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1.1 deraadt 18:
1.550 mbalmer 19: <h2>December, 2006</h2>
20: <ul>
21:
22: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.551 ! xsa 23: [GERMAN]
1.550 mbalmer 24: <a href="http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/2007/01/074/">
25: OpenBSD 4.0 - Kanadische Eröffnung</a>
26: iX magazine, December 14, 2006
27: </strong></font><br>
28: The german IT magazine iX reviews the 4.0 release of OpenBSD and also mentions
29: why we don't support blobs and why this is beneficial to our users.
30: The article gives OpenBSD a very good rating for being strictly free software,
31: its swift installation, the support for upgrades, and the large number of
32: platforms and architectures it runs on.
33: <p>
34:
35: </ul>
36:
1.546 ian 37: <h2>November, 2006</h2>
38: <ul>
39:
1.549 ian 40: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
41: <a href='http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20061110204834'>
42: Official support for OpenBSD in Parallels Workstation</a>
43: undeadly.org, November 10, 2006
44: </strong></font><br>
45: OpenBSD is now supported by Parallels, a commercial OS
46: virtualization product for Mac OS X, Linux or MS-Windows.
47: In addition to allowing users to run both OpenBSD and one of those other
48: systems concurrently, the announcement means that developers with Intel Mac
49: hardware can run multiple test systems; the Undeadly Editor adds:
50: "I've had up to six OpenBSD guest systems operating simultaneously,
51: versions 3.8 through 4.0 (and -current)."
52: This also reinforces the increasing commercial acceptance of our favorite OS.
53: <p>
54:
55: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
56: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/11/bsdtalk082-openbsd-developer-jason.html">
57: Interview with Jason Wright</a>, BSDTalk 82, November 8, 2006
58: </strong></font><br>
59: Jason talks about the OpenBSD development process (particularly for device drivers
60: and getting hardware documentation from vendors), Sun SPARC hardware (particularly
61: the Ultra III), ham radio (APRS) with OpenBSD, and more.
62: <p>
63:
64: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
65: <a href='http://news.com.com/2061-10795_3-6132572.html'>
66: OpenBSD turns 4.0</a>
67: CNET News.com, November 3, 2006
68: </strong></font><br>
69: Stephen Shankland talks about the UltraSPARC III code in 4.0, and notes that
70: OpenBSD has chosen to stay with stable GCC versions rather than moving to
71: the latest and most bloated GCC versions like Linux did.
72: Quotes Theo as saying: OpenBSD doesn't aim for particular niches,
73: but it's popular in network applications... "The biggest
74: users of OpenBSD these days are people who need our fancy networking
75: features..."
76: <p>
77:
1.546 ian 78: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
79: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/55/">
80: OpenBSD 4.0 Review</a>, Software In Review, November 1, 2006
81: </strong></font><br>
82: "In an era when the next edition of Microsoft Windows is pushed
83: back more than a year, and popular GNU/Linux distributions are
84: almost expected to have their release dates delayed by weeks or
85: months, it's nice to know that at least one operating system releases
86: on schedule without all kinds of showstopping bugs and problems.
87: OpenBSD 4.0 was released on November 1 with its usual mix of new
88: hardware support and enhanced operating system features."
89: So opens Jem Matzam's review of the new 4.0 release.
90: Jem gives a brief overview of the project, discusses
91: several of the most important new features, evaluates
92: his installation and use of the system on a desktop and a notebook.
1.548 saad 93: He also offers a few recommendations for future developments to make
1.546 ian 94: the project even better.
95: There's even a link to the Wikipedia article on
96: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humppa">
97: Humppa</a>, for those who may have heard this term but not
98: the music behind it.
99: <p>
100:
1.547 ian 101: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
102: <a href='http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1243'>
103: Big changes with OpenBSD 4.0 out today</a>
104: Tectonic, November 1, 2006
105: </strong></font><br>
106: "With his characteristic no-frills approach OpenBSD team leader
107: Theo de Raadt this morning announced the release of OpenBSD 4.0."
108: This article lists the highlights of the 4.0 release and
109: tells readers where to order CD's or download the release.
110: Quotes Theo: ""We are pleased to announce the official release of
111: OpenBSD 4.0. This is our 20th release on CD-Rom (and 21st via FTP).
112: We remain proud of OpenBSD's record of ten years with only a single
113: remote hole in the default install,"
114: <p>
115:
116: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
117: <a href='http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061101-8123.html'>
118: OpenBSD 4.0 released</a>
119: Ars Technica, November 1, 2006
120: </strong></font><br>
121: A short note about the 4.0 release; refers to the O'ReillyNet article below.
122: <p>
123:
1.546 ian 124: </ul>
125:
1.539 ian 126: <h2>October, 2006</h2>
127: <ul>
1.540 ian 128:
129: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.546 ian 130: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/6769">
131: OpenBSD 4.0: Pufferix's Adventures</a>, O'Reilly Network, October 26, 2006
132: </strong></font><br>
133: Federico Biancuzzi interviewed a dozen and a half developers and compiled
134: the results into this report, all while listening to the obligatory Humppa.
1.548 saad 135: Topics include the new blob-free wireless drivers, pf and pf/dhcp interaction,
1.546 ian 136: CARP demotion, ipsecctl replacing ipsecadm, hardware support for disk/bioctl,
137: USB serial, new installation customization features, ports/packages, RCS, X,
138: CPU support for Sparc/64, AMD/Intel "speed step" techniques, and more.
139: <p>
140:
141: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.543 mbalmer 142: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/10/bsdtalk076-openbsd-developer-marc.html">
143: Interview with Marc Balmer about OpenCON 2006</a>, bsdtalk076, October 12, 2006
144: </strong></font><br>
145: BSDTalk interviews Marc Balmer about the upcoming
146: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a> conference
147: in Venice, Italy, how he got involved in the OpenBSD project, and what he
148: uses the OpenBSD operating system for in his company. Marc Balmer tells us about
149: the history of the conference that is dedicated solely to OpenBSD, why it
150: is taking place in Venice, and why he likes OpenBSD as the platform of choice
151: for his many customers.
152: <p>
153:
154: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.544 ian 155: <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/olpc-under-fire-for-proprietary-components/">
156: OLPC under fire for proprietary components</a>, Engadget, October 11, 2006
157: </strong></font><br>
158: Hardware site Engadget is one of several that has picked up this controversy
159: from the Jem Report quoted below and on the mailing lists.
160: Quotes Theo's reaction to Jim Gettys' latest comments:
161: "Jim is obviously very clever at convincing people that children
162: need proprietary laptops (OLPC has a greater percentage of undocumented
163: hardware than a Thinkpad from 3 years ago). It is easy for Jim to
164: convince people these things because he doesn't care at all about
165: the future maintainance of drivers. I do. And I think most of you
166: also do."
167: The article ends with: "Wow, them be fightin' words -- we're pulling up ringside
168: seats already."
169: <p>
170:
171: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
172: <a href="http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/286/">
173: Making sense of the One Laptop Per Child proprietary software row</a>,
174: The Jem Report, October 9, 2006
175: </strong></font><br>
176: Jem Matzan explores this ongoing controversy by blending separate interviews with
177: Jim Gettys, Richard Stallman and our own Theo de Raadt.
178: Theo consistently and clearly defends the project's interest in
179: getting documentation on, and permission to distribute, firmware
180: so that users can use hardware they have paid for.
181: Commenting on the multiple NDA-requiring parts in the current version of
182: the OLPC laptop, Theo notes that "If I am careful in selection,
183: I can buy a laptop on the market today that has fewer proprietary parts."
184: And on the OLPC project's use of NDA-requiring parts at all:
185: "I feel they have misled the community by acting as if they are open;
186: they rode on our coat-tails. Now it turns out they are going to ship GPL'd
187: code mixed with NDA-requiring proprietary drivers in the end.
188: Even their LinuxBIOS will need to link into drivers that
189: no one can repair because the documentation is locked up..."
190: <p>
191:
192: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.541 ian 193: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20061006000709">
194: OLPC hurts wireless documentation efforts</a>, undeadly.org, October 6, 2006
195: </strong></font><br>
196: Theo de Raadt takes on the high-profile
197: <a href="http://laptop.org/">OLPC</a> (One Laptop Per Child) Project
198: for not demanding open documentation from its wireless
199: chip manufacturer, wasting a "golden moment" opportunity to use sales
200: volume in the millions to pressure chip vendors, and thus helping destroy
201: the open source movement that makes the OLPC laptops affordable -
202: truly, betraying that hand that feeds it.
1.542 deraadt 203: Also strong words from other developers such as Bob Beck.
1.541 ian 204: <p>
205:
206: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.540 ian 207: <a href="http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;639736970;fp;2;fpid;3">
208: The sad state of computer security</a>, PC World Australia, October 5, 2006
209: </strong></font><br>
210: Roger Grimes opines on how bad security really is for most of the world
211: (and it is really bad). "If you aren't using OpenBSD [or a few others],
212: then every other product in the world is pretty bad in comparison.
213: <br />
214: "Most software contains numerous vulnerabilities, holes, and
215: exploitable routines. Even our anti-malware software and devices,
216: the things that are supposed to protect us, are full of buffer
217: overflows and vulnerabilities."
218: <br />
219: And, Grimes generalizes,
220: "Sadly, the world has decided that real computer security doesn't
221: matter any more than real terrorist security. It's all lip service.
222: We are, and apparently choose to be, reactive sheep. Proactive
223: thinkers get ignored and ridiculed...
224: As more and more of the world goes online, and as more of our
225: important infrastructure goes "e-something," it would appear that
226: we are on a collision course headed toward a tipping point event.
227: And when it does, the sheep will stand aghast wondering how it
228: happened."
229: Worth reading!
230: <p>
231:
1.539 ian 232: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
233: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061002-7874.html">
234: OpenBSD creator wants users to pressure Intel on open source policies</a>,
235: Ars Technica, October 2, 2006.
236: </strong></font><br>
237: Summarizes Theo's efforts to obtain documentation and freely
238: redistributable firmware from Intel.
239: <p>
240:
241: </ul>
242:
1.536 grunk 243: <h2>September, 2006</h2>
244: <ul>
245:
246: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.537 ian 247: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/7184">
248: OpenBSD: Intel Accused Of Being "An Open Source Fraud"</a>,
249: KernelTrap, September 30, 2006.
250: </strong></font><br>
251: Mentions Damien's thread on misc summarizing Intel's policy toward
252: open-source software as being to make Intel "look like we're
253: open-source friendly by opening a project on sourceforge," and,
254: "give the open-source community the bare minimum so that they can
255: serve as our beta-testers." Damien reverse engineered the wpi(4)
256: driver source for the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Driver,
257: despite Intel's refusal to freely provide documentation.
258: Regular readers will know that OpenBSD has been at war with Intel
259: for ages over these chipsets.
260: Quotes Theo as saying:
261: "before we ask a vendor, we have already lost (ie. the
262: device does not work). When a vendor says no, we have lost nothing
263: further -- there is no way we can lose further than having the
264: device not work. We can only win, and then the device works. So
265: there is no point in giving up until we win back the rights to write
266: software for the hardware that we have purchased."
267: <p>
268:
269: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
270: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/09/bsdtalk069-interview-with-christoph.html">
271: Interview with Christoph Egger about Xen on OpenBSD</a>, bsdtalk069, September 26, 2006
272: </strong></font><br>
273: BSDTalk interviews Christoph Egger about Xen and about how Christoph make OpenBSD
274: able to run as a guest operating system on Xen.
275: Includes some background about Xen as well as what it would take to
276: make OpenBSD run as the "dom0" or master host.
277: <p>
278:
279: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.536 grunk 280: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/09/bsdtalk068-interview-with-openbsd.html">
281: Intervew with OpenBSD developer Bob Beck</a>, bsdtalk068, September 22, 2006
282: </strong></font><br>
283: Bob Beck talks about spamd and his history with OpenBSD and UNIX
284: on Will Backman's bsdtalk. Bob gives us a look into his work on
285: OpenBSD and gives us amusing stories of how spamd works and how it
286: actually fares in 'the wild.' The podcast lasts a whole 25 minutes,
287: 59 seconds so it's long enough to occupy a meal or a small commute.
288: <p>
289:
1.537 ian 290: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
291: <a href="http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060920185115">
292: OpenBSD 4.0 pre-orders are up!</a>, undeadly.org, September 20, 2006
293: </strong></font><br>
294: One of the first mentions of 4.0 going on sale for pre-ordering
295: (the official release date is November 1).
296: Also gives a list of the many good things that have been added
297: in 4.0, including many new device drivers,
298: support for UltraSPARC III on sparc64, improvements to ipsecctl,
299: a new RCS implementation, and much more.
300: Includes a reminder to "show your support for the project by
1.538 deraadt 301: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/orders.html">placing your pre-orders today!"</a>
1.537 ian 302: <p>
303:
1.536 grunk 304: </ul>
305:
1.534 ian 306: <h2>August, 2006</h2>
307: <ul>
308:
309: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.537 ian 310: <a href="http://anil.recoil.org/blog/articles/2006/08/21/openbsd-xen-boots-multi-user">
311: OpenBSD/Xen boots multi-user</a>, Recoil Blog, August 21, 2006
312: </strong></font><br>
313: Anil discusses his stewardship of a Google Summer of Code project in which
314: Christoph Egger ported and revised some NetBSD code to make OpenBSD boot up natively
315: as a guest operating system under
316: <a href="http://www.xensource.com/">Xen</a>, the open-source hypervisor
317: or "virtualization" system.
318: <p>
319:
320: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.534 ian 321: <a href="http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-openbsd.html">
322: Take a closer look at OpenBSD</a>, IBM developerWorks, August 08, 2006
323: </strong></font><br>
324: Tim McIntire holds OpenBSD up as a beacon to UNIX users, calling it
325: "quite possibly the most secure operating system on the planet."
326: He talks about how the development process leads to greater security
327: and how tools like OpenSSH make it out into the wider UNIX/Linux world.
328: "OpenBSD might not have a huge user base compared to other UNIX-like operating systems,
329: but it is installed at the most crucial points of many networks."
330: Has a somewhat brief but effective discussion of installing the software, and
331: ends with references to several papers and sites of interest.
332: <p>
333:
334: </ul>
335:
1.531 ian 336: <h2>July, 2006</h2>
337: <ul>
338: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
339: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/case-studies--profiles/founder-breathes-the-open-air/2006/07/17/1152988468274.html">
340: Founder breathes the Open air</a>, The Age, July 18, 2006
341: </strong></font><br>
342: Subtitled "Hiking in exotic climes is a brain adventure for the founder of OpenBSD", this is
343: as much about hiking and learning new symbols as about software, but our leader
344: manages to do both, and bring both into the interview.
345: The article quotes Theo as saying
346: "Another major lesson I have learnt is that most people only care
347: about things working for themselves, and thus it is very easy in a
348: group to build poorly thought-out solutions. It is very simple to
349: write small hacks and end up with unmaintainable systems in the long term."
350: Describes the hackathons as an important part of the project's process
351: and describes the funding issues as well.
352: <p>
353:
354: </ul>
355:
1.525 ian 356: <h2>June, 2006</h2>
357: <ul>
358: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.535 steven 359: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=472693&rl=1">
1.530 ian 360: Alternatives to LAMP</a>, informit.com, June 2, 2006
361: </strong></font><br>
362: While "Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP" get most of the attention,
363: there are alternatives to each that are, in some way, better.
364: David Chisnal starts this article with a look at OS alternatives,
365: and OpenBSD gets the most detailed coverage, including this:
366: "When it comes to security, OpenBSD has a well-earned reputation
367: as the operating system for the truly paranoid. The entire kernel
368: and base system, including the OpenBSD fork of Apache, undergoes a
369: constant auditing process. The OpenBSD attitude is that any bug is
370: potentially exploitable, and when a bug is found by the auditing
371: team the next step is to attempt to remove every single occurrence
372: of that category of bug. This approach leads to an incredibly secure
373: system." Also talks about our pioneering use of W^X and the
374: "incredibly powerful and easy to configure" packet filter, pf.
375: <p>
376:
377: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.527 ian 378: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article8785.phtml">
1.525 ian 379: Microsoft adopts open-source security feature</a>, OSDir.com, June 1, 2006
380: </strong></font><br>
381: Microsoft borrows one of OpenBSD's security features for Vista, stack/library randomization,
382: under the name Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR).
383: "Until now, the feature has been most prominently used in the OpenBSD Unix variant and
384: the PaX and Exec Shield security patches for Linux"
385: (despite the article's title, there is nothing open-source about Microsoft's implementation).
386: <p>
387:
1.526 ian 388: </ul>
1.525 ian 389:
1.514 ian 390: <h2>May, 2006</h2>
391: <ul>
1.524 ian 392: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
393: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6650">
394: OpenBSD: wpi, A Blob Free Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Driver</a>, KernelTrap, May 28, 2006
395: </strong></font><br>
396: Damien Bergamini wrote OpenBSD's all-open-source driver for the Intel Pro/Wireless,
397: a sharp contrast to other projects' bogus "open source" drivers that are just wrappers around
398: a "binary blob" (source code not available, sorry) provided by the vendor.
399: "His announcement came a little over two months after Intel released
400: the controversial ipw3945 driver for Linux which included
401: a binary-only daemon described as necessary for enforcing regulatory
402: limits for the radio transmitter on the wireless device."
403: Bergamini's work proves yet again that vendors don't have to obscure their products
404: to make them useful.
405: <p>
1.518 ian 406:
407: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.520 ian 408: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/openbsd/c2k6/who1">
1.523 ian 409: c2k6, Who's Who At the 2006 OpenBSD Hackathon, Part I</a>
410: and
411: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6662">Part II</a>,
1.522 ian 412: KernelTrap, May 28, 2006
1.520 ian 413: </strong></font><br>
1.521 deraadt 414: Jeremy Andrews visited our developers at the Hackathon and gives
1.523 ian 415: a brief but colorful summary of most of the team members:
1.520 ian 416: why they chose OpenBSD, how they got involved, what they do, and
417: their plans for the week.
