Annotation of www/press.html, Revision 1.543
1.247 jufi 1: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
1.113 naddy 2: <html>
1.1 deraadt 3: <head>
4: <title>OpenBSD Media Coverage</title>
1.247 jufi 5: <link rev=made href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">
1.113 naddy 6: <meta name="resource-type" content="document">
1.247 jufi 7: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
1.113 naddy 8: <meta name="distribution" content="global">
1.494 bernd 9: <meta name="copyright" content="This document copyright 1996-2006 by OpenBSD.">
1.1 deraadt 10: </head>
11:
1.376 david 12: <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" link="#23238E">
1.241 jsyn 13: <a href="index.html"><img alt="[OpenBSD]" height="30" width="141" src="images/smalltitle.gif" border="0"></a>
1.113 naddy 14:
1.112 naddy 15: <p>
1.247 jufi 16: <h2><font color="#e00000">Media Coverage</font></h2>
1.113 naddy 17: <hr>
1.1 deraadt 18:
1.539 ian 19: <h2>October, 2006</h2>
20: <ul>
1.540 ian 21:
22: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.543 ! mbalmer 23: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/10/bsdtalk076-openbsd-developer-marc.html">
! 24: Interview with Marc Balmer about OpenCON 2006</a>, bsdtalk076, October 12, 2006
! 25: </strong></font><br>
! 26: BSDTalk interviews Marc Balmer about the upcoming
! 27: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a> conference
! 28: in Venice, Italy, how he got involved in the OpenBSD project, and what he
! 29: uses the OpenBSD operating system for in his company. Marc Balmer tells us about
! 30: the history of the conference that is dedicated solely to OpenBSD, why it
! 31: is taking place in Venice, and why he likes OpenBSD as the platform of choice
! 32: for his many customers.
! 33: <p>
! 34:
! 35: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.541 ian 36: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20061006000709">
37: OLPC hurts wireless documentation efforts</a>, undeadly.org, October 6, 2006
38: </strong></font><br>
39: Theo de Raadt takes on the high-profile
40: <a href="http://laptop.org/">OLPC</a> (One Laptop Per Child) Project
41: for not demanding open documentation from its wireless
42: chip manufacturer, wasting a "golden moment" opportunity to use sales
43: volume in the millions to pressure chip vendors, and thus helping destroy
44: the open source movement that makes the OLPC laptops affordable -
45: truly, betraying that hand that feeds it.
1.542 deraadt 46: Also strong words from other developers such as Bob Beck.
1.541 ian 47: <p>
48:
49: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.540 ian 50: <a href="http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;639736970;fp;2;fpid;3">
51: The sad state of computer security</a>, PC World Australia, October 5, 2006
52: </strong></font><br>
53: Roger Grimes opines on how bad security really is for most of the world
54: (and it is really bad). "If you aren't using OpenBSD [or a few others],
55: then every other product in the world is pretty bad in comparison.
56: <br />
57: "Most software contains numerous vulnerabilities, holes, and
58: exploitable routines. Even our anti-malware software and devices,
59: the things that are supposed to protect us, are full of buffer
60: overflows and vulnerabilities."
61: <br />
62: And, Grimes generalizes,
63: "Sadly, the world has decided that real computer security doesn't
64: matter any more than real terrorist security. It's all lip service.
65: We are, and apparently choose to be, reactive sheep. Proactive
66: thinkers get ignored and ridiculed...
67: As more and more of the world goes online, and as more of our
68: important infrastructure goes "e-something," it would appear that
69: we are on a collision course headed toward a tipping point event.
70: And when it does, the sheep will stand aghast wondering how it
71: happened."
72: Worth reading!
73: <p>
74:
1.539 ian 75: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
76: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061002-7874.html">
77: OpenBSD creator wants users to pressure Intel on open source policies</a>,
78: Ars Technica, October 2, 2006.
79: </strong></font><br>
80: Summarizes Theo's efforts to obtain documentation and freely
81: redistributable firmware from Intel.
82: <p>
83:
84: </ul>
85:
1.536 grunk 86: <h2>September, 2006</h2>
87: <ul>
88:
89: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.537 ian 90: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/7184">
91: OpenBSD: Intel Accused Of Being "An Open Source Fraud"</a>,
92: KernelTrap, September 30, 2006.
93: </strong></font><br>
94: Mentions Damien's thread on misc summarizing Intel's policy toward
95: open-source software as being to make Intel "look like we're
96: open-source friendly by opening a project on sourceforge," and,
97: "give the open-source community the bare minimum so that they can
98: serve as our beta-testers." Damien reverse engineered the wpi(4)
99: driver source for the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Driver,
100: despite Intel's refusal to freely provide documentation.
101: Regular readers will know that OpenBSD has been at war with Intel
102: for ages over these chipsets.
103: Quotes Theo as saying:
104: "before we ask a vendor, we have already lost (ie. the
105: device does not work). When a vendor says no, we have lost nothing
106: further -- there is no way we can lose further than having the
107: device not work. We can only win, and then the device works. So
108: there is no point in giving up until we win back the rights to write
109: software for the hardware that we have purchased."
110: <p>
111:
112: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
113: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/09/bsdtalk069-interview-with-christoph.html">
114: Interview with Christoph Egger about Xen on OpenBSD</a>, bsdtalk069, September 26, 2006
115: </strong></font><br>
116: BSDTalk interviews Christoph Egger about Xen and about how Christoph make OpenBSD
117: able to run as a guest operating system on Xen.
118: Includes some background about Xen as well as what it would take to
119: make OpenBSD run as the "dom0" or master host.
120: <p>
121:
122: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.536 grunk 123: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/09/bsdtalk068-interview-with-openbsd.html">
124: Intervew with OpenBSD developer Bob Beck</a>, bsdtalk068, September 22, 2006
125: </strong></font><br>
126: Bob Beck talks about spamd and his history with OpenBSD and UNIX
127: on Will Backman's bsdtalk. Bob gives us a look into his work on
128: OpenBSD and gives us amusing stories of how spamd works and how it
129: actually fares in 'the wild.' The podcast lasts a whole 25 minutes,
130: 59 seconds so it's long enough to occupy a meal or a small commute.
131: <p>
132:
1.537 ian 133: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
134: <a href="http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060920185115">
135: OpenBSD 4.0 pre-orders are up!</a>, undeadly.org, September 20, 2006
136: </strong></font><br>
137: One of the first mentions of 4.0 going on sale for pre-ordering
138: (the official release date is November 1).
139: Also gives a list of the many good things that have been added
140: in 4.0, including many new device drivers,
141: support for UltraSPARC III on sparc64, improvements to ipsecctl,
142: a new RCS implementation, and much more.
143: Includes a reminder to "show your support for the project by
1.538 deraadt 144: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/orders.html">placing your pre-orders today!"</a>
1.537 ian 145: <p>
146:
1.536 grunk 147: </ul>
148:
1.534 ian 149: <h2>August, 2006</h2>
150: <ul>
151:
152: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.537 ian 153: <a href="http://anil.recoil.org/blog/articles/2006/08/21/openbsd-xen-boots-multi-user">
154: OpenBSD/Xen boots multi-user</a>, Recoil Blog, August 21, 2006
155: </strong></font><br>
156: Anil discusses his stewardship of a Google Summer of Code project in which
157: Christoph Egger ported and revised some NetBSD code to make OpenBSD boot up natively
158: as a guest operating system under
159: <a href="http://www.xensource.com/">Xen</a>, the open-source hypervisor
160: or "virtualization" system.
161: <p>
162:
163: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.534 ian 164: <a href="http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-openbsd.html">
165: Take a closer look at OpenBSD</a>, IBM developerWorks, August 08, 2006
166: </strong></font><br>
167: Tim McIntire holds OpenBSD up as a beacon to UNIX users, calling it
168: "quite possibly the most secure operating system on the planet."
169: He talks about how the development process leads to greater security
170: and how tools like OpenSSH make it out into the wider UNIX/Linux world.
171: "OpenBSD might not have a huge user base compared to other UNIX-like operating systems,
172: but it is installed at the most crucial points of many networks."
173: Has a somewhat brief but effective discussion of installing the software, and
174: ends with references to several papers and sites of interest.
175: <p>
176:
177: </ul>
178:
1.531 ian 179: <h2>July, 2006</h2>
180: <ul>
181: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
182: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/case-studies--profiles/founder-breathes-the-open-air/2006/07/17/1152988468274.html">
183: Founder breathes the Open air</a>, The Age, July 18, 2006
184: </strong></font><br>
185: Subtitled "Hiking in exotic climes is a brain adventure for the founder of OpenBSD", this is
186: as much about hiking and learning new symbols as about software, but our leader
187: manages to do both, and bring both into the interview.
188: The article quotes Theo as saying
189: "Another major lesson I have learnt is that most people only care
190: about things working for themselves, and thus it is very easy in a
191: group to build poorly thought-out solutions. It is very simple to
192: write small hacks and end up with unmaintainable systems in the long term."
193: Describes the hackathons as an important part of the project's process
194: and describes the funding issues as well.
195: <p>
196:
197: </ul>
198:
1.525 ian 199: <h2>June, 2006</h2>
200: <ul>
201: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.535 steven 202: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=472693&rl=1">
1.530 ian 203: Alternatives to LAMP</a>, informit.com, June 2, 2006
204: </strong></font><br>
205: While "Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP" get most of the attention,
206: there are alternatives to each that are, in some way, better.
207: David Chisnal starts this article with a look at OS alternatives,
208: and OpenBSD gets the most detailed coverage, including this:
209: "When it comes to security, OpenBSD has a well-earned reputation
210: as the operating system for the truly paranoid. The entire kernel
211: and base system, including the OpenBSD fork of Apache, undergoes a
212: constant auditing process. The OpenBSD attitude is that any bug is
213: potentially exploitable, and when a bug is found by the auditing
214: team the next step is to attempt to remove every single occurrence
215: of that category of bug. This approach leads to an incredibly secure
216: system." Also talks about our pioneering use of W^X and the
217: "incredibly powerful and easy to configure" packet filter, pf.
218: <p>
219:
220: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.527 ian 221: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article8785.phtml">
1.525 ian 222: Microsoft adopts open-source security feature</a>, OSDir.com, June 1, 2006
223: </strong></font><br>
224: Microsoft borrows one of OpenBSD's security features for Vista, stack/library randomization,
225: under the name Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR).
226: "Until now, the feature has been most prominently used in the OpenBSD Unix variant and
227: the PaX and Exec Shield security patches for Linux"
228: (despite the article's title, there is nothing open-source about Microsoft's implementation).
229: <p>
230:
1.526 ian 231: </ul>
1.525 ian 232:
1.514 ian 233: <h2>May, 2006</h2>
234: <ul>
1.524 ian 235: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
236: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6650">
237: OpenBSD: wpi, A Blob Free Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Driver</a>, KernelTrap, May 28, 2006
238: </strong></font><br>
239: Damien Bergamini wrote OpenBSD's all-open-source driver for the Intel Pro/Wireless,
240: a sharp contrast to other projects' bogus "open source" drivers that are just wrappers around
241: a "binary blob" (source code not available, sorry) provided by the vendor.
242: "His announcement came a little over two months after Intel released
243: the controversial ipw3945 driver for Linux which included
244: a binary-only daemon described as necessary for enforcing regulatory
245: limits for the radio transmitter on the wireless device."
246: Bergamini's work proves yet again that vendors don't have to obscure their products
247: to make them useful.
248: <p>
1.518 ian 249:
250: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.520 ian 251: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/openbsd/c2k6/who1">
1.523 ian 252: c2k6, Who's Who At the 2006 OpenBSD Hackathon, Part I</a>
253: and
254: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6662">Part II</a>,
1.522 ian 255: KernelTrap, May 28, 2006
1.520 ian 256: </strong></font><br>
1.521 deraadt 257: Jeremy Andrews visited our developers at the Hackathon and gives
1.523 ian 258: a brief but colorful summary of most of the team members:
1.520 ian 259: why they chose OpenBSD, how they got involved, what they do, and
260: their plans for the week.
261: <p>
262:
263: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.523 ian 264: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/05/22/OpenBSD-on-Flash.html">
265: Installing OpenBSD on Flash</a>,
266: Ping Wales, May 22, 2006
267: </strong></font><br>
268: David Chisnall shows how to set up an OpenBSD boot image for
269: Soekris or PC Engines machines that boot from flash memory.
270: <p>
271:
272: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.520 ian 273: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/eur/article.php/3603961">
274: Enterprise Unix Roundup: Whither BSD?</a>, ServerWatch, May 5, 2006
275: </strong></font><br>
276: Amy Newman and Brian Proffitt state that the BSDs are often overlooked
277: because of their limited commercial acceptance.
278: The authors call this an unfortunate oversight, because recent releases of
279: the freely available BSD flavors show significant technical improvements.
1.523 ian 280: As an example, they specifically refer to OpenBSD's sensor framework
1.520 ian 281: (introduced with 3.9).
282: Newman and Proffitt also accuse big vendors of picking the nice parts from
283: the BSDs' code and giving nothing back to the community in return.
284: <p>
285:
286: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.518 ian 287: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/35/1/">
288: OpenBSD 3.9 Review</a>, Software In Review, May 3, 2006
289: </strong></font><br>
290: Jem Matzan takes the 3.9 release out for a spin, and likes it.
291: Noting that each release consists of a lot of small changes
292: and some major improvements - and mentioning hardware support, sensors,
293: and "blob removal" - he clearly thinks the project is doing a lot of things right.
294: "Everything you get in the release is production-ready, secure by
295: default... and comes with possibly the finest integrated documentation
296: in the Unix-clone world. While you might find a poorly programmed
297: driver or other base system component in other BSDs and GNU/Linux
298: distributions, in OpenBSD if something is supported, it works."
299: <p>
300:
301: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
302: [GERMAN]
303: <a href="http://www.linux-magazin.de/Artikel/ausgabe/2006/06/news_zut/news_zut.html">
304: Mozilla greift OpenBSD unter die Arme</a>, Linux Magazin, Issue 06/06, May 2006, p. 18
305: </strong></font><br>
306: The German <a href="http://www.linux-magazin.de/">Linux Magazin</a> has a short
307: article about OpenBSD's financial situation and Marco Peerebroom's
1.535 steven 308: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060321034114">call for donations</a>
1.518 ian 309: on undeadly.org. The article further mentions how OpenSSH development
310: is connected to OpenBSD.
311: <p>
312:
1.514 ian 313: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
314: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6550">
315: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, KernelTrap, May 2, 2006
316: </strong></font><br>
317: Jeremy Andrews conducts a free-ranging interview, focused mainly on 3.9 and drivers,
318: that gives Theo a chance to explain how the big North American chip vendors'
319: business practices make it harder for open source projects,
1.515 ian 320: talk about "binary blobs" vs firmware in drivers, and more.
1.514 ian 321: There's also coverage of where the project is going up to and after 3.9 and where
1.516 steven 322: it might (or might not) go in the future, why doing things right (and
1.514 ian 323: running this project) is so important to Theo,
324: and even why he does mountain biking!
325: <p>
326:
327: </ul>
328:
1.503 ian 329: <h2>April, 2006</h2>
330: <ul>
331: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.532 ray 332: <a href="http://www.dribin.org/dave/blog/archives/2006/04/28/os_x_passwords_2/">
333: Mac OS X Password Implementation Compared to OpenBSD's</a>, April 28, 2006
334: </strong></font><br>
335: Dave Dribin analyzes Mac OS X's password implementation
336: and compares it with OpenBSD's:
337: "The king of the hill has to go to OpenBSD,
338: which uses a hash based on the Blowfish block cipher called bcrypt.
339: The benefit of [bcrypt] is best stated on their website:
340: <blockquote>
341: The most important property of bcrypt (and thus crypt_blowfish)
342: is that it is adaptable to future processor performance improvements,
343: allowing you to arbitrarily increase the processing cost of checking a
344: password while still maintaining compatibility with your older password hashes.
345: Already now bcrypt hashes you would use are several orders of magnitude
346: stronger than traditional Unix DES-based or FreeBSD-style MD5-based hashes.
347: </blockquote>
348: This is just plain cool."
349: <p>
350:
351: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.512 ian 352: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6557">
353: OpenBSD 3.9: Blob-Busters Interviewed</a>, OnLAMP, April 27, 2006
354: </strong></font><br>
355: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several of the developers on improvements
356: in 3.9: the continuing absence of "blob drivers", IPMI and sensors, apmd performance
357: adjustment, Macs, rthreads, multicast, trunk, hostapd, and more.
1.513 saad 358: jsg clarifies the issue of "binary blob" drivers vs "firmware", and
1.512 ian 359: discusses the NVIDIA nForce Ethernet driver he did after NVIDIA did refuse
360: to give out documentation; they can't stop us, but they can slow us down.
361: The result: "There aren't any drivers in OpenBSD with binary-only components;
362: this is quite a contrast to pretty much everyone else out there."
363: marco comments on the IPMI work in 3.9, and adds:
364: "IPMI is a standard, but there are vendors out there
1.513 saad 365: that have reading comprehension issues...".
