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1.1 deraadt 18:
1.539 ian 19: <h2>October, 2006</h2>
20: <ul>
1.540 ! ian 21:
! 22: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
! 23: <a href="http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;639736970;fp;2;fpid;3">
! 24: The sad state of computer security</a>, PC World Australia, October 5, 2006
! 25: </strong></font><br>
! 26: Roger Grimes opines on how bad security really is for most of the world
! 27: (and it is really bad). "If you aren't using OpenBSD [or a few others],
! 28: then every other product in the world is pretty bad in comparison.
! 29: <br />
! 30: "Most software contains numerous vulnerabilities, holes, and
! 31: exploitable routines. Even our anti-malware software and devices,
! 32: the things that are supposed to protect us, are full of buffer
! 33: overflows and vulnerabilities."
! 34: <br />
! 35: And, Grimes generalizes,
! 36: "Sadly, the world has decided that real computer security doesn't
! 37: matter any more than real terrorist security. It's all lip service.
! 38: We are, and apparently choose to be, reactive sheep. Proactive
! 39: thinkers get ignored and ridiculed...
! 40: As more and more of the world goes online, and as more of our
! 41: important infrastructure goes "e-something," it would appear that
! 42: we are on a collision course headed toward a tipping point event.
! 43: And when it does, the sheep will stand aghast wondering how it
! 44: happened."
! 45: Worth reading!
! 46: <p>
! 47:
1.539 ian 48: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
49: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061002-7874.html">
50: OpenBSD creator wants users to pressure Intel on open source policies</a>,
51: Ars Technica, October 2, 2006.
52: </strong></font><br>
53: Summarizes Theo's efforts to obtain documentation and freely
54: redistributable firmware from Intel.
55: <p>
56:
57: </ul>
58:
1.536 grunk 59: <h2>September, 2006</h2>
60: <ul>
61:
62: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.537 ian 63: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/7184">
64: OpenBSD: Intel Accused Of Being "An Open Source Fraud"</a>,
65: KernelTrap, September 30, 2006.
66: </strong></font><br>
67: Mentions Damien's thread on misc summarizing Intel's policy toward
68: open-source software as being to make Intel "look like we're
69: open-source friendly by opening a project on sourceforge," and,
70: "give the open-source community the bare minimum so that they can
71: serve as our beta-testers." Damien reverse engineered the wpi(4)
72: driver source for the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Driver,
73: despite Intel's refusal to freely provide documentation.
74: Regular readers will know that OpenBSD has been at war with Intel
75: for ages over these chipsets.
76: Quotes Theo as saying:
77: "before we ask a vendor, we have already lost (ie. the
78: device does not work). When a vendor says no, we have lost nothing
79: further -- there is no way we can lose further than having the
80: device not work. We can only win, and then the device works. So
81: there is no point in giving up until we win back the rights to write
82: software for the hardware that we have purchased."
83: <p>
84:
85: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
86: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/09/bsdtalk069-interview-with-christoph.html">
87: Interview with Christoph Egger about Xen on OpenBSD</a>, bsdtalk069, September 26, 2006
88: </strong></font><br>
89: BSDTalk interviews Christoph Egger about Xen and about how Christoph make OpenBSD
90: able to run as a guest operating system on Xen.
91: Includes some background about Xen as well as what it would take to
92: make OpenBSD run as the "dom0" or master host.
93: <p>
94:
95: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.536 grunk 96: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/09/bsdtalk068-interview-with-openbsd.html">
97: Intervew with OpenBSD developer Bob Beck</a>, bsdtalk068, September 22, 2006
98: </strong></font><br>
99: Bob Beck talks about spamd and his history with OpenBSD and UNIX
100: on Will Backman's bsdtalk. Bob gives us a look into his work on
101: OpenBSD and gives us amusing stories of how spamd works and how it
102: actually fares in 'the wild.' The podcast lasts a whole 25 minutes,
103: 59 seconds so it's long enough to occupy a meal or a small commute.
104: <p>
105:
1.537 ian 106: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
107: <a href="http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060920185115">
108: OpenBSD 4.0 pre-orders are up!</a>, undeadly.org, September 20, 2006
109: </strong></font><br>
110: One of the first mentions of 4.0 going on sale for pre-ordering
111: (the official release date is November 1).
112: Also gives a list of the many good things that have been added
113: in 4.0, including many new device drivers,
114: support for UltraSPARC III on sparc64, improvements to ipsecctl,
115: a new RCS implementation, and much more.
116: Includes a reminder to "show your support for the project by
1.538 deraadt 117: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/orders.html">placing your pre-orders today!"</a>
1.537 ian 118: <p>
119:
1.536 grunk 120: </ul>
121:
1.534 ian 122: <h2>August, 2006</h2>
123: <ul>
124:
125: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.537 ian 126: <a href="http://anil.recoil.org/blog/articles/2006/08/21/openbsd-xen-boots-multi-user">
127: OpenBSD/Xen boots multi-user</a>, Recoil Blog, August 21, 2006
128: </strong></font><br>
129: Anil discusses his stewardship of a Google Summer of Code project in which
130: Christoph Egger ported and revised some NetBSD code to make OpenBSD boot up natively
131: as a guest operating system under
132: <a href="http://www.xensource.com/">Xen</a>, the open-source hypervisor
133: or "virtualization" system.
134: <p>
135:
136: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.534 ian 137: <a href="http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-openbsd.html">
138: Take a closer look at OpenBSD</a>, IBM developerWorks, August 08, 2006
139: </strong></font><br>
140: Tim McIntire holds OpenBSD up as a beacon to UNIX users, calling it
141: "quite possibly the most secure operating system on the planet."
142: He talks about how the development process leads to greater security
143: and how tools like OpenSSH make it out into the wider UNIX/Linux world.
144: "OpenBSD might not have a huge user base compared to other UNIX-like operating systems,
145: but it is installed at the most crucial points of many networks."
146: Has a somewhat brief but effective discussion of installing the software, and
147: ends with references to several papers and sites of interest.
148: <p>
149:
150: </ul>
151:
1.531 ian 152: <h2>July, 2006</h2>
153: <ul>
154: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
155: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/case-studies--profiles/founder-breathes-the-open-air/2006/07/17/1152988468274.html">
156: Founder breathes the Open air</a>, The Age, July 18, 2006
157: </strong></font><br>
158: Subtitled "Hiking in exotic climes is a brain adventure for the founder of OpenBSD", this is
159: as much about hiking and learning new symbols as about software, but our leader
160: manages to do both, and bring both into the interview.
161: The article quotes Theo as saying
162: "Another major lesson I have learnt is that most people only care
163: about things working for themselves, and thus it is very easy in a
164: group to build poorly thought-out solutions. It is very simple to
165: write small hacks and end up with unmaintainable systems in the long term."
166: Describes the hackathons as an important part of the project's process
167: and describes the funding issues as well.
168: <p>
169:
170: </ul>
171:
1.525 ian 172: <h2>June, 2006</h2>
173: <ul>
174: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.535 steven 175: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=472693&rl=1">
1.530 ian 176: Alternatives to LAMP</a>, informit.com, June 2, 2006
177: </strong></font><br>
178: While "Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP" get most of the attention,
179: there are alternatives to each that are, in some way, better.
180: David Chisnal starts this article with a look at OS alternatives,
181: and OpenBSD gets the most detailed coverage, including this:
182: "When it comes to security, OpenBSD has a well-earned reputation
183: as the operating system for the truly paranoid. The entire kernel
184: and base system, including the OpenBSD fork of Apache, undergoes a
185: constant auditing process. The OpenBSD attitude is that any bug is
186: potentially exploitable, and when a bug is found by the auditing
187: team the next step is to attempt to remove every single occurrence
188: of that category of bug. This approach leads to an incredibly secure
189: system." Also talks about our pioneering use of W^X and the
190: "incredibly powerful and easy to configure" packet filter, pf.
191: <p>
192:
193: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.527 ian 194: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article8785.phtml">
1.525 ian 195: Microsoft adopts open-source security feature</a>, OSDir.com, June 1, 2006
196: </strong></font><br>
197: Microsoft borrows one of OpenBSD's security features for Vista, stack/library randomization,
198: under the name Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR).
199: "Until now, the feature has been most prominently used in the OpenBSD Unix variant and
200: the PaX and Exec Shield security patches for Linux"
201: (despite the article's title, there is nothing open-source about Microsoft's implementation).
202: <p>
203:
1.526 ian 204: </ul>
1.525 ian 205:
1.514 ian 206: <h2>May, 2006</h2>
207: <ul>
1.524 ian 208: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
209: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6650">
210: OpenBSD: wpi, A Blob Free Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Driver</a>, KernelTrap, May 28, 2006
211: </strong></font><br>
212: Damien Bergamini wrote OpenBSD's all-open-source driver for the Intel Pro/Wireless,
213: a sharp contrast to other projects' bogus "open source" drivers that are just wrappers around
214: a "binary blob" (source code not available, sorry) provided by the vendor.
215: "His announcement came a little over two months after Intel released
216: the controversial ipw3945 driver for Linux which included
217: a binary-only daemon described as necessary for enforcing regulatory
218: limits for the radio transmitter on the wireless device."
219: Bergamini's work proves yet again that vendors don't have to obscure their products
220: to make them useful.
221: <p>
1.518 ian 222:
223: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.520 ian 224: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/openbsd/c2k6/who1">
1.523 ian 225: c2k6, Who's Who At the 2006 OpenBSD Hackathon, Part I</a>
226: and
227: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6662">Part II</a>,
1.522 ian 228: KernelTrap, May 28, 2006
1.520 ian 229: </strong></font><br>
1.521 deraadt 230: Jeremy Andrews visited our developers at the Hackathon and gives
1.523 ian 231: a brief but colorful summary of most of the team members:
1.520 ian 232: why they chose OpenBSD, how they got involved, what they do, and
233: their plans for the week.
234: <p>
235:
236: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.523 ian 237: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/05/22/OpenBSD-on-Flash.html">
238: Installing OpenBSD on Flash</a>,
239: Ping Wales, May 22, 2006
240: </strong></font><br>
241: David Chisnall shows how to set up an OpenBSD boot image for
242: Soekris or PC Engines machines that boot from flash memory.
243: <p>
244:
245: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.520 ian 246: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/eur/article.php/3603961">
247: Enterprise Unix Roundup: Whither BSD?</a>, ServerWatch, May 5, 2006
248: </strong></font><br>
249: Amy Newman and Brian Proffitt state that the BSDs are often overlooked
250: because of their limited commercial acceptance.
251: The authors call this an unfortunate oversight, because recent releases of
252: the freely available BSD flavors show significant technical improvements.
1.523 ian 253: As an example, they specifically refer to OpenBSD's sensor framework
1.520 ian 254: (introduced with 3.9).
255: Newman and Proffitt also accuse big vendors of picking the nice parts from
256: the BSDs' code and giving nothing back to the community in return.
257: <p>
258:
259: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.518 ian 260: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/35/1/">
261: OpenBSD 3.9 Review</a>, Software In Review, May 3, 2006
262: </strong></font><br>
263: Jem Matzan takes the 3.9 release out for a spin, and likes it.
264: Noting that each release consists of a lot of small changes
265: and some major improvements - and mentioning hardware support, sensors,
266: and "blob removal" - he clearly thinks the project is doing a lot of things right.
267: "Everything you get in the release is production-ready, secure by
268: default... and comes with possibly the finest integrated documentation
269: in the Unix-clone world. While you might find a poorly programmed
270: driver or other base system component in other BSDs and GNU/Linux
271: distributions, in OpenBSD if something is supported, it works."
272: <p>
273:
274: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
275: [GERMAN]
276: <a href="http://www.linux-magazin.de/Artikel/ausgabe/2006/06/news_zut/news_zut.html">
277: Mozilla greift OpenBSD unter die Arme</a>, Linux Magazin, Issue 06/06, May 2006, p. 18
278: </strong></font><br>
279: The German <a href="http://www.linux-magazin.de/">Linux Magazin</a> has a short
280: article about OpenBSD's financial situation and Marco Peerebroom's
1.535 steven 281: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060321034114">call for donations</a>
1.518 ian 282: on undeadly.org. The article further mentions how OpenSSH development
283: is connected to OpenBSD.
284: <p>
285:
1.514 ian 286: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
287: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6550">
288: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, KernelTrap, May 2, 2006
289: </strong></font><br>
290: Jeremy Andrews conducts a free-ranging interview, focused mainly on 3.9 and drivers,
291: that gives Theo a chance to explain how the big North American chip vendors'
292: business practices make it harder for open source projects,
1.515 ian 293: talk about "binary blobs" vs firmware in drivers, and more.
1.514 ian 294: There's also coverage of where the project is going up to and after 3.9 and where
1.516 steven 295: it might (or might not) go in the future, why doing things right (and
1.514 ian 296: running this project) is so important to Theo,
297: and even why he does mountain biking!
298: <p>
299:
300: </ul>
301:
1.503 ian 302: <h2>April, 2006</h2>
303: <ul>
304: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.532 ray 305: <a href="http://www.dribin.org/dave/blog/archives/2006/04/28/os_x_passwords_2/">
306: Mac OS X Password Implementation Compared to OpenBSD's</a>, April 28, 2006
307: </strong></font><br>
308: Dave Dribin analyzes Mac OS X's password implementation
309: and compares it with OpenBSD's:
310: "The king of the hill has to go to OpenBSD,
311: which uses a hash based on the Blowfish block cipher called bcrypt.
312: The benefit of [bcrypt] is best stated on their website:
313: <blockquote>
314: The most important property of bcrypt (and thus crypt_blowfish)
315: is that it is adaptable to future processor performance improvements,
316: allowing you to arbitrarily increase the processing cost of checking a
317: password while still maintaining compatibility with your older password hashes.
318: Already now bcrypt hashes you would use are several orders of magnitude
319: stronger than traditional Unix DES-based or FreeBSD-style MD5-based hashes.
320: </blockquote>
321: This is just plain cool."
322: <p>
323:
324: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.512 ian 325: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6557">
326: OpenBSD 3.9: Blob-Busters Interviewed</a>, OnLAMP, April 27, 2006
327: </strong></font><br>
328: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several of the developers on improvements
329: in 3.9: the continuing absence of "blob drivers", IPMI and sensors, apmd performance
330: adjustment, Macs, rthreads, multicast, trunk, hostapd, and more.
1.513 saad 331: jsg clarifies the issue of "binary blob" drivers vs "firmware", and
1.512 ian 332: discusses the NVIDIA nForce Ethernet driver he did after NVIDIA did refuse
333: to give out documentation; they can't stop us, but they can slow us down.
334: The result: "There aren't any drivers in OpenBSD with binary-only components;
335: this is quite a contrast to pretty much everyone else out there."
336: marco comments on the IPMI work in 3.9, and adds:
337: "IPMI is a standard, but there are vendors out there
1.513 saad 338: that have reading comprehension issues...".
1.512 ian 339: A long list of other developers explain their contributions
340: and other changes that make 3.9 one of our best releases yet.
341: <p>
342:
343: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.517 mbalmer 344: [GERMAN]
345: <a href="http://www.guug.de/uptimes/index.html">
346: Stop BLOB!</a>, UpTimes, April 25, 2006
347: </strong></font><br>
348: Wilhelm Bühler gives an overview in a short article about Blobs, what they
349: are and why they are bad.
350: <p>
351:
352: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.508 ian 353: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/34/1/">
354: Using OpenBSD</a>, Software In Review, April 24, 2006
355: </strong></font><br>
356: Jem Matzan gives a brief overview of using the system.
357: Covers ports and packages, use of SMP kernel, and more.
358: Capsule summary of how our security policy affects the administrator:
359: "Because it is secure by default, you may have to do more initial
360: configuration with OpenBSD than with most other Unix and Unix-like
361: operating systems, but you'll spend a lot less time securing it --
362: maybe no time at all, if you follow the instructions in the manual
363: pages."
364: <p>
365:
366: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.519 ian 367: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/16/1749215.shtml?tid=8">
368: Using OpenBSD on the desktop</a>, NewsForge, April 21, 2006
369: </strong></font><br>
370: Considers the use of OpenBSD as a desktop operating system,
371: starting with "Secure by default" - who wants to have their desktop hacked? -
372: and continues:
373: "OpenBSD's clean code and design also provide rock-solid stability.
374: I used to have lots of problems and crashes with new versions of
375: Linux (kernel 2.6.x) and FreeBSD (versions 5.x and 6.x). The main
376: focus of OpenBSD developers is to provide programs that work ...
377: [they] prefer to improve their code rather than just
378: add more new features and end up with a bloated and unstable product."
379: Covers X, ports/packages, window managers, what is and is not supported,
380: and more. Final thought:
381: "OpenBSD's clean design and remarkable stability, along with its
382: proactive security, not only make OpenBSD a potential candidate for
383: home desktop users but also every system administrator's dream come
384: true for business environments."
