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1.558 ! ian 19:
1.556 matthieu 20: <h2>February, 2007</h2>
21: <ul>
22:
23: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.558 ! ian 24: <a href="http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/security/is_symantecs_vista_security_assessment_credible.html">
! 25: Is Symantec's Vista Security Assessment Credible?</a>, Microsoft Watch, February 28, 2007
! 26: </strong></font><br>
! 27: This paper is nominally about the relationship between Symantec and Microsoft,
! 28: talking about a white paper released by the former.
! 29: But it's quite revealing about Microsoft itself.
! 30: "Even Microsoft... now acknowledges that UAC (User Account Control) -
! 31: Vista's most [high-]profile security feature - is vulnerable to subversion,
! 32: particularly through social-engineering tactics."
! 33: And while the Symantec report says some good things about Vista security,
! 34: "its criticisms are brutal - for their clarity and foreboding:
! 35: <blockquote>
! 36: "Many of the technologies that Microsoft has employed to bolster
! 37: the security of Windows Vista are not new. In fact, most are
! 38: derived from the groundwork originally laid by open-source
! 39: operating systems such as Linux and OpenBSD, the PaX and
! 40: Stackguard projects, as well as numerous academic publications....
! 41: The majority of these technologies first appeared in Windows
! 42: XP SP2 [Service Pack 2]. Windows XP SP2, at the time of its
! 43: release, was also billed as the most secure version of Windows."
! 44: </blockquote>
! 45: So remember, folks, if it's about security, you may well have heard it
! 46: here first, long before Microsoft "invented" it.
! 47: <p>
! 48:
! 49:
! 50: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.557 reyk 51: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/85495">
52: OpenBSD und Linux: Kritik an Stillhalteabkommen für Treiberentwicklung</a>, heise online, February 2, 2007
53: </strong></font><br>
54:
55: Short article about OpenBSD's clear statement against device driver
56: development under non-disclosure agreement (NDA).
57: It attempts to summarize the reaction of the OpenBSD community against the
58: <a href="http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/free_drivers.html">"Free Linux Driver Development"</a>
59: under NDA offered by the linux developer Greg Kroah-Hartman which previously raised some
60: discussion.
61: Code written under NDA will make it difficult to improve it in the future
62: because somebody signed an agreement to keep the required hardware
63: documentation secret. For the OpenBSD project
64: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/goals.html">NDAs are never acceptable</a>.
65: <p>
66:
67: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.556 matthieu 68: [FRENCH]
69: <a href="http://www.ed-diamond.com/produit.php?produit=462">GNU/Linux
70: Magazine France</a> special issue number 29
71: </strong></font>
72: is dedicated to BSD systems. It features several articles about
73: OpenBSD: a pf tutorial, an article on IPSec and two articles on
74: high-availability with pf and CARP and with dynamic routing protocols
75: using OpenOSPFd and OpenBGPd.
76: <p>
77:
78: </ul>
79:
1.558 ! ian 80: <h2>January, 2007</h2>
! 81: <ul>
! 82: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
! 83: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/01/18/greylisting-with-pf.html">
! 84: Greylisting with PF</a>, O'Reilly onLAMP, January 18, 2007
! 85: </strong></font><br>
! 86: This onLAMP article by Dan Langille leads you through the process of
! 87: setting up greylisting using OpenBSSD's pf and spamd, which has now been ported
! 88: to most other BSD systems. The article is
! 89: quite detailed, but readers should ignore the FreeBSD-specific stuff
! 90: like kldload (OpenBSD uses modload, but, OpenBSD always has pf built-in
! 91: so you don't need this). Parts of the article are based on Bob Beck's
! 92: <a href="http://www.nycbsdcon.org/speakers#Beck">spamd talk at NYCBSDCon</a>.
! 93: <p>
! 94:
! 95: </ul>
! 96:
1.550 mbalmer 97: <h2>December, 2006</h2>
98: <ul>
99:
100: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.554 reyk 101: [GERMAN]
102: <a href="http://www.freie-radios.net/portal/content.php?id=15206">
103: 23C3: Interview mit Henning und Reyk von OpenBSD</a>,
104: Radio Unerhört Marbug, December 29, 2006
105: </strong></font><br>
106: Interview with Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter about OpenBSD and
107: the latest changes since 4.0 during the 23rd Chaos Communications
108: Congress in Berlin.
109: <p>
110:
111: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.552 ian 112: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/12/29/01OPsecadvise_1.html">
1.553 ian 113: New Year's Resolution No. 1: Get OpenBSD</a>,
1.552 ian 114: InfoWorld, December 29, 2006
115: </strong></font><br>
116: InfoWorld's Security Advisor columnist Roger A. Grimes says:
117: "Kick off 2007 with a new, more secure operating system."
118: Citing OpenBSD's code-auditing security process and its
119: excellent security record, Grimes advises readers to give the system a try.
120: Despite repeating some old canards about the "unfriendly" install, he
121: notes favorably that
122: "OpenBSD is shipped secure-by-default, with all non-essential services disabled.
123: You won't find NFS, mountd, or Apache [httpd] enabled by default.
124: The /bin and /sbin folders will be emptier than other Linux or BSD distros.
125: Install OpenBSD and you can be assured that it doesn't default to an insecure state."
126: <p>
127:
128: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.551 xsa 129: [GERMAN]
1.550 mbalmer 130: <a href="http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/2007/01/074/">
131: OpenBSD 4.0 - Kanadische Eröffnung</a>
132: iX magazine, December 14, 2006
133: </strong></font><br>
134: The german IT magazine iX reviews the 4.0 release of OpenBSD and also mentions
135: why we don't support blobs and why this is beneficial to our users.
136: The article gives OpenBSD a very good rating for being strictly free software,
137: its swift installation, the support for upgrades, and the large number of
138: platforms and architectures it runs on.
139: <p>
140:
141: </ul>
142:
1.546 ian 143: <h2>November, 2006</h2>
144: <ul>
145:
1.549 ian 146: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
147: <a href='http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20061110204834'>
148: Official support for OpenBSD in Parallels Workstation</a>
149: undeadly.org, November 10, 2006
150: </strong></font><br>
151: OpenBSD is now supported by Parallels, a commercial OS
152: virtualization product for Mac OS X, Linux or MS-Windows.
153: In addition to allowing users to run both OpenBSD and one of those other
154: systems concurrently, the announcement means that developers with Intel Mac
155: hardware can run multiple test systems; the Undeadly Editor adds:
156: "I've had up to six OpenBSD guest systems operating simultaneously,
157: versions 3.8 through 4.0 (and -current)."
158: This also reinforces the increasing commercial acceptance of our favorite OS.
159: <p>
160:
161: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
162: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/11/bsdtalk082-openbsd-developer-jason.html">
163: Interview with Jason Wright</a>, BSDTalk 82, November 8, 2006
164: </strong></font><br>
165: Jason talks about the OpenBSD development process (particularly for device drivers
166: and getting hardware documentation from vendors), Sun SPARC hardware (particularly
167: the Ultra III), ham radio (APRS) with OpenBSD, and more.
168: <p>
169:
170: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
171: <a href='http://news.com.com/2061-10795_3-6132572.html'>
172: OpenBSD turns 4.0</a>
173: CNET News.com, November 3, 2006
174: </strong></font><br>
175: Stephen Shankland talks about the UltraSPARC III code in 4.0, and notes that
176: OpenBSD has chosen to stay with stable GCC versions rather than moving to
177: the latest and most bloated GCC versions like Linux did.
178: Quotes Theo as saying: OpenBSD doesn't aim for particular niches,
179: but it's popular in network applications... "The biggest
180: users of OpenBSD these days are people who need our fancy networking
181: features..."
182: <p>
183:
1.546 ian 184: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
185: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/55/">
186: OpenBSD 4.0 Review</a>, Software In Review, November 1, 2006
187: </strong></font><br>
188: "In an era when the next edition of Microsoft Windows is pushed
189: back more than a year, and popular GNU/Linux distributions are
190: almost expected to have their release dates delayed by weeks or
191: months, it's nice to know that at least one operating system releases
192: on schedule without all kinds of showstopping bugs and problems.
193: OpenBSD 4.0 was released on November 1 with its usual mix of new
194: hardware support and enhanced operating system features."
195: So opens Jem Matzam's review of the new 4.0 release.
196: Jem gives a brief overview of the project, discusses
197: several of the most important new features, evaluates
198: his installation and use of the system on a desktop and a notebook.
1.548 saad 199: He also offers a few recommendations for future developments to make
1.546 ian 200: the project even better.
201: There's even a link to the Wikipedia article on
202: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humppa">
203: Humppa</a>, for those who may have heard this term but not
204: the music behind it.
205: <p>
206:
1.547 ian 207: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
208: <a href='http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1243'>
209: Big changes with OpenBSD 4.0 out today</a>
210: Tectonic, November 1, 2006
211: </strong></font><br>
212: "With his characteristic no-frills approach OpenBSD team leader
213: Theo de Raadt this morning announced the release of OpenBSD 4.0."
214: This article lists the highlights of the 4.0 release and
215: tells readers where to order CD's or download the release.
216: Quotes Theo: ""We are pleased to announce the official release of
217: OpenBSD 4.0. This is our 20th release on CD-Rom (and 21st via FTP).
218: We remain proud of OpenBSD's record of ten years with only a single
219: remote hole in the default install,"
220: <p>
221:
222: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
223: <a href='http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061101-8123.html'>
224: OpenBSD 4.0 released</a>
225: Ars Technica, November 1, 2006
226: </strong></font><br>
227: A short note about the 4.0 release; refers to the O'ReillyNet article below.
228: <p>
229:
1.546 ian 230: </ul>
231:
1.539 ian 232: <h2>October, 2006</h2>
233: <ul>
1.540 ian 234:
235: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.546 ian 236: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/6769">
237: OpenBSD 4.0: Pufferix's Adventures</a>, O'Reilly Network, October 26, 2006
238: </strong></font><br>
239: Federico Biancuzzi interviewed a dozen and a half developers and compiled
240: the results into this report, all while listening to the obligatory Humppa.
1.548 saad 241: Topics include the new blob-free wireless drivers, pf and pf/dhcp interaction,
1.546 ian 242: CARP demotion, ipsecctl replacing ipsecadm, hardware support for disk/bioctl,
243: USB serial, new installation customization features, ports/packages, RCS, X,
244: CPU support for Sparc/64, AMD/Intel "speed step" techniques, and more.
245: <p>
246:
247: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.543 mbalmer 248: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/10/bsdtalk076-openbsd-developer-marc.html">
249: Interview with Marc Balmer about OpenCON 2006</a>, bsdtalk076, October 12, 2006
250: </strong></font><br>
251: BSDTalk interviews Marc Balmer about the upcoming
252: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a> conference
253: in Venice, Italy, how he got involved in the OpenBSD project, and what he
254: uses the OpenBSD operating system for in his company. Marc Balmer tells us about
255: the history of the conference that is dedicated solely to OpenBSD, why it
256: is taking place in Venice, and why he likes OpenBSD as the platform of choice
257: for his many customers.
258: <p>
259:
260: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.544 ian 261: <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/olpc-under-fire-for-proprietary-components/">
262: OLPC under fire for proprietary components</a>, Engadget, October 11, 2006
263: </strong></font><br>
264: Hardware site Engadget is one of several that has picked up this controversy
265: from the Jem Report quoted below and on the mailing lists.
266: Quotes Theo's reaction to Jim Gettys' latest comments:
267: "Jim is obviously very clever at convincing people that children
268: need proprietary laptops (OLPC has a greater percentage of undocumented
269: hardware than a Thinkpad from 3 years ago). It is easy for Jim to
270: convince people these things because he doesn't care at all about
271: the future maintainance of drivers. I do. And I think most of you
272: also do."
273: The article ends with: "Wow, them be fightin' words -- we're pulling up ringside
274: seats already."
275: <p>
276:
277: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
278: <a href="http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/286/">
279: Making sense of the One Laptop Per Child proprietary software row</a>,
280: The Jem Report, October 9, 2006
281: </strong></font><br>
282: Jem Matzan explores this ongoing controversy by blending separate interviews with
283: Jim Gettys, Richard Stallman and our own Theo de Raadt.
284: Theo consistently and clearly defends the project's interest in
285: getting documentation on, and permission to distribute, firmware
286: so that users can use hardware they have paid for.
287: Commenting on the multiple NDA-requiring parts in the current version of
288: the OLPC laptop, Theo notes that "If I am careful in selection,
289: I can buy a laptop on the market today that has fewer proprietary parts."
290: And on the OLPC project's use of NDA-requiring parts at all:
291: "I feel they have misled the community by acting as if they are open;
292: they rode on our coat-tails. Now it turns out they are going to ship GPL'd
293: code mixed with NDA-requiring proprietary drivers in the end.
294: Even their LinuxBIOS will need to link into drivers that
295: no one can repair because the documentation is locked up..."
296: <p>
297:
298: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.541 ian 299: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20061006000709">
300: OLPC hurts wireless documentation efforts</a>, undeadly.org, October 6, 2006
301: </strong></font><br>
302: Theo de Raadt takes on the high-profile
303: <a href="http://laptop.org/">OLPC</a> (One Laptop Per Child) Project
304: for not demanding open documentation from its wireless
305: chip manufacturer, wasting a "golden moment" opportunity to use sales
306: volume in the millions to pressure chip vendors, and thus helping destroy
307: the open source movement that makes the OLPC laptops affordable -
308: truly, betraying that hand that feeds it.
