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1.536 grunk 19: <h2>September, 2006</h2>
20: <ul>
21:
22: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.537 ! ian 23: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/7184">
! 24: OpenBSD: Intel Accused Of Being "An Open Source Fraud"</a>,
! 25: KernelTrap, September 30, 2006.
! 26: </strong></font><br>
! 27: Mentions Damien's thread on misc summarizing Intel's policy toward
! 28: open-source software as being to make Intel "look like we're
! 29: open-source friendly by opening a project on sourceforge," and,
! 30: "give the open-source community the bare minimum so that they can
! 31: serve as our beta-testers." Damien reverse engineered the wpi(4)
! 32: driver source for the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Driver,
! 33: despite Intel's refusal to freely provide documentation.
! 34: Regular readers will know that OpenBSD has been at war with Intel
! 35: for ages over these chipsets.
! 36: Quotes Theo as saying:
! 37: "before we ask a vendor, we have already lost (ie. the
! 38: device does not work). When a vendor says no, we have lost nothing
! 39: further -- there is no way we can lose further than having the
! 40: device not work. We can only win, and then the device works. So
! 41: there is no point in giving up until we win back the rights to write
! 42: software for the hardware that we have purchased."
! 43: <p>
! 44:
! 45: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
! 46: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/09/bsdtalk069-interview-with-christoph.html">
! 47: Interview with Christoph Egger about Xen on OpenBSD</a>, bsdtalk069, September 26, 2006
! 48: </strong></font><br>
! 49: BSDTalk interviews Christoph Egger about Xen and about how Christoph make OpenBSD
! 50: able to run as a guest operating system on Xen.
! 51: Includes some background about Xen as well as what it would take to
! 52: make OpenBSD run as the "dom0" or master host.
! 53: <p>
! 54:
! 55: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.536 grunk 56: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/09/bsdtalk068-interview-with-openbsd.html">
57: Intervew with OpenBSD developer Bob Beck</a>, bsdtalk068, September 22, 2006
58: </strong></font><br>
59: Bob Beck talks about spamd and his history with OpenBSD and UNIX
60: on Will Backman's bsdtalk. Bob gives us a look into his work on
61: OpenBSD and gives us amusing stories of how spamd works and how it
62: actually fares in 'the wild.' The podcast lasts a whole 25 minutes,
63: 59 seconds so it's long enough to occupy a meal or a small commute.
64: <p>
65:
1.537 ! ian 66: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
! 67: <a href="http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060920185115">
! 68: OpenBSD 4.0 pre-orders are up!</a>, undeadly.org, September 20, 2006
! 69: </strong></font><br>
! 70: One of the first mentions of 4.0 going on sale for pre-ordering
! 71: (the official release date is November 1).
! 72: Also gives a list of the many good things that have been added
! 73: in 4.0, including many new device drivers,
! 74: support for UltraSPARC III on sparc64, improvements to ipsecctl,
! 75: a new RCS implementation, and much more.
! 76: Includes a reminder to "show your support for the project by
! 77: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/orders.html">placing your pre-orders today!"
! 78: <p>
! 79:
1.536 grunk 80: </ul>
81:
1.534 ian 82: <h2>August, 2006</h2>
83: <ul>
84:
85: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.537 ! ian 86: <a href="http://anil.recoil.org/blog/articles/2006/08/21/openbsd-xen-boots-multi-user">
! 87: OpenBSD/Xen boots multi-user</a>, Recoil Blog, August 21, 2006
! 88: </strong></font><br>
! 89: Anil discusses his stewardship of a Google Summer of Code project in which
! 90: Christoph Egger ported and revised some NetBSD code to make OpenBSD boot up natively
! 91: as a guest operating system under
! 92: <a href="http://www.xensource.com/">Xen</a>, the open-source hypervisor
! 93: or "virtualization" system.
! 94: <p>
! 95:
! 96: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.534 ian 97: <a href="http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-openbsd.html">
98: Take a closer look at OpenBSD</a>, IBM developerWorks, August 08, 2006
99: </strong></font><br>
100: Tim McIntire holds OpenBSD up as a beacon to UNIX users, calling it
101: "quite possibly the most secure operating system on the planet."
102: He talks about how the development process leads to greater security
103: and how tools like OpenSSH make it out into the wider UNIX/Linux world.
104: "OpenBSD might not have a huge user base compared to other UNIX-like operating systems,
105: but it is installed at the most crucial points of many networks."
106: Has a somewhat brief but effective discussion of installing the software, and
107: ends with references to several papers and sites of interest.
108: <p>
109:
110: </ul>
111:
1.531 ian 112: <h2>July, 2006</h2>
113: <ul>
114: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
115: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/case-studies--profiles/founder-breathes-the-open-air/2006/07/17/1152988468274.html">
116: Founder breathes the Open air</a>, The Age, July 18, 2006
117: </strong></font><br>
118: Subtitled "Hiking in exotic climes is a brain adventure for the founder of OpenBSD", this is
119: as much about hiking and learning new symbols as about software, but our leader
120: manages to do both, and bring both into the interview.
121: The article quotes Theo as saying
122: "Another major lesson I have learnt is that most people only care
123: about things working for themselves, and thus it is very easy in a
124: group to build poorly thought-out solutions. It is very simple to
125: write small hacks and end up with unmaintainable systems in the long term."
126: Describes the hackathons as an important part of the project's process
127: and describes the funding issues as well.
128: <p>
129:
130: </ul>
131:
1.525 ian 132: <h2>June, 2006</h2>
133: <ul>
134: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.535 steven 135: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=472693&rl=1">
1.530 ian 136: Alternatives to LAMP</a>, informit.com, June 2, 2006
137: </strong></font><br>
138: While "Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP" get most of the attention,
139: there are alternatives to each that are, in some way, better.
140: David Chisnal starts this article with a look at OS alternatives,
141: and OpenBSD gets the most detailed coverage, including this:
142: "When it comes to security, OpenBSD has a well-earned reputation
143: as the operating system for the truly paranoid. The entire kernel
144: and base system, including the OpenBSD fork of Apache, undergoes a
145: constant auditing process. The OpenBSD attitude is that any bug is
146: potentially exploitable, and when a bug is found by the auditing
147: team the next step is to attempt to remove every single occurrence
148: of that category of bug. This approach leads to an incredibly secure
149: system." Also talks about our pioneering use of W^X and the
150: "incredibly powerful and easy to configure" packet filter, pf.
151: <p>
152:
153: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.527 ian 154: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article8785.phtml">
1.525 ian 155: Microsoft adopts open-source security feature</a>, OSDir.com, June 1, 2006
156: </strong></font><br>
157: Microsoft borrows one of OpenBSD's security features for Vista, stack/library randomization,
158: under the name Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR).
159: "Until now, the feature has been most prominently used in the OpenBSD Unix variant and
160: the PaX and Exec Shield security patches for Linux"
161: (despite the article's title, there is nothing open-source about Microsoft's implementation).
162: <p>
163:
1.526 ian 164: </ul>
1.525 ian 165:
1.514 ian 166: <h2>May, 2006</h2>
167: <ul>
1.524 ian 168: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
169: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6650">
170: OpenBSD: wpi, A Blob Free Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Driver</a>, KernelTrap, May 28, 2006
171: </strong></font><br>
172: Damien Bergamini wrote OpenBSD's all-open-source driver for the Intel Pro/Wireless,
173: a sharp contrast to other projects' bogus "open source" drivers that are just wrappers around
174: a "binary blob" (source code not available, sorry) provided by the vendor.
175: "His announcement came a little over two months after Intel released
176: the controversial ipw3945 driver for Linux which included
177: a binary-only daemon described as necessary for enforcing regulatory
178: limits for the radio transmitter on the wireless device."
179: Bergamini's work proves yet again that vendors don't have to obscure their products
180: to make them useful.
181: <p>
1.518 ian 182:
183: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.520 ian 184: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/openbsd/c2k6/who1">
1.523 ian 185: c2k6, Who's Who At the 2006 OpenBSD Hackathon, Part I</a>
186: and
187: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6662">Part II</a>,
1.522 ian 188: KernelTrap, May 28, 2006
1.520 ian 189: </strong></font><br>
1.521 deraadt 190: Jeremy Andrews visited our developers at the Hackathon and gives
1.523 ian 191: a brief but colorful summary of most of the team members:
1.520 ian 192: why they chose OpenBSD, how they got involved, what they do, and
193: their plans for the week.
194: <p>
195:
196: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.523 ian 197: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/05/22/OpenBSD-on-Flash.html">
198: Installing OpenBSD on Flash</a>,
199: Ping Wales, May 22, 2006
200: </strong></font><br>
201: David Chisnall shows how to set up an OpenBSD boot image for
202: Soekris or PC Engines machines that boot from flash memory.
203: <p>
204:
205: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.520 ian 206: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/eur/article.php/3603961">
207: Enterprise Unix Roundup: Whither BSD?</a>, ServerWatch, May 5, 2006
208: </strong></font><br>
209: Amy Newman and Brian Proffitt state that the BSDs are often overlooked
210: because of their limited commercial acceptance.
211: The authors call this an unfortunate oversight, because recent releases of
212: the freely available BSD flavors show significant technical improvements.
1.523 ian 213: As an example, they specifically refer to OpenBSD's sensor framework
1.520 ian 214: (introduced with 3.9).
215: Newman and Proffitt also accuse big vendors of picking the nice parts from
216: the BSDs' code and giving nothing back to the community in return.
217: <p>
218:
219: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.518 ian 220: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/35/1/">
221: OpenBSD 3.9 Review</a>, Software In Review, May 3, 2006
222: </strong></font><br>
223: Jem Matzan takes the 3.9 release out for a spin, and likes it.
224: Noting that each release consists of a lot of small changes
225: and some major improvements - and mentioning hardware support, sensors,
226: and "blob removal" - he clearly thinks the project is doing a lot of things right.
227: "Everything you get in the release is production-ready, secure by
228: default... and comes with possibly the finest integrated documentation
229: in the Unix-clone world. While you might find a poorly programmed
230: driver or other base system component in other BSDs and GNU/Linux
231: distributions, in OpenBSD if something is supported, it works."
232: <p>
233:
234: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
235: [GERMAN]
236: <a href="http://www.linux-magazin.de/Artikel/ausgabe/2006/06/news_zut/news_zut.html">
237: Mozilla greift OpenBSD unter die Arme</a>, Linux Magazin, Issue 06/06, May 2006, p. 18
238: </strong></font><br>
239: The German <a href="http://www.linux-magazin.de/">Linux Magazin</a> has a short
240: article about OpenBSD's financial situation and Marco Peerebroom's
1.535 steven 241: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060321034114">call for donations</a>
1.518 ian 242: on undeadly.org. The article further mentions how OpenSSH development
243: is connected to OpenBSD.
244: <p>
245:
1.514 ian 246: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
247: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6550">
248: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, KernelTrap, May 2, 2006
249: </strong></font><br>
250: Jeremy Andrews conducts a free-ranging interview, focused mainly on 3.9 and drivers,
251: that gives Theo a chance to explain how the big North American chip vendors'
252: business practices make it harder for open source projects,
1.515 ian 253: talk about "binary blobs" vs firmware in drivers, and more.
1.514 ian 254: There's also coverage of where the project is going up to and after 3.9 and where
1.516 steven 255: it might (or might not) go in the future, why doing things right (and
1.514 ian 256: running this project) is so important to Theo,
257: and even why he does mountain biking!
258: <p>
259:
260: </ul>
261:
1.503 ian 262: <h2>April, 2006</h2>
263: <ul>
264: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.532 ray 265: <a href="http://www.dribin.org/dave/blog/archives/2006/04/28/os_x_passwords_2/">
266: Mac OS X Password Implementation Compared to OpenBSD's</a>, April 28, 2006
267: </strong></font><br>
268: Dave Dribin analyzes Mac OS X's password implementation
269: and compares it with OpenBSD's:
270: "The king of the hill has to go to OpenBSD,
271: which uses a hash based on the Blowfish block cipher called bcrypt.
272: The benefit of [bcrypt] is best stated on their website:
273: <blockquote>
274: The most important property of bcrypt (and thus crypt_blowfish)
275: is that it is adaptable to future processor performance improvements,
276: allowing you to arbitrarily increase the processing cost of checking a
277: password while still maintaining compatibility with your older password hashes.
278: Already now bcrypt hashes you would use are several orders of magnitude
279: stronger than traditional Unix DES-based or FreeBSD-style MD5-based hashes.
280: </blockquote>
281: This is just plain cool."
282: <p>
283:
284: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.512 ian 285: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6557">
286: OpenBSD 3.9: Blob-Busters Interviewed</a>, OnLAMP, April 27, 2006
287: </strong></font><br>
288: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several of the developers on improvements
289: in 3.9: the continuing absence of "blob drivers", IPMI and sensors, apmd performance
290: adjustment, Macs, rthreads, multicast, trunk, hostapd, and more.
1.513 saad 291: jsg clarifies the issue of "binary blob" drivers vs "firmware", and
1.512 ian 292: discusses the NVIDIA nForce Ethernet driver he did after NVIDIA did refuse
293: to give out documentation; they can't stop us, but they can slow us down.
294: The result: "There aren't any drivers in OpenBSD with binary-only components;
295: this is quite a contrast to pretty much everyone else out there."
296: marco comments on the IPMI work in 3.9, and adds:
297: "IPMI is a standard, but there are vendors out there
1.513 saad 298: that have reading comprehension issues...".
1.512 ian 299: A long list of other developers explain their contributions
300: and other changes that make 3.9 one of our best releases yet.
301: <p>
302:
303: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.517 mbalmer 304: [GERMAN]
305: <a href="http://www.guug.de/uptimes/index.html">
306: Stop BLOB!</a>, UpTimes, April 25, 2006
307: </strong></font><br>
308: Wilhelm Bühler gives an overview in a short article about Blobs, what they
309: are and why they are bad.
310: <p>
311:
312: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.508 ian 313: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/34/1/">
314: Using OpenBSD</a>, Software In Review, April 24, 2006
315: </strong></font><br>
316: Jem Matzan gives a brief overview of using the system.
317: Covers ports and packages, use of SMP kernel, and more.
318: Capsule summary of how our security policy affects the administrator:
319: "Because it is secure by default, you may have to do more initial
320: configuration with OpenBSD than with most other Unix and Unix-like
321: operating systems, but you'll spend a lot less time securing it --
322: maybe no time at all, if you follow the instructions in the manual
323: pages."
324: <p>
325:
326: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.519 ian 327: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/16/1749215.shtml?tid=8">
328: Using OpenBSD on the desktop</a>, NewsForge, April 21, 2006
329: </strong></font><br>
330: Considers the use of OpenBSD as a desktop operating system,
331: starting with "Secure by default" - who wants to have their desktop hacked? -
332: and continues:
333: "OpenBSD's clean code and design also provide rock-solid stability.
334: I used to have lots of problems and crashes with new versions of
335: Linux (kernel 2.6.x) and FreeBSD (versions 5.x and 6.x). The main
336: focus of OpenBSD developers is to provide programs that work ...
337: [they] prefer to improve their code rather than just
338: add more new features and end up with a bloated and unstable product."
339: Covers X, ports/packages, window managers, what is and is not supported,
340: and more. Final thought:
341: "OpenBSD's clean design and remarkable stability, along with its
342: proactive security, not only make OpenBSD a potential candidate for
343: home desktop users but also every system administrator's dream come
344: true for business environments."
345: <p>
346:
347: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.511 djm 348: [FRENCH]
1.509 djm 349: <a href="http://developpeur.journaldunet.com/itws/060419-itw-openssh-openbsd-miller.shtml">
1.511 djm 350: JDN Développeurs interviews Damien Miller</a>,
1.509 djm 351: JDN Développeurs, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
352: Interview with Damien Miller, discussing OpenSSH security, the OpenBSD
353: development approach, the problem of blobby drivers and the recent request
1.510 djm 354: for funding.
1.509 djm 355: <p>
356:
357: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.507 cloder 358: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6497">
359: Interview with developers Jonathan Gray and Damien Bergamini</a>,
360: Kerneltrap, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
361: An interview with the authors of OpenBSD's new NVIDIA Ethernet driver. OpenBSD's
362: policy forbidding binary driver blobs is discussed, and the developers give a good
363: overview of how they went about implementing the new driver.
364: <p>
365:
366: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.528 ian 367: <a href="http://www.thehostingnews.com/article2217.html">GoDaddy.com
368: Donates $10K to Open Source Development Project</a>,
369: The Hosting News, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
370: GoDaddy.com, which claims to be "the Number One registrar of domain
371: names worldwide", recently donated $10,000 to the OpenSSH project
372: because, "according to the company, OpenSSH has become a staple
373: of all free Unix and Linux operating systems in the world."