385: <p>
386:
387: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.511 djm 388: [FRENCH]
1.509 djm 389: <a href="http://developpeur.journaldunet.com/itws/060419-itw-openssh-openbsd-miller.shtml">
1.511 djm 390: JDN Développeurs interviews Damien Miller</a>,
1.509 djm 391: JDN Développeurs, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
392: Interview with Damien Miller, discussing OpenSSH security, the OpenBSD
393: development approach, the problem of blobby drivers and the recent request
1.510 djm 394: for funding.
1.509 djm 395: <p>
396:
397: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.507 cloder 398: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6497">
399: Interview with developers Jonathan Gray and Damien Bergamini</a>,
400: Kerneltrap, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
401: An interview with the authors of OpenBSD's new NVIDIA Ethernet driver. OpenBSD's
402: policy forbidding binary driver blobs is discussed, and the developers give a good
403: overview of how they went about implementing the new driver.
404: <p>
405:
406: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.528 ian 407: <a href="http://www.thehostingnews.com/article2217.html">GoDaddy.com
408: Donates $10K to Open Source Development Project</a>,
409: The Hosting News, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
410: GoDaddy.com, which claims to be "the Number One registrar of domain
411: names worldwide", recently donated $10,000 to the OpenSSH project
412: because, "according to the company, OpenSSH has become a staple
413: of all free Unix and Linux operating systems in the world."
414: They use it, and their customers use it, and they recognize the
415: value of supporting an open source projects that is, as company
416: CEO Bob Parsons says, "integral to online security".
417: <br/>
1.529 ian 418: Similar articles at
1.528 ian 419: <a href="http://www.hostsearch.com/news/the_go_daddy_group_news_4366.asp">
1.529 ian 420: hostsearch.com</a> and
421: <a href="http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20060419090443506">
422: LinuxElectrons.com</a>
1.528 ian 423: <p>
424:
425: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.506 aanriot 426: [FRENCH] Principles and usage of OpenSSH,
427: <a href="http://www.gnulinuxmag.com/">Linux Magazine France</a>,
428: issue 82, April 2006, p. 28-33
429: </strong></font><br>
1.533 ray 430: A 6 page article from Alexandre Courbot focuses on OpenSSH and its
1.507 cloder 431: basics. It begins with an history of the different implementations, and
1.506 aanriot 432: is punctuated with examples.
433: Tunneling features are described, as well as
1.535 steven 434: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp</a>,
435: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent&sektion=1">ssh-agent</a>,
1.506 aanriot 436: and
1.535 steven 437: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp</a>.
1.506 aanriot 438: <p>
439:
440: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.503 ian 441: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71658">
442: Mozilla Foundation spendet für OpenBSD</a>, heise online, April 4, 2006
443: </strong></font><br>
444: Short article mentioning the donation the Mozilla Foundation made in support of
445: further OpenSSH development.
446: The article emphasizes the opportunity to wire money through the project's
447: new European account - this one donation will not meet the
448: project's funding needs for all time.
449: <p>
1.504 bernd 450: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
451: [GERMAN] "OpenBSD mit finanziellen Problemen", c't 8/06, p. 45.,
452: April 3, 2006
453: </strong></font><br>
454: A very short article about OpenBSD's financial problems. They mention that
455: this could compromise future hackathons.
456: <p>
1.503 ian 457:
458: </ul>
459:
1.487 ian 460: <h2>March, 2006</h2>
461: <ul>
1.495 ian 462: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.500 ian 463: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/theo_interview.html">
1.501 ian 464: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>, DaemonNews, March, 2006
1.500 ian 465: </strong></font><br>
466: Chris Silva conducts a lightweight but wide-ranging and fun interview with Theo
467: on topics including "Puffy",
468: the logos used by certain other BSD projects -
469: Theo quips that "I really like how they make absolutely no statement at all" -
470: what's new in 3.9,
471: and of course project expenses.
472: Theo notes that "The electric bill is about $100 USD per week".
473: <!--
474: ... must be what comes from heating your house with VAXen.
475: -->
476: The interviewer nicely ends with a link to our donations page.
477: <p>
478:
479: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 480: <a href="http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/239/1/">
481: Linux supporters fiddle while OpenSSH burns</a>, The Jem Report, March 28, 2006
482: </strong></font><br>
1.499 ian 483: This write-up focusses on OpenBSD/OpenSSH funding, and has some
484: original legwork to go with it.
1.498 ian 485: Writer Jem Matzan took the trouble to
486: contact many of the companies who charge a lot for products
487: featuring OpenSSH and yet give nothing to OpenSSH in return.
488: Companies like SCO, IBM, Apple, and Sun.
489: Sun apparently did the worst job of responding:
490: "Since the release of Solaris 10, who has been a larger open source
491: software cheerleader than Sun Microsystems?", Matzan asks. "I asked Sun
492: representatives what they would do if OpenSSH were to disappear. The only response
493: I got was that there are parts of Solaris that compete with OpenSSH,
494: and that because of this, the company would rather not comment
495: further on the issue." What the Sun teleprompter-readers don't seem to realize -
496: but Matzan does - is that
497: <a href="http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/cmd/ssh/ssh/ssh.c">
498: SunSSH <em>is</em> OpenSSH</a>.
499: Or, at least, a mangled version of it...
500: IBM, on the other hand, is still trying to formulate their response.
501: <br/>
502: <p>
503:
504: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
505: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/20/2050223.shtml?tid=8">
506: Interview: Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD</a>, NewsForge, March 28, 2006
507: </strong></font><br>
508: A wide-ranging interview with Theo about new stuff in 3.9, security, funding,
509: "blob" drivers, and more.
510: Theo notes that "We've had 10 years of nearly fanatical devotion
511: to anything which can make OpenBSD more secure. A very important
512: part of that is that we have not been afraid to completely overhaul
513: anything even if it breaks backward compatibility. Secondly, when
514: we have found a flaw in any part of the system we have assumed that
515: the same mistake was made elsewhere, and gone on a hunt to fix them
516: all. Thirdly, we have developed and incorporated a collection of
517: methods that make software flaws very difficult to attack..."
518: Ends by trying to shame the companies that use OpenSSH without contributing
519: anything back - Sun is given especial mention here - and ends with
520: the tantalizing line ".. if an OpenSSH hole is found that applies to SunSSH,
521: Sun will not be informed. Or maybe that has happened already." Hmmmm.
522: <p>
523:
524: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 525: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259254,00.htm">
526: OpenBSD 3.9 adds sensor framework</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
527: </strong></font><br>
528: It's easy to focus on our project's security, but we innovate in other areas too.
529: This article highlights the "sensors" framework added in 3.9 to provide and integrated
530: approach to handling Dell PowerEdge servers' Embedded Server Management (ESM), IPMI, and
531: in general temperature and environmental issues.
532: "There is a significant new sensor framework [in OpenBSD 3.9], which
533: supports voltage sensors, fan sensors, temperature sensors, and so
534: on," said de Raadt. "Such a feature is still missing in Linux and
535: other major operating systems." ...
536: De Raadt has already been using the sensor framework to monitor the
537: machines running in
538: <a href="images/newrack.jpg">the project's server room</a>. "I now get a call
539: on my cell phone whenever something is wrong in the machine room,"
540: <p>
541:
542: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
543: <a href="http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/other/0,39020682,39259281,00.htm">
544: Paying for free software may be the bargain of a lifetime</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
545: </strong></font><br>
546: Starts with a Theo quote from the previous article on ZDNet:
547: "A culture of entitlement is starting to damage the open source community".
548: The article argues that mega-computer-companies that use open source tend to use BSD:
549: "The open BSDs may be less famous than Linux, but they are arguably
550: superior in stability and security. This has made it popular in
551: ISPs and elsewhere - Apple, for example, adopted BSD within OS X.
552: BSD, unlike software released under the GPL, carrys no legal
553: obligations for the adopter to provide anything for the community in return."
554: Goes on to argue that these companies <em>ought</em> to be fair enough
555: to send a small bit of their money back into funding open source.
556: "In the time it takes to read this article, we calculate that Apple
557: will have easily made enough to pay-off OpenBSD's annual losses,
558: with a little left over to buy black turtlenecks for all. It's not
559: just Apple's baby - other companies owe far more to OpenBSD - but
560: in open source a little symbolism goes a long way."
561: <p>
562:
1.487 ian 563: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.494 bernd 564: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71174">
565: OpenBSD muss an den Sparstrumpf</a>, heise online, March 23, 2006
566: </strong></font><br>
1.495 ian 567: OpenBSD is touching its savings - Small news article about the project's
1.494 bernd 568: financial situation.
569: <p>
570:
571: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 572: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259042,00.htm">
573: OpenBSD Founder Makes Funding Plea</a>, ZDNet UK, March 23, 2006
574: </strong></font><br>
575: One of the first mainstream sites to pick up on Marco's article (below),
576: this one reports the funding figures on how much it really costs to
577: produce our favorite operating system.
578: "Although OpenBSD has a number of commercial users, including many
579: ISPs, de Raadt claimed that all of its donations come from individuals
580: rather than companies many of who claim the have no budget to pay
581: for the operating system. "The culture of entitlement is starting
582: to damage the open source community," he said."
1.496 ian 583: <br/>
584: Also online at
585: <a href="http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/software/stories/135760.html">ZDNet India</a>.
586: <p>
587:
588: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
589: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/03/22/OpenBSD-money.html">
590: OpenBSD in Financial Trouble</a>, Ping Wales, March 21, 2006
591: </strong></font><br>
592: David Chisnall reports that "OpenBSD is one of my favourite platforms;
593: its focus on security and ease-of-use makes it a very simple and
594: safe system to use. Unfortunately, the OpenBSD organisation is now
595: experiencing financial difficulty. For the last two years, the
596: project has made a $20,000/year loss, something which it cannot
597: sustain indefinitely."
598: Goes on to report on the growing use of OpenBSD in commercial software
599: (and hardware!), and that none of the "big guys" has given anything back.
600: Unlike most of the articles on this topic, this one is kind enough to
601: include a direct link to our orders page and recommend its readers
602: to buy a copy of the CD to help fund the project.
1.495 ian 603: <p>
604:
605: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 606: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/06/03/21/1555243.shtml">
607: OpenBSD Project in Financial Danger</a>, Slashdot, March 21, 2006
608: </strong></font><br>
609: Slashdot mentions and quotes from Marco's article (below),
610: with a reminder that
611: "The OpenBSD team is the one that also develops the OpenSSH suite,
612: used nowadays almost everywhere."
613: Ends with this quote from Marco:
614: "Without naming entities or projects by name, there are others out
615: there that are sitting on some cash. It would be wonderful if these
616: entities could share some of the wealth to keep us going."
617: <p>
618:
619: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.505 grunk 620: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060321034114">
1.495 ian 621: OpenBSD Finances</a>, OpenBSD Journal, March 21, 2006
622: </strong></font><br>
623: Marco Peereboom's article notes that
624: "OpenBSD for the past 2 years has turned a loss of approximately $20K USD" per year.
625: Hackathons - where a lot of developers get together in critical mass and churn out
626: new ideas and new code in great quantity - cost from US$10K-30K each, and we try to run
627: a few of them each year.
628: Meanwhile, compananies that use OpenBSD and companies - many of them highly profitable -
629: that incorporate OpenSSH into operating systems and even routers and other appliances
630: have not been forthcoming: no major computer company has given funding
631: to the OpenBSD project.
632: It's time for them to do so.
633: <p>
634:
635: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.497 ian 636: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/08/1646257.shtml?tid=8">
637: Software RAID on OpenBSD using RAIDframe</a>, NewsForge, March 14, 2006
638: </strong></font><br>
639: "Software RAID provides an easy way to add redundancy or speed up a system
640: without spending lots of money on a RAID adapter."
641: Manolis Tzanidakis talks us through setting up RAID using OpenBSD.
642: He describes the detailed steps, and recommends careful testing
643: before putting the system into production, including taking one disk
644: out of service and ensuring that it gets reloaded correctly.
645: Ends with a technique for monitoring clean operation on an ongoing basis.
646: <p>
647:
648: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.489 deraadt 649: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">Report on Business Television</a>
650: March 10, 5:45pm MST</strong></font><br>
1.490 deraadt 651: Theo de Raadt was interviewed by Howard Green on <b>The Business Show</b>:<br>
652: <!-- North America mirror:
653: <a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB avi file</a>
1.491 deraadt 654: -->
1.490 deraadt 655: European mirror:
656: <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/20060310/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB AVI file</a>
657: <br>
658: A longer segment is also available at <a href="http://www.robtv.ca">www.robtv.ca</a>.
1.489 deraadt 659: <p>
660:
661: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.487 ian 662: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/openbgpd.html">OpenBGPd in OpenBSD</a>
663: Daemon News, March, 2006</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 664: Check out the notes and slides from Henning Brauer's presentation at
1.487 ian 665: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0602/">NANOG 36</a>;
666: the text and questions cover everything from how and why OpenBGPd got created,
667: through configuration and tools, to integration with pf and CARP,
668: to technical issues regarding use of IPSEC to provide security for BGP packets.
669: Along the way there's considerable discussion on how the program was
670: designed to provide reliability and security.
671: <p>
672:
673: </ul>
674:
1.485 ian 675: <h2>February, 2006</h2>
676: <ul>
677: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.486 ian 678: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1859">Zero to IPSec in 4 minutes</a>
679: Security Focus, February 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
680: This article, as its lead-in says,
1.497 ian 681: "looks at how to get a fully functional IPSec VPN up and running between two fresh OpenBSD
1.486 ian 682: installations in about four minutes flat".
683: If you've shied away from setting up an IPSEC VPN because of config file complexity,
684: now is the time to reconsider.
1.497 ian 685: Dragos Ruiu shows you how the ipsecctl command (introduced to the world in OpenBSD 3.8)
1.486 ian 686: makes it really easy to set up a VPN between consenting OpenBSD machines.
687: He states that he and a colleague were able to get two machines talking over IPSEC
688: in a few minutes, and only changing a few configuration files.
689: He also comments on the relative ease of installing our favorite OS, and hopes
690: that our ipsecctl will be adopted by the other BSDs (hopefully in a compatible way)
691: to make firewall setups easier all around the network.
692: But you don't need to wait for that if you're running OpenBSD 3.8; just follow
693: the steps in the article.
694: <p>
695:
696: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.485 ian 697: <a href="http://www.networkmagazineindia.com/200602/vendorvoice02.shtml">The Worm in the Machine</a>
698: Network Magazine India, February 2006</strong></font><br>
699: Dilip Ranade elaborates on several reasons why software is drearily buggy and endlessly insecure,
700: particularly in comparison with other technologies.
701: Imagines how very bad shape the automotive industry would be in if you had to sign the
702: same disclaimer of (non-)usability that almost every commercial EULA requires of computer users.
703: Ends with "I once dreamt that all the computer users in the world
704: arose in revolt and switched to hardened OpenBSD", though he admits that there's "fat chance" of it
705: happening in real life.
706: <p>
707:
708: </ul>
709:
1.492 ian 710: <h2>January, 2006</h2>
711: <ul>
712: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
713: <a href="http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2006/01/28.html">Kevin Mitnick on
714: Coast to Coast AM Radio Show with Art Bell</a>, Jan 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
715: Art Bell interviewed Kevin Mitnick on his call-in show;
716: Paul Zacharzewski from Edmonton called to ask Mitnick for his opinion of OpenBSD.
717: If you don't want to download the whole show from coasttocoastam.com,
718: you can listen to an
1.497 ian 719: <a href="http://unworkable.org/misc/mitnick.mp3">MP3 excerpt of this call</a>
1.492 ian 720: in which Mitnick says: "Well, I actually use OpenBSD, so I do like it".
721: </ul>
722:
1.483 ian 723: <h2>December, 2005</h2>
724: <ul>
725: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.484 djm 726: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/375/1">OpenSSH cutting edge</a>
727: SecurityFocus, December 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
728: Federico Biancuzzi interviews OpenSSH developer Damien Miller to discuss
729: features included in the upcoming version 4.3, public key crypto
730: protocols details, timing based attacks and anti-worm measures.
731: <p>
732:
733: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 734: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/11/21/175249.shtml?tid=92&tid=78">Creating
1.483 ian 735: Secure Wireless Access Points with OpenBSD and OpenVPN</a>
736: NewsForge, December 13, 2005</strong></font><br>
737: A cookbook approach to setting up a wireless interface as a secure Access Point
738: using OpenBSD's hostap, pf, and authpf.
739: Configuration examples are given with basic explanations and links
740: to sites with more information on most topics.