1.542 deraadt 309: Also strong words from other developers such as Bob Beck.
1.541 ian 310: <p>
311:
312: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.540 ian 313: <a href="http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;639736970;fp;2;fpid;3">
314: The sad state of computer security</a>, PC World Australia, October 5, 2006
315: </strong></font><br>
316: Roger Grimes opines on how bad security really is for most of the world
317: (and it is really bad). "If you aren't using OpenBSD [or a few others],
318: then every other product in the world is pretty bad in comparison.
319: <br />
320: "Most software contains numerous vulnerabilities, holes, and
321: exploitable routines. Even our anti-malware software and devices,
322: the things that are supposed to protect us, are full of buffer
323: overflows and vulnerabilities."
324: <br />
325: And, Grimes generalizes,
326: "Sadly, the world has decided that real computer security doesn't
327: matter any more than real terrorist security. It's all lip service.
328: We are, and apparently choose to be, reactive sheep. Proactive
329: thinkers get ignored and ridiculed...
330: As more and more of the world goes online, and as more of our
331: important infrastructure goes "e-something," it would appear that
332: we are on a collision course headed toward a tipping point event.
333: And when it does, the sheep will stand aghast wondering how it
334: happened."
335: Worth reading!
336: <p>
337:
1.539 ian 338: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
339: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061002-7874.html">
340: OpenBSD creator wants users to pressure Intel on open source policies</a>,
341: Ars Technica, October 2, 2006.
342: </strong></font><br>
343: Summarizes Theo's efforts to obtain documentation and freely
344: redistributable firmware from Intel.
345: <p>
346:
347: </ul>
348:
1.536 grunk 349: <h2>September, 2006</h2>
350: <ul>
351:
352: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.537 ian 353: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/7184">
354: OpenBSD: Intel Accused Of Being "An Open Source Fraud"</a>,
355: KernelTrap, September 30, 2006.
356: </strong></font><br>
357: Mentions Damien's thread on misc summarizing Intel's policy toward
358: open-source software as being to make Intel "look like we're
359: open-source friendly by opening a project on sourceforge," and,
360: "give the open-source community the bare minimum so that they can
361: serve as our beta-testers." Damien reverse engineered the wpi(4)
362: driver source for the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Driver,
363: despite Intel's refusal to freely provide documentation.
364: Regular readers will know that OpenBSD has been at war with Intel
365: for ages over these chipsets.
366: Quotes Theo as saying:
367: "before we ask a vendor, we have already lost (ie. the
368: device does not work). When a vendor says no, we have lost nothing
369: further -- there is no way we can lose further than having the
370: device not work. We can only win, and then the device works. So
371: there is no point in giving up until we win back the rights to write
372: software for the hardware that we have purchased."
373: <p>
374:
375: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
376: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/09/bsdtalk069-interview-with-christoph.html">
377: Interview with Christoph Egger about Xen on OpenBSD</a>, bsdtalk069, September 26, 2006
378: </strong></font><br>
379: BSDTalk interviews Christoph Egger about Xen and about how Christoph make OpenBSD
380: able to run as a guest operating system on Xen.
381: Includes some background about Xen as well as what it would take to
382: make OpenBSD run as the "dom0" or master host.
383: <p>
384:
385: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.536 grunk 386: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/09/bsdtalk068-interview-with-openbsd.html">
387: Intervew with OpenBSD developer Bob Beck</a>, bsdtalk068, September 22, 2006
388: </strong></font><br>
389: Bob Beck talks about spamd and his history with OpenBSD and UNIX
390: on Will Backman's bsdtalk. Bob gives us a look into his work on
391: OpenBSD and gives us amusing stories of how spamd works and how it
392: actually fares in 'the wild.' The podcast lasts a whole 25 minutes,
393: 59 seconds so it's long enough to occupy a meal or a small commute.
394: <p>
395:
1.537 ian 396: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
397: <a href="http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060920185115">
398: OpenBSD 4.0 pre-orders are up!</a>, undeadly.org, September 20, 2006
399: </strong></font><br>
400: One of the first mentions of 4.0 going on sale for pre-ordering
401: (the official release date is November 1).
402: Also gives a list of the many good things that have been added
403: in 4.0, including many new device drivers,
404: support for UltraSPARC III on sparc64, improvements to ipsecctl,
405: a new RCS implementation, and much more.
406: Includes a reminder to "show your support for the project by
1.538 deraadt 407: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/orders.html">placing your pre-orders today!"</a>
1.537 ian 408: <p>
409:
1.536 grunk 410: </ul>
411:
1.534 ian 412: <h2>August, 2006</h2>
413: <ul>
414:
415: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.537 ian 416: <a href="http://anil.recoil.org/blog/articles/2006/08/21/openbsd-xen-boots-multi-user">
417: OpenBSD/Xen boots multi-user</a>, Recoil Blog, August 21, 2006
418: </strong></font><br>
419: Anil discusses his stewardship of a Google Summer of Code project in which
420: Christoph Egger ported and revised some NetBSD code to make OpenBSD boot up natively
421: as a guest operating system under
422: <a href="http://www.xensource.com/">Xen</a>, the open-source hypervisor
423: or "virtualization" system.
424: <p>
425:
426: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.534 ian 427: <a href="http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-openbsd.html">
428: Take a closer look at OpenBSD</a>, IBM developerWorks, August 08, 2006
429: </strong></font><br>
430: Tim McIntire holds OpenBSD up as a beacon to UNIX users, calling it
431: "quite possibly the most secure operating system on the planet."
432: He talks about how the development process leads to greater security
433: and how tools like OpenSSH make it out into the wider UNIX/Linux world.
434: "OpenBSD might not have a huge user base compared to other UNIX-like operating systems,
435: but it is installed at the most crucial points of many networks."
436: Has a somewhat brief but effective discussion of installing the software, and
437: ends with references to several papers and sites of interest.
438: <p>
439:
440: </ul>
441:
1.531 ian 442: <h2>July, 2006</h2>
443: <ul>
444: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
445: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/case-studies--profiles/founder-breathes-the-open-air/2006/07/17/1152988468274.html">
446: Founder breathes the Open air</a>, The Age, July 18, 2006
447: </strong></font><br>
448: Subtitled "Hiking in exotic climes is a brain adventure for the founder of OpenBSD", this is
449: as much about hiking and learning new symbols as about software, but our leader
450: manages to do both, and bring both into the interview.
451: The article quotes Theo as saying
452: "Another major lesson I have learnt is that most people only care
453: about things working for themselves, and thus it is very easy in a
454: group to build poorly thought-out solutions. It is very simple to
455: write small hacks and end up with unmaintainable systems in the long term."
456: Describes the hackathons as an important part of the project's process
457: and describes the funding issues as well.
458: <p>
459:
460: </ul>
461:
1.525 ian 462: <h2>June, 2006</h2>
463: <ul>
464: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.535 steven 465: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=472693&rl=1">
1.530 ian 466: Alternatives to LAMP</a>, informit.com, June 2, 2006
467: </strong></font><br>
468: While "Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP" get most of the attention,
469: there are alternatives to each that are, in some way, better.
470: David Chisnal starts this article with a look at OS alternatives,
471: and OpenBSD gets the most detailed coverage, including this:
472: "When it comes to security, OpenBSD has a well-earned reputation
473: as the operating system for the truly paranoid. The entire kernel
474: and base system, including the OpenBSD fork of Apache, undergoes a
475: constant auditing process. The OpenBSD attitude is that any bug is
476: potentially exploitable, and when a bug is found by the auditing
477: team the next step is to attempt to remove every single occurrence
478: of that category of bug. This approach leads to an incredibly secure
479: system." Also talks about our pioneering use of W^X and the
480: "incredibly powerful and easy to configure" packet filter, pf.
481: <p>
482:
483: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.527 ian 484: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article8785.phtml">
1.525 ian 485: Microsoft adopts open-source security feature</a>, OSDir.com, June 1, 2006
486: </strong></font><br>
487: Microsoft borrows one of OpenBSD's security features for Vista, stack/library randomization,
488: under the name Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR).
489: "Until now, the feature has been most prominently used in the OpenBSD Unix variant and
490: the PaX and Exec Shield security patches for Linux"
491: (despite the article's title, there is nothing open-source about Microsoft's implementation).
492: <p>
493:
1.526 ian 494: </ul>
1.525 ian 495:
1.514 ian 496: <h2>May, 2006</h2>
497: <ul>
1.524 ian 498: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
499: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6650">
500: OpenBSD: wpi, A Blob Free Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Driver</a>, KernelTrap, May 28, 2006
501: </strong></font><br>
502: Damien Bergamini wrote OpenBSD's all-open-source driver for the Intel Pro/Wireless,
503: a sharp contrast to other projects' bogus "open source" drivers that are just wrappers around
504: a "binary blob" (source code not available, sorry) provided by the vendor.
505: "His announcement came a little over two months after Intel released
506: the controversial ipw3945 driver for Linux which included
507: a binary-only daemon described as necessary for enforcing regulatory
508: limits for the radio transmitter on the wireless device."
509: Bergamini's work proves yet again that vendors don't have to obscure their products
510: to make them useful.
511: <p>
1.518 ian 512:
513: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.520 ian 514: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/openbsd/c2k6/who1">
1.523 ian 515: c2k6, Who's Who At the 2006 OpenBSD Hackathon, Part I</a>
516: and
517: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6662">Part II</a>,
1.522 ian 518: KernelTrap, May 28, 2006
1.520 ian 519: </strong></font><br>
1.521 deraadt 520: Jeremy Andrews visited our developers at the Hackathon and gives
1.523 ian 521: a brief but colorful summary of most of the team members:
1.520 ian 522: why they chose OpenBSD, how they got involved, what they do, and
523: their plans for the week.
524: <p>
525:
526: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.523 ian 527: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/05/22/OpenBSD-on-Flash.html">
528: Installing OpenBSD on Flash</a>,
529: Ping Wales, May 22, 2006
530: </strong></font><br>
531: David Chisnall shows how to set up an OpenBSD boot image for
532: Soekris or PC Engines machines that boot from flash memory.
533: <p>
534:
535: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.520 ian 536: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/eur/article.php/3603961">
537: Enterprise Unix Roundup: Whither BSD?</a>, ServerWatch, May 5, 2006
538: </strong></font><br>
539: Amy Newman and Brian Proffitt state that the BSDs are often overlooked
540: because of their limited commercial acceptance.
541: The authors call this an unfortunate oversight, because recent releases of
542: the freely available BSD flavors show significant technical improvements.
1.523 ian 543: As an example, they specifically refer to OpenBSD's sensor framework
1.520 ian 544: (introduced with 3.9).
545: Newman and Proffitt also accuse big vendors of picking the nice parts from
546: the BSDs' code and giving nothing back to the community in return.
547: <p>
548:
549: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.518 ian 550: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/35/1/">
551: OpenBSD 3.9 Review</a>, Software In Review, May 3, 2006
552: </strong></font><br>
553: Jem Matzan takes the 3.9 release out for a spin, and likes it.
554: Noting that each release consists of a lot of small changes
555: and some major improvements - and mentioning hardware support, sensors,
556: and "blob removal" - he clearly thinks the project is doing a lot of things right.
557: "Everything you get in the release is production-ready, secure by
558: default... and comes with possibly the finest integrated documentation
559: in the Unix-clone world. While you might find a poorly programmed
560: driver or other base system component in other BSDs and GNU/Linux
561: distributions, in OpenBSD if something is supported, it works."
562: <p>
563:
564: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
565: [GERMAN]
566: <a href="http://www.linux-magazin.de/Artikel/ausgabe/2006/06/news_zut/news_zut.html">
567: Mozilla greift OpenBSD unter die Arme</a>, Linux Magazin, Issue 06/06, May 2006, p. 18
568: </strong></font><br>
569: The German <a href="http://www.linux-magazin.de/">Linux Magazin</a> has a short
570: article about OpenBSD's financial situation and Marco Peerebroom's
1.535 steven 571: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060321034114">call for donations</a>
1.518 ian 572: on undeadly.org. The article further mentions how OpenSSH development
573: is connected to OpenBSD.
574: <p>
575:
1.514 ian 576: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
577: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6550">
578: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, KernelTrap, May 2, 2006
579: </strong></font><br>
580: Jeremy Andrews conducts a free-ranging interview, focused mainly on 3.9 and drivers,
581: that gives Theo a chance to explain how the big North American chip vendors'
582: business practices make it harder for open source projects,
1.515 ian 583: talk about "binary blobs" vs firmware in drivers, and more.
1.514 ian 584: There's also coverage of where the project is going up to and after 3.9 and where
1.516 steven 585: it might (or might not) go in the future, why doing things right (and
1.514 ian 586: running this project) is so important to Theo,
587: and even why he does mountain biking!
588: <p>
589:
590: </ul>
591:
1.503 ian 592: <h2>April, 2006</h2>
593: <ul>
594: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.532 ray 595: <a href="http://www.dribin.org/dave/blog/archives/2006/04/28/os_x_passwords_2/">
596: Mac OS X Password Implementation Compared to OpenBSD's</a>, April 28, 2006
597: </strong></font><br>
598: Dave Dribin analyzes Mac OS X's password implementation
599: and compares it with OpenBSD's:
600: "The king of the hill has to go to OpenBSD,
601: which uses a hash based on the Blowfish block cipher called bcrypt.