374: They use it, and their customers use it, and they recognize the
375: value of supporting an open source projects that is, as company
376: CEO Bob Parsons says, "integral to online security".
377: <br/>
1.529 ian 378: Similar articles at
1.528 ian 379: <a href="http://www.hostsearch.com/news/the_go_daddy_group_news_4366.asp">
1.529 ian 380: hostsearch.com</a> and
381: <a href="http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20060419090443506">
382: LinuxElectrons.com</a>
1.528 ian 383: <p>
384:
385: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.506 aanriot 386: [FRENCH] Principles and usage of OpenSSH,
387: <a href="http://www.gnulinuxmag.com/">Linux Magazine France</a>,
388: issue 82, April 2006, p. 28-33
389: </strong></font><br>
1.533 ray 390: A 6 page article from Alexandre Courbot focuses on OpenSSH and its
1.507 cloder 391: basics. It begins with an history of the different implementations, and
1.506 aanriot 392: is punctuated with examples.
393: Tunneling features are described, as well as
1.535 steven 394: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp</a>,
395: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent&sektion=1">ssh-agent</a>,
1.506 aanriot 396: and
1.535 steven 397: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp</a>.
1.506 aanriot 398: <p>
399:
400: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.503 ian 401: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71658">
402: Mozilla Foundation spendet für OpenBSD</a>, heise online, April 4, 2006
403: </strong></font><br>
404: Short article mentioning the donation the Mozilla Foundation made in support of
405: further OpenSSH development.
406: The article emphasizes the opportunity to wire money through the project's
407: new European account - this one donation will not meet the
408: project's funding needs for all time.
409: <p>
1.504 bernd 410: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
411: [GERMAN] "OpenBSD mit finanziellen Problemen", c't 8/06, p. 45.,
412: April 3, 2006
413: </strong></font><br>
414: A very short article about OpenBSD's financial problems. They mention that
415: this could compromise future hackathons.
416: <p>
1.503 ian 417:
418: </ul>
419:
1.487 ian 420: <h2>March, 2006</h2>
421: <ul>
1.495 ian 422: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.500 ian 423: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/theo_interview.html">
1.501 ian 424: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>, DaemonNews, March, 2006
1.500 ian 425: </strong></font><br>
426: Chris Silva conducts a lightweight but wide-ranging and fun interview with Theo
427: on topics including "Puffy",
428: the logos used by certain other BSD projects -
429: Theo quips that "I really like how they make absolutely no statement at all" -
430: what's new in 3.9,
431: and of course project expenses.
432: Theo notes that "The electric bill is about $100 USD per week".
433: <!--
434: ... must be what comes from heating your house with VAXen.
435: -->
436: The interviewer nicely ends with a link to our donations page.
437: <p>
438:
439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 440: <a href="http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/239/1/">
441: Linux supporters fiddle while OpenSSH burns</a>, The Jem Report, March 28, 2006
442: </strong></font><br>
1.499 ian 443: This write-up focusses on OpenBSD/OpenSSH funding, and has some
444: original legwork to go with it.
1.498 ian 445: Writer Jem Matzan took the trouble to
446: contact many of the companies who charge a lot for products
447: featuring OpenSSH and yet give nothing to OpenSSH in return.
448: Companies like SCO, IBM, Apple, and Sun.
449: Sun apparently did the worst job of responding:
450: "Since the release of Solaris 10, who has been a larger open source
451: software cheerleader than Sun Microsystems?", Matzan asks. "I asked Sun
452: representatives what they would do if OpenSSH were to disappear. The only response
453: I got was that there are parts of Solaris that compete with OpenSSH,
454: and that because of this, the company would rather not comment
455: further on the issue." What the Sun teleprompter-readers don't seem to realize -
456: but Matzan does - is that
457: <a href="http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/cmd/ssh/ssh/ssh.c">
458: SunSSH <em>is</em> OpenSSH</a>.
459: Or, at least, a mangled version of it...
460: IBM, on the other hand, is still trying to formulate their response.
461: <br/>
462: <p>
463:
464: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
465: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/20/2050223.shtml?tid=8">
466: Interview: Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD</a>, NewsForge, March 28, 2006
467: </strong></font><br>
468: A wide-ranging interview with Theo about new stuff in 3.9, security, funding,
469: "blob" drivers, and more.
470: Theo notes that "We've had 10 years of nearly fanatical devotion
471: to anything which can make OpenBSD more secure. A very important
472: part of that is that we have not been afraid to completely overhaul
473: anything even if it breaks backward compatibility. Secondly, when
474: we have found a flaw in any part of the system we have assumed that
475: the same mistake was made elsewhere, and gone on a hunt to fix them
476: all. Thirdly, we have developed and incorporated a collection of
477: methods that make software flaws very difficult to attack..."
478: Ends by trying to shame the companies that use OpenSSH without contributing
479: anything back - Sun is given especial mention here - and ends with
480: the tantalizing line ".. if an OpenSSH hole is found that applies to SunSSH,
481: Sun will not be informed. Or maybe that has happened already." Hmmmm.
482: <p>
483:
484: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 485: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259254,00.htm">
486: OpenBSD 3.9 adds sensor framework</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
487: </strong></font><br>
488: It's easy to focus on our project's security, but we innovate in other areas too.
489: This article highlights the "sensors" framework added in 3.9 to provide and integrated
490: approach to handling Dell PowerEdge servers' Embedded Server Management (ESM), IPMI, and
491: in general temperature and environmental issues.
492: "There is a significant new sensor framework [in OpenBSD 3.9], which
493: supports voltage sensors, fan sensors, temperature sensors, and so
494: on," said de Raadt. "Such a feature is still missing in Linux and
495: other major operating systems." ...
496: De Raadt has already been using the sensor framework to monitor the
497: machines running in
498: <a href="images/newrack.jpg">the project's server room</a>. "I now get a call
499: on my cell phone whenever something is wrong in the machine room,"
500: <p>
501:
502: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
503: <a href="http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/other/0,39020682,39259281,00.htm">
504: Paying for free software may be the bargain of a lifetime</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
505: </strong></font><br>
506: Starts with a Theo quote from the previous article on ZDNet:
507: "A culture of entitlement is starting to damage the open source community".
508: The article argues that mega-computer-companies that use open source tend to use BSD:
509: "The open BSDs may be less famous than Linux, but they are arguably
510: superior in stability and security. This has made it popular in
511: ISPs and elsewhere - Apple, for example, adopted BSD within OS X.
512: BSD, unlike software released under the GPL, carrys no legal
513: obligations for the adopter to provide anything for the community in return."
514: Goes on to argue that these companies <em>ought</em> to be fair enough
515: to send a small bit of their money back into funding open source.
516: "In the time it takes to read this article, we calculate that Apple
517: will have easily made enough to pay-off OpenBSD's annual losses,
518: with a little left over to buy black turtlenecks for all. It's not
519: just Apple's baby - other companies owe far more to OpenBSD - but
520: in open source a little symbolism goes a long way."
521: <p>
522:
1.487 ian 523: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.494 bernd 524: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71174">
525: OpenBSD muss an den Sparstrumpf</a>, heise online, March 23, 2006
526: </strong></font><br>
1.495 ian 527: OpenBSD is touching its savings - Small news article about the project's
1.494 bernd 528: financial situation.
529: <p>
530:
531: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 532: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259042,00.htm">
533: OpenBSD Founder Makes Funding Plea</a>, ZDNet UK, March 23, 2006
534: </strong></font><br>
535: One of the first mainstream sites to pick up on Marco's article (below),
536: this one reports the funding figures on how much it really costs to
537: produce our favorite operating system.
538: "Although OpenBSD has a number of commercial users, including many
539: ISPs, de Raadt claimed that all of its donations come from individuals
540: rather than companies many of who claim the have no budget to pay
541: for the operating system. "The culture of entitlement is starting
542: to damage the open source community," he said."
1.496 ian 543: <br/>
544: Also online at
545: <a href="http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/software/stories/135760.html">ZDNet India</a>.
546: <p>
547:
548: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
549: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/03/22/OpenBSD-money.html">
550: OpenBSD in Financial Trouble</a>, Ping Wales, March 21, 2006
551: </strong></font><br>
552: David Chisnall reports that "OpenBSD is one of my favourite platforms;
553: its focus on security and ease-of-use makes it a very simple and
554: safe system to use. Unfortunately, the OpenBSD organisation is now
555: experiencing financial difficulty. For the last two years, the
556: project has made a $20,000/year loss, something which it cannot
557: sustain indefinitely."
558: Goes on to report on the growing use of OpenBSD in commercial software
559: (and hardware!), and that none of the "big guys" has given anything back.
560: Unlike most of the articles on this topic, this one is kind enough to
561: include a direct link to our orders page and recommend its readers
562: to buy a copy of the CD to help fund the project.
1.495 ian 563: <p>
564:
565: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 566: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/06/03/21/1555243.shtml">
567: OpenBSD Project in Financial Danger</a>, Slashdot, March 21, 2006
568: </strong></font><br>
569: Slashdot mentions and quotes from Marco's article (below),
570: with a reminder that
571: "The OpenBSD team is the one that also develops the OpenSSH suite,
572: used nowadays almost everywhere."
573: Ends with this quote from Marco:
574: "Without naming entities or projects by name, there are others out
575: there that are sitting on some cash. It would be wonderful if these
576: entities could share some of the wealth to keep us going."
577: <p>
578:
579: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.505 grunk 580: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060321034114">
1.495 ian 581: OpenBSD Finances</a>, OpenBSD Journal, March 21, 2006
582: </strong></font><br>
583: Marco Peereboom's article notes that
584: "OpenBSD for the past 2 years has turned a loss of approximately $20K USD" per year.
585: Hackathons - where a lot of developers get together in critical mass and churn out
586: new ideas and new code in great quantity - cost from US$10K-30K each, and we try to run
587: a few of them each year.
588: Meanwhile, compananies that use OpenBSD and companies - many of them highly profitable -
589: that incorporate OpenSSH into operating systems and even routers and other appliances
590: have not been forthcoming: no major computer company has given funding
591: to the OpenBSD project.
592: It's time for them to do so.
593: <p>
594:
595: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.497 ian 596: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/08/1646257.shtml?tid=8">
597: Software RAID on OpenBSD using RAIDframe</a>, NewsForge, March 14, 2006
598: </strong></font><br>
599: "Software RAID provides an easy way to add redundancy or speed up a system
600: without spending lots of money on a RAID adapter."
601: Manolis Tzanidakis talks us through setting up RAID using OpenBSD.
602: He describes the detailed steps, and recommends careful testing
603: before putting the system into production, including taking one disk
604: out of service and ensuring that it gets reloaded correctly.
605: Ends with a technique for monitoring clean operation on an ongoing basis.
606: <p>
607:
608: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.489 deraadt 609: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">Report on Business Television</a>
610: March 10, 5:45pm MST</strong></font><br>
1.490 deraadt 611: Theo de Raadt was interviewed by Howard Green on <b>The Business Show</b>:<br>
612: <!-- North America mirror:
613: <a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB avi file</a>
1.491 deraadt 614: -->
1.490 deraadt 615: European mirror:
616: <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/20060310/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB AVI file</a>
617: <br>
618: A longer segment is also available at <a href="http://www.robtv.ca">www.robtv.ca</a>.
1.489 deraadt 619: <p>
620:
621: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.487 ian 622: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/openbgpd.html">OpenBGPd in OpenBSD</a>
623: Daemon News, March, 2006</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 624: Check out the notes and slides from Henning Brauer's presentation at
1.487 ian 625: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0602/">NANOG 36</a>;
626: the text and questions cover everything from how and why OpenBGPd got created,
627: through configuration and tools, to integration with pf and CARP,
628: to technical issues regarding use of IPSEC to provide security for BGP packets.
629: Along the way there's considerable discussion on how the program was
630: designed to provide reliability and security.
631: <p>
632:
633: </ul>
634:
1.485 ian 635: <h2>February, 2006</h2>
636: <ul>
637: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.486 ian 638: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1859">Zero to IPSec in 4 minutes</a>
639: Security Focus, February 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
640: This article, as its lead-in says,
1.497 ian 641: "looks at how to get a fully functional IPSec VPN up and running between two fresh OpenBSD
1.486 ian 642: installations in about four minutes flat".
643: If you've shied away from setting up an IPSEC VPN because of config file complexity,
644: now is the time to reconsider.
1.497 ian 645: Dragos Ruiu shows you how the ipsecctl command (introduced to the world in OpenBSD 3.8)
1.486 ian 646: makes it really easy to set up a VPN between consenting OpenBSD machines.
647: He states that he and a colleague were able to get two machines talking over IPSEC
648: in a few minutes, and only changing a few configuration files.
649: He also comments on the relative ease of installing our favorite OS, and hopes
650: that our ipsecctl will be adopted by the other BSDs (hopefully in a compatible way)
651: to make firewall setups easier all around the network.
652: But you don't need to wait for that if you're running OpenBSD 3.8; just follow
653: the steps in the article.
654: <p>
655:
656: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.485 ian 657: <a href="http://www.networkmagazineindia.com/200602/vendorvoice02.shtml">The Worm in the Machine</a>
658: Network Magazine India, February 2006</strong></font><br>
659: Dilip Ranade elaborates on several reasons why software is drearily buggy and endlessly insecure,
660: particularly in comparison with other technologies.
661: Imagines how very bad shape the automotive industry would be in if you had to sign the
662: same disclaimer of (non-)usability that almost every commercial EULA requires of computer users.
663: Ends with "I once dreamt that all the computer users in the world
664: arose in revolt and switched to hardened OpenBSD", though he admits that there's "fat chance" of it
665: happening in real life.
666: <p>
667:
668: </ul>
669:
1.492 ian 670: <h2>January, 2006</h2>
671: <ul>
672: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
673: <a href="http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2006/01/28.html">Kevin Mitnick on
674: Coast to Coast AM Radio Show with Art Bell</a>, Jan 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
675: Art Bell interviewed Kevin Mitnick on his call-in show;
676: Paul Zacharzewski from Edmonton called to ask Mitnick for his opinion of OpenBSD.
677: If you don't want to download the whole show from coasttocoastam.com,
678: you can listen to an
1.497 ian 679: <a href="http://unworkable.org/misc/mitnick.mp3">MP3 excerpt of this call</a>
1.492 ian 680: in which Mitnick says: "Well, I actually use OpenBSD, so I do like it".
681: </ul>
682:
1.483 ian 683: <h2>December, 2005</h2>
684: <ul>
685: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.484 djm 686: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/375/1">OpenSSH cutting edge</a>
687: SecurityFocus, December 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
688: Federico Biancuzzi interviews OpenSSH developer Damien Miller to discuss
689: features included in the upcoming version 4.3, public key crypto
690: protocols details, timing based attacks and anti-worm measures.
691: <p>
692:
693: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 694: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/11/21/175249.shtml?tid=92&tid=78">Creating
1.483 ian 695: Secure Wireless Access Points with OpenBSD and OpenVPN</a>
696: NewsForge, December 13, 2005</strong></font><br>
697: A cookbook approach to setting up a wireless interface as a secure Access Point
698: using OpenBSD's hostap, pf, and authpf.
699: Configuration examples are given with basic explanations and links
700: to sites with more information on most topics.
701: <p>
702:
703: </ul>
704:
705:
1.479 grunk 706: <h2>November, 2005</h2>
707: <ul>
708: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 709: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20051116145737">OpenBSD
1.482 ian 710: Goes to Venice</a>,
711: OpenBSD Journal, November 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 712: "What happens when you put a dozen developers on a little island with their
1.482 ian 713: laptops, power, and an internet connection?
714: <br/>
715: During the first week of November some OpenBSD developers met in a
716: little island in Venice's lagoon to hack on the ports system.
717: This was probably the first ports hackathon and was followed by
1.497 ian 718: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON</a>, a European conference
1.482 ian 719: fully dedicated to OpenBSD..."
720: Great coverage of the OpenBSD Porting Hackathon: people, ports, beer, ...
721: Contains a link to
722: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ven05-pvalchev/mgp00008.html">
723: pval's summary slides</a>.
724: <p>
725:
726: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.481 niallo 727: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1710223">
728: Trying out the new OpenBSD 3.8</a>,
729: NewsForge, November 11, 2005</strong></font><br>
730: This article describes the installation of OpenBSD 3.8 from a Linux user's
731: perspective, noting the simple elegance of the installer.
