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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>
1.554 reyk 23: [GERMAN]
24: <a href="http://www.freie-radios.net/portal/content.php?id=15206">
25: 23C3: Interview mit Henning und Reyk von OpenBSD</a>,
26: Radio Unerhört Marbug, December 29, 2006
27: </strong></font><br>
28: Interview with Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter about OpenBSD and
29: the latest changes since 4.0 during the 23rd Chaos Communications
30: Congress in Berlin.
31: <p>
32:
33: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.552 ian 34: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/12/29/01OPsecadvise_1.html">
1.553 ian 35: New Year's Resolution No. 1: Get OpenBSD</a>,
1.552 ian 36: InfoWorld, December 29, 2006
37: </strong></font><br>
38: InfoWorld's Security Advisor columnist Roger A. Grimes says:
39: "Kick off 2007 with a new, more secure operating system."
40: Citing OpenBSD's code-auditing security process and its
41: excellent security record, Grimes advises readers to give the system a try.
42: Despite repeating some old canards about the "unfriendly" install, he
43: notes favorably that
44: "OpenBSD is shipped secure-by-default, with all non-essential services disabled.
45: You won't find NFS, mountd, or Apache [httpd] enabled by default.
46: The /bin and /sbin folders will be emptier than other Linux or BSD distros.
47: Install OpenBSD and you can be assured that it doesn't default to an insecure state."
48: <p>
49:
50: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.551 xsa 51: [GERMAN]
1.550 mbalmer 52: <a href="http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/2007/01/074/">
53: OpenBSD 4.0 - Kanadische Eröffnung</a>
54: iX magazine, December 14, 2006
55: </strong></font><br>
56: The german IT magazine iX reviews the 4.0 release of OpenBSD and also mentions
57: why we don't support blobs and why this is beneficial to our users.
58: The article gives OpenBSD a very good rating for being strictly free software,
59: its swift installation, the support for upgrades, and the large number of
60: platforms and architectures it runs on.
61: <p>
62:
63: </ul>
64:
1.546 ian 65: <h2>November, 2006</h2>
66: <ul>
67:
1.549 ian 68: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
69: <a href='http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20061110204834'>
70: Official support for OpenBSD in Parallels Workstation</a>
71: undeadly.org, November 10, 2006
72: </strong></font><br>
73: OpenBSD is now supported by Parallels, a commercial OS
74: virtualization product for Mac OS X, Linux or MS-Windows.
75: In addition to allowing users to run both OpenBSD and one of those other
76: systems concurrently, the announcement means that developers with Intel Mac
77: hardware can run multiple test systems; the Undeadly Editor adds:
78: "I've had up to six OpenBSD guest systems operating simultaneously,
79: versions 3.8 through 4.0 (and -current)."
80: This also reinforces the increasing commercial acceptance of our favorite OS.
81: <p>
82:
83: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
84: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/11/bsdtalk082-openbsd-developer-jason.html">
85: Interview with Jason Wright</a>, BSDTalk 82, November 8, 2006
86: </strong></font><br>
87: Jason talks about the OpenBSD development process (particularly for device drivers
88: and getting hardware documentation from vendors), Sun SPARC hardware (particularly
89: the Ultra III), ham radio (APRS) with OpenBSD, and more.
90: <p>
91:
92: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
93: <a href='http://news.com.com/2061-10795_3-6132572.html'>
94: OpenBSD turns 4.0</a>
95: CNET News.com, November 3, 2006
96: </strong></font><br>
97: Stephen Shankland talks about the UltraSPARC III code in 4.0, and notes that
98: OpenBSD has chosen to stay with stable GCC versions rather than moving to
99: the latest and most bloated GCC versions like Linux did.
100: Quotes Theo as saying: OpenBSD doesn't aim for particular niches,
101: but it's popular in network applications... "The biggest
102: users of OpenBSD these days are people who need our fancy networking
103: features..."
104: <p>
105:
1.546 ian 106: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
107: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/55/">
108: OpenBSD 4.0 Review</a>, Software In Review, November 1, 2006
109: </strong></font><br>
110: "In an era when the next edition of Microsoft Windows is pushed
111: back more than a year, and popular GNU/Linux distributions are
112: almost expected to have their release dates delayed by weeks or
113: months, it's nice to know that at least one operating system releases
114: on schedule without all kinds of showstopping bugs and problems.
115: OpenBSD 4.0 was released on November 1 with its usual mix of new
116: hardware support and enhanced operating system features."
117: So opens Jem Matzam's review of the new 4.0 release.
118: Jem gives a brief overview of the project, discusses
119: several of the most important new features, evaluates
120: his installation and use of the system on a desktop and a notebook.
1.548 saad 121: He also offers a few recommendations for future developments to make
1.546 ian 122: the project even better.
123: There's even a link to the Wikipedia article on
124: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humppa">
125: Humppa</a>, for those who may have heard this term but not
126: the music behind it.
127: <p>
128:
1.547 ian 129: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
130: <a href='http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1243'>
131: Big changes with OpenBSD 4.0 out today</a>
132: Tectonic, November 1, 2006
133: </strong></font><br>
134: "With his characteristic no-frills approach OpenBSD team leader
135: Theo de Raadt this morning announced the release of OpenBSD 4.0."
136: This article lists the highlights of the 4.0 release and
137: tells readers where to order CD's or download the release.
138: Quotes Theo: ""We are pleased to announce the official release of
139: OpenBSD 4.0. This is our 20th release on CD-Rom (and 21st via FTP).
140: We remain proud of OpenBSD's record of ten years with only a single
141: remote hole in the default install,"
142: <p>
143:
144: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
145: <a href='http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061101-8123.html'>
146: OpenBSD 4.0 released</a>
147: Ars Technica, November 1, 2006
148: </strong></font><br>
149: A short note about the 4.0 release; refers to the O'ReillyNet article below.
150: <p>
151:
1.546 ian 152: </ul>
153:
1.539 ian 154: <h2>October, 2006</h2>
155: <ul>
1.540 ian 156:
157: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.546 ian 158: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/6769">
159: OpenBSD 4.0: Pufferix's Adventures</a>, O'Reilly Network, October 26, 2006
160: </strong></font><br>
161: Federico Biancuzzi interviewed a dozen and a half developers and compiled
162: the results into this report, all while listening to the obligatory Humppa.
1.548 saad 163: Topics include the new blob-free wireless drivers, pf and pf/dhcp interaction,
1.546 ian 164: CARP demotion, ipsecctl replacing ipsecadm, hardware support for disk/bioctl,
165: USB serial, new installation customization features, ports/packages, RCS, X,
166: CPU support for Sparc/64, AMD/Intel "speed step" techniques, and more.
167: <p>
168:
169: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.543 mbalmer 170: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/10/bsdtalk076-openbsd-developer-marc.html">
171: Interview with Marc Balmer about OpenCON 2006</a>, bsdtalk076, October 12, 2006
172: </strong></font><br>
173: BSDTalk interviews Marc Balmer about the upcoming
174: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a> conference
175: in Venice, Italy, how he got involved in the OpenBSD project, and what he
176: uses the OpenBSD operating system for in his company. Marc Balmer tells us about
177: the history of the conference that is dedicated solely to OpenBSD, why it
178: is taking place in Venice, and why he likes OpenBSD as the platform of choice
179: for his many customers.
180: <p>
181:
182: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.544 ian 183: <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/olpc-under-fire-for-proprietary-components/">
184: OLPC under fire for proprietary components</a>, Engadget, October 11, 2006
185: </strong></font><br>
186: Hardware site Engadget is one of several that has picked up this controversy
187: from the Jem Report quoted below and on the mailing lists.
188: Quotes Theo's reaction to Jim Gettys' latest comments:
189: "Jim is obviously very clever at convincing people that children
190: need proprietary laptops (OLPC has a greater percentage of undocumented
191: hardware than a Thinkpad from 3 years ago). It is easy for Jim to
192: convince people these things because he doesn't care at all about
193: the future maintainance of drivers. I do. And I think most of you
194: also do."
195: The article ends with: "Wow, them be fightin' words -- we're pulling up ringside
196: seats already."
197: <p>
198:
199: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
200: <a href="http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/286/">
201: Making sense of the One Laptop Per Child proprietary software row</a>,
202: The Jem Report, October 9, 2006
203: </strong></font><br>
204: Jem Matzan explores this ongoing controversy by blending separate interviews with
205: Jim Gettys, Richard Stallman and our own Theo de Raadt.
206: Theo consistently and clearly defends the project's interest in
207: getting documentation on, and permission to distribute, firmware
208: so that users can use hardware they have paid for.
209: Commenting on the multiple NDA-requiring parts in the current version of
210: the OLPC laptop, Theo notes that "If I am careful in selection,
211: I can buy a laptop on the market today that has fewer proprietary parts."
212: And on the OLPC project's use of NDA-requiring parts at all:
213: "I feel they have misled the community by acting as if they are open;
214: they rode on our coat-tails. Now it turns out they are going to ship GPL'd
215: code mixed with NDA-requiring proprietary drivers in the end.
216: Even their LinuxBIOS will need to link into drivers that
217: no one can repair because the documentation is locked up..."
218: <p>
219:
220: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.541 ian 221: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20061006000709">
222: OLPC hurts wireless documentation efforts</a>, undeadly.org, October 6, 2006
223: </strong></font><br>
224: Theo de Raadt takes on the high-profile
225: <a href="http://laptop.org/">OLPC</a> (One Laptop Per Child) Project
226: for not demanding open documentation from its wireless
227: chip manufacturer, wasting a "golden moment" opportunity to use sales
228: volume in the millions to pressure chip vendors, and thus helping destroy
229: the open source movement that makes the OLPC laptops affordable -
230: truly, betraying that hand that feeds it.
1.542 deraadt 231: Also strong words from other developers such as Bob Beck.
1.541 ian 232: <p>
233:
234: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.540 ian 235: <a href="http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;639736970;fp;2;fpid;3">
236: The sad state of computer security</a>, PC World Australia, October 5, 2006
237: </strong></font><br>
238: Roger Grimes opines on how bad security really is for most of the world
239: (and it is really bad). "If you aren't using OpenBSD [or a few others],
240: then every other product in the world is pretty bad in comparison.
241: <br />
242: "Most software contains numerous vulnerabilities, holes, and
243: exploitable routines. Even our anti-malware software and devices,
244: the things that are supposed to protect us, are full of buffer
245: overflows and vulnerabilities."
246: <br />
247: And, Grimes generalizes,
248: "Sadly, the world has decided that real computer security doesn't
249: matter any more than real terrorist security. It's all lip service.
250: We are, and apparently choose to be, reactive sheep. Proactive
251: thinkers get ignored and ridiculed...
252: As more and more of the world goes online, and as more of our
253: important infrastructure goes "e-something," it would appear that
254: we are on a collision course headed toward a tipping point event.
255: And when it does, the sheep will stand aghast wondering how it
256: happened."
257: Worth reading!
258: <p>
259:
1.539 ian 260: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
261: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061002-7874.html">
262: OpenBSD creator wants users to pressure Intel on open source policies</a>,
263: Ars Technica, October 2, 2006.
264: </strong></font><br>
265: Summarizes Theo's efforts to obtain documentation and freely
266: redistributable firmware from Intel.
267: <p>
268:
269: </ul>
270:
1.536 grunk 271: <h2>September, 2006</h2>
272: <ul>
273:
274: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.537 ian 275: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/7184">
276: OpenBSD: Intel Accused Of Being "An Open Source Fraud"</a>,
277: KernelTrap, September 30, 2006.
278: </strong></font><br>
279: Mentions Damien's thread on misc summarizing Intel's policy toward
280: open-source software as being to make Intel "look like we're
281: open-source friendly by opening a project on sourceforge," and,
282: "give the open-source community the bare minimum so that they can
283: serve as our beta-testers." Damien reverse engineered the wpi(4)
284: driver source for the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Driver,
285: despite Intel's refusal to freely provide documentation.
286: Regular readers will know that OpenBSD has been at war with Intel
287: for ages over these chipsets.
288: Quotes Theo as saying:
289: "before we ask a vendor, we have already lost (ie. the
290: device does not work). When a vendor says no, we have lost nothing
291: further -- there is no way we can lose further than having the
292: device not work. We can only win, and then the device works. So
293: there is no point in giving up until we win back the rights to write
294: software for the hardware that we have purchased."
295: <p>
296:
297: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
298: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/09/bsdtalk069-interview-with-christoph.html">
299: Interview with Christoph Egger about Xen on OpenBSD</a>, bsdtalk069, September 26, 2006
300: </strong></font><br>
301: BSDTalk interviews Christoph Egger about Xen and about how Christoph make OpenBSD
302: able to run as a guest operating system on Xen.
303: Includes some background about Xen as well as what it would take to
304: make OpenBSD run as the "dom0" or master host.
305: <p>
306:
307: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.536 grunk 308: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/09/bsdtalk068-interview-with-openbsd.html">
309: Intervew with OpenBSD developer Bob Beck</a>, bsdtalk068, September 22, 2006
310: </strong></font><br>
311: Bob Beck talks about spamd and his history with OpenBSD and UNIX
312: on Will Backman's bsdtalk. Bob gives us a look into his work on
313: OpenBSD and gives us amusing stories of how spamd works and how it
314: actually fares in 'the wild.' The podcast lasts a whole 25 minutes,
315: 59 seconds so it's long enough to occupy a meal or a small commute.
316: <p>
317:
1.537 ian 318: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
319: <a href="http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060920185115">
320: OpenBSD 4.0 pre-orders are up!</a>, undeadly.org, September 20, 2006
321: </strong></font><br>
322: One of the first mentions of 4.0 going on sale for pre-ordering
323: (the official release date is November 1).
324: Also gives a list of the many good things that have been added
325: in 4.0, including many new device drivers,
326: support for UltraSPARC III on sparc64, improvements to ipsecctl,
327: a new RCS implementation, and much more.
328: Includes a reminder to "show your support for the project by
1.538 deraadt 329: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/orders.html">placing your pre-orders today!"</a>
1.537 ian 330: <p>
331:
1.536 grunk 332: </ul>
333:
1.534 ian 334: <h2>August, 2006</h2>
335: <ul>
336:
337: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.537 ian 338: <a href="http://anil.recoil.org/blog/articles/2006/08/21/openbsd-xen-boots-multi-user">
339: OpenBSD/Xen boots multi-user</a>, Recoil Blog, August 21, 2006
340: </strong></font><br>
341: Anil discusses his stewardship of a Google Summer of Code project in which
342: Christoph Egger ported and revised some NetBSD code to make OpenBSD boot up natively
343: as a guest operating system under
344: <a href="http://www.xensource.com/">Xen</a>, the open-source hypervisor
345: or "virtualization" system.
346: <p>
347:
348: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.534 ian 349: <a href="http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-openbsd.html">
350: Take a closer look at OpenBSD</a>, IBM developerWorks, August 08, 2006
351: </strong></font><br>
352: Tim McIntire holds OpenBSD up as a beacon to UNIX users, calling it
353: "quite possibly the most secure operating system on the planet."
354: He talks about how the development process leads to greater security
355: and how tools like OpenSSH make it out into the wider UNIX/Linux world.
356: "OpenBSD might not have a huge user base compared to other UNIX-like operating systems,
357: but it is installed at the most crucial points of many networks."
358: Has a somewhat brief but effective discussion of installing the software, and
359: ends with references to several papers and sites of interest.
360: <p>
361:
362: </ul>
363:
1.531 ian 364: <h2>July, 2006</h2>
365: <ul>
366: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
367: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/case-studies--profiles/founder-breathes-the-open-air/2006/07/17/1152988468274.html">
368: Founder breathes the Open air</a>, The Age, July 18, 2006
369: </strong></font><br>
370: Subtitled "Hiking in exotic climes is a brain adventure for the founder of OpenBSD", this is
371: as much about hiking and learning new symbols as about software, but our leader
372: manages to do both, and bring both into the interview.
373: The article quotes Theo as saying
374: "Another major lesson I have learnt is that most people only care
375: about things working for themselves, and thus it is very easy in a
376: group to build poorly thought-out solutions. It is very simple to
377: write small hacks and end up with unmaintainable systems in the long term."
378: Describes the hackathons as an important part of the project's process
379: and describes the funding issues as well.
380: <p>
381:
382: </ul>
383:
1.525 ian 384: <h2>June, 2006</h2>
385: <ul>
386: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.535 steven 387: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=472693&rl=1">
1.530 ian 388: Alternatives to LAMP</a>, informit.com, June 2, 2006
389: </strong></font><br>
390: While "Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP" get most of the attention,
391: there are alternatives to each that are, in some way, better.
392: David Chisnal starts this article with a look at OS alternatives,
393: and OpenBSD gets the most detailed coverage, including this:
394: "When it comes to security, OpenBSD has a well-earned reputation
395: as the operating system for the truly paranoid. The entire kernel
396: and base system, including the OpenBSD fork of Apache, undergoes a
397: constant auditing process. The OpenBSD attitude is that any bug is
398: potentially exploitable, and when a bug is found by the auditing
399: team the next step is to attempt to remove every single occurrence
400: of that category of bug. This approach leads to an incredibly secure
401: system." Also talks about our pioneering use of W^X and the
402: "incredibly powerful and easy to configure" packet filter, pf.
403: <p>
404:
405: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.527 ian 406: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article8785.phtml">
1.525 ian 407: Microsoft adopts open-source security feature</a>, OSDir.com, June 1, 2006
408: </strong></font><br>
409: Microsoft borrows one of OpenBSD's security features for Vista, stack/library randomization,
410: under the name Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR).
411: "Until now, the feature has been most prominently used in the OpenBSD Unix variant and
412: the PaX and Exec Shield security patches for Linux"
413: (despite the article's title, there is nothing open-source about Microsoft's implementation).
414: <p>
415:
1.526 ian 416: </ul>
1.525 ian 417:
1.514 ian 418: <h2>May, 2006</h2>
419: <ul>
1.524 ian 420: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
421: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6650">
422: OpenBSD: wpi, A Blob Free Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Driver</a>, KernelTrap, May 28, 2006
423: </strong></font><br>
424: Damien Bergamini wrote OpenBSD's all-open-source driver for the Intel Pro/Wireless,
425: a sharp contrast to other projects' bogus "open source" drivers that are just wrappers around
426: a "binary blob" (source code not available, sorry) provided by the vendor.