1.512 ian 366: A long list of other developers explain their contributions
367: and other changes that make 3.9 one of our best releases yet.
368: <p>
369:
370: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.517 mbalmer 371: [GERMAN]
372: <a href="http://www.guug.de/uptimes/index.html">
373: Stop BLOB!</a>, UpTimes, April 25, 2006
374: </strong></font><br>
375: Wilhelm Bühler gives an overview in a short article about Blobs, what they
376: are and why they are bad.
377: <p>
378:
379: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.508 ian 380: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/34/1/">
381: Using OpenBSD</a>, Software In Review, April 24, 2006
382: </strong></font><br>
383: Jem Matzan gives a brief overview of using the system.
384: Covers ports and packages, use of SMP kernel, and more.
385: Capsule summary of how our security policy affects the administrator:
386: "Because it is secure by default, you may have to do more initial
387: configuration with OpenBSD than with most other Unix and Unix-like
388: operating systems, but you'll spend a lot less time securing it --
389: maybe no time at all, if you follow the instructions in the manual
390: pages."
391: <p>
392:
393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.519 ian 394: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/16/1749215.shtml?tid=8">
395: Using OpenBSD on the desktop</a>, NewsForge, April 21, 2006
396: </strong></font><br>
397: Considers the use of OpenBSD as a desktop operating system,
398: starting with "Secure by default" - who wants to have their desktop hacked? -
399: and continues:
400: "OpenBSD's clean code and design also provide rock-solid stability.
401: I used to have lots of problems and crashes with new versions of
402: Linux (kernel 2.6.x) and FreeBSD (versions 5.x and 6.x). The main
403: focus of OpenBSD developers is to provide programs that work ...
404: [they] prefer to improve their code rather than just
405: add more new features and end up with a bloated and unstable product."
406: Covers X, ports/packages, window managers, what is and is not supported,
407: and more. Final thought:
408: "OpenBSD's clean design and remarkable stability, along with its
409: proactive security, not only make OpenBSD a potential candidate for
410: home desktop users but also every system administrator's dream come
411: true for business environments."
412: <p>
413:
414: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.511 djm 415: [FRENCH]
1.509 djm 416: <a href="http://developpeur.journaldunet.com/itws/060419-itw-openssh-openbsd-miller.shtml">
1.511 djm 417: JDN Développeurs interviews Damien Miller</a>,
1.509 djm 418: JDN Développeurs, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
419: Interview with Damien Miller, discussing OpenSSH security, the OpenBSD
420: development approach, the problem of blobby drivers and the recent request
1.510 djm 421: for funding.
1.509 djm 422: <p>
423:
424: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.507 cloder 425: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6497">
426: Interview with developers Jonathan Gray and Damien Bergamini</a>,
427: Kerneltrap, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
428: An interview with the authors of OpenBSD's new NVIDIA Ethernet driver. OpenBSD's
429: policy forbidding binary driver blobs is discussed, and the developers give a good
430: overview of how they went about implementing the new driver.
431: <p>
432:
433: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.528 ian 434: <a href="http://www.thehostingnews.com/article2217.html">GoDaddy.com
435: Donates $10K to Open Source Development Project</a>,
436: The Hosting News, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
437: GoDaddy.com, which claims to be "the Number One registrar of domain
438: names worldwide", recently donated $10,000 to the OpenSSH project
439: because, "according to the company, OpenSSH has become a staple
440: of all free Unix and Linux operating systems in the world."
441: They use it, and their customers use it, and they recognize the
442: value of supporting an open source projects that is, as company
443: CEO Bob Parsons says, "integral to online security".
444: <br/>
1.529 ian 445: Similar articles at
1.528 ian 446: <a href="http://www.hostsearch.com/news/the_go_daddy_group_news_4366.asp">
1.529 ian 447: hostsearch.com</a> and
448: <a href="http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20060419090443506">
449: LinuxElectrons.com</a>
1.528 ian 450: <p>
451:
452: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.506 aanriot 453: [FRENCH] Principles and usage of OpenSSH,
454: <a href="http://www.gnulinuxmag.com/">Linux Magazine France</a>,
455: issue 82, April 2006, p. 28-33
456: </strong></font><br>
1.533 ray 457: A 6 page article from Alexandre Courbot focuses on OpenSSH and its
1.507 cloder 458: basics. It begins with an history of the different implementations, and
1.506 aanriot 459: is punctuated with examples.
460: Tunneling features are described, as well as
1.535 steven 461: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp</a>,
462: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent&sektion=1">ssh-agent</a>,
1.506 aanriot 463: and
1.535 steven 464: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp</a>.
1.506 aanriot 465: <p>
466:
467: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.503 ian 468: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71658">
469: Mozilla Foundation spendet für OpenBSD</a>, heise online, April 4, 2006
470: </strong></font><br>
471: Short article mentioning the donation the Mozilla Foundation made in support of
472: further OpenSSH development.
473: The article emphasizes the opportunity to wire money through the project's
474: new European account - this one donation will not meet the
475: project's funding needs for all time.
476: <p>
1.504 bernd 477: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
478: [GERMAN] "OpenBSD mit finanziellen Problemen", c't 8/06, p. 45.,
479: April 3, 2006
480: </strong></font><br>
481: A very short article about OpenBSD's financial problems. They mention that
482: this could compromise future hackathons.
483: <p>
1.503 ian 484:
485: </ul>
486:
1.487 ian 487: <h2>March, 2006</h2>
488: <ul>
1.495 ian 489: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.500 ian 490: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/theo_interview.html">
1.501 ian 491: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>, DaemonNews, March, 2006
1.500 ian 492: </strong></font><br>
493: Chris Silva conducts a lightweight but wide-ranging and fun interview with Theo
494: on topics including "Puffy",
495: the logos used by certain other BSD projects -
496: Theo quips that "I really like how they make absolutely no statement at all" -
497: what's new in 3.9,
498: and of course project expenses.
499: Theo notes that "The electric bill is about $100 USD per week".
500: <!--
501: ... must be what comes from heating your house with VAXen.
502: -->
503: The interviewer nicely ends with a link to our donations page.
504: <p>
505:
506: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 507: <a href="http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/239/1/">
508: Linux supporters fiddle while OpenSSH burns</a>, The Jem Report, March 28, 2006
509: </strong></font><br>
1.499 ian 510: This write-up focusses on OpenBSD/OpenSSH funding, and has some
511: original legwork to go with it.
1.498 ian 512: Writer Jem Matzan took the trouble to
513: contact many of the companies who charge a lot for products
514: featuring OpenSSH and yet give nothing to OpenSSH in return.
515: Companies like SCO, IBM, Apple, and Sun.
516: Sun apparently did the worst job of responding:
517: "Since the release of Solaris 10, who has been a larger open source
518: software cheerleader than Sun Microsystems?", Matzan asks. "I asked Sun
519: representatives what they would do if OpenSSH were to disappear. The only response
520: I got was that there are parts of Solaris that compete with OpenSSH,
521: and that because of this, the company would rather not comment
522: further on the issue." What the Sun teleprompter-readers don't seem to realize -
523: but Matzan does - is that
524: <a href="http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/cmd/ssh/ssh/ssh.c">
525: SunSSH <em>is</em> OpenSSH</a>.
526: Or, at least, a mangled version of it...
527: IBM, on the other hand, is still trying to formulate their response.
528: <br/>
529: <p>
530:
531: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
532: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/20/2050223.shtml?tid=8">
533: Interview: Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD</a>, NewsForge, March 28, 2006
534: </strong></font><br>
535: A wide-ranging interview with Theo about new stuff in 3.9, security, funding,
536: "blob" drivers, and more.
537: Theo notes that "We've had 10 years of nearly fanatical devotion
538: to anything which can make OpenBSD more secure. A very important
539: part of that is that we have not been afraid to completely overhaul
540: anything even if it breaks backward compatibility. Secondly, when
541: we have found a flaw in any part of the system we have assumed that
542: the same mistake was made elsewhere, and gone on a hunt to fix them
543: all. Thirdly, we have developed and incorporated a collection of
544: methods that make software flaws very difficult to attack..."
545: Ends by trying to shame the companies that use OpenSSH without contributing
546: anything back - Sun is given especial mention here - and ends with
547: the tantalizing line ".. if an OpenSSH hole is found that applies to SunSSH,
548: Sun will not be informed. Or maybe that has happened already." Hmmmm.
549: <p>
550:
551: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 552: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259254,00.htm">
553: OpenBSD 3.9 adds sensor framework</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
554: </strong></font><br>
555: It's easy to focus on our project's security, but we innovate in other areas too.
556: This article highlights the "sensors" framework added in 3.9 to provide and integrated
557: approach to handling Dell PowerEdge servers' Embedded Server Management (ESM), IPMI, and
558: in general temperature and environmental issues.
559: "There is a significant new sensor framework [in OpenBSD 3.9], which
560: supports voltage sensors, fan sensors, temperature sensors, and so
561: on," said de Raadt. "Such a feature is still missing in Linux and
562: other major operating systems." ...
563: De Raadt has already been using the sensor framework to monitor the
564: machines running in
565: <a href="images/newrack.jpg">the project's server room</a>. "I now get a call
566: on my cell phone whenever something is wrong in the machine room,"
567: <p>
568:
569: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
570: <a href="http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/other/0,39020682,39259281,00.htm">
571: Paying for free software may be the bargain of a lifetime</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
572: </strong></font><br>
573: Starts with a Theo quote from the previous article on ZDNet:
574: "A culture of entitlement is starting to damage the open source community".
575: The article argues that mega-computer-companies that use open source tend to use BSD:
576: "The open BSDs may be less famous than Linux, but they are arguably
577: superior in stability and security. This has made it popular in
578: ISPs and elsewhere - Apple, for example, adopted BSD within OS X.
579: BSD, unlike software released under the GPL, carrys no legal
580: obligations for the adopter to provide anything for the community in return."
581: Goes on to argue that these companies <em>ought</em> to be fair enough
582: to send a small bit of their money back into funding open source.
583: "In the time it takes to read this article, we calculate that Apple
584: will have easily made enough to pay-off OpenBSD's annual losses,
585: with a little left over to buy black turtlenecks for all. It's not
586: just Apple's baby - other companies owe far more to OpenBSD - but
587: in open source a little symbolism goes a long way."
588: <p>
589:
1.487 ian 590: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.494 bernd 591: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71174">
592: OpenBSD muss an den Sparstrumpf</a>, heise online, March 23, 2006
593: </strong></font><br>
1.495 ian 594: OpenBSD is touching its savings - Small news article about the project's
1.494 bernd 595: financial situation.
596: <p>
597:
598: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 599: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259042,00.htm">
600: OpenBSD Founder Makes Funding Plea</a>, ZDNet UK, March 23, 2006
601: </strong></font><br>
602: One of the first mainstream sites to pick up on Marco's article (below),
603: this one reports the funding figures on how much it really costs to
604: produce our favorite operating system.
605: "Although OpenBSD has a number of commercial users, including many
606: ISPs, de Raadt claimed that all of its donations come from individuals
607: rather than companies many of who claim the have no budget to pay
608: for the operating system. "The culture of entitlement is starting
609: to damage the open source community," he said."
1.496 ian 610: <br/>
611: Also online at
612: <a href="http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/software/stories/135760.html">ZDNet India</a>.
613: <p>
614:
615: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
616: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/03/22/OpenBSD-money.html">
617: OpenBSD in Financial Trouble</a>, Ping Wales, March 21, 2006
618: </strong></font><br>
619: David Chisnall reports that "OpenBSD is one of my favourite platforms;
620: its focus on security and ease-of-use makes it a very simple and
621: safe system to use. Unfortunately, the OpenBSD organisation is now
622: experiencing financial difficulty. For the last two years, the
623: project has made a $20,000/year loss, something which it cannot
624: sustain indefinitely."
625: Goes on to report on the growing use of OpenBSD in commercial software
626: (and hardware!), and that none of the "big guys" has given anything back.
627: Unlike most of the articles on this topic, this one is kind enough to
628: include a direct link to our orders page and recommend its readers
629: to buy a copy of the CD to help fund the project.
1.495 ian 630: <p>
631:
632: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 633: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/06/03/21/1555243.shtml">
634: OpenBSD Project in Financial Danger</a>, Slashdot, March 21, 2006
635: </strong></font><br>
636: Slashdot mentions and quotes from Marco's article (below),
637: with a reminder that
638: "The OpenBSD team is the one that also develops the OpenSSH suite,
639: used nowadays almost everywhere."
640: Ends with this quote from Marco:
641: "Without naming entities or projects by name, there are others out
642: there that are sitting on some cash. It would be wonderful if these
643: entities could share some of the wealth to keep us going."
644: <p>
645:
646: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.505 grunk 647: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060321034114">
1.495 ian 648: OpenBSD Finances</a>, OpenBSD Journal, March 21, 2006
649: </strong></font><br>
650: Marco Peereboom's article notes that
651: "OpenBSD for the past 2 years has turned a loss of approximately $20K USD" per year.
652: Hackathons - where a lot of developers get together in critical mass and churn out
653: new ideas and new code in great quantity - cost from US$10K-30K each, and we try to run
654: a few of them each year.
655: Meanwhile, compananies that use OpenBSD and companies - many of them highly profitable -
656: that incorporate OpenSSH into operating systems and even routers and other appliances
657: have not been forthcoming: no major computer company has given funding
658: to the OpenBSD project.
659: It's time for them to do so.
660: <p>
661:
662: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.497 ian 663: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/08/1646257.shtml?tid=8">
664: Software RAID on OpenBSD using RAIDframe</a>, NewsForge, March 14, 2006
665: </strong></font><br>
666: "Software RAID provides an easy way to add redundancy or speed up a system
667: without spending lots of money on a RAID adapter."
668: Manolis Tzanidakis talks us through setting up RAID using OpenBSD.
669: He describes the detailed steps, and recommends careful testing
670: before putting the system into production, including taking one disk
671: out of service and ensuring that it gets reloaded correctly.
672: Ends with a technique for monitoring clean operation on an ongoing basis.
673: <p>
674:
675: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.489 deraadt 676: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">Report on Business Television</a>
677: March 10, 5:45pm MST</strong></font><br>
1.490 deraadt 678: Theo de Raadt was interviewed by Howard Green on <b>The Business Show</b>:<br>
679: <!-- North America mirror:
680: <a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB avi file</a>
1.491 deraadt 681: -->
1.490 deraadt 682: European mirror:
683: <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/20060310/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB AVI file</a>
684: <br>
685: A longer segment is also available at <a href="http://www.robtv.ca">www.robtv.ca</a>.
1.489 deraadt 686: <p>
687:
688: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.487 ian 689: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/openbgpd.html">OpenBGPd in OpenBSD</a>
690: Daemon News, March, 2006</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 691: Check out the notes and slides from Henning Brauer's presentation at
1.487 ian 692: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0602/">NANOG 36</a>;
693: the text and questions cover everything from how and why OpenBGPd got created,
694: through configuration and tools, to integration with pf and CARP,
695: to technical issues regarding use of IPSEC to provide security for BGP packets.
696: Along the way there's considerable discussion on how the program was
697: designed to provide reliability and security.
698: <p>
699:
700: </ul>
701:
1.485 ian 702: <h2>February, 2006</h2>
703: <ul>
704: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.486 ian 705: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1859">Zero to IPSec in 4 minutes</a>
706: Security Focus, February 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
707: This article, as its lead-in says,
1.497 ian 708: "looks at how to get a fully functional IPSec VPN up and running between two fresh OpenBSD
1.486 ian 709: installations in about four minutes flat".
710: If you've shied away from setting up an IPSEC VPN because of config file complexity,
711: now is the time to reconsider.
1.497 ian 712: Dragos Ruiu shows you how the ipsecctl command (introduced to the world in OpenBSD 3.8)
1.486 ian 713: makes it really easy to set up a VPN between consenting OpenBSD machines.
714: He states that he and a colleague were able to get two machines talking over IPSEC
715: in a few minutes, and only changing a few configuration files.
716: He also comments on the relative ease of installing our favorite OS, and hopes
717: that our ipsecctl will be adopted by the other BSDs (hopefully in a compatible way)
718: to make firewall setups easier all around the network.
719: But you don't need to wait for that if you're running OpenBSD 3.8; just follow
720: the steps in the article.
721: <p>
722:
723: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.485 ian 724: <a href="http://www.networkmagazineindia.com/200602/vendorvoice02.shtml">The Worm in the Machine</a>
725: Network Magazine India, February 2006</strong></font><br>
726: Dilip Ranade elaborates on several reasons why software is drearily buggy and endlessly insecure,
727: particularly in comparison with other technologies.
728: Imagines how very bad shape the automotive industry would be in if you had to sign the
729: same disclaimer of (non-)usability that almost every commercial EULA requires of computer users.
730: Ends with "I once dreamt that all the computer users in the world
731: arose in revolt and switched to hardened OpenBSD", though he admits that there's "fat chance" of it
732: happening in real life.