732: Although the installation process may be hard to get used to at first for
733: the average Linux user, the author tells us that one can learn a lot from
734: it. Furthermore, the article clears up the common misconception that working
1.497 ian 735: on an OpenBSD system is very different from working on a Linux system.
1.481 niallo 736: In particular, the author states that on OpenBSD, <i>"virtually the entire
737: catalog of familiar free and open source software titles is available through
738: the packages and ports system"</i>.
739: <p>
740:
741: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
742: <a href="http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3561526">
743: Return of The BSDs</a>,
744: internetnews.com, November 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
745: This article mentions that with all three major BSD flavors having had
746: a release this fall, BSD is <i>"still very much alive and kicking among
747: all the noise and buzz created by Linux"</i>. The author talks about
748: various new or improved features of 3.8, such as bioctl(8), hostapd(8),
749: network interface aggregation and sasyncd(8), and there are some
750: quotes from Bob Beck.
751: <p>
752:
753: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.479 grunk 754: <a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/051101/152/fvrlx.html">
755: OpenBSD 3.8 improves hardware support</a>,
756: ZDNet UK, November 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.480 ian 757: This article reports on OpenBSD 3.8, which was released on November 1.
758: The author gives an overview of the improvements and new
1.479 grunk 759: features that were made with 3.8, and quotes Theo on RAID management
760: and Linux.<br>
761: The 3.8 release hit the news also in some other places:
762: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1258232">Slashdot</a>
763: and <a href="http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=12482">OSNews</a>
764: also report about it, mostly repeating parts
765: of the release
766: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/ANNOUNCEMENT">ANNOUNCEMENT</a>.
767: <p>
768: </ul>
769:
1.476 ian 770: <h2>October, 2005</h2>
771: <ul>
772:
773: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
774: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1375194866;fp;16;fpid;0">
775: 'Nightmare' drove desperate user to open source</a>,
776: Computerworld, October 24, 2005</strong></font><br>
777: A great tale of how Mark Uemura of PricewaterhouseCoopers Japan
778: was forced to move to OpenBSD because the alternatives were too costly
779: and too unreliable.
780: This quote will rattle some cages:
781: "IT managers who want to deploy an open source solution but are
782: worried about company politics should go ahead and do it without
783: asking," according to Uemura, who was promoted to IT Manager of PWC Japan
784: after saving the company seven IT-samurais' salaries.
785: Further, "In Japan large organizations like Morgan Stanley and the
786: Bank of America have moved all their backend systems to open source,
787: Uemura said, because with open source you can reduce IT operating
788: costs without any commercial lock-in."
789: <p>
790:
1.477 saad 791: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
792: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6270">
793: OpenBSD 3.8: Hackers of the Lost RAID</a>,
794: ONLamp.com, October 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
795: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
796: new features in OpenBSD 3.8 including interface trunking,
797: internationalization support, Inter-Access Point Protocol (IAPP),
798: IPSec SA synchronization daemon, and RAID management. There is also some
799: discussion about future plans.
800: <p>
801:
1.478 grunk 802: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
803: <a href="http://securityfocus.com/columnists/361">
804: OpenBSD's network stack</a>,
805: SecurityFocus, October 12, 2005</strong></font><br>
806: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about OpenBSD's
807: network stack, including protection against ICMP attacks, and propagation
808: of enhancements into other BSDs and into Linux.
809: The interview also features the other protection mechanisms in the network
810: stack, a comparison to the network stack in Linux, and the history and
811: current status of <a href="http://www.openbgpd.org/">OpenBGPD</a>.
812: <p>
813:
1.476 ian 814: </ul>
815:
1.470 saad 816: <h2>September, 2005</h2>
817: <ul>
818:
819: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.474 niallo 820: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/359">
821: Security-related innovation in Unix</a>,
822: SecurityFocus, Sept. 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
823: An article examining the mmap-based malloc() implementation to be
824: included in OpenBSD 3.8. The author states that <i>"it will help OpenBSD
825: users to find bugs in software more easily, which will result in better
826: applications for everyone"</i>. He goes on to say that <i>"the more hurdles
827: that one has to jump through for good security, the less likely people will
828: go through the trouble. OpenBSD allows even the most inexperienced users to
829: take advantage of these technologies without any effort"</i>.
830: <p>
831:
832: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.473 aanriot 833: <a href="http://www.miscmag.com/articles/index.php3?page=2100">
834: [FRENCH] Champ libre : les chantiers OpenBSD</a>
835: Misc, number 21, Sept/Oct, 2005, p. 4-14</strong></font><br>
836: An interesting article about OpenBSD and associated projects. Saad Kadhi
837: and Guillaume Arcas describe useful things you can do with PF and
838: OpenSSH, and give a nice introduction to OpenNTPD and OpenCVS. If the
839: article is focused on the presentation, you can find some interesting
840: technical aspects people are not always acquainted to. A few examples
841: are shown, like a basic CARP setup, or the manner to use multiplexing
842: with OpenSSH and even how to check an OpenSSH server's keys using DNS.
843: <p>
844:
845: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 846: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/news/11306">
847: Big debate over small packets</a>,
848: SecurityFocus, Sept. 7, 2005</strong></font><br>
849: Robert Lemos discusses the ICMP denial-of-service vulnerabilities found
850: by Fernando Gont and fixed in OpenBSD. To date, OpenBSD is the only
851: system that has implemented all of the fixes recommended in the IETF
852: draft.
853: <p>
854:
855: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.471 saad 856: <a href="http://www.pcexpert.fr/">
857: [FRENCH] "Quel est le meilleur système libre pour votre
858: ordinateur ?"</a>,
859: PC Expert, number 156, p. 42-62</strong></font><br>
860: Philippe Roure compares 11 Linux and *BSD operating systems, including
861: OpenBSD 3.7, on different criteria such as security, documentation and
862: usability. OpenBSD earned a 5/5 mark (see pages 60-61) and while a mark
863: isn't necessarily objective, the author seems to grasp the OpenBSD
864: project, its goals, and how good is the operating system. The article
865: includes an interview with Saad Kadhi.
866: <p>
867:
868: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.470 saad 869: <a href="http://www.samag.com/articles/2005/0509/">
870: Monitoring PF Firewalls for Health and Performance</a>,
871: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 9, p. 37</strong></font><br>
872: Ryan Matteson describes several utilities that can be used to monitor the
873: health and performance of a PF firewall. Besides pfctl, the article
874: covers pftop, fwanalog, monitoring logs with tcpdump and graphing
875: performance data with pfstat.
876: <p>
877:
878: </ul>
879:
1.461 grunk 880: <h2>July, 2005</h2>
881: <ul>
882:
883: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.466 deraadt 884: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5382">
885: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part III</a>,
1.467 grunk 886: Kerneltrap, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.466 deraadt 887: Jeremy Andrews writes about the recent Blind ICMP attacks discovered
888: by Fernando Gont, and the fixes done by him and OpenBSD during the
889: 2005 Hackathon.
1.469 ian 890: The article goes into the technical background of the
1.467 grunk 891: attacks, mentioning blind ICMP attacks, "hard" ICMP errors, source
1.469 ian 892: quenching, and path MTU discovery;
893: many helpful RFCs and technical papers are linked from the explanations.
894: This is followed by a recap of the whole ICMP story, involving Gont's
1.467 grunk 895: struggle with other free projects, Cisco lawyers, Microsoft people,
896: and others.<br>
1.469 ian 897: The article concludes that OpenBSD was the first project
1.467 grunk 898: to take Fernando Gont's findings seriously, and also the first group to
899: be really painless to work with.
1.466 deraadt 900: <p>
901:
902: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.464 grunk 903: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/06/security_blame/">
904: Security meltdown: who's to blame?</a>,
1.466 deraadt 905: The Register, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.464 grunk 906: This article talks about various groups that are frequently blamed for
907: poor security:
1.467 grunk 908: individuals, ISPs, companies, crackers, security mailing lists,
1.464 grunk 909: and last but not least: OS vendors!
1.467 grunk 910: In the last paragraph, OpenBSD's style of <i>"dumbed-down, simplified
1.464 grunk 911: and secure systems (with a heavily audited code base)"</i> is described
912: as <i>"one of the smartest approaches to security"</i>.
913: <p>
914:
915: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.461 grunk 916: <a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-7-5/30084.html">
917: Theo de Raadt on Industry and Free Software</a>,
1.466 deraadt 918: The Epoch Times, July 5, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.463 tom 919: In this interview, Theo talks about the inception of the OpenBSD project
920: and its goals, as well as its impact on the commercial IT industry.
1.461 grunk 921: He points out once more that <i>"vendors who incorporate OpenSSH have
922: given us absolutely nothing back - not a cent"</i>.
923: Other topics covered include the OpenBSD team, Theo's role as
924: <i>"benevolent dictator"</i>, and the security process, which he compares
925: to the security efforts led by other free software projects and some
926: commercial vendors.
927: <p>
928:
929: </ul>
930:
1.454 ian 931: <h2>June, 2005</h2>
932: <ul>
1.468 grunk 933:
934: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
935: <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/ns-ttc062205.php">
936: The true cost of computer crime</a>,
937: EurekAlert / <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/">New Scientist Magazine</a>,
938: issue June 25, 2005</strong></font><br>
939: This article looks at computer crime, especially the way upcoming
940: vulnerability reports are dealt with. It also gives a short overview of the
1.469 ian 941: institutions involved in the process (vendors, free projects, CERTs).
1.468 grunk 942: <br>
943: The author mentions the work of Andy Ozment, who researches vulnerability
944: disclosure at the University of Cambridge. Using OpenBSD as a good example
945: of how disclosure and consequent fixing of bugs helps to strengthen security,
946: he refutes the widely spread FUD that disclosing vulnerabilities leads to
947: more harm than good. Ozment's methodology was to examine OpenBSD's CVS logs
1.469 ian 948: and note when fixes were published; his research shows that
1.468 grunk 949: <i>"the number of vulnerabilities decreases as a result of disclosure"</i>.
950: <p>
951:
1.454 ian 952: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.458 niallo 953: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0704/071.html">
954: Free Bird</a>,
955: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
956: <b>(Registration required)</b> A second Forbes article about OpenBSD, more
957: focused on the project itself this time. It contains good description of the
958: history of OpenBSD along with its prime motivations. Mention is made of the
959: DARPA grant and the annual hackathon. Theo's motto "shut up and hack" finally
960: becomes famous in this piece and there are some other very insightful quotes
961: such as "All I care about is making high-quality code. If I had to work at a
962: regular job, it would drive me nuts". This is certainly an astute and perceptive
963: article, well worth reading. Do note that the big picture of Theo's machine
964: room will only be available in the print edition.
965: <p>
1.459 deraadt 966:
1.458 niallo 967: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.456 niallo 968: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html">
969: Is Linux For Losers?</a>,
970: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
971: An interesting article, if somewhat polemic in tone, which raises questions
972: about the quality of Linux code compared to OpenBSD. There is also some short
973: discussion of the OpenBSD development model and focus (push for quality above
974: everything else) including good quotes from Theo. It seems that the need for
975: high quality software is beginning to be recognised by the mainstream.
976: <p>
1.457 deraadt 977:
1.456 niallo 978: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 979: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/06/09/2132233.shtml?tid=152&tid=8&tid=2">
1.455 ian 980: BSD cognoscenti on Linux</a>,
981: NewsForge, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
982: NewsForge talks with Theo de Raadt and NetBSD's Christos Zoulas about the
983: similarities and differences between the Linux kernel and the BSD
984: operating systems. The questions asked were similar to those asked
985: of Linus Torvalds in a <a
1.462 grunk 986: href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/09/2128249&tid=2">previous
1.455 ian 987: interview.</a>
988: <p>
989:
990: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.454 ian 991: <a href="http://www.tuxjournal.net/intervista3-en.html">
992: A good morning with Theo de Raadt</a>,
993: Tux Journal, June 2, 2005</strong></font><br>
994: Brief but wide-ranging interview with Theo in which our leader
995: opines about the good things in 3.7: "The list of new developments
996: is impressive, but in my view not nearly as impressive as the small
997: little details that continue to be fixed during each development
998: cycle." And modestly credits all the developers for the project's
999: continuing success, attributing it to "The passion of the developers,
1000: and the wide experience they bring into their development efforts.
1001: By amazing coincidence, our users typically have the same needs as we do."
1002: Manages to sidestep getting drawn into comparisons with Linux, e.g.,
1003: when asked if he likes it/why/why not, deftly replies
1004: "I have never used it."
1005: <p>
1006:
1007: </ul>
1008:
1.441 deraadt 1009: <h2>May, 2005</h2>
1010: <ul>
1011: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 1012: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5190">
1013: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part II</a>,
1014: Kerneltrap, May 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1015: In the second installment of Kerneltrap's Hackathon 2005 feature, Jeremy
1016: Andrews speaks with the pf developers at length about their plans for
1017: future enhancements.
1018: <p>
1019:
1020: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.450 deraadt 1021: <a href="http://www.ctv.ca">
1.448 deraadt 1022: TV coverage: OpenBSD hackathon</a>,
1023: CTV/CFCN, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1024: A TV spot done a Canadian national TV station about the Calgary
1025: hackathon this year, with 60 developers.<br>
1026: North America mirror:
1027: <ul>
1.452 marco 1028: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.449 jcs 1029: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a><br>
1030: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a>
1.448 deraadt 1031: </ul>
1032: European mirror:
1033: <ul>
1.452 marco 1034: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.448 deraadt 1035: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a>
1036: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a><br>
1037: </ul>
1038: <p>
1039:
1040: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 1041: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5186">
1042: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part I</a>,
1043: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1044: Jeremy Andrews of KernelTrap does a good job of describing what it's like
1045: to be at the Hackathon in Part I of KernelTrap's Hackathon feature. Several
1046: developers are interviewed in detail about what they are working on.
1047: <p>
1048:
1049: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 1050: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5184">
1051: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005: Day 6?</a>,
1052: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1053: Kjell Wooding describes a typical day at the Hackathon in this entertaining
1054: first-hand account.
1055: <p>
1056:
1057: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.447 cloder 1058: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/05/20/1426216.shtml?tid=8">
1059: Review: OpenBSD 3.7</a>,
1060: NewsForge.com, May 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
1061: "OpenBSD is not only highly polished and easy to
1062: configure because of its documentation, it's also totally free-as-in-rights.
1063: With an obsession with security, freedom of source code, and quality of
1064: programming technique, OpenBSD 3.7 continues the legacy established by
1065: its previous releases," writes Jem Matzan in this nice, small review.
1066: <p>
1067:
1068: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.446 cloder 1069: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/05/19/openbsd_3_7.html">
1070: OpenBSD 3.7: The Wizard of OS</a>,
1071: ONLamp.com, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
1072: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
1073: new features in OpenBSD 3.7, including new wireless chipsets, new
1074: spam-fighting features, zaurus, pf improvements, propolice, and
1075: many other things. A good overview of what's new in this release,
1076: plus some interesting comments about future direction.
1077: <p>
1078:
1079: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.444 niallo 1080: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/software/openbsd-3.7-released.html">
1.445 niallo 1081: Next incarnation of OpenBSD released</a>,
1.444 niallo 1082: Ping Wales, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
1083: "OpenBSD is often unjustly overlooked as a free UNIX-like system in favour of
1084: the more-hyped Linux. While it receives a lot less publicity than other
1085: operating systems, this is not due to lack of technical merit." says David
1086: Chisnall, in what is a clear and concise overview of the new features
1087: in 3.7 and indeed the project as a whole.
1088: <p>
1089:
1090: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1091: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5114">
1.445 niallo 1092: 2005 Calgary Hackathon, KernelTrap Coverage</a>,
1.444 niallo 1093: Kerneltrap, May 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1094: A great article about the annual OpenBSD Hackathon, detailing how the event
1095: functions, work done at previous Hackathons and features which may come out
1096: of this one. Includes many relevant quotes from developers themselves, and of
1097: course information about the legendary Hackathon BBQ!
1098: <p>
1099:
1100: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.442 deraadt 1101: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9658/sam0505e/">
1102: "Failover Firewalls with OpenBSD and CARP"</a>,
1103: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 5, p. 33
1.441 deraadt 1104: </strong></font><br>
1105: Jason Dixon discusses the history of the CARP and pfsync protocols
1106: and demonstrates using them to create redundant stateful firewalls
1107: with OpenBSD.
1108: </ul>
1109:
1.436 henning 1110: <h2>April, 2005</h2>
1111: <ul>
1112: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.440 ian 1113: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39195801,00.htm">
1114: Security guru wants access to bug databases</a>,
1115: ZDNet UK, April 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
1116: Ingrid Marson reports on Cambridge professor Ross Anderson's call for analysis of
1117: software maintenance records to determine whether open source code is more secure
1118: than closed source, as we have long contended.