427: "His announcement came a little over two months after Intel released
428: the controversial ipw3945 driver for Linux which included
429: a binary-only daemon described as necessary for enforcing regulatory
430: limits for the radio transmitter on the wireless device."
431: Bergamini's work proves yet again that vendors don't have to obscure their products
432: to make them useful.
433: <p>
1.518 ian 434:
435: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.520 ian 436: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/openbsd/c2k6/who1">
1.523 ian 437: c2k6, Who's Who At the 2006 OpenBSD Hackathon, Part I</a>
438: and
439: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6662">Part II</a>,
1.522 ian 440: KernelTrap, May 28, 2006
1.520 ian 441: </strong></font><br>
1.521 deraadt 442: Jeremy Andrews visited our developers at the Hackathon and gives
1.523 ian 443: a brief but colorful summary of most of the team members:
1.520 ian 444: why they chose OpenBSD, how they got involved, what they do, and
445: their plans for the week.
446: <p>
447:
448: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.523 ian 449: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/05/22/OpenBSD-on-Flash.html">
450: Installing OpenBSD on Flash</a>,
451: Ping Wales, May 22, 2006
452: </strong></font><br>
453: David Chisnall shows how to set up an OpenBSD boot image for
454: Soekris or PC Engines machines that boot from flash memory.
455: <p>
456:
457: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.520 ian 458: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/eur/article.php/3603961">
459: Enterprise Unix Roundup: Whither BSD?</a>, ServerWatch, May 5, 2006
460: </strong></font><br>
461: Amy Newman and Brian Proffitt state that the BSDs are often overlooked
462: because of their limited commercial acceptance.
463: The authors call this an unfortunate oversight, because recent releases of
464: the freely available BSD flavors show significant technical improvements.
1.523 ian 465: As an example, they specifically refer to OpenBSD's sensor framework
1.520 ian 466: (introduced with 3.9).
467: Newman and Proffitt also accuse big vendors of picking the nice parts from
468: the BSDs' code and giving nothing back to the community in return.
469: <p>
470:
471: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.518 ian 472: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/35/1/">
473: OpenBSD 3.9 Review</a>, Software In Review, May 3, 2006
474: </strong></font><br>
475: Jem Matzan takes the 3.9 release out for a spin, and likes it.
476: Noting that each release consists of a lot of small changes
477: and some major improvements - and mentioning hardware support, sensors,
478: and "blob removal" - he clearly thinks the project is doing a lot of things right.
479: "Everything you get in the release is production-ready, secure by
480: default... and comes with possibly the finest integrated documentation
481: in the Unix-clone world. While you might find a poorly programmed
482: driver or other base system component in other BSDs and GNU/Linux
483: distributions, in OpenBSD if something is supported, it works."
484: <p>
485:
486: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
487: [GERMAN]
488: <a href="http://www.linux-magazin.de/Artikel/ausgabe/2006/06/news_zut/news_zut.html">
489: Mozilla greift OpenBSD unter die Arme</a>, Linux Magazin, Issue 06/06, May 2006, p. 18
490: </strong></font><br>
491: The German <a href="http://www.linux-magazin.de/">Linux Magazin</a> has a short
492: article about OpenBSD's financial situation and Marco Peerebroom's
1.535 steven 493: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060321034114">call for donations</a>
1.518 ian 494: on undeadly.org. The article further mentions how OpenSSH development
495: is connected to OpenBSD.
496: <p>
497:
1.514 ian 498: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
499: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6550">
500: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, KernelTrap, May 2, 2006
501: </strong></font><br>
502: Jeremy Andrews conducts a free-ranging interview, focused mainly on 3.9 and drivers,
503: that gives Theo a chance to explain how the big North American chip vendors'
504: business practices make it harder for open source projects,
1.515 ian 505: talk about "binary blobs" vs firmware in drivers, and more.
1.514 ian 506: There's also coverage of where the project is going up to and after 3.9 and where
1.516 steven 507: it might (or might not) go in the future, why doing things right (and
1.514 ian 508: running this project) is so important to Theo,
509: and even why he does mountain biking!
510: <p>
511:
512: </ul>
513:
1.503 ian 514: <h2>April, 2006</h2>
515: <ul>
516: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.532 ray 517: <a href="http://www.dribin.org/dave/blog/archives/2006/04/28/os_x_passwords_2/">
518: Mac OS X Password Implementation Compared to OpenBSD's</a>, April 28, 2006
519: </strong></font><br>
520: Dave Dribin analyzes Mac OS X's password implementation
521: and compares it with OpenBSD's:
522: "The king of the hill has to go to OpenBSD,
523: which uses a hash based on the Blowfish block cipher called bcrypt.
524: The benefit of [bcrypt] is best stated on their website:
525: <blockquote>
526: The most important property of bcrypt (and thus crypt_blowfish)
527: is that it is adaptable to future processor performance improvements,
528: allowing you to arbitrarily increase the processing cost of checking a
529: password while still maintaining compatibility with your older password hashes.
530: Already now bcrypt hashes you would use are several orders of magnitude
531: stronger than traditional Unix DES-based or FreeBSD-style MD5-based hashes.
532: </blockquote>
533: This is just plain cool."
534: <p>
535:
536: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.512 ian 537: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6557">
538: OpenBSD 3.9: Blob-Busters Interviewed</a>, OnLAMP, April 27, 2006
539: </strong></font><br>
540: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several of the developers on improvements
541: in 3.9: the continuing absence of "blob drivers", IPMI and sensors, apmd performance
542: adjustment, Macs, rthreads, multicast, trunk, hostapd, and more.
1.513 saad 543: jsg clarifies the issue of "binary blob" drivers vs "firmware", and
1.512 ian 544: discusses the NVIDIA nForce Ethernet driver he did after NVIDIA did refuse
545: to give out documentation; they can't stop us, but they can slow us down.
546: The result: "There aren't any drivers in OpenBSD with binary-only components;
547: this is quite a contrast to pretty much everyone else out there."
548: marco comments on the IPMI work in 3.9, and adds:
549: "IPMI is a standard, but there are vendors out there
1.513 saad 550: that have reading comprehension issues...".
1.512 ian 551: A long list of other developers explain their contributions
552: and other changes that make 3.9 one of our best releases yet.
553: <p>
554:
555: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.517 mbalmer 556: [GERMAN]
557: <a href="http://www.guug.de/uptimes/index.html">
558: Stop BLOB!</a>, UpTimes, April 25, 2006
559: </strong></font><br>
560: Wilhelm Bühler gives an overview in a short article about Blobs, what they
561: are and why they are bad.
562: <p>
563:
564: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.508 ian 565: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/34/1/">
566: Using OpenBSD</a>, Software In Review, April 24, 2006
567: </strong></font><br>
568: Jem Matzan gives a brief overview of using the system.
569: Covers ports and packages, use of SMP kernel, and more.
570: Capsule summary of how our security policy affects the administrator:
571: "Because it is secure by default, you may have to do more initial
572: configuration with OpenBSD than with most other Unix and Unix-like
573: operating systems, but you'll spend a lot less time securing it --
574: maybe no time at all, if you follow the instructions in the manual
575: pages."
576: <p>
577:
578: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.519 ian 579: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/16/1749215.shtml?tid=8">
580: Using OpenBSD on the desktop</a>, NewsForge, April 21, 2006
581: </strong></font><br>
582: Considers the use of OpenBSD as a desktop operating system,
583: starting with "Secure by default" - who wants to have their desktop hacked? -
584: and continues:
585: "OpenBSD's clean code and design also provide rock-solid stability.
586: I used to have lots of problems and crashes with new versions of
587: Linux (kernel 2.6.x) and FreeBSD (versions 5.x and 6.x). The main
588: focus of OpenBSD developers is to provide programs that work ...
589: [they] prefer to improve their code rather than just
590: add more new features and end up with a bloated and unstable product."
591: Covers X, ports/packages, window managers, what is and is not supported,
592: and more. Final thought:
593: "OpenBSD's clean design and remarkable stability, along with its
594: proactive security, not only make OpenBSD a potential candidate for
595: home desktop users but also every system administrator's dream come
596: true for business environments."
597: <p>
598:
599: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.511 djm 600: [FRENCH]
1.509 djm 601: <a href="http://developpeur.journaldunet.com/itws/060419-itw-openssh-openbsd-miller.shtml">
1.511 djm 602: JDN Développeurs interviews Damien Miller</a>,
1.509 djm 603: JDN Développeurs, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
604: Interview with Damien Miller, discussing OpenSSH security, the OpenBSD
605: development approach, the problem of blobby drivers and the recent request
1.510 djm 606: for funding.
1.509 djm 607: <p>
608:
609: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.507 cloder 610: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6497">
611: Interview with developers Jonathan Gray and Damien Bergamini</a>,
612: Kerneltrap, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
613: An interview with the authors of OpenBSD's new NVIDIA Ethernet driver. OpenBSD's
614: policy forbidding binary driver blobs is discussed, and the developers give a good
615: overview of how they went about implementing the new driver.
616: <p>
617:
618: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.528 ian 619: <a href="http://www.thehostingnews.com/article2217.html">GoDaddy.com
620: Donates $10K to Open Source Development Project</a>,
621: The Hosting News, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
622: GoDaddy.com, which claims to be "the Number One registrar of domain
623: names worldwide", recently donated $10,000 to the OpenSSH project
624: because, "according to the company, OpenSSH has become a staple
625: of all free Unix and Linux operating systems in the world."
626: They use it, and their customers use it, and they recognize the
627: value of supporting an open source projects that is, as company
628: CEO Bob Parsons says, "integral to online security".
629: <br/>
1.529 ian 630: Similar articles at
1.528 ian 631: <a href="http://www.hostsearch.com/news/the_go_daddy_group_news_4366.asp">
1.529 ian 632: hostsearch.com</a> and
633: <a href="http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20060419090443506">
634: LinuxElectrons.com</a>
1.528 ian 635: <p>
636:
637: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.506 aanriot 638: [FRENCH] Principles and usage of OpenSSH,
639: <a href="http://www.gnulinuxmag.com/">Linux Magazine France</a>,
640: issue 82, April 2006, p. 28-33
641: </strong></font><br>
1.533 ray 642: A 6 page article from Alexandre Courbot focuses on OpenSSH and its
1.507 cloder 643: basics. It begins with an history of the different implementations, and
1.506 aanriot 644: is punctuated with examples.
645: Tunneling features are described, as well as
1.535 steven 646: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp</a>,
647: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent&sektion=1">ssh-agent</a>,
1.506 aanriot 648: and
1.535 steven 649: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp</a>.
1.506 aanriot 650: <p>
651:
652: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.503 ian 653: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71658">
654: Mozilla Foundation spendet für OpenBSD</a>, heise online, April 4, 2006
655: </strong></font><br>
656: Short article mentioning the donation the Mozilla Foundation made in support of
657: further OpenSSH development.
658: The article emphasizes the opportunity to wire money through the project's
659: new European account - this one donation will not meet the
660: project's funding needs for all time.
661: <p>
1.504 bernd 662: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
663: [GERMAN] "OpenBSD mit finanziellen Problemen", c't 8/06, p. 45.,
664: April 3, 2006
665: </strong></font><br>
666: A very short article about OpenBSD's financial problems. They mention that
667: this could compromise future hackathons.
668: <p>
1.503 ian 669:
670: </ul>
671:
1.487 ian 672: <h2>March, 2006</h2>
673: <ul>
1.495 ian 674: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.500 ian 675: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/theo_interview.html">
1.501 ian 676: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>, DaemonNews, March, 2006
1.500 ian 677: </strong></font><br>
678: Chris Silva conducts a lightweight but wide-ranging and fun interview with Theo
679: on topics including "Puffy",
680: the logos used by certain other BSD projects -
681: Theo quips that "I really like how they make absolutely no statement at all" -
682: what's new in 3.9,
683: and of course project expenses.
684: Theo notes that "The electric bill is about $100 USD per week".
685: <!--
686: ... must be what comes from heating your house with VAXen.
687: -->
688: The interviewer nicely ends with a link to our donations page.
689: <p>
690:
691: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 692: <a href="http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/239/1/">
693: Linux supporters fiddle while OpenSSH burns</a>, The Jem Report, March 28, 2006
694: </strong></font><br>
1.499 ian 695: This write-up focusses on OpenBSD/OpenSSH funding, and has some
696: original legwork to go with it.
1.498 ian 697: Writer Jem Matzan took the trouble to
698: contact many of the companies who charge a lot for products
699: featuring OpenSSH and yet give nothing to OpenSSH in return.
700: Companies like SCO, IBM, Apple, and Sun.
701: Sun apparently did the worst job of responding:
702: "Since the release of Solaris 10, who has been a larger open source
703: software cheerleader than Sun Microsystems?", Matzan asks. "I asked Sun
704: representatives what they would do if OpenSSH were to disappear. The only response
705: I got was that there are parts of Solaris that compete with OpenSSH,
706: and that because of this, the company would rather not comment
707: further on the issue." What the Sun teleprompter-readers don't seem to realize -
708: but Matzan does - is that
709: <a href="http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/cmd/ssh/ssh/ssh.c">
710: SunSSH <em>is</em> OpenSSH</a>.
711: Or, at least, a mangled version of it...
712: IBM, on the other hand, is still trying to formulate their response.
713: <br/>
714: <p>
715:
716: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
717: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/20/2050223.shtml?tid=8">
718: Interview: Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD</a>, NewsForge, March 28, 2006
719: </strong></font><br>
720: A wide-ranging interview with Theo about new stuff in 3.9, security, funding,
721: "blob" drivers, and more.
722: Theo notes that "We've had 10 years of nearly fanatical devotion
723: to anything which can make OpenBSD more secure. A very important
724: part of that is that we have not been afraid to completely overhaul
725: anything even if it breaks backward compatibility. Secondly, when
726: we have found a flaw in any part of the system we have assumed that
727: the same mistake was made elsewhere, and gone on a hunt to fix them
728: all. Thirdly, we have developed and incorporated a collection of
729: methods that make software flaws very difficult to attack..."
730: Ends by trying to shame the companies that use OpenSSH without contributing
731: anything back - Sun is given especial mention here - and ends with
732: the tantalizing line ".. if an OpenSSH hole is found that applies to SunSSH,
733: Sun will not be informed. Or maybe that has happened already." Hmmmm.
734: <p>
735:
736: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 737: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259254,00.htm">
738: OpenBSD 3.9 adds sensor framework</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
739: </strong></font><br>
740: It's easy to focus on our project's security, but we innovate in other areas too.
741: This article highlights the "sensors" framework added in 3.9 to provide and integrated
742: approach to handling Dell PowerEdge servers' Embedded Server Management (ESM), IPMI, and
743: in general temperature and environmental issues.
744: "There is a significant new sensor framework [in OpenBSD 3.9], which
745: supports voltage sensors, fan sensors, temperature sensors, and so
746: on," said de Raadt. "Such a feature is still missing in Linux and
747: other major operating systems." ...
748: De Raadt has already been using the sensor framework to monitor the
749: machines running in
750: <a href="images/newrack.jpg">the project's server room</a>. "I now get a call
751: on my cell phone whenever something is wrong in the machine room,"
752: <p>
753:
754: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
755: <a href="http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/other/0,39020682,39259281,00.htm">
756: Paying for free software may be the bargain of a lifetime</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
757: </strong></font><br>
758: Starts with a Theo quote from the previous article on ZDNet:
759: "A culture of entitlement is starting to damage the open source community".
760: The article argues that mega-computer-companies that use open source tend to use BSD:
761: "The open BSDs may be less famous than Linux, but they are arguably
762: superior in stability and security. This has made it popular in
763: ISPs and elsewhere - Apple, for example, adopted BSD within OS X.
764: BSD, unlike software released under the GPL, carrys no legal
765: obligations for the adopter to provide anything for the community in return."
766: Goes on to argue that these companies <em>ought</em> to be fair enough
767: to send a small bit of their money back into funding open source.
768: "In the time it takes to read this article, we calculate that Apple
769: will have easily made enough to pay-off OpenBSD's annual losses,
770: with a little left over to buy black turtlenecks for all. It's not
771: just Apple's baby - other companies owe far more to OpenBSD - but
772: in open source a little symbolism goes a long way."
773: <p>
774:
1.487 ian 775: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.494 bernd 776: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71174">
777: OpenBSD muss an den Sparstrumpf</a>, heise online, March 23, 2006
778: </strong></font><br>
1.495 ian 779: OpenBSD is touching its savings - Small news article about the project's
1.494 bernd 780: financial situation.
781: <p>
782:
783: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 784: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259042,00.htm">
785: OpenBSD Founder Makes Funding Plea</a>, ZDNet UK, March 23, 2006
786: </strong></font><br>
787: One of the first mainstream sites to pick up on Marco's article (below),
788: this one reports the funding figures on how much it really costs to
789: produce our favorite operating system.
790: "Although OpenBSD has a number of commercial users, including many
791: ISPs, de Raadt claimed that all of its donations come from individuals
792: rather than companies many of who claim the have no budget to pay
793: for the operating system. "The culture of entitlement is starting
794: to damage the open source community," he said."
1.496 ian 795: <br/>
796: Also online at
797: <a href="http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/software/stories/135760.html">ZDNet India</a>.
798: <p>
799:
800: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
801: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/03/22/OpenBSD-money.html">
802: OpenBSD in Financial Trouble</a>, Ping Wales, March 21, 2006
803: </strong></font><br>
804: David Chisnall reports that "OpenBSD is one of my favourite platforms;
805: its focus on security and ease-of-use makes it a very simple and
806: safe system to use. Unfortunately, the OpenBSD organisation is now
807: experiencing financial difficulty. For the last two years, the
808: project has made a $20,000/year loss, something which it cannot
809: sustain indefinitely."
810: Goes on to report on the growing use of OpenBSD in commercial software
811: (and hardware!), and that none of the "big guys" has given anything back.