733: <p>
734:
735: </ul>
736:
1.492 ian 737: <h2>January, 2006</h2>
738: <ul>
739: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
740: <a href="http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2006/01/28.html">Kevin Mitnick on
741: Coast to Coast AM Radio Show with Art Bell</a>, Jan 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
742: Art Bell interviewed Kevin Mitnick on his call-in show;
743: Paul Zacharzewski from Edmonton called to ask Mitnick for his opinion of OpenBSD.
744: If you don't want to download the whole show from coasttocoastam.com,
745: you can listen to an
1.497 ian 746: <a href="http://unworkable.org/misc/mitnick.mp3">MP3 excerpt of this call</a>
1.492 ian 747: in which Mitnick says: "Well, I actually use OpenBSD, so I do like it".
748: </ul>
749:
1.483 ian 750: <h2>December, 2005</h2>
751: <ul>
752: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.484 djm 753: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/375/1">OpenSSH cutting edge</a>
754: SecurityFocus, December 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
755: Federico Biancuzzi interviews OpenSSH developer Damien Miller to discuss
756: features included in the upcoming version 4.3, public key crypto
757: protocols details, timing based attacks and anti-worm measures.
758: <p>
759:
760: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 761: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/11/21/175249.shtml?tid=92&tid=78">Creating
1.483 ian 762: Secure Wireless Access Points with OpenBSD and OpenVPN</a>
763: NewsForge, December 13, 2005</strong></font><br>
764: A cookbook approach to setting up a wireless interface as a secure Access Point
765: using OpenBSD's hostap, pf, and authpf.
766: Configuration examples are given with basic explanations and links
767: to sites with more information on most topics.
768: <p>
769:
770: </ul>
771:
772:
1.479 grunk 773: <h2>November, 2005</h2>
774: <ul>
775: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 776: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20051116145737">OpenBSD
1.482 ian 777: Goes to Venice</a>,
778: OpenBSD Journal, November 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 779: "What happens when you put a dozen developers on a little island with their
1.482 ian 780: laptops, power, and an internet connection?
781: <br/>
782: During the first week of November some OpenBSD developers met in a
783: little island in Venice's lagoon to hack on the ports system.
784: This was probably the first ports hackathon and was followed by
1.497 ian 785: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON</a>, a European conference
1.482 ian 786: fully dedicated to OpenBSD..."
787: Great coverage of the OpenBSD Porting Hackathon: people, ports, beer, ...
788: Contains a link to
789: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ven05-pvalchev/mgp00008.html">
790: pval's summary slides</a>.
791: <p>
792:
793: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.481 niallo 794: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1710223">
795: Trying out the new OpenBSD 3.8</a>,
796: NewsForge, November 11, 2005</strong></font><br>
797: This article describes the installation of OpenBSD 3.8 from a Linux user's
798: perspective, noting the simple elegance of the installer.
799: Although the installation process may be hard to get used to at first for
800: the average Linux user, the author tells us that one can learn a lot from
801: it. Furthermore, the article clears up the common misconception that working
1.497 ian 802: on an OpenBSD system is very different from working on a Linux system.
1.481 niallo 803: In particular, the author states that on OpenBSD, <i>"virtually the entire
804: catalog of familiar free and open source software titles is available through
805: the packages and ports system"</i>.
806: <p>
807:
808: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
809: <a href="http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3561526">
810: Return of The BSDs</a>,
811: internetnews.com, November 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
812: This article mentions that with all three major BSD flavors having had
813: a release this fall, BSD is <i>"still very much alive and kicking among
814: all the noise and buzz created by Linux"</i>. The author talks about
815: various new or improved features of 3.8, such as bioctl(8), hostapd(8),
816: network interface aggregation and sasyncd(8), and there are some
817: quotes from Bob Beck.
818: <p>
819:
820: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.479 grunk 821: <a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/051101/152/fvrlx.html">
822: OpenBSD 3.8 improves hardware support</a>,
823: ZDNet UK, November 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.480 ian 824: This article reports on OpenBSD 3.8, which was released on November 1.
825: The author gives an overview of the improvements and new
1.479 grunk 826: features that were made with 3.8, and quotes Theo on RAID management
827: and Linux.<br>
828: The 3.8 release hit the news also in some other places:
829: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1258232">Slashdot</a>
830: and <a href="http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=12482">OSNews</a>
831: also report about it, mostly repeating parts
832: of the release
833: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/ANNOUNCEMENT">ANNOUNCEMENT</a>.
834: <p>
835: </ul>
836:
1.476 ian 837: <h2>October, 2005</h2>
838: <ul>
839:
840: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
841: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1375194866;fp;16;fpid;0">
842: 'Nightmare' drove desperate user to open source</a>,
843: Computerworld, October 24, 2005</strong></font><br>
844: A great tale of how Mark Uemura of PricewaterhouseCoopers Japan
845: was forced to move to OpenBSD because the alternatives were too costly
846: and too unreliable.
847: This quote will rattle some cages:
848: "IT managers who want to deploy an open source solution but are
849: worried about company politics should go ahead and do it without
850: asking," according to Uemura, who was promoted to IT Manager of PWC Japan
851: after saving the company seven IT-samurais' salaries.
852: Further, "In Japan large organizations like Morgan Stanley and the
853: Bank of America have moved all their backend systems to open source,
854: Uemura said, because with open source you can reduce IT operating
855: costs without any commercial lock-in."
856: <p>
857:
1.477 saad 858: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
859: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6270">
860: OpenBSD 3.8: Hackers of the Lost RAID</a>,
861: ONLamp.com, October 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
862: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
863: new features in OpenBSD 3.8 including interface trunking,
864: internationalization support, Inter-Access Point Protocol (IAPP),
865: IPSec SA synchronization daemon, and RAID management. There is also some
866: discussion about future plans.
867: <p>
868:
1.478 grunk 869: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
870: <a href="http://securityfocus.com/columnists/361">
871: OpenBSD's network stack</a>,
872: SecurityFocus, October 12, 2005</strong></font><br>
873: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about OpenBSD's
874: network stack, including protection against ICMP attacks, and propagation
875: of enhancements into other BSDs and into Linux.
876: The interview also features the other protection mechanisms in the network
877: stack, a comparison to the network stack in Linux, and the history and
878: current status of <a href="http://www.openbgpd.org/">OpenBGPD</a>.
879: <p>
880:
1.476 ian 881: </ul>
882:
1.470 saad 883: <h2>September, 2005</h2>
884: <ul>
885:
886: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.474 niallo 887: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/359">
888: Security-related innovation in Unix</a>,
889: SecurityFocus, Sept. 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
890: An article examining the mmap-based malloc() implementation to be
891: included in OpenBSD 3.8. The author states that <i>"it will help OpenBSD
892: users to find bugs in software more easily, which will result in better
893: applications for everyone"</i>. He goes on to say that <i>"the more hurdles
894: that one has to jump through for good security, the less likely people will
895: go through the trouble. OpenBSD allows even the most inexperienced users to
896: take advantage of these technologies without any effort"</i>.
897: <p>
898:
899: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.473 aanriot 900: <a href="http://www.miscmag.com/articles/index.php3?page=2100">
901: [FRENCH] Champ libre : les chantiers OpenBSD</a>
902: Misc, number 21, Sept/Oct, 2005, p. 4-14</strong></font><br>
903: An interesting article about OpenBSD and associated projects. Saad Kadhi
904: and Guillaume Arcas describe useful things you can do with PF and
905: OpenSSH, and give a nice introduction to OpenNTPD and OpenCVS. If the
906: article is focused on the presentation, you can find some interesting
907: technical aspects people are not always acquainted to. A few examples
908: are shown, like a basic CARP setup, or the manner to use multiplexing
909: with OpenSSH and even how to check an OpenSSH server's keys using DNS.
910: <p>
911:
912: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 913: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/news/11306">
914: Big debate over small packets</a>,
915: SecurityFocus, Sept. 7, 2005</strong></font><br>
916: Robert Lemos discusses the ICMP denial-of-service vulnerabilities found
917: by Fernando Gont and fixed in OpenBSD. To date, OpenBSD is the only
918: system that has implemented all of the fixes recommended in the IETF
919: draft.
920: <p>
921:
922: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.471 saad 923: <a href="http://www.pcexpert.fr/">
924: [FRENCH] "Quel est le meilleur système libre pour votre
925: ordinateur ?"</a>,
926: PC Expert, number 156, p. 42-62</strong></font><br>
927: Philippe Roure compares 11 Linux and *BSD operating systems, including
928: OpenBSD 3.7, on different criteria such as security, documentation and
929: usability. OpenBSD earned a 5/5 mark (see pages 60-61) and while a mark
930: isn't necessarily objective, the author seems to grasp the OpenBSD
931: project, its goals, and how good is the operating system. The article
932: includes an interview with Saad Kadhi.
933: <p>
934:
935: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.470 saad 936: <a href="http://www.samag.com/articles/2005/0509/">
937: Monitoring PF Firewalls for Health and Performance</a>,
938: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 9, p. 37</strong></font><br>
939: Ryan Matteson describes several utilities that can be used to monitor the
940: health and performance of a PF firewall. Besides pfctl, the article
941: covers pftop, fwanalog, monitoring logs with tcpdump and graphing
942: performance data with pfstat.
943: <p>
944:
945: </ul>
946:
1.461 grunk 947: <h2>July, 2005</h2>
948: <ul>
949:
950: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.466 deraadt 951: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5382">
952: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part III</a>,
1.467 grunk 953: Kerneltrap, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.466 deraadt 954: Jeremy Andrews writes about the recent Blind ICMP attacks discovered
955: by Fernando Gont, and the fixes done by him and OpenBSD during the
956: 2005 Hackathon.
1.469 ian 957: The article goes into the technical background of the
1.467 grunk 958: attacks, mentioning blind ICMP attacks, "hard" ICMP errors, source
1.469 ian 959: quenching, and path MTU discovery;
960: many helpful RFCs and technical papers are linked from the explanations.
961: This is followed by a recap of the whole ICMP story, involving Gont's
1.467 grunk 962: struggle with other free projects, Cisco lawyers, Microsoft people,
963: and others.<br>
1.469 ian 964: The article concludes that OpenBSD was the first project
1.467 grunk 965: to take Fernando Gont's findings seriously, and also the first group to
966: be really painless to work with.
1.466 deraadt 967: <p>
968:
969: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.464 grunk 970: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/06/security_blame/">
971: Security meltdown: who's to blame?</a>,
1.466 deraadt 972: The Register, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.464 grunk 973: This article talks about various groups that are frequently blamed for
974: poor security:
1.467 grunk 975: individuals, ISPs, companies, crackers, security mailing lists,
1.464 grunk 976: and last but not least: OS vendors!
1.467 grunk 977: In the last paragraph, OpenBSD's style of <i>"dumbed-down, simplified
1.464 grunk 978: and secure systems (with a heavily audited code base)"</i> is described
979: as <i>"one of the smartest approaches to security"</i>.
980: <p>
981:
982: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.461 grunk 983: <a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-7-5/30084.html">
984: Theo de Raadt on Industry and Free Software</a>,
1.466 deraadt 985: The Epoch Times, July 5, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.463 tom 986: In this interview, Theo talks about the inception of the OpenBSD project
987: and its goals, as well as its impact on the commercial IT industry.
1.461 grunk 988: He points out once more that <i>"vendors who incorporate OpenSSH have
989: given us absolutely nothing back - not a cent"</i>.
990: Other topics covered include the OpenBSD team, Theo's role as
991: <i>"benevolent dictator"</i>, and the security process, which he compares
992: to the security efforts led by other free software projects and some
993: commercial vendors.
994: <p>
995:
996: </ul>
997:
1.454 ian 998: <h2>June, 2005</h2>
999: <ul>
1.468 grunk 1000:
1001: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1002: <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/ns-ttc062205.php">
1003: The true cost of computer crime</a>,
1004: EurekAlert / <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/">New Scientist Magazine</a>,
1005: issue June 25, 2005</strong></font><br>
1006: This article looks at computer crime, especially the way upcoming
1007: vulnerability reports are dealt with. It also gives a short overview of the
1.469 ian 1008: institutions involved in the process (vendors, free projects, CERTs).
1.468 grunk 1009: <br>
1010: The author mentions the work of Andy Ozment, who researches vulnerability
1011: disclosure at the University of Cambridge. Using OpenBSD as a good example
1012: of how disclosure and consequent fixing of bugs helps to strengthen security,
1013: he refutes the widely spread FUD that disclosing vulnerabilities leads to
1014: more harm than good. Ozment's methodology was to examine OpenBSD's CVS logs
1.469 ian 1015: and note when fixes were published; his research shows that
1.468 grunk 1016: <i>"the number of vulnerabilities decreases as a result of disclosure"</i>.
1017: <p>
1018:
1.454 ian 1019: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.458 niallo 1020: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0704/071.html">
1021: Free Bird</a>,
1022: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1023: <b>(Registration required)</b> A second Forbes article about OpenBSD, more
1024: focused on the project itself this time. It contains good description of the
1025: history of OpenBSD along with its prime motivations. Mention is made of the
1026: DARPA grant and the annual hackathon. Theo's motto "shut up and hack" finally
1027: becomes famous in this piece and there are some other very insightful quotes
1028: such as "All I care about is making high-quality code. If I had to work at a
1029: regular job, it would drive me nuts". This is certainly an astute and perceptive
1030: article, well worth reading. Do note that the big picture of Theo's machine
1031: room will only be available in the print edition.
1032: <p>
1.459 deraadt 1033:
1.458 niallo 1034: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.456 niallo 1035: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html">
1036: Is Linux For Losers?</a>,
1037: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1038: An interesting article, if somewhat polemic in tone, which raises questions
1039: about the quality of Linux code compared to OpenBSD. There is also some short
1040: discussion of the OpenBSD development model and focus (push for quality above
1041: everything else) including good quotes from Theo. It seems that the need for
1042: high quality software is beginning to be recognised by the mainstream.
1043: <p>
1.457 deraadt 1044:
1.456 niallo 1045: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1046: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/06/09/2132233.shtml?tid=152&tid=8&tid=2">
1.455 ian 1047: BSD cognoscenti on Linux</a>,
1048: NewsForge, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1049: NewsForge talks with Theo de Raadt and NetBSD's Christos Zoulas about the
1050: similarities and differences between the Linux kernel and the BSD
1051: operating systems. The questions asked were similar to those asked
1052: of Linus Torvalds in a <a
1.462 grunk 1053: href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/09/2128249&tid=2">previous
1.455 ian 1054: interview.</a>
1055: <p>
1056:
1057: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.454 ian 1058: <a href="http://www.tuxjournal.net/intervista3-en.html">
1059: A good morning with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1060: Tux Journal, June 2, 2005</strong></font><br>
1061: Brief but wide-ranging interview with Theo in which our leader
1062: opines about the good things in 3.7: "The list of new developments
1063: is impressive, but in my view not nearly as impressive as the small
1064: little details that continue to be fixed during each development
1065: cycle." And modestly credits all the developers for the project's
1066: continuing success, attributing it to "The passion of the developers,
1067: and the wide experience they bring into their development efforts.
1068: By amazing coincidence, our users typically have the same needs as we do."
1069: Manages to sidestep getting drawn into comparisons with Linux, e.g.,
1070: when asked if he likes it/why/why not, deftly replies
1071: "I have never used it."
1072: <p>
1073:
1074: </ul>
1075:
1.441 deraadt 1076: <h2>May, 2005</h2>
1077: <ul>
1078: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 1079: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5190">
1080: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part II</a>,
1081: Kerneltrap, May 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1082: In the second installment of Kerneltrap's Hackathon 2005 feature, Jeremy
1083: Andrews speaks with the pf developers at length about their plans for
1084: future enhancements.
1085: <p>
1086:
1087: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.450 deraadt 1088: <a href="http://www.ctv.ca">
1.448 deraadt 1089: TV coverage: OpenBSD hackathon</a>,
1090: CTV/CFCN, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1091: A TV spot done a Canadian national TV station about the Calgary
1092: hackathon this year, with 60 developers.<br>
1093: North America mirror:
1094: <ul>
1.452 marco 1095: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.449 jcs 1096: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a><br>
1097: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a>
1.448 deraadt 1098: </ul>
1099: European mirror:
1100: <ul>
1.452 marco 1101: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.448 deraadt 1102: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a>
1103: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a><br>
1104: </ul>
1105: <p>
1106:
1107: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 1108: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5186">
1109: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part I</a>,
1110: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1111: Jeremy Andrews of KernelTrap does a good job of describing what it's like
1112: to be at the Hackathon in Part I of KernelTrap's Hackathon feature. Several
1113: developers are interviewed in detail about what they are working on.
1114: <p>
1115:
1116: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 1117: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5184">
1118: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005: Day 6?</a>,
1119: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1120: Kjell Wooding describes a typical day at the Hackathon in this entertaining
1121: first-hand account.
1122: <p>
1123:
1124: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.447 cloder 1125: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/05/20/1426216.shtml?tid=8">
1126: Review: OpenBSD 3.7</a>,
1127: NewsForge.com, May 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
1128: "OpenBSD is not only highly polished and easy to
1129: configure because of its documentation, it's also totally free-as-in-rights.