1119: "One of Anderson's research students, Andy Ozment, has already done
1120: research using empirical data on bugs found in the open source
1121: operating system OpenBSD between 1997 and 2000. This research found
1122: that finding and fixing bugs results in a more secure product..."
1123: Just as the OpenBSD project has been saying for years.
1124: <p>
1125: This article can also be found online as
1126: <a href="http://uk.builder.com/manage/project/0,39026588,39244080,00.htm">Academic
1127: calls for better bug tracking</a> (uk.builder.com).
1128: <p>
1129:
1130: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.439 espie 1131: [FRENCH] "PC Expert", number 152, p. 58
1132: </strong></font><br>
1133: Very short interview of Marc Espie about OpenBSD as a free OS focusing
1134: on security, part of a larger dossier Ťles secrets des hackersť.
1135: <p>
1136:
1137: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.436 henning 1138: [GERMAN] "Doppelwacht", iX 5/2005, p. 150.
1139: </strong></font><br>
1140: Stephan Tesch gives an introduction to CARP and using a pair of
1141: OpenBSD boxes as Firewalls in High Availibility scenarios. He goes
1.438 martin 1142: on explaining CARP and pfsync protocols, and does not forget to cover
1.436 henning 1143: the issues we had with IETF.
1144: </ul>
1145:
1.431 ian 1146: <h2>March, 2005</h2>
1147: <ul>
1148: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.435 reyk 1149: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/4818">
1150: OpenBSD's "Out of the Box" Wireless Support</a>,
1151: Kerneltrap, March 8, 2005</strong></font><br>
1152: This article is about the upcoming wireless support in OpenBSD 3.7 and
1153: the outcome of the work to open wireless chipsets. Jeremy Andrews
1154: talked with Theo de Raadt and the developers Damien Bergamini and Reyk
1155: Floeter who did some efforts to implement free and functional drivers.
1156: <p>
1157:
1158: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.431 ian 1159: <a href="http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/01/1109546842718.html">
1160: OpenBSD to support more wireless chipsets</a>,
1161: The Age, March 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1162: "The forthcoming 3.7 release of the OpenBSD operating system has
1163: added support for five more wireless chipsets, according to
1164: OpenBSD project founder Theo de Raadt...
1.432 ian 1165: OpenBSD 3.7 will also have have new drivers for Intel wireless
1.431 ian 1166: parts that do not work without the non-redistributable firmware,"
1167: namely the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11B
1168: and 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11A/B/G wireless network adapters.
1169: Mentions OpenBSD's activism in getting vendors to release chip specs.
1170: Referring to vendors that still refuse to play ball with open source
1171: projects, quotes Damien Miller as saying "Given the number of
1172: appliance devices that are built on free OSs, I think that the
1173: recalcitrant vendors are missing an important boat."
1174:
1175: </ul>
1176:
1.427 matthieu 1177: <h2>February, 2005</h2>
1178: <ul>
1179:
1180: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.428 david 1181: <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsaward2004.html">
1182: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
1183: FSF, February 26, 2005</strong></font><br>
1184: The Free Software Foundation awarded Theo de Raadt their "2004 Free Software
1185: Award" for his unwavering commitment to free software. Most recently he has
1186: been fighting hardware manufacturers for free redistribution of wireless card
1187: firmware.
1.434 ian 1188: Similar articles can be found online at:
1189: <ul>
1190: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1191: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=419">
1192: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
1193: Tectonic.za, March 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
1194: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1195: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article4362.phtml">
1196: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
1197: OSDir, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1198: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1199: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/De-Raadt-gets-free-software-award/2005/02/28/1109546758523.html?oneclick=true">
1200: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
1201: The Age, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1202: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1203: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/02/27/1413255.shtml?tid=99&tid=7">
1.434 ian 1204: Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award</a>,
1205: Slashdot, February 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1206: </ul>
1.427 matthieu 1207: </ul>
1208:
1.426 ian 1209: <h2>January, 2005</h2>
1210: <ul>
1211:
1212: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1213: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363731">
1214: Systrace in OpenBSD</a>,
1215: informit.com, January 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1216: This article talks about our systrace
1.462 grunk 1217: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&sektion=1">systrace(1)</a>
1.426 ian 1218: mechanism: what it is and why and
1219: how to use it, with examples.
1220: Another excerpt from the book
1221: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
1222: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
1223: <p>
1224:
1225: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1226: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363732">
1227: Overview of OpenBSD</a>,
1228: informit.com, January 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
1229: "OpenBSD is one of the most secure and well-designed operating
1230: systems available today. It has its roots in countless hours of
1231: research and development based on some of the best UNIX flavors of
1232: the past, and it boasts all the features of modern operating systems.
1233: The OS is widely considered one of the most secure general-purpose
1234: operating systems available today and it supports many key parts
1235: of the global Internet infrastructure..."
1236: This article is a sample chapter from
1237: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
1238: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
1239: <p>
1.443 ian 1240:
1241: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1242: <a href="http://www.pcplus.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=34628&subsectionid=784">
1.443 ian 1243: OpenBSD operating system</a>,
1244: PCPlus.co.uk, January, 2005</strong></font><br>
1245: Paul Grosse gives a brief tutorial on installing OpenBSD on i386 for people
1246: moving in a Windows->Linux direction, encouraging them to go a bit further for security.
1247: "While Linux out-scores Windows substantially (or completely) on [security as well as many other
1248: issues], it's still possible to use a more secure operating system on the PC... OpenBSD."
1249: Gives a brief but understandable walkthrough on the installation process, right up to
1250: downloading and installing the third-party packages, and
1251: ends with a sidebar on security.
1252: <p>
1.426 ian 1253: </ul>
1254:
1.424 ian 1255: <h2>December, 2004</h2>
1256: <ul>
1257:
1258: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.425 ian 1259: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/2329229">
1260: What are the real vulnerabilities of Linux?</a>
1261: NewsForge.com, December 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1262: Several security consultants were asked about "the real vulnerabilities of
1263: Linux". Cybersoure CEO Con Symaris seems to get it better than the rest:
1264: "One needs to approach security as a prime requirement and motivator,
1265: much as the OpenBSD team do," Zymaris said... "The Linux
1266: community mindset is different. Linux development is dynamic and
1267: races ahead towards more and broader functionality, drawing a
1268: multitude of interested parties in to make interesting extensions
1269: and adaptations at a rapid rate."
1270: <p>
1271: "In order to do security the BSD way, however, much more effort
1272: needs to be spent auditing code for holes, which is much less sexy,
1273: and attracts a different set of coders," Zymaris added.
1274: <p>
1275:
1276: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.424 ian 1277: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/281">
1278: Closed Source Hardware</a>
1279: Security Focus, December 1, 2004</strong></font><br>
1280: Symantec Threat Analyst Jason Miller analyzes the potential security threats
1281: when hardware vendors won't provide device documentation and
1282: instead provide "binary only" driver code for inclusion in open source
1283: operating systems.
1284: Miller is an open-source fan who says he uses a variety of systems, including
1285: OpenBSD on his firewall.
1286: Of the recent trend to closed-source binary drivers for open-source
1287: systems, he writes:
1288: <blockquote>
1289: The closed-source component required to support this hardware is
1290: completely independent of the associated operating system, and as
1291: such, is also independent of the engineering team, security team,
1292: auditing process, and quality control procedures normally related
1293: to the operating system...
1294: <br/>
1295: What's possibly even more disturbing is that we're talking about
1296: a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest
1297: possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a
1298: third-party vendor. This code could do anything once loaded, including
1299: leaking active WEP keys, gathering usage statistics, sniffing and
1300: disclosing traffic, and it could even introduce a subtle backdoor
1301: into the operating system itself (much the same as any device driver
1302: in a closed source operating system).
1303: <br/>
1304: [A]lthough some of these scenarios are a
1305: little far-fetched, the possibility for them to exist is there...
1306: Ultimately it becomes an issue of trust, which is a cornerstone of
1307: good security: whom do you trust, and how much do you trust them?
1308: </blockquote>
1309: <p>And he comments that trust "seems to be a one-way street": vendors
1310: demand that you trust them, but they won't trust you to know how
1311: their hardware and software operates.
1312: This lack of trust is one reason why OpenBSD has recently completed
1313: reverse-engineering the
1.462 grunk 1314: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4">
1.424 ian 1315: Atheros wireless chipset driver</a>
1316: that was originally provided as a binary insert.
1317: <p>
1318: </ul>
1319:
1.417 pvalchev 1320: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
1321: <ul>
1.421 ian 1322:
1.417 pvalchev 1323: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.422 ian 1324: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730775,00.asp">
1325: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Widens Its Scope</a>
1326: eWEEK, November 22, 2004</strong></font><br>
1327: Jason Brooks reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and likes the changes it brings,
1328: including the multi-processing support which, he notes,
1329: "will be even more important as multicore processors--which occupy space
1330: on the road maps of Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others--
1331: become more prevalent." Comments favorably on OpenNTPD
1332: ("the three-line configuration file we needed to modify ... on OpenBSD was
1333: much simpler to deal with than the equivalent configuration file on
1334: the Linux systems we've tested").
1.423 ian 1335: Overall a favorable review of some of the new stuff in 3.6.
1.422 ian 1336: <p>
1337: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 otto 1338: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
1339: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
1340: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
1341: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
1342: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
1343: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
1344: it claims to do".
1345: <p>
1346:
1347: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1348: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109994542424009&w=2">
1.421 ian 1349: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution</a>
1350: misc@, November 8, 2004</strong></font><br>
1351: Theo recounts the struggle to get Intel to provide redistributable
1352: versions of the firmware for their wireless chipsets, and their
1.423 ian 1353: ultimate refusal to allow OpenBSD to redistribute the chipsets' firmware.
1.421 ian 1354: Includes a caveat about Intel's disingenuous "FAQ", typical of many
1355: corporate FAQs that answer questions nobody actually thought
1356: to ask, and don't truthfully answer the questions you want hard answers to.
1357: At the end Theo names the names (and their emails) that need to be contacted
1358: by large numbers of end-users and developers if Intel is to change
1359: (yes, this is a hint).
1360: Of interest is that this posting to one of our mailing lists was
1361: picked up on the
1362: <a href="http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1923">Screaming
1363: Electron Forum</a> and from there reported on
1.462 grunk 1364: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/22/1249249&from=rss">
1.421 ian 1365: SlashDot</a>, where it is accompanied by a link to SlashDot's paper
1366: on effective advocacy (be firm, but also be polite).
1367: <p>
1368:
1369: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 1370: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
1371: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
1372: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
1373: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
1374: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
1375: questions about the significance and rationale behind
1376: the current efforts.
1377: <p>
1378: </ul>
1379:
1.407 henning 1380: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
1381: <ul>
1382: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 1383: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
1384: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
1385: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
1386: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
1387: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
1388: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
1389: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
1390: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
1391: <p>
1392:
1393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 1394: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
1395: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
1396: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1397: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
1398: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
1399: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
1400: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
1401: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
1402: of the important changes in 3.6.
1.462 grunk 1403: <p>
1.415 ian 1404:
1405: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1406: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
1.414 ian 1407: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
1408: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
1409: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
1410: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
1411: overflow attacks... because
1412: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
1413: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
1414: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
1415: and propolice.
1416: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
1417: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
1418: and that's when the science falls apart."
1419: <p>
1420:
1421: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 1422: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
1423: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
1424: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
1425: Starts with the question:
1426: <blockquote>
1427: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
1428: <br/>
1429: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
1430: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
1431: <br/>
1432: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
1433: Should we believe them?"
1434: </blockquote>
1435: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
1436: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
1437: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
1438: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
1439: for your mail, web and other online activities.
1440: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
1441: <p>
1442:
1443: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 1444: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
1445: Simple Simon</a>,
1446: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
1447: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
1448: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
1449: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
1450: routing/firewall, and more.
1451: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
1452: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
1453: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
1454: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
1455: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
1456: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
1457: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
1458: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
1459: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
1460: </blockquote>
1461: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
1462: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
1463: <p>
1464:
1465: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 1466: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
1467: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 1468: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 1469: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 1470: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
1471: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
1472: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 1473: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 1474: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
1475: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
1476: in spite of it
1477: (registration required, but worth it).
1478: <p>
1479:
1480: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1481: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
1482: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
1483: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1484: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
1485: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
1486: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
1487: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 1488: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 1489: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
1490: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
1491: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
1492: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
1493: <p>
1494:
1495: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 1496: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
1497: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
1498: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
1499: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
1500: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
1501: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
1502: <blockquote>
1503: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
1504: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
1505: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
1506: a lot of analysis.
1507: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
1508: </blockquote>
1509: <p>
1510: </ul>
1511:
1.400 marco 1512: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
1513: <ul>
1514: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 1515: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
1516: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
1517: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
1518: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
1519: UNIX-like systems.
1520: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
1521: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
1522: <p>
1523: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 1524: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
1525: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 1526: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1527: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
1528: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
1529: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
1530: At one point, the article states:
1531: <blockquote>
1532: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
1533: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
1534: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
1535: </blockquote>
1536: And then quotes Theo as saying:
1537: <blockquote>
1538: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
1539: fewer are reading or auditing code."
1540: </blockquote>
1541: <p>
1542: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1543: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
1544: marks its fifth birthday</a>
1545: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1546: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
1547: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
1548: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
1549: required).
1550: <p>
1551: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 1552: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
1553: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
1554: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
1555: </strong></font><br>
1556: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
1557: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
1558: <p>
1559: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 1560: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
1561: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 1562: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 1563: </strong></font><br>
1564: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
1565: <p>
1566: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 1567: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
1568: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 1569: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 1570: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 1571: 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 1572: <p>
1573: </ul>
1574:
1.396 henning 1575: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
1576: <ul>
1577: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 1578: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
1579: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
1580: Unix Review, July, 2004
1581: </strong></font><br>
1582: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
1583: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
1.462 grunk 1584: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
1.418 ian 1585: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
1586: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
1587: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
1588: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
1589: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
1590: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
1591: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
1592: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
1593: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
1594: and even spelling/wording errors.
1595: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
1596: <p>
1597: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 1598: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 1599: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
1600: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
1601: </strong></font><br>
1602: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
1603: <p>
1604: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 1605: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 1606: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
1607: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
1608: </strong></font><br>
1609: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
1610: <p>
1611: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 1612: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
1613: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
1614: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
1615: </strong></font><br>
1616: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
1617: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
1618: <p>
1619: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 1620: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
1621: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
1622: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
1623: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
1624: <p>
1625: </ul>
1626:
1.405 jolan 1627: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
1628: <ul>
1629: <li><font color="#00900"><strong>
1630: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
1.466 deraadt 1631: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 5, 2004</strong></font>
1.405 jolan 1632: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
1633: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
1634: details on how funds are dispersed.
1635: <p>
1636: </ul>
1637:
1.393 david 1638: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
1639: <ul>
1640: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 1641: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
1642: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
1643: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
1644: </strong></font><br>
1645: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
1646: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
1647: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
1648: on inserting large number of SQL records.
1649: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
1650: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
1651: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
1652: <p>
1653:
1654: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 1655: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
1656: Secure by Default</a>,
1657: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
1658: </strong></font><br>
1659: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
1660: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
1661: <p>
1662:
1663: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1664: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
1665: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
1666: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
1667: </strong></font><br>
1668: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
1669: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
1670: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
1671: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
1672: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
1673: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
1674: <p>
1675:
1676: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1677: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
1678: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
1679: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
1680: </strong></font><br>
1681: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
1682: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
1683: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
1684: <p>
1685:
1686: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1687: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
1688: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
1689: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
1690: </strong></font><br>
1691: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
1692: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
1693: <p>
1694: </ul>
1695:
1.388 mcbride 1696: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
1697: <ul>
1.394 jolan 1698:
1699: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1700: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
1701: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
1702: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
1703: </strong></font><br>
1704: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
1705: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
1706: available for sparc64.
1707: <p>
1708:
1.390 beck 1709: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 1710: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
1711: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
1712: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
1713: </strong></font><br>
1714: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
1715: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
1716: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
1717: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
1718: <p>
1719:
1720: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 1721: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
1722: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 1723: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 1724: </strong></font><br>
1725: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
1726: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
1727: it does: CARP provides sharing
1728: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
1729: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
1730: detail to get you started using it.