812: Unlike most of the articles on this topic, this one is kind enough to
813: include a direct link to our orders page and recommend its readers
814: to buy a copy of the CD to help fund the project.
1.495 ian 815: <p>
816:
817: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 818: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/06/03/21/1555243.shtml">
819: OpenBSD Project in Financial Danger</a>, Slashdot, March 21, 2006
820: </strong></font><br>
821: Slashdot mentions and quotes from Marco's article (below),
822: with a reminder that
823: "The OpenBSD team is the one that also develops the OpenSSH suite,
824: used nowadays almost everywhere."
825: Ends with this quote from Marco:
826: "Without naming entities or projects by name, there are others out
827: there that are sitting on some cash. It would be wonderful if these
828: entities could share some of the wealth to keep us going."
829: <p>
830:
831: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.505 grunk 832: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060321034114">
1.495 ian 833: OpenBSD Finances</a>, OpenBSD Journal, March 21, 2006
834: </strong></font><br>
835: Marco Peereboom's article notes that
836: "OpenBSD for the past 2 years has turned a loss of approximately $20K USD" per year.
837: Hackathons - where a lot of developers get together in critical mass and churn out
838: new ideas and new code in great quantity - cost from US$10K-30K each, and we try to run
839: a few of them each year.
840: Meanwhile, compananies that use OpenBSD and companies - many of them highly profitable -
841: that incorporate OpenSSH into operating systems and even routers and other appliances
842: have not been forthcoming: no major computer company has given funding
843: to the OpenBSD project.
844: It's time for them to do so.
845: <p>
846:
847: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.497 ian 848: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/08/1646257.shtml?tid=8">
849: Software RAID on OpenBSD using RAIDframe</a>, NewsForge, March 14, 2006
850: </strong></font><br>
851: "Software RAID provides an easy way to add redundancy or speed up a system
852: without spending lots of money on a RAID adapter."
853: Manolis Tzanidakis talks us through setting up RAID using OpenBSD.
854: He describes the detailed steps, and recommends careful testing
855: before putting the system into production, including taking one disk
856: out of service and ensuring that it gets reloaded correctly.
857: Ends with a technique for monitoring clean operation on an ongoing basis.
858: <p>
859:
860: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.489 deraadt 861: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">Report on Business Television</a>
862: March 10, 5:45pm MST</strong></font><br>
1.490 deraadt 863: Theo de Raadt was interviewed by Howard Green on <b>The Business Show</b>:<br>
864: <!-- North America mirror:
865: <a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB avi file</a>
1.491 deraadt 866: -->
1.490 deraadt 867: European mirror:
868: <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/20060310/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB AVI file</a>
869: <br>
870: A longer segment is also available at <a href="http://www.robtv.ca">www.robtv.ca</a>.
1.489 deraadt 871: <p>
872:
873: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.487 ian 874: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/openbgpd.html">OpenBGPd in OpenBSD</a>
875: Daemon News, March, 2006</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 876: Check out the notes and slides from Henning Brauer's presentation at
1.487 ian 877: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0602/">NANOG 36</a>;
878: the text and questions cover everything from how and why OpenBGPd got created,
879: through configuration and tools, to integration with pf and CARP,
880: to technical issues regarding use of IPSEC to provide security for BGP packets.
881: Along the way there's considerable discussion on how the program was
882: designed to provide reliability and security.
883: <p>
884:
885: </ul>
886:
1.485 ian 887: <h2>February, 2006</h2>
888: <ul>
889: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.486 ian 890: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1859">Zero to IPSec in 4 minutes</a>
891: Security Focus, February 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
892: This article, as its lead-in says,
1.497 ian 893: "looks at how to get a fully functional IPSec VPN up and running between two fresh OpenBSD
1.486 ian 894: installations in about four minutes flat".
895: If you've shied away from setting up an IPSEC VPN because of config file complexity,
896: now is the time to reconsider.
1.497 ian 897: Dragos Ruiu shows you how the ipsecctl command (introduced to the world in OpenBSD 3.8)
1.486 ian 898: makes it really easy to set up a VPN between consenting OpenBSD machines.
899: He states that he and a colleague were able to get two machines talking over IPSEC
900: in a few minutes, and only changing a few configuration files.
901: He also comments on the relative ease of installing our favorite OS, and hopes
902: that our ipsecctl will be adopted by the other BSDs (hopefully in a compatible way)
903: to make firewall setups easier all around the network.
904: But you don't need to wait for that if you're running OpenBSD 3.8; just follow
905: the steps in the article.
906: <p>
907:
908: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.485 ian 909: <a href="http://www.networkmagazineindia.com/200602/vendorvoice02.shtml">The Worm in the Machine</a>
910: Network Magazine India, February 2006</strong></font><br>
911: Dilip Ranade elaborates on several reasons why software is drearily buggy and endlessly insecure,
912: particularly in comparison with other technologies.
913: Imagines how very bad shape the automotive industry would be in if you had to sign the
914: same disclaimer of (non-)usability that almost every commercial EULA requires of computer users.
915: Ends with "I once dreamt that all the computer users in the world
916: arose in revolt and switched to hardened OpenBSD", though he admits that there's "fat chance" of it
917: happening in real life.
918: <p>
919:
920: </ul>
921:
1.492 ian 922: <h2>January, 2006</h2>
923: <ul>
924: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
925: <a href="http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2006/01/28.html">Kevin Mitnick on
926: Coast to Coast AM Radio Show with Art Bell</a>, Jan 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
927: Art Bell interviewed Kevin Mitnick on his call-in show;
928: Paul Zacharzewski from Edmonton called to ask Mitnick for his opinion of OpenBSD.
929: If you don't want to download the whole show from coasttocoastam.com,
930: you can listen to an
1.497 ian 931: <a href="http://unworkable.org/misc/mitnick.mp3">MP3 excerpt of this call</a>
1.492 ian 932: in which Mitnick says: "Well, I actually use OpenBSD, so I do like it".
933: </ul>
934:
1.483 ian 935: <h2>December, 2005</h2>
936: <ul>
1.555 ! reyk 937:
1.483 ian 938: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.555 ! reyk 939: [GERMAN]
! 940: <a href="http://www.ini.unizh.ch/~stephan/articles/openbsd/064-069_linux-bsd-fw.pdf">
! 941: Wehrhaft abtauchen - HA-fähige Firewall mit OpenBSD/PF</a>, Linux-Magazin, December 2005
! 942: </strong></font><br>
! 943: High available firewall setups are considered as the high arts of network protection.
! 944: Due to clustering the network stays online even if one firewall fails. This article
! 945: from Stephan A. Rickauer (Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH / University Zurich) shows
! 946: how well OpenBSD/PF performs in comparison to the well-known duo Linux/Netfilter.
! 947: <p>
! 948:
! 949: </p></li><li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.484 djm 950: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/375/1">OpenSSH cutting edge</a>
951: SecurityFocus, December 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
952: Federico Biancuzzi interviews OpenSSH developer Damien Miller to discuss
953: features included in the upcoming version 4.3, public key crypto
954: protocols details, timing based attacks and anti-worm measures.
955: <p>
956:
957: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 958: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/11/21/175249.shtml?tid=92&tid=78">Creating
1.483 ian 959: Secure Wireless Access Points with OpenBSD and OpenVPN</a>
960: NewsForge, December 13, 2005</strong></font><br>
961: A cookbook approach to setting up a wireless interface as a secure Access Point
962: using OpenBSD's hostap, pf, and authpf.
963: Configuration examples are given with basic explanations and links
964: to sites with more information on most topics.
965: <p>
966:
967: </ul>
968:
969:
1.479 grunk 970: <h2>November, 2005</h2>
971: <ul>
972: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 973: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20051116145737">OpenBSD
1.482 ian 974: Goes to Venice</a>,
975: OpenBSD Journal, November 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 976: "What happens when you put a dozen developers on a little island with their
1.482 ian 977: laptops, power, and an internet connection?
978: <br/>
979: During the first week of November some OpenBSD developers met in a
980: little island in Venice's lagoon to hack on the ports system.
981: This was probably the first ports hackathon and was followed by
1.497 ian 982: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON</a>, a European conference
1.482 ian 983: fully dedicated to OpenBSD..."
984: Great coverage of the OpenBSD Porting Hackathon: people, ports, beer, ...
985: Contains a link to
986: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ven05-pvalchev/mgp00008.html">
987: pval's summary slides</a>.
988: <p>
989:
990: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.481 niallo 991: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1710223">
992: Trying out the new OpenBSD 3.8</a>,
993: NewsForge, November 11, 2005</strong></font><br>
994: This article describes the installation of OpenBSD 3.8 from a Linux user's
995: perspective, noting the simple elegance of the installer.
996: Although the installation process may be hard to get used to at first for
997: the average Linux user, the author tells us that one can learn a lot from
998: it. Furthermore, the article clears up the common misconception that working
1.497 ian 999: on an OpenBSD system is very different from working on a Linux system.
1.481 niallo 1000: In particular, the author states that on OpenBSD, <i>"virtually the entire
1001: catalog of familiar free and open source software titles is available through
1002: the packages and ports system"</i>.
1003: <p>
1004:
1005: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1006: <a href="http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3561526">
1007: Return of The BSDs</a>,
1008: internetnews.com, November 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
1009: This article mentions that with all three major BSD flavors having had
1010: a release this fall, BSD is <i>"still very much alive and kicking among
1011: all the noise and buzz created by Linux"</i>. The author talks about
1012: various new or improved features of 3.8, such as bioctl(8), hostapd(8),
1013: network interface aggregation and sasyncd(8), and there are some
1014: quotes from Bob Beck.
1015: <p>
1016:
1017: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.479 grunk 1018: <a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/051101/152/fvrlx.html">
1019: OpenBSD 3.8 improves hardware support</a>,
1020: ZDNet UK, November 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.480 ian 1021: This article reports on OpenBSD 3.8, which was released on November 1.
1022: The author gives an overview of the improvements and new
1.479 grunk 1023: features that were made with 3.8, and quotes Theo on RAID management
1024: and Linux.<br>
1025: The 3.8 release hit the news also in some other places:
1026: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1258232">Slashdot</a>
1027: and <a href="http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=12482">OSNews</a>
1028: also report about it, mostly repeating parts
1029: of the release
1030: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/ANNOUNCEMENT">ANNOUNCEMENT</a>.
1031: <p>
1032: </ul>
1033:
1.476 ian 1034: <h2>October, 2005</h2>
1035: <ul>
1036:
1037: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1038: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1375194866;fp;16;fpid;0">
1039: 'Nightmare' drove desperate user to open source</a>,
1040: Computerworld, October 24, 2005</strong></font><br>
1041: A great tale of how Mark Uemura of PricewaterhouseCoopers Japan
1042: was forced to move to OpenBSD because the alternatives were too costly
1043: and too unreliable.
1044: This quote will rattle some cages:
1045: "IT managers who want to deploy an open source solution but are
1046: worried about company politics should go ahead and do it without
1047: asking," according to Uemura, who was promoted to IT Manager of PWC Japan
1048: after saving the company seven IT-samurais' salaries.
1049: Further, "In Japan large organizations like Morgan Stanley and the
1050: Bank of America have moved all their backend systems to open source,
1051: Uemura said, because with open source you can reduce IT operating
1052: costs without any commercial lock-in."
1053: <p>
1054:
1.477 saad 1055: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1056: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6270">
1057: OpenBSD 3.8: Hackers of the Lost RAID</a>,
1058: ONLamp.com, October 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
1059: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
1060: new features in OpenBSD 3.8 including interface trunking,
1061: internationalization support, Inter-Access Point Protocol (IAPP),
1062: IPSec SA synchronization daemon, and RAID management. There is also some
1063: discussion about future plans.
1064: <p>
1065:
1.478 grunk 1066: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1067: <a href="http://securityfocus.com/columnists/361">
1068: OpenBSD's network stack</a>,
1069: SecurityFocus, October 12, 2005</strong></font><br>
1070: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about OpenBSD's
1071: network stack, including protection against ICMP attacks, and propagation
1072: of enhancements into other BSDs and into Linux.
1073: The interview also features the other protection mechanisms in the network
1074: stack, a comparison to the network stack in Linux, and the history and
1075: current status of <a href="http://www.openbgpd.org/">OpenBGPD</a>.
1076: <p>
1077:
1.476 ian 1078: </ul>
1079:
1.470 saad 1080: <h2>September, 2005</h2>
1081: <ul>
1082:
1083: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.474 niallo 1084: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/359">
1085: Security-related innovation in Unix</a>,
1086: SecurityFocus, Sept. 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1087: An article examining the mmap-based malloc() implementation to be
1088: included in OpenBSD 3.8. The author states that <i>"it will help OpenBSD
1089: users to find bugs in software more easily, which will result in better
1090: applications for everyone"</i>. He goes on to say that <i>"the more hurdles
1091: that one has to jump through for good security, the less likely people will
1092: go through the trouble. OpenBSD allows even the most inexperienced users to
1093: take advantage of these technologies without any effort"</i>.
1094: <p>
1095:
1096: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.473 aanriot 1097: <a href="http://www.miscmag.com/articles/index.php3?page=2100">
1098: [FRENCH] Champ libre : les chantiers OpenBSD</a>
1099: Misc, number 21, Sept/Oct, 2005, p. 4-14</strong></font><br>
1100: An interesting article about OpenBSD and associated projects. Saad Kadhi
1101: and Guillaume Arcas describe useful things you can do with PF and
1102: OpenSSH, and give a nice introduction to OpenNTPD and OpenCVS. If the
1103: article is focused on the presentation, you can find some interesting
1104: technical aspects people are not always acquainted to. A few examples
1105: are shown, like a basic CARP setup, or the manner to use multiplexing
1106: with OpenSSH and even how to check an OpenSSH server's keys using DNS.
1107: <p>
1108:
1109: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 1110: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/news/11306">
1111: Big debate over small packets</a>,
1112: SecurityFocus, Sept. 7, 2005</strong></font><br>
1113: Robert Lemos discusses the ICMP denial-of-service vulnerabilities found
1114: by Fernando Gont and fixed in OpenBSD. To date, OpenBSD is the only
1115: system that has implemented all of the fixes recommended in the IETF
1116: draft.
1117: <p>
1118:
1119: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.471 saad 1120: <a href="http://www.pcexpert.fr/">
1121: [FRENCH] "Quel est le meilleur système libre pour votre
1122: ordinateur ?"</a>,
1123: PC Expert, number 156, p. 42-62</strong></font><br>
1124: Philippe Roure compares 11 Linux and *BSD operating systems, including
1125: OpenBSD 3.7, on different criteria such as security, documentation and
1126: usability. OpenBSD earned a 5/5 mark (see pages 60-61) and while a mark
1127: isn't necessarily objective, the author seems to grasp the OpenBSD
1128: project, its goals, and how good is the operating system. The article
1129: includes an interview with Saad Kadhi.
1130: <p>
1131:
1132: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.470 saad 1133: <a href="http://www.samag.com/articles/2005/0509/">
1134: Monitoring PF Firewalls for Health and Performance</a>,
1135: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 9, p. 37</strong></font><br>
1136: Ryan Matteson describes several utilities that can be used to monitor the
1137: health and performance of a PF firewall. Besides pfctl, the article
1138: covers pftop, fwanalog, monitoring logs with tcpdump and graphing
1139: performance data with pfstat.
1140: <p>
1141:
1142: </ul>
1143:
1.461 grunk 1144: <h2>July, 2005</h2>
1145: <ul>
1146:
1147: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.466 deraadt 1148: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5382">
1149: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part III</a>,
1.467 grunk 1150: Kerneltrap, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.466 deraadt 1151: Jeremy Andrews writes about the recent Blind ICMP attacks discovered
1152: by Fernando Gont, and the fixes done by him and OpenBSD during the
1153: 2005 Hackathon.
1.469 ian 1154: The article goes into the technical background of the
1.467 grunk 1155: attacks, mentioning blind ICMP attacks, "hard" ICMP errors, source
1.469 ian 1156: quenching, and path MTU discovery;
1157: many helpful RFCs and technical papers are linked from the explanations.
1158: This is followed by a recap of the whole ICMP story, involving Gont's
1.467 grunk 1159: struggle with other free projects, Cisco lawyers, Microsoft people,
1160: and others.<br>
1.469 ian 1161: The article concludes that OpenBSD was the first project
1.467 grunk 1162: to take Fernando Gont's findings seriously, and also the first group to
1163: be really painless to work with.
1.466 deraadt 1164: <p>
1165:
1166: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.464 grunk 1167: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/06/security_blame/">
1168: Security meltdown: who's to blame?</a>,
1.466 deraadt 1169: The Register, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.464 grunk 1170: This article talks about various groups that are frequently blamed for
1171: poor security:
1.467 grunk 1172: individuals, ISPs, companies, crackers, security mailing lists,
1.464 grunk 1173: and last but not least: OS vendors!
1.467 grunk 1174: In the last paragraph, OpenBSD's style of <i>"dumbed-down, simplified
1.464 grunk 1175: and secure systems (with a heavily audited code base)"</i> is described
1176: as <i>"one of the smartest approaches to security"</i>.
1177: <p>
1178:
1179: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.461 grunk 1180: <a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-7-5/30084.html">
1181: Theo de Raadt on Industry and Free Software</a>,
1.466 deraadt 1182: The Epoch Times, July 5, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.463 tom 1183: In this interview, Theo talks about the inception of the OpenBSD project
1184: and its goals, as well as its impact on the commercial IT industry.
1.461 grunk 1185: He points out once more that <i>"vendors who incorporate OpenSSH have
1186: given us absolutely nothing back - not a cent"</i>.
1187: Other topics covered include the OpenBSD team, Theo's role as
1188: <i>"benevolent dictator"</i>, and the security process, which he compares
1189: to the security efforts led by other free software projects and some
1190: commercial vendors.
