>
1.113 naddy 5640: <p>
1.1 deraadt 5641:
1.292 camield 5642: <hr>
1.216 horacio 5643: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 5644: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.533 ! ray 5645: <br><small>$OpenBSD: press.html,v 1.532 2006/07/27 03:34:04 ray Exp $</small>
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5648: </html>