1731: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
1732: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
1733: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
1734: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
1735: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
1736: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
1737: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 1738: <p>
1.391 ian 1739:
1740: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 1741: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 1742: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
1743: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 1744: </strong></font><br>
1745: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 1746: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 1747: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 1748: <p>
1.388 mcbride 1749:
1750: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1751: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
1752: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 1753: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 1754: </strong></font><br>
1755: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
1756: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
1757: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
1758: unencumbered by patents.
1759: <p>
1760: </ul>
1761:
1.378 henning 1762: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
1763: <ul>
1.384 jose 1764:
1765: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 1766: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
1767: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
1768: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
1769: </strong></font><br>
1770: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
1771: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
1772: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
1773: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
1774: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
1775: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
1776: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
1777: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
1778: in the page tables."
1779: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
1780: <p>
1781:
1782: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1783: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
1784: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
1785: </strong></font><br>
1786: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
1787: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
1788: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
1789: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 1790: <p>
1.384 jose 1791:
1.378 henning 1792: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 1793: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
1794: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 1795: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
1796: </strong></font><br>
1797: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
1798: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
1799: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
1800: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
1801: (quote:
1802: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
1803: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 1804: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 1805: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
1806: the other developers for their work on the system.
1807: <p>
1808:
1809: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1810: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
1811: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
1812: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 1813: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 1814: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
1815: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
1816: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
1817: too.
1818: <p>
1819:
1820: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 1821: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
1822: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 1823: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 1824: OpenBSD source code using
1825: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
1826: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
1827: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
1828: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
1829: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
1830: <p>
1831: </ul>
1832:
1.374 jose 1833: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
1834: <ul>
1835: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 1836: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 1837: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
1838: </strong></font><br>
1839: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
1840: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
1841: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
1842: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
1843: it."
1844: <p>
1845:
1846: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 1847: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
1848: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
1849: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
1850: </strong></font><br/>
1851: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
1852: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
1853: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
1854: <p>
1855: </ul>
1856:
1.369 ian 1857: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
1858: <ul>
1859: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1860: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
1861: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
1862: </strong></font><br/>
1863: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
1864: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
1865: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
1866: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
1867: <p>
1868:
1869: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 1870: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
1871: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
1872: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
1873: </strong></font><br/>
1874: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
1875: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
1876: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
1877: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
1878: form factor.
1879: <p>
1880:
1881: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1882: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
1883: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
1884: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
1885: Features</a>,
1886: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
1887: </strong></font><br/>
1888: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
1889: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
1890: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
1891: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
1892: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
1893: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
1894: <p>
1895: This article can also be found online at:
1896: <ul>
1897: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1898: <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 1899: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
1900: </strong></font>
1901: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
1902: </ul>
1903: <p>
1.392 david 1904:
1.371 jose 1905: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 1906: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
1907: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 1908: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
1909: </strong></font><br/>
1910: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
1911: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
1912: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 1913: <p>
1.371 jose 1914:
1915: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 1916: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 1917: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 1918: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 1919: </strong></font><br/>
1920: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
1921: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
1922: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
1923: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
1924: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
1925: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
1926: and its history with OpenBSD.
1927: </ul>
1928:
1.368 henning 1929: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
1930: <ul>
1931: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 1932: [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 1933: </strong></font><br>
1934: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
1935: </ul>
1936:
1.364 jose 1937: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
1938: <ul>
1939: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 1940: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
1941: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
1942: UNIX Review,
1943: July, 2003.
1944: </strong></font><br>
1945: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
1946: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
1947: who want more information.
1948: <p>
1949:
1950: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 1951: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
1952: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
1953: Government Computer News,
1954: July 22, 2003.
1955: </strong></font><br>
1956: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
1957: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
1958: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
1959: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
1960: <p>
1961:
1962: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1963: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
1964: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
1965: SANS Institute,
1966: July 22, 2003.
1967: </strong></font><br>
1968: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 1969: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 1970: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
1971: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
1972: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
1973: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
1974: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
1975: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
1976: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
1977: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
1978: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
1979: <p>
1980:
1981: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 1982: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
1983: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
1984: OnLamp.com,
1985: July 17, 2003.
1986: </strong></font><br>
1987: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
1988: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
1989: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
1990: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
1991: have been working on.
1992:
1993: </ul>
1994:
1.356 jose 1995: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 1996: <ul>
1997:
1998: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 1999: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
2000: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
2001: UNIX Review,
2002: June, 2003.
2003: </strong></font><br>
2004: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
2005: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
2006: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
2007: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
2008: <p>
2009:
2010: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 2011: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
2012: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
2013: eWeek,
2014: June 23, 2003.
2015: </strong></font><br>
2016: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
2017: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
2018: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
2019: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
2020: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
2021: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
2022: <p>
2023:
2024: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 2025: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
2026: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
2027: Software Development Online,
2028: June, 2003.
2029: </strong></font><br>
2030: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
2031: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
2032: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
2033: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
2034: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
2035: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
2036: current activities.
2037: <p>
2038:
2039: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 2040: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
2041: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 2042: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
2043: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
2044: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
2045: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 2046: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 2047: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
2048: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
2049: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 2050: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 2051: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
2052: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 2053: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 2054: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
2055: decisions.
2056: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
2057: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 2058: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 2059: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 2060: <p>
2061:
2062: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 2063: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
2064: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
2065: Page 58, eWeek,
2066: June 2, 2003.
2067: </strong></font><br>
2068: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
2069: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
2070: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
2071: been addressed in -current.
2072: <p>
2073:
1.356 jose 2074: </ul>
2075:
2076: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
2077: <ul>
2078:
1.355 jose 2079: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 2080: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
2081: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
2082: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
2083: </strong></font><br>
2084: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
2085: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
2086: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
2087: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
2088: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
2089: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
2090: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
2091: <p>
2092:
2093: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 2094: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
2095: Beyond Linux</a>,
2096: InfoWorld,
2097: May 23, 2003.
2098: </strong></font><br>
2099: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
2100: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
2101: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
2102: compared to the GPL.
2103: <p>
2104:
2105: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 2106: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
2107: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
2108: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 2109: May 17, 2003.
2110: </strong></font><br>
2111: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
2112: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
2113: the business section and half of another page inside
2114: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
2115: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
2116: in talking about the project's history and goals.
2117: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
2118: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
2119: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
2120: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 2121: <br>
2122: This article can also be found online at:
2123: <ul>
2124: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2125: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
2126: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
2127: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
2128: May 17, 2003
2129: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 2130: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
2131: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2132: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
2133: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
2134: Montreal Gazette,
2135: May 21, 2003
2136: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 2137: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 2138: <p>
1.346 ian 2139:
2140: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 2141: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 2142: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 2143: May 7, 2003.
2144: </strong></font><br>
2145: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
2146: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
2147: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
2148: <p>
2149:
2150: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 2151: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
2152: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2153: OsOpinion,
2154: May 6, 2003.
2155: </strong></font><br>
2156: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
2157: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
2158: <br>
2159: This article can also be found online at:
2160: <ul>
2161: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2162: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
2163: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2164: NewsFactor Network.
2165: </strong></font>
2166: </ul>
2167: <p>
2168:
2169: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2170: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 2171: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
2172: ITBusiness,
2173: May 2, 2003.
2174: </strong></font><br>
2175: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
2176: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
2177: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
2178: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
2179: <p>
2180:
2181: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 2182: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
2183: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
2184: InfoWorld,
2185: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 2186: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 2187: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
2188: <br>
2189: This article can also be found online at:
2190: <ul>
2191: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2192: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
2193: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
2194: IDG Singapore.
2195: </strong></font>
2196: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 2197: <p>
2198:
1.339 jose 2199: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2200: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
2201: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 2202: ZDNet,
2203: May 1, 2003.
2204: </strong></font><br>
2205: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 2206: someone using parts from previous articles.
2207: <br>
1.341 deraadt 2208: This article can also be found online at:
2209: <ul>
2210: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2211: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
2212: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
2213: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 2214: </strong></font>
2215: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2216: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
2217: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
2218: CNET News.com.
2219: </strong></font>
2220: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2221: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
2222: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
2223: ZDNet UK.
2224: </strong></font>
2225: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2226: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
2227: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
2228: Help Net Security, Croatia.
2229: </strong></font>
2230: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 2231: <p>
1.339 jose 2232:
1.341 deraadt 2233: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2234: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 2235: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
2236: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
2237: May 1, 2003.
2238: </strong></font><br>
2239: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
2240: that have been added
2241: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
2242: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
2243: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 2244: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 2245: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
2246: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
2247: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 2248: <p>
2249:
2250: </ul>
2251:
1.253 ian 2252: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
2253: <ul>
1.255 ian 2254:
1.260 ian 2255: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2256: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 2257: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
2258: TechRepublic,
2259: April 28, 2003.
2260: </strong></font><br>
2261: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
2262: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 2263: work.<br>
2264: Can also be found online at:
2265: <ul>
2266: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2267: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
2268: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
2269: ZDNet UK.
2270: </strong></font>
2271: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 2272: <p>
2273:
2274: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 2275: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
2276: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
2277: IDG,
2278: April 24, 2003.
2279: </strong></font><br>
2280: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
2281: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
2282: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
2283: Can also be found online at:
2284: <ul>
2285: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2286: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
2287: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 2288: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 2289: </strong></font>
2290: </ul>
2291: <p>
2292:
2293: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2294: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 2295: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 2296: Slate,
2297: April 24, 2003.
2298: </strong></font><br>
2299: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
2300: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
2301: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
2302: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
2303: <p>
2304:
2305: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 2306: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2307: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
2308: April 24, 2003.
2309: </strong></font><br>
2310: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
2311: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
2312: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
2313: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
2314: <p>
2315:
2316: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 2317: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
2318: April 24, 2003.
2319: </strong></font><br>
2320: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
2321: the free software community".
2322: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
2323: other articles.
2324: <p>
2325:
2326: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2327: <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 2328: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
2329: </strong></font><br>
2330: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
2331: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
2332: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
2333: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
2334: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
2335: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
2336: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 2337: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 2338: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
2339: <br/>
2340: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
2341: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
2342: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
2343: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 2344: <br>
2345: Can also be found online at:
2346: <ul>
2347: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2348: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
2349: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
2350: Common Dreams NewsCenter
2351: </strong></font>
2352: </ul>
1.324 ian 2353: <p>
2354:
2355: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2356: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
2357: Wired, April 24, 2003.
2358: </strong></font><br>
2359: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
2360: article above.
2361: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
2362: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
2363: wasting them."
1.332 ian 2364: <br>
2365: Can also be found online at:
2366: <ul>
2367: <li>
2368: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
2369: </strong></font>
2370: </ul>
1.324 ian 2371: <p>
2372:
2373: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 2374: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
2375: </strong></font><br>
2376: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
2377: <p>
2378:
2379: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 2380: <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.
2381: </strong></font><br>
2382: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
2383: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
2384: <p>
2385:
2386: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 2387: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
2388: April 23, 2003.
2389: </strong></font><br>
2390: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
2391: <p>
2392:
2393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 2394: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 2395: April 22, 2003.
2396: </strong></font><br>
2397: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
2398: <p>
2399:
2400: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 2401: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
2402: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
2403: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 2404: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 2405: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
2406: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
2407: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
2408: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
2409: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
2410: Can also be found online at:
2411: <ul>
2412: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2413: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 2414: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
2415: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 2416: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 2417: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2418: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 2419: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
2420: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 2421: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 2422: </ul>
2423: <p>
2424:
2425: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 2426: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
2427: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 2428: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2429: </strong></font><br>
2430: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 2431: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
2432: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
2433: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
2434: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
2435: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
2436: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 2437: <p>
2438:
2439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 2440: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
2441: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 2442: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
2443: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 2444: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
2445: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
2446: at UPenn and DARPA.
2447: <p>
2448:
2449: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 2450: [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,
2451: France
1.315 deraadt 2452: April 18, 2003.
2453: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 2454: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 2455: <p>
2456:
2457: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 2458: [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 2459: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2460: </strong></font><br>
2461: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
2462: <p>
2463:
2464: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 2465: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
2466: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
2467: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 2468: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 2469: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
2470: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
2471: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
2472: <p>
2473:
2474: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 2475: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
2476: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2477: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 2478: </strong></font><br>
2479: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
2480: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
2481: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 2482: American century.
1.267 deraadt 2483: <p>
2484:
2485: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 2486: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
2487: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2488: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 2489: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 2490: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
2491: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
2492: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
2493: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
2494: Can also be found online at:
2495: <ul>
2496: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
2497: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 2498: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 2499: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 2500: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 2501: <p>
2502:
2503: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 2504: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 2505: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 2506: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 2507: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 2508: </strong></font><br>
2509: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 2510: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
2511: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
2512: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
2513: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 2514:
2515: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2516: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
2517: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
2518: New York Times.
2519: </strong></font>(free registration required)
2520:
1.273 deraadt 2521: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2522: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 2523: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 2524: ABC News.
2525: </strong></font>
2526:
2527: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2528: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 2529: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 2530: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 2531: </strong></font>
2532:
2533: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2534: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 2535: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 2536: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 2537: </strong></font>
2538:
2539: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 2540: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
2541: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 2542: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 2543: </strong></font>
2544:
2545: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2546: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 2547: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 2548: Times Daily, AL.
2549: </strong></font>
2550:
2551: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2552: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
2553: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
2554: Boston.com, MA.
2555: </strong></font>
2556:
2557: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2558: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 2559: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 2560: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
2561: </strong></font>
2562:
2563: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 2564: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
2565: [Article was pulled]</a>
2566: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 2567: </strong></font>
2568:
2569: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2570: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
2571: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
2572: Infoshop News.
2573: </strong></font>
2574:
2575: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2576: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
2577: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2578: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
2579: </strong></font>
2580:
2581: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 2582: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
2583: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
2584: Raleigh News, NC.
2585: </strong></font>
2586:
2587: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2588: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 2589: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
2590: Napa News, CA.
2591: </strong></font>
2592:
2593: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2594: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 2595: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2596: NEPA News, PA.
2597: </strong></font>
2598:
2599: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2600: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
2601: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
2602: Wired News.
2603: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 2604: <br>
2605: <li>
1.333 deraadt 2606: <font color="#009000"><strong>
2607: [JAPANESE]
2608: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
2609: Wired News Japan</a>
2610: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 2611:
1.271 deraadt 2612: </ul>
2613: <p>
1.272 deraadt 2614: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
2615: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 2616: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
2617: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
2618: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
2619: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
2620: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
2621: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 2622: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 2623: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
2624: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
2625: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 2626: <p>
2627: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 2628:
2629: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2630: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 2631: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
2632: Indianapolis Star, IN.
2633: </strong></font>
2634:
2635: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 2636: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
2637: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2638: Miami Herald, FL.
2639: </strong></font>
2640:
2641: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 2642: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 2643: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
2644: </strong></font>
2645:
2646: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2647: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 2648: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 2649: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 2650: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 2651:
2652: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2653: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
2654: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
2655: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
2656: ABC News.
2657: </strong></font>
2658:
1.276 deraadt 2659: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2660: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 2661: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 2662: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 2663: </strong></font>
2664:
1.286 dhartmei 2665: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2666: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 2667: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2668: Wilmington Star, NC.
2669: </strong></font>
2670:
1.300 jose 2671: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2672: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
2673: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
2674: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
2675: </strong></font>
2676:
1.309 jose 2677: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2678: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
2679: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
2680: Globe Technology.
2681: </strong></font>
2682:
1.263 deraadt 2683: </ul>
1.262 beck 2684: <p>
2685:
2686: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 2687: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
2688: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2689: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 2690: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 2691: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 2692: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
2693: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
2694: <p>
2695:
2696: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 2697: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
2698: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
2699: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 2700: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 2701: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
2702: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
2703: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
2704: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
2705: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
2706: and simply restates other press reports.
2707: <p>
2708:
2709: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 2710: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
2711: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2712: OS News, April 18, 2003.
2713: </strong></font><br>
2714: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
2715: <p>
2716:
2717: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 2718: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
2719: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2720: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 2721: </strong></font><br>
2722: Another report on the DARPA funding.
2723: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
2724: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
2725: <p>
2726:
2727: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 2728: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
2729: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
2730: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
2731: April 17, 2003.
2732: </strong></font><br>
2733: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
2734: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
2735: Tech Anthems</a>
2736: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
2737: 4 so far.
2738: <p>
2739:
2740: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 2741: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
2742: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2743: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2744: </strong></font><br>
2745: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
2746: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
2747: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
2748: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
2749: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
2750: Goes on to say:
2751: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
2752: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
2753: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
2754: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 2755: This article is also found online at:
2756: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 2757: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2758: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
2759: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
2760: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 2761: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 2762: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2763: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
2764: ZDnet</a>,
2765: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 2766: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 2767: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2768: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
2769: ZDnet Australia</a>,
2770: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 2771: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 2772: </ul>
1.260 ian 2773: <p>
1.279 deraadt 2774:
1.260 ian 2775: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2776: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 2777: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 2778: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2779: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 2780: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 2781: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
2782: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
2783: without notice or justification.