741: <p>
742:
743: </ul>
744:
745:
1.479 grunk 746: <h2>November, 2005</h2>
747: <ul>
748: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 749: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20051116145737">OpenBSD
1.482 ian 750: Goes to Venice</a>,
751: OpenBSD Journal, November 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 752: "What happens when you put a dozen developers on a little island with their
1.482 ian 753: laptops, power, and an internet connection?
754: <br/>
755: During the first week of November some OpenBSD developers met in a
756: little island in Venice's lagoon to hack on the ports system.
757: This was probably the first ports hackathon and was followed by
1.497 ian 758: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON</a>, a European conference
1.482 ian 759: fully dedicated to OpenBSD..."
760: Great coverage of the OpenBSD Porting Hackathon: people, ports, beer, ...
761: Contains a link to
762: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ven05-pvalchev/mgp00008.html">
763: pval's summary slides</a>.
764: <p>
765:
766: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.481 niallo 767: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1710223">
768: Trying out the new OpenBSD 3.8</a>,
769: NewsForge, November 11, 2005</strong></font><br>
770: This article describes the installation of OpenBSD 3.8 from a Linux user's
771: perspective, noting the simple elegance of the installer.
772: Although the installation process may be hard to get used to at first for
773: the average Linux user, the author tells us that one can learn a lot from
774: it. Furthermore, the article clears up the common misconception that working
1.497 ian 775: on an OpenBSD system is very different from working on a Linux system.
1.481 niallo 776: In particular, the author states that on OpenBSD, <i>"virtually the entire
777: catalog of familiar free and open source software titles is available through
778: the packages and ports system"</i>.
779: <p>
780:
781: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
782: <a href="http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3561526">
783: Return of The BSDs</a>,
784: internetnews.com, November 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
785: This article mentions that with all three major BSD flavors having had
786: a release this fall, BSD is <i>"still very much alive and kicking among
787: all the noise and buzz created by Linux"</i>. The author talks about
788: various new or improved features of 3.8, such as bioctl(8), hostapd(8),
789: network interface aggregation and sasyncd(8), and there are some
790: quotes from Bob Beck.
791: <p>
792:
793: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.479 grunk 794: <a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/051101/152/fvrlx.html">
795: OpenBSD 3.8 improves hardware support</a>,
796: ZDNet UK, November 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.480 ian 797: This article reports on OpenBSD 3.8, which was released on November 1.
798: The author gives an overview of the improvements and new
1.479 grunk 799: features that were made with 3.8, and quotes Theo on RAID management
800: and Linux.<br>
801: The 3.8 release hit the news also in some other places:
802: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1258232">Slashdot</a>
803: and <a href="http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=12482">OSNews</a>
804: also report about it, mostly repeating parts
805: of the release
806: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/ANNOUNCEMENT">ANNOUNCEMENT</a>.
807: <p>
808: </ul>
809:
1.476 ian 810: <h2>October, 2005</h2>
811: <ul>
812:
813: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
814: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1375194866;fp;16;fpid;0">
815: 'Nightmare' drove desperate user to open source</a>,
816: Computerworld, October 24, 2005</strong></font><br>
817: A great tale of how Mark Uemura of PricewaterhouseCoopers Japan
818: was forced to move to OpenBSD because the alternatives were too costly
819: and too unreliable.
820: This quote will rattle some cages:
821: "IT managers who want to deploy an open source solution but are
822: worried about company politics should go ahead and do it without
823: asking," according to Uemura, who was promoted to IT Manager of PWC Japan
824: after saving the company seven IT-samurais' salaries.
825: Further, "In Japan large organizations like Morgan Stanley and the
826: Bank of America have moved all their backend systems to open source,
827: Uemura said, because with open source you can reduce IT operating
828: costs without any commercial lock-in."
829: <p>
830:
1.477 saad 831: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
832: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6270">
833: OpenBSD 3.8: Hackers of the Lost RAID</a>,
834: ONLamp.com, October 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
835: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
836: new features in OpenBSD 3.8 including interface trunking,
837: internationalization support, Inter-Access Point Protocol (IAPP),
838: IPSec SA synchronization daemon, and RAID management. There is also some
839: discussion about future plans.
840: <p>
841:
1.478 grunk 842: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
843: <a href="http://securityfocus.com/columnists/361">
844: OpenBSD's network stack</a>,
845: SecurityFocus, October 12, 2005</strong></font><br>
846: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about OpenBSD's
847: network stack, including protection against ICMP attacks, and propagation
848: of enhancements into other BSDs and into Linux.
849: The interview also features the other protection mechanisms in the network
850: stack, a comparison to the network stack in Linux, and the history and
851: current status of <a href="http://www.openbgpd.org/">OpenBGPD</a>.
852: <p>
853:
1.476 ian 854: </ul>
855:
1.470 saad 856: <h2>September, 2005</h2>
857: <ul>
858:
859: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.474 niallo 860: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/359">
861: Security-related innovation in Unix</a>,
862: SecurityFocus, Sept. 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
863: An article examining the mmap-based malloc() implementation to be
864: included in OpenBSD 3.8. The author states that <i>"it will help OpenBSD
865: users to find bugs in software more easily, which will result in better
866: applications for everyone"</i>. He goes on to say that <i>"the more hurdles
867: that one has to jump through for good security, the less likely people will
868: go through the trouble. OpenBSD allows even the most inexperienced users to
869: take advantage of these technologies without any effort"</i>.
870: <p>
871:
872: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.473 aanriot 873: <a href="http://www.miscmag.com/articles/index.php3?page=2100">
874: [FRENCH] Champ libre : les chantiers OpenBSD</a>
875: Misc, number 21, Sept/Oct, 2005, p. 4-14</strong></font><br>
876: An interesting article about OpenBSD and associated projects. Saad Kadhi
877: and Guillaume Arcas describe useful things you can do with PF and
878: OpenSSH, and give a nice introduction to OpenNTPD and OpenCVS. If the
879: article is focused on the presentation, you can find some interesting
880: technical aspects people are not always acquainted to. A few examples
881: are shown, like a basic CARP setup, or the manner to use multiplexing
882: with OpenSSH and even how to check an OpenSSH server's keys using DNS.
883: <p>
884:
885: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 886: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/news/11306">
887: Big debate over small packets</a>,
888: SecurityFocus, Sept. 7, 2005</strong></font><br>
889: Robert Lemos discusses the ICMP denial-of-service vulnerabilities found
890: by Fernando Gont and fixed in OpenBSD. To date, OpenBSD is the only
891: system that has implemented all of the fixes recommended in the IETF
892: draft.
893: <p>
894:
895: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.471 saad 896: <a href="http://www.pcexpert.fr/">
897: [FRENCH] "Quel est le meilleur système libre pour votre
898: ordinateur ?"</a>,
899: PC Expert, number 156, p. 42-62</strong></font><br>
900: Philippe Roure compares 11 Linux and *BSD operating systems, including
901: OpenBSD 3.7, on different criteria such as security, documentation and
902: usability. OpenBSD earned a 5/5 mark (see pages 60-61) and while a mark
903: isn't necessarily objective, the author seems to grasp the OpenBSD
904: project, its goals, and how good is the operating system. The article
905: includes an interview with Saad Kadhi.
906: <p>
907:
908: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.470 saad 909: <a href="http://www.samag.com/articles/2005/0509/">
910: Monitoring PF Firewalls for Health and Performance</a>,
911: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 9, p. 37</strong></font><br>
912: Ryan Matteson describes several utilities that can be used to monitor the
913: health and performance of a PF firewall. Besides pfctl, the article
914: covers pftop, fwanalog, monitoring logs with tcpdump and graphing
915: performance data with pfstat.
916: <p>
917:
918: </ul>
919:
1.461 grunk 920: <h2>July, 2005</h2>
921: <ul>
922:
923: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.466 deraadt 924: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5382">
925: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part III</a>,
1.467 grunk 926: Kerneltrap, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.466 deraadt 927: Jeremy Andrews writes about the recent Blind ICMP attacks discovered
928: by Fernando Gont, and the fixes done by him and OpenBSD during the
929: 2005 Hackathon.
1.469 ian 930: The article goes into the technical background of the
1.467 grunk 931: attacks, mentioning blind ICMP attacks, "hard" ICMP errors, source
1.469 ian 932: quenching, and path MTU discovery;
933: many helpful RFCs and technical papers are linked from the explanations.
934: This is followed by a recap of the whole ICMP story, involving Gont's
1.467 grunk 935: struggle with other free projects, Cisco lawyers, Microsoft people,
936: and others.<br>
1.469 ian 937: The article concludes that OpenBSD was the first project
1.467 grunk 938: to take Fernando Gont's findings seriously, and also the first group to
939: be really painless to work with.
1.466 deraadt 940: <p>
941:
942: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.464 grunk 943: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/06/security_blame/">
944: Security meltdown: who's to blame?</a>,
1.466 deraadt 945: The Register, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.464 grunk 946: This article talks about various groups that are frequently blamed for
947: poor security:
1.467 grunk 948: individuals, ISPs, companies, crackers, security mailing lists,
1.464 grunk 949: and last but not least: OS vendors!
1.467 grunk 950: In the last paragraph, OpenBSD's style of <i>"dumbed-down, simplified
1.464 grunk 951: and secure systems (with a heavily audited code base)"</i> is described
952: as <i>"one of the smartest approaches to security"</i>.
953: <p>
954:
955: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.461 grunk 956: <a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-7-5/30084.html">
957: Theo de Raadt on Industry and Free Software</a>,
1.466 deraadt 958: The Epoch Times, July 5, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.463 tom 959: In this interview, Theo talks about the inception of the OpenBSD project
960: and its goals, as well as its impact on the commercial IT industry.
1.461 grunk 961: He points out once more that <i>"vendors who incorporate OpenSSH have
962: given us absolutely nothing back - not a cent"</i>.
963: Other topics covered include the OpenBSD team, Theo's role as
964: <i>"benevolent dictator"</i>, and the security process, which he compares
965: to the security efforts led by other free software projects and some
966: commercial vendors.
967: <p>
968:
969: </ul>
970:
1.454 ian 971: <h2>June, 2005</h2>
972: <ul>
1.468 grunk 973:
974: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
975: <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/ns-ttc062205.php">
976: The true cost of computer crime</a>,
977: EurekAlert / <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/">New Scientist Magazine</a>,
978: issue June 25, 2005</strong></font><br>
979: This article looks at computer crime, especially the way upcoming
980: vulnerability reports are dealt with. It also gives a short overview of the
1.469 ian 981: institutions involved in the process (vendors, free projects, CERTs).
1.468 grunk 982: <br>
983: The author mentions the work of Andy Ozment, who researches vulnerability
984: disclosure at the University of Cambridge. Using OpenBSD as a good example
985: of how disclosure and consequent fixing of bugs helps to strengthen security,
986: he refutes the widely spread FUD that disclosing vulnerabilities leads to
987: more harm than good. Ozment's methodology was to examine OpenBSD's CVS logs
1.469 ian 988: and note when fixes were published; his research shows that
1.468 grunk 989: <i>"the number of vulnerabilities decreases as a result of disclosure"</i>.
990: <p>
991:
1.454 ian 992: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.458 niallo 993: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0704/071.html">
994: Free Bird</a>,
995: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
996: <b>(Registration required)</b> A second Forbes article about OpenBSD, more
997: focused on the project itself this time. It contains good description of the
998: history of OpenBSD along with its prime motivations. Mention is made of the
999: DARPA grant and the annual hackathon. Theo's motto "shut up and hack" finally
1000: becomes famous in this piece and there are some other very insightful quotes
1001: such as "All I care about is making high-quality code. If I had to work at a
1002: regular job, it would drive me nuts". This is certainly an astute and perceptive
1003: article, well worth reading. Do note that the big picture of Theo's machine
1004: room will only be available in the print edition.
1005: <p>
1.459 deraadt 1006:
1.458 niallo 1007: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.456 niallo 1008: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html">
1009: Is Linux For Losers?</a>,
1010: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1011: An interesting article, if somewhat polemic in tone, which raises questions
1012: about the quality of Linux code compared to OpenBSD. There is also some short
1013: discussion of the OpenBSD development model and focus (push for quality above
1014: everything else) including good quotes from Theo. It seems that the need for
1015: high quality software is beginning to be recognised by the mainstream.
1016: <p>
1.457 deraadt 1017:
1.456 niallo 1018: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1019: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/06/09/2132233.shtml?tid=152&tid=8&tid=2">
1.455 ian 1020: BSD cognoscenti on Linux</a>,
1021: NewsForge, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1022: NewsForge talks with Theo de Raadt and NetBSD's Christos Zoulas about the
1023: similarities and differences between the Linux kernel and the BSD
1024: operating systems. The questions asked were similar to those asked
1025: of Linus Torvalds in a <a
1.462 grunk 1026: href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/09/2128249&tid=2">previous
1.455 ian 1027: interview.</a>
1028: <p>
1029:
1030: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.454 ian 1031: <a href="http://www.tuxjournal.net/intervista3-en.html">
1032: A good morning with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1033: Tux Journal, June 2, 2005</strong></font><br>
1034: Brief but wide-ranging interview with Theo in which our leader
1035: opines about the good things in 3.7: "The list of new developments
1036: is impressive, but in my view not nearly as impressive as the small
1037: little details that continue to be fixed during each development
1038: cycle." And modestly credits all the developers for the project's
1039: continuing success, attributing it to "The passion of the developers,
1040: and the wide experience they bring into their development efforts.
1041: By amazing coincidence, our users typically have the same needs as we do."
1042: Manages to sidestep getting drawn into comparisons with Linux, e.g.,
1043: when asked if he likes it/why/why not, deftly replies
1044: "I have never used it."
1045: <p>
1046:
1047: </ul>
1048:
1.441 deraadt 1049: <h2>May, 2005</h2>
1050: <ul>
1051: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 1052: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5190">
1053: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part II</a>,
1054: Kerneltrap, May 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1055: In the second installment of Kerneltrap's Hackathon 2005 feature, Jeremy
1056: Andrews speaks with the pf developers at length about their plans for
1057: future enhancements.
1058: <p>
1059:
1060: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.450 deraadt 1061: <a href="http://www.ctv.ca">
1.448 deraadt 1062: TV coverage: OpenBSD hackathon</a>,
1063: CTV/CFCN, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1064: A TV spot done a Canadian national TV station about the Calgary
1065: hackathon this year, with 60 developers.<br>
1066: North America mirror:
1067: <ul>
1.452 marco 1068: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.449 jcs 1069: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a><br>
1070: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a>
1.448 deraadt 1071: </ul>
1072: European mirror:
1073: <ul>
1.452 marco 1074: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.448 deraadt 1075: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a>
1076: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a><br>
1077: </ul>
1078: <p>
1079:
1080: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 1081: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5186">
1082: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part I</a>,
1083: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1084: Jeremy Andrews of KernelTrap does a good job of describing what it's like
1085: to be at the Hackathon in Part I of KernelTrap's Hackathon feature. Several
1086: developers are interviewed in detail about what they are working on.
1087: <p>
1088:
1089: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 1090: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5184">
1091: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005: Day 6?</a>,
1092: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1093: Kjell Wooding describes a typical day at the Hackathon in this entertaining
1094: first-hand account.
1095: <p>
1096:
1097: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.447 cloder 1098: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/05/20/1426216.shtml?tid=8">
1099: Review: OpenBSD 3.7</a>,
1100: NewsForge.com, May 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
1101: "OpenBSD is not only highly polished and easy to
1102: configure because of its documentation, it's also totally free-as-in-rights.
1103: With an obsession with security, freedom of source code, and quality of
1104: programming technique, OpenBSD 3.7 continues the legacy established by
1105: its previous releases," writes Jem Matzan in this nice, small review.
1106: <p>
1107:
1108: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.446 cloder 1109: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/05/19/openbsd_3_7.html">
1110: OpenBSD 3.7: The Wizard of OS</a>,
1111: ONLamp.com, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
1112: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
1113: new features in OpenBSD 3.7, including new wireless chipsets, new
1114: spam-fighting features, zaurus, pf improvements, propolice, and
1115: many other things. A good overview of what's new in this release,
1116: plus some interesting comments about future direction.
1117: <p>
1118:
1119: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.444 niallo 1120: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/software/openbsd-3.7-released.html">
1.445 niallo 1121: Next incarnation of OpenBSD released</a>,
1.444 niallo 1122: Ping Wales, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
1123: "OpenBSD is often unjustly overlooked as a free UNIX-like system in favour of
1124: the more-hyped Linux. While it receives a lot less publicity than other
1125: operating systems, this is not due to lack of technical merit." says David
1126: Chisnall, in what is a clear and concise overview of the new features
1127: in 3.7 and indeed the project as a whole.