1130: With an obsession with security, freedom of source code, and quality of
1131: programming technique, OpenBSD 3.7 continues the legacy established by
1132: its previous releases," writes Jem Matzan in this nice, small review.
1133: <p>
1134:
1135: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.446 cloder 1136: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/05/19/openbsd_3_7.html">
1137: OpenBSD 3.7: The Wizard of OS</a>,
1138: ONLamp.com, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
1139: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
1140: new features in OpenBSD 3.7, including new wireless chipsets, new
1141: spam-fighting features, zaurus, pf improvements, propolice, and
1142: many other things. A good overview of what's new in this release,
1143: plus some interesting comments about future direction.
1144: <p>
1145:
1146: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.444 niallo 1147: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/software/openbsd-3.7-released.html">
1.445 niallo 1148: Next incarnation of OpenBSD released</a>,
1.444 niallo 1149: Ping Wales, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
1150: "OpenBSD is often unjustly overlooked as a free UNIX-like system in favour of
1151: the more-hyped Linux. While it receives a lot less publicity than other
1152: operating systems, this is not due to lack of technical merit." says David
1153: Chisnall, in what is a clear and concise overview of the new features
1154: in 3.7 and indeed the project as a whole.
1155: <p>
1156:
1157: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1158: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5114">
1.445 niallo 1159: 2005 Calgary Hackathon, KernelTrap Coverage</a>,
1.444 niallo 1160: Kerneltrap, May 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1161: A great article about the annual OpenBSD Hackathon, detailing how the event
1162: functions, work done at previous Hackathons and features which may come out
1163: of this one. Includes many relevant quotes from developers themselves, and of
1164: course information about the legendary Hackathon BBQ!
1165: <p>
1166:
1167: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.442 deraadt 1168: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9658/sam0505e/">
1169: "Failover Firewalls with OpenBSD and CARP"</a>,
1170: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 5, p. 33
1.441 deraadt 1171: </strong></font><br>
1172: Jason Dixon discusses the history of the CARP and pfsync protocols
1173: and demonstrates using them to create redundant stateful firewalls
1174: with OpenBSD.
1175: </ul>
1176:
1.436 henning 1177: <h2>April, 2005</h2>
1178: <ul>
1179: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.440 ian 1180: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39195801,00.htm">
1181: Security guru wants access to bug databases</a>,
1182: ZDNet UK, April 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
1183: Ingrid Marson reports on Cambridge professor Ross Anderson's call for analysis of
1184: software maintenance records to determine whether open source code is more secure
1185: than closed source, as we have long contended.
1186: "One of Anderson's research students, Andy Ozment, has already done
1187: research using empirical data on bugs found in the open source
1188: operating system OpenBSD between 1997 and 2000. This research found
1189: that finding and fixing bugs results in a more secure product..."
1190: Just as the OpenBSD project has been saying for years.
1191: <p>
1192: This article can also be found online as
1193: <a href="http://uk.builder.com/manage/project/0,39026588,39244080,00.htm">Academic
1194: calls for better bug tracking</a> (uk.builder.com).
1195: <p>
1196:
1197: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.439 espie 1198: [FRENCH] "PC Expert", number 152, p. 58
1199: </strong></font><br>
1200: Very short interview of Marc Espie about OpenBSD as a free OS focusing
1201: on security, part of a larger dossier Ťles secrets des hackersť.
1202: <p>
1203:
1204: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.436 henning 1205: [GERMAN] "Doppelwacht", iX 5/2005, p. 150.
1206: </strong></font><br>
1207: Stephan Tesch gives an introduction to CARP and using a pair of
1208: OpenBSD boxes as Firewalls in High Availibility scenarios. He goes
1.438 martin 1209: on explaining CARP and pfsync protocols, and does not forget to cover
1.436 henning 1210: the issues we had with IETF.
1211: </ul>
1212:
1.431 ian 1213: <h2>March, 2005</h2>
1214: <ul>
1215: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.435 reyk 1216: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/4818">
1217: OpenBSD's "Out of the Box" Wireless Support</a>,
1218: Kerneltrap, March 8, 2005</strong></font><br>
1219: This article is about the upcoming wireless support in OpenBSD 3.7 and
1220: the outcome of the work to open wireless chipsets. Jeremy Andrews
1221: talked with Theo de Raadt and the developers Damien Bergamini and Reyk
1222: Floeter who did some efforts to implement free and functional drivers.
1223: <p>
1224:
1225: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.431 ian 1226: <a href="http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/01/1109546842718.html">
1227: OpenBSD to support more wireless chipsets</a>,
1228: The Age, March 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1229: "The forthcoming 3.7 release of the OpenBSD operating system has
1230: added support for five more wireless chipsets, according to
1231: OpenBSD project founder Theo de Raadt...
1.432 ian 1232: OpenBSD 3.7 will also have have new drivers for Intel wireless
1.431 ian 1233: parts that do not work without the non-redistributable firmware,"
1234: namely the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11B
1235: and 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11A/B/G wireless network adapters.
1236: Mentions OpenBSD's activism in getting vendors to release chip specs.
1237: Referring to vendors that still refuse to play ball with open source
1238: projects, quotes Damien Miller as saying "Given the number of
1239: appliance devices that are built on free OSs, I think that the
1240: recalcitrant vendors are missing an important boat."
1241:
1242: </ul>
1243:
1.427 matthieu 1244: <h2>February, 2005</h2>
1245: <ul>
1246:
1247: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.428 david 1248: <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsaward2004.html">
1249: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
1250: FSF, February 26, 2005</strong></font><br>
1251: The Free Software Foundation awarded Theo de Raadt their "2004 Free Software
1252: Award" for his unwavering commitment to free software. Most recently he has
1253: been fighting hardware manufacturers for free redistribution of wireless card
1254: firmware.
1.434 ian 1255: Similar articles can be found online at:
1256: <ul>
1257: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1258: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=419">
1259: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
1260: Tectonic.za, March 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
1261: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1262: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article4362.phtml">
1263: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
1264: OSDir, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1265: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1266: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/De-Raadt-gets-free-software-award/2005/02/28/1109546758523.html?oneclick=true">
1267: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
1268: The Age, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1269: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1270: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/02/27/1413255.shtml?tid=99&tid=7">
1.434 ian 1271: Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award</a>,
1272: Slashdot, February 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1273: </ul>
1.427 matthieu 1274: </ul>
1275:
1.426 ian 1276: <h2>January, 2005</h2>
1277: <ul>
1278:
1279: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1280: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363731">
1281: Systrace in OpenBSD</a>,
1282: informit.com, January 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1283: This article talks about our systrace
1.462 grunk 1284: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&sektion=1">systrace(1)</a>
1.426 ian 1285: mechanism: what it is and why and
1286: how to use it, with examples.
1287: Another excerpt from the book
1288: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
1289: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
1290: <p>
1291:
1292: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1293: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363732">
1294: Overview of OpenBSD</a>,
1295: informit.com, January 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
1296: "OpenBSD is one of the most secure and well-designed operating
1297: systems available today. It has its roots in countless hours of
1298: research and development based on some of the best UNIX flavors of
1299: the past, and it boasts all the features of modern operating systems.
1300: The OS is widely considered one of the most secure general-purpose
1301: operating systems available today and it supports many key parts
1302: of the global Internet infrastructure..."
1303: This article is a sample chapter from
1304: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
1305: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
1306: <p>
1.443 ian 1307:
1308: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1309: <a href="http://www.pcplus.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=34628&subsectionid=784">
1.443 ian 1310: OpenBSD operating system</a>,
1311: PCPlus.co.uk, January, 2005</strong></font><br>
1312: Paul Grosse gives a brief tutorial on installing OpenBSD on i386 for people
1313: moving in a Windows->Linux direction, encouraging them to go a bit further for security.
1314: "While Linux out-scores Windows substantially (or completely) on [security as well as many other
1315: issues], it's still possible to use a more secure operating system on the PC... OpenBSD."
1316: Gives a brief but understandable walkthrough on the installation process, right up to
1317: downloading and installing the third-party packages, and
1318: ends with a sidebar on security.
1319: <p>
1.426 ian 1320: </ul>
1321:
1.424 ian 1322: <h2>December, 2004</h2>
1323: <ul>
1324:
1325: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.425 ian 1326: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/2329229">
1327: What are the real vulnerabilities of Linux?</a>
1328: NewsForge.com, December 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1329: Several security consultants were asked about "the real vulnerabilities of
1330: Linux". Cybersoure CEO Con Symaris seems to get it better than the rest:
1331: "One needs to approach security as a prime requirement and motivator,
1332: much as the OpenBSD team do," Zymaris said... "The Linux
1333: community mindset is different. Linux development is dynamic and
1334: races ahead towards more and broader functionality, drawing a
1335: multitude of interested parties in to make interesting extensions
1336: and adaptations at a rapid rate."
1337: <p>
1338: "In order to do security the BSD way, however, much more effort
1339: needs to be spent auditing code for holes, which is much less sexy,
1340: and attracts a different set of coders," Zymaris added.
1341: <p>
1342:
1343: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.424 ian 1344: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/281">
1345: Closed Source Hardware</a>
1346: Security Focus, December 1, 2004</strong></font><br>
1347: Symantec Threat Analyst Jason Miller analyzes the potential security threats
1348: when hardware vendors won't provide device documentation and
1349: instead provide "binary only" driver code for inclusion in open source
1350: operating systems.
1351: Miller is an open-source fan who says he uses a variety of systems, including
1352: OpenBSD on his firewall.
1353: Of the recent trend to closed-source binary drivers for open-source
1354: systems, he writes:
1355: <blockquote>
1356: The closed-source component required to support this hardware is
1357: completely independent of the associated operating system, and as
1358: such, is also independent of the engineering team, security team,
1359: auditing process, and quality control procedures normally related
1360: to the operating system...
1361: <br/>
1362: What's possibly even more disturbing is that we're talking about
1363: a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest
1364: possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a
1365: third-party vendor. This code could do anything once loaded, including
1366: leaking active WEP keys, gathering usage statistics, sniffing and
1367: disclosing traffic, and it could even introduce a subtle backdoor
1368: into the operating system itself (much the same as any device driver
1369: in a closed source operating system).
1370: <br/>
1371: [A]lthough some of these scenarios are a
1372: little far-fetched, the possibility for them to exist is there...
1373: Ultimately it becomes an issue of trust, which is a cornerstone of
1374: good security: whom do you trust, and how much do you trust them?
1375: </blockquote>
1376: <p>And he comments that trust "seems to be a one-way street": vendors
1377: demand that you trust them, but they won't trust you to know how
1378: their hardware and software operates.
1379: This lack of trust is one reason why OpenBSD has recently completed
1380: reverse-engineering the
1.462 grunk 1381: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4">
1.424 ian 1382: Atheros wireless chipset driver</a>
1383: that was originally provided as a binary insert.
1384: <p>
1385: </ul>
1386:
1.417 pvalchev 1387: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
1388: <ul>
1.421 ian 1389:
1.417 pvalchev 1390: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.422 ian 1391: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730775,00.asp">
1392: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Widens Its Scope</a>
1393: eWEEK, November 22, 2004</strong></font><br>
1394: Jason Brooks reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and likes the changes it brings,
1395: including the multi-processing support which, he notes,
1396: "will be even more important as multicore processors--which occupy space
1397: on the road maps of Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others--
1398: become more prevalent." Comments favorably on OpenNTPD
1399: ("the three-line configuration file we needed to modify ... on OpenBSD was
1400: much simpler to deal with than the equivalent configuration file on
1401: the Linux systems we've tested").
1.423 ian 1402: Overall a favorable review of some of the new stuff in 3.6.
1.422 ian 1403: <p>
1404: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 otto 1405: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
1406: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
1407: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
1408: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
1409: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
1410: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
1411: it claims to do".
1412: <p>
1413:
1414: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1415: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109994542424009&w=2">
1.421 ian 1416: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution</a>
1417: misc@, November 8, 2004</strong></font><br>
1418: Theo recounts the struggle to get Intel to provide redistributable
1419: versions of the firmware for their wireless chipsets, and their
1.423 ian 1420: ultimate refusal to allow OpenBSD to redistribute the chipsets' firmware.
1.421 ian 1421: Includes a caveat about Intel's disingenuous "FAQ", typical of many
1422: corporate FAQs that answer questions nobody actually thought
1423: to ask, and don't truthfully answer the questions you want hard answers to.
1424: At the end Theo names the names (and their emails) that need to be contacted
1425: by large numbers of end-users and developers if Intel is to change
1426: (yes, this is a hint).
1427: Of interest is that this posting to one of our mailing lists was
1428: picked up on the
1429: <a href="http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1923">Screaming
1430: Electron Forum</a> and from there reported on
1.462 grunk 1431: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/22/1249249&from=rss">
1.421 ian 1432: SlashDot</a>, where it is accompanied by a link to SlashDot's paper
1433: on effective advocacy (be firm, but also be polite).
1434: <p>
1435:
1436: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 1437: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
1438: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
1439: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
1440: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
1441: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
1442: questions about the significance and rationale behind
1443: the current efforts.
1444: <p>
1445: </ul>
1446:
1.407 henning 1447: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
1448: <ul>
1449: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 1450: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
1451: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
1452: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
1453: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
1454: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
1455: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
1456: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
1457: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
1458: <p>
1459:
1460: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 1461: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
1462: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
1463: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1464: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
1465: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
1466: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
1467: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
1468: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
1469: of the important changes in 3.6.
1.462 grunk 1470: <p>
1.415 ian 1471:
1472: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1473: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
1.414 ian 1474: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
1475: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
1476: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
1477: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
1478: overflow attacks... because
1479: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
1480: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
1481: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
1482: and propolice.
1483: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
1484: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
1485: and that's when the science falls apart."
1486: <p>
1487:
1488: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 1489: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
1490: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
1491: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
1492: Starts with the question:
1493: <blockquote>
1494: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
1495: <br/>
1496: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
1497: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
1498: <br/>
1499: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
1500: Should we believe them?"
1501: </blockquote>
1502: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
1503: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
1504: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
1505: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
1506: for your mail, web and other online activities.
1507: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
1508: <p>
1509:
1510: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 1511: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
1512: Simple Simon</a>,
1513: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
1514: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
1515: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
1516: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
1517: routing/firewall, and more.
1518: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
1519: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
1520: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
1521: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
1522: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
1523: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
1524: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
1525: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
1526: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
1527: </blockquote>
1528: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
1529: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
1530: <p>
1531:
1532: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 1533: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
1534: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 1535: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 1536: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 1537: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
1538: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
1539: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 1540: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 1541: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
1542: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
1543: in spite of it
1544: (registration required, but worth it).
1545: <p>
1546:
1547: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1548: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
1549: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
1550: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1551: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
1552: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
1553: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
1554: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 1555: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 1556: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
1557: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
1558: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
1559: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
1560: <p>
1561:
1562: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 1563: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
1564: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
1565: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
1566: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
1567: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
1568: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
1569: <blockquote>
1570: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
1571: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
1572: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
1573: a lot of analysis.
1574: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
1575: </blockquote>
1576: <p>
1577: </ul>
1578:
1.400 marco 1579: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
1580: <ul>
1581: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 1582: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
1583: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
1584: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
1585: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
1586: UNIX-like systems.
1587: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
1588: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
1589: <p>
1590: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 1591: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
1592: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 1593: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1594: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
1595: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
1596: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
1597: At one point, the article states:
1598: <blockquote>
1599: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
1600: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
1601: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
1602: </blockquote>
1603: And then quotes Theo as saying:
1604: <blockquote>
1605: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
1606: fewer are reading or auditing code."
1607: </blockquote>
1608: <p>
1609: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1610: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
1611: marks its fifth birthday</a>
1612: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1613: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
1614: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
1615: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
1616: required).
1617: <p>
1618: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 1619: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
1620: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
1621: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
1622: </strong></font><br>
1623: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
1624: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
1625: <p>
1626: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 1627: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
1628: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 1629: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 1630: </strong></font><br>
1631: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
1632: <p>
1633: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 1634: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
1635: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 1636: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 1637: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 1638: 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 1639: <p>
1640: </ul>
1641:
1.396 henning 1642: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
1643: <ul>
1644: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 1645: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
1646: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
1647: Unix Review, July, 2004
1648: </strong></font><br>
1649: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
1650: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
1.462 grunk 1651: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
1.418 ian 1652: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
1653: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
1654: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
1655: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
1656: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
1657: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
1658: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
1659: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
1660: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
1661: and even spelling/wording errors.
1662: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
1663: <p>
1664: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 1665: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 1666: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
1667: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
1668: </strong></font><br>
1669: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
1670: <p>
1671: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 1672: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 1673: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
1674: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
1675: </strong></font><br>
1676: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
1677: <p>
1678: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 1679: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
1680: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
1681: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
1682: </strong></font><br>
1683: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
1684: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
1685: <p>
1686: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 1687: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
1688: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
1689: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
1690: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
1691: <p>
1692: </ul>
1693:
1.405 jolan 1694: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
1695: <ul>
1696: <li><font color="#00900"><strong>
1697: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
1.466 deraadt 1698: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 5, 2004</strong></font>
1.405 jolan 1699: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
1700: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
1701: details on how funds are dispersed.