2784: <p>
2785:
2786: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2787: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 2788: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 2789: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2790: </strong></font><br>
2791: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
2792: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 2793: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 2794: effective today, without any warning..."
2795: <p>
1.257 ian 2796:
2797: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 2798: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
2799: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2800: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 2801: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 2802: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
2803: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
2804: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
2805: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
2806: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 2807: <p>
2808:
2809: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 2810: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
2811: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2812: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 2813: </strong></font><br>
2814: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
2815: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
2816: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
2817: quoting two of them:
2818: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
2819: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
2820: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
2821: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
2822: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
2823: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
2824: <p>
2825:
1.255 ian 2826: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2827: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
2828: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 2829: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2830: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 2831: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 2832: <p>
2833:
2834: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 2835: [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 2836: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2837: </strong></font><br>
2838: New security concepts in OpenBSD
2839: <p>
2840:
2841: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 2842: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
2843: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2844: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 2845: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 2846: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 2847: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
2848: security experts for more than three decades."
2849: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
2850: <p>
1.261 ian 2851:
1.254 drahn 2852: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 2853: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 2854: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2855: </strong></font><br>
2856: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
2857: <p>
2858:
2859: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 2860: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
2861: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
2862: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
2863: </strong></font><br>
2864: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
2865: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
2866: discussion OpenBSD's path.
2867: <p>
2868:
2869: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 2870: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
2871: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2872: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 2873: </strong></font><br>
2874: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
2875: from US DARPA.
2876: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
2877: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
2878: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
2879: the BSD license.
2880: <p>
2881: </ul>
2882:
1.251 ian 2883: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
2884: <ul>
2885:
2886: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2887: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
2888: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
2889: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
2890: </strong></font><br>
2891:
2892: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
2893: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
2894: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
2895: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
2896: <p>
2897:
2898: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 2899: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
2900: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 2901: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 2902: </strong></font><br>
2903: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
2904: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
2905: Mentions
2906: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
2907: and
2908: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
2909: programs.
2910: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 2911: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 2912: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
2913: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
2914: <p>
1.325 ian 2915: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
2916: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 2917:
2918: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2919: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
2920: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
2921: </strong></font><br>
2922: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
2923: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
2924: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
2925: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
2926: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
2927: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
2928: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
2929: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
2930: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
2931: put into service."
2932: <p>
2933: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
2934: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
2935: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
2936: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
2937: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
2938: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
2939: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
2940: computers with security features."
2941: <p>
1.329 ian 2942:
2943: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2944: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
2945: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
2946: Slate,
2947: March 3, 2003.
2948: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 2949: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 2950: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
2951: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
2952: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
2953: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
2954: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
2955: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
2956: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
2957: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
2958: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
2959: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
2960: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
2961: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
2962: of more secure open-source solutions like
2963: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
2964: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
2965: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
2966: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
2967: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
2968: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
2969: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
2970: the Beltway."
2971: <p>
1.251 ian 2972: </ul>
2973:
1.249 jufi 2974: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
2975: <ul>
2976: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2977: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
2978: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2979: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 2980: </strong></font><br>
2981: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
2982: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 2983: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 2984: <p>
1.334 ian 2985:
2986: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2987: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
2988: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
2989: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
2990: </strong></font><br>
2991: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
2992: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
2993: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
2994: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
2995: "... the hypothetical question ...
2996: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
2997: <br>
2998: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
2999: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
3000: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
3001: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
3002: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
3003: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 3004: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 3005: support network security.
3006: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
3007: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
3008: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
3009: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
3010: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
3011: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
3012: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
3013: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
3014: <br>
3015: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
3016: <p>
3017:
1.249 jufi 3018: </ul>
3019:
1.246 jufi 3020: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3021: <ul>
1.246 jufi 3022:
1.247 jufi 3023: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3024: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 3025: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3026: CNET News.com, December 4, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3027: </strong></font><br>
3028: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
3029: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
3030: <p>
3031:
1.247 jufi 3032: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3033: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
3034: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3035: Heise News-Ticker, December 4, 2002
1.301 jose 3036: </strong></font><br>
1.460 david 3037: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III CPU
1.301 jose 3038: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
3039: <p>
3040:
3041: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3042: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 3043: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3044: eWeek, December 3, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3045: </strong></font><br>
3046: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
3047: in their annual OpenHack security test.
3048: <p>
1.247 jufi 3049: </ul>
1.246 jufi 3050:
1.244 jufi 3051: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3052: <ul>
1.246 jufi 3053:
1.247 jufi 3054: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3055: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
3056: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
3057: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3058: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3059: </strong></font><br>
3060: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
3061: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
3062: md5 digests.
3063: <p>
3064:
1.247 jufi 3065: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3066: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 3067: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
3068: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3069: </strong></font><br>
3070: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
3071: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
3072: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
3073: right the first time."
3074: <p>
1.247 jufi 3075: </ul>
1.244 jufi 3076:
3077:
3078: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3079: <ul>
1.244 jufi 3080:
1.247 jufi 3081: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3082: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3083: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
3084: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3085: </strong></font><br>
3086: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
3087: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
3088: part 6</a>.
3089: <p>
3090:
1.247 jufi 3091: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3092: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 3093: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
3094: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3095: O'Reilly Network, August 8, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3096: </strong></font><br>
3097: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
3098: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
3099: <p>
1.301 jose 3100:
3101: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3102: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
3103: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
3104: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
3105: </strong></font><br>
3106:
3107: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
3108: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
3109: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
3110: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
3111: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
3112: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
3113: <i>Here's the
3114: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
3115: <p>
1.247 jufi 3116: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3117:
3118: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3119: <ul>
1.242 jufi 3120:
1.247 jufi 3121: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3122: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 3123: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3124: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3125: </strong></font><br>
3126: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
3127: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
3128: <p>
3129:
1.247 jufi 3130: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3131: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3132: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3133: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 1, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3134: </strong></font><br>
3135: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
3136: this time using pf.
3137: <p>
1.247 jufi 3138: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3139:
3140: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3141: <ul>
1.242 jufi 3142:
1.247 jufi 3143: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3144: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3145: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
3146: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3147: </strong></font><br>
3148: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
3149: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
3150: their rotation.
3151: <p>
3152:
1.247 jufi 3153: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3154: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3155: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3156: O'Reilly Network, June 6, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3157: </strong></font><br>
3158: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
3159: <p>
1.247 jufi 3160: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3161:
1.239 jufi 3162: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3163: <ul>
1.239 jufi 3164:
1.247 jufi 3165: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3166: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 3167: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
3168: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3169: </strong></font><br>
3170: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
3171: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
3172: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
3173: <p>
3174:
1.247 jufi 3175: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 3176: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 3177: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
3178: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 3179: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 3180: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
3181: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
3182: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 3183: <p>
1.247 jufi 3184: </ul>
1.239 jufi 3185:
1.235 lebel 3186: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3187: <ul>
1.235 lebel 3188:
1.239 jufi 3189:
1.247 jufi 3190: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 3191: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 3192: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
3193: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 3194: </strong></font><br>
3195: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
3196: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
3197: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
3198: <p>
1.301 jose 3199:
1.247 jufi 3200: </ul>
1.235 lebel 3201:
1.228 horacio 3202: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3203: <ul>
1.228 horacio 3204:
1.247 jufi 3205: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3206: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3207: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
3208: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 3209: </strong></font><br>
3210: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
3211: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
3212: <p>
3213:
1.247 jufi 3214: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 3215: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 3216: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
3217: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 3218: </strong></font><br>
3219: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
3220: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
3221: <p>
3222:
1.247 jufi 3223: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 3224: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 3225: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
3226: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 3227: </strong></font><br>
3228: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
3229: on the desktop of his parents.
3230: <p>
3231:
1.247 jufi 3232: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 3233: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 3234: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
3235: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 3236: </strong></font><br>
3237: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
3238: using IPFilter.
3239:
3240: <p>
3241:
1.247 jufi 3242: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 3243: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 3244: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
3245: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 3246: </strong></font><br>
3247: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
3248: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
3249: perspectives of the four OS.
3250: <br>
3251: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 3252: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 3253: <p>
3254:
1.247 jufi 3255: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 3256: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
3257: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 3258: software and security</a>,
3259: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 3260: </strong></font><br>
3261:
3262: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
3263: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
3264: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
3265: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
3266: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
3267: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
3268: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
3269: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
3270: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
3271: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
3272: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
3273: security conscious team beyond doubt.
3274: <p>
1.247 jufi 3275: </ul>
1.228 horacio 3276:
1.225 horacio 3277: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3278: <ul>
1.225 horacio 3279:
1.247 jufi 3280: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3281: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
3282: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 3283: Interview</a>,
3284: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 3285: </strong></font><br>
3286:
3287: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
3288: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
3289: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 3290: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 3291: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
3292: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
3293: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
3294: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
3295: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 3296: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 3297: of choice.
3298: <p>
1.247 jufi 3299: </ul>
1.225 horacio 3300:
3301: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3302: <ul>
1.225 horacio 3303:
1.247 jufi 3304: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3305: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 3306: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
3307: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 3308: </strong></font><br>
3309:
3310: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
3311: <p>
3312:
1.247 jufi 3313: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3314: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 3315: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
3316: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 3317: </strong></font><br>
3318:
3319: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
3320: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
3321: <p>
1.247 jufi 3322: </ul>
1.225 horacio 3323:
1.218 horacio 3324: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3325: <ul>
1.218 horacio 3326:
1.247 jufi 3327: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 3328: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 3329: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 3330: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 3331: </strong></font><br>
3332:
3333: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
3334: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
3335: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
3336: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
3337: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
3338: subjects. Worth a read.
3339: <p>
3340:
3341:
1.247 jufi 3342: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 3343: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 3344: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
3345: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 3346: </strong></font><br>
3347:
3348: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
3349: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
3350: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
3351: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
3352: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
3353: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
3354: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
3355: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
3356: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 3357: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 3358: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
3359: on other operating systems.<br>
3360: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
3361: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
3362: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
3363: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
3364: <p>
3365:
1.247 jufi 3366: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3367: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 3368: Operating System 2010</a>,
3369: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 3370: </strong></font><br>
3371:
3372: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
3373: covering the level of software integration into the core
3374: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
3375: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
3376: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
3377: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
3378: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
3379: <p>
3380:
1.247 jufi 3381: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 3382: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 3383: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
3384: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 3385: </strong></font><br>
3386:
3387: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
3388: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
3389: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
3390: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
3391: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
3392: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
3393: <p>
1.247 jufi 3394: </ul>
1.221 horacio 3395:
1.210 jufi 3396: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3397: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3398:
1.247 jufi 3399: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3400: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 3401: Already a Contender</a>,
3402: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 3403: </strong></font><br>
3404:
3405: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
3406: source software in response to an article which claimed that
3407: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
3408: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
3409: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
3410: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
3411: <p>
3412:
1.247 jufi 3413: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 3414: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 3415: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
3416: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 3417: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3418:
1.224 horacio 3419: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
3420: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
3421: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
3422: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
3423: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
3424: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 3425: <p>
1.247 jufi 3426: </ul>
1.215 horacio 3427:
3428: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3429: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3430:
1.247 jufi 3431: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3432: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
3433: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 3434: Division</a>,
3435: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 3436: </strong></font><br>
3437:
3438: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
3439: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 3440: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 3441: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
3442: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
3443: investment</em>.<br>
3444: The implementation details can be seen on their
3445: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
3446: <p>
3447:
1.247 jufi 3448: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3449: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
3450: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
3451: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
3452: </strong></font><br>
3453:
3454: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
3455: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
3456: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1.475 grunk 3457: laptops and T-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1.301 jose 3458: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
3459: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
3460: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
3461: <p>
3462:
3463: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3464: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 3465: Thinking about Security</a>,
3466: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 3467: </strong></font><br>
3468:
3469: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
3470: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
3471: security and says that even secured operating systems running
3472: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
3473: to time.<br>
3474: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
3475: system and just the most secure system.
3476: <p>
3477:
1.247 jufi 3478: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3479: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 3480: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
3481: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 3482: </strong></font><br>
3483:
3484: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
3485: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
3486: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
3487: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
3488: choice:<br>
3489: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
3490: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
3491: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
3492: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
3493: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
3494: network security devices and as such must be well
3495: armored."</em><br>
3496: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
3497: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
3498: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
3499: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
3500: <br>
3501: Bravo!
3502: <p>
1.247 jufi 3503: </ul>
1.210 jufi 3504:
1.207 ian 3505: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3506: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3507:
1.247 jufi 3508: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 3509: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
3510: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
3511: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 3512:
1.207 ian 3513: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
3514: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 3515: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 3516: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
3517: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
3518: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 3519: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 3520: <p>
1.247 jufi 3521: </ul>
1.207 ian 3522:
1.194 jufi 3523: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3524: <ul>
1.194 jufi 3525:
1.247 jufi 3526: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3527: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 3528: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
3529: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 3530: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3531:
1.240 miod 3532: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 3533: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
3534: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
3535: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
3536: <p>
3537:
1.247 jufi 3538: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3539: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
3540: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
3541: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
3542:
3543: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
3544: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
3545: <p>
3546:
3547: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3548: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
3549: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3550: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
3551:
3552: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
3553: <p>
3554:
3555: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3556: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 3557: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
3558: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
3559: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3560:
1.240 miod 3561: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 3562: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 3563: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
3564: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 3565: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 3566: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 3567: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
3568: <br>
1.413 deraadt 3569: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 3570: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
3571: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
3572: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
3573: <p>
3574:
1.247 jufi 3575: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 3576: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
3577: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 3578: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 3579: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3580:
1.194 jufi 3581: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
3582: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
3583: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
3584: <br>
3585: The new
3586: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 3587: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 3588: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
3589: <p>
1.247 jufi 3590: </ul>
1.194 jufi 3591:
1.190 horacio 3592: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3593: <ul>
1.190 horacio 3594:
1.247 jufi 3595: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 3596:
3597: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
3598: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
3599:
1.301 jose 3600:
1.191 jufi 3601: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
3602: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
3603:
3604: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
3605: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
3606:
1.212 horacio 3607: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
3608: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 3609: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
3610:
1.211 horacio 3611: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
3612: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 3613: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
3614:
1.247 jufi 3615: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 3616: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
3617:
1.247 jufi 3618: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 3619: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
3620:
1.212 horacio 3621: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
3622: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 3623: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
3624:
3625: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
3626: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
3627:
3628: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
3629: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
3630:
1.301 jose 3631: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
3632: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
3633:
1.191 jufi 3634: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
3635: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
3636:
3637: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 3638: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 3639:
1.192 jufi 3640: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
3641: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 3642: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 3643:
1.193 deraadt 3644: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
3645: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 3646: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 3647:
1.247 jufi 3648: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 3649: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
3650:
1.247 jufi 3651: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 3652: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
3653: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
3654:
1.213 horacio 3655: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 3656: 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 3657: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
3658:
1.190 horacio 3659: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 3660: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
3661: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
3662: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
3663: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
3664: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
3665: <p>
1.190 horacio 3666:
1.247 jufi 3667: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3668: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
3669: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
3670: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 3671: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3672:
1.195 jufi 3673: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 3674: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
3675: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
3676: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 3677: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
3678: <p>
3679:
1.247 jufi 3680: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3681: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 3682: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
3683: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
3684: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3685:
1.191 jufi 3686: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 3687: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
3688: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
3689: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
3690: <p>
3691:
3692: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3693: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
3694: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3695: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
3696:
3697: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
3698: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 3699: <p>
1.247 jufi 3700: </ul>
1.190 horacio 3701:
1.191 jufi 3702:
1.186 jufi 3703: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3704: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 3705:
1.247 jufi 3706: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 3707: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 3708: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
3709: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 3710: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 3711:
1.188 jufi 3712: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 3713: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 3714: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 3715: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
3716: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 3717: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 3718: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 3719: <p>
3720:
1.301 jose 3721: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3722: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
3723: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3724: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
3725:
3726: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
3727: <p>
1.191 jufi 3728:
1.247 jufi 3729: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 3730: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
3731: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3732: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 5, 2001
1.191 jufi 3733: </strong></font><br>
3734:
3735: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
3736: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
3737: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
3738: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
3739: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
3740: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
3741: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
3742: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
3743: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
3744: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
3745: familiar?