1191: <p>
1192:
1193: </ul>
1194:
1.454 ian 1195: <h2>June, 2005</h2>
1196: <ul>
1.468 grunk 1197:
1198: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1199: <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/ns-ttc062205.php">
1200: The true cost of computer crime</a>,
1201: EurekAlert / <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/">New Scientist Magazine</a>,
1202: issue June 25, 2005</strong></font><br>
1203: This article looks at computer crime, especially the way upcoming
1204: vulnerability reports are dealt with. It also gives a short overview of the
1.469 ian 1205: institutions involved in the process (vendors, free projects, CERTs).
1.468 grunk 1206: <br>
1207: The author mentions the work of Andy Ozment, who researches vulnerability
1208: disclosure at the University of Cambridge. Using OpenBSD as a good example
1209: of how disclosure and consequent fixing of bugs helps to strengthen security,
1210: he refutes the widely spread FUD that disclosing vulnerabilities leads to
1211: more harm than good. Ozment's methodology was to examine OpenBSD's CVS logs
1.469 ian 1212: and note when fixes were published; his research shows that
1.468 grunk 1213: <i>"the number of vulnerabilities decreases as a result of disclosure"</i>.
1214: <p>
1215:
1.454 ian 1216: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.458 niallo 1217: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0704/071.html">
1218: Free Bird</a>,
1219: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1220: <b>(Registration required)</b> A second Forbes article about OpenBSD, more
1221: focused on the project itself this time. It contains good description of the
1222: history of OpenBSD along with its prime motivations. Mention is made of the
1223: DARPA grant and the annual hackathon. Theo's motto "shut up and hack" finally
1224: becomes famous in this piece and there are some other very insightful quotes
1225: such as "All I care about is making high-quality code. If I had to work at a
1226: regular job, it would drive me nuts". This is certainly an astute and perceptive
1227: article, well worth reading. Do note that the big picture of Theo's machine
1228: room will only be available in the print edition.
1229: <p>
1.459 deraadt 1230:
1.458 niallo 1231: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.456 niallo 1232: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html">
1233: Is Linux For Losers?</a>,
1234: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1235: An interesting article, if somewhat polemic in tone, which raises questions
1236: about the quality of Linux code compared to OpenBSD. There is also some short
1237: discussion of the OpenBSD development model and focus (push for quality above
1238: everything else) including good quotes from Theo. It seems that the need for
1239: high quality software is beginning to be recognised by the mainstream.
1240: <p>
1.457 deraadt 1241:
1.456 niallo 1242: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1243: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/06/09/2132233.shtml?tid=152&tid=8&tid=2">
1.455 ian 1244: BSD cognoscenti on Linux</a>,
1245: NewsForge, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1246: NewsForge talks with Theo de Raadt and NetBSD's Christos Zoulas about the
1247: similarities and differences between the Linux kernel and the BSD
1248: operating systems. The questions asked were similar to those asked
1249: of Linus Torvalds in a <a
1.462 grunk 1250: href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/09/2128249&tid=2">previous
1.455 ian 1251: interview.</a>
1252: <p>
1253:
1254: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.454 ian 1255: <a href="http://www.tuxjournal.net/intervista3-en.html">
1256: A good morning with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1257: Tux Journal, June 2, 2005</strong></font><br>
1258: Brief but wide-ranging interview with Theo in which our leader
1259: opines about the good things in 3.7: "The list of new developments
1260: is impressive, but in my view not nearly as impressive as the small
1261: little details that continue to be fixed during each development
1262: cycle." And modestly credits all the developers for the project's
1263: continuing success, attributing it to "The passion of the developers,
1264: and the wide experience they bring into their development efforts.
1265: By amazing coincidence, our users typically have the same needs as we do."
1266: Manages to sidestep getting drawn into comparisons with Linux, e.g.,
1267: when asked if he likes it/why/why not, deftly replies
1268: "I have never used it."
1269: <p>
1270:
1271: </ul>
1272:
1.441 deraadt 1273: <h2>May, 2005</h2>
1274: <ul>
1275: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 1276: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5190">
1277: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part II</a>,
1278: Kerneltrap, May 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1279: In the second installment of Kerneltrap's Hackathon 2005 feature, Jeremy
1280: Andrews speaks with the pf developers at length about their plans for
1281: future enhancements.
1282: <p>
1283:
1284: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.450 deraadt 1285: <a href="http://www.ctv.ca">
1.448 deraadt 1286: TV coverage: OpenBSD hackathon</a>,
1287: CTV/CFCN, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1288: A TV spot done a Canadian national TV station about the Calgary
1289: hackathon this year, with 60 developers.<br>
1290: North America mirror:
1291: <ul>
1.452 marco 1292: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.449 jcs 1293: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a><br>
1294: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a>
1.448 deraadt 1295: </ul>
1296: European mirror:
1297: <ul>
1.452 marco 1298: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.448 deraadt 1299: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a>
1300: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a><br>
1301: </ul>
1302: <p>
1303:
1304: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 1305: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5186">
1306: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part I</a>,
1307: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1308: Jeremy Andrews of KernelTrap does a good job of describing what it's like
1309: to be at the Hackathon in Part I of KernelTrap's Hackathon feature. Several
1310: developers are interviewed in detail about what they are working on.
1311: <p>
1312:
1313: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 1314: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5184">
1315: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005: Day 6?</a>,
1316: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1317: Kjell Wooding describes a typical day at the Hackathon in this entertaining
1318: first-hand account.
1319: <p>
1320:
1321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.447 cloder 1322: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/05/20/1426216.shtml?tid=8">
1323: Review: OpenBSD 3.7</a>,
1324: NewsForge.com, May 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
1325: "OpenBSD is not only highly polished and easy to
1326: configure because of its documentation, it's also totally free-as-in-rights.
1327: With an obsession with security, freedom of source code, and quality of
1328: programming technique, OpenBSD 3.7 continues the legacy established by
1329: its previous releases," writes Jem Matzan in this nice, small review.
1330: <p>
1331:
1332: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.446 cloder 1333: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/05/19/openbsd_3_7.html">
1334: OpenBSD 3.7: The Wizard of OS</a>,
1335: ONLamp.com, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
1336: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
1337: new features in OpenBSD 3.7, including new wireless chipsets, new
1338: spam-fighting features, zaurus, pf improvements, propolice, and
1339: many other things. A good overview of what's new in this release,
1340: plus some interesting comments about future direction.
1341: <p>
1342:
1343: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.444 niallo 1344: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/software/openbsd-3.7-released.html">
1.445 niallo 1345: Next incarnation of OpenBSD released</a>,
1.444 niallo 1346: Ping Wales, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
1347: "OpenBSD is often unjustly overlooked as a free UNIX-like system in favour of
1348: the more-hyped Linux. While it receives a lot less publicity than other
1349: operating systems, this is not due to lack of technical merit." says David
1350: Chisnall, in what is a clear and concise overview of the new features
1351: in 3.7 and indeed the project as a whole.
1352: <p>
1353:
1354: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1355: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5114">
1.445 niallo 1356: 2005 Calgary Hackathon, KernelTrap Coverage</a>,
1.444 niallo 1357: Kerneltrap, May 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1358: A great article about the annual OpenBSD Hackathon, detailing how the event
1359: functions, work done at previous Hackathons and features which may come out
1360: of this one. Includes many relevant quotes from developers themselves, and of
1361: course information about the legendary Hackathon BBQ!
1362: <p>
1363:
1364: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.442 deraadt 1365: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9658/sam0505e/">
1366: "Failover Firewalls with OpenBSD and CARP"</a>,
1367: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 5, p. 33
1.441 deraadt 1368: </strong></font><br>
1369: Jason Dixon discusses the history of the CARP and pfsync protocols
1370: and demonstrates using them to create redundant stateful firewalls
1371: with OpenBSD.
1372: </ul>
1373:
1.436 henning 1374: <h2>April, 2005</h2>
1375: <ul>
1376: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.440 ian 1377: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39195801,00.htm">
1378: Security guru wants access to bug databases</a>,
1379: ZDNet UK, April 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
1380: Ingrid Marson reports on Cambridge professor Ross Anderson's call for analysis of
1381: software maintenance records to determine whether open source code is more secure
1382: than closed source, as we have long contended.
1383: "One of Anderson's research students, Andy Ozment, has already done
1384: research using empirical data on bugs found in the open source
1385: operating system OpenBSD between 1997 and 2000. This research found
1386: that finding and fixing bugs results in a more secure product..."
1387: Just as the OpenBSD project has been saying for years.
1388: <p>
1389: This article can also be found online as
1390: <a href="http://uk.builder.com/manage/project/0,39026588,39244080,00.htm">Academic
1391: calls for better bug tracking</a> (uk.builder.com).
1392: <p>
1393:
1394: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.439 espie 1395: [FRENCH] "PC Expert", number 152, p. 58
1396: </strong></font><br>
1397: Very short interview of Marc Espie about OpenBSD as a free OS focusing
1398: on security, part of a larger dossier Ťles secrets des hackersť.
1399: <p>
1400:
1401: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.436 henning 1402: [GERMAN] "Doppelwacht", iX 5/2005, p. 150.
1403: </strong></font><br>
1404: Stephan Tesch gives an introduction to CARP and using a pair of
1405: OpenBSD boxes as Firewalls in High Availibility scenarios. He goes
1.438 martin 1406: on explaining CARP and pfsync protocols, and does not forget to cover
1.436 henning 1407: the issues we had with IETF.
1408: </ul>
1409:
1.431 ian 1410: <h2>March, 2005</h2>
1411: <ul>
1412: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.435 reyk 1413: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/4818">
1414: OpenBSD's "Out of the Box" Wireless Support</a>,
1415: Kerneltrap, March 8, 2005</strong></font><br>
1416: This article is about the upcoming wireless support in OpenBSD 3.7 and
1417: the outcome of the work to open wireless chipsets. Jeremy Andrews
1418: talked with Theo de Raadt and the developers Damien Bergamini and Reyk
1419: Floeter who did some efforts to implement free and functional drivers.
1420: <p>
1421:
1422: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.431 ian 1423: <a href="http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/01/1109546842718.html">
1424: OpenBSD to support more wireless chipsets</a>,
1425: The Age, March 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1426: "The forthcoming 3.7 release of the OpenBSD operating system has
1427: added support for five more wireless chipsets, according to
1428: OpenBSD project founder Theo de Raadt...
1.432 ian 1429: OpenBSD 3.7 will also have have new drivers for Intel wireless
1.431 ian 1430: parts that do not work without the non-redistributable firmware,"
1431: namely the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11B
1432: and 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11A/B/G wireless network adapters.
1433: Mentions OpenBSD's activism in getting vendors to release chip specs.
1434: Referring to vendors that still refuse to play ball with open source
1435: projects, quotes Damien Miller as saying "Given the number of
1436: appliance devices that are built on free OSs, I think that the
1437: recalcitrant vendors are missing an important boat."
1438:
1439: </ul>
1440:
1.427 matthieu 1441: <h2>February, 2005</h2>
1442: <ul>
1443:
1444: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.428 david 1445: <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsaward2004.html">
1446: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
1447: FSF, February 26, 2005</strong></font><br>
1448: The Free Software Foundation awarded Theo de Raadt their "2004 Free Software
1449: Award" for his unwavering commitment to free software. Most recently he has
1450: been fighting hardware manufacturers for free redistribution of wireless card
1451: firmware.
1.434 ian 1452: Similar articles can be found online at:
1453: <ul>
1454: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1455: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=419">
1456: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
1457: Tectonic.za, March 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
1458: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1459: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article4362.phtml">
1460: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
1461: OSDir, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1462: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1463: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/De-Raadt-gets-free-software-award/2005/02/28/1109546758523.html?oneclick=true">
1464: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
1465: The Age, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1466: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1467: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/02/27/1413255.shtml?tid=99&tid=7">
1.434 ian 1468: Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award</a>,
1469: Slashdot, February 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1470: </ul>
1.427 matthieu 1471: </ul>
1472:
1.426 ian 1473: <h2>January, 2005</h2>
1474: <ul>
1475:
1476: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1477: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363731">
1478: Systrace in OpenBSD</a>,
1479: informit.com, January 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1480: This article talks about our systrace
1.462 grunk 1481: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&sektion=1">systrace(1)</a>
1.426 ian 1482: mechanism: what it is and why and
1483: how to use it, with examples.
1484: Another excerpt from the book
1485: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
1486: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
1487: <p>
1488:
1489: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1490: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363732">
1491: Overview of OpenBSD</a>,
1492: informit.com, January 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
1493: "OpenBSD is one of the most secure and well-designed operating
1494: systems available today. It has its roots in countless hours of
1495: research and development based on some of the best UNIX flavors of
1496: the past, and it boasts all the features of modern operating systems.
1497: The OS is widely considered one of the most secure general-purpose
1498: operating systems available today and it supports many key parts
1499: of the global Internet infrastructure..."
1500: This article is a sample chapter from
1501: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
1502: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
1503: <p>
1.443 ian 1504:
1505: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1506: <a href="http://www.pcplus.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=34628&subsectionid=784">
1.443 ian 1507: OpenBSD operating system</a>,
1508: PCPlus.co.uk, January, 2005</strong></font><br>
1509: Paul Grosse gives a brief tutorial on installing OpenBSD on i386 for people
1510: moving in a Windows->Linux direction, encouraging them to go a bit further for security.
1511: "While Linux out-scores Windows substantially (or completely) on [security as well as many other
1512: issues], it's still possible to use a more secure operating system on the PC... OpenBSD."
1513: Gives a brief but understandable walkthrough on the installation process, right up to
1514: downloading and installing the third-party packages, and
1515: ends with a sidebar on security.
1516: <p>
1.426 ian 1517: </ul>
1518:
1.424 ian 1519: <h2>December, 2004</h2>
1520: <ul>
1521:
1522: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.425 ian 1523: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/2329229">
1524: What are the real vulnerabilities of Linux?</a>
1525: NewsForge.com, December 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1526: Several security consultants were asked about "the real vulnerabilities of
1527: Linux". Cybersoure CEO Con Symaris seems to get it better than the rest:
1528: "One needs to approach security as a prime requirement and motivator,
1529: much as the OpenBSD team do," Zymaris said... "The Linux
1530: community mindset is different. Linux development is dynamic and
1531: races ahead towards more and broader functionality, drawing a
1532: multitude of interested parties in to make interesting extensions
1533: and adaptations at a rapid rate."
1534: <p>
1535: "In order to do security the BSD way, however, much more effort
1536: needs to be spent auditing code for holes, which is much less sexy,
1537: and attracts a different set of coders," Zymaris added.
1538: <p>
1539:
1540: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.424 ian 1541: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/281">
1542: Closed Source Hardware</a>
1543: Security Focus, December 1, 2004</strong></font><br>
1544: Symantec Threat Analyst Jason Miller analyzes the potential security threats
1545: when hardware vendors won't provide device documentation and
1546: instead provide "binary only" driver code for inclusion in open source
1547: operating systems.
1548: Miller is an open-source fan who says he uses a variety of systems, including
1549: OpenBSD on his firewall.
1550: Of the recent trend to closed-source binary drivers for open-source
1551: systems, he writes:
1552: <blockquote>
1553: The closed-source component required to support this hardware is
1554: completely independent of the associated operating system, and as
1555: such, is also independent of the engineering team, security team,
1556: auditing process, and quality control procedures normally related
1557: to the operating system...
1558: <br/>
1559: What's possibly even more disturbing is that we're talking about
1560: a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest
1561: possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a
1562: third-party vendor. This code could do anything once loaded, including
1563: leaking active WEP keys, gathering usage statistics, sniffing and
1564: disclosing traffic, and it could even introduce a subtle backdoor
1565: into the operating system itself (much the same as any device driver
1566: in a closed source operating system).
1567: <br/>
1568: [A]lthough some of these scenarios are a
1569: little far-fetched, the possibility for them to exist is there...
1570: Ultimately it becomes an issue of trust, which is a cornerstone of
1571: good security: whom do you trust, and how much do you trust them?
1572: </blockquote>
1573: <p>And he comments that trust "seems to be a one-way street": vendors
1574: demand that you trust them, but they won't trust you to know how
1575: their hardware and software operates.
1576: This lack of trust is one reason why OpenBSD has recently completed
1577: reverse-engineering the
1.462 grunk 1578: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4">
1.424 ian 1579: Atheros wireless chipset driver</a>
1580: that was originally provided as a binary insert.
1581: <p>
1582: </ul>
1583:
1.417 pvalchev 1584: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
1585: <ul>
1.421 ian 1586:
1.417 pvalchev 1587: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.422 ian 1588: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730775,00.asp">
1589: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Widens Its Scope</a>
1590: eWEEK, November 22, 2004</strong></font><br>
1591: Jason Brooks reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and likes the changes it brings,
1592: including the multi-processing support which, he notes,
1593: "will be even more important as multicore processors--which occupy space
1594: on the road maps of Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others--
1595: become more prevalent." Comments favorably on OpenNTPD
1596: ("the three-line configuration file we needed to modify ... on OpenBSD was
1597: much simpler to deal with than the equivalent configuration file on
1598: the Linux systems we've tested").
1.423 ian 1599: Overall a favorable review of some of the new stuff in 3.6.
1.422 ian 1600: <p>
1601: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 otto 1602: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
1603: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
1604: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
1605: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
1606: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
1607: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
1608: it claims to do".
1609: <p>
1610:
1611: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1612: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109994542424009&w=2">
1.421 ian 1613: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution</a>
1614: misc@, November 8, 2004</strong></font><br>
1615: Theo recounts the struggle to get Intel to provide redistributable
1616: versions of the firmware for their wireless chipsets, and their
1.423 ian 1617: ultimate refusal to allow OpenBSD to redistribute the chipsets' firmware.
1.421 ian 1618: Includes a caveat about Intel's disingenuous "FAQ", typical of many
1619: corporate FAQs that answer questions nobody actually thought
1620: to ask, and don't truthfully answer the questions you want hard answers to.
1621: At the end Theo names the names (and their emails) that need to be contacted
1622: by large numbers of end-users and developers if Intel is to change
1623: (yes, this is a hint).
1624: Of interest is that this posting to one of our mailing lists was
1625: picked up on the
1626: <a href="http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1923">Screaming
1627: Electron Forum</a> and from there reported on
1.462 grunk 1628: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/22/1249249&from=rss">
1.421 ian 1629: SlashDot</a>, where it is accompanied by a link to SlashDot's paper
1630: on effective advocacy (be firm, but also be polite).