418: <p>
419:
420: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.523 ian 421: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/05/22/OpenBSD-on-Flash.html">
422: Installing OpenBSD on Flash</a>,
423: Ping Wales, May 22, 2006
424: </strong></font><br>
425: David Chisnall shows how to set up an OpenBSD boot image for
426: Soekris or PC Engines machines that boot from flash memory.
427: <p>
428:
429: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.520 ian 430: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/eur/article.php/3603961">
431: Enterprise Unix Roundup: Whither BSD?</a>, ServerWatch, May 5, 2006
432: </strong></font><br>
433: Amy Newman and Brian Proffitt state that the BSDs are often overlooked
434: because of their limited commercial acceptance.
435: The authors call this an unfortunate oversight, because recent releases of
436: the freely available BSD flavors show significant technical improvements.
1.523 ian 437: As an example, they specifically refer to OpenBSD's sensor framework
1.520 ian 438: (introduced with 3.9).
439: Newman and Proffitt also accuse big vendors of picking the nice parts from
440: the BSDs' code and giving nothing back to the community in return.
441: <p>
442:
443: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.518 ian 444: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/35/1/">
445: OpenBSD 3.9 Review</a>, Software In Review, May 3, 2006
446: </strong></font><br>
447: Jem Matzan takes the 3.9 release out for a spin, and likes it.
448: Noting that each release consists of a lot of small changes
449: and some major improvements - and mentioning hardware support, sensors,
450: and "blob removal" - he clearly thinks the project is doing a lot of things right.
451: "Everything you get in the release is production-ready, secure by
452: default... and comes with possibly the finest integrated documentation
453: in the Unix-clone world. While you might find a poorly programmed
454: driver or other base system component in other BSDs and GNU/Linux
455: distributions, in OpenBSD if something is supported, it works."
456: <p>
457:
458: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
459: [GERMAN]
460: <a href="http://www.linux-magazin.de/Artikel/ausgabe/2006/06/news_zut/news_zut.html">
461: Mozilla greift OpenBSD unter die Arme</a>, Linux Magazin, Issue 06/06, May 2006, p. 18
462: </strong></font><br>
463: The German <a href="http://www.linux-magazin.de/">Linux Magazin</a> has a short
464: article about OpenBSD's financial situation and Marco Peerebroom's
1.535 steven 465: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060321034114">call for donations</a>
1.518 ian 466: on undeadly.org. The article further mentions how OpenSSH development
467: is connected to OpenBSD.
468: <p>
469:
1.514 ian 470: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
471: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6550">
472: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, KernelTrap, May 2, 2006
473: </strong></font><br>
474: Jeremy Andrews conducts a free-ranging interview, focused mainly on 3.9 and drivers,
475: that gives Theo a chance to explain how the big North American chip vendors'
476: business practices make it harder for open source projects,
1.515 ian 477: talk about "binary blobs" vs firmware in drivers, and more.
1.514 ian 478: There's also coverage of where the project is going up to and after 3.9 and where
1.516 steven 479: it might (or might not) go in the future, why doing things right (and
1.514 ian 480: running this project) is so important to Theo,
481: and even why he does mountain biking!
482: <p>
483:
484: </ul>
485:
1.503 ian 486: <h2>April, 2006</h2>
487: <ul>
488: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.532 ray 489: <a href="http://www.dribin.org/dave/blog/archives/2006/04/28/os_x_passwords_2/">
490: Mac OS X Password Implementation Compared to OpenBSD's</a>, April 28, 2006
491: </strong></font><br>
492: Dave Dribin analyzes Mac OS X's password implementation
493: and compares it with OpenBSD's:
494: "The king of the hill has to go to OpenBSD,
495: which uses a hash based on the Blowfish block cipher called bcrypt.
496: The benefit of [bcrypt] is best stated on their website:
497: <blockquote>
498: The most important property of bcrypt (and thus crypt_blowfish)
499: is that it is adaptable to future processor performance improvements,
500: allowing you to arbitrarily increase the processing cost of checking a
501: password while still maintaining compatibility with your older password hashes.
502: Already now bcrypt hashes you would use are several orders of magnitude
503: stronger than traditional Unix DES-based or FreeBSD-style MD5-based hashes.
504: </blockquote>
505: This is just plain cool."
506: <p>
507:
508: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.512 ian 509: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6557">
510: OpenBSD 3.9: Blob-Busters Interviewed</a>, OnLAMP, April 27, 2006
511: </strong></font><br>
512: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several of the developers on improvements
513: in 3.9: the continuing absence of "blob drivers", IPMI and sensors, apmd performance
514: adjustment, Macs, rthreads, multicast, trunk, hostapd, and more.
1.513 saad 515: jsg clarifies the issue of "binary blob" drivers vs "firmware", and
1.512 ian 516: discusses the NVIDIA nForce Ethernet driver he did after NVIDIA did refuse
517: to give out documentation; they can't stop us, but they can slow us down.
518: The result: "There aren't any drivers in OpenBSD with binary-only components;
519: this is quite a contrast to pretty much everyone else out there."
520: marco comments on the IPMI work in 3.9, and adds:
521: "IPMI is a standard, but there are vendors out there
1.513 saad 522: that have reading comprehension issues...".
1.512 ian 523: A long list of other developers explain their contributions
524: and other changes that make 3.9 one of our best releases yet.
525: <p>
526:
527: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.517 mbalmer 528: [GERMAN]
529: <a href="http://www.guug.de/uptimes/index.html">
530: Stop BLOB!</a>, UpTimes, April 25, 2006
531: </strong></font><br>
532: Wilhelm Bühler gives an overview in a short article about Blobs, what they
533: are and why they are bad.
534: <p>
535:
536: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.508 ian 537: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/34/1/">
538: Using OpenBSD</a>, Software In Review, April 24, 2006
539: </strong></font><br>
540: Jem Matzan gives a brief overview of using the system.
541: Covers ports and packages, use of SMP kernel, and more.
542: Capsule summary of how our security policy affects the administrator:
543: "Because it is secure by default, you may have to do more initial
544: configuration with OpenBSD than with most other Unix and Unix-like
545: operating systems, but you'll spend a lot less time securing it --
546: maybe no time at all, if you follow the instructions in the manual
547: pages."
548: <p>
549:
550: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.519 ian 551: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/16/1749215.shtml?tid=8">
552: Using OpenBSD on the desktop</a>, NewsForge, April 21, 2006
553: </strong></font><br>
554: Considers the use of OpenBSD as a desktop operating system,
555: starting with "Secure by default" - who wants to have their desktop hacked? -
556: and continues:
557: "OpenBSD's clean code and design also provide rock-solid stability.
558: I used to have lots of problems and crashes with new versions of
559: Linux (kernel 2.6.x) and FreeBSD (versions 5.x and 6.x). The main
560: focus of OpenBSD developers is to provide programs that work ...
561: [they] prefer to improve their code rather than just
562: add more new features and end up with a bloated and unstable product."
563: Covers X, ports/packages, window managers, what is and is not supported,
564: and more. Final thought:
565: "OpenBSD's clean design and remarkable stability, along with its
566: proactive security, not only make OpenBSD a potential candidate for
567: home desktop users but also every system administrator's dream come
568: true for business environments."
569: <p>
570:
571: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.511 djm 572: [FRENCH]
1.509 djm 573: <a href="http://developpeur.journaldunet.com/itws/060419-itw-openssh-openbsd-miller.shtml">
1.511 djm 574: JDN Développeurs interviews Damien Miller</a>,
1.509 djm 575: JDN Développeurs, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
576: Interview with Damien Miller, discussing OpenSSH security, the OpenBSD
577: development approach, the problem of blobby drivers and the recent request
1.510 djm 578: for funding.
1.509 djm 579: <p>
580:
581: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.507 cloder 582: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6497">
583: Interview with developers Jonathan Gray and Damien Bergamini</a>,
584: Kerneltrap, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
585: An interview with the authors of OpenBSD's new NVIDIA Ethernet driver. OpenBSD's
586: policy forbidding binary driver blobs is discussed, and the developers give a good
587: overview of how they went about implementing the new driver.
588: <p>
589:
590: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.528 ian 591: <a href="http://www.thehostingnews.com/article2217.html">GoDaddy.com
592: Donates $10K to Open Source Development Project</a>,
593: The Hosting News, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
594: GoDaddy.com, which claims to be "the Number One registrar of domain
595: names worldwide", recently donated $10,000 to the OpenSSH project
596: because, "according to the company, OpenSSH has become a staple
597: of all free Unix and Linux operating systems in the world."
598: They use it, and their customers use it, and they recognize the
599: value of supporting an open source projects that is, as company
600: CEO Bob Parsons says, "integral to online security".
601: <br/>
1.529 ian 602: Similar articles at
1.528 ian 603: <a href="http://www.hostsearch.com/news/the_go_daddy_group_news_4366.asp">
1.529 ian 604: hostsearch.com</a> and
605: <a href="http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20060419090443506">
606: LinuxElectrons.com</a>
1.528 ian 607: <p>
608:
609: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.506 aanriot 610: [FRENCH] Principles and usage of OpenSSH,
611: <a href="http://www.gnulinuxmag.com/">Linux Magazine France</a>,
612: issue 82, April 2006, p. 28-33
613: </strong></font><br>
1.533 ray 614: A 6 page article from Alexandre Courbot focuses on OpenSSH and its
1.507 cloder 615: basics. It begins with an history of the different implementations, and
1.506 aanriot 616: is punctuated with examples.
617: Tunneling features are described, as well as
1.535 steven 618: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp</a>,
619: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent&sektion=1">ssh-agent</a>,
1.506 aanriot 620: and
1.535 steven 621: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp</a>.
1.506 aanriot 622: <p>
623:
624: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.503 ian 625: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71658">
626: Mozilla Foundation spendet für OpenBSD</a>, heise online, April 4, 2006
627: </strong></font><br>
628: Short article mentioning the donation the Mozilla Foundation made in support of
629: further OpenSSH development.
630: The article emphasizes the opportunity to wire money through the project's
631: new European account - this one donation will not meet the
632: project's funding needs for all time.
633: <p>
1.504 bernd 634: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
635: [GERMAN] "OpenBSD mit finanziellen Problemen", c't 8/06, p. 45.,
636: April 3, 2006
637: </strong></font><br>
638: A very short article about OpenBSD's financial problems. They mention that
639: this could compromise future hackathons.
640: <p>
1.503 ian 641:
642: </ul>
643:
1.487 ian 644: <h2>March, 2006</h2>
645: <ul>
1.495 ian 646: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.500 ian 647: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/theo_interview.html">
1.501 ian 648: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>, DaemonNews, March, 2006
1.500 ian 649: </strong></font><br>
650: Chris Silva conducts a lightweight but wide-ranging and fun interview with Theo
651: on topics including "Puffy",
652: the logos used by certain other BSD projects -
653: Theo quips that "I really like how they make absolutely no statement at all" -
654: what's new in 3.9,
655: and of course project expenses.
656: Theo notes that "The electric bill is about $100 USD per week".
657: <!--
658: ... must be what comes from heating your house with VAXen.
659: -->
660: The interviewer nicely ends with a link to our donations page.
661: <p>
662:
663: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 664: <a href="http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/239/1/">
665: Linux supporters fiddle while OpenSSH burns</a>, The Jem Report, March 28, 2006
666: </strong></font><br>
1.499 ian 667: This write-up focusses on OpenBSD/OpenSSH funding, and has some
668: original legwork to go with it.
1.498 ian 669: Writer Jem Matzan took the trouble to
670: contact many of the companies who charge a lot for products
671: featuring OpenSSH and yet give nothing to OpenSSH in return.
672: Companies like SCO, IBM, Apple, and Sun.
673: Sun apparently did the worst job of responding:
674: "Since the release of Solaris 10, who has been a larger open source
675: software cheerleader than Sun Microsystems?", Matzan asks. "I asked Sun
676: representatives what they would do if OpenSSH were to disappear. The only response
677: I got was that there are parts of Solaris that compete with OpenSSH,
678: and that because of this, the company would rather not comment
679: further on the issue." What the Sun teleprompter-readers don't seem to realize -
680: but Matzan does - is that
681: <a href="http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/cmd/ssh/ssh/ssh.c">
682: SunSSH <em>is</em> OpenSSH</a>.
683: Or, at least, a mangled version of it...
684: IBM, on the other hand, is still trying to formulate their response.
685: <br/>
686: <p>
687:
688: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
689: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/20/2050223.shtml?tid=8">
690: Interview: Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD</a>, NewsForge, March 28, 2006
691: </strong></font><br>
692: A wide-ranging interview with Theo about new stuff in 3.9, security, funding,
693: "blob" drivers, and more.
694: Theo notes that "We've had 10 years of nearly fanatical devotion
695: to anything which can make OpenBSD more secure. A very important
696: part of that is that we have not been afraid to completely overhaul
697: anything even if it breaks backward compatibility. Secondly, when
698: we have found a flaw in any part of the system we have assumed that
699: the same mistake was made elsewhere, and gone on a hunt to fix them
700: all. Thirdly, we have developed and incorporated a collection of
701: methods that make software flaws very difficult to attack..."
702: Ends by trying to shame the companies that use OpenSSH without contributing
703: anything back - Sun is given especial mention here - and ends with
704: the tantalizing line ".. if an OpenSSH hole is found that applies to SunSSH,
705: Sun will not be informed. Or maybe that has happened already." Hmmmm.
706: <p>
707:
708: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 709: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259254,00.htm">
710: OpenBSD 3.9 adds sensor framework</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
711: </strong></font><br>
712: It's easy to focus on our project's security, but we innovate in other areas too.
713: This article highlights the "sensors" framework added in 3.9 to provide and integrated
714: approach to handling Dell PowerEdge servers' Embedded Server Management (ESM), IPMI, and
715: in general temperature and environmental issues.
716: "There is a significant new sensor framework [in OpenBSD 3.9], which
717: supports voltage sensors, fan sensors, temperature sensors, and so
718: on," said de Raadt. "Such a feature is still missing in Linux and
719: other major operating systems." ...
720: De Raadt has already been using the sensor framework to monitor the
721: machines running in
722: <a href="images/newrack.jpg">the project's server room</a>. "I now get a call
723: on my cell phone whenever something is wrong in the machine room,"
724: <p>
725:
726: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
727: <a href="http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/other/0,39020682,39259281,00.htm">
728: Paying for free software may be the bargain of a lifetime</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
729: </strong></font><br>
730: Starts with a Theo quote from the previous article on ZDNet:
731: "A culture of entitlement is starting to damage the open source community".
732: The article argues that mega-computer-companies that use open source tend to use BSD:
733: "The open BSDs may be less famous than Linux, but they are arguably
734: superior in stability and security. This has made it popular in
735: ISPs and elsewhere - Apple, for example, adopted BSD within OS X.
736: BSD, unlike software released under the GPL, carrys no legal
737: obligations for the adopter to provide anything for the community in return."
738: Goes on to argue that these companies <em>ought</em> to be fair enough
739: to send a small bit of their money back into funding open source.
740: "In the time it takes to read this article, we calculate that Apple
741: will have easily made enough to pay-off OpenBSD's annual losses,
742: with a little left over to buy black turtlenecks for all. It's not
743: just Apple's baby - other companies owe far more to OpenBSD - but
744: in open source a little symbolism goes a long way."
745: <p>
746:
1.487 ian 747: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.494 bernd 748: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71174">
749: OpenBSD muss an den Sparstrumpf</a>, heise online, March 23, 2006
750: </strong></font><br>
1.495 ian 751: OpenBSD is touching its savings - Small news article about the project's
1.494 bernd 752: financial situation.
753: <p>
754:
755: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 756: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259042,00.htm">
757: OpenBSD Founder Makes Funding Plea</a>, ZDNet UK, March 23, 2006
758: </strong></font><br>
759: One of the first mainstream sites to pick up on Marco's article (below),
760: this one reports the funding figures on how much it really costs to
761: produce our favorite operating system.
762: "Although OpenBSD has a number of commercial users, including many
763: ISPs, de Raadt claimed that all of its donations come from individuals
764: rather than companies many of who claim the have no budget to pay
765: for the operating system. "The culture of entitlement is starting
766: to damage the open source community," he said."
1.496 ian 767: <br/>
768: Also online at
769: <a href="http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/software/stories/135760.html">ZDNet India</a>.
770: <p>
771:
772: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
773: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/03/22/OpenBSD-money.html">
774: OpenBSD in Financial Trouble</a>, Ping Wales, March 21, 2006
775: </strong></font><br>
776: David Chisnall reports that "OpenBSD is one of my favourite platforms;
777: its focus on security and ease-of-use makes it a very simple and
778: safe system to use. Unfortunately, the OpenBSD organisation is now
779: experiencing financial difficulty. For the last two years, the
780: project has made a $20,000/year loss, something which it cannot
781: sustain indefinitely."
782: Goes on to report on the growing use of OpenBSD in commercial software
783: (and hardware!), and that none of the "big guys" has given anything back.
784: Unlike most of the articles on this topic, this one is kind enough to
785: include a direct link to our orders page and recommend its readers
786: to buy a copy of the CD to help fund the project.
1.495 ian 787: <p>
788:
789: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 790: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/06/03/21/1555243.shtml">
791: OpenBSD Project in Financial Danger</a>, Slashdot, March 21, 2006
792: </strong></font><br>
793: Slashdot mentions and quotes from Marco's article (below),
794: with a reminder that
795: "The OpenBSD team is the one that also develops the OpenSSH suite,
796: used nowadays almost everywhere."
797: Ends with this quote from Marco:
798: "Without naming entities or projects by name, there are others out
799: there that are sitting on some cash. It would be wonderful if these
800: entities could share some of the wealth to keep us going."