1702: <p>
1703: </ul>
1704:
1.393 david 1705: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
1706: <ul>
1707: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 1708: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
1709: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
1710: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
1711: </strong></font><br>
1712: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
1713: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
1714: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
1715: on inserting large number of SQL records.
1716: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
1717: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
1718: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
1719: <p>
1720:
1721: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 1722: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
1723: Secure by Default</a>,
1724: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
1725: </strong></font><br>
1726: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
1727: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
1728: <p>
1729:
1730: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1731: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
1732: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
1733: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
1734: </strong></font><br>
1735: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
1736: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
1737: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
1738: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
1739: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
1740: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
1741: <p>
1742:
1743: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1744: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
1745: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
1746: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
1747: </strong></font><br>
1748: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
1749: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
1750: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
1751: <p>
1752:
1753: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1754: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
1755: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
1756: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
1757: </strong></font><br>
1758: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
1759: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
1760: <p>
1761: </ul>
1762:
1.388 mcbride 1763: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
1764: <ul>
1.394 jolan 1765:
1766: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1767: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
1768: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
1769: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
1770: </strong></font><br>
1771: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
1772: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
1773: available for sparc64.
1774: <p>
1775:
1.390 beck 1776: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 1777: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
1778: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
1779: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
1780: </strong></font><br>
1781: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
1782: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
1783: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
1784: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
1785: <p>
1786:
1787: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 1788: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
1789: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 1790: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 1791: </strong></font><br>
1792: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
1793: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
1794: it does: CARP provides sharing
1795: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
1796: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
1797: detail to get you started using it.
1798: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
1799: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
1800: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
1801: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
1802: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
1803: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
1804: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 1805: <p>
1.391 ian 1806:
1807: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 1808: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 1809: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
1810: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 1811: </strong></font><br>
1812: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 1813: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 1814: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 1815: <p>
1.388 mcbride 1816:
1817: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1818: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
1819: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 1820: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 1821: </strong></font><br>
1822: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
1823: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
1824: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
1825: unencumbered by patents.
1826: <p>
1827: </ul>
1828:
1.378 henning 1829: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
1830: <ul>
1.384 jose 1831:
1832: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 1833: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
1834: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
1835: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
1836: </strong></font><br>
1837: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
1838: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
1839: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
1840: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
1841: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
1842: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
1843: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
1844: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
1845: in the page tables."
1846: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
1847: <p>
1848:
1849: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1850: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
1851: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
1852: </strong></font><br>
1853: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
1854: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
1855: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
1856: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 1857: <p>
1.384 jose 1858:
1.378 henning 1859: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 1860: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
1861: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 1862: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
1863: </strong></font><br>
1864: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
1865: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
1866: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
1867: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
1868: (quote:
1869: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
1870: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 1871: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 1872: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
1873: the other developers for their work on the system.
1874: <p>
1875:
1876: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1877: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
1878: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
1879: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 1880: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 1881: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
1882: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
1883: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
1884: too.
1885: <p>
1886:
1887: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 1888: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
1889: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 1890: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 1891: OpenBSD source code using
1892: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
1893: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
1894: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
1895: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
1896: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
1897: <p>
1898: </ul>
1899:
1.374 jose 1900: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
1901: <ul>
1902: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 1903: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 1904: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
1905: </strong></font><br>
1906: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
1907: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
1908: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
1909: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
1910: it."
1911: <p>
1912:
1913: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 1914: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
1915: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
1916: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
1917: </strong></font><br/>
1918: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
1919: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
1920: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
1921: <p>
1922: </ul>
1923:
1.369 ian 1924: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
1925: <ul>
1926: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 1927: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
1928: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
1929: </strong></font><br/>
1930: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
1931: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
1932: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
1933: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
1934: <p>
1935:
1936: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 1937: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
1938: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
1939: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
1940: </strong></font><br/>
1941: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
1942: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
1943: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
1944: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
1945: form factor.
1946: <p>
1947:
1948: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1949: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
1950: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
1951: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
1952: Features</a>,
1953: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
1954: </strong></font><br/>
1955: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
1956: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
1957: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
1958: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
1959: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
1960: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
1961: <p>
1962: This article can also be found online at:
1963: <ul>
1964: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1965: <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 1966: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
1967: </strong></font>
1968: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
1969: </ul>
1970: <p>
1.392 david 1971:
1.371 jose 1972: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 1973: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
1974: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 1975: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
1976: </strong></font><br/>
1977: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
1978: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
1979: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 1980: <p>
1.371 jose 1981:
1982: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 1983: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 1984: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 1985: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 1986: </strong></font><br/>
1987: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
1988: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
1989: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
1990: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
1991: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
1992: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
1993: and its history with OpenBSD.
1994: </ul>
1995:
1.368 henning 1996: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
1997: <ul>
1998: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 1999: [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 2000: </strong></font><br>
2001: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
2002: </ul>
2003:
1.364 jose 2004: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
2005: <ul>
2006: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 2007: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
2008: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
2009: UNIX Review,
2010: July, 2003.
2011: </strong></font><br>
2012: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
2013: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
2014: who want more information.
2015: <p>
2016:
2017: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 2018: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
2019: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
2020: Government Computer News,
2021: July 22, 2003.
2022: </strong></font><br>
2023: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
2024: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
2025: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
2026: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
2027: <p>
2028:
2029: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2030: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
2031: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
2032: SANS Institute,
2033: July 22, 2003.
2034: </strong></font><br>
2035: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 2036: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 2037: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
2038: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
2039: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
2040: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
2041: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
2042: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
2043: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
2044: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
2045: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
2046: <p>
2047:
2048: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 2049: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
2050: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
2051: OnLamp.com,
2052: July 17, 2003.
2053: </strong></font><br>
2054: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
2055: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
2056: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
2057: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
2058: have been working on.
2059:
2060: </ul>
2061:
1.356 jose 2062: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 2063: <ul>
2064:
2065: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 2066: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
2067: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
2068: UNIX Review,
2069: June, 2003.
2070: </strong></font><br>
2071: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
2072: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
2073: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
2074: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
2075: <p>
2076:
2077: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 2078: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
2079: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
2080: eWeek,
2081: June 23, 2003.
2082: </strong></font><br>
2083: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
2084: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
2085: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
2086: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
2087: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
2088: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
2089: <p>
2090:
2091: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 2092: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
2093: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
2094: Software Development Online,
2095: June, 2003.
2096: </strong></font><br>
2097: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
2098: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
2099: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
2100: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
2101: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
2102: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
2103: current activities.
2104: <p>
2105:
2106: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 2107: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
2108: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 2109: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
2110: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
2111: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
2112: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 2113: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 2114: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
2115: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
2116: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 2117: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 2118: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
2119: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 2120: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 2121: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
2122: decisions.
2123: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
2124: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 2125: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 2126: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 2127: <p>
2128:
2129: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 2130: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
2131: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
2132: Page 58, eWeek,
2133: June 2, 2003.
2134: </strong></font><br>
2135: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
2136: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
2137: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
2138: been addressed in -current.
2139: <p>
2140:
1.356 jose 2141: </ul>
2142:
2143: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
2144: <ul>
2145:
1.355 jose 2146: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 2147: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
2148: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
2149: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
2150: </strong></font><br>
2151: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
2152: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
2153: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
2154: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
2155: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
2156: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
2157: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
2158: <p>
2159:
2160: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 2161: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
2162: Beyond Linux</a>,
2163: InfoWorld,
2164: May 23, 2003.
2165: </strong></font><br>
2166: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
2167: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
2168: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
2169: compared to the GPL.
2170: <p>
2171:
2172: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 2173: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
2174: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
2175: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 2176: May 17, 2003.
2177: </strong></font><br>
2178: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
2179: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
2180: the business section and half of another page inside
2181: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
2182: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
2183: in talking about the project's history and goals.
2184: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
2185: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
2186: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
2187: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 2188: <br>
2189: This article can also be found online at:
2190: <ul>
2191: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2192: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
2193: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
2194: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
2195: May 17, 2003
2196: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 2197: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
2198: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2199: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
2200: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
2201: Montreal Gazette,
2202: May 21, 2003
2203: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 2204: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 2205: <p>
1.346 ian 2206:
2207: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 2208: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 2209: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 2210: May 7, 2003.
2211: </strong></font><br>
2212: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
2213: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
2214: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
2215: <p>
2216:
2217: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 2218: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
2219: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2220: OsOpinion,
2221: May 6, 2003.
2222: </strong></font><br>
2223: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
2224: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
2225: <br>
2226: This article can also be found online at:
2227: <ul>
2228: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2229: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
2230: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2231: NewsFactor Network.
2232: </strong></font>
2233: </ul>
2234: <p>
2235:
2236: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2237: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 2238: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
2239: ITBusiness,
2240: May 2, 2003.
2241: </strong></font><br>
2242: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
2243: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
2244: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
2245: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
2246: <p>
2247:
2248: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 2249: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
2250: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
2251: InfoWorld,
2252: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 2253: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 2254: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
2255: <br>
2256: This article can also be found online at:
2257: <ul>
2258: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2259: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
2260: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
2261: IDG Singapore.
2262: </strong></font>
2263: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 2264: <p>
2265:
1.339 jose 2266: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2267: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
2268: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 2269: ZDNet,
2270: May 1, 2003.
2271: </strong></font><br>
2272: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 2273: someone using parts from previous articles.
2274: <br>
1.341 deraadt 2275: This article can also be found online at:
2276: <ul>
2277: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2278: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
2279: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
2280: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 2281: </strong></font>
2282: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2283: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
2284: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
2285: CNET News.com.
2286: </strong></font>
2287: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2288: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
2289: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
2290: ZDNet UK.
2291: </strong></font>
2292: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2293: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
2294: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
2295: Help Net Security, Croatia.
2296: </strong></font>
2297: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 2298: <p>
1.339 jose 2299:
1.341 deraadt 2300: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2301: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 2302: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
2303: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
2304: May 1, 2003.
2305: </strong></font><br>
2306: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
2307: that have been added
2308: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
2309: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
2310: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 2311: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 2312: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
2313: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
2314: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 2315: <p>
2316:
2317: </ul>
2318:
1.253 ian 2319: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
2320: <ul>
1.255 ian 2321:
1.260 ian 2322: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2323: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 2324: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
2325: TechRepublic,
2326: April 28, 2003.
2327: </strong></font><br>
2328: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
2329: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 2330: work.<br>
2331: Can also be found online at:
2332: <ul>
2333: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2334: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
2335: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
2336: ZDNet UK.
2337: </strong></font>
2338: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 2339: <p>
2340:
2341: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 2342: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
2343: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
2344: IDG,
2345: April 24, 2003.
2346: </strong></font><br>
2347: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
2348: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
2349: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
2350: Can also be found online at:
2351: <ul>
2352: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2353: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
2354: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 2355: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 2356: </strong></font>
2357: </ul>
2358: <p>
2359:
2360: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2361: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 2362: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 2363: Slate,
2364: April 24, 2003.
2365: </strong></font><br>
2366: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
2367: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
2368: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
2369: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
2370: <p>
2371:
2372: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 2373: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2374: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
2375: April 24, 2003.
2376: </strong></font><br>
2377: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
2378: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
2379: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
2380: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
2381: <p>
2382:
2383: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 2384: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
2385: April 24, 2003.
2386: </strong></font><br>
2387: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
2388: the free software community".
2389: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
2390: other articles.
2391: <p>
2392:
2393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2394: <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 2395: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
2396: </strong></font><br>
2397: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
2398: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
2399: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
2400: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
2401: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
2402: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
2403: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 2404: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 2405: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
2406: <br/>
2407: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
2408: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
2409: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
2410: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 2411: <br>
2412: Can also be found online at:
2413: <ul>
2414: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2415: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
2416: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
2417: Common Dreams NewsCenter
2418: </strong></font>
2419: </ul>
1.324 ian 2420: <p>
2421:
2422: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2423: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
2424: Wired, April 24, 2003.
2425: </strong></font><br>
2426: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
2427: article above.
2428: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
2429: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
2430: wasting them."
1.332 ian 2431: <br>
2432: Can also be found online at:
2433: <ul>
2434: <li>
2435: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
2436: </strong></font>
2437: </ul>
1.324 ian 2438: <p>
2439:
2440: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 2441: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
2442: </strong></font><br>
2443: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
2444: <p>
2445:
2446: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 2447: <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.
2448: </strong></font><br>
2449: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
2450: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
2451: <p>
2452:
2453: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 2454: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
2455: April 23, 2003.
2456: </strong></font><br>
2457: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
2458: <p>
2459:
2460: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 2461: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 2462: April 22, 2003.
2463: </strong></font><br>
2464: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
2465: <p>
2466:
2467: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 2468: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
2469: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
2470: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 2471: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 2472: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
2473: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
2474: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
2475: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
2476: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
2477: Can also be found online at:
2478: <ul>
2479: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2480: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 2481: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
2482: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 2483: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 2484: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2485: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 2486: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
2487: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 2488: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 2489: </ul>
2490: <p>
2491:
2492: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 2493: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
2494: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 2495: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2496: </strong></font><br>
2497: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 2498: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
2499: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
2500: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
2501: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
2502: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
2503: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 2504: <p>
2505:
2506: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 2507: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
2508: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 2509: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
2510: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 2511: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
2512: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
2513: at UPenn and DARPA.
2514: <p>
2515:
2516: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 2517: [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,
2518: France
1.315 deraadt 2519: April 18, 2003.
2520: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 2521: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 2522: <p>
2523:
2524: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 2525: [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 2526: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2527: </strong></font><br>
2528: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
2529: <p>
2530:
2531: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 2532: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
2533: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
2534: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 2535: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 2536: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
2537: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
2538: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
2539: <p>
2540:
2541: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 2542: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
2543: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2544: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 2545: </strong></font><br>
2546: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
2547: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
2548: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 2549: American century.
1.267 deraadt 2550: <p>
2551:
2552: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 2553: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
2554: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2555: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 2556: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 2557: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
2558: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
2559: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
2560: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
2561: Can also be found online at:
2562: <ul>
2563: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
2564: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 2565: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 2566: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 2567: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 2568: <p>
2569:
2570: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 2571: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 2572: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 2573: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 2574: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 2575: </strong></font><br>
2576: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 2577: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
2578: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
2579: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
2580: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 2581:
2582: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2583: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
2584: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
2585: New York Times.
2586: </strong></font>(free registration required)
2587:
1.273 deraadt 2588: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2589: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 2590: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 2591: ABC News.
2592: </strong></font>
2593:
2594: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2595: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 2596: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 2597: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 2598: </strong></font>
2599:
2600: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2601: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 2602: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 2603: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 2604: </strong></font>
2605:
2606: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 2607: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
2608: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 2609: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 2610: </strong></font>
2611:
2612: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2613: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 2614: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 2615: Times Daily, AL.
2616: </strong></font>
2617:
2618: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2619: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
2620: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
2621: Boston.com, MA.
2622: </strong></font>
2623:
2624: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2625: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 2626: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 2627: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
2628: </strong></font>
2629:
2630: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 2631: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
2632: [Article was pulled]</a>
2633: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 2634: </strong></font>
2635:
2636: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2637: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
2638: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
2639: Infoshop News.
2640: </strong></font>
2641:
2642: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2643: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
2644: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2645: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
2646: </strong></font>
2647:
2648: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 2649: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
2650: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
2651: Raleigh News, NC.
2652: </strong></font>
2653:
2654: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2655: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 2656: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
2657: Napa News, CA.
2658: </strong></font>
2659:
2660: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2661: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 2662: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2663: NEPA News, PA.
2664: </strong></font>
2665:
2666: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2667: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
2668: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
2669: Wired News.
2670: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 2671: <br>
2672: <li>
1.333 deraadt 2673: <font color="#009000"><strong>
2674: [JAPANESE]
2675: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
2676: Wired News Japan</a>
2677: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 2678:
1.271 deraadt 2679: </ul>
2680: <p>
1.272 deraadt 2681: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
2682: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 2683: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
2684: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
2685: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
2686: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
2687: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
2688: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 2689: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 2690: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
2691: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
2692: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 2693: <p>
2694: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 2695:
2696: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2697: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 2698: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
2699: Indianapolis Star, IN.
2700: </strong></font>
2701:
2702: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 2703: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
2704: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2705: Miami Herald, FL.
2706: </strong></font>
2707:
2708: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 2709: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 2710: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
2711: </strong></font>
2712:
2713: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2714: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 2715: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 2716: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 2717: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 2718:
2719: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2720: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
2721: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
2722: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
2723: ABC News.
2724: </strong></font>
2725:
1.276 deraadt 2726: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2727: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 2728: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 2729: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 2730: </strong></font>
2731:
1.286 dhartmei 2732: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2733: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 2734: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2735: Wilmington Star, NC.
2736: </strong></font>
2737:
1.300 jose 2738: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2739: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
2740: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
2741: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
2742: </strong></font>
2743:
1.309 jose 2744: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2745: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
2746: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
2747: Globe Technology.