1631: <p>
1632:
1633: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 1634: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
1635: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
1636: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
1637: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
1638: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
1639: questions about the significance and rationale behind
1640: the current efforts.
1641: <p>
1642: </ul>
1643:
1.407 henning 1644: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
1645: <ul>
1646: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 1647: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
1648: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
1649: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
1650: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
1651: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
1652: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
1653: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
1654: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
1655: <p>
1656:
1657: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 1658: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
1659: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
1660: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1661: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
1662: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
1663: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
1664: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
1665: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
1666: of the important changes in 3.6.
1.462 grunk 1667: <p>
1.415 ian 1668:
1669: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1670: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
1.414 ian 1671: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
1672: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
1673: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
1674: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
1675: overflow attacks... because
1676: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
1677: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
1678: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
1679: and propolice.
1680: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
1681: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
1682: and that's when the science falls apart."
1683: <p>
1684:
1685: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 1686: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
1687: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
1688: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
1689: Starts with the question:
1690: <blockquote>
1691: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
1692: <br/>
1693: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
1694: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
1695: <br/>
1696: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
1697: Should we believe them?"
1698: </blockquote>
1699: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
1700: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
1701: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
1702: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
1703: for your mail, web and other online activities.
1704: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
1705: <p>
1706:
1707: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 1708: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
1709: Simple Simon</a>,
1710: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
1711: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
1712: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
1713: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
1714: routing/firewall, and more.
1715: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
1716: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
1717: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
1718: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
1719: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
1720: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
1721: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
1722: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
1723: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
1724: </blockquote>
1725: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
1726: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
1727: <p>
1728:
1729: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 1730: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
1731: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 1732: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 1733: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 1734: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
1735: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
1736: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 1737: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 1738: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
1739: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
1740: in spite of it
1741: (registration required, but worth it).
1742: <p>
1743:
1744: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1745: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
1746: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
1747: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1748: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
1749: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
1750: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
1751: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 1752: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 1753: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
1754: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
1755: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
1756: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
1757: <p>
1758:
1759: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 1760: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
1761: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
1762: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
1763: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
1764: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
1765: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
1766: <blockquote>
1767: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
1768: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
1769: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
1770: a lot of analysis.
1771: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
1772: </blockquote>
1773: <p>
1774: </ul>
1775:
1.400 marco 1776: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
1777: <ul>
1778: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 1779: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
1780: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
1781: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
1782: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
1783: UNIX-like systems.
1784: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
1785: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
1786: <p>
1787: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 1788: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
1789: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 1790: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1791: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
1792: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
1793: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
1794: At one point, the article states:
1795: <blockquote>
1796: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
1797: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
1798: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
1799: </blockquote>
1800: And then quotes Theo as saying:
1801: <blockquote>
1802: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
1803: fewer are reading or auditing code."
1804: </blockquote>
1805: <p>
1806: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1807: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
1808: marks its fifth birthday</a>
1809: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1810: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
1811: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
1812: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
1813: required).
1814: <p>
1815: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 1816: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
1817: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
1818: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
1819: </strong></font><br>
1820: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
1821: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
1822: <p>
1823: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 1824: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
1825: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 1826: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 1827: </strong></font><br>
1828: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
1829: <p>
1830: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 1831: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
1832: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 1833: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 1834: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 1835: 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 1836: <p>
1837: </ul>
1838:
1.396 henning 1839: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
1840: <ul>
1841: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 1842: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
1843: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
1844: Unix Review, July, 2004
1845: </strong></font><br>
1846: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
1847: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
1.462 grunk 1848: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
1.418 ian 1849: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
1850: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
1851: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
1852: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
1853: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
1854: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
1855: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
1856: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
1857: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
1858: and even spelling/wording errors.
1859: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
1860: <p>
1861: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 1862: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 1863: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
1864: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
1865: </strong></font><br>
1866: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
1867: <p>
1868: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 1869: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 1870: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
1871: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
1872: </strong></font><br>
1873: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
1874: <p>
1875: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 1876: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
1877: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
1878: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
1879: </strong></font><br>
1880: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
1881: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
1882: <p>
1883: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 1884: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
1885: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
1886: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
1887: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
1888: <p>
1889: </ul>
1890:
1.405 jolan 1891: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
1892: <ul>
1.545 tom 1893: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 1894: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
1.466 deraadt 1895: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 5, 2004</strong></font>
1.405 jolan 1896: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
1897: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
1898: details on how funds are dispersed.
1899: <p>
1900: </ul>
1901:
1.393 david 1902: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
1903: <ul>
1904: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 1905: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
1906: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
1907: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
1908: </strong></font><br>
1909: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
1910: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
1911: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
1912: on inserting large number of SQL records.
1913: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
1914: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
1915: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
1916: <p>
1917:
1918: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 1919: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
1920: Secure by Default</a>,
1921: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
1922: </strong></font><br>
1923: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
1924: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
1925: <p>
1926:
1927: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1928: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
1929: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
1930: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
1931: </strong></font><br>
1932: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
1933: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
1934: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
1935: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
1936: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
1937: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
1938: <p>
1939:
1940: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1941: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
1942: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
1943: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
1944: </strong></font><br>
1945: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
1946: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
1947: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
1948: <p>
1949:
1950: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1951: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
1952: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
1953: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
1954: </strong></font><br>
1955: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
1956: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
1957: <p>
1958: </ul>
1959:
1.388 mcbride 1960: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
1961: <ul>
1.394 jolan 1962:
1963: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1964: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
1965: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
1966: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
1967: </strong></font><br>
1968: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
1969: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
1970: available for sparc64.
1971: <p>
1972:
1.390 beck 1973: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 1974: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
1975: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
1976: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
1977: </strong></font><br>
1978: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
1979: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
1980: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
1981: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
1982: <p>
1983:
1984: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 1985: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
1986: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 1987: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 1988: </strong></font><br>
1989: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
1990: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
1991: it does: CARP provides sharing
1992: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
1993: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
1994: detail to get you started using it.
1995: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
1996: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
1997: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
1998: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
1999: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
2000: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
2001: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 2002: <p>
1.391 ian 2003:
2004: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 2005: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 2006: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
2007: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 2008: </strong></font><br>
2009: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 2010: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 2011: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 2012: <p>
1.388 mcbride 2013:
2014: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2015: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
2016: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 2017: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 2018: </strong></font><br>
2019: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
2020: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
2021: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
2022: unencumbered by patents.
2023: <p>
2024: </ul>
2025:
1.378 henning 2026: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
2027: <ul>
1.384 jose 2028:
2029: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 2030: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
2031: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
2032: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
2033: </strong></font><br>
2034: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
2035: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
2036: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
2037: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
2038: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
2039: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
2040: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
2041: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
2042: in the page tables."
2043: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
2044: <p>
2045:
2046: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 2047: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
2048: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
2049: </strong></font><br>
2050: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
2051: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
2052: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
2053: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 2054: <p>
1.384 jose 2055:
1.378 henning 2056: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 2057: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
2058: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 2059: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
2060: </strong></font><br>
2061: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
2062: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
2063: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
2064: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
2065: (quote:
2066: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
2067: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 2068: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 2069: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
2070: the other developers for their work on the system.
2071: <p>
2072:
2073: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 2074: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
2075: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
2076: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 2077: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 2078: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
2079: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
2080: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
2081: too.
2082: <p>
2083:
2084: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 2085: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
2086: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 2087: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 2088: OpenBSD source code using
2089: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
2090: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
2091: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
2092: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
2093: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
2094: <p>
2095: </ul>
2096:
1.374 jose 2097: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
2098: <ul>
2099: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 2100: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 2101: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
2102: </strong></font><br>
2103: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
2104: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
2105: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
2106: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
2107: it."
2108: <p>
2109:
2110: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 2111: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
2112: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
2113: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
2114: </strong></font><br/>
2115: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
2116: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
2117: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
2118: <p>
2119: </ul>
2120:
1.369 ian 2121: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
2122: <ul>
2123: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 2124: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
2125: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
2126: </strong></font><br/>
2127: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
2128: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
2129: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
2130: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
2131: <p>
2132:
2133: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 2134: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
2135: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
2136: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
2137: </strong></font><br/>
2138: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
2139: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
2140: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
2141: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
2142: form factor.
2143: <p>
2144:
2145: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2146: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
2147: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
2148: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
2149: Features</a>,
2150: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
2151: </strong></font><br/>
2152: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
2153: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
2154: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
2155: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
2156: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
2157: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
2158: <p>
2159: This article can also be found online at:
2160: <ul>
2161: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 2162: <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 2163: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
2164: </strong></font>
2165: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
2166: </ul>
2167: <p>
1.392 david 2168:
1.371 jose 2169: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 2170: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
2171: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 2172: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
2173: </strong></font><br/>
2174: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
2175: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
2176: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 2177: <p>
1.371 jose 2178:
2179: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 2180: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 2181: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 2182: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 2183: </strong></font><br/>
2184: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
2185: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
2186: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
2187: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
2188: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
2189: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
2190: and its history with OpenBSD.
2191: </ul>
2192:
1.368 henning 2193: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
2194: <ul>
2195: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 2196: [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 2197: </strong></font><br>
2198: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
2199: </ul>
2200:
1.364 jose 2201: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
2202: <ul>
2203: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 2204: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
2205: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
2206: UNIX Review,
2207: July, 2003.
2208: </strong></font><br>
2209: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
2210: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
2211: who want more information.
2212: <p>
2213:
2214: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 2215: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
2216: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
2217: Government Computer News,
2218: July 22, 2003.
2219: </strong></font><br>
2220: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
2221: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
2222: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
2223: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
2224: <p>
2225:
2226: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2227: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
2228: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
2229: SANS Institute,
2230: July 22, 2003.
2231: </strong></font><br>
2232: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 2233: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 2234: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
2235: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
2236: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
2237: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
2238: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
2239: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
2240: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
2241: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
2242: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
2243: <p>
2244:
2245: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 2246: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
2247: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
2248: OnLamp.com,
2249: July 17, 2003.
2250: </strong></font><br>
2251: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
2252: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
2253: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
2254: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
2255: have been working on.
2256:
2257: </ul>
2258:
1.356 jose 2259: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 2260: <ul>
2261:
2262: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 2263: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
2264: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
2265: UNIX Review,
2266: June, 2003.
2267: </strong></font><br>
2268: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
2269: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
2270: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
2271: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
2272: <p>
2273:
2274: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 2275: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
2276: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
2277: eWeek,
2278: June 23, 2003.
2279: </strong></font><br>
2280: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
2281: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
2282: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
2283: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
2284: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
2285: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
2286: <p>
2287:
2288: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 2289: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
2290: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
2291: Software Development Online,
2292: June, 2003.
2293: </strong></font><br>
2294: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
2295: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
2296: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
2297: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
2298: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
2299: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
2300: current activities.
2301: <p>
2302:
2303: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 2304: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
2305: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 2306: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
2307: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
2308: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
2309: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 2310: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 2311: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
2312: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
2313: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 2314: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 2315: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
2316: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 2317: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 2318: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
2319: decisions.
2320: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
2321: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 2322: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 2323: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 2324: <p>
2325:
2326: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 2327: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
2328: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
2329: Page 58, eWeek,
2330: June 2, 2003.
2331: </strong></font><br>
2332: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
2333: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
2334: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
2335: been addressed in -current.
2336: <p>
2337:
1.356 jose 2338: </ul>
2339:
2340: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
2341: <ul>
2342:
1.355 jose 2343: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 2344: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
2345: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
2346: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
2347: </strong></font><br>
2348: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
2349: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
2350: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
2351: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
2352: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
2353: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
2354: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
2355: <p>
2356:
2357: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 2358: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
2359: Beyond Linux</a>,
2360: InfoWorld,
2361: May 23, 2003.
2362: </strong></font><br>
2363: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
2364: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
2365: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
2366: compared to the GPL.
2367: <p>
2368:
2369: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 2370: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
2371: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
2372: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 2373: May 17, 2003.
2374: </strong></font><br>
2375: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
2376: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
2377: the business section and half of another page inside
2378: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
2379: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
2380: in talking about the project's history and goals.
2381: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
2382: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
2383: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
2384: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 2385: <br>
2386: This article can also be found online at:
2387: <ul>
2388: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2389: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
2390: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
2391: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
2392: May 17, 2003
2393: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 2394: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
2395: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2396: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
2397: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
2398: Montreal Gazette,
2399: May 21, 2003
2400: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 2401: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 2402: <p>
1.346 ian 2403:
2404: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 2405: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 2406: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 2407: May 7, 2003.
2408: </strong></font><br>
2409: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
2410: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
2411: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
2412: <p>
2413:
2414: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 2415: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
2416: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2417: OsOpinion,
2418: May 6, 2003.
2419: </strong></font><br>
2420: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
2421: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
2422: <br>
2423: This article can also be found online at:
2424: <ul>
2425: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2426: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
2427: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2428: NewsFactor Network.
2429: </strong></font>
2430: </ul>
2431: <p>
2432:
2433: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2434: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 2435: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
2436: ITBusiness,
2437: May 2, 2003.
2438: </strong></font><br>
2439: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
2440: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
2441: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
2442: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
2443: <p>
2444:
2445: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 2446: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
2447: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
2448: InfoWorld,
2449: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 2450: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 2451: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
2452: <br>
2453: This article can also be found online at:
2454: <ul>
2455: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2456: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
2457: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
2458: IDG Singapore.
2459: </strong></font>
2460: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 2461: <p>
2462:
1.339 jose 2463: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2464: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
2465: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 2466: ZDNet,
2467: May 1, 2003.
2468: </strong></font><br>
2469: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 2470: someone using parts from previous articles.
2471: <br>
1.341 deraadt 2472: This article can also be found online at:
2473: <ul>
2474: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2475: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
2476: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
2477: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 2478: </strong></font>
2479: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2480: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
2481: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
2482: CNET News.com.
2483: </strong></font>
2484: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2485: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
2486: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
2487: ZDNet UK.
2488: </strong></font>
2489: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2490: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
2491: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
2492: Help Net Security, Croatia.
2493: </strong></font>
2494: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 2495: <p>
1.339 jose 2496:
1.341 deraadt 2497: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2498: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 2499: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
2500: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
2501: May 1, 2003.
2502: </strong></font><br>
2503: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
2504: that have been added
2505: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
2506: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
2507: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 2508: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 2509: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
2510: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
2511: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 2512: <p>
2513:
2514: </ul>
2515:
1.253 ian 2516: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
2517: <ul>
1.255 ian 2518:
1.260 ian 2519: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2520: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 2521: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
2522: TechRepublic,
2523: April 28, 2003.
2524: </strong></font><br>
2525: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
2526: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 2527: work.<br>
2528: Can also be found online at:
2529: <ul>
2530: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2531: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
2532: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
2533: ZDNet UK.
2534: </strong></font>
2535: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 2536: <p>
2537:
2538: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 2539: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
2540: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
2541: IDG,
2542: April 24, 2003.
2543: </strong></font><br>
2544: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
2545: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
2546: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
2547: Can also be found online at:
2548: <ul>
2549: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2550: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
2551: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 2552: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 2553: </strong></font>
2554: </ul>
2555: <p>
2556:
2557: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2558: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 2559: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 2560: Slate,
2561: April 24, 2003.
2562: </strong></font><br>
2563: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
2564: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
2565: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
2566: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
2567: <p>
2568:
2569: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 2570: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2571: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
2572: April 24, 2003.
2573: </strong></font><br>
2574: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
2575: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
2576: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
2577: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
2578: <p>
2579:
2580: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 2581: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
2582: April 24, 2003.
2583: </strong></font><br>
2584: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
2585: the free software community".
2586: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
2587: other articles.
2588: <p>
2589:
2590: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2591: <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 2592: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
2593: </strong></font><br>
2594: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
2595: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
2596: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
2597: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
2598: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
2599: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
2600: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 2601: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 2602: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
2603: <br/>
2604: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
2605: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
2606: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
2607: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 2608: <br>
2609: Can also be found online at:
2610: <ul>
2611: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2612: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
2613: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
2614: Common Dreams NewsCenter
2615: </strong></font>
2616: </ul>
1.324 ian 2617: <p>
2618:
2619: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2620: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
2621: Wired, April 24, 2003.
2622: </strong></font><br>
2623: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
2624: article above.
2625: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
2626: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
2627: wasting them."
1.332 ian 2628: <br>
2629: Can also be found online at:
2630: <ul>
2631: <li>
2632: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
2633: </strong></font>
2634: </ul>
1.324 ian 2635: <p>
2636:
2637: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 2638: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
2639: </strong></font><br>
2640: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
2641: <p>
2642:
2643: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 2644: <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.
2645: </strong></font><br>
2646: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
2647: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
2648: <p>
2649:
2650: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 2651: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
2652: April 23, 2003.
2653: </strong></font><br>
2654: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
2655: <p>
2656:
2657: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 2658: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 2659: April 22, 2003.
2660: </strong></font><br>
2661: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
2662: <p>
2663:
2664: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 2665: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
2666: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
2667: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 2668: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 2669: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
2670: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
2671: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
2672: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
2673: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
2674: Can also be found online at:
2675: <ul>
2676: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2677: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 2678: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
2679: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 2680: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 2681: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2682: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 2683: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
2684: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 2685: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 2686: </ul>
2687: <p>
2688:
2689: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 2690: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
2691: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 2692: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2693: </strong></font><br>
2694: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 2695: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
2696: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
2697: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
2698: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
2699: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
2700: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 2701: <p>
2702:
2703: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 2704: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
2705: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 2706: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
2707: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 2708: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
2709: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
2710: at UPenn and DARPA.
2711: <p>
2712:
2713: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 2714: [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,
2715: France
1.315 deraadt 2716: April 18, 2003.
2717: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 2718: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 2719: <p>
2720:
2721: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 2722: [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 2723: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2724: </strong></font><br>
2725: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
2726: <p>
2727:
2728: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 2729: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
2730: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
2731: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 2732: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 2733: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
2734: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
2735: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
2736: <p>
2737:
2738: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 2739: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
2740: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2741: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 2742: </strong></font><br>
2743: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
2744: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
2745: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 2746: American century.