602: The benefit of [bcrypt] is best stated on their website:
603: <blockquote>
604: The most important property of bcrypt (and thus crypt_blowfish)
605: is that it is adaptable to future processor performance improvements,
606: allowing you to arbitrarily increase the processing cost of checking a
607: password while still maintaining compatibility with your older password hashes.
608: Already now bcrypt hashes you would use are several orders of magnitude
609: stronger than traditional Unix DES-based or FreeBSD-style MD5-based hashes.
610: </blockquote>
611: This is just plain cool."
612: <p>
613:
614: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.512 ian 615: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6557">
616: OpenBSD 3.9: Blob-Busters Interviewed</a>, OnLAMP, April 27, 2006
617: </strong></font><br>
618: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several of the developers on improvements
619: in 3.9: the continuing absence of "blob drivers", IPMI and sensors, apmd performance
620: adjustment, Macs, rthreads, multicast, trunk, hostapd, and more.
1.513 saad 621: jsg clarifies the issue of "binary blob" drivers vs "firmware", and
1.512 ian 622: discusses the NVIDIA nForce Ethernet driver he did after NVIDIA did refuse
623: to give out documentation; they can't stop us, but they can slow us down.
624: The result: "There aren't any drivers in OpenBSD with binary-only components;
625: this is quite a contrast to pretty much everyone else out there."
626: marco comments on the IPMI work in 3.9, and adds:
627: "IPMI is a standard, but there are vendors out there
1.513 saad 628: that have reading comprehension issues...".
1.512 ian 629: A long list of other developers explain their contributions
630: and other changes that make 3.9 one of our best releases yet.
631: <p>
632:
633: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.517 mbalmer 634: [GERMAN]
635: <a href="http://www.guug.de/uptimes/index.html">
636: Stop BLOB!</a>, UpTimes, April 25, 2006
637: </strong></font><br>
638: Wilhelm Bühler gives an overview in a short article about Blobs, what they
639: are and why they are bad.
640: <p>
641:
642: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.508 ian 643: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/34/1/">
644: Using OpenBSD</a>, Software In Review, April 24, 2006
645: </strong></font><br>
646: Jem Matzan gives a brief overview of using the system.
647: Covers ports and packages, use of SMP kernel, and more.
648: Capsule summary of how our security policy affects the administrator:
649: "Because it is secure by default, you may have to do more initial
650: configuration with OpenBSD than with most other Unix and Unix-like
651: operating systems, but you'll spend a lot less time securing it --
652: maybe no time at all, if you follow the instructions in the manual
653: pages."
654: <p>
655:
656: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.519 ian 657: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/16/1749215.shtml?tid=8">
658: Using OpenBSD on the desktop</a>, NewsForge, April 21, 2006
659: </strong></font><br>
660: Considers the use of OpenBSD as a desktop operating system,
661: starting with "Secure by default" - who wants to have their desktop hacked? -
662: and continues:
663: "OpenBSD's clean code and design also provide rock-solid stability.
664: I used to have lots of problems and crashes with new versions of
665: Linux (kernel 2.6.x) and FreeBSD (versions 5.x and 6.x). The main
666: focus of OpenBSD developers is to provide programs that work ...
667: [they] prefer to improve their code rather than just
668: add more new features and end up with a bloated and unstable product."
669: Covers X, ports/packages, window managers, what is and is not supported,
670: and more. Final thought:
671: "OpenBSD's clean design and remarkable stability, along with its
672: proactive security, not only make OpenBSD a potential candidate for
673: home desktop users but also every system administrator's dream come
674: true for business environments."
675: <p>
676:
677: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.511 djm 678: [FRENCH]
1.509 djm 679: <a href="http://developpeur.journaldunet.com/itws/060419-itw-openssh-openbsd-miller.shtml">
1.511 djm 680: JDN Développeurs interviews Damien Miller</a>,
1.509 djm 681: JDN Développeurs, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
682: Interview with Damien Miller, discussing OpenSSH security, the OpenBSD
683: development approach, the problem of blobby drivers and the recent request
1.510 djm 684: for funding.
1.509 djm 685: <p>
686:
687: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.507 cloder 688: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6497">
689: Interview with developers Jonathan Gray and Damien Bergamini</a>,
690: Kerneltrap, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
691: An interview with the authors of OpenBSD's new NVIDIA Ethernet driver. OpenBSD's
692: policy forbidding binary driver blobs is discussed, and the developers give a good
693: overview of how they went about implementing the new driver.
694: <p>
695:
696: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.528 ian 697: <a href="http://www.thehostingnews.com/article2217.html">GoDaddy.com
698: Donates $10K to Open Source Development Project</a>,
699: The Hosting News, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
700: GoDaddy.com, which claims to be "the Number One registrar of domain
701: names worldwide", recently donated $10,000 to the OpenSSH project
702: because, "according to the company, OpenSSH has become a staple
703: of all free Unix and Linux operating systems in the world."
704: They use it, and their customers use it, and they recognize the
705: value of supporting an open source projects that is, as company
706: CEO Bob Parsons says, "integral to online security".
707: <br/>
1.529 ian 708: Similar articles at
1.528 ian 709: <a href="http://www.hostsearch.com/news/the_go_daddy_group_news_4366.asp">
1.529 ian 710: hostsearch.com</a> and
711: <a href="http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20060419090443506">
712: LinuxElectrons.com</a>
1.528 ian 713: <p>
714:
715: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.506 aanriot 716: [FRENCH] Principles and usage of OpenSSH,
717: <a href="http://www.gnulinuxmag.com/">Linux Magazine France</a>,
718: issue 82, April 2006, p. 28-33
719: </strong></font><br>
1.533 ray 720: A 6 page article from Alexandre Courbot focuses on OpenSSH and its
1.507 cloder 721: basics. It begins with an history of the different implementations, and
1.506 aanriot 722: is punctuated with examples.
723: Tunneling features are described, as well as
1.535 steven 724: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp</a>,
725: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent&sektion=1">ssh-agent</a>,
1.506 aanriot 726: and
1.535 steven 727: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp</a>.
1.506 aanriot 728: <p>
729:
730: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.503 ian 731: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71658">
732: Mozilla Foundation spendet für OpenBSD</a>, heise online, April 4, 2006
733: </strong></font><br>
734: Short article mentioning the donation the Mozilla Foundation made in support of
735: further OpenSSH development.
736: The article emphasizes the opportunity to wire money through the project's
737: new European account - this one donation will not meet the
738: project's funding needs for all time.
739: <p>
1.504 bernd 740: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
741: [GERMAN] "OpenBSD mit finanziellen Problemen", c't 8/06, p. 45.,
742: April 3, 2006
743: </strong></font><br>
744: A very short article about OpenBSD's financial problems. They mention that
745: this could compromise future hackathons.
746: <p>
1.503 ian 747:
748: </ul>
749:
1.487 ian 750: <h2>March, 2006</h2>
751: <ul>
1.495 ian 752: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.500 ian 753: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/theo_interview.html">
1.501 ian 754: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>, DaemonNews, March, 2006
1.500 ian 755: </strong></font><br>
756: Chris Silva conducts a lightweight but wide-ranging and fun interview with Theo
757: on topics including "Puffy",
758: the logos used by certain other BSD projects -
759: Theo quips that "I really like how they make absolutely no statement at all" -
760: what's new in 3.9,
761: and of course project expenses.
762: Theo notes that "The electric bill is about $100 USD per week".
763: <!--
764: ... must be what comes from heating your house with VAXen.
765: -->
766: The interviewer nicely ends with a link to our donations page.
767: <p>
768:
769: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 770: <a href="http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/239/1/">
771: Linux supporters fiddle while OpenSSH burns</a>, The Jem Report, March 28, 2006
772: </strong></font><br>
1.499 ian 773: This write-up focusses on OpenBSD/OpenSSH funding, and has some
774: original legwork to go with it.
1.498 ian 775: Writer Jem Matzan took the trouble to
776: contact many of the companies who charge a lot for products
777: featuring OpenSSH and yet give nothing to OpenSSH in return.
778: Companies like SCO, IBM, Apple, and Sun.
779: Sun apparently did the worst job of responding:
780: "Since the release of Solaris 10, who has been a larger open source
781: software cheerleader than Sun Microsystems?", Matzan asks. "I asked Sun
782: representatives what they would do if OpenSSH were to disappear. The only response
783: I got was that there are parts of Solaris that compete with OpenSSH,
784: and that because of this, the company would rather not comment
785: further on the issue." What the Sun teleprompter-readers don't seem to realize -
786: but Matzan does - is that
787: <a href="http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/cmd/ssh/ssh/ssh.c">
788: SunSSH <em>is</em> OpenSSH</a>.
789: Or, at least, a mangled version of it...
790: IBM, on the other hand, is still trying to formulate their response.
791: <br/>
792: <p>
793:
794: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
795: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/20/2050223.shtml?tid=8">
796: Interview: Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD</a>, NewsForge, March 28, 2006
797: </strong></font><br>
798: A wide-ranging interview with Theo about new stuff in 3.9, security, funding,
799: "blob" drivers, and more.
800: Theo notes that "We've had 10 years of nearly fanatical devotion
801: to anything which can make OpenBSD more secure. A very important
802: part of that is that we have not been afraid to completely overhaul
803: anything even if it breaks backward compatibility. Secondly, when
804: we have found a flaw in any part of the system we have assumed that
805: the same mistake was made elsewhere, and gone on a hunt to fix them
806: all. Thirdly, we have developed and incorporated a collection of
807: methods that make software flaws very difficult to attack..."
808: Ends by trying to shame the companies that use OpenSSH without contributing
809: anything back - Sun is given especial mention here - and ends with
810: the tantalizing line ".. if an OpenSSH hole is found that applies to SunSSH,
811: Sun will not be informed. Or maybe that has happened already." Hmmmm.
812: <p>
813:
814: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 815: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259254,00.htm">
816: OpenBSD 3.9 adds sensor framework</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
817: </strong></font><br>
818: It's easy to focus on our project's security, but we innovate in other areas too.
819: This article highlights the "sensors" framework added in 3.9 to provide and integrated
820: approach to handling Dell PowerEdge servers' Embedded Server Management (ESM), IPMI, and
821: in general temperature and environmental issues.
822: "There is a significant new sensor framework [in OpenBSD 3.9], which
823: supports voltage sensors, fan sensors, temperature sensors, and so
824: on," said de Raadt. "Such a feature is still missing in Linux and
825: other major operating systems." ...
826: De Raadt has already been using the sensor framework to monitor the
827: machines running in
828: <a href="images/newrack.jpg">the project's server room</a>. "I now get a call
829: on my cell phone whenever something is wrong in the machine room,"
830: <p>
831:
832: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
833: <a href="http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/other/0,39020682,39259281,00.htm">
834: Paying for free software may be the bargain of a lifetime</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
835: </strong></font><br>
836: Starts with a Theo quote from the previous article on ZDNet:
837: "A culture of entitlement is starting to damage the open source community".
838: The article argues that mega-computer-companies that use open source tend to use BSD:
839: "The open BSDs may be less famous than Linux, but they are arguably
840: superior in stability and security. This has made it popular in
841: ISPs and elsewhere - Apple, for example, adopted BSD within OS X.
842: BSD, unlike software released under the GPL, carrys no legal
843: obligations for the adopter to provide anything for the community in return."
844: Goes on to argue that these companies <em>ought</em> to be fair enough
845: to send a small bit of their money back into funding open source.
846: "In the time it takes to read this article, we calculate that Apple
847: will have easily made enough to pay-off OpenBSD's annual losses,
848: with a little left over to buy black turtlenecks for all. It's not
849: just Apple's baby - other companies owe far more to OpenBSD - but
850: in open source a little symbolism goes a long way."
851: <p>
852:
1.487 ian 853: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.494 bernd 854: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71174">
855: OpenBSD muss an den Sparstrumpf</a>, heise online, March 23, 2006
856: </strong></font><br>
1.495 ian 857: OpenBSD is touching its savings - Small news article about the project's
1.494 bernd 858: financial situation.
859: <p>
860:
861: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 862: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259042,00.htm">
863: OpenBSD Founder Makes Funding Plea</a>, ZDNet UK, March 23, 2006
864: </strong></font><br>
865: One of the first mainstream sites to pick up on Marco's article (below),
866: this one reports the funding figures on how much it really costs to
867: produce our favorite operating system.
868: "Although OpenBSD has a number of commercial users, including many
869: ISPs, de Raadt claimed that all of its donations come from individuals
870: rather than companies many of who claim the have no budget to pay
871: for the operating system. "The culture of entitlement is starting
872: to damage the open source community," he said."
1.496 ian 873: <br/>
874: Also online at
875: <a href="http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/software/stories/135760.html">ZDNet India</a>.
876: <p>
877:
878: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
879: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/03/22/OpenBSD-money.html">
880: OpenBSD in Financial Trouble</a>, Ping Wales, March 21, 2006
881: </strong></font><br>
882: David Chisnall reports that "OpenBSD is one of my favourite platforms;
883: its focus on security and ease-of-use makes it a very simple and
884: safe system to use. Unfortunately, the OpenBSD organisation is now
885: experiencing financial difficulty. For the last two years, the
886: project has made a $20,000/year loss, something which it cannot
887: sustain indefinitely."
888: Goes on to report on the growing use of OpenBSD in commercial software
889: (and hardware!), and that none of the "big guys" has given anything back.
890: Unlike most of the articles on this topic, this one is kind enough to
891: include a direct link to our orders page and recommend its readers
892: to buy a copy of the CD to help fund the project.