801: <p>
802:
803: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.505 grunk 804: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060321034114">
1.495 ian 805: OpenBSD Finances</a>, OpenBSD Journal, March 21, 2006
806: </strong></font><br>
807: Marco Peereboom's article notes that
808: "OpenBSD for the past 2 years has turned a loss of approximately $20K USD" per year.
809: Hackathons - where a lot of developers get together in critical mass and churn out
810: new ideas and new code in great quantity - cost from US$10K-30K each, and we try to run
811: a few of them each year.
812: Meanwhile, compananies that use OpenBSD and companies - many of them highly profitable -
813: that incorporate OpenSSH into operating systems and even routers and other appliances
814: have not been forthcoming: no major computer company has given funding
815: to the OpenBSD project.
816: It's time for them to do so.
817: <p>
818:
819: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.497 ian 820: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/08/1646257.shtml?tid=8">
821: Software RAID on OpenBSD using RAIDframe</a>, NewsForge, March 14, 2006
822: </strong></font><br>
823: "Software RAID provides an easy way to add redundancy or speed up a system
824: without spending lots of money on a RAID adapter."
825: Manolis Tzanidakis talks us through setting up RAID using OpenBSD.
826: He describes the detailed steps, and recommends careful testing
827: before putting the system into production, including taking one disk
828: out of service and ensuring that it gets reloaded correctly.
829: Ends with a technique for monitoring clean operation on an ongoing basis.
830: <p>
831:
832: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.489 deraadt 833: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">Report on Business Television</a>
834: March 10, 5:45pm MST</strong></font><br>
1.490 deraadt 835: Theo de Raadt was interviewed by Howard Green on <b>The Business Show</b>:<br>
836: <!-- North America mirror:
837: <a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB avi file</a>
1.491 deraadt 838: -->
1.490 deraadt 839: European mirror:
840: <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/20060310/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB AVI file</a>
841: <br>
842: A longer segment is also available at <a href="http://www.robtv.ca">www.robtv.ca</a>.
1.489 deraadt 843: <p>
844:
845: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.487 ian 846: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/openbgpd.html">OpenBGPd in OpenBSD</a>
847: Daemon News, March, 2006</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 848: Check out the notes and slides from Henning Brauer's presentation at
1.487 ian 849: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0602/">NANOG 36</a>;
850: the text and questions cover everything from how and why OpenBGPd got created,
851: through configuration and tools, to integration with pf and CARP,
852: to technical issues regarding use of IPSEC to provide security for BGP packets.
853: Along the way there's considerable discussion on how the program was
854: designed to provide reliability and security.
855: <p>
856:
857: </ul>
858:
1.485 ian 859: <h2>February, 2006</h2>
860: <ul>
861: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.486 ian 862: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1859">Zero to IPSec in 4 minutes</a>
863: Security Focus, February 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
864: This article, as its lead-in says,
1.497 ian 865: "looks at how to get a fully functional IPSec VPN up and running between two fresh OpenBSD
1.486 ian 866: installations in about four minutes flat".
867: If you've shied away from setting up an IPSEC VPN because of config file complexity,
868: now is the time to reconsider.
1.497 ian 869: Dragos Ruiu shows you how the ipsecctl command (introduced to the world in OpenBSD 3.8)
1.486 ian 870: makes it really easy to set up a VPN between consenting OpenBSD machines.
871: He states that he and a colleague were able to get two machines talking over IPSEC
872: in a few minutes, and only changing a few configuration files.
873: He also comments on the relative ease of installing our favorite OS, and hopes
874: that our ipsecctl will be adopted by the other BSDs (hopefully in a compatible way)
875: to make firewall setups easier all around the network.
876: But you don't need to wait for that if you're running OpenBSD 3.8; just follow
877: the steps in the article.
878: <p>
879:
880: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.485 ian 881: <a href="http://www.networkmagazineindia.com/200602/vendorvoice02.shtml">The Worm in the Machine</a>
882: Network Magazine India, February 2006</strong></font><br>
883: Dilip Ranade elaborates on several reasons why software is drearily buggy and endlessly insecure,
884: particularly in comparison with other technologies.
885: Imagines how very bad shape the automotive industry would be in if you had to sign the
886: same disclaimer of (non-)usability that almost every commercial EULA requires of computer users.
887: Ends with "I once dreamt that all the computer users in the world
888: arose in revolt and switched to hardened OpenBSD", though he admits that there's "fat chance" of it
889: happening in real life.
890: <p>
891:
892: </ul>
893:
1.492 ian 894: <h2>January, 2006</h2>
895: <ul>
896: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
897: <a href="http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2006/01/28.html">Kevin Mitnick on
898: Coast to Coast AM Radio Show with Art Bell</a>, Jan 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
899: Art Bell interviewed Kevin Mitnick on his call-in show;
900: Paul Zacharzewski from Edmonton called to ask Mitnick for his opinion of OpenBSD.
901: If you don't want to download the whole show from coasttocoastam.com,
902: you can listen to an
1.497 ian 903: <a href="http://unworkable.org/misc/mitnick.mp3">MP3 excerpt of this call</a>
1.492 ian 904: in which Mitnick says: "Well, I actually use OpenBSD, so I do like it".
905: </ul>
906:
1.483 ian 907: <h2>December, 2005</h2>
908: <ul>
909: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.484 djm 910: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/375/1">OpenSSH cutting edge</a>
911: SecurityFocus, December 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
912: Federico Biancuzzi interviews OpenSSH developer Damien Miller to discuss
913: features included in the upcoming version 4.3, public key crypto
914: protocols details, timing based attacks and anti-worm measures.
915: <p>
916:
917: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 918: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/11/21/175249.shtml?tid=92&tid=78">Creating
1.483 ian 919: Secure Wireless Access Points with OpenBSD and OpenVPN</a>
920: NewsForge, December 13, 2005</strong></font><br>
921: A cookbook approach to setting up a wireless interface as a secure Access Point
922: using OpenBSD's hostap, pf, and authpf.
923: Configuration examples are given with basic explanations and links
924: to sites with more information on most topics.
925: <p>
926:
927: </ul>
928:
929:
1.479 grunk 930: <h2>November, 2005</h2>
931: <ul>
932: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 933: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20051116145737">OpenBSD
1.482 ian 934: Goes to Venice</a>,
935: OpenBSD Journal, November 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 936: "What happens when you put a dozen developers on a little island with their
1.482 ian 937: laptops, power, and an internet connection?
938: <br/>
939: During the first week of November some OpenBSD developers met in a
940: little island in Venice's lagoon to hack on the ports system.
941: This was probably the first ports hackathon and was followed by
1.497 ian 942: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON</a>, a European conference
1.482 ian 943: fully dedicated to OpenBSD..."
944: Great coverage of the OpenBSD Porting Hackathon: people, ports, beer, ...
945: Contains a link to
946: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ven05-pvalchev/mgp00008.html">
947: pval's summary slides</a>.
948: <p>
949:
950: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.481 niallo 951: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1710223">
952: Trying out the new OpenBSD 3.8</a>,
953: NewsForge, November 11, 2005</strong></font><br>
954: This article describes the installation of OpenBSD 3.8 from a Linux user's
955: perspective, noting the simple elegance of the installer.
956: Although the installation process may be hard to get used to at first for
957: the average Linux user, the author tells us that one can learn a lot from
958: it. Furthermore, the article clears up the common misconception that working
1.497 ian 959: on an OpenBSD system is very different from working on a Linux system.
1.481 niallo 960: In particular, the author states that on OpenBSD, <i>"virtually the entire
961: catalog of familiar free and open source software titles is available through
962: the packages and ports system"</i>.
963: <p>
964:
965: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
966: <a href="http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3561526">
967: Return of The BSDs</a>,
968: internetnews.com, November 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
969: This article mentions that with all three major BSD flavors having had
970: a release this fall, BSD is <i>"still very much alive and kicking among
971: all the noise and buzz created by Linux"</i>. The author talks about
972: various new or improved features of 3.8, such as bioctl(8), hostapd(8),
973: network interface aggregation and sasyncd(8), and there are some
974: quotes from Bob Beck.
975: <p>
976:
977: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.479 grunk 978: <a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/051101/152/fvrlx.html">
979: OpenBSD 3.8 improves hardware support</a>,
980: ZDNet UK, November 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.480 ian 981: This article reports on OpenBSD 3.8, which was released on November 1.
982: The author gives an overview of the improvements and new
1.479 grunk 983: features that were made with 3.8, and quotes Theo on RAID management
984: and Linux.<br>
985: The 3.8 release hit the news also in some other places:
986: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1258232">Slashdot</a>
987: and <a href="http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=12482">OSNews</a>
988: also report about it, mostly repeating parts
989: of the release
990: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/ANNOUNCEMENT">ANNOUNCEMENT</a>.
991: <p>
992: </ul>
993:
1.476 ian 994: <h2>October, 2005</h2>
995: <ul>
996:
997: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
998: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1375194866;fp;16;fpid;0">
999: 'Nightmare' drove desperate user to open source</a>,
1000: Computerworld, October 24, 2005</strong></font><br>
1001: A great tale of how Mark Uemura of PricewaterhouseCoopers Japan
1002: was forced to move to OpenBSD because the alternatives were too costly
1003: and too unreliable.
1004: This quote will rattle some cages:
1005: "IT managers who want to deploy an open source solution but are
1006: worried about company politics should go ahead and do it without
1007: asking," according to Uemura, who was promoted to IT Manager of PWC Japan
1008: after saving the company seven IT-samurais' salaries.
1009: Further, "In Japan large organizations like Morgan Stanley and the
1010: Bank of America have moved all their backend systems to open source,
1011: Uemura said, because with open source you can reduce IT operating
1012: costs without any commercial lock-in."
1013: <p>
1014:
1.477 saad 1015: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1016: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6270">
1017: OpenBSD 3.8: Hackers of the Lost RAID</a>,
1018: ONLamp.com, October 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
1019: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
1020: new features in OpenBSD 3.8 including interface trunking,
1021: internationalization support, Inter-Access Point Protocol (IAPP),
1022: IPSec SA synchronization daemon, and RAID management. There is also some
1023: discussion about future plans.
1024: <p>
1025:
1.478 grunk 1026: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1027: <a href="http://securityfocus.com/columnists/361">
1028: OpenBSD's network stack</a>,
1029: SecurityFocus, October 12, 2005</strong></font><br>
1030: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about OpenBSD's
1031: network stack, including protection against ICMP attacks, and propagation
1032: of enhancements into other BSDs and into Linux.
1033: The interview also features the other protection mechanisms in the network
1034: stack, a comparison to the network stack in Linux, and the history and
1035: current status of <a href="http://www.openbgpd.org/">OpenBGPD</a>.
1036: <p>
1037:
1.476 ian 1038: </ul>
1039:
1.470 saad 1040: <h2>September, 2005</h2>
1041: <ul>
1042:
1043: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.474 niallo 1044: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/359">
1045: Security-related innovation in Unix</a>,
1046: SecurityFocus, Sept. 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1047: An article examining the mmap-based malloc() implementation to be
1048: included in OpenBSD 3.8. The author states that <i>"it will help OpenBSD
1049: users to find bugs in software more easily, which will result in better
1050: applications for everyone"</i>. He goes on to say that <i>"the more hurdles
1051: that one has to jump through for good security, the less likely people will
1052: go through the trouble. OpenBSD allows even the most inexperienced users to
1053: take advantage of these technologies without any effort"</i>.
1054: <p>
1055:
1056: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.473 aanriot 1057: <a href="http://www.miscmag.com/articles/index.php3?page=2100">
1058: [FRENCH] Champ libre : les chantiers OpenBSD</a>
1059: Misc, number 21, Sept/Oct, 2005, p. 4-14</strong></font><br>
1060: An interesting article about OpenBSD and associated projects. Saad Kadhi
1061: and Guillaume Arcas describe useful things you can do with PF and
1062: OpenSSH, and give a nice introduction to OpenNTPD and OpenCVS. If the
1063: article is focused on the presentation, you can find some interesting
1064: technical aspects people are not always acquainted to. A few examples
1065: are shown, like a basic CARP setup, or the manner to use multiplexing
1066: with OpenSSH and even how to check an OpenSSH server's keys using DNS.
1067: <p>
1068:
1069: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 1070: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/news/11306">
1071: Big debate over small packets</a>,
1072: SecurityFocus, Sept. 7, 2005</strong></font><br>
1073: Robert Lemos discusses the ICMP denial-of-service vulnerabilities found
1074: by Fernando Gont and fixed in OpenBSD. To date, OpenBSD is the only
1075: system that has implemented all of the fixes recommended in the IETF
1076: draft.
1077: <p>
1078:
1079: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.471 saad 1080: <a href="http://www.pcexpert.fr/">
1081: [FRENCH] "Quel est le meilleur système libre pour votre
1082: ordinateur ?"</a>,
1083: PC Expert, number 156, p. 42-62</strong></font><br>
1084: Philippe Roure compares 11 Linux and *BSD operating systems, including
1085: OpenBSD 3.7, on different criteria such as security, documentation and
1086: usability. OpenBSD earned a 5/5 mark (see pages 60-61) and while a mark
1087: isn't necessarily objective, the author seems to grasp the OpenBSD
1088: project, its goals, and how good is the operating system. The article
1089: includes an interview with Saad Kadhi.
1090: <p>
1091:
1092: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.470 saad 1093: <a href="http://www.samag.com/articles/2005/0509/">
1094: Monitoring PF Firewalls for Health and Performance</a>,
1095: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 9, p. 37</strong></font><br>
1096: Ryan Matteson describes several utilities that can be used to monitor the
1097: health and performance of a PF firewall. Besides pfctl, the article
1098: covers pftop, fwanalog, monitoring logs with tcpdump and graphing
1099: performance data with pfstat.
1100: <p>
1101:
1102: </ul>
1103:
1.461 grunk 1104: <h2>July, 2005</h2>
1105: <ul>
1106:
1107: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.466 deraadt 1108: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5382">
1109: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part III</a>,
1.467 grunk 1110: Kerneltrap, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.466 deraadt 1111: Jeremy Andrews writes about the recent Blind ICMP attacks discovered
1112: by Fernando Gont, and the fixes done by him and OpenBSD during the
1113: 2005 Hackathon.
1.469 ian 1114: The article goes into the technical background of the
1.467 grunk 1115: attacks, mentioning blind ICMP attacks, "hard" ICMP errors, source
1.469 ian 1116: quenching, and path MTU discovery;
1117: many helpful RFCs and technical papers are linked from the explanations.
1118: This is followed by a recap of the whole ICMP story, involving Gont's
1.467 grunk 1119: struggle with other free projects, Cisco lawyers, Microsoft people,
1120: and others.<br>
1.469 ian 1121: The article concludes that OpenBSD was the first project
1.467 grunk 1122: to take Fernando Gont's findings seriously, and also the first group to
1123: be really painless to work with.
1.466 deraadt 1124: <p>
1125:
1126: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.464 grunk 1127: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/06/security_blame/">
1128: Security meltdown: who's to blame?</a>,
1.466 deraadt 1129: The Register, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.464 grunk 1130: This article talks about various groups that are frequently blamed for
1131: poor security:
1.467 grunk 1132: individuals, ISPs, companies, crackers, security mailing lists,
1.464 grunk 1133: and last but not least: OS vendors!
1.467 grunk 1134: In the last paragraph, OpenBSD's style of <i>"dumbed-down, simplified
1.464 grunk 1135: and secure systems (with a heavily audited code base)"</i> is described
1136: as <i>"one of the smartest approaches to security"</i>.
1137: <p>
1138:
1139: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.461 grunk 1140: <a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-7-5/30084.html">
1141: Theo de Raadt on Industry and Free Software</a>,
1.466 deraadt 1142: The Epoch Times, July 5, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.463 tom 1143: In this interview, Theo talks about the inception of the OpenBSD project
1144: and its goals, as well as its impact on the commercial IT industry.
1.461 grunk 1145: He points out once more that <i>"vendors who incorporate OpenSSH have
1146: given us absolutely nothing back - not a cent"</i>.
1147: Other topics covered include the OpenBSD team, Theo's role as
1148: <i>"benevolent dictator"</i>, and the security process, which he compares
1149: to the security efforts led by other free software projects and some
1150: commercial vendors.
1151: <p>
1152:
1153: </ul>
1154:
1.454 ian 1155: <h2>June, 2005</h2>
1156: <ul>
1.468 grunk 1157:
1158: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1159: <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/ns-ttc062205.php">
1160: The true cost of computer crime</a>,
1161: EurekAlert / <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/">New Scientist Magazine</a>,
1162: issue June 25, 2005</strong></font><br>
1163: This article looks at computer crime, especially the way upcoming
1164: vulnerability reports are dealt with. It also gives a short overview of the
1.469 ian 1165: institutions involved in the process (vendors, free projects, CERTs).
1.468 grunk 1166: <br>
1167: The author mentions the work of Andy Ozment, who researches vulnerability
1168: disclosure at the University of Cambridge. Using OpenBSD as a good example
1169: of how disclosure and consequent fixing of bugs helps to strengthen security,
1170: he refutes the widely spread FUD that disclosing vulnerabilities leads to
1171: more harm than good. Ozment's methodology was to examine OpenBSD's CVS logs
1.469 ian 1172: and note when fixes were published; his research shows that
1.468 grunk 1173: <i>"the number of vulnerabilities decreases as a result of disclosure"</i>.
1174: <p>
1175:
1.454 ian 1176: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.458 niallo 1177: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0704/071.html">
1178: Free Bird</a>,
1179: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1180: <b>(Registration required)</b> A second Forbes article about OpenBSD, more
1181: focused on the project itself this time. It contains good description of the
1182: history of OpenBSD along with its prime motivations. Mention is made of the
1183: DARPA grant and the annual hackathon. Theo's motto "shut up and hack" finally
1184: becomes famous in this piece and there are some other very insightful quotes
1185: such as "All I care about is making high-quality code. If I had to work at a
1186: regular job, it would drive me nuts". This is certainly an astute and perceptive
1187: article, well worth reading. Do note that the big picture of Theo's machine
1188: room will only be available in the print edition.