1.267 deraadt 2747: <p>
2748:
2749: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 2750: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
2751: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2752: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 2753: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 2754: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
2755: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
2756: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
2757: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
2758: Can also be found online at:
2759: <ul>
2760: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
2761: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 2762: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 2763: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 2764: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 2765: <p>
2766:
2767: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 2768: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 2769: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 2770: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 2771: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 2772: </strong></font><br>
2773: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 2774: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
2775: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
2776: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
2777: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 2778:
2779: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2780: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
2781: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
2782: New York Times.
2783: </strong></font>(free registration required)
2784:
1.273 deraadt 2785: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2786: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 2787: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 2788: ABC News.
2789: </strong></font>
2790:
2791: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2792: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 2793: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 2794: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 2795: </strong></font>
2796:
2797: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2798: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 2799: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 2800: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 2801: </strong></font>
2802:
2803: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 2804: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
2805: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 2806: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 2807: </strong></font>
2808:
2809: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2810: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 2811: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 2812: Times Daily, AL.
2813: </strong></font>
2814:
2815: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2816: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
2817: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
2818: Boston.com, MA.
2819: </strong></font>
2820:
2821: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2822: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 2823: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 2824: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
2825: </strong></font>
2826:
2827: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 2828: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
2829: [Article was pulled]</a>
2830: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 2831: </strong></font>
2832:
2833: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2834: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
2835: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
2836: Infoshop News.
2837: </strong></font>
2838:
2839: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2840: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
2841: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2842: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
2843: </strong></font>
2844:
2845: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 2846: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
2847: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
2848: Raleigh News, NC.
2849: </strong></font>
2850:
2851: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2852: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 2853: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
2854: Napa News, CA.
2855: </strong></font>
2856:
2857: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2858: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 2859: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2860: NEPA News, PA.
2861: </strong></font>
2862:
2863: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2864: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
2865: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
2866: Wired News.
2867: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 2868: <br>
2869: <li>
1.333 deraadt 2870: <font color="#009000"><strong>
2871: [JAPANESE]
2872: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
2873: Wired News Japan</a>
2874: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 2875:
1.271 deraadt 2876: </ul>
2877: <p>
1.272 deraadt 2878: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
2879: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 2880: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
2881: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
2882: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
2883: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
2884: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
2885: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 2886: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 2887: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
2888: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
2889: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 2890: <p>
2891: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 2892:
2893: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2894: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 2895: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
2896: Indianapolis Star, IN.
2897: </strong></font>
2898:
2899: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 2900: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
2901: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2902: Miami Herald, FL.
2903: </strong></font>
2904:
2905: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 2906: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 2907: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
2908: </strong></font>
2909:
2910: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2911: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 2912: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 2913: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 2914: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 2915:
2916: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2917: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
2918: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
2919: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
2920: ABC News.
2921: </strong></font>
2922:
1.276 deraadt 2923: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2924: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 2925: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 2926: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 2927: </strong></font>
2928:
1.286 dhartmei 2929: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2930: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 2931: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2932: Wilmington Star, NC.
2933: </strong></font>
2934:
1.300 jose 2935: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2936: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
2937: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
2938: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
2939: </strong></font>
2940:
1.309 jose 2941: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2942: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
2943: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
2944: Globe Technology.
2945: </strong></font>
2946:
1.263 deraadt 2947: </ul>
1.262 beck 2948: <p>
2949:
2950: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 2951: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
2952: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2953: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 2954: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 2955: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 2956: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
2957: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
2958: <p>
2959:
2960: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 2961: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
2962: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
2963: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 2964: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 2965: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
2966: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
2967: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
2968: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
2969: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
2970: and simply restates other press reports.
2971: <p>
2972:
2973: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 2974: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
2975: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2976: OS News, April 18, 2003.
2977: </strong></font><br>
2978: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
2979: <p>
2980:
2981: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 2982: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
2983: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2984: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 2985: </strong></font><br>
2986: Another report on the DARPA funding.
2987: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
2988: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
2989: <p>
2990:
2991: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 2992: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
2993: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
2994: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
2995: April 17, 2003.
2996: </strong></font><br>
2997: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
2998: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
2999: Tech Anthems</a>
3000: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
3001: 4 so far.
3002: <p>
3003:
3004: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 3005: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
3006: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3007: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 3008: </strong></font><br>
3009: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
3010: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
3011: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
3012: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
3013: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
3014: Goes on to say:
3015: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
3016: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
3017: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
3018: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 3019: This article is also found online at:
3020: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 3021: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3022: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
3023: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
3024: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 3025: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 3026: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3027: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
3028: ZDnet</a>,
3029: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 3030: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 3031: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3032: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
3033: ZDnet Australia</a>,
3034: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 3035: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 3036: </ul>
1.260 ian 3037: <p>
1.279 deraadt 3038:
1.260 ian 3039: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3040: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 3041: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 3042: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 3043: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 3044: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 3045: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
3046: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
3047: without notice or justification.
3048: <p>
3049:
3050: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3051: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 3052: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 3053: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 3054: </strong></font><br>
3055: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
3056: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 3057: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 3058: effective today, without any warning..."
3059: <p>
1.257 ian 3060:
3061: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 3062: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
3063: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3064: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 3065: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 3066: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
3067: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
3068: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
3069: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
3070: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 3071: <p>
3072:
3073: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 3074: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
3075: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3076: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 3077: </strong></font><br>
3078: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
3079: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
3080: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
3081: quoting two of them:
3082: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
3083: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
3084: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
3085: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
3086: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
3087: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
3088: <p>
3089:
1.255 ian 3090: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3091: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
3092: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 3093: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3094: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 3095: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 3096: <p>
3097:
3098: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 3099: [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 3100: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3101: </strong></font><br>
3102: New security concepts in OpenBSD
3103: <p>
3104:
3105: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 3106: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
3107: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3108: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 3109: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 3110: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 3111: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
3112: security experts for more than three decades."
3113: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
3114: <p>
1.261 ian 3115:
1.254 drahn 3116: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 3117: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 3118: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3119: </strong></font><br>
3120: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
3121: <p>
3122:
3123: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 3124: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
3125: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
3126: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
3127: </strong></font><br>
3128: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
3129: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
3130: discussion OpenBSD's path.
3131: <p>
3132:
3133: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 3134: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
3135: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3136: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 3137: </strong></font><br>
3138: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
3139: from US DARPA.
3140: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
3141: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
3142: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
3143: the BSD license.
3144: <p>
3145: </ul>
3146:
1.251 ian 3147: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
3148: <ul>
3149:
3150: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3151: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
3152: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
3153: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
3154: </strong></font><br>
3155:
3156: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
3157: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
3158: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
3159: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
3160: <p>
3161:
3162: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 3163: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
3164: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 3165: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 3166: </strong></font><br>
3167: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
3168: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
3169: Mentions
3170: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
3171: and
3172: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
3173: programs.
3174: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 3175: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 3176: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
3177: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
3178: <p>
1.325 ian 3179: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
3180: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 3181:
3182: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3183: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
3184: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
3185: </strong></font><br>
3186: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
3187: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
3188: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
3189: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
3190: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
3191: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
3192: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
3193: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
3194: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
3195: put into service."
3196: <p>
3197: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
3198: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
3199: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
3200: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
3201: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
3202: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
3203: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
3204: computers with security features."
3205: <p>
1.329 ian 3206:
3207: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3208: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
3209: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
3210: Slate,
3211: March 3, 2003.
3212: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 3213: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 3214: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
3215: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
3216: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
3217: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
3218: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
3219: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
3220: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
3221: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
3222: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
3223: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
3224: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
3225: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
3226: of more secure open-source solutions like
3227: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
3228: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
3229: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
3230: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
3231: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
3232: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
3233: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
3234: the Beltway."
3235: <p>
1.251 ian 3236: </ul>
3237:
1.249 jufi 3238: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
3239: <ul>
3240: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3241: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
3242: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3243: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 3244: </strong></font><br>
3245: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
3246: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 3247: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 3248: <p>
1.334 ian 3249:
3250: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3251: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
3252: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
3253: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
3254: </strong></font><br>
3255: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
3256: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
3257: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
3258: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
3259: "... the hypothetical question ...
3260: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
3261: <br>
3262: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
3263: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
3264: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
3265: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
3266: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
3267: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 3268: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 3269: support network security.
3270: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
3271: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
3272: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
3273: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
3274: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
3275: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
3276: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
3277: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
3278: <br>
3279: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
3280: <p>
3281:
1.249 jufi 3282: </ul>
3283:
1.246 jufi 3284: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3285: <ul>
1.246 jufi 3286:
1.247 jufi 3287: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3288: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 3289: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3290: CNET News.com, December 4, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3291: </strong></font><br>
3292: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
3293: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
3294: <p>
3295:
1.247 jufi 3296: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3297: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
3298: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3299: Heise News-Ticker, December 4, 2002
1.301 jose 3300: </strong></font><br>
1.460 david 3301: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III CPU
1.301 jose 3302: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
3303: <p>
3304:
3305: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3306: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 3307: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3308: eWeek, December 3, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3309: </strong></font><br>
3310: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
3311: in their annual OpenHack security test.
3312: <p>
1.247 jufi 3313: </ul>
1.246 jufi 3314:
1.244 jufi 3315: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3316: <ul>
1.246 jufi 3317:
1.247 jufi 3318: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3319: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
3320: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
3321: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3322: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3323: </strong></font><br>
3324: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
3325: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
3326: md5 digests.
3327: <p>
3328:
1.247 jufi 3329: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3330: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 3331: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
3332: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3333: </strong></font><br>
3334: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
3335: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
3336: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
3337: right the first time."
3338: <p>
1.247 jufi 3339: </ul>
1.244 jufi 3340:
3341:
3342: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3343: <ul>
1.244 jufi 3344:
1.247 jufi 3345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3346: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3347: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
3348: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3349: </strong></font><br>
3350: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
3351: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
3352: part 6</a>.
3353: <p>
3354:
1.247 jufi 3355: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3356: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 3357: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
3358: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3359: O'Reilly Network, August 8, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3360: </strong></font><br>
3361: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
3362: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
3363: <p>
1.301 jose 3364:
3365: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3366: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
3367: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
3368: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
3369: </strong></font><br>
3370:
3371: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
3372: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
3373: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
3374: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
3375: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
3376: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
3377: <i>Here's the
3378: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
3379: <p>
1.247 jufi 3380: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3381:
3382: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3383: <ul>
1.242 jufi 3384:
1.247 jufi 3385: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3386: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 3387: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3388: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3389: </strong></font><br>
3390: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
3391: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
3392: <p>
3393:
1.247 jufi 3394: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3395: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3396: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3397: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 1, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3398: </strong></font><br>
3399: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
3400: this time using pf.
3401: <p>
1.247 jufi 3402: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3403:
3404: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3405: <ul>
1.242 jufi 3406:
1.247 jufi 3407: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3408: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3409: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
3410: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3411: </strong></font><br>
3412: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
3413: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
3414: their rotation.
3415: <p>
3416:
1.247 jufi 3417: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3418: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3419: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3420: O'Reilly Network, June 6, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3421: </strong></font><br>
3422: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
3423: <p>
1.247 jufi 3424: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3425:
1.239 jufi 3426: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3427: <ul>
1.239 jufi 3428:
1.247 jufi 3429: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3430: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 3431: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
3432: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3433: </strong></font><br>
3434: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
3435: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
3436: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
3437: <p>
3438:
1.247 jufi 3439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 3440: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 3441: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
3442: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 3443: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 3444: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
3445: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
3446: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 3447: <p>
1.247 jufi 3448: </ul>
1.239 jufi 3449:
1.235 lebel 3450: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3451: <ul>
1.235 lebel 3452:
1.239 jufi 3453:
1.247 jufi 3454: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 3455: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 3456: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
3457: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 3458: </strong></font><br>
3459: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
3460: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
3461: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
3462: <p>
1.301 jose 3463:
1.247 jufi 3464: </ul>
1.235 lebel 3465:
1.228 horacio 3466: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3467: <ul>
1.228 horacio 3468:
1.247 jufi 3469: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3470: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3471: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
3472: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 3473: </strong></font><br>
3474: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
3475: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
3476: <p>
3477:
1.247 jufi 3478: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 3479: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 3480: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
3481: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 3482: </strong></font><br>
3483: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
3484: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
3485: <p>
3486:
1.247 jufi 3487: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 3488: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 3489: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
3490: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 3491: </strong></font><br>
3492: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
3493: on the desktop of his parents.
3494: <p>
3495:
1.247 jufi 3496: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 3497: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 3498: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
3499: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 3500: </strong></font><br>
3501: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
3502: using IPFilter.
3503:
3504: <p>
3505:
1.247 jufi 3506: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 3507: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 3508: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
3509: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 3510: </strong></font><br>
3511: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
3512: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
3513: perspectives of the four OS.
3514: <br>
3515: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 3516: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 3517: <p>
3518:
1.247 jufi 3519: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 3520: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
3521: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 3522: software and security</a>,
3523: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 3524: </strong></font><br>
3525:
3526: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
3527: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
3528: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
3529: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
3530: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
3531: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
3532: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
3533: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
3534: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
3535: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
3536: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
3537: security conscious team beyond doubt.
3538: <p>
1.247 jufi 3539: </ul>
1.228 horacio 3540:
1.225 horacio 3541: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3542: <ul>
1.225 horacio 3543:
1.247 jufi 3544: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3545: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
3546: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 3547: Interview</a>,
3548: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 3549: </strong></font><br>
3550:
3551: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
3552: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
3553: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 3554: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 3555: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
3556: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
3557: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
3558: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
3559: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 3560: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 3561: of choice.
3562: <p>
1.247 jufi 3563: </ul>
1.225 horacio 3564:
3565: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3566: <ul>
1.225 horacio 3567:
1.247 jufi 3568: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3569: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 3570: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
3571: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 3572: </strong></font><br>
3573:
3574: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
3575: <p>
3576:
1.247 jufi 3577: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3578: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 3579: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
3580: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 3581: </strong></font><br>
3582:
3583: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
3584: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
3585: <p>
1.247 jufi 3586: </ul>
1.225 horacio 3587:
1.218 horacio 3588: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3589: <ul>
1.218 horacio 3590:
1.247 jufi 3591: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 3592: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 3593: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 3594: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 3595: </strong></font><br>
3596:
3597: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
3598: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
3599: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
3600: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
3601: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
3602: subjects. Worth a read.
3603: <p>
3604:
3605:
1.247 jufi 3606: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 3607: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 3608: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
3609: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 3610: </strong></font><br>
3611:
3612: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
3613: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
3614: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
3615: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
3616: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
3617: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
3618: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
3619: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
3620: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 3621: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 3622: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
3623: on other operating systems.<br>
3624: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
3625: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
3626: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
3627: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
3628: <p>
3629:
1.247 jufi 3630: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3631: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 3632: Operating System 2010</a>,
3633: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 3634: </strong></font><br>
3635:
3636: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
3637: covering the level of software integration into the core
3638: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
3639: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
3640: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
3641: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
3642: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
3643: <p>
3644:
1.247 jufi 3645: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 3646: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 3647: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
3648: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 3649: </strong></font><br>
3650:
3651: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
3652: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
3653: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
3654: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
3655: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
3656: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
3657: <p>
1.247 jufi 3658: </ul>
1.221 horacio 3659:
1.210 jufi 3660: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3661: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3662:
1.247 jufi 3663: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3664: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 3665: Already a Contender</a>,
3666: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 3667: </strong></font><br>
3668:
3669: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
3670: source software in response to an article which claimed that
3671: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
3672: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
3673: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
3674: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
3675: <p>
3676:
1.247 jufi 3677: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 3678: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 3679: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
3680: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 3681: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3682:
1.224 horacio 3683: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
3684: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
3685: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
3686: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
3687: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
3688: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 3689: <p>
1.247 jufi 3690: </ul>
1.215 horacio 3691:
3692: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3693: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3694:
1.247 jufi 3695: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3696: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
3697: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 3698: Division</a>,
3699: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 3700: </strong></font><br>
3701:
3702: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
3703: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 3704: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 3705: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
3706: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
3707: investment</em>.<br>
3708: The implementation details can be seen on their
3709: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
3710: <p>
3711:
1.247 jufi 3712: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3713: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
3714: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
3715: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
3716: </strong></font><br>
3717:
3718: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
3719: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
3720: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1.475 grunk 3721: laptops and T-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1.301 jose 3722: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
3723: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
3724: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
3725: <p>
3726:
3727: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3728: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 3729: Thinking about Security</a>,
3730: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 3731: </strong></font><br>
3732:
3733: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
3734: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
3735: security and says that even secured operating systems running
3736: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
3737: to time.<br>
3738: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
3739: system and just the most secure system.
3740: <p>
3741:
1.247 jufi 3742: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3743: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 3744: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
3745: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 3746: </strong></font><br>
3747:
3748: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
3749: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
3750: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
3751: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
3752: choice:<br>
3753: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
3754: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
3755: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
3756: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
3757: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
3758: network security devices and as such must be well
3759: armored."</em><br>
3760: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
3761: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
3762: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
3763: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
3764: <br>
3765: Bravo!