1.495 ian 893: <p>
894:
895: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 896: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/06/03/21/1555243.shtml">
897: OpenBSD Project in Financial Danger</a>, Slashdot, March 21, 2006
898: </strong></font><br>
899: Slashdot mentions and quotes from Marco's article (below),
900: with a reminder that
901: "The OpenBSD team is the one that also develops the OpenSSH suite,
902: used nowadays almost everywhere."
903: Ends with this quote from Marco:
904: "Without naming entities or projects by name, there are others out
905: there that are sitting on some cash. It would be wonderful if these
906: entities could share some of the wealth to keep us going."
907: <p>
908:
909: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.505 grunk 910: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060321034114">
1.495 ian 911: OpenBSD Finances</a>, OpenBSD Journal, March 21, 2006
912: </strong></font><br>
913: Marco Peereboom's article notes that
914: "OpenBSD for the past 2 years has turned a loss of approximately $20K USD" per year.
915: Hackathons - where a lot of developers get together in critical mass and churn out
916: new ideas and new code in great quantity - cost from US$10K-30K each, and we try to run
917: a few of them each year.
918: Meanwhile, compananies that use OpenBSD and companies - many of them highly profitable -
919: that incorporate OpenSSH into operating systems and even routers and other appliances
920: have not been forthcoming: no major computer company has given funding
921: to the OpenBSD project.
922: It's time for them to do so.
923: <p>
924:
925: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.497 ian 926: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/08/1646257.shtml?tid=8">
927: Software RAID on OpenBSD using RAIDframe</a>, NewsForge, March 14, 2006
928: </strong></font><br>
929: "Software RAID provides an easy way to add redundancy or speed up a system
930: without spending lots of money on a RAID adapter."
931: Manolis Tzanidakis talks us through setting up RAID using OpenBSD.
932: He describes the detailed steps, and recommends careful testing
933: before putting the system into production, including taking one disk
934: out of service and ensuring that it gets reloaded correctly.
935: Ends with a technique for monitoring clean operation on an ongoing basis.
936: <p>
937:
938: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.489 deraadt 939: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">Report on Business Television</a>
940: March 10, 5:45pm MST</strong></font><br>
1.490 deraadt 941: Theo de Raadt was interviewed by Howard Green on <b>The Business Show</b>:<br>
942: <!-- North America mirror:
943: <a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB avi file</a>
1.491 deraadt 944: -->
1.490 deraadt 945: European mirror:
946: <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/20060310/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB AVI file</a>
947: <br>
948: A longer segment is also available at <a href="http://www.robtv.ca">www.robtv.ca</a>.
1.489 deraadt 949: <p>
950:
951: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.487 ian 952: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/openbgpd.html">OpenBGPd in OpenBSD</a>
953: Daemon News, March, 2006</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 954: Check out the notes and slides from Henning Brauer's presentation at
1.487 ian 955: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0602/">NANOG 36</a>;
956: the text and questions cover everything from how and why OpenBGPd got created,
957: through configuration and tools, to integration with pf and CARP,
958: to technical issues regarding use of IPSEC to provide security for BGP packets.
959: Along the way there's considerable discussion on how the program was
960: designed to provide reliability and security.
961: <p>
962:
963: </ul>
964:
1.485 ian 965: <h2>February, 2006</h2>
966: <ul>
967: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.486 ian 968: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1859">Zero to IPSec in 4 minutes</a>
969: Security Focus, February 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
970: This article, as its lead-in says,
1.497 ian 971: "looks at how to get a fully functional IPSec VPN up and running between two fresh OpenBSD
1.486 ian 972: installations in about four minutes flat".
973: If you've shied away from setting up an IPSEC VPN because of config file complexity,
974: now is the time to reconsider.
1.497 ian 975: Dragos Ruiu shows you how the ipsecctl command (introduced to the world in OpenBSD 3.8)
1.486 ian 976: makes it really easy to set up a VPN between consenting OpenBSD machines.
977: He states that he and a colleague were able to get two machines talking over IPSEC
978: in a few minutes, and only changing a few configuration files.
979: He also comments on the relative ease of installing our favorite OS, and hopes
980: that our ipsecctl will be adopted by the other BSDs (hopefully in a compatible way)
981: to make firewall setups easier all around the network.
982: But you don't need to wait for that if you're running OpenBSD 3.8; just follow
983: the steps in the article.
984: <p>
985:
986: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.485 ian 987: <a href="http://www.networkmagazineindia.com/200602/vendorvoice02.shtml">The Worm in the Machine</a>
988: Network Magazine India, February 2006</strong></font><br>
989: Dilip Ranade elaborates on several reasons why software is drearily buggy and endlessly insecure,
990: particularly in comparison with other technologies.
991: Imagines how very bad shape the automotive industry would be in if you had to sign the
992: same disclaimer of (non-)usability that almost every commercial EULA requires of computer users.
993: Ends with "I once dreamt that all the computer users in the world
994: arose in revolt and switched to hardened OpenBSD", though he admits that there's "fat chance" of it
995: happening in real life.
996: <p>
997:
998: </ul>
999:
1.492 ian 1000: <h2>January, 2006</h2>
1001: <ul>
1002: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1003: <a href="http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2006/01/28.html">Kevin Mitnick on
1004: Coast to Coast AM Radio Show with Art Bell</a>, Jan 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
1005: Art Bell interviewed Kevin Mitnick on his call-in show;
1006: Paul Zacharzewski from Edmonton called to ask Mitnick for his opinion of OpenBSD.
1007: If you don't want to download the whole show from coasttocoastam.com,
1008: you can listen to an
1.497 ian 1009: <a href="http://unworkable.org/misc/mitnick.mp3">MP3 excerpt of this call</a>
1.492 ian 1010: in which Mitnick says: "Well, I actually use OpenBSD, so I do like it".
1011: </ul>
1012:
1.483 ian 1013: <h2>December, 2005</h2>
1014: <ul>
1.555 reyk 1015:
1.483 ian 1016: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.555 reyk 1017: [GERMAN]
1018: <a href="http://www.ini.unizh.ch/~stephan/articles/openbsd/064-069_linux-bsd-fw.pdf">
1019: Wehrhaft abtauchen - HA-fähige Firewall mit OpenBSD/PF</a>, Linux-Magazin, December 2005
1020: </strong></font><br>
1021: High available firewall setups are considered as the high arts of network protection.
1022: Due to clustering the network stays online even if one firewall fails. This article
1023: from Stephan A. Rickauer (Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH / University Zurich) shows
1024: how well OpenBSD/PF performs in comparison to the well-known duo Linux/Netfilter.
1025: <p>
1026:
1027: </p></li><li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.484 djm 1028: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/375/1">OpenSSH cutting edge</a>
1029: SecurityFocus, December 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
1030: Federico Biancuzzi interviews OpenSSH developer Damien Miller to discuss
1031: features included in the upcoming version 4.3, public key crypto
1032: protocols details, timing based attacks and anti-worm measures.
1033: <p>
1034:
1035: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 1036: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/11/21/175249.shtml?tid=92&tid=78">Creating
1.483 ian 1037: Secure Wireless Access Points with OpenBSD and OpenVPN</a>
1038: NewsForge, December 13, 2005</strong></font><br>
1039: A cookbook approach to setting up a wireless interface as a secure Access Point
1040: using OpenBSD's hostap, pf, and authpf.
1041: Configuration examples are given with basic explanations and links
1042: to sites with more information on most topics.
1043: <p>
1044:
1045: </ul>
1046:
1047:
1.479 grunk 1048: <h2>November, 2005</h2>
1049: <ul>
1050: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 1051: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20051116145737">OpenBSD
1.482 ian 1052: Goes to Venice</a>,
1053: OpenBSD Journal, November 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 1054: "What happens when you put a dozen developers on a little island with their
1.482 ian 1055: laptops, power, and an internet connection?
1056: <br/>
1057: During the first week of November some OpenBSD developers met in a
1058: little island in Venice's lagoon to hack on the ports system.
1059: This was probably the first ports hackathon and was followed by
1.497 ian 1060: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON</a>, a European conference
1.482 ian 1061: fully dedicated to OpenBSD..."
1062: Great coverage of the OpenBSD Porting Hackathon: people, ports, beer, ...
1063: Contains a link to
1064: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ven05-pvalchev/mgp00008.html">
1065: pval's summary slides</a>.
1066: <p>
1067:
1068: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.481 niallo 1069: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1710223">
1070: Trying out the new OpenBSD 3.8</a>,
1071: NewsForge, November 11, 2005</strong></font><br>
1072: This article describes the installation of OpenBSD 3.8 from a Linux user's
1073: perspective, noting the simple elegance of the installer.
1074: Although the installation process may be hard to get used to at first for
1075: the average Linux user, the author tells us that one can learn a lot from
1076: it. Furthermore, the article clears up the common misconception that working
1.497 ian 1077: on an OpenBSD system is very different from working on a Linux system.
1.481 niallo 1078: In particular, the author states that on OpenBSD, <i>"virtually the entire
1079: catalog of familiar free and open source software titles is available through
1080: the packages and ports system"</i>.
1081: <p>
1082:
1083: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1084: <a href="http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3561526">
1085: Return of The BSDs</a>,
1086: internetnews.com, November 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
1087: This article mentions that with all three major BSD flavors having had
1088: a release this fall, BSD is <i>"still very much alive and kicking among
1089: all the noise and buzz created by Linux"</i>. The author talks about
1090: various new or improved features of 3.8, such as bioctl(8), hostapd(8),
1091: network interface aggregation and sasyncd(8), and there are some
1092: quotes from Bob Beck.
1093: <p>
1094:
1095: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.479 grunk 1096: <a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/051101/152/fvrlx.html">
1097: OpenBSD 3.8 improves hardware support</a>,
1098: ZDNet UK, November 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.480 ian 1099: This article reports on OpenBSD 3.8, which was released on November 1.
1100: The author gives an overview of the improvements and new
1.479 grunk 1101: features that were made with 3.8, and quotes Theo on RAID management
1102: and Linux.<br>
1103: The 3.8 release hit the news also in some other places:
1104: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1258232">Slashdot</a>
1105: and <a href="http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=12482">OSNews</a>
1106: also report about it, mostly repeating parts
1107: of the release
1108: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/ANNOUNCEMENT">ANNOUNCEMENT</a>.
1109: <p>
1110: </ul>
1111:
1.476 ian 1112: <h2>October, 2005</h2>
1113: <ul>
1114:
1115: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1116: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1375194866;fp;16;fpid;0">
1117: 'Nightmare' drove desperate user to open source</a>,
1118: Computerworld, October 24, 2005</strong></font><br>
1119: A great tale of how Mark Uemura of PricewaterhouseCoopers Japan
1120: was forced to move to OpenBSD because the alternatives were too costly
1121: and too unreliable.
1122: This quote will rattle some cages:
1123: "IT managers who want to deploy an open source solution but are
1124: worried about company politics should go ahead and do it without
1125: asking," according to Uemura, who was promoted to IT Manager of PWC Japan
1126: after saving the company seven IT-samurais' salaries.
1127: Further, "In Japan large organizations like Morgan Stanley and the
1128: Bank of America have moved all their backend systems to open source,
1129: Uemura said, because with open source you can reduce IT operating
1130: costs without any commercial lock-in."
1131: <p>
1132:
1.477 saad 1133: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1134: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6270">
1135: OpenBSD 3.8: Hackers of the Lost RAID</a>,
1136: ONLamp.com, October 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
1137: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
1138: new features in OpenBSD 3.8 including interface trunking,
1139: internationalization support, Inter-Access Point Protocol (IAPP),
1140: IPSec SA synchronization daemon, and RAID management. There is also some
1141: discussion about future plans.
1142: <p>
1143:
1.478 grunk 1144: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1145: <a href="http://securityfocus.com/columnists/361">
1146: OpenBSD's network stack</a>,
1147: SecurityFocus, October 12, 2005</strong></font><br>
1148: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about OpenBSD's
1149: network stack, including protection against ICMP attacks, and propagation
1150: of enhancements into other BSDs and into Linux.
1151: The interview also features the other protection mechanisms in the network
1152: stack, a comparison to the network stack in Linux, and the history and
1153: current status of <a href="http://www.openbgpd.org/">OpenBGPD</a>.
1154: <p>
1155:
1.476 ian 1156: </ul>
1157:
1.470 saad 1158: <h2>September, 2005</h2>
1159: <ul>
1160:
1161: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.474 niallo 1162: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/359">
1163: Security-related innovation in Unix</a>,
1164: SecurityFocus, Sept. 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1165: An article examining the mmap-based malloc() implementation to be
1166: included in OpenBSD 3.8. The author states that <i>"it will help OpenBSD
1167: users to find bugs in software more easily, which will result in better
1168: applications for everyone"</i>. He goes on to say that <i>"the more hurdles
1169: that one has to jump through for good security, the less likely people will
1170: go through the trouble. OpenBSD allows even the most inexperienced users to
1171: take advantage of these technologies without any effort"</i>.
1172: <p>
1173:
1174: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.473 aanriot 1175: <a href="http://www.miscmag.com/articles/index.php3?page=2100">
1176: [FRENCH] Champ libre : les chantiers OpenBSD</a>
1177: Misc, number 21, Sept/Oct, 2005, p. 4-14</strong></font><br>
1178: An interesting article about OpenBSD and associated projects. Saad Kadhi
1179: and Guillaume Arcas describe useful things you can do with PF and
1180: OpenSSH, and give a nice introduction to OpenNTPD and OpenCVS. If the
1181: article is focused on the presentation, you can find some interesting
1182: technical aspects people are not always acquainted to. A few examples
1183: are shown, like a basic CARP setup, or the manner to use multiplexing
1184: with OpenSSH and even how to check an OpenSSH server's keys using DNS.