2748: </strong></font>
2749:
1.263 deraadt 2750: </ul>
1.262 beck 2751: <p>
2752:
2753: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 2754: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
2755: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2756: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 2757: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 2758: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 2759: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
2760: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
2761: <p>
2762:
2763: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 2764: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
2765: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
2766: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 2767: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 2768: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
2769: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
2770: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
2771: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
2772: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
2773: and simply restates other press reports.
2774: <p>
2775:
2776: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 2777: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
2778: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2779: OS News, April 18, 2003.
2780: </strong></font><br>
2781: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
2782: <p>
2783:
2784: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 2785: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
2786: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2787: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 2788: </strong></font><br>
2789: Another report on the DARPA funding.
2790: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
2791: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
2792: <p>
2793:
2794: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 2795: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
2796: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
2797: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
2798: April 17, 2003.
2799: </strong></font><br>
2800: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
2801: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
2802: Tech Anthems</a>
2803: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
2804: 4 so far.
2805: <p>
2806:
2807: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 2808: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
2809: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2810: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2811: </strong></font><br>
2812: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
2813: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
2814: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
2815: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
2816: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
2817: Goes on to say:
2818: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
2819: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
2820: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
2821: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 2822: This article is also found online at:
2823: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 2824: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2825: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
2826: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
2827: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 2828: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 2829: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2830: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
2831: ZDnet</a>,
2832: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 2833: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 2834: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2835: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
2836: ZDnet Australia</a>,
2837: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 2838: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 2839: </ul>
1.260 ian 2840: <p>
1.279 deraadt 2841:
1.260 ian 2842: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2843: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 2844: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 2845: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2846: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 2847: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 2848: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
2849: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
2850: without notice or justification.
2851: <p>
2852:
2853: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2854: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 2855: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 2856: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2857: </strong></font><br>
2858: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
2859: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 2860: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 2861: effective today, without any warning..."
2862: <p>
1.257 ian 2863:
2864: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 2865: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
2866: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2867: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 2868: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 2869: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
2870: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
2871: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
2872: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
2873: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 2874: <p>
2875:
2876: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 2877: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
2878: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2879: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 2880: </strong></font><br>
2881: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
2882: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
2883: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
2884: quoting two of them:
2885: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
2886: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
2887: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
2888: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
2889: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
2890: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
2891: <p>
2892:
1.255 ian 2893: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2894: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
2895: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 2896: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2897: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 2898: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 2899: <p>
2900:
2901: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 2902: [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 2903: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2904: </strong></font><br>
2905: New security concepts in OpenBSD
2906: <p>
2907:
2908: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 2909: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
2910: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2911: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 2912: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 2913: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 2914: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
2915: security experts for more than three decades."
2916: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
2917: <p>
1.261 ian 2918:
1.254 drahn 2919: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 2920: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 2921: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2922: </strong></font><br>
2923: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
2924: <p>
2925:
2926: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 2927: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
2928: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
2929: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
2930: </strong></font><br>
2931: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
2932: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
2933: discussion OpenBSD's path.
2934: <p>
2935:
2936: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 2937: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
2938: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2939: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 2940: </strong></font><br>
2941: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
2942: from US DARPA.
2943: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
2944: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
2945: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
2946: the BSD license.
2947: <p>
2948: </ul>
2949:
1.251 ian 2950: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
2951: <ul>
2952:
2953: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2954: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
2955: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
2956: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
2957: </strong></font><br>
2958:
2959: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
2960: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
2961: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
2962: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
2963: <p>
2964:
2965: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 2966: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
2967: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 2968: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 2969: </strong></font><br>
2970: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
2971: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
2972: Mentions
2973: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
2974: and
2975: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
2976: programs.
2977: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 2978: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 2979: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
2980: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
2981: <p>
1.325 ian 2982: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
2983: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 2984:
2985: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2986: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
2987: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
2988: </strong></font><br>
2989: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
2990: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
2991: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
2992: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
2993: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
2994: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
2995: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
2996: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
2997: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
2998: put into service."
2999: <p>
3000: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
3001: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
3002: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
3003: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
3004: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
3005: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
3006: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
3007: computers with security features."
3008: <p>
1.329 ian 3009:
3010: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3011: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
3012: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
3013: Slate,
3014: March 3, 2003.
3015: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 3016: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 3017: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
3018: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
3019: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
3020: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
3021: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
3022: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
3023: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
3024: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
3025: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
3026: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
3027: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
3028: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
3029: of more secure open-source solutions like
3030: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
3031: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
3032: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
3033: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
3034: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
3035: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
3036: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
3037: the Beltway."
3038: <p>
1.251 ian 3039: </ul>
3040:
1.249 jufi 3041: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
3042: <ul>
3043: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3044: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
3045: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3046: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 3047: </strong></font><br>
3048: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
3049: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 3050: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 3051: <p>
1.334 ian 3052:
3053: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3054: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
3055: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
3056: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
3057: </strong></font><br>
3058: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
3059: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
3060: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
3061: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
3062: "... the hypothetical question ...
3063: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
3064: <br>
3065: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
3066: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
3067: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
3068: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
3069: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
3070: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 3071: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 3072: support network security.
3073: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
3074: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
3075: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
3076: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
3077: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
3078: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
3079: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
3080: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
3081: <br>
3082: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
3083: <p>
3084:
1.249 jufi 3085: </ul>
3086:
1.246 jufi 3087: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3088: <ul>
1.246 jufi 3089:
1.247 jufi 3090: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3091: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 3092: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3093: CNET News.com, December 4, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3094: </strong></font><br>
3095: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
3096: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
3097: <p>
3098:
1.247 jufi 3099: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3100: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
3101: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3102: Heise News-Ticker, December 4, 2002
1.301 jose 3103: </strong></font><br>
1.460 david 3104: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III CPU
1.301 jose 3105: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
3106: <p>
3107:
3108: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3109: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 3110: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3111: eWeek, December 3, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3112: </strong></font><br>
3113: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
3114: in their annual OpenHack security test.
3115: <p>
1.247 jufi 3116: </ul>
1.246 jufi 3117:
1.244 jufi 3118: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3119: <ul>
1.246 jufi 3120:
1.247 jufi 3121: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3122: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
3123: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
3124: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3125: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3126: </strong></font><br>
3127: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
3128: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
3129: md5 digests.
3130: <p>
3131:
1.247 jufi 3132: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3133: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 3134: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
3135: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3136: </strong></font><br>
3137: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
3138: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
3139: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
3140: right the first time."
3141: <p>
1.247 jufi 3142: </ul>
1.244 jufi 3143:
3144:
3145: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3146: <ul>
1.244 jufi 3147:
1.247 jufi 3148: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3149: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3150: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
3151: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3152: </strong></font><br>
3153: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
3154: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
3155: part 6</a>.
3156: <p>
3157:
1.247 jufi 3158: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3159: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 3160: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
3161: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3162: O'Reilly Network, August 8, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3163: </strong></font><br>
3164: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
3165: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
3166: <p>
1.301 jose 3167:
3168: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3169: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
3170: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
3171: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
3172: </strong></font><br>
3173:
3174: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
3175: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
3176: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
3177: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
3178: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
3179: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
3180: <i>Here's the
3181: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
3182: <p>
1.247 jufi 3183: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3184:
3185: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3186: <ul>
1.242 jufi 3187:
1.247 jufi 3188: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3189: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 3190: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3191: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3192: </strong></font><br>
3193: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
3194: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
3195: <p>
3196:
1.247 jufi 3197: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3198: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3199: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3200: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 1, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3201: </strong></font><br>
3202: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
3203: this time using pf.
3204: <p>
1.247 jufi 3205: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3206:
3207: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3208: <ul>
1.242 jufi 3209:
1.247 jufi 3210: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3211: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3212: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
3213: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3214: </strong></font><br>
3215: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
3216: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
3217: their rotation.
3218: <p>
3219:
1.247 jufi 3220: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3221: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3222: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3223: O'Reilly Network, June 6, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3224: </strong></font><br>
3225: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
3226: <p>
1.247 jufi 3227: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3228:
1.239 jufi 3229: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3230: <ul>
1.239 jufi 3231:
1.247 jufi 3232: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3233: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 3234: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
3235: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3236: </strong></font><br>
3237: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
3238: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
3239: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
3240: <p>
3241:
1.247 jufi 3242: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 3243: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 3244: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
3245: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 3246: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 3247: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
3248: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
3249: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 3250: <p>
1.247 jufi 3251: </ul>
1.239 jufi 3252:
1.235 lebel 3253: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3254: <ul>
1.235 lebel 3255:
1.239 jufi 3256:
1.247 jufi 3257: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 3258: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 3259: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
3260: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 3261: </strong></font><br>
3262: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
3263: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
3264: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
3265: <p>
1.301 jose 3266:
1.247 jufi 3267: </ul>
1.235 lebel 3268:
1.228 horacio 3269: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3270: <ul>
1.228 horacio 3271:
1.247 jufi 3272: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3273: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3274: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
3275: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 3276: </strong></font><br>
3277: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
3278: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
3279: <p>
3280:
1.247 jufi 3281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 3282: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 3283: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
3284: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 3285: </strong></font><br>
3286: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
3287: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
3288: <p>
3289:
1.247 jufi 3290: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 3291: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 3292: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
3293: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 3294: </strong></font><br>
3295: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
3296: on the desktop of his parents.
3297: <p>
3298:
1.247 jufi 3299: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 3300: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 3301: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
3302: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 3303: </strong></font><br>
3304: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
3305: using IPFilter.
3306:
3307: <p>
3308:
1.247 jufi 3309: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 3310: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 3311: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
3312: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 3313: </strong></font><br>
3314: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
3315: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
3316: perspectives of the four OS.
3317: <br>
3318: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 3319: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 3320: <p>
3321:
1.247 jufi 3322: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 3323: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
3324: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 3325: software and security</a>,
3326: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 3327: </strong></font><br>
3328:
3329: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
3330: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
3331: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
3332: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
3333: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
3334: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
3335: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
3336: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
3337: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
3338: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
3339: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
3340: security conscious team beyond doubt.
3341: <p>
1.247 jufi 3342: </ul>
1.228 horacio 3343:
1.225 horacio 3344: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3345: <ul>
1.225 horacio 3346:
1.247 jufi 3347: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3348: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
3349: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 3350: Interview</a>,
3351: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 3352: </strong></font><br>
3353:
3354: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
3355: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
3356: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 3357: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 3358: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
3359: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
3360: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
3361: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
3362: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 3363: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 3364: of choice.
3365: <p>
1.247 jufi 3366: </ul>
1.225 horacio 3367:
3368: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3369: <ul>
1.225 horacio 3370:
1.247 jufi 3371: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3372: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 3373: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
3374: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 3375: </strong></font><br>
3376:
3377: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
3378: <p>
3379:
1.247 jufi 3380: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3381: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 3382: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
3383: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 3384: </strong></font><br>
3385:
3386: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
3387: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
3388: <p>
1.247 jufi 3389: </ul>
1.225 horacio 3390:
1.218 horacio 3391: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3392: <ul>
1.218 horacio 3393:
1.247 jufi 3394: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 3395: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 3396: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 3397: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 3398: </strong></font><br>
3399:
3400: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
3401: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
3402: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
3403: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
3404: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
3405: subjects. Worth a read.
3406: <p>
3407:
3408:
1.247 jufi 3409: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 3410: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 3411: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
3412: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 3413: </strong></font><br>
3414:
3415: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
3416: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
3417: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
3418: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
3419: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
3420: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
3421: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
3422: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
3423: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 3424: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 3425: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
3426: on other operating systems.<br>
3427: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
3428: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
3429: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
3430: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
3431: <p>
3432:
1.247 jufi 3433: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3434: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 3435: Operating System 2010</a>,
3436: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 3437: </strong></font><br>
3438:
3439: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
3440: covering the level of software integration into the core
3441: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
3442: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
3443: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
3444: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
3445: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
3446: <p>
3447:
1.247 jufi 3448: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 3449: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 3450: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
3451: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 3452: </strong></font><br>
3453:
3454: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
3455: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
3456: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
3457: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
3458: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
3459: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
3460: <p>
1.247 jufi 3461: </ul>
1.221 horacio 3462:
1.210 jufi 3463: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3464: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3465:
1.247 jufi 3466: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3467: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 3468: Already a Contender</a>,
3469: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 3470: </strong></font><br>
3471:
3472: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
3473: source software in response to an article which claimed that
3474: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
3475: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
3476: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
3477: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
3478: <p>
3479:
1.247 jufi 3480: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 3481: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 3482: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
3483: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 3484: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3485:
1.224 horacio 3486: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
3487: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
3488: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
3489: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
3490: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
3491: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 3492: <p>
1.247 jufi 3493: </ul>
1.215 horacio 3494:
3495: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3496: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3497:
1.247 jufi 3498: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3499: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
3500: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 3501: Division</a>,
3502: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 3503: </strong></font><br>
3504:
3505: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
3506: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 3507: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 3508: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
3509: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
3510: investment</em>.<br>
3511: The implementation details can be seen on their
3512: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
3513: <p>
3514:
1.247 jufi 3515: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3516: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
3517: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
3518: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
3519: </strong></font><br>
3520:
3521: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
3522: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
3523: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1.475 grunk 3524: laptops and T-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1.301 jose 3525: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
3526: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
3527: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
3528: <p>
3529:
3530: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3531: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 3532: Thinking about Security</a>,
3533: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 3534: </strong></font><br>
3535:
3536: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
3537: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
3538: security and says that even secured operating systems running
3539: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
3540: to time.<br>
3541: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
3542: system and just the most secure system.
3543: <p>
3544:
1.247 jufi 3545: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3546: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 3547: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
3548: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 3549: </strong></font><br>
3550:
3551: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
3552: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
3553: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
3554: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
3555: choice:<br>
3556: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
3557: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
3558: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
3559: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
3560: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
3561: network security devices and as such must be well
3562: armored."</em><br>
3563: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
3564: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
3565: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
3566: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
3567: <br>
3568: Bravo!
3569: <p>
1.247 jufi 3570: </ul>
1.210 jufi 3571:
1.207 ian 3572: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3573: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3574:
1.247 jufi 3575: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 3576: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
3577: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
3578: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 3579:
1.207 ian 3580: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
3581: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 3582: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 3583: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
3584: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
3585: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 3586: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 3587: <p>
1.247 jufi 3588: </ul>
1.207 ian 3589:
1.194 jufi 3590: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3591: <ul>
1.194 jufi 3592:
1.247 jufi 3593: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3594: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 3595: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
3596: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 3597: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3598:
1.240 miod 3599: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 3600: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
3601: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
3602: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
3603: <p>
3604:
1.247 jufi 3605: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3606: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
3607: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
3608: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
3609:
3610: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
3611: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
3612: <p>
3613:
3614: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3615: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
3616: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3617: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
3618:
3619: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
3620: <p>
3621:
3622: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3623: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 3624: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
3625: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
3626: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3627:
1.240 miod 3628: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 3629: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 3630: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
3631: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 3632: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 3633: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 3634: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
3635: <br>
1.413 deraadt 3636: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 3637: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
3638: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
3639: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
3640: <p>
3641:
1.247 jufi 3642: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 3643: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
3644: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 3645: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 3646: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3647:
1.194 jufi 3648: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
3649: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
3650: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
3651: <br>
3652: The new
3653: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 3654: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 3655: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
3656: <p>
1.247 jufi 3657: </ul>
1.194 jufi 3658:
1.190 horacio 3659: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3660: <ul>
1.190 horacio 3661:
1.247 jufi 3662: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 3663:
3664: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
3665: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
3666:
1.301 jose 3667:
1.191 jufi 3668: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
3669: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
3670:
3671: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
3672: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
3673:
1.212 horacio 3674: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
3675: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 3676: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
3677:
1.211 horacio 3678: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
3679: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 3680: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
3681:
1.247 jufi 3682: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 3683: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
3684:
1.247 jufi 3685: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 3686: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
3687:
1.212 horacio 3688: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
3689: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 3690: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
3691:
3692: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
3693: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
3694:
3695: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
3696: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
3697:
1.301 jose 3698: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
3699: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
3700:
1.191 jufi 3701: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
3702: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
3703:
3704: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 3705: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 3706:
1.192 jufi 3707: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
3708: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 3709: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 3710:
1.193 deraadt 3711: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
3712: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 3713: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 3714:
1.247 jufi 3715: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 3716: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
3717:
1.247 jufi 3718: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 3719: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
3720: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
3721:
1.213 horacio 3722: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 3723: 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 3724: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
3725:
1.190 horacio 3726: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 3727: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
3728: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
3729: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
3730: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
3731: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
3732: <p>
1.190 horacio 3733:
1.247 jufi 3734: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3735: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
3736: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
3737: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 3738: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3739:
1.195 jufi 3740: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 3741: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
3742: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
3743: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 3744: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
3745: <p>
3746:
1.247 jufi 3747: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3748: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 3749: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
3750: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
3751: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3752:
1.191 jufi 3753: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 3754: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
3755: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
3756: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
3757: <p>
3758:
3759: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3760: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
3761: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3762: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
3763:
3764: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
3765: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 3766: <p>
1.247 jufi 3767: </ul>
1.190 horacio 3768:
1.191 jufi 3769:
1.186 jufi 3770: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3771: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 3772:
1.247 jufi 3773: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 3774: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 3775: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
3776: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 3777: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 3778:
1.188 jufi 3779: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 3780: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 3781: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 3782: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
3783: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 3784: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 3785: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 3786: <p>
3787:
1.301 jose 3788: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3789: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
3790: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3791: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
3792:
3793: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
3794: <p>
1.191 jufi 3795:
1.247 jufi 3796: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 3797: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
3798: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3799: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 5, 2001
1.191 jufi 3800: </strong></font><br>
3801:
3802: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
3803: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
3804: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
3805: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
3806: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
3807: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
3808: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
3809: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
3810: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
3811: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
3812: familiar?