1189: <p>
1.459 deraadt 1190:
1.458 niallo 1191: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.456 niallo 1192: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html">
1193: Is Linux For Losers?</a>,
1194: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1195: An interesting article, if somewhat polemic in tone, which raises questions
1196: about the quality of Linux code compared to OpenBSD. There is also some short
1197: discussion of the OpenBSD development model and focus (push for quality above
1198: everything else) including good quotes from Theo. It seems that the need for
1199: high quality software is beginning to be recognised by the mainstream.
1200: <p>
1.457 deraadt 1201:
1.456 niallo 1202: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1203: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/06/09/2132233.shtml?tid=152&tid=8&tid=2">
1.455 ian 1204: BSD cognoscenti on Linux</a>,
1205: NewsForge, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1206: NewsForge talks with Theo de Raadt and NetBSD's Christos Zoulas about the
1207: similarities and differences between the Linux kernel and the BSD
1208: operating systems. The questions asked were similar to those asked
1209: of Linus Torvalds in a <a
1.462 grunk 1210: href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/09/2128249&tid=2">previous
1.455 ian 1211: interview.</a>
1212: <p>
1213:
1214: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.454 ian 1215: <a href="http://www.tuxjournal.net/intervista3-en.html">
1216: A good morning with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1217: Tux Journal, June 2, 2005</strong></font><br>
1218: Brief but wide-ranging interview with Theo in which our leader
1219: opines about the good things in 3.7: "The list of new developments
1220: is impressive, but in my view not nearly as impressive as the small
1221: little details that continue to be fixed during each development
1222: cycle." And modestly credits all the developers for the project's
1223: continuing success, attributing it to "The passion of the developers,
1224: and the wide experience they bring into their development efforts.
1225: By amazing coincidence, our users typically have the same needs as we do."
1226: Manages to sidestep getting drawn into comparisons with Linux, e.g.,
1227: when asked if he likes it/why/why not, deftly replies
1228: "I have never used it."
1229: <p>
1230:
1231: </ul>
1232:
1.441 deraadt 1233: <h2>May, 2005</h2>
1234: <ul>
1235: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 1236: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5190">
1237: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part II</a>,
1238: Kerneltrap, May 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1239: In the second installment of Kerneltrap's Hackathon 2005 feature, Jeremy
1240: Andrews speaks with the pf developers at length about their plans for
1241: future enhancements.
1242: <p>
1243:
1244: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.450 deraadt 1245: <a href="http://www.ctv.ca">
1.448 deraadt 1246: TV coverage: OpenBSD hackathon</a>,
1247: CTV/CFCN, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1248: A TV spot done a Canadian national TV station about the Calgary
1249: hackathon this year, with 60 developers.<br>
1250: North America mirror:
1251: <ul>
1.452 marco 1252: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.449 jcs 1253: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a><br>
1254: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a>
1.448 deraadt 1255: </ul>
1256: European mirror:
1257: <ul>
1.452 marco 1258: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.448 deraadt 1259: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a>
1260: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a><br>
1261: </ul>
1262: <p>
1263:
1264: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 1265: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5186">
1266: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part I</a>,
1267: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1268: Jeremy Andrews of KernelTrap does a good job of describing what it's like
1269: to be at the Hackathon in Part I of KernelTrap's Hackathon feature. Several
1270: developers are interviewed in detail about what they are working on.
1271: <p>
1272:
1273: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 1274: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5184">
1275: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005: Day 6?</a>,
1276: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1277: Kjell Wooding describes a typical day at the Hackathon in this entertaining
1278: first-hand account.
1279: <p>
1280:
1281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.447 cloder 1282: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/05/20/1426216.shtml?tid=8">
1283: Review: OpenBSD 3.7</a>,
1284: NewsForge.com, May 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
1285: "OpenBSD is not only highly polished and easy to
1286: configure because of its documentation, it's also totally free-as-in-rights.
1287: With an obsession with security, freedom of source code, and quality of
1288: programming technique, OpenBSD 3.7 continues the legacy established by
1289: its previous releases," writes Jem Matzan in this nice, small review.
1290: <p>
1291:
1292: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.446 cloder 1293: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/05/19/openbsd_3_7.html">
1294: OpenBSD 3.7: The Wizard of OS</a>,
1295: ONLamp.com, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
1296: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
1297: new features in OpenBSD 3.7, including new wireless chipsets, new
1298: spam-fighting features, zaurus, pf improvements, propolice, and
1299: many other things. A good overview of what's new in this release,
1300: plus some interesting comments about future direction.
1301: <p>
1302:
1303: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.444 niallo 1304: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/software/openbsd-3.7-released.html">
1.445 niallo 1305: Next incarnation of OpenBSD released</a>,
1.444 niallo 1306: Ping Wales, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
1307: "OpenBSD is often unjustly overlooked as a free UNIX-like system in favour of
1308: the more-hyped Linux. While it receives a lot less publicity than other
1309: operating systems, this is not due to lack of technical merit." says David
1310: Chisnall, in what is a clear and concise overview of the new features
1311: in 3.7 and indeed the project as a whole.
1312: <p>
1313:
1314: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1315: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5114">
1.445 niallo 1316: 2005 Calgary Hackathon, KernelTrap Coverage</a>,
1.444 niallo 1317: Kerneltrap, May 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1318: A great article about the annual OpenBSD Hackathon, detailing how the event
1319: functions, work done at previous Hackathons and features which may come out
1320: of this one. Includes many relevant quotes from developers themselves, and of
1321: course information about the legendary Hackathon BBQ!
1322: <p>
1323:
1324: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.442 deraadt 1325: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9658/sam0505e/">
1326: "Failover Firewalls with OpenBSD and CARP"</a>,
1327: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 5, p. 33
1.441 deraadt 1328: </strong></font><br>
1329: Jason Dixon discusses the history of the CARP and pfsync protocols
1330: and demonstrates using them to create redundant stateful firewalls
1331: with OpenBSD.
1332: </ul>
1333:
1.436 henning 1334: <h2>April, 2005</h2>
1335: <ul>
1336: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.440 ian 1337: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39195801,00.htm">
1338: Security guru wants access to bug databases</a>,
1339: ZDNet UK, April 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
1340: Ingrid Marson reports on Cambridge professor Ross Anderson's call for analysis of
1341: software maintenance records to determine whether open source code is more secure
1342: than closed source, as we have long contended.
1343: "One of Anderson's research students, Andy Ozment, has already done
1344: research using empirical data on bugs found in the open source
1345: operating system OpenBSD between 1997 and 2000. This research found
1346: that finding and fixing bugs results in a more secure product..."
1347: Just as the OpenBSD project has been saying for years.
1348: <p>
1349: This article can also be found online as
1350: <a href="http://uk.builder.com/manage/project/0,39026588,39244080,00.htm">Academic
1351: calls for better bug tracking</a> (uk.builder.com).
1352: <p>
1353:
1354: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.439 espie 1355: [FRENCH] "PC Expert", number 152, p. 58
1356: </strong></font><br>
1357: Very short interview of Marc Espie about OpenBSD as a free OS focusing
1358: on security, part of a larger dossier Ťles secrets des hackersť.
1359: <p>
1360:
1361: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.436 henning 1362: [GERMAN] "Doppelwacht", iX 5/2005, p. 150.
1363: </strong></font><br>
1364: Stephan Tesch gives an introduction to CARP and using a pair of
1365: OpenBSD boxes as Firewalls in High Availibility scenarios. He goes
1.438 martin 1366: on explaining CARP and pfsync protocols, and does not forget to cover
1.436 henning 1367: the issues we had with IETF.
1368: </ul>
1369:
1.431 ian 1370: <h2>March, 2005</h2>
1371: <ul>
1372: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.435 reyk 1373: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/4818">
1374: OpenBSD's "Out of the Box" Wireless Support</a>,
1375: Kerneltrap, March 8, 2005</strong></font><br>
1376: This article is about the upcoming wireless support in OpenBSD 3.7 and
1377: the outcome of the work to open wireless chipsets. Jeremy Andrews
1378: talked with Theo de Raadt and the developers Damien Bergamini and Reyk
1379: Floeter who did some efforts to implement free and functional drivers.
1380: <p>
1381:
1382: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.431 ian 1383: <a href="http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/01/1109546842718.html">
1384: OpenBSD to support more wireless chipsets</a>,
1385: The Age, March 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1386: "The forthcoming 3.7 release of the OpenBSD operating system has
1387: added support for five more wireless chipsets, according to
1388: OpenBSD project founder Theo de Raadt...
1.432 ian 1389: OpenBSD 3.7 will also have have new drivers for Intel wireless
1.431 ian 1390: parts that do not work without the non-redistributable firmware,"
1391: namely the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11B
1392: and 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11A/B/G wireless network adapters.
1393: Mentions OpenBSD's activism in getting vendors to release chip specs.
1394: Referring to vendors that still refuse to play ball with open source
1395: projects, quotes Damien Miller as saying "Given the number of
1396: appliance devices that are built on free OSs, I think that the
1397: recalcitrant vendors are missing an important boat."
1398:
1399: </ul>
1400:
1.427 matthieu 1401: <h2>February, 2005</h2>
1402: <ul>
1403:
1404: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.428 david 1405: <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsaward2004.html">
1406: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
1407: FSF, February 26, 2005</strong></font><br>
1408: The Free Software Foundation awarded Theo de Raadt their "2004 Free Software
1409: Award" for his unwavering commitment to free software. Most recently he has
1410: been fighting hardware manufacturers for free redistribution of wireless card
1411: firmware.
1.434 ian 1412: Similar articles can be found online at:
1413: <ul>
1414: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1415: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=419">
1416: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
1417: Tectonic.za, March 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
1418: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1419: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article4362.phtml">
1420: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
1421: OSDir, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1422: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1423: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/De-Raadt-gets-free-software-award/2005/02/28/1109546758523.html?oneclick=true">
1424: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
1425: The Age, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1426: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1427: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/02/27/1413255.shtml?tid=99&tid=7">
1.434 ian 1428: Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award</a>,
1429: Slashdot, February 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1430: </ul>
1.427 matthieu 1431: </ul>
1432:
1.426 ian 1433: <h2>January, 2005</h2>
1434: <ul>
1435:
1436: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1437: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363731">
1438: Systrace in OpenBSD</a>,
1439: informit.com, January 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1440: This article talks about our systrace
1.462 grunk 1441: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&sektion=1">systrace(1)</a>
1.426 ian 1442: mechanism: what it is and why and
1443: how to use it, with examples.
1444: Another excerpt from the book
1445: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
1446: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
1447: <p>
1448:
1449: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1450: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363732">
1451: Overview of OpenBSD</a>,
1452: informit.com, January 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
1453: "OpenBSD is one of the most secure and well-designed operating
1454: systems available today. It has its roots in countless hours of
1455: research and development based on some of the best UNIX flavors of
1456: the past, and it boasts all the features of modern operating systems.
1457: The OS is widely considered one of the most secure general-purpose
1458: operating systems available today and it supports many key parts
1459: of the global Internet infrastructure..."
1460: This article is a sample chapter from
1461: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
1462: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
1463: <p>
1.443 ian 1464:
1465: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1466: <a href="http://www.pcplus.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=34628&subsectionid=784">
1.443 ian 1467: OpenBSD operating system</a>,
1468: PCPlus.co.uk, January, 2005</strong></font><br>
1469: Paul Grosse gives a brief tutorial on installing OpenBSD on i386 for people
1470: moving in a Windows->Linux direction, encouraging them to go a bit further for security.
1471: "While Linux out-scores Windows substantially (or completely) on [security as well as many other
1472: issues], it's still possible to use a more secure operating system on the PC... OpenBSD."
1473: Gives a brief but understandable walkthrough on the installation process, right up to
1474: downloading and installing the third-party packages, and
1475: ends with a sidebar on security.
1476: <p>
1.426 ian 1477: </ul>
1478:
1.424 ian 1479: <h2>December, 2004</h2>
1480: <ul>
1481:
1482: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.425 ian 1483: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/2329229">
1484: What are the real vulnerabilities of Linux?</a>
1485: NewsForge.com, December 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1486: Several security consultants were asked about "the real vulnerabilities of
1487: Linux". Cybersoure CEO Con Symaris seems to get it better than the rest:
1488: "One needs to approach security as a prime requirement and motivator,
1489: much as the OpenBSD team do," Zymaris said... "The Linux
1490: community mindset is different. Linux development is dynamic and
1491: races ahead towards more and broader functionality, drawing a
1492: multitude of interested parties in to make interesting extensions
1493: and adaptations at a rapid rate."
1494: <p>
1495: "In order to do security the BSD way, however, much more effort
1496: needs to be spent auditing code for holes, which is much less sexy,
1497: and attracts a different set of coders," Zymaris added.
1498: <p>
1499:
1500: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.424 ian 1501: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/281">
1502: Closed Source Hardware</a>
1503: Security Focus, December 1, 2004</strong></font><br>
1504: Symantec Threat Analyst Jason Miller analyzes the potential security threats
1505: when hardware vendors won't provide device documentation and
1506: instead provide "binary only" driver code for inclusion in open source
1507: operating systems.
1508: Miller is an open-source fan who says he uses a variety of systems, including
1509: OpenBSD on his firewall.
1510: Of the recent trend to closed-source binary drivers for open-source
1511: systems, he writes:
1512: <blockquote>
1513: The closed-source component required to support this hardware is
1514: completely independent of the associated operating system, and as
1515: such, is also independent of the engineering team, security team,
1516: auditing process, and quality control procedures normally related
1517: to the operating system...
1518: <br/>
1519: What's possibly even more disturbing is that we're talking about
1520: a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest
1521: possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a
1522: third-party vendor. This code could do anything once loaded, including
1523: leaking active WEP keys, gathering usage statistics, sniffing and
1524: disclosing traffic, and it could even introduce a subtle backdoor
1525: into the operating system itself (much the same as any device driver
1526: in a closed source operating system).
1527: <br/>
1528: [A]lthough some of these scenarios are a
1529: little far-fetched, the possibility for them to exist is there...
1530: Ultimately it becomes an issue of trust, which is a cornerstone of
1531: good security: whom do you trust, and how much do you trust them?
1532: </blockquote>
1533: <p>And he comments that trust "seems to be a one-way street": vendors
1534: demand that you trust them, but they won't trust you to know how
1535: their hardware and software operates.
1536: This lack of trust is one reason why OpenBSD has recently completed
1537: reverse-engineering the
1.462 grunk 1538: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4">
1.424 ian 1539: Atheros wireless chipset driver</a>
1540: that was originally provided as a binary insert.
1541: <p>
1542: </ul>
1543:
1.417 pvalchev 1544: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
1545: <ul>
1.421 ian 1546:
1.417 pvalchev 1547: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.422 ian 1548: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730775,00.asp">
1549: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Widens Its Scope</a>
1550: eWEEK, November 22, 2004</strong></font><br>
1551: Jason Brooks reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and likes the changes it brings,
1552: including the multi-processing support which, he notes,
1553: "will be even more important as multicore processors--which occupy space
1554: on the road maps of Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others--
1555: become more prevalent." Comments favorably on OpenNTPD
1556: ("the three-line configuration file we needed to modify ... on OpenBSD was
1557: much simpler to deal with than the equivalent configuration file on
1558: the Linux systems we've tested").
1.423 ian 1559: Overall a favorable review of some of the new stuff in 3.6.
1.422 ian 1560: <p>
1561: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 otto 1562: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
1563: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
1564: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
1565: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
1566: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
1567: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
1568: it claims to do".
1569: <p>
1570:
1571: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1572: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109994542424009&w=2">
1.421 ian 1573: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution</a>
1574: misc@, November 8, 2004</strong></font><br>
1575: Theo recounts the struggle to get Intel to provide redistributable
1576: versions of the firmware for their wireless chipsets, and their
1.423 ian 1577: ultimate refusal to allow OpenBSD to redistribute the chipsets' firmware.
1.421 ian 1578: Includes a caveat about Intel's disingenuous "FAQ", typical of many
1579: corporate FAQs that answer questions nobody actually thought
1580: to ask, and don't truthfully answer the questions you want hard answers to.
1581: At the end Theo names the names (and their emails) that need to be contacted
1582: by large numbers of end-users and developers if Intel is to change
1583: (yes, this is a hint).
1584: Of interest is that this posting to one of our mailing lists was
1585: picked up on the
1586: <a href="http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1923">Screaming
1587: Electron Forum</a> and from there reported on
1.462 grunk 1588: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/22/1249249&from=rss">
1.421 ian 1589: SlashDot</a>, where it is accompanied by a link to SlashDot's paper
1590: on effective advocacy (be firm, but also be polite).
1591: <p>
1592:
1593: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 1594: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
1595: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
1596: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
1597: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
1598: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
1599: questions about the significance and rationale behind
1600: the current efforts.
1601: <p>
1602: </ul>
1603:
1.407 henning 1604: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
1605: <ul>
1606: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 1607: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
1608: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
1609: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
1610: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
1611: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
1612: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
1613: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
1614: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
1615: <p>
1616:
1617: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 1618: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
1619: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
1620: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1621: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
1622: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
1623: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
1624: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
1625: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
1626: of the important changes in 3.6.
1.462 grunk 1627: <p>
1.415 ian 1628:
1629: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1630: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
1.414 ian 1631: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
1632: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
1633: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
1634: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
1635: overflow attacks... because
1636: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
1637: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
1638: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
1639: and propolice.
1640: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
1641: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
1642: and that's when the science falls apart."
1643: <p>
1644:
1645: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 1646: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
1647: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
1648: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
1649: Starts with the question:
1650: <blockquote>
1651: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
1652: <br/>
1653: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
1654: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
1655: <br/>
1656: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
1657: Should we believe them?"