1185: <p>
1186:
1187: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 1188: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/news/11306">
1189: Big debate over small packets</a>,
1190: SecurityFocus, Sept. 7, 2005</strong></font><br>
1191: Robert Lemos discusses the ICMP denial-of-service vulnerabilities found
1192: by Fernando Gont and fixed in OpenBSD. To date, OpenBSD is the only
1193: system that has implemented all of the fixes recommended in the IETF
1194: draft.
1195: <p>
1196:
1197: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.471 saad 1198: <a href="http://www.pcexpert.fr/">
1199: [FRENCH] "Quel est le meilleur système libre pour votre
1200: ordinateur ?"</a>,
1201: PC Expert, number 156, p. 42-62</strong></font><br>
1202: Philippe Roure compares 11 Linux and *BSD operating systems, including
1203: OpenBSD 3.7, on different criteria such as security, documentation and
1204: usability. OpenBSD earned a 5/5 mark (see pages 60-61) and while a mark
1205: isn't necessarily objective, the author seems to grasp the OpenBSD
1206: project, its goals, and how good is the operating system. The article
1207: includes an interview with Saad Kadhi.
1208: <p>
1209:
1210: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.470 saad 1211: <a href="http://www.samag.com/articles/2005/0509/">
1212: Monitoring PF Firewalls for Health and Performance</a>,
1213: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 9, p. 37</strong></font><br>
1214: Ryan Matteson describes several utilities that can be used to monitor the
1215: health and performance of a PF firewall. Besides pfctl, the article
1216: covers pftop, fwanalog, monitoring logs with tcpdump and graphing
1217: performance data with pfstat.
1218: <p>
1219:
1220: </ul>
1221:
1.461 grunk 1222: <h2>July, 2005</h2>
1223: <ul>
1224:
1225: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.466 deraadt 1226: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5382">
1227: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part III</a>,
1.467 grunk 1228: Kerneltrap, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.466 deraadt 1229: Jeremy Andrews writes about the recent Blind ICMP attacks discovered
1230: by Fernando Gont, and the fixes done by him and OpenBSD during the
1231: 2005 Hackathon.
1.469 ian 1232: The article goes into the technical background of the
1.467 grunk 1233: attacks, mentioning blind ICMP attacks, "hard" ICMP errors, source
1.469 ian 1234: quenching, and path MTU discovery;
1235: many helpful RFCs and technical papers are linked from the explanations.
1236: This is followed by a recap of the whole ICMP story, involving Gont's
1.467 grunk 1237: struggle with other free projects, Cisco lawyers, Microsoft people,
1238: and others.<br>
1.469 ian 1239: The article concludes that OpenBSD was the first project
1.467 grunk 1240: to take Fernando Gont's findings seriously, and also the first group to
1241: be really painless to work with.
1.466 deraadt 1242: <p>
1243:
1244: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.464 grunk 1245: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/06/security_blame/">
1246: Security meltdown: who's to blame?</a>,
1.466 deraadt 1247: The Register, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.464 grunk 1248: This article talks about various groups that are frequently blamed for
1249: poor security:
1.467 grunk 1250: individuals, ISPs, companies, crackers, security mailing lists,
1.464 grunk 1251: and last but not least: OS vendors!
1.467 grunk 1252: In the last paragraph, OpenBSD's style of <i>"dumbed-down, simplified
1.464 grunk 1253: and secure systems (with a heavily audited code base)"</i> is described
1254: as <i>"one of the smartest approaches to security"</i>.
1255: <p>
1256:
1257: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.461 grunk 1258: <a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-7-5/30084.html">
1259: Theo de Raadt on Industry and Free Software</a>,
1.466 deraadt 1260: The Epoch Times, July 5, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.463 tom 1261: In this interview, Theo talks about the inception of the OpenBSD project
1262: and its goals, as well as its impact on the commercial IT industry.
1.461 grunk 1263: He points out once more that <i>"vendors who incorporate OpenSSH have
1264: given us absolutely nothing back - not a cent"</i>.
1265: Other topics covered include the OpenBSD team, Theo's role as
1266: <i>"benevolent dictator"</i>, and the security process, which he compares
1267: to the security efforts led by other free software projects and some
1268: commercial vendors.
1269: <p>
1270:
1271: </ul>
1272:
1.454 ian 1273: <h2>June, 2005</h2>
1274: <ul>
1.468 grunk 1275:
1276: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1277: <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/ns-ttc062205.php">
1278: The true cost of computer crime</a>,
1279: EurekAlert / <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/">New Scientist Magazine</a>,
1280: issue June 25, 2005</strong></font><br>
1281: This article looks at computer crime, especially the way upcoming
1282: vulnerability reports are dealt with. It also gives a short overview of the
1.469 ian 1283: institutions involved in the process (vendors, free projects, CERTs).
1.468 grunk 1284: <br>
1285: The author mentions the work of Andy Ozment, who researches vulnerability
1286: disclosure at the University of Cambridge. Using OpenBSD as a good example
1287: of how disclosure and consequent fixing of bugs helps to strengthen security,
1288: he refutes the widely spread FUD that disclosing vulnerabilities leads to
1289: more harm than good. Ozment's methodology was to examine OpenBSD's CVS logs
1.469 ian 1290: and note when fixes were published; his research shows that
1.468 grunk 1291: <i>"the number of vulnerabilities decreases as a result of disclosure"</i>.
1292: <p>
1293:
1.454 ian 1294: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.458 niallo 1295: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0704/071.html">
1296: Free Bird</a>,
1297: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1298: <b>(Registration required)</b> A second Forbes article about OpenBSD, more
1299: focused on the project itself this time. It contains good description of the
1300: history of OpenBSD along with its prime motivations. Mention is made of the
1301: DARPA grant and the annual hackathon. Theo's motto "shut up and hack" finally
1302: becomes famous in this piece and there are some other very insightful quotes
1303: such as "All I care about is making high-quality code. If I had to work at a
1304: regular job, it would drive me nuts". This is certainly an astute and perceptive
1305: article, well worth reading. Do note that the big picture of Theo's machine
1306: room will only be available in the print edition.
1307: <p>
1.459 deraadt 1308:
1.458 niallo 1309: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.456 niallo 1310: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html">
1311: Is Linux For Losers?</a>,
1312: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1313: An interesting article, if somewhat polemic in tone, which raises questions
1314: about the quality of Linux code compared to OpenBSD. There is also some short
1315: discussion of the OpenBSD development model and focus (push for quality above
1316: everything else) including good quotes from Theo. It seems that the need for
1317: high quality software is beginning to be recognised by the mainstream.
1318: <p>
1.457 deraadt 1319:
1.456 niallo 1320: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1321: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/06/09/2132233.shtml?tid=152&tid=8&tid=2">
1.455 ian 1322: BSD cognoscenti on Linux</a>,
1323: NewsForge, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1324: NewsForge talks with Theo de Raadt and NetBSD's Christos Zoulas about the
1325: similarities and differences between the Linux kernel and the BSD
1326: operating systems. The questions asked were similar to those asked
1327: of Linus Torvalds in a <a
1.462 grunk 1328: href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/09/2128249&tid=2">previous
1.455 ian 1329: interview.</a>
1330: <p>
1331:
1332: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.454 ian 1333: <a href="http://www.tuxjournal.net/intervista3-en.html">
1334: A good morning with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1335: Tux Journal, June 2, 2005</strong></font><br>
1336: Brief but wide-ranging interview with Theo in which our leader
1337: opines about the good things in 3.7: "The list of new developments
1338: is impressive, but in my view not nearly as impressive as the small
1339: little details that continue to be fixed during each development
1340: cycle." And modestly credits all the developers for the project's
1341: continuing success, attributing it to "The passion of the developers,
1342: and the wide experience they bring into their development efforts.
1343: By amazing coincidence, our users typically have the same needs as we do."
1344: Manages to sidestep getting drawn into comparisons with Linux, e.g.,
1345: when asked if he likes it/why/why not, deftly replies
1346: "I have never used it."
1347: <p>
1348:
1349: </ul>
1350:
1.441 deraadt 1351: <h2>May, 2005</h2>
1352: <ul>
1353: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 1354: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5190">
1355: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part II</a>,
1356: Kerneltrap, May 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1357: In the second installment of Kerneltrap's Hackathon 2005 feature, Jeremy
1358: Andrews speaks with the pf developers at length about their plans for
1359: future enhancements.
1360: <p>
1361:
1362: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.450 deraadt 1363: <a href="http://www.ctv.ca">
1.448 deraadt 1364: TV coverage: OpenBSD hackathon</a>,
1365: CTV/CFCN, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1366: A TV spot done a Canadian national TV station about the Calgary
1367: hackathon this year, with 60 developers.<br>
1368: North America mirror:
1369: <ul>
1.452 marco 1370: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.449 jcs 1371: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a><br>
1372: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a>
1.448 deraadt 1373: </ul>
1374: European mirror:
1375: <ul>
1.452 marco 1376: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.448 deraadt 1377: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a>
1378: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a><br>
1379: </ul>
1380: <p>
1381:
1382: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 1383: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5186">
1384: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part I</a>,
1385: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1386: Jeremy Andrews of KernelTrap does a good job of describing what it's like
1387: to be at the Hackathon in Part I of KernelTrap's Hackathon feature. Several
1388: developers are interviewed in detail about what they are working on.
1389: <p>
1390:
1391: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 1392: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5184">
1393: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005: Day 6?</a>,
1394: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1395: Kjell Wooding describes a typical day at the Hackathon in this entertaining
1396: first-hand account.
1397: <p>
1398:
1399: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.447 cloder 1400: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/05/20/1426216.shtml?tid=8">
1401: Review: OpenBSD 3.7</a>,
1402: NewsForge.com, May 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
1403: "OpenBSD is not only highly polished and easy to
1404: configure because of its documentation, it's also totally free-as-in-rights.
1405: With an obsession with security, freedom of source code, and quality of
1406: programming technique, OpenBSD 3.7 continues the legacy established by
1407: its previous releases," writes Jem Matzan in this nice, small review.
1408: <p>
1409:
1410: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.446 cloder 1411: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/05/19/openbsd_3_7.html">
1412: OpenBSD 3.7: The Wizard of OS</a>,
1413: ONLamp.com, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
1414: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
1415: new features in OpenBSD 3.7, including new wireless chipsets, new
1416: spam-fighting features, zaurus, pf improvements, propolice, and
1417: many other things. A good overview of what's new in this release,
1418: plus some interesting comments about future direction.
1419: <p>
1420:
1421: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.444 niallo 1422: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/software/openbsd-3.7-released.html">
1.445 niallo 1423: Next incarnation of OpenBSD released</a>,
1.444 niallo 1424: Ping Wales, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
1425: "OpenBSD is often unjustly overlooked as a free UNIX-like system in favour of
1426: the more-hyped Linux. While it receives a lot less publicity than other
1427: operating systems, this is not due to lack of technical merit." says David
1428: Chisnall, in what is a clear and concise overview of the new features
1429: in 3.7 and indeed the project as a whole.
1430: <p>
1431:
1432: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1433: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5114">
1.445 niallo 1434: 2005 Calgary Hackathon, KernelTrap Coverage</a>,
1.444 niallo 1435: Kerneltrap, May 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1436: A great article about the annual OpenBSD Hackathon, detailing how the event
1437: functions, work done at previous Hackathons and features which may come out
1438: of this one. Includes many relevant quotes from developers themselves, and of
1439: course information about the legendary Hackathon BBQ!
1440: <p>
1441:
1442: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.442 deraadt 1443: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9658/sam0505e/">
1444: "Failover Firewalls with OpenBSD and CARP"</a>,
1445: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 5, p. 33
1.441 deraadt 1446: </strong></font><br>
1447: Jason Dixon discusses the history of the CARP and pfsync protocols
1448: and demonstrates using them to create redundant stateful firewalls
1449: with OpenBSD.
1450: </ul>
1451:
1.436 henning 1452: <h2>April, 2005</h2>
1453: <ul>
1454: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.440 ian 1455: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39195801,00.htm">
1456: Security guru wants access to bug databases</a>,
1457: ZDNet UK, April 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
1458: Ingrid Marson reports on Cambridge professor Ross Anderson's call for analysis of
1459: software maintenance records to determine whether open source code is more secure
1460: than closed source, as we have long contended.
1461: "One of Anderson's research students, Andy Ozment, has already done
1462: research using empirical data on bugs found in the open source
1463: operating system OpenBSD between 1997 and 2000. This research found
1464: that finding and fixing bugs results in a more secure product..."
1465: Just as the OpenBSD project has been saying for years.
1466: <p>
1467: This article can also be found online as
1468: <a href="http://uk.builder.com/manage/project/0,39026588,39244080,00.htm">Academic
1469: calls for better bug tracking</a> (uk.builder.com).
1470: <p>
1471:
1472: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.439 espie 1473: [FRENCH] "PC Expert", number 152, p. 58
1474: </strong></font><br>
1475: Very short interview of Marc Espie about OpenBSD as a free OS focusing
1476: on security, part of a larger dossier Ťles secrets des hackersť.
1477: <p>
1478:
1479: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.436 henning 1480: [GERMAN] "Doppelwacht", iX 5/2005, p. 150.