3746: <p>
1.247 jufi 3747: </ul>
1.191 jufi 3748:
1.178 louis 3749: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3750: <ul>
1.178 louis 3751:
1.247 jufi 3752: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 3753: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 3754: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
3755: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 3756: </strong></font><br>
3757:
3758: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
3759: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
3760: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
3761: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
3762: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
3763: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
3764: <p>
3765:
1.247 jufi 3766: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3767: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
3768: Open source under the hood</a>,
3769: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 3770: </strong></font><br>
3771:
3772: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
3773: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
3774: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
3775: <p>
3776:
1.247 jufi 3777: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3778: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
3779: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
3780: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 3781: </strong></font><br>
3782:
3783: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
3784: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
3785: <p>
1.247 jufi 3786: </ul>
1.179 louis 3787:
1.174 louis 3788:
1.175 louis 3789: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3790: <ul>
1.175 louis 3791:
1.247 jufi 3792: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3793: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
3794: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
3795: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 3796: </strong></font><br>
3797:
3798: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
3799: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
3800: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
3801: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
3802: <p>
3803:
1.247 jufi 3804: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3805: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
3806: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
3807: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 3808: </strong></font><br>
3809:
3810: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 3811: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 3812: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
3813: <p>
1.247 jufi 3814: </ul>
1.175 louis 3815:
1.176 louis 3816:
1.172 mickey 3817: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3818: <ul>
1.172 mickey 3819:
1.247 jufi 3820: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3821: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
3822: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 3823: </strong></font><br>
3824:
3825: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
3826: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
3827: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 3828: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 3829: <p>
3830:
1.247 jufi 3831: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 3832: <a
1.269 deraadt 3833: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
3834: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
3835: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 3836: </strong></font><br>
3837:
3838: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
3839: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
3840: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
3841: <p>
3842:
1.247 jufi 3843: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3844: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 3845: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
3846: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 3847: </strong></font><br>
3848:
3849: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
3850: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
3851: <p>
3852:
1.247 jufi 3853: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3854: <a
1.269 deraadt 3855: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
3856: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 3857: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
3858: </strong></font><br>
3859:
3860: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
3861: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
3862: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
3863: our own Theo de Raadt.
3864: <p>
3865:
1.247 jufi 3866: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3867: <a
1.269 deraadt 3868: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
3869: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
3870: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 3871: </strong></font><br>
3872:
3873: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
3874: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
3875: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
3876: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
3877: shut down.]
3878: <p>
3879:
1.247 jufi 3880: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3881: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 3882: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 3883: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
3884: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 3885: </strong></font><br>
3886:
3887: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
3888: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
3889: <p>
1.247 jufi 3890: </ul>
1.172 mickey 3891:
1.161 louis 3892: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3893: <ul>
1.161 louis 3894:
1.247 jufi 3895: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 3896: <a
1.269 deraadt 3897: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
3898: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
3899: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 3900: </strong></font><br>
3901:
3902: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
3903: by John Wolley
3904: <p>
3905:
1.247 jufi 3906: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 3907: <a
1.269 deraadt 3908: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
3909: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
3910: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 3911: </strong></font><br>
3912:
3913: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
3914: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
3915: OpenBSD).
3916: <p>
3917:
1.247 jufi 3918: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 3919: <a
1.247 jufi 3920: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 3921: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
3922: </strong></font><br>
3923:
3924: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
3925: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
3926: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
3927: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
3928: and hindsight.
3929: <p>
3930:
1.247 jufi 3931: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3932: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
3933: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
3934: </strong></font><br>
3935:
3936: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
3937: <p>
3938:
1.247 jufi 3939: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 3940: <a
1.168 provos 3941: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
3942: December 7, 2000
3943: </strong></font><br>
3944:
3945: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
3946: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
3947: us explain.
3948: <p>
3949:
1.247 jufi 3950: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 3951: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
3952: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 3953: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 3954: December 6, 2000
3955: </strong></font><br>
3956:
3957: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
3958: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
3959: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
3960: <p>
3961:
1.247 jufi 3962: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3963: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
3964: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
3965: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
3966: </strong></font><br>
3967:
3968: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
3969: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
3970: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
3971: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
3972: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
3973: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
3974: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
3975: <p>
3976:
3977: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 3978: <a
1.226 horacio 3979: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
3980: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 3981: </strong></font><br>
3982:
3983: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 3984: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 3985: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 3986: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
3987: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
3988: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 3989: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 3990: <p>
1.162 millert 3991:
1.247 jufi 3992: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 3993: <a
1.161 louis 3994: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
3995: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
3996: </strong></font><br>
3997:
3998: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
3999: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
4000: <p>
4001:
1.247 jufi 4002: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 4003: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
4004: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
4005: </strong></font><br>
4006:
4007: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
4008: <p>
4009:
4010:
1.247 jufi 4011: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 4012: <a
1.226 horacio 4013: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
4014: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
4015: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 4016: </strong></font><br>
4017:
4018: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
4019: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
4020: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
4021: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
4022: <p>
1.247 jufi 4023: </ul>
1.169 louis 4024:
1.158 louis 4025: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4026: <ul>
1.147 louis 4027:
1.247 jufi 4028: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4029: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
4030: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 4031: </strong></font><br>
4032:
4033: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
4034: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
4035: <p>
4036:
1.247 jufi 4037: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4038: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
4039: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
4040: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 4041: </strong></font><br>
4042: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
4043: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
4044: <p>
4045:
1.247 jufi 4046: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 4047: <a
4048: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
4049: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
4050: </strong></font><br>
4051:
4052: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
4053: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
4054: <p>
4055:
1.247 jufi 4056: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4057: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 4058: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
4059: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 4060:
1.213 horacio 4061: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 4062: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 4063: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
4064: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
4065: <p>
1.215 horacio 4066:
1.247 jufi 4067: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4068: <a
4069: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
4070: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
4071: </strong></font><br>
4072:
4073: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
4074: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
4075: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
4076: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
4077: much of the attitude too).
4078: <p>
1.161 louis 4079:
1.247 jufi 4080: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4081: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4082: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 4083: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4084:
1.157 louis 4085: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
4086: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
4087: <p>
1.247 jufi 4088: </ul>
1.157 louis 4089:
4090: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4091: <ul>
1.157 louis 4092:
1.247 jufi 4093: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4094: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4095: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 4096: </strong></font><br>
4097:
4098: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
4099: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
4100: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
4101: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
4102: <p>
4103:
1.247 jufi 4104: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 4105: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
4106: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
4107: </strong></font><br>
4108:
4109: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
4110: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
4111: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
4112: it because they love coding...
4113: <p>
4114:
1.247 jufi 4115: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 4116: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
4117: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
4118: </strong></font><br>
4119:
4120: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
4121: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
4122: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
4123: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
4124: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
4125: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
4126: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
4127: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
4128: <p>
4129:
1.247 jufi 4130: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4131: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
4132: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
4133: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 4134: </strong></font><br>
4135:
4136: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
4137: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
4138: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
4139: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
4140: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
4141: the pizza.
4142: <p>
4143:
1.247 jufi 4144: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 4145: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
4146: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
4147: </strong></font><br>
4148:
4149: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
4150: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
4151: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
4152: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
4153: problems.
4154: <p>
4155:
1.247 jufi 4156: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 4157: <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 4158: </strong></font><br>
4159:
1.222 miod 4160: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 4161: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
4162: - whether they like it or not.
4163: <p>
4164:
1.247 jufi 4165: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4166: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
4167: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 4168: </strong></font><br>
4169:
4170: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
4171: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
4172: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 4173: <p>
1.148 aaron 4174:
1.247 jufi 4175: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4176: <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 4177: </strong></font><br>
4178:
4179: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
4180: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
4181: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
4182: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
4183: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
4184: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
4185: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
4186: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
4187: <p>
4188:
1.247 jufi 4189: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4190: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
4191: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 4192: </strong></font><br>
4193:
4194: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
4195: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 4196: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 4197: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
4198: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
4199: <p>
1.247 jufi 4200: </ul>
1.147 louis 4201:
1.138 louis 4202: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4203: <ul>
1.138 louis 4204:
1.247 jufi 4205: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4206: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
4207: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
4208: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
4209: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 4210: </strong></font><br>
4211:
1.227 horacio 4212: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 4213: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
4214: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
4215: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
4216: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
4217: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
4218: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
4219: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 4220: <p>
4221:
1.247 jufi 4222: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 4223: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 4224: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 4225: </strong></font><br>
4226:
4227: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
4228: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
4229: groups, and even Linux.
4230: <p>
4231:
1.247 jufi 4232: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4233: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
4234: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 4235: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
4236: </strong></font><br>
4237:
4238: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
4239: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
4240: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
4241: library after installing the OS.
4242: <p>
4243:
1.247 jufi 4244: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4245: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 4246: Sys Admin, September 2000
4247: </strong></font><br>
4248:
4249: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
4250: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
4251: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
4252: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 4253: (<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>,
4254: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
4255: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
4256: <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 4257: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 4258: out of the system.
4259: <p>
4260:
1.247 jufi 4261: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 4262: <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
4263: </strong></font><br>
4264:
4265: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 4266: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 4267: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
4268: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
4269: the IP filtering and address translation.
4270: <p>
1.301 jose 4271:
4272: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4273: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
4274: </strong></font><br>
4275:
4276: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
4277: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
4278: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
4279: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
4280: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
4281: <p>
1.247 jufi 4282: </ul>
1.200 niklas 4283:
1.131 louis 4284: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4285: <ul>
1.131 louis 4286:
1.247 jufi 4287: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4288: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
4289: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
4290: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 4291: </strong></font><br>
4292:
4293: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
4294: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
4295: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
4296: <p>
4297:
1.247 jufi 4298: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 4299: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
4300: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
4301: </strong></font><br>
4302:
4303: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
4304: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
4305: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
4306: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
4307: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
4308: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
4309: note of"</i>.
4310: <p>
4311:
1.247 jufi 4312: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 4313: <a
1.247 jufi 4314: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 4315: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
4316: </strong></font><br>
4317:
4318: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
4319: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
4320: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
4321: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
4322: <p>
4323:
1.247 jufi 4324: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 4325: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 4326: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
4327: </strong></font><br>
4328:
4329: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
4330: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
4331: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
4332: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
4333: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
4334: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
4335: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
4336: <p>
4337:
1.247 jufi 4338: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 4339: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
4340: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
4341: 2000
4342: </strong></font><br>
4343:
4344: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
4345: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
4346: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
4347: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
4348: against current industry practices.
4349: <p>
4350:
1.247 jufi 4351: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 4352: <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
4353: </strong></font><br>
4354:
4355: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
4356: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
4357: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
4358: <p>
4359:
1.247 jufi 4360: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 4361: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
4362: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
4363: </strong></font><br>
4364:
4365: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
4366: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
4367: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
4368: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
4369: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
4370: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
4371: careful code reviews, he concludes.
4372: <p>
4373:
1.247 jufi 4374: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 4375: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
4376: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
4377: </strong></font><br>
4378:
4379: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
4380: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
4381: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
4382: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
4383: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 4384: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
4385: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
4386: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 4387: <p>
1.247 jufi 4388: </ul>
1.131 louis 4389:
1.118 louis 4390: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4391: <ul>
1.118 louis 4392:
1.247 jufi 4393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 4394: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
4395: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
4396: </strong></font><br>
4397:
4398: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
4399: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
4400: about time. The article mentions that
4401: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
4402: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
4403: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 4404: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 4405: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
4406: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 4407: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 4408: <p>
4409:
1.247 jufi 4410: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4411: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 4412: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 4413: </strong></font><br>
4414:
4415: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
4416: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
4417: of OpenSSH.
4418: <p>
4419:
1.247 jufi 4420: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4421: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4422: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 4423: </strong></font><br>
4424:
4425: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 4426: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 4427: bridging.
4428: <p>
4429:
1.247 jufi 4430: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4431: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
4432: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 4433: </strong></font><br>
4434:
1.121 deraadt 4435: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
4436: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 4437: <p>
4438:
1.247 jufi 4439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 4440: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
4441: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
4442: </strong></font><br>
4443:
4444: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
4445: <p>
4446:
1.247 jufi 4447: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 4448: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 4449: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
4450: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 4451: </strong></font><br>
4452:
1.120 deraadt 4453: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
4454: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 4455: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
4456: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
4457: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
4458: <p>
4459:
1.247 jufi 4460: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 4461: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
4462: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
4463: </strong></font><br>
4464:
1.222 miod 4465: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 4466: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
4467: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
4468: protocols and their quirks.
4469: <p>
4470:
1.247 jufi 4471: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4472: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
4473: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 4474: </strong></font><br>
4475:
4476: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
4477: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
4478: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 4479: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 4480: <p>
4481:
1.247 jufi 4482: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 4483: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
4484: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
4485: </strong></font><br>
4486:
4487: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
4488: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
4489: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
4490: <p>
4491:
1.247 jufi 4492: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 4493: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 4494: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
4495: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 4496: </strong></font><br>
4497:
4498: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
4499: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
4500: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
4501: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
4502: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
4503: <p>
1.247 jufi 4504: </ul>
1.118 louis 4505:
1.104 louis 4506: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4507: <ul>
1.104 louis 4508:
1.247 jufi 4509: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 4510: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
4511: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
4512: </strong></font><br>
4513:
4514: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
4515: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
4516: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
4517: be a bit dry.
4518: <p>
4519:
1.247 jufi 4520: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4521: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
4522: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
4523: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
4524: </strong></font><br>
4525: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
4526: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
4527: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
4528: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
4529: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
4530: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
4531: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
4532: <p>
4533:
1.247 jufi 4534: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4535: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
4536: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 4537: 2000
1.128 louis 4538: </strong></font><br>
4539:
4540: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
4541: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
4542: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
4543: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
4544: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 4545: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 4546: <p>
4547:
1.247 jufi 4548: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4549: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
4550: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 4551: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 4552:
4553: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
4554: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
4555: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
4556: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 4557: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
4558: <p>
1.110 louis 4559:
1.247 jufi 4560: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 4561: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
4562: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
4563: </strong></font><br>
4564:
4565: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
4566: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
4567: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
4568: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
4569: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
4570: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
4571: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
4572: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
4573: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
4574: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
4575: <p>
4576:
1.247 jufi 4577: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 4578: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 4579: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 4580:
4581: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
4582: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 4583: <p>
1.108 louis 4584:
1.247 jufi 4585: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 4586: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
4587: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 4588: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 4589:
4590: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
4591: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
4592: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 4593: <p>
1.106 louis 4594:
1.247 jufi 4595: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 4596: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
4597: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 4598: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 4599:
4600: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
4601: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
4602: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
4603: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 4604: <p>
1.107 louis 4605:
1.247 jufi 4606: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4607: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
4608: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 4609: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 4610:
4611: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
4612: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 4613: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 4614: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
4615: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 4616: <p>
1.105 louis 4617:
1.247 jufi 4618: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 4619: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 4620: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 4621: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 4622:
1.113 naddy 4623: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
4624: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 4625: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 4626: <p>
1.104 louis 4627:
1.247 jufi 4628: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4629: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
4630: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
4631: </strong></font><br>
4632:
4633: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
4634: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
4635: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
4636: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
4637: <p>
1.301 jose 4638:
4639: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4640: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
4641: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
4642: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
4643:
4644: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
4645: hardware-supported cryptography.
4646: <p>
1.247 jufi 4647: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 4648:
1.85 louis 4649: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4650: <ul>
1.85 louis 4651:
1.247 jufi 4652: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4653: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 4654: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 4655: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 4656:
4657: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
4658: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
4659: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
4660: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
4661: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
4662: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
4663: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 4664: <p>
1.99 louis 4665:
1.247 jufi 4666: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4667: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 4668: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 4669: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 4670:
4671: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
4672: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
4673: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
4674: conditions.