1658: </blockquote>
1659: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
1660: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
1661: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
1662: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
1663: for your mail, web and other online activities.
1664: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
1665: <p>
1666:
1667: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 1668: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
1669: Simple Simon</a>,
1670: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
1671: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
1672: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
1673: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
1674: routing/firewall, and more.
1675: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
1676: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
1677: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
1678: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
1679: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
1680: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
1681: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
1682: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
1683: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
1684: </blockquote>
1685: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
1686: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
1687: <p>
1688:
1689: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 1690: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
1691: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 1692: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 1693: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 1694: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
1695: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
1696: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 1697: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 1698: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
1699: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
1700: in spite of it
1701: (registration required, but worth it).
1702: <p>
1703:
1704: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1705: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
1706: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
1707: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1708: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
1709: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
1710: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
1711: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 1712: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 1713: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
1714: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
1715: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
1716: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
1717: <p>
1718:
1719: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 1720: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
1721: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
1722: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
1723: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
1724: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
1725: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
1726: <blockquote>
1727: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
1728: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
1729: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
1730: a lot of analysis.
1731: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
1732: </blockquote>
1733: <p>
1734: </ul>
1735:
1.400 marco 1736: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
1737: <ul>
1738: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 1739: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
1740: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
1741: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
1742: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
1743: UNIX-like systems.
1744: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
1745: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
1746: <p>
1747: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 1748: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
1749: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 1750: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1751: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
1752: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
1753: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
1754: At one point, the article states:
1755: <blockquote>
1756: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
1757: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
1758: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
1759: </blockquote>
1760: And then quotes Theo as saying:
1761: <blockquote>
1762: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
1763: fewer are reading or auditing code."
1764: </blockquote>
1765: <p>
1766: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1767: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
1768: marks its fifth birthday</a>
1769: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1770: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
1771: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
1772: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
1773: required).
1774: <p>
1775: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 1776: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
1777: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
1778: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
1779: </strong></font><br>
1780: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
1781: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
1782: <p>
1783: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 1784: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
1785: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 1786: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 1787: </strong></font><br>
1788: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
1789: <p>
1790: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 1791: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
1792: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 1793: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 1794: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 1795: 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 1796: <p>
1797: </ul>
1798:
1.396 henning 1799: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
1800: <ul>
1801: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 1802: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
1803: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
1804: Unix Review, July, 2004
1805: </strong></font><br>
1806: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
1807: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
1.462 grunk 1808: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
1.418 ian 1809: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
1810: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
1811: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
1812: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
1813: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
1814: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
1815: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
1816: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
1817: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
1818: and even spelling/wording errors.
1819: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
1820: <p>
1821: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 1822: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 1823: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
1824: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
1825: </strong></font><br>
1826: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
1827: <p>
1828: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 1829: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 1830: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
1831: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
1832: </strong></font><br>
1833: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
1834: <p>
1835: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 1836: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
1837: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
1838: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
1839: </strong></font><br>
1840: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
1841: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
1842: <p>
1843: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 1844: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
1845: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
1846: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
1847: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
1848: <p>
1849: </ul>
1850:
1.405 jolan 1851: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
1852: <ul>
1.545 tom 1853: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 1854: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
1.466 deraadt 1855: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 5, 2004</strong></font>
1.405 jolan 1856: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
1857: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
1858: details on how funds are dispersed.
1859: <p>
1860: </ul>
1861:
1.393 david 1862: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
1863: <ul>
1864: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 1865: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
1866: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
1867: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
1868: </strong></font><br>
1869: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
1870: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
1871: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
1872: on inserting large number of SQL records.
1873: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
1874: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
1875: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
1876: <p>
1877:
1878: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 1879: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
1880: Secure by Default</a>,
1881: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
1882: </strong></font><br>
1883: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
1884: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
1885: <p>
1886:
1887: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1888: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
1889: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
1890: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
1891: </strong></font><br>
1892: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
1893: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
1894: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
1895: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
1896: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
1897: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
1898: <p>
1899:
1900: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1901: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
1902: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
1903: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
1904: </strong></font><br>
1905: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
1906: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
1907: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
1908: <p>
1909:
1910: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1911: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
1912: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
1913: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
1914: </strong></font><br>
1915: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
1916: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
1917: <p>
1918: </ul>
1919:
1.388 mcbride 1920: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
1921: <ul>
1.394 jolan 1922:
1923: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1924: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
1925: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
1926: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
1927: </strong></font><br>
1928: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
1929: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
1930: available for sparc64.
1931: <p>
1932:
1.390 beck 1933: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 1934: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
1935: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
1936: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
1937: </strong></font><br>
1938: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
1939: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
1940: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
1941: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
1942: <p>
1943:
1944: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 1945: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
1946: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 1947: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 1948: </strong></font><br>
1949: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
1950: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
1951: it does: CARP provides sharing
1952: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
1953: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
1954: detail to get you started using it.
1955: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
1956: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
1957: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
1958: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
1959: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
1960: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
1961: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 1962: <p>
1.391 ian 1963:
1964: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 1965: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 1966: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
1967: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 1968: </strong></font><br>
1969: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 1970: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 1971: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 1972: <p>
1.388 mcbride 1973:
1974: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1975: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
1976: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 1977: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 1978: </strong></font><br>
1979: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
1980: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
1981: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
1982: unencumbered by patents.
1983: <p>
1984: </ul>
1985:
1.378 henning 1986: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
1987: <ul>
1.384 jose 1988:
1989: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 1990: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
1991: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
1992: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
1993: </strong></font><br>
1994: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
1995: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
1996: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
1997: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
1998: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
1999: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
2000: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
2001: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
2002: in the page tables."
2003: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
2004: <p>
2005:
2006: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 2007: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
2008: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
2009: </strong></font><br>
2010: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
2011: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
2012: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
2013: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 2014: <p>
1.384 jose 2015:
1.378 henning 2016: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 2017: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
2018: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 2019: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
2020: </strong></font><br>
2021: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
2022: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
2023: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
2024: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
2025: (quote:
2026: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
2027: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 2028: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 2029: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
2030: the other developers for their work on the system.
2031: <p>
2032:
2033: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 2034: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
2035: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
2036: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 2037: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 2038: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
2039: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
2040: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
2041: too.
2042: <p>
2043:
2044: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 2045: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
2046: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 2047: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 2048: OpenBSD source code using
2049: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
2050: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
2051: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
2052: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
2053: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
2054: <p>
2055: </ul>
2056:
1.374 jose 2057: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
2058: <ul>
2059: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 2060: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 2061: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
2062: </strong></font><br>
2063: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
2064: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
2065: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
2066: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
2067: it."
2068: <p>
2069:
2070: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 2071: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
2072: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
2073: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
2074: </strong></font><br/>
2075: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
2076: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
2077: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
2078: <p>
2079: </ul>
2080:
1.369 ian 2081: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
2082: <ul>
2083: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 2084: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
2085: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
2086: </strong></font><br/>
2087: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
2088: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
2089: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
2090: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
2091: <p>
2092:
2093: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 2094: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
2095: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
2096: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
2097: </strong></font><br/>
2098: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
2099: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
2100: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
2101: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
2102: form factor.
2103: <p>
2104:
2105: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2106: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
2107: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
2108: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
2109: Features</a>,
2110: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
2111: </strong></font><br/>
2112: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
2113: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
2114: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
2115: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
2116: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
2117: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
2118: <p>
2119: This article can also be found online at:
2120: <ul>
2121: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 2122: <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 2123: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
2124: </strong></font>
2125: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
2126: </ul>
2127: <p>
1.392 david 2128:
1.371 jose 2129: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 2130: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
2131: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 2132: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
2133: </strong></font><br/>
2134: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
2135: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
2136: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 2137: <p>
1.371 jose 2138:
2139: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 2140: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 2141: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 2142: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 2143: </strong></font><br/>
2144: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
2145: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
2146: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
2147: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
2148: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
2149: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
2150: and its history with OpenBSD.
2151: </ul>
2152:
1.368 henning 2153: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
2154: <ul>
2155: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 2156: [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 2157: </strong></font><br>
2158: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
2159: </ul>
2160:
1.364 jose 2161: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
2162: <ul>
2163: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 2164: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
2165: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
2166: UNIX Review,
2167: July, 2003.
2168: </strong></font><br>
2169: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
2170: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
2171: who want more information.
2172: <p>
2173:
2174: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 2175: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
2176: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
2177: Government Computer News,
2178: July 22, 2003.
2179: </strong></font><br>
2180: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
2181: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
2182: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
2183: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
2184: <p>
2185:
2186: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2187: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
2188: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
2189: SANS Institute,
2190: July 22, 2003.
2191: </strong></font><br>
2192: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 2193: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 2194: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
2195: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
2196: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
2197: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
2198: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
2199: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
2200: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
2201: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
2202: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
2203: <p>
2204:
2205: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 2206: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
2207: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
2208: OnLamp.com,
2209: July 17, 2003.
2210: </strong></font><br>
2211: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
2212: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
2213: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
2214: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
2215: have been working on.
2216:
2217: </ul>
2218:
1.356 jose 2219: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 2220: <ul>
2221:
2222: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 2223: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
2224: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
2225: UNIX Review,
2226: June, 2003.
2227: </strong></font><br>
2228: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
2229: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
2230: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
2231: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
2232: <p>
2233:
2234: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 2235: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
2236: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
2237: eWeek,
2238: June 23, 2003.
2239: </strong></font><br>
2240: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
2241: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
2242: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
2243: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
2244: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
2245: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
2246: <p>
2247:
2248: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 2249: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
2250: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
2251: Software Development Online,
2252: June, 2003.
2253: </strong></font><br>
2254: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
2255: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
2256: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
2257: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
2258: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
2259: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
2260: current activities.
2261: <p>
2262:
2263: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 2264: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
2265: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 2266: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
2267: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
2268: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
2269: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 2270: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 2271: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
2272: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
2273: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 2274: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 2275: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
2276: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 2277: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 2278: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
2279: decisions.
2280: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
2281: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 2282: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 2283: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 2284: <p>
2285:
2286: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 2287: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
2288: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
2289: Page 58, eWeek,
2290: June 2, 2003.
2291: </strong></font><br>
2292: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
2293: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
2294: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
2295: been addressed in -current.
2296: <p>
2297:
1.356 jose 2298: </ul>
2299:
2300: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
2301: <ul>
2302:
1.355 jose 2303: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 2304: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
2305: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
2306: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
2307: </strong></font><br>
2308: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
2309: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
2310: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
2311: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
2312: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
2313: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
2314: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
2315: <p>
2316:
2317: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 2318: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
2319: Beyond Linux</a>,
2320: InfoWorld,
2321: May 23, 2003.
2322: </strong></font><br>
2323: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
2324: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
2325: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
2326: compared to the GPL.
2327: <p>
2328:
2329: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 2330: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
2331: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
2332: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 2333: May 17, 2003.
2334: </strong></font><br>
2335: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
2336: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
2337: the business section and half of another page inside
2338: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
2339: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
2340: in talking about the project's history and goals.
2341: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
2342: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
2343: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
2344: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 2345: <br>
2346: This article can also be found online at:
2347: <ul>
2348: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2349: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
2350: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
2351: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
2352: May 17, 2003
2353: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 2354: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
2355: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2356: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
2357: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
2358: Montreal Gazette,
2359: May 21, 2003
2360: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 2361: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 2362: <p>
1.346 ian 2363:
2364: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 2365: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 2366: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 2367: May 7, 2003.
2368: </strong></font><br>
2369: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
2370: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
2371: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
2372: <p>
2373:
2374: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 2375: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
2376: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2377: OsOpinion,
2378: May 6, 2003.
2379: </strong></font><br>
2380: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
2381: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
2382: <br>
2383: This article can also be found online at:
2384: <ul>
2385: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2386: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
2387: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2388: NewsFactor Network.
2389: </strong></font>
2390: </ul>
2391: <p>
2392:
2393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2394: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 2395: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
2396: ITBusiness,
2397: May 2, 2003.
2398: </strong></font><br>
2399: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
2400: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
2401: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
2402: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
2403: <p>
2404:
2405: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 2406: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
2407: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
2408: InfoWorld,
2409: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 2410: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 2411: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
2412: <br>
2413: This article can also be found online at:
2414: <ul>
2415: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2416: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
2417: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
2418: IDG Singapore.
2419: </strong></font>
2420: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 2421: <p>
2422:
1.339 jose 2423: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2424: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
2425: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 2426: ZDNet,
2427: May 1, 2003.
2428: </strong></font><br>
2429: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 2430: someone using parts from previous articles.
2431: <br>
1.341 deraadt 2432: This article can also be found online at:
2433: <ul>
2434: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2435: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
2436: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
2437: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 2438: </strong></font>
2439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2440: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
2441: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
2442: CNET News.com.
2443: </strong></font>
2444: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2445: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
2446: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
2447: ZDNet UK.
2448: </strong></font>
2449: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2450: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
2451: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
2452: Help Net Security, Croatia.
2453: </strong></font>
2454: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 2455: <p>
1.339 jose 2456:
1.341 deraadt 2457: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2458: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 2459: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
2460: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
2461: May 1, 2003.
2462: </strong></font><br>
2463: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
2464: that have been added
2465: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
2466: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
2467: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 2468: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 2469: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
2470: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
2471: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 2472: <p>
2473:
2474: </ul>
2475:
1.253 ian 2476: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
2477: <ul>
1.255 ian 2478:
1.260 ian 2479: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2480: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 2481: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
2482: TechRepublic,
2483: April 28, 2003.
2484: </strong></font><br>
2485: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
2486: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 2487: work.<br>
2488: Can also be found online at:
2489: <ul>
2490: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2491: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
2492: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
2493: ZDNet UK.
2494: </strong></font>
2495: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 2496: <p>
2497:
2498: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 2499: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
2500: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
2501: IDG,
2502: April 24, 2003.
2503: </strong></font><br>
2504: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
2505: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
2506: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
2507: Can also be found online at:
2508: <ul>
2509: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2510: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
2511: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 2512: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 2513: </strong></font>
2514: </ul>
2515: <p>
2516:
2517: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2518: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 2519: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 2520: Slate,
2521: April 24, 2003.
2522: </strong></font><br>
2523: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
2524: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
2525: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
2526: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
2527: <p>
2528:
2529: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 2530: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2531: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
2532: April 24, 2003.
2533: </strong></font><br>
2534: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
2535: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
2536: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
2537: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
2538: <p>
2539:
2540: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 2541: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
2542: April 24, 2003.
2543: </strong></font><br>
2544: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
2545: the free software community".
2546: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
2547: other articles.
2548: <p>
2549:
2550: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2551: <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 2552: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
2553: </strong></font><br>
2554: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
2555: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
2556: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
2557: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
2558: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
2559: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
2560: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 2561: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 2562: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
2563: <br/>
2564: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
2565: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
2566: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
2567: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 2568: <br>
2569: Can also be found online at:
2570: <ul>
2571: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2572: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
2573: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
2574: Common Dreams NewsCenter
2575: </strong></font>
2576: </ul>
1.324 ian 2577: <p>
2578:
2579: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2580: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
2581: Wired, April 24, 2003.
2582: </strong></font><br>
2583: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
2584: article above.
2585: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
2586: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
2587: wasting them."
1.332 ian 2588: <br>
2589: Can also be found online at:
2590: <ul>
2591: <li>
2592: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
2593: </strong></font>
2594: </ul>
1.324 ian 2595: <p>
2596:
2597: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 2598: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
2599: </strong></font><br>
2600: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
2601: <p>
2602:
2603: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 2604: <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.
2605: </strong></font><br>
2606: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
2607: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
2608: <p>
2609:
2610: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 2611: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
2612: April 23, 2003.
2613: </strong></font><br>
2614: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
2615: <p>
2616:
2617: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 2618: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 2619: April 22, 2003.
2620: </strong></font><br>
2621: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
2622: <p>
2623:
2624: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 2625: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
2626: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
2627: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 2628: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 2629: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
2630: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
2631: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
2632: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
2633: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
2634: Can also be found online at:
2635: <ul>
2636: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2637: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 2638: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
2639: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 2640: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 2641: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2642: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 2643: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
2644: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 2645: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 2646: </ul>
2647: <p>
2648:
2649: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 2650: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
2651: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 2652: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2653: </strong></font><br>
2654: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 2655: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
2656: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
2657: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
2658: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
2659: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
2660: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 2661: <p>
2662:
2663: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 2664: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
2665: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 2666: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
2667: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 2668: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
2669: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
2670: at UPenn and DARPA.
2671: <p>
2672:
2673: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 2674: [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,
2675: France
1.315 deraadt 2676: April 18, 2003.
2677: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 2678: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 2679: <p>
2680:
2681: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 2682: [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 2683: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2684: </strong></font><br>
2685: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
2686: <p>
2687:
2688: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 2689: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
2690: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
2691: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 2692: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 2693: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
2694: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
2695: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
2696: <p>
2697:
2698: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 2699: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
2700: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2701: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 2702: </strong></font><br>
2703: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
2704: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
2705: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 2706: American century.
1.267 deraadt 2707: <p>
2708:
2709: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 2710: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
2711: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2712: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 2713: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 2714: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
2715: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
2716: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
2717: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
2718: Can also be found online at:
2719: <ul>
2720: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
2721: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 2722: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 2723: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 2724: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 2725: <p>
2726:
2727: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 2728: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 2729: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 2730: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 2731: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 2732: </strong></font><br>
2733: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 2734: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
2735: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
2736: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
2737: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 2738:
2739: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2740: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
2741: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
2742: New York Times.
2743: </strong></font>(free registration required)
2744:
1.273 deraadt 2745: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2746: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 2747: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 2748: ABC News.