1481: </strong></font><br>
1482: Stephan Tesch gives an introduction to CARP and using a pair of
1483: OpenBSD boxes as Firewalls in High Availibility scenarios. He goes
1.438 martin 1484: on explaining CARP and pfsync protocols, and does not forget to cover
1.436 henning 1485: the issues we had with IETF.
1486: </ul>
1487:
1.431 ian 1488: <h2>March, 2005</h2>
1489: <ul>
1490: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.435 reyk 1491: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/4818">
1492: OpenBSD's "Out of the Box" Wireless Support</a>,
1493: Kerneltrap, March 8, 2005</strong></font><br>
1494: This article is about the upcoming wireless support in OpenBSD 3.7 and
1495: the outcome of the work to open wireless chipsets. Jeremy Andrews
1496: talked with Theo de Raadt and the developers Damien Bergamini and Reyk
1497: Floeter who did some efforts to implement free and functional drivers.
1498: <p>
1499:
1500: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.431 ian 1501: <a href="http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/01/1109546842718.html">
1502: OpenBSD to support more wireless chipsets</a>,
1503: The Age, March 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1504: "The forthcoming 3.7 release of the OpenBSD operating system has
1505: added support for five more wireless chipsets, according to
1506: OpenBSD project founder Theo de Raadt...
1.432 ian 1507: OpenBSD 3.7 will also have have new drivers for Intel wireless
1.431 ian 1508: parts that do not work without the non-redistributable firmware,"
1509: namely the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11B
1510: and 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11A/B/G wireless network adapters.
1511: Mentions OpenBSD's activism in getting vendors to release chip specs.
1512: Referring to vendors that still refuse to play ball with open source
1513: projects, quotes Damien Miller as saying "Given the number of
1514: appliance devices that are built on free OSs, I think that the
1515: recalcitrant vendors are missing an important boat."
1516:
1517: </ul>
1518:
1.427 matthieu 1519: <h2>February, 2005</h2>
1520: <ul>
1521:
1522: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.428 david 1523: <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsaward2004.html">
1524: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
1525: FSF, February 26, 2005</strong></font><br>
1526: The Free Software Foundation awarded Theo de Raadt their "2004 Free Software
1527: Award" for his unwavering commitment to free software. Most recently he has
1528: been fighting hardware manufacturers for free redistribution of wireless card
1529: firmware.
1.434 ian 1530: Similar articles can be found online at:
1531: <ul>
1532: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1533: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=419">
1534: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
1535: Tectonic.za, March 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
1536: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1537: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article4362.phtml">
1538: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
1539: OSDir, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1540: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1541: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/De-Raadt-gets-free-software-award/2005/02/28/1109546758523.html?oneclick=true">
1542: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
1543: The Age, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1544: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1545: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/02/27/1413255.shtml?tid=99&tid=7">
1.434 ian 1546: Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award</a>,
1547: Slashdot, February 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1548: </ul>
1.427 matthieu 1549: </ul>
1550:
1.426 ian 1551: <h2>January, 2005</h2>
1552: <ul>
1553:
1554: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1555: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363731">
1556: Systrace in OpenBSD</a>,
1557: informit.com, January 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1558: This article talks about our systrace
1.462 grunk 1559: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&sektion=1">systrace(1)</a>
1.426 ian 1560: mechanism: what it is and why and
1561: how to use it, with examples.
1562: Another excerpt from the book
1563: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
1564: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
1565: <p>
1566:
1567: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1568: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363732">
1569: Overview of OpenBSD</a>,
1570: informit.com, January 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
1571: "OpenBSD is one of the most secure and well-designed operating
1572: systems available today. It has its roots in countless hours of
1573: research and development based on some of the best UNIX flavors of
1574: the past, and it boasts all the features of modern operating systems.
1575: The OS is widely considered one of the most secure general-purpose
1576: operating systems available today and it supports many key parts
1577: of the global Internet infrastructure..."
1578: This article is a sample chapter from
1579: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
1580: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
1581: <p>
1.443 ian 1582:
1583: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1584: <a href="http://www.pcplus.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=34628&subsectionid=784">
1.443 ian 1585: OpenBSD operating system</a>,
1586: PCPlus.co.uk, January, 2005</strong></font><br>
1587: Paul Grosse gives a brief tutorial on installing OpenBSD on i386 for people
1588: moving in a Windows->Linux direction, encouraging them to go a bit further for security.
1589: "While Linux out-scores Windows substantially (or completely) on [security as well as many other
1590: issues], it's still possible to use a more secure operating system on the PC... OpenBSD."
1591: Gives a brief but understandable walkthrough on the installation process, right up to
1592: downloading and installing the third-party packages, and
1593: ends with a sidebar on security.
1594: <p>
1.426 ian 1595: </ul>
1596:
1.424 ian 1597: <h2>December, 2004</h2>
1598: <ul>
1599:
1600: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.425 ian 1601: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/2329229">
1602: What are the real vulnerabilities of Linux?</a>
1603: NewsForge.com, December 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1604: Several security consultants were asked about "the real vulnerabilities of
1605: Linux". Cybersoure CEO Con Symaris seems to get it better than the rest:
1606: "One needs to approach security as a prime requirement and motivator,
1607: much as the OpenBSD team do," Zymaris said... "The Linux
1608: community mindset is different. Linux development is dynamic and
1609: races ahead towards more and broader functionality, drawing a
1610: multitude of interested parties in to make interesting extensions
1611: and adaptations at a rapid rate."
1612: <p>
1613: "In order to do security the BSD way, however, much more effort
1614: needs to be spent auditing code for holes, which is much less sexy,
1615: and attracts a different set of coders," Zymaris added.
1616: <p>
1617:
1618: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.424 ian 1619: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/281">
1620: Closed Source Hardware</a>
1621: Security Focus, December 1, 2004</strong></font><br>
1622: Symantec Threat Analyst Jason Miller analyzes the potential security threats
1623: when hardware vendors won't provide device documentation and
1624: instead provide "binary only" driver code for inclusion in open source
1625: operating systems.
1626: Miller is an open-source fan who says he uses a variety of systems, including
1627: OpenBSD on his firewall.
1628: Of the recent trend to closed-source binary drivers for open-source
1629: systems, he writes:
1630: <blockquote>
1631: The closed-source component required to support this hardware is
1632: completely independent of the associated operating system, and as
1633: such, is also independent of the engineering team, security team,
1634: auditing process, and quality control procedures normally related
1635: to the operating system...
1636: <br/>
1637: What's possibly even more disturbing is that we're talking about
1638: a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest
1639: possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a
1640: third-party vendor. This code could do anything once loaded, including
1641: leaking active WEP keys, gathering usage statistics, sniffing and
1642: disclosing traffic, and it could even introduce a subtle backdoor
1643: into the operating system itself (much the same as any device driver
1644: in a closed source operating system).
1645: <br/>
1646: [A]lthough some of these scenarios are a
1647: little far-fetched, the possibility for them to exist is there...
1648: Ultimately it becomes an issue of trust, which is a cornerstone of
1649: good security: whom do you trust, and how much do you trust them?
1650: </blockquote>
1651: <p>And he comments that trust "seems to be a one-way street": vendors
1652: demand that you trust them, but they won't trust you to know how
1653: their hardware and software operates.
1654: This lack of trust is one reason why OpenBSD has recently completed
1655: reverse-engineering the
1.462 grunk 1656: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4">
1.424 ian 1657: Atheros wireless chipset driver</a>
1658: that was originally provided as a binary insert.
1659: <p>
1660: </ul>
1661:
1.417 pvalchev 1662: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
1663: <ul>
1.421 ian 1664:
1.417 pvalchev 1665: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.422 ian 1666: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730775,00.asp">
1667: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Widens Its Scope</a>
1668: eWEEK, November 22, 2004</strong></font><br>
1669: Jason Brooks reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and likes the changes it brings,
1670: including the multi-processing support which, he notes,
1671: "will be even more important as multicore processors--which occupy space
1672: on the road maps of Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others--
1673: become more prevalent." Comments favorably on OpenNTPD
1674: ("the three-line configuration file we needed to modify ... on OpenBSD was
1675: much simpler to deal with than the equivalent configuration file on
1676: the Linux systems we've tested").
1.423 ian 1677: Overall a favorable review of some of the new stuff in 3.6.
1.422 ian 1678: <p>
1679: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 otto 1680: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
1681: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
1682: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
1683: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
1684: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
1685: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
1686: it claims to do".
1687: <p>
1688:
1689: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1690: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109994542424009&w=2">
1.421 ian 1691: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution</a>
1692: misc@, November 8, 2004</strong></font><br>
1693: Theo recounts the struggle to get Intel to provide redistributable
1694: versions of the firmware for their wireless chipsets, and their
1.423 ian 1695: ultimate refusal to allow OpenBSD to redistribute the chipsets' firmware.
1.421 ian 1696: Includes a caveat about Intel's disingenuous "FAQ", typical of many
1697: corporate FAQs that answer questions nobody actually thought
1698: to ask, and don't truthfully answer the questions you want hard answers to.
1699: At the end Theo names the names (and their emails) that need to be contacted
1700: by large numbers of end-users and developers if Intel is to change
1701: (yes, this is a hint).
1702: Of interest is that this posting to one of our mailing lists was
1703: picked up on the
1704: <a href="http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1923">Screaming
1705: Electron Forum</a> and from there reported on
1.462 grunk 1706: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/22/1249249&from=rss">
1.421 ian 1707: SlashDot</a>, where it is accompanied by a link to SlashDot's paper
1708: on effective advocacy (be firm, but also be polite).
1709: <p>
1710:
1711: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 1712: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
1713: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
1714: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
1715: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
1716: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
1717: questions about the significance and rationale behind
1718: the current efforts.
1719: <p>
1720: </ul>
1721:
1.407 henning 1722: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
1723: <ul>
1724: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 1725: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
1726: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
1727: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
1728: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
1729: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
1730: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
1731: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
1732: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
1733: <p>
1734:
1735: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 1736: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
1737: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
1738: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1739: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
1740: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
1741: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
1742: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
1743: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
1744: of the important changes in 3.6.
1.462 grunk 1745: <p>
1.415 ian 1746:
1747: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1748: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
1.414 ian 1749: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
1750: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
1751: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
1752: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
1753: overflow attacks... because
1754: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
1755: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
1756: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
1757: and propolice.
1758: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
1759: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
1760: and that's when the science falls apart."
1761: <p>
1762:
1763: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 1764: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
1765: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
1766: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
1767: Starts with the question:
1768: <blockquote>
1769: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
1770: <br/>
1771: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
1772: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
1773: <br/>
1774: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
1775: Should we believe them?"
1776: </blockquote>
1777: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
1778: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
1779: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
1780: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
1781: for your mail, web and other online activities.
1782: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
1783: <p>
1784:
1785: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 1786: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
1787: Simple Simon</a>,
1788: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
1789: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
1790: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
1791: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
1792: routing/firewall, and more.
1793: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
1794: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
1795: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
1796: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
1797: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
1798: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
1799: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
1800: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
1801: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
1802: </blockquote>
1803: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
1804: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
1805: <p>
1806:
1807: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 1808: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
1809: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 1810: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 1811: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 1812: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
1813: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
1814: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 1815: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 1816: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
1817: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
1818: in spite of it
1819: (registration required, but worth it).
1820: <p>
1821:
1822: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1823: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
1824: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
1825: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1826: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
1827: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
1828: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
1829: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 1830: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 1831: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
1832: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
1833: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
1834: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
1835: <p>
1836:
1837: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 1838: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
1839: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
1840: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
1841: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
1842: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
1843: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
1844: <blockquote>
1845: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
1846: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
1847: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
1848: a lot of analysis.
1849: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
1850: </blockquote>
1851: <p>
1852: </ul>
1853:
1.400 marco 1854: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
1855: <ul>
1856: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 1857: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
1858: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
1859: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
1860: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
1861: UNIX-like systems.
1862: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
1863: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
1864: <p>
1865: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 1866: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
1867: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 1868: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1869: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
1870: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
1871: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
1872: At one point, the article states:
1873: <blockquote>
1874: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
1875: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
1876: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
1877: </blockquote>
1878: And then quotes Theo as saying:
1879: <blockquote>
1880: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
1881: fewer are reading or auditing code."
1882: </blockquote>
1883: <p>
1884: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1885: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
1886: marks its fifth birthday</a>
1887: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1888: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
1889: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
1890: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
1891: required).
1892: <p>
1893: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 1894: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
1895: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
1896: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
1897: </strong></font><br>
1898: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
1899: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
1900: <p>
1901: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 1902: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
1903: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 1904: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 1905: </strong></font><br>
1906: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
1907: <p>
1908: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 1909: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
1910: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 1911: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 1912: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 1913: 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 1914: <p>
1915: </ul>
1916:
1.396 henning 1917: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
1918: <ul>
1919: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 1920: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
1921: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
1922: Unix Review, July, 2004
1923: </strong></font><br>
1924: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
1925: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
1.462 grunk 1926: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
1.418 ian 1927: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
1928: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
1929: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
1930: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
1931: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
1932: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
1933: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
1934: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
1935: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
1936: and even spelling/wording errors.
1937: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
1938: <p>
1939: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 1940: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 1941: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
1942: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
1943: </strong></font><br>
1944: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
1945: <p>
1946: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 1947: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 1948: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
1949: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
1950: </strong></font><br>
1951: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
1952: <p>
1953: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 1954: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
1955: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
1956: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
1957: </strong></font><br>
1958: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
1959: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
1960: <p>
1961: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 1962: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
1963: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
1964: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
1965: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
1966: <p>
1967: </ul>
1968:
1.405 jolan 1969: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
1970: <ul>
1.545 tom 1971: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 1972: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
1.466 deraadt 1973: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 5, 2004</strong></font>
1.405 jolan 1974: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
1975: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
1976: details on how funds are dispersed.