1128: <p>
1129:
1130: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1131: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5114">
1.445 niallo 1132: 2005 Calgary Hackathon, KernelTrap Coverage</a>,
1.444 niallo 1133: Kerneltrap, May 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1134: A great article about the annual OpenBSD Hackathon, detailing how the event
1135: functions, work done at previous Hackathons and features which may come out
1136: of this one. Includes many relevant quotes from developers themselves, and of
1137: course information about the legendary Hackathon BBQ!
1138: <p>
1139:
1140: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.442 deraadt 1141: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9658/sam0505e/">
1142: "Failover Firewalls with OpenBSD and CARP"</a>,
1143: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 5, p. 33
1.441 deraadt 1144: </strong></font><br>
1145: Jason Dixon discusses the history of the CARP and pfsync protocols
1146: and demonstrates using them to create redundant stateful firewalls
1147: with OpenBSD.
1148: </ul>
1149:
1.436 henning 1150: <h2>April, 2005</h2>
1151: <ul>
1152: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.440 ian 1153: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39195801,00.htm">
1154: Security guru wants access to bug databases</a>,
1155: ZDNet UK, April 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
1156: Ingrid Marson reports on Cambridge professor Ross Anderson's call for analysis of
1157: software maintenance records to determine whether open source code is more secure
1158: than closed source, as we have long contended.
1159: "One of Anderson's research students, Andy Ozment, has already done
1160: research using empirical data on bugs found in the open source
1161: operating system OpenBSD between 1997 and 2000. This research found
1162: that finding and fixing bugs results in a more secure product..."
1163: Just as the OpenBSD project has been saying for years.
1164: <p>
1165: This article can also be found online as
1166: <a href="http://uk.builder.com/manage/project/0,39026588,39244080,00.htm">Academic
1167: calls for better bug tracking</a> (uk.builder.com).
1168: <p>
1169:
1170: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.439 espie 1171: [FRENCH] "PC Expert", number 152, p. 58
1172: </strong></font><br>
1173: Very short interview of Marc Espie about OpenBSD as a free OS focusing
1174: on security, part of a larger dossier Ťles secrets des hackersť.
1175: <p>
1176:
1177: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.436 henning 1178: [GERMAN] "Doppelwacht", iX 5/2005, p. 150.
1179: </strong></font><br>
1180: Stephan Tesch gives an introduction to CARP and using a pair of
1181: OpenBSD boxes as Firewalls in High Availibility scenarios. He goes
1.438 martin 1182: on explaining CARP and pfsync protocols, and does not forget to cover
1.436 henning 1183: the issues we had with IETF.
1184: </ul>
1185:
1.431 ian 1186: <h2>March, 2005</h2>
1187: <ul>
1188: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.435 reyk 1189: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/4818">
1190: OpenBSD's "Out of the Box" Wireless Support</a>,
1191: Kerneltrap, March 8, 2005</strong></font><br>
1192: This article is about the upcoming wireless support in OpenBSD 3.7 and
1193: the outcome of the work to open wireless chipsets. Jeremy Andrews
1194: talked with Theo de Raadt and the developers Damien Bergamini and Reyk
1195: Floeter who did some efforts to implement free and functional drivers.
1196: <p>
1197:
1198: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.431 ian 1199: <a href="http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/01/1109546842718.html">
1200: OpenBSD to support more wireless chipsets</a>,
1201: The Age, March 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1202: "The forthcoming 3.7 release of the OpenBSD operating system has
1203: added support for five more wireless chipsets, according to
1204: OpenBSD project founder Theo de Raadt...
1.432 ian 1205: OpenBSD 3.7 will also have have new drivers for Intel wireless
1.431 ian 1206: parts that do not work without the non-redistributable firmware,"
1207: namely the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11B
1208: and 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11A/B/G wireless network adapters.
1209: Mentions OpenBSD's activism in getting vendors to release chip specs.
1210: Referring to vendors that still refuse to play ball with open source
1211: projects, quotes Damien Miller as saying "Given the number of
1212: appliance devices that are built on free OSs, I think that the
1213: recalcitrant vendors are missing an important boat."
1214:
1215: </ul>
1216:
1.427 matthieu 1217: <h2>February, 2005</h2>
1218: <ul>
1219:
1220: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.428 david 1221: <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsaward2004.html">
1222: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
1223: FSF, February 26, 2005</strong></font><br>
1224: The Free Software Foundation awarded Theo de Raadt their "2004 Free Software
1225: Award" for his unwavering commitment to free software. Most recently he has
1226: been fighting hardware manufacturers for free redistribution of wireless card
1227: firmware.
1.434 ian 1228: Similar articles can be found online at:
1229: <ul>
1230: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1231: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=419">
1232: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
1233: Tectonic.za, March 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
1234: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1235: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article4362.phtml">
1236: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
1237: OSDir, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1238: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1239: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/De-Raadt-gets-free-software-award/2005/02/28/1109546758523.html?oneclick=true">
1240: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
1241: The Age, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1242: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1243: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/02/27/1413255.shtml?tid=99&tid=7">
1.434 ian 1244: Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award</a>,
1245: Slashdot, February 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1246: </ul>
1.427 matthieu 1247: </ul>
1248:
1.426 ian 1249: <h2>January, 2005</h2>
1250: <ul>
1251:
1252: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1253: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363731">
1254: Systrace in OpenBSD</a>,
1255: informit.com, January 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1256: This article talks about our systrace
1.462 grunk 1257: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&sektion=1">systrace(1)</a>
1.426 ian 1258: mechanism: what it is and why and
1259: how to use it, with examples.
1260: Another excerpt from the book
1261: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
1262: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
1263: <p>
1264:
1265: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1266: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363732">
1267: Overview of OpenBSD</a>,
1268: informit.com, January 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
1269: "OpenBSD is one of the most secure and well-designed operating
1270: systems available today. It has its roots in countless hours of
1271: research and development based on some of the best UNIX flavors of
1272: the past, and it boasts all the features of modern operating systems.
1273: The OS is widely considered one of the most secure general-purpose
1274: operating systems available today and it supports many key parts
1275: of the global Internet infrastructure..."
1276: This article is a sample chapter from
1277: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
1278: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
1279: <p>
1.443 ian 1280:
1281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1282: <a href="http://www.pcplus.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=34628&subsectionid=784">
1.443 ian 1283: OpenBSD operating system</a>,
1284: PCPlus.co.uk, January, 2005</strong></font><br>
1285: Paul Grosse gives a brief tutorial on installing OpenBSD on i386 for people
1286: moving in a Windows->Linux direction, encouraging them to go a bit further for security.
1287: "While Linux out-scores Windows substantially (or completely) on [security as well as many other
1288: issues], it's still possible to use a more secure operating system on the PC... OpenBSD."
1289: Gives a brief but understandable walkthrough on the installation process, right up to
1290: downloading and installing the third-party packages, and
1291: ends with a sidebar on security.
1292: <p>
1.426 ian 1293: </ul>
1294:
1.424 ian 1295: <h2>December, 2004</h2>
1296: <ul>
1297:
1298: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.425 ian 1299: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/2329229">
1300: What are the real vulnerabilities of Linux?</a>
1301: NewsForge.com, December 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1302: Several security consultants were asked about "the real vulnerabilities of
1303: Linux". Cybersoure CEO Con Symaris seems to get it better than the rest:
1304: "One needs to approach security as a prime requirement and motivator,
1305: much as the OpenBSD team do," Zymaris said... "The Linux
1306: community mindset is different. Linux development is dynamic and
1307: races ahead towards more and broader functionality, drawing a
1308: multitude of interested parties in to make interesting extensions
1309: and adaptations at a rapid rate."
1310: <p>
1311: "In order to do security the BSD way, however, much more effort
1312: needs to be spent auditing code for holes, which is much less sexy,
1313: and attracts a different set of coders," Zymaris added.
1314: <p>
1315:
1316: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.424 ian 1317: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/281">
1318: Closed Source Hardware</a>
1319: Security Focus, December 1, 2004</strong></font><br>
1320: Symantec Threat Analyst Jason Miller analyzes the potential security threats
1321: when hardware vendors won't provide device documentation and
1322: instead provide "binary only" driver code for inclusion in open source
1323: operating systems.
1324: Miller is an open-source fan who says he uses a variety of systems, including
1325: OpenBSD on his firewall.
1326: Of the recent trend to closed-source binary drivers for open-source
1327: systems, he writes:
1328: <blockquote>
1329: The closed-source component required to support this hardware is
1330: completely independent of the associated operating system, and as
1331: such, is also independent of the engineering team, security team,
1332: auditing process, and quality control procedures normally related
1333: to the operating system...
1334: <br/>
1335: What's possibly even more disturbing is that we're talking about
1336: a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest
1337: possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a
1338: third-party vendor. This code could do anything once loaded, including
1339: leaking active WEP keys, gathering usage statistics, sniffing and
1340: disclosing traffic, and it could even introduce a subtle backdoor
1341: into the operating system itself (much the same as any device driver
1342: in a closed source operating system).
1343: <br/>
1344: [A]lthough some of these scenarios are a
1345: little far-fetched, the possibility for them to exist is there...
1346: Ultimately it becomes an issue of trust, which is a cornerstone of
1347: good security: whom do you trust, and how much do you trust them?
1348: </blockquote>
1349: <p>And he comments that trust "seems to be a one-way street": vendors
1350: demand that you trust them, but they won't trust you to know how
1351: their hardware and software operates.
1352: This lack of trust is one reason why OpenBSD has recently completed
1353: reverse-engineering the
1.462 grunk 1354: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4">
1.424 ian 1355: Atheros wireless chipset driver</a>
1356: that was originally provided as a binary insert.
1357: <p>
1358: </ul>
1359:
1.417 pvalchev 1360: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
1361: <ul>
1.421 ian 1362:
1.417 pvalchev 1363: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.422 ian 1364: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730775,00.asp">
1365: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Widens Its Scope</a>
1366: eWEEK, November 22, 2004</strong></font><br>
1367: Jason Brooks reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and likes the changes it brings,
1368: including the multi-processing support which, he notes,
1369: "will be even more important as multicore processors--which occupy space
1370: on the road maps of Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others--
1371: become more prevalent." Comments favorably on OpenNTPD
1372: ("the three-line configuration file we needed to modify ... on OpenBSD was
1373: much simpler to deal with than the equivalent configuration file on
1374: the Linux systems we've tested").
1.423 ian 1375: Overall a favorable review of some of the new stuff in 3.6.
1.422 ian 1376: <p>
1377: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 otto 1378: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
1379: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
1380: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
1381: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
1382: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
1383: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
1384: it claims to do".
1385: <p>
1386:
1387: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1388: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109994542424009&w=2">
1.421 ian 1389: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution</a>
1390: misc@, November 8, 2004</strong></font><br>
1391: Theo recounts the struggle to get Intel to provide redistributable
1392: versions of the firmware for their wireless chipsets, and their
1.423 ian 1393: ultimate refusal to allow OpenBSD to redistribute the chipsets' firmware.
1.421 ian 1394: Includes a caveat about Intel's disingenuous "FAQ", typical of many
1395: corporate FAQs that answer questions nobody actually thought
1396: to ask, and don't truthfully answer the questions you want hard answers to.
1397: At the end Theo names the names (and their emails) that need to be contacted
1398: by large numbers of end-users and developers if Intel is to change
1399: (yes, this is a hint).
1400: Of interest is that this posting to one of our mailing lists was
1401: picked up on the
1402: <a href="http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1923">Screaming
1403: Electron Forum</a> and from there reported on
1.462 grunk 1404: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/22/1249249&from=rss">
1.421 ian 1405: SlashDot</a>, where it is accompanied by a link to SlashDot's paper
1406: on effective advocacy (be firm, but also be polite).
1407: <p>
1408:
1409: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 1410: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
1411: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
1412: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
1413: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
1414: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
1415: questions about the significance and rationale behind
1416: the current efforts.
1417: <p>
1418: </ul>
1419:
1.407 henning 1420: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
1421: <ul>
1422: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 1423: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
1424: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
1425: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
1426: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
1427: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
1428: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
1429: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
1430: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
1431: <p>
1432:
1433: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 1434: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
1435: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
1436: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1437: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
1438: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
1439: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
1440: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
1441: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
1442: of the important changes in 3.6.
1.462 grunk 1443: <p>
1.415 ian 1444:
1445: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1446: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
1.414 ian 1447: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
1448: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
1449: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
1450: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
1451: overflow attacks... because
1452: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
1453: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
1454: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
1455: and propolice.
1456: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
1457: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
1458: and that's when the science falls apart."
1459: <p>
1460:
1461: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 1462: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
1463: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
1464: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
1465: Starts with the question:
1466: <blockquote>
1467: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
1468: <br/>
1469: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
1470: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
1471: <br/>
1472: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
1473: Should we believe them?"
1474: </blockquote>
1475: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
1476: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
1477: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
1478: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
1479: for your mail, web and other online activities.
1480: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
1481: <p>
1482:
1483: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 1484: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
1485: Simple Simon</a>,
1486: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
1487: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
1488: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
1489: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
1490: routing/firewall, and more.
1491: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
1492: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
1493: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
1494: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
1495: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
1496: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
1497: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
1498: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
1499: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
1500: </blockquote>
1501: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
1502: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
1503: <p>
1504:
1505: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 1506: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
1507: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 1508: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 1509: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 1510: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
1511: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
1512: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 1513: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 1514: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
1515: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
1516: in spite of it
1517: (registration required, but worth it).
1518: <p>
1519:
1520: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1521: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
1522: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
1523: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1524: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
1525: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
1526: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
1527: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 1528: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 1529: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
1530: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
1531: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
1532: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
1533: <p>
1534:
1535: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 1536: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
1537: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
1538: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
1539: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
1540: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
1541: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
1542: <blockquote>
1543: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
1544: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
1545: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
1546: a lot of analysis.
1547: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
1548: </blockquote>
1549: <p>
1550: </ul>
1551:
1.400 marco 1552: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
1553: <ul>
1554: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 1555: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
1556: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
1557: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
1558: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
1559: UNIX-like systems.
1560: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
1561: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
1562: <p>
1563: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 1564: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
1565: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 1566: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1567: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
1568: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
1569: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
1570: At one point, the article states:
1571: <blockquote>
1572: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
1573: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
1574: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
1575: </blockquote>
1576: And then quotes Theo as saying:
1577: <blockquote>
1578: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
1579: fewer are reading or auditing code."
1580: </blockquote>
1581: <p>
1582: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1583: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
1584: marks its fifth birthday</a>
1585: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1586: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
1587: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
1588: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
1589: required).
1590: <p>
1591: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 1592: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
1593: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
1594: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
1595: </strong></font><br>
1596: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
1597: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
1598: <p>
1599: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 1600: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
1601: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 1602: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 1603: </strong></font><br>
1604: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
1605: <p>
1606: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 1607: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
1608: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 1609: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 1610: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 1611: 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 1612: <p>
1613: </ul>
1614:
1.396 henning 1615: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
1616: <ul>
1617: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 1618: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
1619: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
1620: Unix Review, July, 2004
1621: </strong></font><br>
1622: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
1623: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
1.462 grunk 1624: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
1.418 ian 1625: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
1626: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
1627: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
1628: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
1629: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
1630: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
1631: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
1632: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
1633: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
1634: and even spelling/wording errors.
1635: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
1636: <p>
1637: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 1638: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 1639: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
1640: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
1641: </strong></font><br>
1642: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
1643: <p>
1644: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 1645: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 1646: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
1647: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
1648: </strong></font><br>
1649: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
1650: <p>
1651: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 1652: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
1653: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
1654: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
1655: </strong></font><br>
1656: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
1657: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
1658: <p>
1659: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 1660: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
1661: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
1662: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
1663: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
1664: <p>
1665: </ul>
1666:
1.405 jolan 1667: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
1668: <ul>
1669: <li><font color="#00900"><strong>
1670: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
1.466 deraadt 1671: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 5, 2004</strong></font>
1.405 jolan 1672: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
1673: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
1674: details on how funds are dispersed.
1675: <p>
1676: </ul>
1677:
1.393 david 1678: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
1679: <ul>
1680: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 1681: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
1682: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
1683: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
1684: </strong></font><br>
1685: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
1686: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
1687: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
1688: on inserting large number of SQL records.
1689: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
1690: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
1691: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
1692: <p>
1693:
1694: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 1695: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
1696: Secure by Default</a>,
1697: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
1698: </strong></font><br>
1699: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
1700: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
1701: <p>
1702:
1703: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1704: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
1705: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
1706: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
1707: </strong></font><br>
1708: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
1709: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
1710: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
1711: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
1712: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
1713: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
1714: <p>
1715:
1716: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1717: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
1718: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
1719: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
1720: </strong></font><br>
1721: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
1722: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
1723: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
1724: <p>
1725:
1726: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1727: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
1728: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
1729: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
1730: </strong></font><br>
1731: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
1732: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
1733: <p>
1734: </ul>
1735:
1.388 mcbride 1736: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
1737: <ul>
1.394 jolan 1738:
1739: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1740: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
1741: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
1742: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
1743: </strong></font><br>
1744: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
1745: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
1746: available for sparc64.