2749: </strong></font>
2750:
2751: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2752: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 2753: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 2754: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 2755: </strong></font>
2756:
2757: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2758: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 2759: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 2760: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 2761: </strong></font>
2762:
2763: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 2764: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
2765: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 2766: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 2767: </strong></font>
2768:
2769: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2770: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 2771: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 2772: Times Daily, AL.
2773: </strong></font>
2774:
2775: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2776: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
2777: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
2778: Boston.com, MA.
2779: </strong></font>
2780:
2781: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2782: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 2783: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 2784: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
2785: </strong></font>
2786:
2787: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 2788: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
2789: [Article was pulled]</a>
2790: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 2791: </strong></font>
2792:
2793: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2794: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
2795: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
2796: Infoshop News.
2797: </strong></font>
2798:
2799: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2800: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
2801: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2802: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
2803: </strong></font>
2804:
2805: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 2806: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
2807: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
2808: Raleigh News, NC.
2809: </strong></font>
2810:
2811: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2812: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 2813: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
2814: Napa News, CA.
2815: </strong></font>
2816:
2817: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2818: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 2819: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2820: NEPA News, PA.
2821: </strong></font>
2822:
2823: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2824: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
2825: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
2826: Wired News.
2827: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 2828: <br>
2829: <li>
1.333 deraadt 2830: <font color="#009000"><strong>
2831: [JAPANESE]
2832: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
2833: Wired News Japan</a>
2834: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 2835:
1.271 deraadt 2836: </ul>
2837: <p>
1.272 deraadt 2838: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
2839: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 2840: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
2841: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
2842: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
2843: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
2844: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
2845: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 2846: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 2847: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
2848: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
2849: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 2850: <p>
2851: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 2852:
2853: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2854: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 2855: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
2856: Indianapolis Star, IN.
2857: </strong></font>
2858:
2859: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 2860: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
2861: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2862: Miami Herald, FL.
2863: </strong></font>
2864:
2865: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 2866: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 2867: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
2868: </strong></font>
2869:
2870: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2871: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 2872: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 2873: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 2874: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 2875:
2876: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2877: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
2878: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
2879: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
2880: ABC News.
2881: </strong></font>
2882:
1.276 deraadt 2883: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2884: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 2885: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 2886: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 2887: </strong></font>
2888:
1.286 dhartmei 2889: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2890: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 2891: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2892: Wilmington Star, NC.
2893: </strong></font>
2894:
1.300 jose 2895: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2896: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
2897: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
2898: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
2899: </strong></font>
2900:
1.309 jose 2901: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2902: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
2903: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
2904: Globe Technology.
2905: </strong></font>
2906:
1.263 deraadt 2907: </ul>
1.262 beck 2908: <p>
2909:
2910: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 2911: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
2912: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2913: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 2914: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 2915: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 2916: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
2917: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
2918: <p>
2919:
2920: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 2921: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
2922: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
2923: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 2924: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 2925: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
2926: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
2927: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
2928: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
2929: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
2930: and simply restates other press reports.
2931: <p>
2932:
2933: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 2934: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
2935: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2936: OS News, April 18, 2003.
2937: </strong></font><br>
2938: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
2939: <p>
2940:
2941: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 2942: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
2943: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2944: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 2945: </strong></font><br>
2946: Another report on the DARPA funding.
2947: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
2948: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
2949: <p>
2950:
2951: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 2952: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
2953: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
2954: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
2955: April 17, 2003.
2956: </strong></font><br>
2957: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
2958: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
2959: Tech Anthems</a>
2960: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
2961: 4 so far.
2962: <p>
2963:
2964: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 2965: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
2966: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2967: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 2968: </strong></font><br>
2969: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
2970: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
2971: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
2972: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
2973: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
2974: Goes on to say:
2975: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
2976: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
2977: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
2978: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 2979: This article is also found online at:
2980: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 2981: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2982: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
2983: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
2984: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 2985: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 2986: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2987: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
2988: ZDnet</a>,
2989: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 2990: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 2991: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2992: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
2993: ZDnet Australia</a>,
2994: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 2995: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 2996: </ul>
1.260 ian 2997: <p>
1.279 deraadt 2998:
1.260 ian 2999: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3000: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 3001: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 3002: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 3003: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 3004: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 3005: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
3006: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
3007: without notice or justification.
3008: <p>
3009:
3010: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3011: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 3012: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 3013: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 3014: </strong></font><br>
3015: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
3016: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 3017: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 3018: effective today, without any warning..."
3019: <p>
1.257 ian 3020:
3021: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 3022: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
3023: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3024: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 3025: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 3026: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
3027: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
3028: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
3029: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
3030: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 3031: <p>
3032:
3033: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 3034: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
3035: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3036: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 3037: </strong></font><br>
3038: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
3039: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
3040: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
3041: quoting two of them:
3042: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
3043: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
3044: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
3045: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
3046: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
3047: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
3048: <p>
3049:
1.255 ian 3050: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3051: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
3052: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 3053: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3054: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 3055: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 3056: <p>
3057:
3058: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 3059: [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 3060: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3061: </strong></font><br>
3062: New security concepts in OpenBSD
3063: <p>
3064:
3065: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 3066: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
3067: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3068: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 3069: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 3070: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 3071: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
3072: security experts for more than three decades."
3073: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
3074: <p>
1.261 ian 3075:
1.254 drahn 3076: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 3077: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 3078: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3079: </strong></font><br>
3080: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
3081: <p>
3082:
3083: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 3084: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
3085: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
3086: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
3087: </strong></font><br>
3088: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
3089: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
3090: discussion OpenBSD's path.
3091: <p>
3092:
3093: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 3094: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
3095: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3096: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 3097: </strong></font><br>
3098: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
3099: from US DARPA.
3100: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
3101: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
3102: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
3103: the BSD license.
3104: <p>
3105: </ul>
3106:
1.251 ian 3107: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
3108: <ul>
3109:
3110: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3111: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
3112: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
3113: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
3114: </strong></font><br>
3115:
3116: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
3117: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
3118: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
3119: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
3120: <p>
3121:
3122: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 3123: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
3124: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 3125: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 3126: </strong></font><br>
3127: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
3128: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
3129: Mentions
3130: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
3131: and
3132: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
3133: programs.
3134: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 3135: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 3136: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
3137: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
3138: <p>
1.325 ian 3139: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
3140: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 3141:
3142: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3143: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
3144: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
3145: </strong></font><br>
3146: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
3147: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
3148: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
3149: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
3150: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
3151: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
3152: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
3153: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
3154: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
3155: put into service."
3156: <p>
3157: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
3158: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
3159: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
3160: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
3161: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
3162: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
3163: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
3164: computers with security features."
3165: <p>
1.329 ian 3166:
3167: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3168: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
3169: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
3170: Slate,
3171: March 3, 2003.
3172: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 3173: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 3174: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
3175: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
3176: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
3177: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
3178: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
3179: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
3180: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
3181: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
3182: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
3183: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
3184: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
3185: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
3186: of more secure open-source solutions like
3187: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
3188: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
3189: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
3190: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
3191: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
3192: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
3193: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
3194: the Beltway."
3195: <p>
1.251 ian 3196: </ul>
3197:
1.249 jufi 3198: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
3199: <ul>
3200: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3201: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
3202: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3203: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 3204: </strong></font><br>
3205: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
3206: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 3207: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 3208: <p>
1.334 ian 3209:
3210: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3211: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
3212: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
3213: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
3214: </strong></font><br>
3215: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
3216: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
3217: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
3218: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
3219: "... the hypothetical question ...
3220: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
3221: <br>
3222: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
3223: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
3224: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
3225: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
3226: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
3227: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 3228: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 3229: support network security.
3230: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
3231: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
3232: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
3233: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
3234: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
3235: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
3236: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
3237: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
3238: <br>
3239: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
3240: <p>
3241:
1.249 jufi 3242: </ul>
3243:
1.246 jufi 3244: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3245: <ul>
1.246 jufi 3246:
1.247 jufi 3247: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3248: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 3249: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3250: CNET News.com, December 4, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3251: </strong></font><br>
3252: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
3253: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
3254: <p>
3255:
1.247 jufi 3256: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3257: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
3258: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3259: Heise News-Ticker, December 4, 2002
1.301 jose 3260: </strong></font><br>
1.460 david 3261: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III CPU
1.301 jose 3262: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
3263: <p>
3264:
3265: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3266: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 3267: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3268: eWeek, December 3, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3269: </strong></font><br>
3270: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
3271: in their annual OpenHack security test.
3272: <p>
1.247 jufi 3273: </ul>
1.246 jufi 3274:
1.244 jufi 3275: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3276: <ul>
1.246 jufi 3277:
1.247 jufi 3278: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3279: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
3280: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
3281: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3282: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3283: </strong></font><br>
3284: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
3285: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
3286: md5 digests.
3287: <p>
3288:
1.247 jufi 3289: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3290: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 3291: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
3292: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3293: </strong></font><br>
3294: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
3295: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
3296: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
3297: right the first time."
3298: <p>
1.247 jufi 3299: </ul>
1.244 jufi 3300:
3301:
3302: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3303: <ul>
1.244 jufi 3304:
1.247 jufi 3305: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3306: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3307: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
3308: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3309: </strong></font><br>
3310: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
3311: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
3312: part 6</a>.
3313: <p>
3314:
1.247 jufi 3315: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3316: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 3317: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
3318: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3319: O'Reilly Network, August 8, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3320: </strong></font><br>
3321: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
3322: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
3323: <p>
1.301 jose 3324:
3325: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3326: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
3327: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
3328: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
3329: </strong></font><br>
3330:
3331: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
3332: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
3333: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
3334: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
3335: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
3336: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
3337: <i>Here's the
3338: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
3339: <p>
1.247 jufi 3340: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3341:
3342: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3343: <ul>
1.242 jufi 3344:
1.247 jufi 3345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3346: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 3347: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3348: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3349: </strong></font><br>
3350: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
3351: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
3352: <p>
3353:
1.247 jufi 3354: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3355: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3356: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3357: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 1, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3358: </strong></font><br>
3359: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
3360: this time using pf.
3361: <p>
1.247 jufi 3362: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3363:
3364: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3365: <ul>
1.242 jufi 3366:
1.247 jufi 3367: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3368: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3369: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
3370: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3371: </strong></font><br>
3372: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
3373: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
3374: their rotation.
3375: <p>
3376:
1.247 jufi 3377: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3378: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3379: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3380: O'Reilly Network, June 6, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3381: </strong></font><br>
3382: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
3383: <p>
1.247 jufi 3384: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3385:
1.239 jufi 3386: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3387: <ul>
1.239 jufi 3388:
1.247 jufi 3389: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3390: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 3391: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
3392: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3393: </strong></font><br>
3394: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
3395: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
3396: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
3397: <p>
3398:
1.247 jufi 3399: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 3400: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 3401: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
3402: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 3403: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 3404: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
3405: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
3406: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 3407: <p>
1.247 jufi 3408: </ul>
1.239 jufi 3409:
1.235 lebel 3410: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3411: <ul>
1.235 lebel 3412:
1.239 jufi 3413:
1.247 jufi 3414: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 3415: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 3416: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
3417: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 3418: </strong></font><br>
3419: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
3420: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
3421: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
3422: <p>
1.301 jose 3423:
1.247 jufi 3424: </ul>
1.235 lebel 3425:
1.228 horacio 3426: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3427: <ul>
1.228 horacio 3428:
1.247 jufi 3429: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3430: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3431: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
3432: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 3433: </strong></font><br>
3434: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
3435: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
3436: <p>
3437:
1.247 jufi 3438: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 3439: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 3440: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
3441: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 3442: </strong></font><br>
3443: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
3444: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
3445: <p>
3446:
1.247 jufi 3447: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 3448: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 3449: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
3450: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 3451: </strong></font><br>
3452: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
3453: on the desktop of his parents.
3454: <p>
3455:
1.247 jufi 3456: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 3457: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 3458: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
3459: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 3460: </strong></font><br>
3461: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
3462: using IPFilter.
3463:
3464: <p>
3465:
1.247 jufi 3466: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 3467: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 3468: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
3469: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 3470: </strong></font><br>
3471: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
3472: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
3473: perspectives of the four OS.
3474: <br>
3475: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 3476: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 3477: <p>
3478:
1.247 jufi 3479: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 3480: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
3481: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 3482: software and security</a>,
3483: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 3484: </strong></font><br>
3485:
3486: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
3487: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
3488: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
3489: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
3490: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
3491: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
3492: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
3493: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
3494: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
3495: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
3496: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
3497: security conscious team beyond doubt.
3498: <p>
1.247 jufi 3499: </ul>
1.228 horacio 3500:
1.225 horacio 3501: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3502: <ul>
1.225 horacio 3503:
1.247 jufi 3504: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3505: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
3506: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 3507: Interview</a>,
3508: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 3509: </strong></font><br>
3510:
3511: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
3512: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
3513: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 3514: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 3515: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
3516: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
3517: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
3518: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
3519: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 3520: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 3521: of choice.
3522: <p>
1.247 jufi 3523: </ul>
1.225 horacio 3524:
3525: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3526: <ul>
1.225 horacio 3527:
1.247 jufi 3528: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3529: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 3530: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
3531: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 3532: </strong></font><br>
3533:
3534: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
3535: <p>
3536:
1.247 jufi 3537: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3538: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 3539: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
3540: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 3541: </strong></font><br>
3542:
3543: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
3544: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
3545: <p>
1.247 jufi 3546: </ul>
1.225 horacio 3547:
1.218 horacio 3548: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3549: <ul>
1.218 horacio 3550:
1.247 jufi 3551: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 3552: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 3553: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 3554: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 3555: </strong></font><br>
3556:
3557: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
3558: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
3559: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
3560: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
3561: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
3562: subjects. Worth a read.
3563: <p>
3564:
3565:
1.247 jufi 3566: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 3567: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 3568: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
3569: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 3570: </strong></font><br>
3571:
3572: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
3573: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
3574: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
3575: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
3576: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
3577: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
3578: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
3579: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
3580: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 3581: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 3582: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
3583: on other operating systems.<br>
3584: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
3585: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
3586: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
3587: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
3588: <p>
3589:
1.247 jufi 3590: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3591: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 3592: Operating System 2010</a>,
3593: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 3594: </strong></font><br>
3595:
3596: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
3597: covering the level of software integration into the core
3598: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
3599: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
3600: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
3601: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
3602: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
3603: <p>
3604:
1.247 jufi 3605: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 3606: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 3607: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
3608: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 3609: </strong></font><br>
3610:
3611: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
3612: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
3613: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
3614: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
3615: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
3616: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
3617: <p>
1.247 jufi 3618: </ul>
1.221 horacio 3619:
1.210 jufi 3620: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3621: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3622:
1.247 jufi 3623: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3624: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 3625: Already a Contender</a>,
3626: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 3627: </strong></font><br>
3628:
3629: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
3630: source software in response to an article which claimed that
3631: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
3632: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
3633: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
3634: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
3635: <p>
3636:
1.247 jufi 3637: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 3638: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 3639: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
3640: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 3641: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3642:
1.224 horacio 3643: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
3644: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
3645: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
3646: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
3647: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
3648: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 3649: <p>
1.247 jufi 3650: </ul>
1.215 horacio 3651:
3652: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3653: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3654:
1.247 jufi 3655: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3656: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
3657: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 3658: Division</a>,
3659: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 3660: </strong></font><br>
3661:
3662: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
3663: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 3664: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 3665: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
3666: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
3667: investment</em>.<br>
3668: The implementation details can be seen on their
3669: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
3670: <p>
3671:
1.247 jufi 3672: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3673: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
3674: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
3675: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
3676: </strong></font><br>
3677:
3678: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
3679: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
3680: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1.475 grunk 3681: laptops and T-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1.301 jose 3682: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
3683: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
3684: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
3685: <p>
3686:
3687: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3688: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 3689: Thinking about Security</a>,
3690: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 3691: </strong></font><br>
3692:
3693: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
3694: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
3695: security and says that even secured operating systems running
3696: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
3697: to time.<br>
3698: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
3699: system and just the most secure system.
3700: <p>
3701:
1.247 jufi 3702: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3703: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 3704: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
3705: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 3706: </strong></font><br>
3707:
3708: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
3709: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
3710: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
3711: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
3712: choice:<br>
3713: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
3714: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
3715: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
3716: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
3717: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
3718: network security devices and as such must be well
3719: armored."</em><br>
3720: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
3721: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
3722: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
3723: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
3724: <br>
3725: Bravo!