1977: <p>
1978: </ul>
1979:
1.393 david 1980: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
1981: <ul>
1982: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 1983: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
1984: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
1985: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
1986: </strong></font><br>
1987: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
1988: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
1989: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
1990: on inserting large number of SQL records.
1991: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
1992: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
1993: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
1994: <p>
1995:
1996: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 1997: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
1998: Secure by Default</a>,
1999: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
2000: </strong></font><br>
2001: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
2002: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
2003: <p>
2004:
2005: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2006: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
2007: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
2008: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
2009: </strong></font><br>
2010: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
2011: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
2012: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
2013: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
2014: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
2015: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
2016: <p>
2017:
2018: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2019: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
2020: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
2021: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
2022: </strong></font><br>
2023: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
2024: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
2025: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
2026: <p>
2027:
2028: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2029: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
2030: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
2031: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
2032: </strong></font><br>
2033: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
2034: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
2035: <p>
2036: </ul>
2037:
1.388 mcbride 2038: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
2039: <ul>
1.394 jolan 2040:
2041: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2042: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
2043: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
2044: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
2045: </strong></font><br>
2046: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
2047: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
2048: available for sparc64.
2049: <p>
2050:
1.390 beck 2051: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 2052: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
2053: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
2054: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
2055: </strong></font><br>
2056: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
2057: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
2058: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
2059: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
2060: <p>
2061:
2062: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 2063: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
2064: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 2065: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 2066: </strong></font><br>
2067: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
2068: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
2069: it does: CARP provides sharing
2070: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
2071: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
2072: detail to get you started using it.
2073: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
2074: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
2075: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
2076: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
2077: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
2078: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
2079: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 2080: <p>
1.391 ian 2081:
2082: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 2083: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 2084: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
2085: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 2086: </strong></font><br>
2087: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 2088: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 2089: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 2090: <p>
1.388 mcbride 2091:
2092: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2093: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
2094: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 2095: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 2096: </strong></font><br>
2097: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
2098: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
2099: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
2100: unencumbered by patents.
2101: <p>
2102: </ul>
2103:
1.378 henning 2104: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
2105: <ul>
1.384 jose 2106:
2107: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 2108: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
2109: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
2110: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
2111: </strong></font><br>
2112: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
2113: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
2114: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
2115: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
2116: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
2117: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
2118: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
2119: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
2120: in the page tables."
2121: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
2122: <p>
2123:
2124: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 2125: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
2126: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
2127: </strong></font><br>
2128: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
2129: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
2130: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
2131: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 2132: <p>
1.384 jose 2133:
1.378 henning 2134: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 2135: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
2136: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 2137: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
2138: </strong></font><br>
2139: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
2140: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
2141: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
2142: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
2143: (quote:
2144: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
2145: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 2146: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 2147: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
2148: the other developers for their work on the system.
2149: <p>
2150:
2151: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 2152: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
2153: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
2154: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 2155: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 2156: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
2157: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
2158: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
2159: too.
2160: <p>
2161:
2162: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 2163: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
2164: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 2165: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 2166: OpenBSD source code using
2167: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
2168: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
2169: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
2170: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
2171: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
2172: <p>
2173: </ul>
2174:
1.374 jose 2175: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
2176: <ul>
2177: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 2178: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 2179: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
2180: </strong></font><br>
2181: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
2182: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
2183: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
2184: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
2185: it."
2186: <p>
2187:
2188: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 2189: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
2190: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
2191: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
2192: </strong></font><br/>
2193: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
2194: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
2195: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
2196: <p>
2197: </ul>
2198:
1.369 ian 2199: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
2200: <ul>
2201: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 2202: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
2203: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
2204: </strong></font><br/>
2205: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
2206: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
2207: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
2208: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
2209: <p>
2210:
2211: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 2212: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
2213: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
2214: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
2215: </strong></font><br/>
2216: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
2217: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
2218: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
2219: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
2220: form factor.
2221: <p>
2222:
2223: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2224: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
2225: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
2226: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
2227: Features</a>,
2228: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
2229: </strong></font><br/>
2230: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
2231: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
2232: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
2233: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
2234: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
2235: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
2236: <p>
2237: This article can also be found online at:
2238: <ul>
2239: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 2240: <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 2241: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
2242: </strong></font>
2243: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
2244: </ul>
2245: <p>
1.392 david 2246:
1.371 jose 2247: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 2248: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
2249: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 2250: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
2251: </strong></font><br/>
2252: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
2253: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
2254: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 2255: <p>
1.371 jose 2256:
2257: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 2258: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 2259: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 2260: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 2261: </strong></font><br/>
2262: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
2263: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
2264: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
2265: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
2266: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
2267: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
2268: and its history with OpenBSD.
2269: </ul>
2270:
1.368 henning 2271: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
2272: <ul>
2273: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 2274: [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 2275: </strong></font><br>
2276: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
2277: </ul>
2278:
1.364 jose 2279: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
2280: <ul>
2281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 2282: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
2283: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
2284: UNIX Review,
2285: July, 2003.
2286: </strong></font><br>
2287: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
2288: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
2289: who want more information.
2290: <p>
2291:
2292: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 2293: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
2294: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
2295: Government Computer News,
2296: July 22, 2003.
2297: </strong></font><br>
2298: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
2299: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
2300: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
2301: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
2302: <p>
2303:
2304: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2305: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
2306: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
2307: SANS Institute,
2308: July 22, 2003.
2309: </strong></font><br>
2310: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 2311: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 2312: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
2313: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
2314: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
2315: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
2316: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
2317: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
2318: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
2319: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
2320: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
2321: <p>
2322:
2323: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 2324: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
2325: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
2326: OnLamp.com,
2327: July 17, 2003.
2328: </strong></font><br>
2329: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
2330: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
2331: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
2332: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
2333: have been working on.
2334:
2335: </ul>
2336:
1.356 jose 2337: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 2338: <ul>
2339:
2340: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 2341: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
2342: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
2343: UNIX Review,
2344: June, 2003.
2345: </strong></font><br>
2346: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
2347: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
2348: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
2349: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
2350: <p>
2351:
2352: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 2353: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
2354: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
2355: eWeek,
2356: June 23, 2003.
2357: </strong></font><br>
2358: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
2359: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
2360: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
2361: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
2362: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
2363: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
2364: <p>
2365:
2366: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 2367: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
2368: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
2369: Software Development Online,
2370: June, 2003.
2371: </strong></font><br>
2372: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
2373: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
2374: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
2375: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
2376: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
2377: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
2378: current activities.
2379: <p>
2380:
2381: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 2382: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
2383: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 2384: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
2385: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
2386: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
2387: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 2388: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 2389: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
2390: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
2391: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 2392: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 2393: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
2394: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 2395: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 2396: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
2397: decisions.
2398: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
2399: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 2400: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 2401: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 2402: <p>
2403:
2404: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 2405: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
2406: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
2407: Page 58, eWeek,
2408: June 2, 2003.
2409: </strong></font><br>
2410: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
2411: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
2412: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
2413: been addressed in -current.
2414: <p>
2415:
1.356 jose 2416: </ul>
2417:
2418: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
2419: <ul>
2420:
1.355 jose 2421: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 2422: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
2423: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
2424: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
2425: </strong></font><br>
2426: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
2427: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
2428: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
2429: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
2430: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
2431: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
2432: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
2433: <p>
2434:
2435: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 2436: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
2437: Beyond Linux</a>,
2438: InfoWorld,
2439: May 23, 2003.
2440: </strong></font><br>
2441: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
2442: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
2443: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
2444: compared to the GPL.
2445: <p>
2446:
2447: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 2448: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
2449: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
2450: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 2451: May 17, 2003.
2452: </strong></font><br>
2453: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
2454: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
2455: the business section and half of another page inside
2456: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
2457: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
2458: in talking about the project's history and goals.
2459: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
2460: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
2461: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
2462: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 2463: <br>
2464: This article can also be found online at:
2465: <ul>
2466: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2467: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
2468: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
2469: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
2470: May 17, 2003
2471: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 2472: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
2473: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2474: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
2475: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
2476: Montreal Gazette,
2477: May 21, 2003
2478: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 2479: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 2480: <p>
1.346 ian 2481:
2482: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 2483: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 2484: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 2485: May 7, 2003.
2486: </strong></font><br>
2487: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
2488: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
2489: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
2490: <p>
2491:
2492: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 2493: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
2494: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2495: OsOpinion,
2496: May 6, 2003.
2497: </strong></font><br>
2498: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
2499: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
2500: <br>
2501: This article can also be found online at:
2502: <ul>
2503: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2504: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
2505: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2506: NewsFactor Network.
2507: </strong></font>
2508: </ul>
2509: <p>
2510:
2511: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2512: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 2513: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
2514: ITBusiness,
2515: May 2, 2003.
2516: </strong></font><br>
2517: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
2518: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
2519: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
2520: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
2521: <p>
2522:
2523: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 2524: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
2525: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
2526: InfoWorld,
2527: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 2528: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 2529: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
2530: <br>
2531: This article can also be found online at:
2532: <ul>
2533: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2534: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
2535: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
2536: IDG Singapore.
2537: </strong></font>
2538: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 2539: <p>
2540:
1.339 jose 2541: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2542: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
2543: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 2544: ZDNet,
2545: May 1, 2003.
2546: </strong></font><br>
2547: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 2548: someone using parts from previous articles.
2549: <br>
1.341 deraadt 2550: This article can also be found online at:
2551: <ul>
2552: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2553: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
2554: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
2555: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 2556: </strong></font>
2557: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2558: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
2559: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
2560: CNET News.com.
2561: </strong></font>
2562: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2563: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
2564: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
2565: ZDNet UK.
2566: </strong></font>
2567: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2568: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
2569: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
2570: Help Net Security, Croatia.
2571: </strong></font>
2572: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 2573: <p>
1.339 jose 2574:
1.341 deraadt 2575: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2576: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 2577: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
2578: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
2579: May 1, 2003.
2580: </strong></font><br>
2581: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
2582: that have been added
2583: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
2584: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
2585: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 2586: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 2587: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
2588: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
2589: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 2590: <p>
2591:
2592: </ul>
2593:
1.253 ian 2594: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
2595: <ul>
1.255 ian 2596:
1.260 ian 2597: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2598: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 2599: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
2600: TechRepublic,
2601: April 28, 2003.
2602: </strong></font><br>
2603: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
2604: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 2605: work.<br>
2606: Can also be found online at:
2607: <ul>
2608: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2609: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
2610: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
2611: ZDNet UK.
2612: </strong></font>
2613: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 2614: <p>
2615:
2616: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 2617: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
2618: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
2619: IDG,
2620: April 24, 2003.
2621: </strong></font><br>
2622: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
2623: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
2624: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
2625: Can also be found online at:
2626: <ul>
2627: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2628: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
2629: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 2630: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 2631: </strong></font>
2632: </ul>
2633: <p>
2634:
2635: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2636: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 2637: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 2638: Slate,
2639: April 24, 2003.
2640: </strong></font><br>
2641: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
2642: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
2643: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
2644: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
2645: <p>
2646:
2647: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 2648: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2649: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
2650: April 24, 2003.
2651: </strong></font><br>
2652: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
2653: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
2654: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
2655: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
2656: <p>
2657:
2658: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 2659: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
2660: April 24, 2003.
2661: </strong></font><br>
2662: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
2663: the free software community".
2664: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
2665: other articles.
2666: <p>
2667:
2668: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2669: <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 2670: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
2671: </strong></font><br>
2672: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
2673: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
2674: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
2675: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
2676: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
2677: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
2678: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 2679: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 2680: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
2681: <br/>
2682: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
2683: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
2684: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
2685: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 2686: <br>
2687: Can also be found online at:
2688: <ul>
2689: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2690: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
2691: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
2692: Common Dreams NewsCenter
2693: </strong></font>
2694: </ul>
1.324 ian 2695: <p>
2696:
2697: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2698: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
2699: Wired, April 24, 2003.
2700: </strong></font><br>
2701: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
2702: article above.
2703: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
2704: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
2705: wasting them."
1.332 ian 2706: <br>
2707: Can also be found online at:
2708: <ul>
2709: <li>
2710: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
2711: </strong></font>
2712: </ul>
1.324 ian 2713: <p>
2714:
2715: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 2716: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
2717: </strong></font><br>
2718: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
2719: <p>
2720:
2721: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 2722: <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.
2723: </strong></font><br>
2724: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
2725: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
2726: <p>
2727:
2728: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 2729: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
2730: April 23, 2003.
2731: </strong></font><br>
2732: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
2733: <p>
2734:
2735: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 2736: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 2737: April 22, 2003.
2738: </strong></font><br>
2739: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
2740: <p>
2741:
2742: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 2743: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
2744: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
2745: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 2746: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 2747: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
2748: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
2749: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
2750: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
2751: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
2752: Can also be found online at:
2753: <ul>
2754: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2755: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 2756: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
2757: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 2758: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 2759: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2760: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 2761: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
2762: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 2763: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 2764: </ul>
2765: <p>
2766:
2767: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 2768: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
2769: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 2770: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2771: </strong></font><br>
2772: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 2773: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
2774: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
2775: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
2776: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
2777: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
2778: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 2779: <p>
2780:
2781: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 2782: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
2783: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 2784: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
2785: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 2786: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
2787: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
2788: at UPenn and DARPA.