3813: <p>
1.247 jufi 3814: </ul>
1.191 jufi 3815:
1.178 louis 3816: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3817: <ul>
1.178 louis 3818:
1.247 jufi 3819: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 3820: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 3821: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
3822: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 3823: </strong></font><br>
3824:
3825: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
3826: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
3827: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
3828: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
3829: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
3830: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
3831: <p>
3832:
1.247 jufi 3833: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3834: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
3835: Open source under the hood</a>,
3836: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 3837: </strong></font><br>
3838:
3839: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
3840: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
3841: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
3842: <p>
3843:
1.247 jufi 3844: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3845: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
3846: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
3847: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 3848: </strong></font><br>
3849:
3850: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
3851: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
3852: <p>
1.247 jufi 3853: </ul>
1.179 louis 3854:
1.174 louis 3855:
1.175 louis 3856: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3857: <ul>
1.175 louis 3858:
1.247 jufi 3859: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3860: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
3861: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
3862: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 3863: </strong></font><br>
3864:
3865: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
3866: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
3867: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
3868: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
3869: <p>
3870:
1.247 jufi 3871: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3872: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
3873: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
3874: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 3875: </strong></font><br>
3876:
3877: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 3878: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 3879: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
3880: <p>
1.247 jufi 3881: </ul>
1.175 louis 3882:
1.176 louis 3883:
1.172 mickey 3884: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3885: <ul>
1.172 mickey 3886:
1.247 jufi 3887: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3888: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
3889: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 3890: </strong></font><br>
3891:
3892: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
3893: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
3894: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 3895: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 3896: <p>
3897:
1.247 jufi 3898: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 3899: <a
1.269 deraadt 3900: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
3901: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
3902: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 3903: </strong></font><br>
3904:
3905: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
3906: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
3907: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
3908: <p>
3909:
1.247 jufi 3910: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3911: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 3912: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
3913: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 3914: </strong></font><br>
3915:
3916: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
3917: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
3918: <p>
3919:
1.247 jufi 3920: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3921: <a
1.269 deraadt 3922: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
3923: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 3924: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
3925: </strong></font><br>
3926:
3927: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
3928: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
3929: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
3930: our own Theo de Raadt.
3931: <p>
3932:
1.247 jufi 3933: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 3934: <a
1.269 deraadt 3935: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
3936: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
3937: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 3938: </strong></font><br>
3939:
3940: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
3941: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
3942: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
3943: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
3944: shut down.]
3945: <p>
3946:
1.247 jufi 3947: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3948: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 3949: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 3950: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
3951: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 3952: </strong></font><br>
3953:
3954: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
3955: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
3956: <p>
1.247 jufi 3957: </ul>
1.172 mickey 3958:
1.161 louis 3959: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3960: <ul>
1.161 louis 3961:
1.247 jufi 3962: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 3963: <a
1.269 deraadt 3964: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
3965: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
3966: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 3967: </strong></font><br>
3968:
3969: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
3970: by John Wolley
3971: <p>
3972:
1.247 jufi 3973: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 3974: <a
1.269 deraadt 3975: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
3976: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
3977: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 3978: </strong></font><br>
3979:
3980: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
3981: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
3982: OpenBSD).
3983: <p>
3984:
1.247 jufi 3985: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 3986: <a
1.247 jufi 3987: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 3988: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
3989: </strong></font><br>
3990:
3991: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
3992: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
3993: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
3994: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
3995: and hindsight.
3996: <p>
3997:
1.247 jufi 3998: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 3999: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
4000: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
4001: </strong></font><br>
4002:
4003: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
4004: <p>
4005:
1.247 jufi 4006: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 4007: <a
1.168 provos 4008: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
4009: December 7, 2000
4010: </strong></font><br>
4011:
4012: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
4013: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
4014: us explain.
4015: <p>
4016:
1.247 jufi 4017: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 4018: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
4019: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 4020: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 4021: December 6, 2000
4022: </strong></font><br>
4023:
4024: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
4025: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
4026: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
4027: <p>
4028:
1.247 jufi 4029: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4030: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
4031: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
4032: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
4033: </strong></font><br>
4034:
4035: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
4036: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
4037: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
4038: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
4039: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
4040: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
4041: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
4042: <p>
4043:
4044: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 4045: <a
1.226 horacio 4046: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
4047: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 4048: </strong></font><br>
4049:
4050: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 4051: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 4052: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 4053: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
4054: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
4055: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 4056: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 4057: <p>
1.162 millert 4058:
1.247 jufi 4059: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 4060: <a
1.161 louis 4061: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
4062: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
4063: </strong></font><br>
4064:
4065: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
4066: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
4067: <p>
4068:
1.247 jufi 4069: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 4070: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
4071: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
4072: </strong></font><br>
4073:
4074: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
4075: <p>
4076:
4077:
1.247 jufi 4078: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 4079: <a
1.226 horacio 4080: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
4081: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
4082: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 4083: </strong></font><br>
4084:
4085: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
4086: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
4087: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
4088: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
4089: <p>
1.247 jufi 4090: </ul>
1.169 louis 4091:
1.158 louis 4092: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4093: <ul>
1.147 louis 4094:
1.247 jufi 4095: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4096: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
4097: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 4098: </strong></font><br>
4099:
4100: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
4101: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
4102: <p>
4103:
1.247 jufi 4104: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4105: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
4106: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
4107: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 4108: </strong></font><br>
4109: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
4110: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
4111: <p>
4112:
1.247 jufi 4113: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 4114: <a
4115: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
4116: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
4117: </strong></font><br>
4118:
4119: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
4120: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
4121: <p>
4122:
1.247 jufi 4123: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4124: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 4125: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
4126: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 4127:
1.213 horacio 4128: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 4129: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 4130: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
4131: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
4132: <p>
1.215 horacio 4133:
1.247 jufi 4134: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4135: <a
4136: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
4137: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
4138: </strong></font><br>
4139:
4140: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
4141: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
4142: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
4143: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
4144: much of the attitude too).
4145: <p>
1.161 louis 4146:
1.247 jufi 4147: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4148: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4149: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 4150: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4151:
1.157 louis 4152: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
4153: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
4154: <p>
1.247 jufi 4155: </ul>
1.157 louis 4156:
4157: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4158: <ul>
1.157 louis 4159:
1.247 jufi 4160: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4161: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4162: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 4163: </strong></font><br>
4164:
4165: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
4166: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
4167: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
4168: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
4169: <p>
4170:
1.247 jufi 4171: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 4172: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
4173: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
4174: </strong></font><br>
4175:
4176: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
4177: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
4178: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
4179: it because they love coding...
4180: <p>
4181:
1.247 jufi 4182: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 4183: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
4184: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
4185: </strong></font><br>
4186:
4187: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
4188: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
4189: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
4190: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
4191: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
4192: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
4193: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
4194: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
4195: <p>
4196:
1.247 jufi 4197: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4198: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
4199: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
4200: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 4201: </strong></font><br>
4202:
4203: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
4204: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
4205: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
4206: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
4207: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
4208: the pizza.
4209: <p>
4210:
1.247 jufi 4211: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 4212: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
4213: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
4214: </strong></font><br>
4215:
4216: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
4217: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
4218: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
4219: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
4220: problems.
4221: <p>
4222:
1.247 jufi 4223: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 4224: <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 4225: </strong></font><br>
4226:
1.222 miod 4227: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 4228: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
4229: - whether they like it or not.
4230: <p>
4231:
1.247 jufi 4232: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4233: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
4234: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 4235: </strong></font><br>
4236:
4237: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
4238: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
4239: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 4240: <p>
1.148 aaron 4241:
1.247 jufi 4242: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4243: <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 4244: </strong></font><br>
4245:
4246: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
4247: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
4248: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
4249: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
4250: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
4251: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
4252: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
4253: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
4254: <p>
4255:
1.247 jufi 4256: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4257: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
4258: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 4259: </strong></font><br>
4260:
4261: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
4262: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 4263: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 4264: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
4265: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
4266: <p>
1.247 jufi 4267: </ul>
1.147 louis 4268:
1.138 louis 4269: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4270: <ul>
1.138 louis 4271:
1.247 jufi 4272: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4273: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
4274: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
4275: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
4276: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 4277: </strong></font><br>
4278:
1.227 horacio 4279: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 4280: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
4281: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
4282: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
4283: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
4284: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
4285: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
4286: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 4287: <p>
4288:
1.247 jufi 4289: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 4290: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 4291: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 4292: </strong></font><br>
4293:
4294: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
4295: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
4296: groups, and even Linux.
4297: <p>
4298:
1.247 jufi 4299: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4300: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
4301: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 4302: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
4303: </strong></font><br>
4304:
4305: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
4306: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
4307: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
4308: library after installing the OS.
4309: <p>
4310:
1.247 jufi 4311: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4312: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 4313: Sys Admin, September 2000
4314: </strong></font><br>
4315:
4316: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
4317: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
4318: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
4319: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 4320: (<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>,
4321: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
4322: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
4323: <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 4324: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 4325: out of the system.
4326: <p>
4327:
1.247 jufi 4328: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 4329: <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
4330: </strong></font><br>
4331:
4332: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 4333: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 4334: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
4335: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
4336: the IP filtering and address translation.
4337: <p>
1.301 jose 4338:
4339: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4340: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
4341: </strong></font><br>
4342:
4343: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
4344: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
4345: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
4346: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
4347: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
4348: <p>
1.247 jufi 4349: </ul>
1.200 niklas 4350:
1.131 louis 4351: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4352: <ul>
1.131 louis 4353:
1.247 jufi 4354: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4355: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
4356: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
4357: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 4358: </strong></font><br>
4359:
4360: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
4361: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
4362: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
4363: <p>
4364:
1.247 jufi 4365: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 4366: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
4367: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
4368: </strong></font><br>
4369:
4370: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
4371: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
4372: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
4373: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
4374: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
4375: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
4376: note of"</i>.
4377: <p>
4378:
1.247 jufi 4379: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 4380: <a
1.247 jufi 4381: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 4382: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
4383: </strong></font><br>
4384:
4385: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
4386: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
4387: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
4388: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
4389: <p>
4390:
1.247 jufi 4391: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 4392: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 4393: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
4394: </strong></font><br>
4395:
4396: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
4397: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
4398: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
4399: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
4400: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
4401: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
4402: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
4403: <p>
4404:
1.247 jufi 4405: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 4406: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
4407: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
4408: 2000
4409: </strong></font><br>
4410:
4411: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
4412: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
4413: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
4414: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
4415: against current industry practices.
4416: <p>
4417:
1.247 jufi 4418: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 4419: <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
4420: </strong></font><br>
4421:
4422: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
4423: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
4424: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
4425: <p>
4426:
1.247 jufi 4427: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 4428: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
4429: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
4430: </strong></font><br>
4431:
4432: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
4433: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
4434: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
4435: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
4436: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
4437: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
4438: careful code reviews, he concludes.
4439: <p>
4440:
1.247 jufi 4441: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 4442: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
4443: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
4444: </strong></font><br>
4445:
4446: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
4447: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
4448: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
4449: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
4450: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 4451: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
4452: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
4453: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 4454: <p>
1.247 jufi 4455: </ul>
1.131 louis 4456:
1.118 louis 4457: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4458: <ul>
1.118 louis 4459:
1.247 jufi 4460: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 4461: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
4462: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
4463: </strong></font><br>
4464:
4465: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
4466: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
4467: about time. The article mentions that
4468: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
4469: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
4470: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 4471: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 4472: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
4473: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 4474: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 4475: <p>
4476:
1.247 jufi 4477: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4478: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 4479: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 4480: </strong></font><br>
4481:
4482: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
4483: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
4484: of OpenSSH.
4485: <p>
4486:
1.247 jufi 4487: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4488: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4489: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 4490: </strong></font><br>
4491:
4492: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 4493: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 4494: bridging.
4495: <p>
4496:
1.247 jufi 4497: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4498: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
4499: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 4500: </strong></font><br>
4501:
1.121 deraadt 4502: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
4503: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 4504: <p>
4505:
1.247 jufi 4506: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 4507: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
4508: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
4509: </strong></font><br>
4510:
4511: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
4512: <p>
4513:
1.247 jufi 4514: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 4515: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 4516: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
4517: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 4518: </strong></font><br>
4519:
1.120 deraadt 4520: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
4521: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 4522: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
4523: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
4524: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
4525: <p>
4526:
1.247 jufi 4527: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 4528: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
4529: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
4530: </strong></font><br>
4531:
1.222 miod 4532: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 4533: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
4534: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
4535: protocols and their quirks.
4536: <p>
4537:
1.247 jufi 4538: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4539: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
4540: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 4541: </strong></font><br>
4542:
4543: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
4544: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
4545: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 4546: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 4547: <p>
4548:
1.247 jufi 4549: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 4550: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
4551: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
4552: </strong></font><br>
4553:
4554: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
4555: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
4556: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
4557: <p>
4558:
1.247 jufi 4559: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 4560: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 4561: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
4562: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 4563: </strong></font><br>
4564:
4565: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
4566: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
4567: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
4568: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
4569: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
4570: <p>
1.247 jufi 4571: </ul>
1.118 louis 4572:
1.104 louis 4573: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4574: <ul>
1.104 louis 4575:
1.247 jufi 4576: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 4577: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
4578: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
4579: </strong></font><br>
4580:
4581: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
4582: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
4583: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
4584: be a bit dry.
4585: <p>
4586:
1.247 jufi 4587: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4588: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
4589: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
4590: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
4591: </strong></font><br>
4592: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
4593: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
4594: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
4595: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
4596: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
4597: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
4598: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
4599: <p>
4600:
1.247 jufi 4601: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4602: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
4603: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 4604: 2000
1.128 louis 4605: </strong></font><br>
4606:
4607: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
4608: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
4609: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
4610: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
4611: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 4612: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 4613: <p>
4614:
1.247 jufi 4615: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4616: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
4617: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 4618: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 4619:
4620: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
4621: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
4622: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
4623: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 4624: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
4625: <p>
1.110 louis 4626:
1.247 jufi 4627: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 4628: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
4629: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
4630: </strong></font><br>
4631:
4632: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
4633: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
4634: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
4635: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
4636: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
4637: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
4638: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
4639: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
4640: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
4641: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
4642: <p>
4643:
1.247 jufi 4644: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 4645: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 4646: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 4647:
4648: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
4649: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 4650: <p>
1.108 louis 4651:
1.247 jufi 4652: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 4653: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
4654: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 4655: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 4656:
4657: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
4658: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
4659: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 4660: <p>
1.106 louis 4661:
1.247 jufi 4662: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 4663: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
4664: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 4665: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 4666:
4667: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
4668: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
4669: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
4670: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 4671: <p>
1.107 louis 4672:
1.247 jufi 4673: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4674: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
4675: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 4676: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 4677:
4678: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
4679: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 4680: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 4681: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
4682: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 4683: <p>
1.105 louis 4684:
1.247 jufi 4685: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 4686: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 4687: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 4688: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 4689:
1.113 naddy 4690: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
4691: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 4692: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 4693: <p>
1.104 louis 4694:
1.247 jufi 4695: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4696: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
4697: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
4698: </strong></font><br>
4699:
4700: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
4701: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
4702: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
4703: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
4704: <p>
1.301 jose 4705:
4706: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4707: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
4708: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
4709: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
4710:
4711: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
4712: hardware-supported cryptography.
4713: <p>
1.247 jufi 4714: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 4715:
1.85 louis 4716: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4717: <ul>
1.85 louis 4718:
1.247 jufi 4719: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4720: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 4721: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 4722: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 4723:
4724: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
4725: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
4726: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
4727: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
4728: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
4729: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
4730: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 4731: <p>
1.99 louis 4732:
1.247 jufi 4733: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4734: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 4735: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 4736: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 4737:
4738: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
4739: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
4740: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
4741: conditions.