3726: <p>
1.247 jufi 3727: </ul>
1.210 jufi 3728:
1.207 ian 3729: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3730: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3731:
1.247 jufi 3732: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 3733: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
3734: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
3735: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 3736:
1.207 ian 3737: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
3738: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 3739: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 3740: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
3741: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
3742: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 3743: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 3744: <p>
1.247 jufi 3745: </ul>
1.207 ian 3746:
1.194 jufi 3747: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3748: <ul>
1.194 jufi 3749:
1.247 jufi 3750: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3751: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 3752: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
3753: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 3754: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3755:
1.240 miod 3756: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 3757: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
3758: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
3759: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
3760: <p>
3761:
1.247 jufi 3762: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3763: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
3764: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
3765: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
3766:
3767: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
3768: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
3769: <p>
3770:
3771: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3772: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
3773: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3774: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
3775:
3776: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
3777: <p>
3778:
3779: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3780: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 3781: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
3782: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
3783: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3784:
1.240 miod 3785: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 3786: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 3787: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
3788: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 3789: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 3790: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 3791: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
3792: <br>
1.413 deraadt 3793: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 3794: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
3795: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
3796: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
3797: <p>
3798:
1.247 jufi 3799: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 3800: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
3801: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 3802: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 3803: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3804:
1.194 jufi 3805: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
3806: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
3807: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
3808: <br>
3809: The new
3810: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 3811: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 3812: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
3813: <p>
1.247 jufi 3814: </ul>
1.194 jufi 3815:
1.190 horacio 3816: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3817: <ul>
1.190 horacio 3818:
1.247 jufi 3819: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 3820:
3821: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
3822: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
3823:
1.301 jose 3824:
1.191 jufi 3825: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
3826: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
3827:
3828: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
3829: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
3830:
1.212 horacio 3831: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
3832: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 3833: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
3834:
1.211 horacio 3835: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
3836: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 3837: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
3838:
1.247 jufi 3839: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 3840: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
3841:
1.247 jufi 3842: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 3843: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
3844:
1.212 horacio 3845: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
3846: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 3847: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
3848:
3849: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
3850: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
3851:
3852: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
3853: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
3854:
1.301 jose 3855: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
3856: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
3857:
1.191 jufi 3858: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
3859: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
3860:
3861: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 3862: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 3863:
1.192 jufi 3864: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
3865: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 3866: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 3867:
1.193 deraadt 3868: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
3869: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 3870: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 3871:
1.247 jufi 3872: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 3873: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
3874:
1.247 jufi 3875: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 3876: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
3877: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
3878:
1.213 horacio 3879: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 3880: 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 3881: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
3882:
1.190 horacio 3883: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 3884: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
3885: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
3886: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
3887: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
3888: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
3889: <p>
1.190 horacio 3890:
1.247 jufi 3891: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3892: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
3893: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
3894: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 3895: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3896:
1.195 jufi 3897: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 3898: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
3899: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
3900: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 3901: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
3902: <p>
3903:
1.247 jufi 3904: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3905: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 3906: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
3907: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
3908: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3909:
1.191 jufi 3910: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 3911: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
3912: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
3913: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
3914: <p>
3915:
3916: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3917: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
3918: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3919: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
3920:
3921: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
3922: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 3923: <p>
1.247 jufi 3924: </ul>
1.190 horacio 3925:
1.191 jufi 3926:
1.186 jufi 3927: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3928: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 3929:
1.247 jufi 3930: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 3931: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 3932: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
3933: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 3934: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 3935:
1.188 jufi 3936: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 3937: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 3938: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 3939: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
3940: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 3941: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 3942: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 3943: <p>
3944:
1.301 jose 3945: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3946: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
3947: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3948: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
3949:
3950: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
3951: <p>
1.191 jufi 3952:
1.247 jufi 3953: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 3954: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
3955: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3956: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 5, 2001
1.191 jufi 3957: </strong></font><br>
3958:
3959: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
3960: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
3961: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
3962: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
3963: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
3964: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
3965: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
3966: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
3967: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
3968: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
3969: familiar?
3970: <p>
1.247 jufi 3971: </ul>
1.191 jufi 3972:
1.178 louis 3973: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3974: <ul>
1.178 louis 3975:
1.247 jufi 3976: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 3977: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 3978: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
3979: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 3980: </strong></font><br>
3981:
3982: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
3983: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
3984: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
3985: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
3986: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
3987: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
3988: <p>
3989:
1.247 jufi 3990: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 3991: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
3992: Open source under the hood</a>,
3993: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 3994: </strong></font><br>
3995:
3996: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
3997: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
3998: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
3999: <p>
4000:
1.247 jufi 4001: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4002: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
4003: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
4004: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 4005: </strong></font><br>
4006:
4007: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
4008: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
4009: <p>
1.247 jufi 4010: </ul>
1.179 louis 4011:
1.174 louis 4012:
1.175 louis 4013: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4014: <ul>
1.175 louis 4015:
1.247 jufi 4016: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4017: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
4018: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
4019: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 4020: </strong></font><br>
4021:
4022: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
4023: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
4024: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
4025: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
4026: <p>
4027:
1.247 jufi 4028: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4029: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
4030: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
4031: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 4032: </strong></font><br>
4033:
4034: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 4035: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 4036: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
4037: <p>
1.247 jufi 4038: </ul>
1.175 louis 4039:
1.176 louis 4040:
1.172 mickey 4041: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4042: <ul>
1.172 mickey 4043:
1.247 jufi 4044: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4045: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
4046: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 4047: </strong></font><br>
4048:
4049: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
4050: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
4051: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 4052: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 4053: <p>
4054:
1.247 jufi 4055: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 4056: <a
1.269 deraadt 4057: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
4058: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
4059: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 4060: </strong></font><br>
4061:
4062: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
4063: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
4064: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
4065: <p>
4066:
1.247 jufi 4067: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4068: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 4069: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
4070: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 4071: </strong></font><br>
4072:
4073: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
4074: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
4075: <p>
4076:
1.247 jufi 4077: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4078: <a
1.269 deraadt 4079: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
4080: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 4081: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
4082: </strong></font><br>
4083:
4084: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
4085: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
4086: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
4087: our own Theo de Raadt.
4088: <p>
4089:
1.247 jufi 4090: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4091: <a
1.269 deraadt 4092: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
4093: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
4094: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 4095: </strong></font><br>
4096:
4097: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
4098: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
4099: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
4100: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
4101: shut down.]
4102: <p>
4103:
1.247 jufi 4104: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4105: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 4106: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 4107: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
4108: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 4109: </strong></font><br>
4110:
4111: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
4112: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
4113: <p>
1.247 jufi 4114: </ul>
1.172 mickey 4115:
1.161 louis 4116: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4117: <ul>
1.161 louis 4118:
1.247 jufi 4119: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 4120: <a
1.269 deraadt 4121: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
4122: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
4123: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 4124: </strong></font><br>
4125:
4126: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
4127: by John Wolley
4128: <p>
4129:
1.247 jufi 4130: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 4131: <a
1.269 deraadt 4132: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
4133: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
4134: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 4135: </strong></font><br>
4136:
4137: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
4138: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
4139: OpenBSD).
4140: <p>
4141:
1.247 jufi 4142: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 4143: <a
1.247 jufi 4144: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 4145: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
4146: </strong></font><br>
4147:
4148: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
4149: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
4150: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
4151: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
4152: and hindsight.
4153: <p>
4154:
1.247 jufi 4155: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4156: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
4157: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
4158: </strong></font><br>
4159:
4160: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
4161: <p>
4162:
1.247 jufi 4163: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 4164: <a
1.168 provos 4165: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
4166: December 7, 2000
4167: </strong></font><br>
4168:
4169: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
4170: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
4171: us explain.
4172: <p>
4173:
1.247 jufi 4174: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 4175: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
4176: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 4177: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 4178: December 6, 2000
4179: </strong></font><br>
4180:
4181: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
4182: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
4183: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
4184: <p>
4185:
1.247 jufi 4186: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4187: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
4188: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
4189: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
4190: </strong></font><br>
4191:
4192: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
4193: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
4194: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
4195: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
4196: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
4197: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
4198: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
4199: <p>
4200:
4201: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 4202: <a
1.226 horacio 4203: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
4204: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 4205: </strong></font><br>
4206:
4207: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 4208: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 4209: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 4210: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
4211: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
4212: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 4213: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 4214: <p>
1.162 millert 4215:
1.247 jufi 4216: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 4217: <a
1.161 louis 4218: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
4219: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
4220: </strong></font><br>
4221:
4222: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
4223: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
4224: <p>
4225:
1.247 jufi 4226: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 4227: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
4228: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
4229: </strong></font><br>
4230:
4231: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
4232: <p>
4233:
4234:
1.247 jufi 4235: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 4236: <a
1.226 horacio 4237: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
4238: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
4239: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 4240: </strong></font><br>
4241:
4242: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
4243: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
4244: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
4245: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
4246: <p>
1.247 jufi 4247: </ul>
1.169 louis 4248:
1.158 louis 4249: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4250: <ul>
1.147 louis 4251:
1.247 jufi 4252: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4253: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
4254: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 4255: </strong></font><br>
4256:
4257: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
4258: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
4259: <p>
4260:
1.247 jufi 4261: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4262: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
4263: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
4264: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 4265: </strong></font><br>
4266: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
4267: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
4268: <p>
4269:
1.247 jufi 4270: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 4271: <a
4272: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
4273: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
4274: </strong></font><br>
4275:
4276: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
4277: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
4278: <p>
4279:
1.247 jufi 4280: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4281: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 4282: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
4283: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 4284:
1.213 horacio 4285: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 4286: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 4287: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
4288: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
4289: <p>
1.215 horacio 4290:
1.247 jufi 4291: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4292: <a
4293: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
4294: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
4295: </strong></font><br>
4296:
4297: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
4298: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
4299: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
4300: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
4301: much of the attitude too).
4302: <p>
1.161 louis 4303:
1.247 jufi 4304: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4305: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4306: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 4307: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4308:
1.157 louis 4309: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
4310: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
4311: <p>
1.247 jufi 4312: </ul>
1.157 louis 4313:
4314: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4315: <ul>
1.157 louis 4316:
1.247 jufi 4317: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4318: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4319: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 4320: </strong></font><br>
4321:
4322: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
4323: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
4324: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
4325: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
4326: <p>
4327:
1.247 jufi 4328: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 4329: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
4330: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
4331: </strong></font><br>
4332:
4333: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
4334: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
4335: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
4336: it because they love coding...
4337: <p>
4338:
1.247 jufi 4339: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 4340: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
4341: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
4342: </strong></font><br>
4343:
4344: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
4345: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
4346: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
4347: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
4348: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
4349: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
4350: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
4351: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
4352: <p>
4353:
1.247 jufi 4354: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4355: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
4356: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
4357: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 4358: </strong></font><br>
4359:
4360: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
4361: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
4362: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
4363: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
4364: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
4365: the pizza.
4366: <p>
4367:
1.247 jufi 4368: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 4369: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
4370: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
4371: </strong></font><br>
4372:
4373: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
4374: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
4375: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
4376: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
4377: problems.
4378: <p>
4379:
1.247 jufi 4380: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 4381: <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 4382: </strong></font><br>
4383:
1.222 miod 4384: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 4385: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
4386: - whether they like it or not.
4387: <p>
4388:
1.247 jufi 4389: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4390: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
4391: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 4392: </strong></font><br>
4393:
4394: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
4395: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
4396: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 4397: <p>
1.148 aaron 4398:
1.247 jufi 4399: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4400: <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 4401: </strong></font><br>
4402:
4403: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
4404: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
4405: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
4406: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
4407: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
4408: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
4409: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
4410: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
4411: <p>
4412:
1.247 jufi 4413: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4414: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
4415: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 4416: </strong></font><br>
4417:
4418: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
4419: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 4420: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 4421: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
4422: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
4423: <p>
1.247 jufi 4424: </ul>
1.147 louis 4425:
1.138 louis 4426: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4427: <ul>
1.138 louis 4428:
1.247 jufi 4429: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4430: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
4431: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
4432: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
4433: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 4434: </strong></font><br>
4435:
1.227 horacio 4436: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 4437: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
4438: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
4439: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
4440: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
4441: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
4442: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
4443: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 4444: <p>
4445:
1.247 jufi 4446: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 4447: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 4448: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 4449: </strong></font><br>
4450:
4451: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
4452: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
4453: groups, and even Linux.
4454: <p>
4455:
1.247 jufi 4456: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4457: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
4458: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 4459: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
4460: </strong></font><br>
4461:
4462: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
4463: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
4464: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
4465: library after installing the OS.
4466: <p>
4467:
1.247 jufi 4468: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4469: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 4470: Sys Admin, September 2000
4471: </strong></font><br>
4472:
4473: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
4474: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
4475: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
4476: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 4477: (<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>,
4478: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
4479: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
4480: <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 4481: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 4482: out of the system.
4483: <p>
4484:
1.247 jufi 4485: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 4486: <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
4487: </strong></font><br>
4488:
4489: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 4490: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 4491: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
4492: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
4493: the IP filtering and address translation.
4494: <p>
1.301 jose 4495:
4496: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4497: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
4498: </strong></font><br>
4499:
4500: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
4501: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
4502: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
4503: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
4504: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
4505: <p>
1.247 jufi 4506: </ul>
1.200 niklas 4507:
1.131 louis 4508: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4509: <ul>
1.131 louis 4510:
1.247 jufi 4511: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4512: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
4513: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
4514: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 4515: </strong></font><br>
4516:
4517: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
4518: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
4519: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
4520: <p>
4521:
1.247 jufi 4522: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 4523: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
4524: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
4525: </strong></font><br>
4526:
4527: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
4528: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
4529: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
4530: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
4531: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
4532: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
4533: note of"</i>.
4534: <p>
4535:
1.247 jufi 4536: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 4537: <a
1.247 jufi 4538: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 4539: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
4540: </strong></font><br>
4541:
4542: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
4543: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
4544: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
4545: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
4546: <p>
4547:
1.247 jufi 4548: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 4549: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 4550: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
4551: </strong></font><br>
4552:
4553: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
4554: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
4555: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
4556: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
4557: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
4558: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
4559: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
4560: <p>
4561:
1.247 jufi 4562: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 4563: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
4564: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
4565: 2000
4566: </strong></font><br>
4567:
4568: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
4569: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
4570: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
4571: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
4572: against current industry practices.
4573: <p>
4574:
1.247 jufi 4575: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 4576: <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
4577: </strong></font><br>
4578:
4579: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
4580: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
4581: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
4582: <p>
4583:
1.247 jufi 4584: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 4585: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
4586: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
4587: </strong></font><br>
4588:
4589: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
4590: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
4591: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
4592: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
4593: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
4594: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
4595: careful code reviews, he concludes.
4596: <p>
4597:
1.247 jufi 4598: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 4599: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
4600: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
4601: </strong></font><br>
4602:
4603: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
4604: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
4605: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
4606: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
4607: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 4608: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
4609: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
4610: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 4611: <p>
1.247 jufi 4612: </ul>
1.131 louis 4613:
1.118 louis 4614: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4615: <ul>
1.118 louis 4616:
1.247 jufi 4617: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 4618: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
4619: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
4620: </strong></font><br>
4621:
4622: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
4623: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
4624: about time. The article mentions that
4625: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
4626: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
4627: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 4628: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 4629: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
4630: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 4631: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 4632: <p>
4633:
1.247 jufi 4634: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4635: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 4636: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 4637: </strong></font><br>
4638:
4639: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
4640: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
4641: of OpenSSH.
4642: <p>
4643:
1.247 jufi 4644: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4645: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4646: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 4647: </strong></font><br>
4648:
4649: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 4650: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 4651: bridging.
4652: <p>
4653:
1.247 jufi 4654: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4655: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
4656: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 4657: </strong></font><br>
4658:
1.121 deraadt 4659: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
4660: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 4661: <p>
4662:
1.247 jufi 4663: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 4664: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
4665: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
4666: </strong></font><br>
4667:
4668: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
4669: <p>
4670:
1.247 jufi 4671: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 4672: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 4673: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
4674: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 4675: </strong></font><br>
4676:
1.120 deraadt 4677: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
4678: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 4679: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
4680: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
4681: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
4682: <p>
4683:
1.247 jufi 4684: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 4685: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
4686: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
4687: </strong></font><br>
4688:
1.222 miod 4689: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 4690: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
4691: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
4692: protocols and their quirks.
4693: <p>
4694:
1.247 jufi 4695: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4696: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
4697: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 4698: </strong></font><br>
4699:
4700: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
4701: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
4702: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 4703: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 4704: <p>
4705:
1.247 jufi 4706: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 4707: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
4708: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
4709: </strong></font><br>
4710:
4711: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
4712: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
4713: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
4714: <p>
4715:
1.247 jufi 4716: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 4717: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 4718: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
4719: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 4720: </strong></font><br>
4721:
4722: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
4723: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
4724: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
4725: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
4726: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
4727: <p>
1.247 jufi 4728: </ul>
1.118 louis 4729:
1.104 louis 4730: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4731: <ul>
1.104 louis 4732:
1.247 jufi 4733: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 4734: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
4735: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
4736: </strong></font><br>
4737:
4738: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
4739: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
4740: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
4741: be a bit dry.
4742: <p>
4743:
1.247 jufi 4744: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4745: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
4746: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
4747: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
4748: </strong></font><br>
4749: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
4750: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
4751: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
4752: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
4753: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
4754: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
4755: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
4756: <p>
4757:
1.247 jufi 4758: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4759: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
4760: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 4761: 2000
1.128 louis 4762: </strong></font><br>
4763:
4764: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
4765: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
4766: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
4767: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
4768: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 4769: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 4770: <p>
4771:
1.247 jufi 4772: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4773: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
4774: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 4775: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 4776:
4777: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
4778: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
4779: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
4780: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 4781: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
4782: <p>
1.110 louis 4783:
1.247 jufi 4784: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 4785: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
4786: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
4787: </strong></font><br>
4788:
4789: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
4790: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
4791: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
4792: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
4793: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
4794: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
4795: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
4796: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
4797: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
4798: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
4799: <p>
4800:
1.247 jufi 4801: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 4802: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 4803: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 4804:
4805: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
4806: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 4807: <p>
1.108 louis 4808:
1.247 jufi 4809: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 4810: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
4811: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 4812: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 4813:
4814: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
4815: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
4816: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 4817: <p>
1.106 louis 4818:
1.247 jufi 4819: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 4820: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
4821: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 4822: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 4823:
4824: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
4825: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
4826: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
4827: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 4828: <p>
1.107 louis 4829:
1.247 jufi 4830: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4831: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
4832: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 4833: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 4834:
4835: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
4836: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 4837: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 4838: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
4839: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 4840: <p>
1.105 louis 4841:
1.247 jufi 4842: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 4843: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 4844: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 4845: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 4846:
1.113 naddy 4847: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
4848: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 4849: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 4850: <p>
1.104 louis 4851:
1.247 jufi 4852: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4853: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
4854: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
4855: </strong></font><br>
4856:
4857: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
4858: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
4859: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
4860: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
4861: <p>
1.301 jose 4862:
4863: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4864: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
4865: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
4866: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
4867:
4868: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
4869: hardware-supported cryptography.