3766: <p>
1.247 jufi 3767: </ul>
1.210 jufi 3768:
1.207 ian 3769: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3770: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3771:
1.247 jufi 3772: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 3773: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
3774: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
3775: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 3776:
1.207 ian 3777: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
3778: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 3779: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 3780: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
3781: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
3782: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 3783: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 3784: <p>
1.247 jufi 3785: </ul>
1.207 ian 3786:
1.194 jufi 3787: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3788: <ul>
1.194 jufi 3789:
1.247 jufi 3790: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3791: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 3792: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
3793: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 3794: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3795:
1.240 miod 3796: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 3797: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
3798: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
3799: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
3800: <p>
3801:
1.247 jufi 3802: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3803: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
3804: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
3805: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
3806:
3807: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
3808: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
3809: <p>
3810:
3811: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3812: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
3813: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3814: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
3815:
3816: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
3817: <p>
3818:
3819: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3820: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 3821: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
3822: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
3823: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3824:
1.240 miod 3825: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 3826: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 3827: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
3828: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 3829: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 3830: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 3831: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
3832: <br>
1.413 deraadt 3833: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 3834: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
3835: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
3836: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
3837: <p>
3838:
1.247 jufi 3839: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 3840: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
3841: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 3842: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 3843: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3844:
1.194 jufi 3845: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
3846: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
3847: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
3848: <br>
3849: The new
3850: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 3851: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 3852: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
3853: <p>
1.247 jufi 3854: </ul>
1.194 jufi 3855:
1.190 horacio 3856: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3857: <ul>
1.190 horacio 3858:
1.247 jufi 3859: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 3860:
3861: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
3862: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
3863:
1.301 jose 3864:
1.191 jufi 3865: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
3866: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
3867:
3868: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
3869: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
3870:
1.212 horacio 3871: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
3872: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 3873: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
3874:
1.211 horacio 3875: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
3876: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 3877: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
3878:
1.247 jufi 3879: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 3880: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
3881:
1.247 jufi 3882: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 3883: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
3884:
1.212 horacio 3885: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
3886: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 3887: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
3888:
3889: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
3890: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
3891:
3892: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
3893: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
3894:
1.301 jose 3895: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
3896: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
3897:
1.191 jufi 3898: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
3899: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
3900:
3901: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 3902: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 3903:
1.192 jufi 3904: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
3905: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 3906: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 3907:
1.193 deraadt 3908: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
3909: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 3910: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 3911:
1.247 jufi 3912: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 3913: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
3914:
1.247 jufi 3915: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 3916: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
3917: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
3918:
1.213 horacio 3919: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 3920: 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 3921: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
3922:
1.190 horacio 3923: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 3924: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
3925: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
3926: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
3927: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
3928: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
3929: <p>
1.190 horacio 3930:
1.247 jufi 3931: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3932: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
3933: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
3934: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 3935: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3936:
1.195 jufi 3937: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 3938: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
3939: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
3940: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 3941: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
3942: <p>
3943:
1.247 jufi 3944: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3945: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 3946: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
3947: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
3948: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3949:
1.191 jufi 3950: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 3951: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
3952: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
3953: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
3954: <p>
3955:
3956: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3957: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
3958: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3959: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
3960:
3961: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
3962: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 3963: <p>
1.247 jufi 3964: </ul>
1.190 horacio 3965:
1.191 jufi 3966:
1.186 jufi 3967: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3968: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 3969:
1.247 jufi 3970: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 3971: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 3972: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
3973: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 3974: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 3975:
1.188 jufi 3976: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 3977: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 3978: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 3979: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
3980: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 3981: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 3982: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 3983: <p>
3984:
1.301 jose 3985: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3986: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
3987: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3988: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
3989:
3990: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
3991: <p>
1.191 jufi 3992:
1.247 jufi 3993: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 3994: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
3995: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3996: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 5, 2001
1.191 jufi 3997: </strong></font><br>
3998:
3999: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
4000: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
4001: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
4002: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
4003: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
4004: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
4005: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
4006: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
4007: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
4008: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
4009: familiar?
4010: <p>
1.247 jufi 4011: </ul>
1.191 jufi 4012:
1.178 louis 4013: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4014: <ul>
1.178 louis 4015:
1.247 jufi 4016: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 4017: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 4018: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
4019: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 4020: </strong></font><br>
4021:
4022: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
4023: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
4024: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
4025: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
4026: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
4027: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
4028: <p>
4029:
1.247 jufi 4030: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4031: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
4032: Open source under the hood</a>,
4033: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 4034: </strong></font><br>
4035:
4036: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
4037: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
4038: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
4039: <p>
4040:
1.247 jufi 4041: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4042: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
4043: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
4044: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 4045: </strong></font><br>
4046:
4047: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
4048: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
4049: <p>
1.247 jufi 4050: </ul>
1.179 louis 4051:
1.174 louis 4052:
1.175 louis 4053: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4054: <ul>
1.175 louis 4055:
1.247 jufi 4056: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4057: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
4058: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
4059: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 4060: </strong></font><br>
4061:
4062: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
4063: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
4064: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
4065: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
4066: <p>
4067:
1.247 jufi 4068: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4069: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
4070: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
4071: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 4072: </strong></font><br>
4073:
4074: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 4075: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 4076: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
4077: <p>
1.247 jufi 4078: </ul>
1.175 louis 4079:
1.176 louis 4080:
1.172 mickey 4081: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4082: <ul>
1.172 mickey 4083:
1.247 jufi 4084: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4085: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
4086: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 4087: </strong></font><br>
4088:
4089: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
4090: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
4091: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 4092: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 4093: <p>
4094:
1.247 jufi 4095: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 4096: <a
1.269 deraadt 4097: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
4098: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
4099: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 4100: </strong></font><br>
4101:
4102: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
4103: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
4104: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
4105: <p>
4106:
1.247 jufi 4107: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4108: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 4109: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
4110: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 4111: </strong></font><br>
4112:
4113: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
4114: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
4115: <p>
4116:
1.247 jufi 4117: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4118: <a
1.269 deraadt 4119: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
4120: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 4121: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
4122: </strong></font><br>
4123:
4124: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
4125: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
4126: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
4127: our own Theo de Raadt.
4128: <p>
4129:
1.247 jufi 4130: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4131: <a
1.269 deraadt 4132: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
4133: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
4134: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 4135: </strong></font><br>
4136:
4137: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
4138: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
4139: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
4140: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
4141: shut down.]
4142: <p>
4143:
1.247 jufi 4144: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4145: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 4146: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 4147: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
4148: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 4149: </strong></font><br>
4150:
4151: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
4152: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
4153: <p>
1.247 jufi 4154: </ul>
1.172 mickey 4155:
1.161 louis 4156: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4157: <ul>
1.161 louis 4158:
1.247 jufi 4159: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 4160: <a
1.269 deraadt 4161: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
4162: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
4163: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 4164: </strong></font><br>
4165:
4166: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
4167: by John Wolley
4168: <p>
4169:
1.247 jufi 4170: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 4171: <a
1.269 deraadt 4172: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
4173: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
4174: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 4175: </strong></font><br>
4176:
4177: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
4178: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
4179: OpenBSD).
4180: <p>
4181:
1.247 jufi 4182: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 4183: <a
1.247 jufi 4184: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 4185: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
4186: </strong></font><br>
4187:
4188: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
4189: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
4190: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
4191: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
4192: and hindsight.
4193: <p>
4194:
1.247 jufi 4195: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4196: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
4197: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
4198: </strong></font><br>
4199:
4200: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
4201: <p>
4202:
1.247 jufi 4203: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 4204: <a
1.168 provos 4205: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
4206: December 7, 2000
4207: </strong></font><br>
4208:
4209: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
4210: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
4211: us explain.
4212: <p>
4213:
1.247 jufi 4214: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 4215: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
4216: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 4217: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 4218: December 6, 2000
4219: </strong></font><br>
4220:
4221: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
4222: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
4223: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
4224: <p>
4225:
1.247 jufi 4226: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4227: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
4228: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
4229: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
4230: </strong></font><br>
4231:
4232: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
4233: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
4234: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
4235: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
4236: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
4237: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
4238: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
4239: <p>
4240:
4241: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 4242: <a
1.226 horacio 4243: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
4244: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 4245: </strong></font><br>
4246:
4247: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 4248: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 4249: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 4250: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
4251: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
4252: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 4253: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 4254: <p>
1.162 millert 4255:
1.247 jufi 4256: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 4257: <a
1.161 louis 4258: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
4259: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
4260: </strong></font><br>
4261:
4262: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
4263: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
4264: <p>
4265:
1.247 jufi 4266: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 4267: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
4268: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
4269: </strong></font><br>
4270:
4271: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
4272: <p>
4273:
4274:
1.247 jufi 4275: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 4276: <a
1.226 horacio 4277: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
4278: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
4279: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 4280: </strong></font><br>
4281:
4282: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
4283: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
4284: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
4285: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
4286: <p>
1.247 jufi 4287: </ul>
1.169 louis 4288:
1.158 louis 4289: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4290: <ul>
1.147 louis 4291:
1.247 jufi 4292: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4293: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
4294: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 4295: </strong></font><br>
4296:
4297: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
4298: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
4299: <p>
4300:
1.247 jufi 4301: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4302: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
4303: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
4304: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 4305: </strong></font><br>
4306: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
4307: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
4308: <p>
4309:
1.247 jufi 4310: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 4311: <a
4312: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
4313: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
4314: </strong></font><br>
4315:
4316: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
4317: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
4318: <p>
4319:
1.247 jufi 4320: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4321: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 4322: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
4323: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 4324:
1.213 horacio 4325: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 4326: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 4327: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
4328: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
4329: <p>
1.215 horacio 4330:
1.247 jufi 4331: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4332: <a
4333: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
4334: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
4335: </strong></font><br>
4336:
4337: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
4338: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
4339: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
4340: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
4341: much of the attitude too).
4342: <p>
1.161 louis 4343:
1.247 jufi 4344: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4345: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4346: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 4347: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4348:
1.157 louis 4349: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
4350: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
4351: <p>
1.247 jufi 4352: </ul>
1.157 louis 4353:
4354: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4355: <ul>
1.157 louis 4356:
1.247 jufi 4357: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4358: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4359: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 4360: </strong></font><br>
4361:
4362: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
4363: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
4364: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
4365: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
4366: <p>
4367:
1.247 jufi 4368: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 4369: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
4370: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
4371: </strong></font><br>
4372:
4373: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
4374: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
4375: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
4376: it because they love coding...
4377: <p>
4378:
1.247 jufi 4379: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 4380: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
4381: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
4382: </strong></font><br>
4383:
4384: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
4385: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
4386: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
4387: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
4388: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
4389: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
4390: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
4391: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
4392: <p>
4393:
1.247 jufi 4394: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4395: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
4396: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
4397: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 4398: </strong></font><br>
4399:
4400: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
4401: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
4402: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
4403: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
4404: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
4405: the pizza.
4406: <p>
4407:
1.247 jufi 4408: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 4409: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
4410: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
4411: </strong></font><br>
4412:
4413: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
4414: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
4415: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
4416: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
4417: problems.
4418: <p>
4419:
1.247 jufi 4420: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 4421: <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 4422: </strong></font><br>
4423:
1.222 miod 4424: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 4425: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
4426: - whether they like it or not.
4427: <p>
4428:
1.247 jufi 4429: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4430: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
4431: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 4432: </strong></font><br>
4433:
4434: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
4435: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
4436: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 4437: <p>
1.148 aaron 4438:
1.247 jufi 4439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4440: <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 4441: </strong></font><br>
4442:
4443: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
4444: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
4445: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
4446: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
4447: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
4448: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
4449: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
4450: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
4451: <p>
4452:
1.247 jufi 4453: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4454: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
4455: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 4456: </strong></font><br>
4457:
4458: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
4459: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 4460: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 4461: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
4462: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
4463: <p>
1.247 jufi 4464: </ul>
1.147 louis 4465:
1.138 louis 4466: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4467: <ul>
1.138 louis 4468:
1.247 jufi 4469: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4470: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
4471: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
4472: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
4473: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 4474: </strong></font><br>
4475:
1.227 horacio 4476: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 4477: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
4478: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
4479: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
4480: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
4481: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
4482: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
4483: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 4484: <p>
4485:
1.247 jufi 4486: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 4487: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 4488: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 4489: </strong></font><br>
4490:
4491: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
4492: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
4493: groups, and even Linux.
4494: <p>
4495:
1.247 jufi 4496: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4497: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
4498: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 4499: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
4500: </strong></font><br>
4501:
4502: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
4503: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
4504: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
4505: library after installing the OS.
4506: <p>
4507:
1.247 jufi 4508: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4509: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 4510: Sys Admin, September 2000
4511: </strong></font><br>
4512:
4513: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
4514: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
4515: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
4516: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 4517: (<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>,
4518: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
4519: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
4520: <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 4521: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 4522: out of the system.
4523: <p>
4524:
1.247 jufi 4525: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 4526: <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
4527: </strong></font><br>
4528:
4529: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 4530: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 4531: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
4532: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
4533: the IP filtering and address translation.
4534: <p>
1.301 jose 4535:
4536: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4537: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
4538: </strong></font><br>
4539:
4540: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
4541: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
4542: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
4543: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
4544: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
4545: <p>
1.247 jufi 4546: </ul>
1.200 niklas 4547:
1.131 louis 4548: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4549: <ul>
1.131 louis 4550:
1.247 jufi 4551: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4552: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
4553: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
4554: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 4555: </strong></font><br>
4556:
4557: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
4558: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
4559: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
4560: <p>
4561:
1.247 jufi 4562: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 4563: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
4564: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
4565: </strong></font><br>
4566:
4567: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
4568: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
4569: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
4570: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
4571: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
4572: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
4573: note of"</i>.
4574: <p>
4575:
1.247 jufi 4576: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 4577: <a
1.247 jufi 4578: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 4579: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
4580: </strong></font><br>
4581:
4582: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
4583: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
4584: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
4585: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
4586: <p>
4587:
1.247 jufi 4588: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 4589: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 4590: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
4591: </strong></font><br>
4592:
4593: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
4594: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
4595: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
4596: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
4597: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
4598: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
4599: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
4600: <p>
4601:
1.247 jufi 4602: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 4603: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
4604: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
4605: 2000
4606: </strong></font><br>
4607:
4608: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
4609: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
4610: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
4611: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
4612: against current industry practices.
4613: <p>
4614:
1.247 jufi 4615: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 4616: <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
4617: </strong></font><br>
4618:
4619: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
4620: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
4621: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
4622: <p>
4623:
1.247 jufi 4624: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 4625: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
4626: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
4627: </strong></font><br>
4628:
4629: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
4630: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
4631: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
4632: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
4633: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
4634: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
4635: careful code reviews, he concludes.
4636: <p>
4637:
1.247 jufi 4638: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 4639: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
4640: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
4641: </strong></font><br>
4642:
4643: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
4644: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
4645: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
4646: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
4647: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 4648: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
4649: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
4650: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 4651: <p>
1.247 jufi 4652: </ul>
1.131 louis 4653:
1.118 louis 4654: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4655: <ul>
1.118 louis 4656:
1.247 jufi 4657: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 4658: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
4659: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
4660: </strong></font><br>
4661:
4662: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
4663: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
4664: about time. The article mentions that
4665: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
4666: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
4667: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 4668: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 4669: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
4670: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 4671: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 4672: <p>
4673:
1.247 jufi 4674: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4675: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 4676: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 4677: </strong></font><br>
4678:
4679: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
4680: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
4681: of OpenSSH.
4682: <p>
4683:
1.247 jufi 4684: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4685: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4686: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 4687: </strong></font><br>
4688:
4689: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 4690: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 4691: bridging.
4692: <p>
4693:
1.247 jufi 4694: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4695: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
4696: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 4697: </strong></font><br>
4698:
1.121 deraadt 4699: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
4700: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 4701: <p>
4702:
1.247 jufi 4703: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 4704: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
4705: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
4706: </strong></font><br>
4707:
4708: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
4709: <p>
4710:
1.247 jufi 4711: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 4712: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 4713: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
4714: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 4715: </strong></font><br>
4716:
1.120 deraadt 4717: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
4718: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 4719: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
4720: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
4721: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
4722: <p>
4723:
1.247 jufi 4724: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 4725: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
4726: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
4727: </strong></font><br>
4728:
1.222 miod 4729: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 4730: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
4731: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
4732: protocols and their quirks.
4733: <p>
4734:
1.247 jufi 4735: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4736: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
4737: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 4738: </strong></font><br>
4739:
4740: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
4741: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
4742: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 4743: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 4744: <p>
4745:
1.247 jufi 4746: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 4747: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
4748: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
4749: </strong></font><br>
4750:
4751: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
4752: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
4753: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
4754: <p>
4755:
1.247 jufi 4756: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 4757: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 4758: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
4759: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 4760: </strong></font><br>
4761:
4762: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
4763: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
4764: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
4765: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
4766: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
4767: <p>
1.247 jufi 4768: </ul>
1.118 louis 4769:
1.104 louis 4770: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4771: <ul>
1.104 louis 4772:
1.247 jufi 4773: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 4774: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
4775: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
4776: </strong></font><br>
4777:
4778: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
4779: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
4780: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
4781: be a bit dry.
4782: <p>
4783:
1.247 jufi 4784: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4785: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
4786: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
4787: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
4788: </strong></font><br>
4789: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
4790: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
4791: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
4792: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
4793: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
4794: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
4795: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
4796: <p>
4797:
1.247 jufi 4798: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4799: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
4800: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 4801: 2000
1.128 louis 4802: </strong></font><br>
4803:
4804: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
4805: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
4806: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
4807: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
4808: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 4809: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 4810: <p>
4811:
1.247 jufi 4812: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4813: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
4814: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 4815: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 4816:
4817: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
4818: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
4819: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
4820: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 4821: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
4822: <p>
1.110 louis 4823:
1.247 jufi 4824: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 4825: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
4826: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
4827: </strong></font><br>
4828:
4829: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
4830: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
4831: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
4832: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
4833: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
4834: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
4835: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
4836: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
4837: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
4838: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
4839: <p>
4840:
1.247 jufi 4841: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 4842: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 4843: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 4844:
4845: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
4846: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 4847: <p>
1.108 louis 4848:
1.247 jufi 4849: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 4850: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
4851: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 4852: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 4853:
4854: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
4855: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
4856: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 4857: <p>
1.106 louis 4858:
1.247 jufi 4859: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 4860: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
4861: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 4862: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 4863:
4864: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
4865: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
4866: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
4867: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 4868: <p>
1.107 louis 4869:
1.247 jufi 4870: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4871: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
4872: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 4873: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 4874:
4875: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
4876: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 4877: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 4878: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
4879: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 4880: <p>
1.105 louis 4881:
1.247 jufi 4882: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 4883: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 4884: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 4885: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 4886:
1.113 naddy 4887: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
4888: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 4889: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 4890: <p>
1.104 louis 4891:
1.247 jufi 4892: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4893: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
4894: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
4895: </strong></font><br>
4896:
4897: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
4898: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
4899: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
4900: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
4901: <p>
1.301 jose 4902:
4903: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4904: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
4905: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
4906: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
4907:
4908: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
4909: hardware-supported cryptography.