1747: <p>
1748:
1.390 beck 1749: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 1750: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
1751: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
1752: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
1753: </strong></font><br>
1754: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
1755: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
1756: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
1757: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
1758: <p>
1759:
1760: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 1761: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
1762: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 1763: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 1764: </strong></font><br>
1765: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
1766: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
1767: it does: CARP provides sharing
1768: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
1769: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
1770: detail to get you started using it.
1771: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
1772: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
1773: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
1774: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
1775: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
1776: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
1777: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 1778: <p>
1.391 ian 1779:
1780: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 1781: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 1782: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
1783: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 1784: </strong></font><br>
1785: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 1786: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 1787: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 1788: <p>
1.388 mcbride 1789:
1790: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1791: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
1792: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 1793: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 1794: </strong></font><br>
1795: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
1796: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
1797: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
1798: unencumbered by patents.
1799: <p>
1800: </ul>
1801:
1.378 henning 1802: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
1803: <ul>
1.384 jose 1804:
1805: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 1806: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
1807: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
1808: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
1809: </strong></font><br>
1810: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
1811: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
1812: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
1813: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
1814: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
1815: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
1816: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
1817: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
1818: in the page tables."
1819: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
1820: <p>
1821:
1822: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1823: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
1824: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
1825: </strong></font><br>
1826: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
1827: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
1828: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
1829: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 1830: <p>
1.384 jose 1831:
1.378 henning 1832: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 1833: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
1834: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 1835: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
1836: </strong></font><br>
1837: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
1838: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
1839: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
1840: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
1841: (quote:
1842: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
1843: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 1844: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 1845: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
1846: the other developers for their work on the system.
1847: <p>
1848:
1849: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1850: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
1851: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
1852: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 1853: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 1854: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
1855: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
1856: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
1857: too.
1858: <p>
1859:
1860: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 1861: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
1862: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 1863: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 1864: OpenBSD source code using
1865: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
1866: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
1867: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
1868: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
1869: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
1870: <p>
1871: </ul>
1872:
1.374 jose 1873: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
1874: <ul>
1875: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 1876: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 1877: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
1878: </strong></font><br>
1879: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
1880: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
1881: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
1882: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
1883: it."
1884: <p>
1885:
1886: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 1887: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
1888: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
1889: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
1890: </strong></font><br/>
1891: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
1892: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
1893: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
1894: <p>
1895: </ul>
1896:
1.369 ian 1897: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
1898: <ul>
1899: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1900: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
1901: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
1902: </strong></font><br/>
1903: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
1904: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
1905: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
1906: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
1907: <p>
1908:
1909: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 1910: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
1911: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
1912: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
1913: </strong></font><br/>
1914: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
1915: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
1916: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
1917: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
1918: form factor.
1919: <p>
1920:
1921: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1922: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
1923: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
1924: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
1925: Features</a>,
1926: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
1927: </strong></font><br/>
1928: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
1929: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
1930: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
1931: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
1932: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
1933: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
1934: <p>
1935: This article can also be found online at:
1936: <ul>
1937: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1938: <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 1939: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
1940: </strong></font>
1941: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
1942: </ul>
1943: <p>
1.392 david 1944:
1.371 jose 1945: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 1946: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
1947: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 1948: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
1949: </strong></font><br/>
1950: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
1951: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
1952: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 1953: <p>
1.371 jose 1954:
1955: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 1956: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 1957: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 1958: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 1959: </strong></font><br/>
1960: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
1961: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
1962: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
1963: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
1964: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
1965: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
1966: and its history with OpenBSD.
1967: </ul>
1968:
1.368 henning 1969: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
1970: <ul>
1971: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 1972: [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 1973: </strong></font><br>
1974: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
1975: </ul>
1976:
1.364 jose 1977: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
1978: <ul>
1979: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 1980: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
1981: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
1982: UNIX Review,
1983: July, 2003.
1984: </strong></font><br>
1985: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
1986: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
1987: who want more information.
1988: <p>
1989:
1990: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 1991: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
1992: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
1993: Government Computer News,
1994: July 22, 2003.
1995: </strong></font><br>
1996: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
1997: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
1998: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
1999: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
2000: <p>
2001:
2002: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2003: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
2004: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
2005: SANS Institute,
2006: July 22, 2003.
2007: </strong></font><br>
2008: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 2009: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 2010: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
2011: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
2012: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
2013: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
2014: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
2015: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
2016: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
2017: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
2018: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
2019: <p>
2020:
2021: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 2022: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
2023: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
2024: OnLamp.com,
2025: July 17, 2003.
2026: </strong></font><br>
2027: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
2028: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
2029: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
2030: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
2031: have been working on.
2032:
2033: </ul>
2034:
1.356 jose 2035: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 2036: <ul>
2037:
2038: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 2039: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
2040: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
2041: UNIX Review,
2042: June, 2003.
2043: </strong></font><br>
2044: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
2045: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
2046: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
2047: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
2048: <p>
2049:
2050: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 2051: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
2052: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
2053: eWeek,
2054: June 23, 2003.
2055: </strong></font><br>
2056: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
2057: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
2058: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
2059: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
2060: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
2061: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
2062: <p>
2063:
2064: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 2065: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
2066: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
2067: Software Development Online,
2068: June, 2003.
2069: </strong></font><br>
2070: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
2071: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
2072: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
2073: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
2074: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
2075: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
2076: current activities.
2077: <p>
2078:
2079: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 2080: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
2081: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 2082: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
2083: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
2084: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
2085: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 2086: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 2087: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
2088: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
2089: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 2090: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 2091: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
2092: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 2093: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 2094: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
2095: decisions.
2096: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
2097: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 2098: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 2099: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 2100: <p>
2101:
2102: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 2103: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
2104: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
2105: Page 58, eWeek,
2106: June 2, 2003.
2107: </strong></font><br>
2108: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
2109: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
2110: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
2111: been addressed in -current.
2112: <p>
2113:
1.356 jose 2114: </ul>
2115:
2116: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
2117: <ul>
2118:
1.355 jose 2119: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 2120: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
2121: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
2122: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
2123: </strong></font><br>
2124: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
2125: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
2126: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
2127: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
2128: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
2129: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
2130: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
2131: <p>
2132:
2133: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 2134: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
2135: Beyond Linux</a>,
2136: InfoWorld,
2137: May 23, 2003.
2138: </strong></font><br>
2139: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
2140: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
2141: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
2142: compared to the GPL.
2143: <p>
2144:
2145: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 2146: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
2147: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
2148: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 2149: May 17, 2003.
2150: </strong></font><br>
2151: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
2152: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
2153: the business section and half of another page inside
2154: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
2155: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
2156: in talking about the project's history and goals.
2157: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
2158: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
2159: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
2160: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 2161: <br>
2162: This article can also be found online at:
2163: <ul>
2164: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2165: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
2166: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
2167: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
2168: May 17, 2003
2169: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 2170: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
2171: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2172: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
2173: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
2174: Montreal Gazette,
2175: May 21, 2003
2176: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 2177: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 2178: <p>
1.346 ian 2179:
2180: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 2181: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 2182: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 2183: May 7, 2003.
2184: </strong></font><br>
2185: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
2186: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
2187: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
2188: <p>
2189:
2190: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 2191: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
2192: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2193: OsOpinion,
2194: May 6, 2003.
2195: </strong></font><br>
2196: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
2197: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
2198: <br>
2199: This article can also be found online at:
2200: <ul>
2201: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2202: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
2203: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2204: NewsFactor Network.
2205: </strong></font>
2206: </ul>
2207: <p>
2208:
2209: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2210: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 2211: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
2212: ITBusiness,
2213: May 2, 2003.
2214: </strong></font><br>
2215: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
2216: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
2217: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
2218: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
2219: <p>
2220:
2221: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 2222: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
2223: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
2224: InfoWorld,
2225: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 2226: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 2227: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
2228: <br>
2229: This article can also be found online at:
2230: <ul>
2231: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2232: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
2233: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
2234: IDG Singapore.
2235: </strong></font>
2236: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 2237: <p>
2238:
1.339 jose 2239: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2240: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
2241: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 2242: ZDNet,
2243: May 1, 2003.
2244: </strong></font><br>
2245: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 2246: someone using parts from previous articles.
2247: <br>
1.341 deraadt 2248: This article can also be found online at:
2249: <ul>
2250: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2251: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
2252: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
2253: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 2254: </strong></font>
2255: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2256: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
2257: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
2258: CNET News.com.
2259: </strong></font>
2260: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2261: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
2262: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
2263: ZDNet UK.
2264: </strong></font>
2265: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2266: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
2267: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
2268: Help Net Security, Croatia.
2269: </strong></font>
2270: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 2271: <p>
1.339 jose 2272:
1.341 deraadt 2273: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2274: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 2275: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
2276: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
2277: May 1, 2003.
2278: </strong></font><br>
2279: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
2280: that have been added
2281: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
2282: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
2283: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 2284: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 2285: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
2286: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
2287: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 2288: <p>
2289:
2290: </ul>
2291:
1.253 ian 2292: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
2293: <ul>
1.255 ian 2294:
1.260 ian 2295: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2296: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 2297: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
2298: TechRepublic,
2299: April 28, 2003.
2300: </strong></font><br>
2301: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
2302: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 2303: work.<br>
2304: Can also be found online at:
2305: <ul>
2306: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2307: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
2308: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
2309: ZDNet UK.
2310: </strong></font>
2311: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 2312: <p>
2313:
2314: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 2315: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
2316: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
2317: IDG,
2318: April 24, 2003.
2319: </strong></font><br>
2320: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
2321: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
2322: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
2323: Can also be found online at:
2324: <ul>
2325: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2326: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
2327: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 2328: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 2329: </strong></font>
2330: </ul>
2331: <p>
2332:
2333: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2334: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 2335: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 2336: Slate,
2337: April 24, 2003.
2338: </strong></font><br>
2339: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
2340: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
2341: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
2342: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
2343: <p>
2344:
2345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 2346: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2347: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
2348: April 24, 2003.
2349: </strong></font><br>
2350: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
2351: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
2352: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
2353: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
2354: <p>
2355:
2356: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 2357: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
2358: April 24, 2003.
2359: </strong></font><br>
2360: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
2361: the free software community".
2362: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
2363: other articles.
2364: <p>
2365:
2366: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2367: <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 2368: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
2369: </strong></font><br>
2370: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
2371: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
2372: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
2373: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
2374: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
2375: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
2376: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 2377: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 2378: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
2379: <br/>
2380: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
2381: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
2382: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
2383: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 2384: <br>
2385: Can also be found online at:
2386: <ul>
2387: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2388: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
2389: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
2390: Common Dreams NewsCenter
2391: </strong></font>
2392: </ul>
1.324 ian 2393: <p>
2394:
2395: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2396: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
2397: Wired, April 24, 2003.
2398: </strong></font><br>
2399: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
2400: article above.
2401: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
2402: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
2403: wasting them."
1.332 ian 2404: <br>
2405: Can also be found online at:
2406: <ul>
2407: <li>
2408: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
2409: </strong></font>
2410: </ul>
1.324 ian 2411: <p>
2412:
2413: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 2414: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
2415: </strong></font><br>
2416: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
2417: <p>
2418:
2419: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 2420: <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.
2421: </strong></font><br>
2422: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
2423: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
2424: <p>
2425:
2426: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 2427: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
2428: April 23, 2003.
2429: </strong></font><br>
2430: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
2431: <p>
2432:
2433: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 2434: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 2435: April 22, 2003.
2436: </strong></font><br>
2437: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
2438: <p>
2439:
2440: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 2441: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
2442: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
2443: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 2444: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 2445: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
2446: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
2447: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
2448: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
2449: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
2450: Can also be found online at:
2451: <ul>
2452: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2453: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 2454: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
2455: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 2456: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 2457: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2458: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 2459: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
2460: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 2461: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 2462: </ul>
2463: <p>
2464:
2465: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 2466: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
2467: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 2468: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2469: </strong></font><br>
2470: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 2471: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
2472: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
2473: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
2474: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
2475: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
2476: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 2477: <p>
2478:
2479: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 2480: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
2481: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 2482: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
2483: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 2484: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
2485: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
2486: at UPenn and DARPA.
2487: <p>
2488:
2489: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 2490: [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,
2491: France
1.315 deraadt 2492: April 18, 2003.
2493: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 2494: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 2495: <p>
2496:
2497: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 2498: [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 2499: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2500: </strong></font><br>
2501: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
2502: <p>
2503:
2504: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 2505: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
2506: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
2507: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 2508: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 2509: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
2510: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
2511: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
2512: <p>
2513:
2514: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 2515: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
2516: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2517: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 2518: </strong></font><br>
2519: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
2520: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
2521: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 2522: American century.
1.267 deraadt 2523: <p>
2524:
2525: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 2526: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
2527: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2528: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 2529: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 2530: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
2531: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
2532: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
2533: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
2534: Can also be found online at:
2535: <ul>
2536: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
2537: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 2538: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 2539: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 2540: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 2541: <p>
2542:
2543: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 2544: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 2545: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 2546: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 2547: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 2548: </strong></font><br>
2549: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 2550: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
2551: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
2552: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
2553: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 2554:
2555: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2556: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
2557: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
2558: New York Times.
2559: </strong></font>(free registration required)
2560:
1.273 deraadt 2561: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2562: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 2563: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 2564: ABC News.
2565: </strong></font>
2566:
2567: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2568: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 2569: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 2570: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 2571: </strong></font>
2572:
2573: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2574: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 2575: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 2576: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 2577: </strong></font>
2578:
2579: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 2580: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
2581: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 2582: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 2583: </strong></font>
2584:
2585: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2586: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 2587: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 2588: Times Daily, AL.
2589: </strong></font>
2590:
2591: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2592: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
2593: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
2594: Boston.com, MA.
2595: </strong></font>
2596:
2597: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2598: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 2599: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 2600: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
2601: </strong></font>
2602:
2603: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 2604: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
2605: [Article was pulled]</a>
2606: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 2607: </strong></font>
2608:
2609: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2610: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
2611: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
2612: Infoshop News.
2613: </strong></font>
2614:
2615: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2616: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
2617: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2618: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
2619: </strong></font>
2620:
2621: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 2622: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
2623: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
2624: Raleigh News, NC.
2625: </strong></font>
2626:
2627: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2628: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 2629: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
2630: Napa News, CA.
2631: </strong></font>
2632:
2633: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2634: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 2635: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2636: NEPA News, PA.
2637: </strong></font>
2638:
2639: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2640: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
2641: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
2642: Wired News.
2643: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 2644: <br>
2645: <li>
1.333 deraadt 2646: <font color="#009000"><strong>
2647: [JAPANESE]
2648: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
2649: Wired News Japan</a>
2650: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 2651:
1.271 deraadt 2652: </ul>
2653: <p>
1.272 deraadt 2654: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
2655: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 2656: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
2657: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
2658: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
2659: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
2660: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
2661: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 2662: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 2663: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
2664: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
2665: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 2666: <p>
2667: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 2668:
2669: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2670: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 2671: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
2672: Indianapolis Star, IN.
2673: </strong></font>
2674:
2675: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 2676: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
2677: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2678: Miami Herald, FL.
2679: </strong></font>
2680:
2681: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 2682: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 2683: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
2684: </strong></font>
2685:
2686: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2687: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 2688: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 2689: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 2690: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 2691:
2692: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2693: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
2694: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
2695: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
2696: ABC News.
2697: </strong></font>
2698:
1.276 deraadt 2699: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2700: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 2701: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 2702: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 2703: </strong></font>
2704:
1.286 dhartmei 2705: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2706: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 2707: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2708: Wilmington Star, NC.
2709: </strong></font>
2710:
1.300 jose 2711: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2712: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
2713: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
2714: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
2715: </strong></font>
2716:
1.309 jose 2717: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2718: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
2719: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
2720: Globe Technology.
2721: </strong></font>
2722:
1.263 deraadt 2723: </ul>
1.262 beck 2724: <p>
2725:
2726: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 2727: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
2728: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2729: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 2730: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 2731: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 2732: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
2733: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
2734: <p>
2735:
2736: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 2737: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
2738: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
2739: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 2740: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 2741: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
2742: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
2743: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
2744: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
2745: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
2746: and simply restates other press reports.
2747: <p>
2748:
2749: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 2750: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
2751: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2752: OS News, April 18, 2003.
2753: </strong></font><br>
2754: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
2755: <p>
2756:
2757: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 2758: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
2759: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2760: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 2761: </strong></font><br>
2762: Another report on the DARPA funding.
2763: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
2764: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
2765: <p>
2766:
2767: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 2768: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
2769: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
2770: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
2771: April 17, 2003.