4870: <p>
1.247 jufi 4871: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 4872:
1.85 louis 4873: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4874: <ul>
1.85 louis 4875:
1.247 jufi 4876: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4877: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 4878: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 4879: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 4880:
4881: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
4882: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
4883: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
4884: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
4885: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
4886: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
4887: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 4888: <p>
1.99 louis 4889:
1.247 jufi 4890: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4891: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 4892: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 4893: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 4894:
4895: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
4896: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
4897: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
4898: conditions.
1.113 naddy 4899: <p>
1.100 louis 4900:
1.247 jufi 4901: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4902: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 4903: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 4904: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 4905:
4906: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
4907: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
4908: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
4909: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 4910: <p>
1.95 louis 4911:
1.247 jufi 4912: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4913: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 4914: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 4915: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 4916:
4917: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
4918: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 4919: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 4920: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
4921: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4922: <p>
1.92 louis 4923:
1.247 jufi 4924: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4925: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 4926: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 4927: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 4928:
4929: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
4930: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
4931: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
4932: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
4933: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
4934: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 4935: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 4936: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 4937: <p>
1.91 louis 4938:
1.247 jufi 4939: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4940: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
4941: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 4942: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 4943:
4944: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
4945: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
4946: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
4947: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
4948: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
4949: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
4950: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
4951: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
4952: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 4953: <p>
1.90 louis 4954:
1.247 jufi 4955: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 4956: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
4957: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
4958: </strong></font><br>
4959: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
4960: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
4961: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
4962: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
4963: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
4964: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
4965: <p>
4966:
1.247 jufi 4967: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 4968: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
4969: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 4970: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 4971:
1.113 naddy 4972: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
4973: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 4974: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
4975: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
4976: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
4977: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
4978: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 4979: <p>
1.87 louis 4980:
1.247 jufi 4981: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 4982: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
4983: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 4984: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 4985:
4986: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 4987: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 4988: <p>
1.85 louis 4989:
1.247 jufi 4990: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4991: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
4992: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4993: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
4994:
4995: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
4996: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
4997: <p>
4998:
4999: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 5000: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
5001: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 5002: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 5003:
5004: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 5005: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 5006: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
5007: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 5008: <p>
1.89 louis 5009:
1.247 jufi 5010: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5011: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
1.85 louis 5012: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 5013: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 5014:
5015: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
5016: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
5017: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
5018: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
5019: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 5020: </ul>
1.85 louis 5021:
1.78 deraadt 5022: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5023: <ul>
1.74 louis 5024:
1.247 jufi 5025: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5026: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 5027: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 5028: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 5029: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 5030:
5031: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
5032: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
5033: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5034: <p>
1.83 louis 5035:
1.247 jufi 5036: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 5037: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
5038: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 5039: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 5040:
5041: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
5042: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 5043: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 5044: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
5045: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 5046: <p>
1.93 louis 5047:
1.247 jufi 5048: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 5049: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
5050: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
5051: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 5052: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 5053:
1.83 louis 5054: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
5055: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
5056: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
5057: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
5058: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 5059: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
5060: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
5061: <p>
1.82 aaron 5062:
1.247 jufi 5063: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5064: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 5065: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 5066: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 5067:
1.83 louis 5068: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
5069: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
5070: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 5071: <p>
1.80 louis 5072:
1.247 jufi 5073: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5074: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 5075: Bad Press</a>,
5076: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 5077: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 5078:
5079: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 5080: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 5081: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
5082: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
5083: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 5084: <p>
1.247 jufi 5085: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 5086:
5087: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5088: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 5089:
1.247 jufi 5090: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5091: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
5092: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 5093: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 5094: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 5095:
5096: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
5097: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
5098: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
5099: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 5100: <p>
1.74 louis 5101:
1.247 jufi 5102: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 5103: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
5104: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 5105: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 5106:
1.219 horacio 5107: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
5108: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
5109: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
5110: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
5111: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
5112: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
5113: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 5114: <p>
1.88 louis 5115:
1.247 jufi 5116: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 5117: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 5118: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 5119: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 5120:
5121: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
5122: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
5123: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
5124: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 5125: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 5126: <p>
1.81 louis 5127:
1.247 jufi 5128: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5129: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 5130: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 5131: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 5132:
5133: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
5134: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
5135: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
5136: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
5137: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
5138: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
5139: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 5140: <p>
1.90 louis 5141:
1.247 jufi 5142: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5143: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 5144: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 5145: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 5146:
5147: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
5148: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
5149: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 5150: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 5151: <p>
1.247 jufi 5152: </ul>
1.71 louis 5153:
1.69 deraadt 5154: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5155: <ul>
1.70 louis 5156:
1.247 jufi 5157: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5158: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
5159: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 5160: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 5161:
5162: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
5163: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
5164: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 5165: <p>
1.70 louis 5166:
1.247 jufi 5167: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5168: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
5169: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 5170: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 5171:
5172: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 5173: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 5174: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 5175: <p>
1.68 louis 5176:
1.247 jufi 5177: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5178: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
5179: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 5180: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 5181: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 5182:
1.111 jufi 5183: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
5184: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 5185: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 5186: "secure by default" installation.
5187: <p>
1.64 louis 5188:
1.247 jufi 5189: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 5190: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 5191: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 5192: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 5193:
1.113 naddy 5194: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 5195: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 5196: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 5197: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
5198: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
5199: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 5200: <p>
1.66 louis 5201:
1.247 jufi 5202: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5203: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 5204: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5205: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 5206:
5207: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 5208: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 5209: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
5210: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
5211: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 5212: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
5213: <p>
1.83 louis 5214:
1.247 jufi 5215: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5216: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 5217: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5218: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 5219:
5220: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 5221: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
5222: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 5223: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
5224: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 5225: <p>
1.64 louis 5226:
1.247 jufi 5227: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5228: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 5229: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5230: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 5231:
5232: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
5233: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 5234: <p>
1.301 jose 5235:
5236: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5237: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
5238: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
5239: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
5240: </strong></font><br>
5241:
5242: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
5243: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
5244: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
5245: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
5246: Giving way to
5247: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
5248: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
5249: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
5250: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
5251: <p>
1.247 jufi 5252: </ul>
1.65 louis 5253:
1.69 deraadt 5254: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5255: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5256:
1.247 jufi 5257: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5258: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 5259: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 5260: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 5261:
5262: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
5263: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
5264: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
5265: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 5266: <p>
1.88 louis 5267:
1.247 jufi 5268: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5269: <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 5270: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 5271:
5272: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 5273: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
5274: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 5275: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
5276: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 5277: <p>
1.60 louis 5278:
1.247 jufi 5279: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 5280: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 5281: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 5282: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 5283: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5284:
5285: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
5286: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
5287: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 5288: <p>
1.58 louis 5289:
1.247 jufi 5290: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 5291: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 5292: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 5293:
5294: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
5295: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 5296: <p>
1.53 louis 5297:
1.247 jufi 5298: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 5299: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
5300: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 5301: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 5302:
5303: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
5304: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
5305: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 5306: <p>
1.99 louis 5307:
1.247 jufi 5308: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 5309: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 5310: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5311:
5312: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
5313: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 5314: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 5315: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 5316: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 5317:
1.247 jufi 5318: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 5319: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
5320: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 5321: </strong></font><br>
5322:
5323: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
5324: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
5325: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
5326: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
5327: <p>
5328:
1.247 jufi 5329: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5330: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 5331: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 5332: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5333:
5334: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
5335: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 5336: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 5337:
1.247 jufi 5338: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 5339: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 5340: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 5341:
5342: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 5343: in
1.247 jufi 5344: <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 5345: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 5346: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 5347: <p>
1.53 louis 5348:
1.247 jufi 5349: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5350: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 5351: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
5352: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 5353: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 5354:
1.58 louis 5355: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5356: <p>
1.301 jose 5357:
5358: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5359: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
5360: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
5361: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
5362: Informacyjny, January 2000
5363: </strong></font><br>
5364:
5365: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
5366: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
5367: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
5368: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
5369: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
5370: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
5371: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
5372: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
5373: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
5374: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 5375: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
5376: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 5377: <p>
5378:
5379: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5380: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
5381: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
5382: </strong></font><br>
5383:
5384: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
5385: <p>
5386: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 5387:
1.69 deraadt 5388: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5389: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5390:
1.247 jufi 5391: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 5392: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
5393: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
5394: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 5395: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5396:
1.58 louis 5397: Kurt Seifried
5398: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
5399: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
5400: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 5401: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 5402:
1.247 jufi 5403: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5404: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 5405: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 5406: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 5407:
5408: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 5409: <p>
1.96 louis 5410:
1.247 jufi 5411: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5412: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
5413: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
5414: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
5415: </strong></font><br>
5416:
5417: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
5418: <p>
5419:
5420: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5421: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 5422: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 5423: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 5424:
5425: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
5426: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 5427: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 5428: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 5429: <p>
1.247 jufi 5430: </ul>
1.86 louis 5431:
1.69 deraadt 5432: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5433: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5434:
1.247 jufi 5435: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 5436: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
5437: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 5438: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 5439:
5440: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
5441: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 5442: <p>
1.61 louis 5443:
1.247 jufi 5444: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5445: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 5446: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
5447: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5448: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 5449:
5450: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 5451: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 5452: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
5453: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 5454: right -- or at least strives to".
5455: <p>
1.48 louis 5456:
1.247 jufi 5457: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 5458: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
5459: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5460: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 5461: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
5462: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
5463: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
5464: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 5465: <p>
1.61 louis 5466:
1.247 jufi 5467: <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 5468: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 5469: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 5470:
5471: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
5472: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
5473: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
5474: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 5475: <p>
1.46 louis 5476:
1.247 jufi 5477: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 5478: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
5479: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 5480: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5481:
5482: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
5483: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 5484: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 5485:
1.247 jufi 5486: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 5487: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
5488: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 5489: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 5490:
5491: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
5492: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
5493: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
5494: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 5495: <p>
1.247 jufi 5496: </ul>
1.70 louis 5497:
1.69 deraadt 5498: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5499: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5500:
1.247 jufi 5501: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5502: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
5503: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 5504: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 5505: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 5506:
5507: Kurt Seifried
5508: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
5509: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
5510: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 5511: <p>
1.44 philen 5512:
1.247 jufi 5513: <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 5514: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 5515: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 5516:
5517: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 5518: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 5519:
1.247 jufi 5520: <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 5521: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 5522: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 5523:
5524: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 5525: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 5526:
1.247 jufi 5527: <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 5528: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 5529: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 5530:
5531: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
5532: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
5533: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
5534: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 5535: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 5536:
1.247 jufi 5537: <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 5538: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 5539: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 5540:
1.36 louis 5541: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 5542: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 5543:
1.247 jufi 5544: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5545: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
1.39 louis 5546: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 5547: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 5548:
5549: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 5550: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 5551: </ul>
1.38 louis 5552:
1.69 deraadt 5553: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5554: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5555:
1.247 jufi 5556: <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 5557: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 5558: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 5559:
5560: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
5561: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 5562: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 5563:
1.113 naddy 5564: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 5565: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 5566: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 5567: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 5568:
5569: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
5570: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 5571: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
5572: terminal:
1.113 naddy 5573: <blockquote>
5574: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
5575: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
5576: <br>
5577: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
5578: </code>
5579: </blockquote>
5580: <p>
5581:
1.247 jufi 5582: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 5583: <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 5584: <p>
5585:
5586: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5587: <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 5588: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 5589:
5590: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
5591: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 5592: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 5593: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 5594:
1.247 jufi 5595: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5596: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
5597: Sept. 28, 1999
5598: </strong></font><br>
5599:
5600: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
5601: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
5602: translating and reprinting articles from
5603: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
5604: <p>
5605:
5606: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 5607: <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 5608: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 5609:
5610: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
5611: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
5612: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
5613: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
5614: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 5615: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 5616: <p>
1.19 louis 5617:
1.113 naddy 5618: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 5619: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 5620: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 5621:
5622: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
5623: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
5624: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 5625: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
5626: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 5627: <p>
1.16 louis 5628:
1.247 jufi 5629: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5630: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 5631: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 5632: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 5633:
1.57 louis 5634: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
5635: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
5636: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 5637: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 5638:
1.247 jufi 5639: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5640: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.466 deraadt 5641: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5642: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5643:
1.113 naddy 5644: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 5645:
1.247 jufi 5646: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 5647: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
5648: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 5649: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 5650:
1.23 louis 5651: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
5652: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
5653: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
5654: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
5655: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 5656: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 5657:
1.247 jufi 5658: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 5659: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
5660: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 5661: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 5662:
1.199 pvalchev 5663: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 5664: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
5665: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
5666: installation.
1.113 naddy 5667: <p>
1.47 louis 5668:
1.247 jufi 5669: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5670: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 5671: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 5672: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5673:
1.301 jose 5674: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
5675: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
5676: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 5677: </ul>
1.57 louis 5678:
1.69 deraadt 5679: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5680: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5681:
1.247 jufi 5682: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 5683: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 5684: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 5685: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 5686:
5687: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
5688: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 5689: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5690: <p>
1.12 louis 5691:
1.247 jufi 5692: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 5693: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 5694: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 5695: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 5696:
5697: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
5698: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 5699: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
5700: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
5701: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
5702: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
5703: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 5704: <p>
1.247 jufi 5705: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 5706:
1.69 deraadt 5707: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5708: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 5709:
1.247 jufi 5710: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 5711: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 5712: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 5713:
5714: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
5715: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
5716: available."
1.113 naddy 5717: <p>
1.301 jose 5718:
5719: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5720: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
5721: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
5722: </strong></font><br>
5723:
5724: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
5725: <p>
1.247 jufi 5726: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 5727:
1.69 deraadt 5728: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5729: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5730:
1.247 jufi 5731: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 5732: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 5733: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 5734:
5735: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
5736: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
5737: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
5738: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
5739: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 5740: <p>
1.33 louis 5741:
1.247 jufi 5742: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5743: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 5744: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 5745: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5746:
1.113 naddy 5747: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
5748: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 5749: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
5750: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
5751: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 5752: <p>
1.247 jufi 5753: </ul>
1.57 louis 5754:
1.69 deraadt 5755: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5756: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5757:
1.247 jufi 5758: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5759: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 5760: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 5761: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 5762:
5763: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
5764: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 5765: <p>
1.69 deraadt 5766:
1.247 jufi 5767: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 5768: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
5769: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
5770: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 5771: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 5772:
5773: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 5774: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 5775:
1.247 jufi 5776: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5777: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 5778:
1.113 naddy 5779: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 5780:
1.247 jufi 5781: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5782: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
1.68 louis 5783: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 5784: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 5785:
5786: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 5787: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 5788: </ul>
1.23 louis 5789:
1.69 deraadt 5790: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5791: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5792:
1.247 jufi 5793: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 5794: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 5795: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 5796:
5797: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
5798: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 5799: <p>
1.2 deraadt 5800:
1.247 jufi 5801: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5802: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 5803: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5804: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5805:
5806: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
5807: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 5808: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 5809: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 5810: </ul>
1.57 louis 5811:
1.69 deraadt 5812: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5813: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5814:
1.247 jufi 5815: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5816: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
1.15 louis 5817: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 5818: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 5819:
5820: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
5821: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
5822: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
5823: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5824: <p>
1.15 louis 5825:
1.247 jufi 5826: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 5827: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
5828: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 5829: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5830:
5831: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
5832: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
5833: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
5834: columns."
1.113 naddy 5835: <p>
1.247 jufi 5836: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5837:
1.69 deraadt 5838: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5839: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5840:
1.247 jufi 5841: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5842: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 5843: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 5844: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5845:
5846: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 5847: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 5848:
1.113 naddy 5849: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5850: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 5851: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5852:
5853: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
5854: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 5855: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 5856: </ul>
1.57 louis 5857:
1.69 deraadt 5858: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5859: <ul>
1.301 jose 5860: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5861: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
5862: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
5863: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
5864:
5865: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
5866: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
5867: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
5868: <p>
5869:
5870: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5871: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
5872: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
5873: Nov 13, 1998 and
5874: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
5875: Datateknik</a>,
5876: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
5877:
1.380 saad 5878: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 5879: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
5880: explains the licensing issues and points to our
5881: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
5882: <p>
1.69 deraadt 5883:
1.113 naddy 5884: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5885: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 5886: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 5887: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 5888:
1.222 miod 5889: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 5890: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
5891: Implementation, including a brief interview with
5892: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 5893: <p>
1.247 jufi 5894: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5895:
1.69 deraadt 5896: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5897: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5898:
1.247 jufi 5899: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5900: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 5901: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5902:
1.69 deraadt 5903: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
5904: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 5905: <p>
1.247 jufi 5906: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5907:
1.69 deraadt 5908: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5909: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 5910:
1.247 jufi 5911: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 5912: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
5913: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 5914: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5915:
1.383 jcs 5916: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 5917: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 5918: <p>
1.1 deraadt 5919:
1.247 jufi 5920: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 5921: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 5922: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
5923: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 5924: <p>
1.247 jufi 5925: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5926:
1.69 deraadt 5927: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5928: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5929:
1.247 jufi 5930: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5931: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 5932: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
5933: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 5934: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 5935: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 5936:
5937: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
5938: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
5939: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 5940: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 5941: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 5942: <p>
1.247 jufi 5943: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 5944:
5945: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5946: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5947:
1.247 jufi 5948: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5949: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 5950: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 5951:
1.69 deraadt 5952: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
5953: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 5954: <p>
1.112 naddy 5955:
1.247 jufi 5956: </ul>
1.113 naddy 5957: <p>
1.1 deraadt 5958:
1.292 camield 5959: <hr>
1.216 horacio 5960: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 5961: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.551 ! xsa 5962: <br><small>$OpenBSD: press.html,v 1.550 2006/12/14 09:27:15 mbalmer Exp $</small>
1.1 deraadt 5963:
5964: </body>
5965: </html>