1.113 naddy 4742: <p>
1.100 louis 4743:
1.247 jufi 4744: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4745: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 4746: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 4747: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 4748:
4749: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
4750: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
4751: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
4752: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 4753: <p>
1.95 louis 4754:
1.247 jufi 4755: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4756: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 4757: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 4758: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 4759:
4760: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
4761: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 4762: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 4763: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
4764: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4765: <p>
1.92 louis 4766:
1.247 jufi 4767: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4768: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 4769: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 4770: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 4771:
4772: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
4773: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
4774: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
4775: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
4776: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
4777: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 4778: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 4779: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 4780: <p>
1.91 louis 4781:
1.247 jufi 4782: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4783: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
4784: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 4785: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 4786:
4787: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
4788: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
4789: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
4790: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
4791: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
4792: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
4793: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
4794: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
4795: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 4796: <p>
1.90 louis 4797:
1.247 jufi 4798: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 4799: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
4800: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
4801: </strong></font><br>
4802: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
4803: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
4804: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
4805: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
4806: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
4807: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
4808: <p>
4809:
1.247 jufi 4810: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 4811: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
4812: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 4813: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 4814:
1.113 naddy 4815: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
4816: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 4817: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
4818: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
4819: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
4820: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
4821: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 4822: <p>
1.87 louis 4823:
1.247 jufi 4824: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 4825: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
4826: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 4827: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 4828:
4829: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 4830: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 4831: <p>
1.85 louis 4832:
1.247 jufi 4833: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4834: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
4835: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4836: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
4837:
4838: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
4839: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
4840: <p>
4841:
4842: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 4843: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
4844: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 4845: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 4846:
4847: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 4848: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 4849: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
4850: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 4851: <p>
1.89 louis 4852:
1.247 jufi 4853: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 4854: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
1.85 louis 4855: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 4856: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 4857:
4858: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
4859: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
4860: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
4861: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
4862: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 4863: </ul>
1.85 louis 4864:
1.78 deraadt 4865: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4866: <ul>
1.74 louis 4867:
1.247 jufi 4868: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4869: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 4870: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 4871: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 4872: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 4873:
4874: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
4875: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
4876: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4877: <p>
1.83 louis 4878:
1.247 jufi 4879: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 4880: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
4881: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 4882: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 4883:
4884: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
4885: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 4886: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 4887: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
4888: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 4889: <p>
1.93 louis 4890:
1.247 jufi 4891: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4892: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
4893: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
4894: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 4895: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 4896:
1.83 louis 4897: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
4898: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
4899: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
4900: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
4901: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 4902: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
4903: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
4904: <p>
1.82 aaron 4905:
1.247 jufi 4906: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4907: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 4908: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 4909: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 4910:
1.83 louis 4911: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
4912: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
4913: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 4914: <p>
1.80 louis 4915:
1.247 jufi 4916: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4917: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 4918: Bad Press</a>,
4919: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 4920: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 4921:
4922: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 4923: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 4924: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
4925: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
4926: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 4927: <p>
1.247 jufi 4928: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 4929:
4930: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4931: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 4932:
1.247 jufi 4933: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4934: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
4935: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 4936: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 4937: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 4938:
4939: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
4940: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
4941: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
4942: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 4943: <p>
1.74 louis 4944:
1.247 jufi 4945: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 4946: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
4947: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 4948: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 4949:
1.219 horacio 4950: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
4951: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
4952: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
4953: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
4954: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
4955: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
4956: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 4957: <p>
1.88 louis 4958:
1.247 jufi 4959: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 4960: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 4961: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 4962: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 4963:
4964: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
4965: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
4966: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
4967: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 4968: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 4969: <p>
1.81 louis 4970:
1.247 jufi 4971: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4972: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 4973: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 4974: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 4975:
4976: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
4977: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
4978: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
4979: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
4980: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
4981: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
4982: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 4983: <p>
1.90 louis 4984:
1.247 jufi 4985: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4986: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 4987: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 4988: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 4989:
4990: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
4991: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
4992: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 4993: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 4994: <p>
1.247 jufi 4995: </ul>
1.71 louis 4996:
1.69 deraadt 4997: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4998: <ul>
1.70 louis 4999:
1.247 jufi 5000: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5001: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
5002: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 5003: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 5004:
5005: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
5006: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
5007: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 5008: <p>
1.70 louis 5009:
1.247 jufi 5010: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5011: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
5012: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 5013: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 5014:
5015: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 5016: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 5017: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 5018: <p>
1.68 louis 5019:
1.247 jufi 5020: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5021: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
5022: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 5023: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 5024: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 5025:
1.111 jufi 5026: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
5027: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 5028: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 5029: "secure by default" installation.
5030: <p>
1.64 louis 5031:
1.247 jufi 5032: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 5033: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 5034: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 5035: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 5036:
1.113 naddy 5037: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 5038: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 5039: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 5040: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
5041: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
5042: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 5043: <p>
1.66 louis 5044:
1.247 jufi 5045: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5046: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 5047: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5048: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 5049:
5050: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 5051: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 5052: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
5053: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
5054: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 5055: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
5056: <p>
1.83 louis 5057:
1.247 jufi 5058: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5059: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 5060: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5061: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 5062:
5063: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 5064: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
5065: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 5066: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
5067: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 5068: <p>
1.64 louis 5069:
1.247 jufi 5070: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5071: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 5072: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5073: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 5074:
5075: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
5076: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 5077: <p>
1.301 jose 5078:
5079: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5080: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
5081: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
5082: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
5083: </strong></font><br>
5084:
5085: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
5086: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
5087: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
5088: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
5089: Giving way to
5090: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
5091: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
5092: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
5093: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
5094: <p>
1.247 jufi 5095: </ul>
1.65 louis 5096:
1.69 deraadt 5097: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5098: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5099:
1.247 jufi 5100: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5101: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 5102: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 5103: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 5104:
5105: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
5106: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
5107: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
5108: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 5109: <p>
1.88 louis 5110:
1.247 jufi 5111: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5112: <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 5113: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 5114:
5115: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 5116: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
5117: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 5118: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
5119: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 5120: <p>
1.60 louis 5121:
1.247 jufi 5122: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 5123: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 5124: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 5125: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 5126: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5127:
5128: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
5129: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
5130: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 5131: <p>
1.58 louis 5132:
1.247 jufi 5133: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 5134: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 5135: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 5136:
5137: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
5138: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 5139: <p>
1.53 louis 5140:
1.247 jufi 5141: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 5142: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
5143: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 5144: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 5145:
5146: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
5147: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
5148: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 5149: <p>
1.99 louis 5150:
1.247 jufi 5151: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 5152: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 5153: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5154:
5155: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
5156: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 5157: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 5158: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 5159: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 5160:
1.247 jufi 5161: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 5162: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
5163: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 5164: </strong></font><br>
5165:
5166: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
5167: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
5168: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
5169: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
5170: <p>
5171:
1.247 jufi 5172: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5173: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 5174: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 5175: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5176:
5177: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
5178: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 5179: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 5180:
1.247 jufi 5181: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 5182: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 5183: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 5184:
5185: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 5186: in
1.247 jufi 5187: <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 5188: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 5189: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 5190: <p>
1.53 louis 5191:
1.247 jufi 5192: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5193: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 5194: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
5195: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 5196: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 5197:
1.58 louis 5198: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5199: <p>
1.301 jose 5200:
5201: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5202: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
5203: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
5204: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
5205: Informacyjny, January 2000
5206: </strong></font><br>
5207:
5208: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
5209: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
5210: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
5211: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
5212: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
5213: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
5214: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
5215: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
5216: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
5217: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 5218: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
5219: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 5220: <p>
5221:
5222: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5223: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
5224: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
5225: </strong></font><br>
5226:
5227: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
5228: <p>
5229: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 5230:
1.69 deraadt 5231: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5232: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5233:
1.247 jufi 5234: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 5235: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
5236: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
5237: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 5238: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5239:
1.58 louis 5240: Kurt Seifried
5241: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
5242: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
5243: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 5244: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 5245:
1.247 jufi 5246: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5247: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 5248: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 5249: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 5250:
5251: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 5252: <p>
1.96 louis 5253:
1.247 jufi 5254: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5255: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
5256: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
5257: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
5258: </strong></font><br>
5259:
5260: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
5261: <p>
5262:
5263: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5264: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 5265: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 5266: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 5267:
5268: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
5269: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 5270: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 5271: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 5272: <p>
1.247 jufi 5273: </ul>
1.86 louis 5274:
1.69 deraadt 5275: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5276: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5277:
1.247 jufi 5278: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 5279: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
5280: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 5281: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 5282:
5283: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
5284: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 5285: <p>
1.61 louis 5286:
1.247 jufi 5287: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5288: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 5289: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
5290: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5291: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 5292:
5293: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 5294: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 5295: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
5296: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 5297: right -- or at least strives to".
5298: <p>
1.48 louis 5299:
1.247 jufi 5300: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 5301: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
5302: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5303: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 5304: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
5305: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
5306: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
5307: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 5308: <p>
1.61 louis 5309:
1.247 jufi 5310: <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 5311: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 5312: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 5313:
5314: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
5315: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
5316: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
5317: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 5318: <p>
1.46 louis 5319:
1.247 jufi 5320: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 5321: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
5322: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 5323: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5324:
5325: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
5326: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 5327: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 5328:
1.247 jufi 5329: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 5330: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
5331: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 5332: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 5333:
5334: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
5335: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
5336: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
5337: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 5338: <p>
1.247 jufi 5339: </ul>
1.70 louis 5340:
1.69 deraadt 5341: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5342: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5343:
1.247 jufi 5344: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5345: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
5346: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 5347: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 5348: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 5349:
5350: Kurt Seifried
5351: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
5352: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
5353: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 5354: <p>
1.44 philen 5355:
1.247 jufi 5356: <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 5357: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 5358: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 5359:
5360: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 5361: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 5362:
1.247 jufi 5363: <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 5364: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 5365: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 5366:
5367: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 5368: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 5369:
1.247 jufi 5370: <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 5371: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 5372: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 5373:
5374: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
5375: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
5376: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
5377: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 5378: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 5379:
1.247 jufi 5380: <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 5381: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 5382: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 5383:
1.36 louis 5384: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 5385: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 5386:
1.247 jufi 5387: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5388: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
1.39 louis 5389: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 5390: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 5391:
5392: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 5393: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 5394: </ul>
1.38 louis 5395:
1.69 deraadt 5396: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5397: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5398:
1.247 jufi 5399: <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 5400: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 5401: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 5402:
5403: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
5404: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 5405: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 5406:
1.113 naddy 5407: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 5408: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 5409: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 5410: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 5411:
5412: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
5413: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 5414: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
5415: terminal:
1.113 naddy 5416: <blockquote>
5417: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
5418: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
5419: <br>
5420: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
5421: </code>
5422: </blockquote>
5423: <p>
5424:
1.247 jufi 5425: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 5426: <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 5427: <p>
5428:
5429: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5430: <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 5431: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 5432:
5433: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
5434: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 5435: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 5436: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 5437:
1.247 jufi 5438: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5439: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
5440: Sept. 28, 1999
5441: </strong></font><br>
5442:
5443: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
5444: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
5445: translating and reprinting articles from
5446: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
5447: <p>
5448:
5449: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 5450: <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 5451: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 5452:
5453: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
5454: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
5455: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
5456: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
5457: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 5458: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 5459: <p>
1.19 louis 5460:
1.113 naddy 5461: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 5462: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 5463: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 5464:
5465: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
5466: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
5467: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 5468: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
5469: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 5470: <p>
1.16 louis 5471:
1.247 jufi 5472: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5473: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 5474: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 5475: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 5476:
1.57 louis 5477: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
5478: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
5479: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 5480: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 5481:
1.247 jufi 5482: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5483: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.466 deraadt 5484: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5485: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5486:
1.113 naddy 5487: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 5488:
1.247 jufi 5489: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 5490: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
5491: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 5492: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 5493:
1.23 louis 5494: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
5495: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
5496: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
5497: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
5498: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 5499: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 5500:
1.247 jufi 5501: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 5502: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
5503: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 5504: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 5505:
1.199 pvalchev 5506: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 5507: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
5508: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
5509: installation.
1.113 naddy 5510: <p>
1.47 louis 5511:
1.247 jufi 5512: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5513: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 5514: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 5515: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5516:
1.301 jose 5517: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
5518: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
5519: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 5520: </ul>
1.57 louis 5521:
1.69 deraadt 5522: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5523: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5524:
1.247 jufi 5525: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 5526: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 5527: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 5528: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 5529:
5530: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
5531: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 5532: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5533: <p>
1.12 louis 5534:
1.247 jufi 5535: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 5536: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 5537: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 5538: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 5539:
5540: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
5541: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 5542: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
5543: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
5544: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
5545: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
5546: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 5547: <p>
1.247 jufi 5548: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 5549:
1.69 deraadt 5550: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5551: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 5552:
1.247 jufi 5553: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 5554: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 5555: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 5556:
5557: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
5558: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
5559: available."
1.113 naddy 5560: <p>
1.301 jose 5561:
5562: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5563: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
5564: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
5565: </strong></font><br>
5566:
5567: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
5568: <p>
1.247 jufi 5569: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 5570:
1.69 deraadt 5571: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5572: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5573:
1.247 jufi 5574: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 5575: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 5576: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 5577:
5578: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
5579: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
5580: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
5581: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
5582: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 5583: <p>
1.33 louis 5584:
1.247 jufi 5585: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5586: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 5587: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 5588: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5589:
1.113 naddy 5590: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
5591: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 5592: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
5593: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
5594: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 5595: <p>
1.247 jufi 5596: </ul>
1.57 louis 5597:
1.69 deraadt 5598: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5599: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5600:
1.247 jufi 5601: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5602: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 5603: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 5604: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 5605:
5606: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
5607: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 5608: <p>
1.69 deraadt 5609:
1.247 jufi 5610: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 5611: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
5612: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
5613: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 5614: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 5615:
5616: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 5617: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 5618:
1.247 jufi 5619: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5620: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 5621:
1.113 naddy 5622: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 5623:
1.247 jufi 5624: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5625: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
1.68 louis 5626: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 5627: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 5628:
5629: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 5630: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 5631: </ul>
1.23 louis 5632:
1.69 deraadt 5633: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5634: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5635:
1.247 jufi 5636: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 5637: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 5638: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 5639:
5640: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
5641: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 5642: <p>
1.2 deraadt 5643:
1.247 jufi 5644: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5645: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 5646: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5647: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5648:
5649: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
5650: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 5651: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 5652: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 5653: </ul>
1.57 louis 5654:
1.69 deraadt 5655: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5656: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5657:
1.247 jufi 5658: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5659: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
1.15 louis 5660: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 5661: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 5662:
5663: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
5664: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
5665: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
5666: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5667: <p>
1.15 louis 5668:
1.247 jufi 5669: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 5670: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
5671: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 5672: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5673:
5674: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
5675: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
5676: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
5677: columns."
1.113 naddy 5678: <p>
1.247 jufi 5679: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5680:
1.69 deraadt 5681: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5682: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5683:
1.247 jufi 5684: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5685: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 5686: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 5687: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5688:
5689: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 5690: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 5691:
1.113 naddy 5692: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5693: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 5694: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5695:
5696: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
5697: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 5698: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 5699: </ul>
1.57 louis 5700:
1.69 deraadt 5701: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5702: <ul>
1.301 jose 5703: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5704: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
5705: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
5706: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
5707:
5708: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
5709: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
5710: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
5711: <p>
5712:
5713: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5714: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
5715: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
5716: Nov 13, 1998 and
5717: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
5718: Datateknik</a>,
5719: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
5720:
1.380 saad 5721: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 5722: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
5723: explains the licensing issues and points to our
5724: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
5725: <p>
1.69 deraadt 5726:
1.113 naddy 5727: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5728: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 5729: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 5730: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 5731:
1.222 miod 5732: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 5733: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
5734: Implementation, including a brief interview with
5735: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 5736: <p>
1.247 jufi 5737: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5738:
1.69 deraadt 5739: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5740: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5741:
1.247 jufi 5742: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5743: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 5744: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5745:
1.69 deraadt 5746: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
5747: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 5748: <p>
1.247 jufi 5749: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5750:
1.69 deraadt 5751: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5752: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 5753:
1.247 jufi 5754: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 5755: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
5756: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 5757: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5758:
1.383 jcs 5759: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 5760: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 5761: <p>
1.1 deraadt 5762:
1.247 jufi 5763: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 5764: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 5765: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
5766: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 5767: <p>
1.247 jufi 5768: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5769:
1.69 deraadt 5770: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5771: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5772:
1.247 jufi 5773: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5774: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 5775: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
5776: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 5777: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 5778: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 5779:
5780: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
5781: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
5782: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 5783: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 5784: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 5785: <p>
1.247 jufi 5786: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 5787:
5788: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5789: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5790:
1.247 jufi 5791: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5792: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 5793: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 5794:
1.69 deraadt 5795: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
5796: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 5797: <p>
1.112 naddy 5798:
1.247 jufi 5799: </ul>
1.113 naddy 5800: <p>
1.1 deraadt 5801:
1.292 camield 5802: <hr>
1.216 horacio 5803: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 5804: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.543 ! mbalmer 5805: <br><small>$OpenBSD: press.html,v 1.542 2006/10/10 03:19:15 deraadt Exp $</small>
1.1 deraadt 5806:
5807: </body>
5808: </html>
![[BACK]](/icons/back.gif){kind=icon}
Return to press.html CVS log ![[TXT]](/icons/text.gif){kind=icon}
![[DIR]](/icons/dir.gif){kind=icon}
Up to [local] / www