2772: </strong></font><br>
2773: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
2774: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
2775: Tech Anthems</a>
2776: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
2777: 4 so far.
2778: <p>
2779:
2780: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 2781: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
2782: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2783: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2784: </strong></font><br>
2785: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
2786: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
2787: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
2788: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
2789: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
2790: Goes on to say:
2791: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
2792: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
2793: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
2794: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 2795: This article is also found online at:
2796: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 2797: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2798: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
2799: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
2800: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 2801: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 2802: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2803: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
2804: ZDnet</a>,
2805: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 2806: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 2807: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2808: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
2809: ZDnet Australia</a>,
2810: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 2811: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 2812: </ul>
1.260 ian 2813: <p>
1.279 deraadt 2814:
1.260 ian 2815: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2816: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 2817: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 2818: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2819: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 2820: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 2821: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
2822: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
2823: without notice or justification.
2824: <p>
2825:
2826: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2827: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 2828: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 2829: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2830: </strong></font><br>
2831: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
2832: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 2833: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 2834: effective today, without any warning..."
2835: <p>
1.257 ian 2836:
2837: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 2838: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
2839: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2840: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 2841: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 2842: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
2843: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
2844: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
2845: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
2846: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 2847: <p>
2848:
2849: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 2850: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
2851: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2852: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 2853: </strong></font><br>
2854: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
2855: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
2856: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
2857: quoting two of them:
2858: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
2859: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
2860: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
2861: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
2862: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
2863: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
2864: <p>
2865:
1.255 ian 2866: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2867: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
2868: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 2869: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2870: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 2871: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 2872: <p>
2873:
2874: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 2875: [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 2876: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2877: </strong></font><br>
2878: New security concepts in OpenBSD
2879: <p>
2880:
2881: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 2882: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
2883: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2884: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 2885: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 2886: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 2887: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
2888: security experts for more than three decades."
2889: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
2890: <p>
1.261 ian 2891:
1.254 drahn 2892: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 2893: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 2894: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2895: </strong></font><br>
2896: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
2897: <p>
2898:
2899: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 2900: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
2901: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
2902: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
2903: </strong></font><br>
2904: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
2905: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
2906: discussion OpenBSD's path.
2907: <p>
2908:
2909: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 2910: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
2911: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2912: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 2913: </strong></font><br>
2914: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
2915: from US DARPA.
2916: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
2917: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
2918: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
2919: the BSD license.
2920: <p>
2921: </ul>
2922:
1.251 ian 2923: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
2924: <ul>
2925:
2926: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2927: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
2928: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
2929: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
2930: </strong></font><br>
2931:
2932: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
2933: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
2934: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
2935: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
2936: <p>
2937:
2938: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 2939: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
2940: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 2941: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 2942: </strong></font><br>
2943: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
2944: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
2945: Mentions
2946: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
2947: and
2948: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
2949: programs.
2950: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 2951: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 2952: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
2953: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
2954: <p>
1.325 ian 2955: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
2956: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 2957:
2958: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2959: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
2960: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
2961: </strong></font><br>
2962: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
2963: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
2964: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
2965: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
2966: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
2967: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
2968: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
2969: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
2970: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
2971: put into service."
2972: <p>
2973: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
2974: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
2975: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
2976: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
2977: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
2978: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
2979: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
2980: computers with security features."
2981: <p>
1.329 ian 2982:
2983: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2984: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
2985: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
2986: Slate,
2987: March 3, 2003.
2988: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 2989: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 2990: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
2991: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
2992: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
2993: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
2994: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
2995: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
2996: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
2997: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
2998: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
2999: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
3000: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
3001: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
3002: of more secure open-source solutions like
3003: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
3004: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
3005: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
3006: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
3007: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
3008: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
3009: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
3010: the Beltway."
3011: <p>
1.251 ian 3012: </ul>
3013:
1.249 jufi 3014: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
3015: <ul>
3016: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3017: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
3018: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3019: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 3020: </strong></font><br>
3021: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
3022: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 3023: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 3024: <p>
1.334 ian 3025:
3026: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3027: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
3028: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
3029: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
3030: </strong></font><br>
3031: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
3032: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
3033: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
3034: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
3035: "... the hypothetical question ...
3036: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
3037: <br>
3038: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
3039: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
3040: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
3041: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
3042: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
3043: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 3044: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 3045: support network security.
3046: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
3047: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
3048: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
3049: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
3050: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
3051: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
3052: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
3053: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
3054: <br>
3055: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
3056: <p>
3057:
1.249 jufi 3058: </ul>
3059:
1.246 jufi 3060: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3061: <ul>
1.246 jufi 3062:
1.247 jufi 3063: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3064: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 3065: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3066: CNET News.com, December 4, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3067: </strong></font><br>
3068: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
3069: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
3070: <p>
3071:
1.247 jufi 3072: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3073: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
3074: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3075: Heise News-Ticker, December 4, 2002
1.301 jose 3076: </strong></font><br>
1.460 david 3077: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III CPU
1.301 jose 3078: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
3079: <p>
3080:
3081: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3082: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 3083: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3084: eWeek, December 3, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3085: </strong></font><br>
3086: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
3087: in their annual OpenHack security test.
3088: <p>
1.247 jufi 3089: </ul>
1.246 jufi 3090:
1.244 jufi 3091: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3092: <ul>
1.246 jufi 3093:
1.247 jufi 3094: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3095: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
3096: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
3097: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3098: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3099: </strong></font><br>
3100: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
3101: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
3102: md5 digests.
3103: <p>
3104:
1.247 jufi 3105: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3106: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 3107: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
3108: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3109: </strong></font><br>
3110: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
3111: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
3112: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
3113: right the first time."
3114: <p>
1.247 jufi 3115: </ul>
1.244 jufi 3116:
3117:
3118: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3119: <ul>
1.244 jufi 3120:
1.247 jufi 3121: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3122: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3123: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
3124: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3125: </strong></font><br>
3126: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
3127: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
3128: part 6</a>.
3129: <p>
3130:
1.247 jufi 3131: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3132: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 3133: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
3134: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3135: O'Reilly Network, August 8, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3136: </strong></font><br>
3137: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
3138: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
3139: <p>
1.301 jose 3140:
3141: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3142: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
3143: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
3144: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
3145: </strong></font><br>
3146:
3147: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
3148: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
3149: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
3150: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
3151: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
3152: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
3153: <i>Here's the
3154: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
3155: <p>
1.247 jufi 3156: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3157:
3158: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3159: <ul>
1.242 jufi 3160:
1.247 jufi 3161: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3162: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 3163: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3164: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3165: </strong></font><br>
3166: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
3167: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
3168: <p>
3169:
1.247 jufi 3170: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3171: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3172: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3173: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 1, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3174: </strong></font><br>
3175: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
3176: this time using pf.
3177: <p>
1.247 jufi 3178: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3179:
3180: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3181: <ul>
1.242 jufi 3182:
1.247 jufi 3183: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3184: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3185: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
3186: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3187: </strong></font><br>
3188: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
3189: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
3190: their rotation.
3191: <p>
3192:
1.247 jufi 3193: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3194: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3195: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3196: O'Reilly Network, June 6, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3197: </strong></font><br>
3198: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
3199: <p>
1.247 jufi 3200: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3201:
1.239 jufi 3202: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3203: <ul>
1.239 jufi 3204:
1.247 jufi 3205: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3206: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 3207: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
3208: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3209: </strong></font><br>
3210: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
3211: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
3212: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
3213: <p>
3214:
1.247 jufi 3215: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 3216: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 3217: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
3218: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 3219: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 3220: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
3221: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
3222: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 3223: <p>
1.247 jufi 3224: </ul>
1.239 jufi 3225:
1.235 lebel 3226: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3227: <ul>
1.235 lebel 3228:
1.239 jufi 3229:
1.247 jufi 3230: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 3231: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 3232: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
3233: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 3234: </strong></font><br>
3235: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
3236: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
3237: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
3238: <p>
1.301 jose 3239:
1.247 jufi 3240: </ul>
1.235 lebel 3241:
1.228 horacio 3242: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3243: <ul>
1.228 horacio 3244:
1.247 jufi 3245: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3246: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3247: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
3248: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 3249: </strong></font><br>
3250: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
3251: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
3252: <p>
3253:
1.247 jufi 3254: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 3255: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 3256: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
3257: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 3258: </strong></font><br>
3259: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
3260: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
3261: <p>
3262:
1.247 jufi 3263: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 3264: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 3265: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
3266: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 3267: </strong></font><br>
3268: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
3269: on the desktop of his parents.
3270: <p>
3271:
1.247 jufi 3272: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 3273: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 3274: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
3275: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 3276: </strong></font><br>
3277: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
3278: using IPFilter.
3279:
3280: <p>
3281:
1.247 jufi 3282: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 3283: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 3284: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
3285: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 3286: </strong></font><br>
3287: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
3288: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
3289: perspectives of the four OS.
3290: <br>
3291: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 3292: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 3293: <p>
3294:
1.247 jufi 3295: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 3296: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
3297: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 3298: software and security</a>,
3299: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 3300: </strong></font><br>
3301:
3302: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
3303: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
3304: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
3305: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
3306: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
3307: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
3308: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
3309: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
3310: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
3311: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
3312: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
3313: security conscious team beyond doubt.
3314: <p>
1.247 jufi 3315: </ul>
1.228 horacio 3316:
1.225 horacio 3317: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3318: <ul>
1.225 horacio 3319:
1.247 jufi 3320: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3321: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
3322: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 3323: Interview</a>,
3324: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 3325: </strong></font><br>
3326:
3327: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
3328: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
3329: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 3330: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 3331: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
3332: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
3333: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
3334: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
3335: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 3336: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 3337: of choice.
3338: <p>
1.247 jufi 3339: </ul>
1.225 horacio 3340:
3341: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3342: <ul>
1.225 horacio 3343:
1.247 jufi 3344: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3345: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 3346: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
3347: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 3348: </strong></font><br>
3349:
3350: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
3351: <p>
3352:
1.247 jufi 3353: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3354: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 3355: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
3356: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 3357: </strong></font><br>
3358:
3359: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
3360: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
3361: <p>
1.247 jufi 3362: </ul>
1.225 horacio 3363:
1.218 horacio 3364: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3365: <ul>
1.218 horacio 3366:
1.247 jufi 3367: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 3368: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 3369: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 3370: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 3371: </strong></font><br>
3372:
3373: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
3374: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
3375: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
3376: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
3377: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
3378: subjects. Worth a read.
3379: <p>
3380:
3381:
1.247 jufi 3382: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 3383: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 3384: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
3385: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 3386: </strong></font><br>
3387:
3388: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
3389: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
3390: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
3391: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
3392: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
3393: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
3394: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
3395: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
3396: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 3397: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 3398: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
3399: on other operating systems.<br>
3400: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
3401: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
3402: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
3403: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
3404: <p>
3405:
1.247 jufi 3406: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3407: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 3408: Operating System 2010</a>,
3409: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 3410: </strong></font><br>
3411:
3412: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
3413: covering the level of software integration into the core
3414: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
3415: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
3416: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
3417: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
3418: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
3419: <p>
3420:
1.247 jufi 3421: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 3422: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 3423: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
3424: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 3425: </strong></font><br>
3426:
3427: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
3428: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
3429: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
3430: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
3431: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
3432: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
3433: <p>
1.247 jufi 3434: </ul>
1.221 horacio 3435:
1.210 jufi 3436: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3437: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3438:
1.247 jufi 3439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3440: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 3441: Already a Contender</a>,
3442: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 3443: </strong></font><br>
3444:
3445: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
3446: source software in response to an article which claimed that
3447: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
3448: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
3449: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
3450: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
3451: <p>
3452:
1.247 jufi 3453: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 3454: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 3455: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
3456: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 3457: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3458:
1.224 horacio 3459: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
3460: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
3461: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
3462: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
3463: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
3464: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 3465: <p>
1.247 jufi 3466: </ul>
1.215 horacio 3467:
3468: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3469: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3470:
1.247 jufi 3471: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3472: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
3473: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 3474: Division</a>,
3475: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 3476: </strong></font><br>
3477:
3478: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
3479: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 3480: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 3481: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
3482: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
3483: investment</em>.<br>
3484: The implementation details can be seen on their
3485: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
3486: <p>
3487:
1.247 jufi 3488: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3489: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
3490: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
3491: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
3492: </strong></font><br>
3493:
3494: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
3495: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
3496: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1.475 grunk 3497: laptops and T-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1.301 jose 3498: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
3499: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
3500: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
3501: <p>
3502:
3503: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3504: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 3505: Thinking about Security</a>,
3506: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 3507: </strong></font><br>
3508:
3509: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
3510: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
3511: security and says that even secured operating systems running
3512: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
3513: to time.<br>
3514: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
3515: system and just the most secure system.
3516: <p>
3517:
1.247 jufi 3518: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3519: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 3520: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
3521: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 3522: </strong></font><br>
3523:
3524: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
3525: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
3526: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
3527: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
3528: choice:<br>
3529: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
3530: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
3531: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
3532: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
3533: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
3534: network security devices and as such must be well
3535: armored."</em><br>
3536: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
3537: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
3538: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
3539: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
3540: <br>
3541: Bravo!
3542: <p>
1.247 jufi 3543: </ul>
1.210 jufi 3544:
1.207 ian 3545: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3546: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3547:
1.247 jufi 3548: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 3549: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
3550: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
3551: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 3552:
1.207 ian 3553: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
3554: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 3555: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 3556: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
3557: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
3558: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 3559: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 3560: <p>
1.247 jufi 3561: </ul>
1.207 ian 3562:
1.194 jufi 3563: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3564: <ul>
1.194 jufi 3565:
1.247 jufi 3566: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3567: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 3568: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
3569: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 3570: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3571:
1.240 miod 3572: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 3573: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
3574: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
3575: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
3576: <p>
3577:
1.247 jufi 3578: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3579: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
3580: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
3581: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
3582:
3583: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
3584: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
3585: <p>
3586:
3587: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3588: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
3589: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3590: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
3591:
3592: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
3593: <p>
3594:
3595: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3596: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 3597: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
3598: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
3599: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3600:
1.240 miod 3601: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 3602: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 3603: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
3604: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 3605: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 3606: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 3607: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
3608: <br>
1.413 deraadt 3609: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 3610: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
3611: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
3612: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
3613: <p>
3614:
1.247 jufi 3615: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 3616: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
3617: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 3618: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 3619: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3620:
1.194 jufi 3621: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
3622: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
3623: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
3624: <br>
3625: The new
3626: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 3627: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 3628: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
3629: <p>
1.247 jufi 3630: </ul>
1.194 jufi 3631:
1.190 horacio 3632: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3633: <ul>
1.190 horacio 3634:
1.247 jufi 3635: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 3636:
3637: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
3638: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
3639:
1.301 jose 3640:
1.191 jufi 3641: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
3642: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
3643:
3644: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
3645: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
3646:
1.212 horacio 3647: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
3648: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 3649: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
3650:
1.211 horacio 3651: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
3652: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 3653: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
3654:
1.247 jufi 3655: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 3656: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
3657:
1.247 jufi 3658: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 3659: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
3660:
1.212 horacio 3661: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
3662: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 3663: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
3664:
3665: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
3666: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
3667:
3668: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
3669: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
3670:
1.301 jose 3671: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
3672: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
3673:
1.191 jufi 3674: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
3675: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
3676:
3677: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 3678: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 3679:
1.192 jufi 3680: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
3681: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 3682: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 3683:
1.193 deraadt 3684: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
3685: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 3686: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 3687:
1.247 jufi 3688: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 3689: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
3690:
1.247 jufi 3691: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 3692: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
3693: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
3694:
1.213 horacio 3695: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 3696: 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 3697: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
3698:
1.190 horacio 3699: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 3700: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
3701: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
3702: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
3703: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
3704: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
3705: <p>
1.190 horacio 3706:
1.247 jufi 3707: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3708: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
3709: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
3710: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 3711: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3712:
1.195 jufi 3713: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 3714: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
3715: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
3716: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 3717: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
3718: <p>
3719:
1.247 jufi 3720: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3721: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 3722: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
3723: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
3724: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3725:
1.191 jufi 3726: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 3727: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
3728: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
3729: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
3730: <p>
3731:
3732: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3733: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
3734: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3735: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
3736:
3737: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
3738: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 3739: <p>
1.247 jufi 3740: </ul>
1.190 horacio 3741:
1.191 jufi 3742:
1.186 jufi 3743: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3744: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 3745:
1.247 jufi 3746: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 3747: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 3748: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
3749: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 3750: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 3751:
1.188 jufi 3752: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 3753: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 3754: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 3755: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
3756: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 3757: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 3758: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 3759: <p>
3760:
1.301 jose 3761: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3762: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
3763: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3764: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
3765:
3766: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
3767: <p>
1.191 jufi 3768:
1.247 jufi 3769: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 3770: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
3771: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3772: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 5, 2001
1.191 jufi 3773: </strong></font><br>
3774:
3775: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
3776: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
3777: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
3778: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
3779: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
3780: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
3781: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
3782: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
3783: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
3784: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
3785: familiar?