4910: <p>
1.247 jufi 4911: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 4912:
1.85 louis 4913: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4914: <ul>
1.85 louis 4915:
1.247 jufi 4916: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4917: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 4918: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 4919: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 4920:
4921: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
4922: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
4923: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
4924: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
4925: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
4926: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
4927: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 4928: <p>
1.99 louis 4929:
1.247 jufi 4930: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4931: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 4932: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 4933: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 4934:
4935: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
4936: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
4937: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
4938: conditions.
1.113 naddy 4939: <p>
1.100 louis 4940:
1.247 jufi 4941: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4942: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 4943: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 4944: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 4945:
4946: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
4947: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
4948: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
4949: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 4950: <p>
1.95 louis 4951:
1.247 jufi 4952: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4953: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 4954: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 4955: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 4956:
4957: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
4958: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 4959: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 4960: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
4961: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 4962: <p>
1.92 louis 4963:
1.247 jufi 4964: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4965: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 4966: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 4967: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 4968:
4969: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
4970: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
4971: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
4972: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
4973: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
4974: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 4975: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 4976: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 4977: <p>
1.91 louis 4978:
1.247 jufi 4979: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4980: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
4981: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 4982: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 4983:
4984: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
4985: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
4986: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
4987: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
4988: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
4989: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
4990: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
4991: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
4992: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 4993: <p>
1.90 louis 4994:
1.247 jufi 4995: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 4996: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
4997: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
4998: </strong></font><br>
4999: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
5000: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
5001: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
5002: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
5003: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
5004: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
5005: <p>
5006:
1.247 jufi 5007: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 5008: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
5009: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 5010: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 5011:
1.113 naddy 5012: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
5013: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 5014: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
5015: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
5016: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
5017: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
5018: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 5019: <p>
1.87 louis 5020:
1.247 jufi 5021: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 5022: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
5023: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 5024: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 5025:
5026: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 5027: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 5028: <p>
1.85 louis 5029:
1.247 jufi 5030: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5031: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
5032: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
5033: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
5034:
5035: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
5036: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
5037: <p>
5038:
5039: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 5040: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
5041: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 5042: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 5043:
5044: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 5045: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 5046: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
5047: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 5048: <p>
1.89 louis 5049:
1.247 jufi 5050: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5051: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
1.85 louis 5052: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 5053: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 5054:
5055: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
5056: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
5057: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
5058: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
5059: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 5060: </ul>
1.85 louis 5061:
1.78 deraadt 5062: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5063: <ul>
1.74 louis 5064:
1.247 jufi 5065: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5066: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 5067: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 5068: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 5069: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 5070:
5071: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
5072: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
5073: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5074: <p>
1.83 louis 5075:
1.247 jufi 5076: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 5077: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
5078: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 5079: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 5080:
5081: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
5082: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 5083: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 5084: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
5085: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 5086: <p>
1.93 louis 5087:
1.247 jufi 5088: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 5089: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
5090: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
5091: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 5092: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 5093:
1.83 louis 5094: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
5095: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
5096: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
5097: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
5098: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 5099: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
5100: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
5101: <p>
1.82 aaron 5102:
1.247 jufi 5103: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5104: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 5105: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 5106: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 5107:
1.83 louis 5108: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
5109: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
5110: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 5111: <p>
1.80 louis 5112:
1.247 jufi 5113: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5114: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 5115: Bad Press</a>,
5116: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 5117: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 5118:
5119: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 5120: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 5121: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
5122: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
5123: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 5124: <p>
1.247 jufi 5125: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 5126:
5127: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5128: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 5129:
1.247 jufi 5130: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5131: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
5132: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 5133: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 5134: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 5135:
5136: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
5137: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
5138: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
5139: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 5140: <p>
1.74 louis 5141:
1.247 jufi 5142: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 5143: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
5144: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 5145: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 5146:
1.219 horacio 5147: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
5148: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
5149: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
5150: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
5151: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
5152: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
5153: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 5154: <p>
1.88 louis 5155:
1.247 jufi 5156: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 5157: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 5158: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 5159: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 5160:
5161: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
5162: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
5163: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
5164: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 5165: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 5166: <p>
1.81 louis 5167:
1.247 jufi 5168: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5169: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 5170: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 5171: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 5172:
5173: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
5174: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
5175: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
5176: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
5177: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
5178: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
5179: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 5180: <p>
1.90 louis 5181:
1.247 jufi 5182: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5183: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 5184: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 5185: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 5186:
5187: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
5188: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
5189: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 5190: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 5191: <p>
1.247 jufi 5192: </ul>
1.71 louis 5193:
1.69 deraadt 5194: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5195: <ul>
1.70 louis 5196:
1.247 jufi 5197: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5198: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
5199: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 5200: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 5201:
5202: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
5203: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
5204: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 5205: <p>
1.70 louis 5206:
1.247 jufi 5207: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5208: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
5209: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 5210: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 5211:
5212: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 5213: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 5214: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 5215: <p>
1.68 louis 5216:
1.247 jufi 5217: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5218: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
5219: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 5220: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 5221: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 5222:
1.111 jufi 5223: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
5224: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 5225: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 5226: "secure by default" installation.
5227: <p>
1.64 louis 5228:
1.247 jufi 5229: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 5230: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 5231: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 5232: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 5233:
1.113 naddy 5234: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 5235: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 5236: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 5237: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
5238: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
5239: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 5240: <p>
1.66 louis 5241:
1.247 jufi 5242: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5243: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 5244: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5245: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 5246:
5247: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 5248: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 5249: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
5250: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
5251: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 5252: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
5253: <p>
1.83 louis 5254:
1.247 jufi 5255: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5256: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 5257: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5258: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 5259:
5260: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 5261: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
5262: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 5263: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
5264: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 5265: <p>
1.64 louis 5266:
1.247 jufi 5267: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5268: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 5269: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5270: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 5271:
5272: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
5273: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 5274: <p>
1.301 jose 5275:
5276: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5277: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
5278: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
5279: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
5280: </strong></font><br>
5281:
5282: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
5283: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
5284: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
5285: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
5286: Giving way to
5287: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
5288: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
5289: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
5290: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
5291: <p>
1.247 jufi 5292: </ul>
1.65 louis 5293:
1.69 deraadt 5294: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5295: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5296:
1.247 jufi 5297: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5298: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 5299: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 5300: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 5301:
5302: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
5303: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
5304: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
5305: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 5306: <p>
1.88 louis 5307:
1.247 jufi 5308: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5309: <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 5310: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 5311:
5312: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 5313: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
5314: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 5315: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
5316: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 5317: <p>
1.60 louis 5318:
1.247 jufi 5319: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 5320: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 5321: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 5322: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 5323: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5324:
5325: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
5326: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
5327: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 5328: <p>
1.58 louis 5329:
1.247 jufi 5330: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 5331: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 5332: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 5333:
5334: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
5335: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 5336: <p>
1.53 louis 5337:
1.247 jufi 5338: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 5339: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
5340: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 5341: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 5342:
5343: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
5344: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
5345: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 5346: <p>
1.99 louis 5347:
1.247 jufi 5348: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 5349: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 5350: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5351:
5352: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
5353: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 5354: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 5355: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 5356: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 5357:
1.247 jufi 5358: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 5359: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
5360: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 5361: </strong></font><br>
5362:
5363: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
5364: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
5365: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
5366: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
5367: <p>
5368:
1.247 jufi 5369: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5370: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 5371: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 5372: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5373:
5374: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
5375: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 5376: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 5377:
1.247 jufi 5378: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 5379: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 5380: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 5381:
5382: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 5383: in
1.247 jufi 5384: <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 5385: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 5386: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 5387: <p>
1.53 louis 5388:
1.247 jufi 5389: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5390: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 5391: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
5392: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 5393: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 5394:
1.58 louis 5395: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5396: <p>
1.301 jose 5397:
5398: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5399: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
5400: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
5401: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
5402: Informacyjny, January 2000
5403: </strong></font><br>
5404:
5405: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
5406: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
5407: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
5408: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
5409: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
5410: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
5411: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
5412: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
5413: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
5414: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 5415: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
5416: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 5417: <p>
5418:
5419: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5420: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
5421: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
5422: </strong></font><br>
5423:
5424: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
5425: <p>
5426: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 5427:
1.69 deraadt 5428: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5429: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5430:
1.247 jufi 5431: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 5432: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
5433: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
5434: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 5435: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5436:
1.58 louis 5437: Kurt Seifried
5438: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
5439: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
5440: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 5441: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 5442:
1.247 jufi 5443: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5444: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 5445: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 5446: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 5447:
5448: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 5449: <p>
1.96 louis 5450:
1.247 jufi 5451: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5452: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
5453: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
5454: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
5455: </strong></font><br>
5456:
5457: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
5458: <p>
5459:
5460: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5461: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 5462: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 5463: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 5464:
5465: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
5466: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 5467: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 5468: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 5469: <p>
1.247 jufi 5470: </ul>
1.86 louis 5471:
1.69 deraadt 5472: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5473: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5474:
1.247 jufi 5475: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 5476: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
5477: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 5478: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 5479:
5480: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
5481: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 5482: <p>
1.61 louis 5483:
1.247 jufi 5484: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5485: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 5486: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
5487: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5488: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 5489:
5490: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 5491: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 5492: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
5493: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 5494: right -- or at least strives to".
5495: <p>
1.48 louis 5496:
1.247 jufi 5497: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 5498: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
5499: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5500: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 5501: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
5502: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
5503: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
5504: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 5505: <p>
1.61 louis 5506:
1.247 jufi 5507: <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 5508: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 5509: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 5510:
5511: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
5512: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
5513: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
5514: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 5515: <p>
1.46 louis 5516:
1.247 jufi 5517: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 5518: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
5519: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 5520: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5521:
5522: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
5523: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 5524: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 5525:
1.247 jufi 5526: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 5527: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
5528: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 5529: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 5530:
5531: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
5532: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
5533: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
5534: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 5535: <p>
1.247 jufi 5536: </ul>
1.70 louis 5537:
1.69 deraadt 5538: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5539: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5540:
1.247 jufi 5541: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5542: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
5543: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 5544: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 5545: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 5546:
5547: Kurt Seifried
5548: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
5549: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
5550: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 5551: <p>
1.44 philen 5552:
1.247 jufi 5553: <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 5554: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 5555: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 5556:
5557: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 5558: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 5559:
1.247 jufi 5560: <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 5561: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 5562: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 5563:
5564: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 5565: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 5566:
1.247 jufi 5567: <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 5568: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 5569: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 5570:
5571: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
5572: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
5573: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
5574: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 5575: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 5576:
1.247 jufi 5577: <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 5578: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 5579: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 5580:
1.36 louis 5581: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 5582: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 5583:
1.247 jufi 5584: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5585: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
1.39 louis 5586: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 5587: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 5588:
5589: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 5590: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 5591: </ul>
1.38 louis 5592:
1.69 deraadt 5593: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5594: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5595:
1.247 jufi 5596: <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 5597: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 5598: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 5599:
5600: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
5601: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 5602: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 5603:
1.113 naddy 5604: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 5605: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 5606: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 5607: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 5608:
5609: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
5610: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 5611: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
5612: terminal:
1.113 naddy 5613: <blockquote>
5614: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
5615: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
5616: <br>
5617: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
5618: </code>
5619: </blockquote>
5620: <p>
5621:
1.247 jufi 5622: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 5623: <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 5624: <p>
5625:
5626: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5627: <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 5628: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 5629:
5630: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
5631: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 5632: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 5633: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 5634:
1.247 jufi 5635: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5636: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
5637: Sept. 28, 1999
5638: </strong></font><br>
5639:
5640: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
5641: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
5642: translating and reprinting articles from
5643: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
5644: <p>
5645:
5646: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 5647: <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 5648: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 5649:
5650: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
5651: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
5652: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
5653: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
5654: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 5655: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 5656: <p>
1.19 louis 5657:
1.113 naddy 5658: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 5659: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 5660: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 5661:
5662: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
5663: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
5664: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 5665: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
5666: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 5667: <p>
1.16 louis 5668:
1.247 jufi 5669: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5670: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 5671: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 5672: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 5673:
1.57 louis 5674: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
5675: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
5676: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 5677: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 5678:
1.247 jufi 5679: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5680: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.466 deraadt 5681: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5682: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5683:
1.113 naddy 5684: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 5685:
1.247 jufi 5686: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 5687: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
5688: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 5689: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 5690:
1.23 louis 5691: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
5692: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
5693: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
5694: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
5695: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 5696: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 5697:
1.247 jufi 5698: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 5699: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
5700: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 5701: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 5702:
1.199 pvalchev 5703: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 5704: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
5705: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
5706: installation.
1.113 naddy 5707: <p>
1.47 louis 5708:
1.247 jufi 5709: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5710: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 5711: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 5712: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5713:
1.301 jose 5714: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
5715: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
5716: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 5717: </ul>
1.57 louis 5718:
1.69 deraadt 5719: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5720: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5721:
1.247 jufi 5722: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 5723: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 5724: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 5725: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 5726:
5727: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
5728: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 5729: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5730: <p>
1.12 louis 5731:
1.247 jufi 5732: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 5733: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 5734: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 5735: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 5736:
5737: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
5738: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 5739: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
5740: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
5741: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
5742: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
5743: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 5744: <p>
1.247 jufi 5745: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 5746:
1.69 deraadt 5747: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5748: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 5749:
1.247 jufi 5750: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 5751: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 5752: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 5753:
5754: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
5755: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
5756: available."
1.113 naddy 5757: <p>
1.301 jose 5758:
5759: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5760: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
5761: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
5762: </strong></font><br>
5763:
5764: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
5765: <p>
1.247 jufi 5766: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 5767:
1.69 deraadt 5768: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5769: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5770:
1.247 jufi 5771: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 5772: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 5773: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 5774:
5775: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
5776: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
5777: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
5778: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
5779: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 5780: <p>
1.33 louis 5781:
1.247 jufi 5782: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5783: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 5784: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 5785: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5786:
1.113 naddy 5787: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
5788: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 5789: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
5790: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
5791: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 5792: <p>
1.247 jufi 5793: </ul>
1.57 louis 5794:
1.69 deraadt 5795: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5796: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5797:
1.247 jufi 5798: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5799: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 5800: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 5801: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 5802:
5803: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
5804: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 5805: <p>
1.69 deraadt 5806:
1.247 jufi 5807: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 5808: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
5809: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
5810: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 5811: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 5812:
5813: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 5814: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 5815:
1.247 jufi 5816: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5817: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 5818:
1.113 naddy 5819: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 5820:
1.247 jufi 5821: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5822: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
1.68 louis 5823: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 5824: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 5825:
5826: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 5827: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 5828: </ul>
1.23 louis 5829:
1.69 deraadt 5830: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5831: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5832:
1.247 jufi 5833: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 5834: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 5835: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 5836:
5837: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
5838: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 5839: <p>
1.2 deraadt 5840:
1.247 jufi 5841: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5842: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 5843: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5844: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5845:
5846: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
5847: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 5848: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 5849: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 5850: </ul>
1.57 louis 5851:
1.69 deraadt 5852: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5853: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5854:
1.247 jufi 5855: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5856: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
1.15 louis 5857: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 5858: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 5859:
5860: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
5861: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
5862: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
5863: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5864: <p>
1.15 louis 5865:
1.247 jufi 5866: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 5867: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
5868: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 5869: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5870:
5871: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
5872: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
5873: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
5874: columns."
1.113 naddy 5875: <p>
1.247 jufi 5876: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5877:
1.69 deraadt 5878: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5879: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5880:
1.247 jufi 5881: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5882: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 5883: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 5884: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5885:
5886: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 5887: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 5888:
1.113 naddy 5889: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5890: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 5891: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5892:
5893: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
5894: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 5895: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 5896: </ul>
1.57 louis 5897:
1.69 deraadt 5898: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5899: <ul>
1.301 jose 5900: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5901: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
5902: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
5903: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
5904:
5905: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
5906: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
5907: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
5908: <p>
5909:
5910: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5911: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
5912: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
5913: Nov 13, 1998 and
5914: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
5915: Datateknik</a>,
5916: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
5917:
1.380 saad 5918: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 5919: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
5920: explains the licensing issues and points to our
5921: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
5922: <p>
1.69 deraadt 5923:
1.113 naddy 5924: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5925: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 5926: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 5927: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 5928:
1.222 miod 5929: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 5930: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
5931: Implementation, including a brief interview with
5932: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 5933: <p>
1.247 jufi 5934: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5935:
1.69 deraadt 5936: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5937: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5938:
1.247 jufi 5939: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5940: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 5941: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5942:
1.69 deraadt 5943: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
5944: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 5945: <p>
1.247 jufi 5946: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5947:
1.69 deraadt 5948: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5949: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 5950:
1.247 jufi 5951: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 5952: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
5953: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 5954: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5955:
1.383 jcs 5956: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 5957: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 5958: <p>
1.1 deraadt 5959:
1.247 jufi 5960: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 5961: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 5962: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
5963: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 5964: <p>
1.247 jufi 5965: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5966:
1.69 deraadt 5967: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5968: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5969:
1.247 jufi 5970: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5971: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 5972: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
5973: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 5974: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 5975: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 5976:
5977: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
5978: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
5979: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 5980: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 5981: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 5982: <p>
1.247 jufi 5983: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 5984:
5985: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5986: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5987:
1.247 jufi 5988: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 5989: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 5990: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 5991:
1.69 deraadt 5992: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
5993: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 5994: <p>
1.112 naddy 5995:
1.247 jufi 5996: </ul>
1.113 naddy 5997: <p>
1.1 deraadt 5998:
1.292 camield 5999: <hr>
1.216 horacio 6000: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 6001: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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