1.113 naddy 4675: <p>
1.100 louis 4676:
1.247 jufi 4677: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4678: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 4679: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 4680: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 4681:
4682: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
4683: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
4684: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
4685: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 4686: <p>
1.95 louis 4687:
1.247 jufi 4688: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4689: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 4690: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 4691: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 4692:
4693: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
4694: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 4695: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 4696: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
4697: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4698: <p>
1.92 louis 4699:
1.247 jufi 4700: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4701: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 4702: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 4703: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 4704:
4705: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
4706: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
4707: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
4708: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
4709: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
4710: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 4711: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 4712: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 4713: <p>
1.91 louis 4714:
1.247 jufi 4715: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4716: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
4717: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 4718: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 4719:
4720: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
4721: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
4722: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
4723: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
4724: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
4725: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
4726: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
4727: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
4728: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 4729: <p>
1.90 louis 4730:
1.247 jufi 4731: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 4732: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
4733: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
4734: </strong></font><br>
4735: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
4736: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
4737: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
4738: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
4739: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
4740: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
4741: <p>
4742:
1.247 jufi 4743: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 4744: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
4745: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 4746: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 4747:
1.113 naddy 4748: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
4749: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 4750: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
4751: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
4752: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
4753: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
4754: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 4755: <p>
1.87 louis 4756:
1.247 jufi 4757: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 4758: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
4759: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 4760: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 4761:
4762: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 4763: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 4764: <p>
1.85 louis 4765:
1.247 jufi 4766: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4767: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
4768: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4769: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
4770:
4771: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
4772: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
4773: <p>
4774:
4775: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 4776: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
4777: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 4778: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 4779:
4780: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 4781: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 4782: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
4783: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 4784: <p>
1.89 louis 4785:
1.247 jufi 4786: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 4787: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
1.85 louis 4788: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 4789: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 4790:
4791: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
4792: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
4793: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
4794: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
4795: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 4796: </ul>
1.85 louis 4797:
1.78 deraadt 4798: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4799: <ul>
1.74 louis 4800:
1.247 jufi 4801: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4802: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 4803: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 4804: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 4805: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 4806:
4807: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
4808: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
4809: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4810: <p>
1.83 louis 4811:
1.247 jufi 4812: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 4813: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
4814: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 4815: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 4816:
4817: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
4818: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 4819: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 4820: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
4821: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 4822: <p>
1.93 louis 4823:
1.247 jufi 4824: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4825: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
4826: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
4827: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 4828: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 4829:
1.83 louis 4830: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
4831: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
4832: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
4833: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
4834: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 4835: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
4836: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
4837: <p>
1.82 aaron 4838:
1.247 jufi 4839: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4840: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 4841: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 4842: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 4843:
1.83 louis 4844: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
4845: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
4846: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 4847: <p>
1.80 louis 4848:
1.247 jufi 4849: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4850: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 4851: Bad Press</a>,
4852: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 4853: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 4854:
4855: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 4856: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 4857: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
4858: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
4859: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 4860: <p>
1.247 jufi 4861: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 4862:
4863: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4864: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 4865:
1.247 jufi 4866: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4867: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
4868: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 4869: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 4870: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 4871:
4872: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
4873: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
4874: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
4875: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 4876: <p>
1.74 louis 4877:
1.247 jufi 4878: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 4879: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
4880: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 4881: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 4882:
1.219 horacio 4883: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
4884: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
4885: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
4886: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
4887: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
4888: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
4889: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 4890: <p>
1.88 louis 4891:
1.247 jufi 4892: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 4893: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 4894: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 4895: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 4896:
4897: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
4898: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
4899: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
4900: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 4901: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 4902: <p>
1.81 louis 4903:
1.247 jufi 4904: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4905: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 4906: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 4907: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 4908:
4909: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
4910: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
4911: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
4912: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
4913: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
4914: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
4915: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 4916: <p>
1.90 louis 4917:
1.247 jufi 4918: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4919: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 4920: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 4921: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 4922:
4923: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
4924: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
4925: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 4926: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 4927: <p>
1.247 jufi 4928: </ul>
1.71 louis 4929:
1.69 deraadt 4930: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4931: <ul>
1.70 louis 4932:
1.247 jufi 4933: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4934: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
4935: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 4936: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 4937:
4938: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
4939: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
4940: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 4941: <p>
1.70 louis 4942:
1.247 jufi 4943: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4944: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
4945: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 4946: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 4947:
4948: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 4949: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 4950: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 4951: <p>
1.68 louis 4952:
1.247 jufi 4953: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4954: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
4955: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 4956: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 4957: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 4958:
1.111 jufi 4959: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
4960: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 4961: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 4962: "secure by default" installation.
4963: <p>
1.64 louis 4964:
1.247 jufi 4965: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 4966: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 4967: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 4968: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 4969:
1.113 naddy 4970: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 4971: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 4972: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 4973: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
4974: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
4975: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 4976: <p>
1.66 louis 4977:
1.247 jufi 4978: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4979: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 4980: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4981: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 4982:
4983: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 4984: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 4985: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
4986: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
4987: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 4988: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
4989: <p>
1.83 louis 4990:
1.247 jufi 4991: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4992: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 4993: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 4994: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 4995:
4996: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 4997: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
4998: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 4999: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
5000: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 5001: <p>
1.64 louis 5002:
1.247 jufi 5003: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5004: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 5005: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5006: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 5007:
5008: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
5009: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 5010: <p>
1.301 jose 5011:
5012: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5013: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
5014: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
5015: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
5016: </strong></font><br>
5017:
5018: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
5019: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
5020: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
5021: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
5022: Giving way to
5023: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
5024: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
5025: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
5026: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
5027: <p>
1.247 jufi 5028: </ul>
1.65 louis 5029:
1.69 deraadt 5030: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5031: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5032:
1.247 jufi 5033: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5034: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 5035: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 5036: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 5037:
5038: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
5039: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
5040: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
5041: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 5042: <p>
1.88 louis 5043:
1.247 jufi 5044: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5045: <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 5046: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 5047:
5048: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 5049: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
5050: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 5051: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
5052: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 5053: <p>
1.60 louis 5054:
1.247 jufi 5055: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 5056: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 5057: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 5058: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 5059: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5060:
5061: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
5062: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
5063: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 5064: <p>
1.58 louis 5065:
1.247 jufi 5066: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 5067: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 5068: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 5069:
5070: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
5071: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 5072: <p>
1.53 louis 5073:
1.247 jufi 5074: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 5075: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
5076: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 5077: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 5078:
5079: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
5080: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
5081: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 5082: <p>
1.99 louis 5083:
1.247 jufi 5084: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 5085: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 5086: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5087:
5088: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
5089: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 5090: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 5091: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 5092: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 5093:
1.247 jufi 5094: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 5095: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
5096: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 5097: </strong></font><br>
5098:
5099: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
5100: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
5101: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
5102: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
5103: <p>
5104:
1.247 jufi 5105: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5106: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 5107: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 5108: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5109:
5110: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
5111: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 5112: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 5113:
1.247 jufi 5114: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 5115: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 5116: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 5117:
5118: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 5119: in
1.247 jufi 5120: <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 5121: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 5122: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 5123: <p>
1.53 louis 5124:
1.247 jufi 5125: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5126: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 5127: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
5128: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 5129: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 5130:
1.58 louis 5131: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5132: <p>
1.301 jose 5133:
5134: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5135: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
5136: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
5137: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
5138: Informacyjny, January 2000
5139: </strong></font><br>
5140:
5141: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
5142: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
5143: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
5144: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
5145: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
5146: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
5147: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
5148: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
5149: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
5150: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 5151: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
5152: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 5153: <p>
5154:
5155: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5156: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
5157: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
5158: </strong></font><br>
5159:
5160: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
5161: <p>
5162: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 5163:
1.69 deraadt 5164: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5165: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5166:
1.247 jufi 5167: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 5168: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
5169: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
5170: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 5171: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5172:
1.58 louis 5173: Kurt Seifried
5174: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
5175: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
5176: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 5177: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 5178:
1.247 jufi 5179: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5180: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 5181: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 5182: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 5183:
5184: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 5185: <p>
1.96 louis 5186:
1.247 jufi 5187: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5188: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
5189: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
5190: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
5191: </strong></font><br>
5192:
5193: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
5194: <p>
5195:
5196: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5197: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 5198: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 5199: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 5200:
5201: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
5202: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 5203: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 5204: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 5205: <p>
1.247 jufi 5206: </ul>
1.86 louis 5207:
1.69 deraadt 5208: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5209: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5210:
1.247 jufi 5211: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 5212: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
5213: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 5214: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 5215:
5216: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
5217: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 5218: <p>
1.61 louis 5219:
1.247 jufi 5220: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5221: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 5222: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
5223: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5224: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 5225:
5226: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 5227: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 5228: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
5229: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 5230: right -- or at least strives to".
5231: <p>
1.48 louis 5232:
1.247 jufi 5233: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 5234: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
5235: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5236: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 5237: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
5238: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
5239: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
5240: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 5241: <p>
1.61 louis 5242:
1.247 jufi 5243: <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 5244: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 5245: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 5246:
5247: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
5248: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
5249: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
5250: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 5251: <p>
1.46 louis 5252:
1.247 jufi 5253: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 5254: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
5255: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 5256: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5257:
5258: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
5259: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 5260: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 5261:
1.247 jufi 5262: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 5263: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
5264: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 5265: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 5266:
5267: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
5268: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
5269: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
5270: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 5271: <p>
1.247 jufi 5272: </ul>
1.70 louis 5273:
1.69 deraadt 5274: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5275: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5276:
1.247 jufi 5277: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5278: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
5279: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 5280: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 5281: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 5282:
5283: Kurt Seifried
5284: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
5285: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
5286: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 5287: <p>
1.44 philen 5288:
1.247 jufi 5289: <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 5290: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 5291: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 5292:
5293: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 5294: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 5295:
1.247 jufi 5296: <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 5297: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 5298: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 5299:
5300: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 5301: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 5302:
1.247 jufi 5303: <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 5304: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 5305: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 5306:
5307: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
5308: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
5309: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
5310: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 5311: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 5312:
1.247 jufi 5313: <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 5314: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 5315: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 5316:
1.36 louis 5317: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 5318: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 5319:
1.247 jufi 5320: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5321: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
1.39 louis 5322: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 5323: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 5324:
5325: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 5326: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 5327: </ul>
1.38 louis 5328:
1.69 deraadt 5329: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5330: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5331:
1.247 jufi 5332: <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 5333: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 5334: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 5335:
5336: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
5337: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 5338: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 5339:
1.113 naddy 5340: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 5341: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 5342: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 5343: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 5344:
5345: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
5346: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 5347: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
5348: terminal:
1.113 naddy 5349: <blockquote>
5350: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
5351: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
5352: <br>
5353: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
5354: </code>
5355: </blockquote>
5356: <p>
5357:
1.247 jufi 5358: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 5359: <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 5360: <p>
5361:
5362: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5363: <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 5364: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 5365:
5366: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
5367: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 5368: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 5369: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 5370:
1.247 jufi 5371: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5372: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
5373: Sept. 28, 1999
5374: </strong></font><br>
5375:
5376: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
5377: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
5378: translating and reprinting articles from
5379: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
5380: <p>
5381:
5382: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 5383: <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 5384: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 5385:
5386: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
5387: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
5388: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
5389: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
5390: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 5391: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 5392: <p>
1.19 louis 5393:
1.113 naddy 5394: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 5395: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 5396: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 5397:
5398: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
5399: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
5400: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 5401: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
5402: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 5403: <p>
1.16 louis 5404:
1.247 jufi 5405: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5406: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 5407: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 5408: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 5409:
1.57 louis 5410: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
5411: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
5412: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 5413: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 5414:
1.247 jufi 5415: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5416: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.466 deraadt 5417: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5418: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5419:
1.113 naddy 5420: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 5421:
1.247 jufi 5422: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 5423: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
5424: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 5425: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 5426:
1.23 louis 5427: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
5428: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
5429: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
5430: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
5431: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 5432: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 5433:
1.247 jufi 5434: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 5435: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
5436: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 5437: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 5438:
1.199 pvalchev 5439: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 5440: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
5441: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
5442: installation.
1.113 naddy 5443: <p>
1.47 louis 5444:
1.247 jufi 5445: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5446: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 5447: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 5448: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5449:
1.301 jose 5450: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
5451: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
5452: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 5453: </ul>
1.57 louis 5454:
1.69 deraadt 5455: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5456: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5457:
1.247 jufi 5458: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 5459: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 5460: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 5461: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 5462:
5463: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
5464: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 5465: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5466: <p>
1.12 louis 5467:
1.247 jufi 5468: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 5469: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 5470: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 5471: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 5472:
5473: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
5474: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 5475: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
5476: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
5477: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
5478: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
5479: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 5480: <p>
1.247 jufi 5481: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 5482:
1.69 deraadt 5483: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5484: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 5485:
1.247 jufi 5486: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 5487: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 5488: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 5489:
5490: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
5491: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
5492: available."
1.113 naddy 5493: <p>
1.301 jose 5494:
5495: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5496: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
5497: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
5498: </strong></font><br>
5499:
5500: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
5501: <p>
1.247 jufi 5502: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 5503:
1.69 deraadt 5504: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5505: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5506:
1.247 jufi 5507: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 5508: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 5509: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 5510:
5511: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
5512: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
5513: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
5514: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
5515: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 5516: <p>
1.33 louis 5517:
1.247 jufi 5518: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5519: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 5520: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 5521: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5522:
1.113 naddy 5523: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
5524: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 5525: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
5526: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
5527: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 5528: <p>
1.247 jufi 5529: </ul>
1.57 louis 5530:
1.69 deraadt 5531: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5532: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5533:
1.247 jufi 5534: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5535: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 5536: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 5537: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 5538:
5539: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
5540: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 5541: <p>
1.69 deraadt 5542:
1.247 jufi 5543: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 5544: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
5545: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
5546: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 5547: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 5548:
5549: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 5550: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 5551:
1.247 jufi 5552: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5553: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 5554:
1.113 naddy 5555: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 5556:
1.247 jufi 5557: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5558: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
1.68 louis 5559: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 5560: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 5561:
5562: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 5563: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 5564: </ul>
1.23 louis 5565:
1.69 deraadt 5566: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5567: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5568:
1.247 jufi 5569: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 5570: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 5571: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 5572:
5573: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
5574: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 5575: <p>
1.2 deraadt 5576:
1.247 jufi 5577: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5578: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 5579: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5580: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5581:
5582: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
5583: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 5584: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 5585: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 5586: </ul>
1.57 louis 5587:
1.69 deraadt 5588: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5589: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5590:
1.247 jufi 5591: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5592: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
1.15 louis 5593: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 5594: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 5595:
5596: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
5597: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
5598: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
5599: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5600: <p>
1.15 louis 5601:
1.247 jufi 5602: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 5603: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
5604: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 5605: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5606:
5607: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
5608: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
5609: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
5610: columns."
1.113 naddy 5611: <p>
1.247 jufi 5612: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5613:
1.69 deraadt 5614: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5615: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5616:
1.247 jufi 5617: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5618: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 5619: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 5620: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5621:
5622: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 5623: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 5624:
1.113 naddy 5625: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5626: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 5627: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5628:
5629: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
5630: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 5631: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 5632: </ul>
1.57 louis 5633:
1.69 deraadt 5634: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5635: <ul>
1.301 jose 5636: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5637: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
5638: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
5639: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
5640:
5641: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
5642: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
5643: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
5644: <p>
5645:
5646: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5647: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
5648: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
5649: Nov 13, 1998 and
5650: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
5651: Datateknik</a>,
5652: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
5653:
1.380 saad 5654: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 5655: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
5656: explains the licensing issues and points to our
5657: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
5658: <p>
1.69 deraadt 5659:
1.113 naddy 5660: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5661: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 5662: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 5663: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 5664:
1.222 miod 5665: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 5666: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
5667: Implementation, including a brief interview with
5668: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 5669: <p>
1.247 jufi 5670: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5671:
1.69 deraadt 5672: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5673: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5674:
1.247 jufi 5675: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5676: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 5677: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5678:
1.69 deraadt 5679: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
5680: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 5681: <p>
1.247 jufi 5682: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5683:
1.69 deraadt 5684: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5685: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 5686:
1.247 jufi 5687: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 5688: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
5689: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 5690: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5691:
1.383 jcs 5692: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 5693: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 5694: <p>
1.1 deraadt 5695:
1.247 jufi 5696: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 5697: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 5698: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
5699: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 5700: <p>
1.247 jufi 5701: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5702:
1.69 deraadt 5703: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5704: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5705:
1.247 jufi 5706: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5707: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 5708: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
5709: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 5710: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 5711: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 5712:
5713: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
5714: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
5715: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 5716: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 5717: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 5718: <p>
1.247 jufi 5719: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 5720:
5721: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5722: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5723:
1.247 jufi 5724: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5725: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 5726: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 5727:
1.69 deraadt 5728: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
5729: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 5730: <p>
1.112 naddy 5731:
1.247 jufi 5732: </ul>
1.113 naddy 5733: <p>
1.1 deraadt 5734:
1.292 camield 5735: <hr>
1.216 horacio 5736: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 5737: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.537 ! ian 5738: <br><small>$OpenBSD: press.html,v 1.536 2006/09/26 10:10:55 grunk Exp $</small>
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