3786: <p>
1.247 jufi 3787: </ul>
1.191 jufi 3788:
1.178 louis 3789: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3790: <ul>
1.178 louis 3791:
1.247 jufi 3792: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 3793: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 3794: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
3795: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 3796: </strong></font><br>
3797:
3798: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
3799: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
3800: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
3801: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
3802: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
3803: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
3804: <p>
3805:
1.247 jufi 3806: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3807: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
3808: Open source under the hood</a>,
3809: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 3810: </strong></font><br>
3811:
3812: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
3813: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
3814: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
3815: <p>
3816:
1.247 jufi 3817: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3818: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
3819: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
3820: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 3821: </strong></font><br>
3822:
3823: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
3824: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
3825: <p>
1.247 jufi 3826: </ul>
1.179 louis 3827:
1.174 louis 3828:
1.175 louis 3829: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3830: <ul>
1.175 louis 3831:
1.247 jufi 3832: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3833: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
3834: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
3835: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 3836: </strong></font><br>
3837:
3838: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
3839: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
3840: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
3841: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
3842: <p>
3843:
1.247 jufi 3844: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3845: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
3846: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
3847: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 3848: </strong></font><br>
3849:
3850: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 3851: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 3852: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
3853: <p>
1.247 jufi 3854: </ul>
1.175 louis 3855:
1.176 louis 3856:
1.172 mickey 3857: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3858: <ul>
1.172 mickey 3859:
1.247 jufi 3860: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3861: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
3862: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 3863: </strong></font><br>
3864:
3865: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
3866: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
3867: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 3868: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 3869: <p>
3870:
1.247 jufi 3871: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 3872: <a
1.269 deraadt 3873: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
3874: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
3875: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 3876: </strong></font><br>
3877:
3878: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
3879: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
3880: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
3881: <p>
3882:
1.247 jufi 3883: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3884: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 3885: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
3886: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 3887: </strong></font><br>
3888:
3889: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
3890: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
3891: <p>
3892:
1.247 jufi 3893: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3894: <a
1.269 deraadt 3895: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
3896: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 3897: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
3898: </strong></font><br>
3899:
3900: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
3901: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
3902: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
3903: our own Theo de Raadt.
3904: <p>
3905:
1.247 jufi 3906: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3907: <a
1.269 deraadt 3908: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
3909: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
3910: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 3911: </strong></font><br>
3912:
3913: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
3914: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
3915: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
3916: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
3917: shut down.]
3918: <p>
3919:
1.247 jufi 3920: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3921: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 3922: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 3923: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
3924: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 3925: </strong></font><br>
3926:
3927: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
3928: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
3929: <p>
1.247 jufi 3930: </ul>
1.172 mickey 3931:
1.161 louis 3932: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3933: <ul>
1.161 louis 3934:
1.247 jufi 3935: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 3936: <a
1.269 deraadt 3937: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
3938: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
3939: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 3940: </strong></font><br>
3941:
3942: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
3943: by John Wolley
3944: <p>
3945:
1.247 jufi 3946: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 3947: <a
1.269 deraadt 3948: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
3949: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
3950: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 3951: </strong></font><br>
3952:
3953: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
3954: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
3955: OpenBSD).
3956: <p>
3957:
1.247 jufi 3958: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 3959: <a
1.247 jufi 3960: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 3961: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
3962: </strong></font><br>
3963:
3964: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
3965: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
3966: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
3967: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
3968: and hindsight.
3969: <p>
3970:
1.247 jufi 3971: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3972: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
3973: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
3974: </strong></font><br>
3975:
3976: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
3977: <p>
3978:
1.247 jufi 3979: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 3980: <a
1.168 provos 3981: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
3982: December 7, 2000
3983: </strong></font><br>
3984:
3985: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
3986: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
3987: us explain.
3988: <p>
3989:
1.247 jufi 3990: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 3991: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
3992: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 3993: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 3994: December 6, 2000
3995: </strong></font><br>
3996:
3997: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
3998: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
3999: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
4000: <p>
4001:
1.247 jufi 4002: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4003: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
4004: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
4005: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
4006: </strong></font><br>
4007:
4008: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
4009: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
4010: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
4011: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
4012: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
4013: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
4014: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
4015: <p>
4016:
4017: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 4018: <a
1.226 horacio 4019: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
4020: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 4021: </strong></font><br>
4022:
4023: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 4024: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 4025: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 4026: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
4027: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
4028: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 4029: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 4030: <p>
1.162 millert 4031:
1.247 jufi 4032: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 4033: <a
1.161 louis 4034: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
4035: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
4036: </strong></font><br>
4037:
4038: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
4039: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
4040: <p>
4041:
1.247 jufi 4042: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 4043: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
4044: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
4045: </strong></font><br>
4046:
4047: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
4048: <p>
4049:
4050:
1.247 jufi 4051: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 4052: <a
1.226 horacio 4053: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
4054: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
4055: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 4056: </strong></font><br>
4057:
4058: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
4059: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
4060: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
4061: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
4062: <p>
1.247 jufi 4063: </ul>
1.169 louis 4064:
1.158 louis 4065: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4066: <ul>
1.147 louis 4067:
1.247 jufi 4068: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4069: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
4070: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 4071: </strong></font><br>
4072:
4073: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
4074: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
4075: <p>
4076:
1.247 jufi 4077: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4078: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
4079: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
4080: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 4081: </strong></font><br>
4082: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
4083: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
4084: <p>
4085:
1.247 jufi 4086: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 4087: <a
4088: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
4089: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
4090: </strong></font><br>
4091:
4092: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
4093: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
4094: <p>
4095:
1.247 jufi 4096: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4097: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 4098: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
4099: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 4100:
1.213 horacio 4101: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 4102: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 4103: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
4104: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
4105: <p>
1.215 horacio 4106:
1.247 jufi 4107: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4108: <a
4109: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
4110: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
4111: </strong></font><br>
4112:
4113: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
4114: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
4115: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
4116: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
4117: much of the attitude too).
4118: <p>
1.161 louis 4119:
1.247 jufi 4120: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4121: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4122: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 4123: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4124:
1.157 louis 4125: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
4126: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
4127: <p>
1.247 jufi 4128: </ul>
1.157 louis 4129:
4130: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4131: <ul>
1.157 louis 4132:
1.247 jufi 4133: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4134: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4135: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 4136: </strong></font><br>
4137:
4138: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
4139: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
4140: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
4141: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
4142: <p>
4143:
1.247 jufi 4144: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 4145: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
4146: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
4147: </strong></font><br>
4148:
4149: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
4150: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
4151: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
4152: it because they love coding...
4153: <p>
4154:
1.247 jufi 4155: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 4156: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
4157: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
4158: </strong></font><br>
4159:
4160: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
4161: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
4162: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
4163: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
4164: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
4165: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
4166: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
4167: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
4168: <p>
4169:
1.247 jufi 4170: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4171: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
4172: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
4173: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 4174: </strong></font><br>
4175:
4176: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
4177: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
4178: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
4179: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
4180: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
4181: the pizza.
4182: <p>
4183:
1.247 jufi 4184: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 4185: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
4186: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
4187: </strong></font><br>
4188:
4189: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
4190: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
4191: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
4192: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
4193: problems.
4194: <p>
4195:
1.247 jufi 4196: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 4197: <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 4198: </strong></font><br>
4199:
1.222 miod 4200: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 4201: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
4202: - whether they like it or not.
4203: <p>
4204:
1.247 jufi 4205: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4206: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
4207: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 4208: </strong></font><br>
4209:
4210: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
4211: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
4212: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 4213: <p>
1.148 aaron 4214:
1.247 jufi 4215: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4216: <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 4217: </strong></font><br>
4218:
4219: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
4220: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
4221: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
4222: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
4223: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
4224: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
4225: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
4226: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
4227: <p>
4228:
1.247 jufi 4229: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4230: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
4231: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 4232: </strong></font><br>
4233:
4234: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
4235: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 4236: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 4237: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
4238: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
4239: <p>
1.247 jufi 4240: </ul>
1.147 louis 4241:
1.138 louis 4242: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4243: <ul>
1.138 louis 4244:
1.247 jufi 4245: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4246: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
4247: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
4248: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
4249: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 4250: </strong></font><br>
4251:
1.227 horacio 4252: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 4253: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
4254: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
4255: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
4256: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
4257: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
4258: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
4259: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 4260: <p>
4261:
1.247 jufi 4262: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 4263: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 4264: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 4265: </strong></font><br>
4266:
4267: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
4268: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
4269: groups, and even Linux.
4270: <p>
4271:
1.247 jufi 4272: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4273: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
4274: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 4275: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
4276: </strong></font><br>
4277:
4278: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
4279: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
4280: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
4281: library after installing the OS.
4282: <p>
4283:
1.247 jufi 4284: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4285: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 4286: Sys Admin, September 2000
4287: </strong></font><br>
4288:
4289: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
4290: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
4291: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
4292: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 4293: (<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>,
4294: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
4295: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
4296: <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 4297: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 4298: out of the system.
4299: <p>
4300:
1.247 jufi 4301: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 4302: <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
4303: </strong></font><br>
4304:
4305: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 4306: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 4307: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
4308: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
4309: the IP filtering and address translation.
4310: <p>
1.301 jose 4311:
4312: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4313: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
4314: </strong></font><br>
4315:
4316: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
4317: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
4318: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
4319: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
4320: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
4321: <p>
1.247 jufi 4322: </ul>
1.200 niklas 4323:
1.131 louis 4324: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4325: <ul>
1.131 louis 4326:
1.247 jufi 4327: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4328: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
4329: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
4330: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 4331: </strong></font><br>
4332:
4333: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
4334: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
4335: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
4336: <p>
4337:
1.247 jufi 4338: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 4339: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
4340: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
4341: </strong></font><br>
4342:
4343: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
4344: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
4345: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
4346: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
4347: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
4348: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
4349: note of"</i>.
4350: <p>
4351:
1.247 jufi 4352: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 4353: <a
1.247 jufi 4354: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 4355: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
4356: </strong></font><br>
4357:
4358: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
4359: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
4360: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
4361: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
4362: <p>
4363:
1.247 jufi 4364: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 4365: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 4366: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
4367: </strong></font><br>
4368:
4369: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
4370: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
4371: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
4372: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
4373: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
4374: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
4375: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
4376: <p>
4377:
1.247 jufi 4378: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 4379: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
4380: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
4381: 2000
4382: </strong></font><br>
4383:
4384: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
4385: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
4386: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
4387: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
4388: against current industry practices.
4389: <p>
4390:
1.247 jufi 4391: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 4392: <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
4393: </strong></font><br>
4394:
4395: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
4396: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
4397: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
4398: <p>
4399:
1.247 jufi 4400: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 4401: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
4402: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
4403: </strong></font><br>
4404:
4405: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
4406: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
4407: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
4408: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
4409: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
4410: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
4411: careful code reviews, he concludes.
4412: <p>
4413:
1.247 jufi 4414: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 4415: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
4416: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
4417: </strong></font><br>
4418:
4419: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
4420: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
4421: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
4422: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
4423: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 4424: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
4425: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
4426: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 4427: <p>
1.247 jufi 4428: </ul>
1.131 louis 4429:
1.118 louis 4430: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4431: <ul>
1.118 louis 4432:
1.247 jufi 4433: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 4434: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
4435: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
4436: </strong></font><br>
4437:
4438: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
4439: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
4440: about time. The article mentions that
4441: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
4442: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
4443: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 4444: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 4445: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
4446: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 4447: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 4448: <p>
4449:
1.247 jufi 4450: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4451: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 4452: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 4453: </strong></font><br>
4454:
4455: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
4456: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
4457: of OpenSSH.
4458: <p>
4459:
1.247 jufi 4460: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4461: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4462: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 4463: </strong></font><br>
4464:
4465: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 4466: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 4467: bridging.
4468: <p>
4469:
1.247 jufi 4470: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4471: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
4472: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 4473: </strong></font><br>
4474:
1.121 deraadt 4475: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
4476: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 4477: <p>
4478:
1.247 jufi 4479: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 4480: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
4481: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
4482: </strong></font><br>
4483:
4484: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
4485: <p>
4486:
1.247 jufi 4487: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 4488: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 4489: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
4490: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 4491: </strong></font><br>
4492:
1.120 deraadt 4493: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
4494: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 4495: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
4496: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
4497: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
4498: <p>
4499:
1.247 jufi 4500: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 4501: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
4502: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
4503: </strong></font><br>
4504:
1.222 miod 4505: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 4506: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
4507: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
4508: protocols and their quirks.
4509: <p>
4510:
1.247 jufi 4511: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4512: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
4513: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 4514: </strong></font><br>
4515:
4516: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
4517: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
4518: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 4519: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 4520: <p>
4521:
1.247 jufi 4522: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 4523: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
4524: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
4525: </strong></font><br>
4526:
4527: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
4528: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
4529: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
4530: <p>
4531:
1.247 jufi 4532: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 4533: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 4534: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
4535: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 4536: </strong></font><br>
4537:
4538: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
4539: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
4540: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
4541: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
4542: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
4543: <p>
1.247 jufi 4544: </ul>
1.118 louis 4545:
1.104 louis 4546: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4547: <ul>
1.104 louis 4548:
1.247 jufi 4549: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 4550: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
4551: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
4552: </strong></font><br>
4553:
4554: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
4555: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
4556: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
4557: be a bit dry.
4558: <p>
4559:
1.247 jufi 4560: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4561: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
4562: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
4563: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
4564: </strong></font><br>
4565: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
4566: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
4567: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
4568: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
4569: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
4570: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
4571: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
4572: <p>
4573:
1.247 jufi 4574: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4575: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
4576: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 4577: 2000
1.128 louis 4578: </strong></font><br>
4579:
4580: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
4581: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
4582: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
4583: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
4584: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 4585: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 4586: <p>
4587:
1.247 jufi 4588: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4589: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
4590: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 4591: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 4592:
4593: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
4594: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
4595: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
4596: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 4597: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
4598: <p>
1.110 louis 4599:
1.247 jufi 4600: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 4601: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
4602: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
4603: </strong></font><br>
4604:
4605: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
4606: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
4607: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
4608: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
4609: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
4610: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
4611: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
4612: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
4613: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
4614: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
4615: <p>
4616:
1.247 jufi 4617: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 4618: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 4619: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 4620:
4621: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
4622: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 4623: <p>
1.108 louis 4624:
1.247 jufi 4625: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 4626: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
4627: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 4628: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 4629:
4630: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
4631: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
4632: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 4633: <p>
1.106 louis 4634:
1.247 jufi 4635: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 4636: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
4637: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 4638: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 4639:
4640: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
4641: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
4642: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
4643: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 4644: <p>
1.107 louis 4645:
1.247 jufi 4646: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4647: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
4648: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 4649: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 4650:
4651: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
4652: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 4653: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 4654: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
4655: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 4656: <p>
1.105 louis 4657:
1.247 jufi 4658: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 4659: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 4660: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 4661: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 4662:
1.113 naddy 4663: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
4664: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 4665: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 4666: <p>
1.104 louis 4667:
1.247 jufi 4668: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4669: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
4670: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
4671: </strong></font><br>
4672:
4673: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
4674: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
4675: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
4676: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
4677: <p>
1.301 jose 4678:
4679: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4680: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
4681: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
4682: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
4683:
4684: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
4685: hardware-supported cryptography.
4686: <p>
1.247 jufi 4687: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 4688:
1.85 louis 4689: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4690: <ul>
1.85 louis 4691:
1.247 jufi 4692: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4693: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 4694: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 4695: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 4696:
4697: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
4698: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
4699: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
4700: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
4701: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
4702: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
4703: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 4704: <p>
1.99 louis 4705:
1.247 jufi 4706: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4707: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 4708: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 4709: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 4710:
4711: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
4712: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
4713: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
4714: conditions.
1.113 naddy 4715: <p>
1.100 louis 4716:
1.247 jufi 4717: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4718: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 4719: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 4720: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 4721:
4722: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
4723: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
4724: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
4725: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 4726: <p>
1.95 louis 4727:
1.247 jufi 4728: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4729: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 4730: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 4731: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 4732:
4733: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
4734: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 4735: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 4736: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
4737: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4738: <p>
1.92 louis 4739:
1.247 jufi 4740: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4741: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 4742: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 4743: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 4744:
4745: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
4746: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
4747: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
4748: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
4749: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
4750: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 4751: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 4752: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 4753: <p>
1.91 louis 4754:
1.247 jufi 4755: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4756: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
4757: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 4758: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 4759:
4760: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
4761: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
4762: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
4763: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
4764: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
4765: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
4766: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
4767: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
4768: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 4769: <p>
1.90 louis 4770:
1.247 jufi 4771: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 4772: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
4773: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
4774: </strong></font><br>
4775: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
4776: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
4777: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
4778: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
4779: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
4780: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
4781: <p>
4782:
1.247 jufi 4783: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 4784: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
4785: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 4786: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 4787:
1.113 naddy 4788: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
4789: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 4790: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
4791: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
4792: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
4793: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
4794: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 4795: <p>
1.87 louis 4796:
1.247 jufi 4797: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 4798: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
4799: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 4800: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 4801:
4802: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 4803: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 4804: <p>
1.85 louis 4805:
1.247 jufi 4806: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4807: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
4808: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4809: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
4810:
4811: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
4812: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
4813: <p>
4814:
4815: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 4816: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
4817: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 4818: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 4819:
4820: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 4821: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 4822: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
4823: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 4824: <p>
1.89 louis 4825:
1.247 jufi 4826: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 4827: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
1.85 louis 4828: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 4829: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 4830:
4831: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
4832: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
4833: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
4834: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
4835: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 4836: </ul>
1.85 louis 4837:
1.78 deraadt 4838: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4839: <ul>
1.74 louis 4840:
1.247 jufi 4841: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4842: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 4843: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 4844: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 4845: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 4846:
4847: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
4848: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
4849: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4850: <p>
1.83 louis 4851:
1.247 jufi 4852: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 4853: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
4854: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 4855: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 4856:
4857: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
4858: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 4859: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 4860: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
4861: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 4862: <p>
1.93 louis 4863:
1.247 jufi 4864: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4865: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
4866: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
4867: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 4868: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 4869:
1.83 louis 4870: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
4871: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
4872: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
4873: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
4874: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 4875: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
4876: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
4877: <p>
1.82 aaron 4878:
1.247 jufi 4879: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4880: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 4881: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 4882: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 4883:
1.83 louis 4884: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
4885: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
4886: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 4887: <p>
1.80 louis 4888:
1.247 jufi 4889: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4890: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 4891: Bad Press</a>,
4892: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 4893: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 4894:
4895: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 4896: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 4897: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
4898: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
4899: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 4900: <p>
1.247 jufi 4901: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 4902:
4903: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4904: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 4905:
1.247 jufi 4906: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4907: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
4908: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 4909: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 4910: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 4911:
4912: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
4913: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
4914: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
4915: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 4916: <p>
1.74 louis 4917:
1.247 jufi 4918: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 4919: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
4920: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 4921: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 4922:
1.219 horacio 4923: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
4924: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
4925: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
4926: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
4927: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
4928: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
4929: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 4930: <p>
1.88 louis 4931:
1.247 jufi 4932: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 4933: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 4934: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 4935: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 4936:
4937: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
4938: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
4939: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
4940: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 4941: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 4942: <p>
1.81 louis 4943:
1.247 jufi 4944: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4945: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 4946: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 4947: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 4948:
4949: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
4950: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
4951: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
4952: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
4953: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
4954: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
4955: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 4956: <p>
1.90 louis 4957:
1.247 jufi 4958: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4959: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 4960: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 4961: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 4962:
4963: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
4964: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
4965: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 4966: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 4967: <p>
1.247 jufi 4968: </ul>
1.71 louis 4969:
1.69 deraadt 4970: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4971: <ul>
1.70 louis 4972:
1.247 jufi 4973: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4974: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
4975: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 4976: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 4977:
4978: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
4979: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
4980: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 4981: <p>
1.70 louis 4982:
1.247 jufi 4983: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4984: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
4985: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 4986: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 4987:
4988: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 4989: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 4990: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 4991: <p>
1.68 louis 4992:
1.247 jufi 4993: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4994: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
4995: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 4996: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 4997: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 4998:
1.111 jufi 4999: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
5000: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 5001: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 5002: "secure by default" installation.
5003: <p>
1.64 louis 5004:
1.247 jufi 5005: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 5006: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 5007: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 5008: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 5009:
1.113 naddy 5010: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 5011: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 5012: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 5013: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
5014: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
5015: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 5016: <p>
1.66 louis 5017:
1.247 jufi 5018: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5019: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 5020: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5021: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 5022:
5023: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 5024: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 5025: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
5026: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
5027: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 5028: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
5029: <p>
1.83 louis 5030:
1.247 jufi 5031: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5032: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 5033: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5034: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 5035:
5036: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 5037: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
5038: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 5039: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
5040: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 5041: <p>
1.64 louis 5042:
1.247 jufi 5043: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5044: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 5045: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5046: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 5047:
5048: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
5049: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 5050: <p>
1.301 jose 5051:
5052: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5053: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
5054: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
5055: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
5056: </strong></font><br>
5057:
5058: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
5059: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
5060: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
5061: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
5062: Giving way to
5063: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
5064: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
5065: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
5066: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
5067: <p>
1.247 jufi 5068: </ul>
1.65 louis 5069:
1.69 deraadt 5070: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5071: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5072:
1.247 jufi 5073: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5074: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 5075: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 5076: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 5077:
5078: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
5079: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
5080: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
5081: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 5082: <p>
1.88 louis 5083:
1.247 jufi 5084: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5085: <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 5086: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 5087:
5088: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 5089: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
5090: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 5091: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
5092: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 5093: <p>
1.60 louis 5094:
1.247 jufi 5095: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 5096: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 5097: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 5098: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 5099: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5100:
5101: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
5102: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
5103: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 5104: <p>
1.58 louis 5105:
1.247 jufi 5106: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 5107: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 5108: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 5109:
5110: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
5111: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 5112: <p>
1.53 louis 5113:
1.247 jufi 5114: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 5115: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
5116: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 5117: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 5118:
5119: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
5120: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
5121: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 5122: <p>
1.99 louis 5123:
1.247 jufi 5124: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 5125: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 5126: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5127:
5128: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
5129: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 5130: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 5131: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 5132: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 5133:
1.247 jufi 5134: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 5135: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
5136: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 5137: </strong></font><br>
5138:
5139: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
5140: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
5141: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
5142: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
5143: <p>
5144:
1.247 jufi 5145: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5146: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 5147: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 5148: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5149:
5150: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
5151: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 5152: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 5153:
1.247 jufi 5154: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 5155: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 5156: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 5157:
5158: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 5159: in
1.247 jufi 5160: <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 5161: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 5162: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 5163: <p>
1.53 louis 5164:
1.247 jufi 5165: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5166: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 5167: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
5168: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 5169: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 5170:
1.58 louis 5171: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5172: <p>
1.301 jose 5173:
5174: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5175: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
5176: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
5177: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
5178: Informacyjny, January 2000
5179: </strong></font><br>
5180:
5181: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
5182: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
5183: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
5184: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
5185: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
5186: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
5187: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
5188: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
5189: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
5190: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 5191: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
5192: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 5193: <p>
5194:
5195: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5196: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
5197: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
5198: </strong></font><br>
5199:
5200: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
5201: <p>
5202: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 5203:
1.69 deraadt 5204: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5205: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5206:
1.247 jufi 5207: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 5208: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
5209: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
5210: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 5211: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5212:
1.58 louis 5213: Kurt Seifried
5214: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
5215: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
5216: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 5217: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 5218:
1.247 jufi 5219: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5220: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 5221: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 5222: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 5223:
5224: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 5225: <p>
1.96 louis 5226:
1.247 jufi 5227: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5228: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
5229: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
5230: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
5231: </strong></font><br>
5232:
5233: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
5234: <p>
5235:
5236: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5237: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 5238: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 5239: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 5240:
5241: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
5242: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 5243: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 5244: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 5245: <p>
1.247 jufi 5246: </ul>
1.86 louis 5247:
1.69 deraadt 5248: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5249: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5250:
1.247 jufi 5251: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 5252: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
5253: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 5254: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 5255:
5256: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
5257: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 5258: <p>
1.61 louis 5259:
1.247 jufi 5260: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5261: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 5262: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
5263: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5264: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 5265:
5266: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 5267: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 5268: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
5269: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 5270: right -- or at least strives to".
5271: <p>
1.48 louis 5272:
1.247 jufi 5273: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 5274: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
5275: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5276: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 5277: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
5278: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
5279: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
5280: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 5281: <p>
1.61 louis 5282:
1.247 jufi 5283: <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 5284: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 5285: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 5286:
5287: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
5288: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
5289: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
5290: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 5291: <p>
1.46 louis 5292:
1.247 jufi 5293: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 5294: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
5295: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 5296: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5297:
5298: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
5299: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 5300: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 5301:
1.247 jufi 5302: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 5303: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
5304: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 5305: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 5306:
5307: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
5308: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
5309: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
5310: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 5311: <p>
1.247 jufi 5312: </ul>
1.70 louis 5313:
1.69 deraadt 5314: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5315: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5316:
1.247 jufi 5317: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5318: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
5319: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 5320: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 5321: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 5322:
5323: Kurt Seifried
5324: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
5325: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
5326: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 5327: <p>
1.44 philen 5328:
1.247 jufi 5329: <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 5330: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 5331: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 5332:
5333: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 5334: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 5335:
1.247 jufi 5336: <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 5337: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 5338: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 5339:
5340: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 5341: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 5342:
1.247 jufi 5343: <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 5344: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 5345: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 5346:
5347: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
5348: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
5349: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
5350: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 5351: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 5352:
1.247 jufi 5353: <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 5354: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 5355: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 5356:
1.36 louis 5357: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 5358: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 5359:
1.247 jufi 5360: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5361: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
1.39 louis 5362: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 5363: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 5364:
5365: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 5366: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 5367: </ul>
1.38 louis 5368:
1.69 deraadt 5369: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5370: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5371:
1.247 jufi 5372: <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 5373: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 5374: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 5375:
5376: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
5377: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 5378: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 5379:
1.113 naddy 5380: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 5381: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 5382: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 5383: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 5384:
5385: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
5386: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 5387: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
5388: terminal:
1.113 naddy 5389: <blockquote>
5390: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
5391: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
5392: <br>
5393: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
5394: </code>
5395: </blockquote>
5396: <p>
5397:
1.247 jufi 5398: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 5399: <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 5400: <p>
5401:
5402: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5403: <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 5404: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 5405:
5406: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
5407: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 5408: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 5409: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 5410:
1.247 jufi 5411: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5412: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
5413: Sept. 28, 1999
5414: </strong></font><br>
5415:
5416: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
5417: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
5418: translating and reprinting articles from
5419: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
5420: <p>
5421:
5422: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 5423: <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 5424: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 5425:
5426: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
5427: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
5428: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
5429: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
5430: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 5431: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 5432: <p>
1.19 louis 5433:
1.113 naddy 5434: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 5435: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 5436: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 5437:
5438: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
5439: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
5440: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 5441: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
5442: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 5443: <p>
1.16 louis 5444:
1.247 jufi 5445: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5446: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 5447: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 5448: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 5449:
1.57 louis 5450: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
5451: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
5452: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 5453: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 5454:
1.247 jufi 5455: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5456: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.466 deraadt 5457: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5458: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5459:
1.113 naddy 5460: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 5461:
1.247 jufi 5462: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 5463: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
5464: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 5465: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 5466:
1.23 louis 5467: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
5468: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
5469: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
5470: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
5471: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 5472: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 5473:
1.247 jufi 5474: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 5475: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
5476: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 5477: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 5478:
1.199 pvalchev 5479: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 5480: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
5481: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
5482: installation.
1.113 naddy 5483: <p>
1.47 louis 5484:
1.247 jufi 5485: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5486: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 5487: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 5488: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5489:
1.301 jose 5490: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
5491: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
5492: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 5493: </ul>
1.57 louis 5494:
1.69 deraadt 5495: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5496: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5497:
1.247 jufi 5498: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 5499: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 5500: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 5501: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 5502:
5503: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
5504: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 5505: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5506: <p>
1.12 louis 5507:
1.247 jufi 5508: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 5509: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 5510: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 5511: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 5512:
5513: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
5514: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 5515: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
5516: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
5517: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
5518: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
5519: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 5520: <p>
1.247 jufi 5521: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 5522:
1.69 deraadt 5523: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5524: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 5525:
1.247 jufi 5526: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 5527: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 5528: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 5529:
5530: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
5531: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
5532: available."
1.113 naddy 5533: <p>
1.301 jose 5534:
5535: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5536: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
5537: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
5538: </strong></font><br>
5539:
5540: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
5541: <p>
1.247 jufi 5542: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 5543:
1.69 deraadt 5544: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5545: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5546:
1.247 jufi 5547: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 5548: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 5549: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 5550:
5551: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
5552: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
5553: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
5554: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
5555: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 5556: <p>
1.33 louis 5557:
1.247 jufi 5558: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5559: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 5560: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 5561: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5562:
1.113 naddy 5563: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
5564: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 5565: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
5566: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
5567: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 5568: <p>
1.247 jufi 5569: </ul>
1.57 louis 5570:
1.69 deraadt 5571: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5572: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5573:
1.247 jufi 5574: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5575: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 5576: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 5577: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 5578:
5579: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
5580: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 5581: <p>
1.69 deraadt 5582:
1.247 jufi 5583: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 5584: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
5585: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
5586: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 5587: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 5588:
5589: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 5590: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 5591:
1.247 jufi 5592: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5593: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 5594:
1.113 naddy 5595: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 5596:
1.247 jufi 5597: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5598: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
1.68 louis 5599: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 5600: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 5601:
5602: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 5603: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 5604: </ul>
1.23 louis 5605:
1.69 deraadt 5606: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5607: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5608:
1.247 jufi 5609: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 5610: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 5611: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 5612:
5613: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
5614: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 5615: <p>
1.2 deraadt 5616:
1.247 jufi 5617: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5618: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 5619: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5620: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5621:
5622: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
5623: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 5624: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 5625: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 5626: </ul>
1.57 louis 5627:
1.69 deraadt 5628: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5629: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5630:
1.247 jufi 5631: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5632: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
1.15 louis 5633: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 5634: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 5635:
5636: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
5637: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
5638: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
5639: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5640: <p>
1.15 louis 5641:
1.247 jufi 5642: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 5643: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
5644: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 5645: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5646:
5647: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
5648: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
5649: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
5650: columns."
1.113 naddy 5651: <p>
1.247 jufi 5652: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5653:
1.69 deraadt 5654: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5655: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5656:
1.247 jufi 5657: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5658: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 5659: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 5660: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5661:
5662: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 5663: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 5664:
1.113 naddy 5665: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5666: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 5667: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5668:
5669: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
5670: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 5671: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 5672: </ul>
1.57 louis 5673:
1.69 deraadt 5674: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5675: <ul>
1.301 jose 5676: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5677: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
5678: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
5679: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
5680:
5681: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
5682: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
5683: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
5684: <p>
5685:
5686: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5687: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
5688: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
5689: Nov 13, 1998 and
5690: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
5691: Datateknik</a>,
5692: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
5693:
1.380 saad 5694: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 5695: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
5696: explains the licensing issues and points to our
5697: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
5698: <p>
1.69 deraadt 5699:
1.113 naddy 5700: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5701: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 5702: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 5703: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 5704:
1.222 miod 5705: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 5706: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
5707: Implementation, including a brief interview with
5708: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 5709: <p>
1.247 jufi 5710: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5711:
1.69 deraadt 5712: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5713: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5714:
1.247 jufi 5715: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5716: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 5717: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5718:
1.69 deraadt 5719: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
5720: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 5721: <p>
1.247 jufi 5722: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5723:
1.69 deraadt 5724: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5725: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 5726:
1.247 jufi 5727: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 5728: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
5729: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 5730: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5731:
1.383 jcs 5732: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 5733: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 5734: <p>
1.1 deraadt 5735:
1.247 jufi 5736: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 5737: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 5738: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
5739: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 5740: <p>
1.247 jufi 5741: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5742:
1.69 deraadt 5743: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5744: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5745:
1.247 jufi 5746: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5747: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 5748: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
5749: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 5750: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 5751: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 5752:
5753: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
5754: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
5755: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 5756: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 5757: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 5758: <p>
1.247 jufi 5759: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 5760:
5761: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5762: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5763:
1.247 jufi 5764: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5765: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 5766: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 5767:
1.69 deraadt 5768: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
5769: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 5770: <p>
1.112 naddy 5771:
1.247 jufi 5772: </ul>
1.113 naddy 5773: <p>
1.1 deraadt 5774:
1.292 camield 5775: <hr>
1.216 horacio 5776: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 5777: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.540 ! ian 5778: <br><small>$OpenBSD: press.html,v 1.539 2006/10/05 16:37:28 ian Exp $</small>
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