2789: <p>
2790:
2791: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 2792: [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,
2793: France
1.315 deraadt 2794: April 18, 2003.
2795: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 2796: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 2797: <p>
2798:
2799: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 2800: [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 2801: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2802: </strong></font><br>
2803: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
2804: <p>
2805:
2806: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 2807: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
2808: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
2809: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 2810: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 2811: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
2812: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
2813: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
2814: <p>
2815:
2816: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 2817: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
2818: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2819: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 2820: </strong></font><br>
2821: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
2822: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
2823: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 2824: American century.
1.267 deraadt 2825: <p>
2826:
2827: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 2828: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
2829: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2830: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 2831: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 2832: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
2833: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
2834: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
2835: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
2836: Can also be found online at:
2837: <ul>
2838: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
2839: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 2840: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 2841: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 2842: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 2843: <p>
2844:
2845: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 2846: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 2847: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 2848: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 2849: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 2850: </strong></font><br>
2851: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 2852: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
2853: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
2854: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
2855: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 2856:
2857: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2858: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
2859: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
2860: New York Times.
2861: </strong></font>(free registration required)
2862:
1.273 deraadt 2863: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2864: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 2865: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 2866: ABC News.
2867: </strong></font>
2868:
2869: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2870: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 2871: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 2872: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 2873: </strong></font>
2874:
2875: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2876: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 2877: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 2878: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 2879: </strong></font>
2880:
2881: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 2882: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
2883: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 2884: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 2885: </strong></font>
2886:
2887: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2888: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 2889: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 2890: Times Daily, AL.
2891: </strong></font>
2892:
2893: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2894: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
2895: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
2896: Boston.com, MA.
2897: </strong></font>
2898:
2899: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2900: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 2901: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 2902: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
2903: </strong></font>
2904:
2905: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 2906: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
2907: [Article was pulled]</a>
2908: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 2909: </strong></font>
2910:
2911: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2912: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
2913: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
2914: Infoshop News.
2915: </strong></font>
2916:
2917: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2918: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
2919: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2920: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
2921: </strong></font>
2922:
2923: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 2924: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
2925: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
2926: Raleigh News, NC.
2927: </strong></font>
2928:
2929: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2930: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 2931: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
2932: Napa News, CA.
2933: </strong></font>
2934:
2935: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2936: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 2937: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2938: NEPA News, PA.
2939: </strong></font>
2940:
2941: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2942: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
2943: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
2944: Wired News.
2945: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 2946: <br>
2947: <li>
1.333 deraadt 2948: <font color="#009000"><strong>
2949: [JAPANESE]
2950: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
2951: Wired News Japan</a>
2952: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 2953:
1.271 deraadt 2954: </ul>
2955: <p>
1.272 deraadt 2956: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
2957: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 2958: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
2959: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
2960: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
2961: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
2962: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
2963: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 2964: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 2965: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
2966: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
2967: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 2968: <p>
2969: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 2970:
2971: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2972: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 2973: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
2974: Indianapolis Star, IN.
2975: </strong></font>
2976:
2977: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 2978: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
2979: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2980: Miami Herald, FL.
2981: </strong></font>
2982:
2983: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 2984: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 2985: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
2986: </strong></font>
2987:
2988: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2989: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 2990: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 2991: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 2992: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 2993:
2994: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2995: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
2996: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
2997: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
2998: ABC News.
2999: </strong></font>
3000:
1.276 deraadt 3001: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3002: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 3003: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 3004: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 3005: </strong></font>
3006:
1.286 dhartmei 3007: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3008: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 3009: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
3010: Wilmington Star, NC.
3011: </strong></font>
3012:
1.300 jose 3013: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3014: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
3015: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
3016: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
3017: </strong></font>
3018:
1.309 jose 3019: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3020: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
3021: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
3022: Globe Technology.
3023: </strong></font>
3024:
1.263 deraadt 3025: </ul>
1.262 beck 3026: <p>
3027:
3028: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 3029: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
3030: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3031: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 3032: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 3033: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 3034: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
3035: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
3036: <p>
3037:
3038: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 3039: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
3040: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
3041: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 3042: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 3043: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
3044: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
3045: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
3046: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
3047: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
3048: and simply restates other press reports.
3049: <p>
3050:
3051: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 3052: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
3053: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
3054: OS News, April 18, 2003.
3055: </strong></font><br>
3056: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
3057: <p>
3058:
3059: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 3060: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
3061: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3062: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 3063: </strong></font><br>
3064: Another report on the DARPA funding.
3065: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
3066: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
3067: <p>
3068:
3069: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 3070: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
3071: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
3072: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
3073: April 17, 2003.
3074: </strong></font><br>
3075: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
3076: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
3077: Tech Anthems</a>
3078: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
3079: 4 so far.
3080: <p>
3081:
3082: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 3083: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
3084: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3085: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 3086: </strong></font><br>
3087: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
3088: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
3089: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
3090: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
3091: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
3092: Goes on to say:
3093: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
3094: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
3095: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
3096: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 3097: This article is also found online at:
3098: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 3099: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3100: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
3101: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
3102: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 3103: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 3104: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3105: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
3106: ZDnet</a>,
3107: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 3108: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 3109: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3110: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
3111: ZDnet Australia</a>,
3112: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 3113: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 3114: </ul>
1.260 ian 3115: <p>
1.279 deraadt 3116:
1.260 ian 3117: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3118: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 3119: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 3120: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 3121: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 3122: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 3123: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
3124: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
3125: without notice or justification.
3126: <p>
3127:
3128: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3129: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 3130: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 3131: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 3132: </strong></font><br>
3133: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
3134: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 3135: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 3136: effective today, without any warning..."
3137: <p>
1.257 ian 3138:
3139: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 3140: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
3141: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3142: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 3143: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 3144: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
3145: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
3146: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
3147: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
3148: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 3149: <p>
3150:
3151: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 3152: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
3153: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3154: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 3155: </strong></font><br>
3156: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
3157: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
3158: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
3159: quoting two of them:
3160: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
3161: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
3162: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
3163: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
3164: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
3165: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
3166: <p>
3167:
1.255 ian 3168: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3169: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
3170: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 3171: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3172: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 3173: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 3174: <p>
3175:
3176: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 3177: [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 3178: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3179: </strong></font><br>
3180: New security concepts in OpenBSD
3181: <p>
3182:
3183: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 3184: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
3185: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3186: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 3187: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 3188: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 3189: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
3190: security experts for more than three decades."
3191: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
3192: <p>
1.261 ian 3193:
1.254 drahn 3194: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 3195: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 3196: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3197: </strong></font><br>
3198: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
3199: <p>
3200:
3201: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 3202: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
3203: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
3204: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
3205: </strong></font><br>
3206: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
3207: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
3208: discussion OpenBSD's path.
3209: <p>
3210:
3211: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 3212: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
3213: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3214: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 3215: </strong></font><br>
3216: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
3217: from US DARPA.
3218: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
3219: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
3220: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
3221: the BSD license.
3222: <p>
3223: </ul>
3224:
1.251 ian 3225: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
3226: <ul>
3227:
3228: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3229: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
3230: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
3231: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
3232: </strong></font><br>
3233:
3234: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
3235: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
3236: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
3237: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
3238: <p>
3239:
3240: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 3241: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
3242: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 3243: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 3244: </strong></font><br>
3245: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
3246: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
3247: Mentions
3248: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
3249: and
3250: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
3251: programs.
3252: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 3253: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 3254: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
3255: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
3256: <p>
1.325 ian 3257: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
3258: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 3259:
3260: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3261: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
3262: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
3263: </strong></font><br>
3264: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
3265: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
3266: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
3267: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
3268: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
3269: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
3270: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
3271: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
3272: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
3273: put into service."
3274: <p>
3275: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
3276: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
3277: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
3278: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
3279: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
3280: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
3281: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
3282: computers with security features."
3283: <p>
1.329 ian 3284:
3285: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3286: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
3287: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
3288: Slate,
3289: March 3, 2003.
3290: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 3291: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 3292: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
3293: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
3294: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
3295: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
3296: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
3297: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
3298: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
3299: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
3300: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
3301: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
3302: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
3303: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
3304: of more secure open-source solutions like
3305: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
3306: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
3307: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
3308: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
3309: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
3310: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
3311: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
3312: the Beltway."
3313: <p>
1.251 ian 3314: </ul>
3315:
1.249 jufi 3316: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
3317: <ul>
3318: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3319: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
3320: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3321: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 3322: </strong></font><br>
3323: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
3324: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 3325: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 3326: <p>
1.334 ian 3327:
3328: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3329: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
3330: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
3331: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
3332: </strong></font><br>
3333: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
3334: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
3335: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
3336: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
3337: "... the hypothetical question ...
3338: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
3339: <br>
3340: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
3341: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
3342: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
3343: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
3344: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
3345: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 3346: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 3347: support network security.
3348: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
3349: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
3350: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
3351: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
3352: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
3353: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
3354: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
3355: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
3356: <br>
3357: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
3358: <p>
3359:
1.249 jufi 3360: </ul>
3361:
1.246 jufi 3362: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3363: <ul>
1.246 jufi 3364:
1.247 jufi 3365: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3366: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 3367: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3368: CNET News.com, December 4, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3369: </strong></font><br>
3370: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
3371: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
3372: <p>
3373:
1.247 jufi 3374: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3375: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
3376: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3377: Heise News-Ticker, December 4, 2002
1.301 jose 3378: </strong></font><br>
1.460 david 3379: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III CPU
1.301 jose 3380: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
3381: <p>
3382:
3383: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3384: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 3385: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3386: eWeek, December 3, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3387: </strong></font><br>
3388: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
3389: in their annual OpenHack security test.
3390: <p>
1.247 jufi 3391: </ul>
1.246 jufi 3392:
1.244 jufi 3393: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3394: <ul>
1.246 jufi 3395:
1.247 jufi 3396: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3397: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
3398: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
3399: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3400: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3401: </strong></font><br>
3402: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
3403: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
3404: md5 digests.
3405: <p>
3406:
1.247 jufi 3407: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3408: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 3409: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
3410: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3411: </strong></font><br>
3412: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
3413: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
3414: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
3415: right the first time."
3416: <p>
1.247 jufi 3417: </ul>
1.244 jufi 3418:
3419:
3420: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3421: <ul>
1.244 jufi 3422:
1.247 jufi 3423: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3424: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3425: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
3426: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3427: </strong></font><br>
3428: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
3429: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
3430: part 6</a>.
3431: <p>
3432:
1.247 jufi 3433: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3434: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 3435: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
3436: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3437: O'Reilly Network, August 8, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3438: </strong></font><br>
3439: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
3440: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
3441: <p>
1.301 jose 3442:
3443: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3444: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
3445: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
3446: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
3447: </strong></font><br>
3448:
3449: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
3450: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
3451: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
3452: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
3453: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
3454: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
3455: <i>Here's the
3456: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
3457: <p>
1.247 jufi 3458: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3459:
3460: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3461: <ul>
1.242 jufi 3462:
1.247 jufi 3463: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3464: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 3465: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3466: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3467: </strong></font><br>
3468: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
3469: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
3470: <p>
3471:
1.247 jufi 3472: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3473: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3474: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3475: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 1, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3476: </strong></font><br>
3477: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
3478: this time using pf.
3479: <p>
1.247 jufi 3480: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3481:
3482: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3483: <ul>
1.242 jufi 3484:
1.247 jufi 3485: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3486: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3487: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
3488: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3489: </strong></font><br>
3490: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
3491: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
3492: their rotation.
3493: <p>
3494:
1.247 jufi 3495: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3496: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3497: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3498: O'Reilly Network, June 6, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3499: </strong></font><br>
3500: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
3501: <p>
1.247 jufi 3502: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3503:
1.239 jufi 3504: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3505: <ul>
1.239 jufi 3506:
1.247 jufi 3507: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3508: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 3509: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
3510: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3511: </strong></font><br>
3512: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
3513: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
3514: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
3515: <p>
3516:
1.247 jufi 3517: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 3518: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 3519: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
3520: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 3521: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 3522: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
3523: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
3524: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 3525: <p>
1.247 jufi 3526: </ul>
1.239 jufi 3527:
1.235 lebel 3528: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3529: <ul>
1.235 lebel 3530:
1.239 jufi 3531:
1.247 jufi 3532: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 3533: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 3534: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
3535: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 3536: </strong></font><br>
3537: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
3538: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
3539: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
3540: <p>
1.301 jose 3541:
1.247 jufi 3542: </ul>
1.235 lebel 3543:
1.228 horacio 3544: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3545: <ul>
1.228 horacio 3546:
1.247 jufi 3547: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3548: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3549: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
3550: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 3551: </strong></font><br>
3552: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
3553: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
3554: <p>
3555:
1.247 jufi 3556: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 3557: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 3558: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
3559: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 3560: </strong></font><br>
3561: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
3562: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
3563: <p>
3564:
1.247 jufi 3565: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 3566: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 3567: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
3568: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 3569: </strong></font><br>
3570: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
3571: on the desktop of his parents.
3572: <p>
3573:
1.247 jufi 3574: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 3575: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 3576: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
3577: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 3578: </strong></font><br>
3579: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
3580: using IPFilter.
3581:
3582: <p>
3583:
1.247 jufi 3584: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 3585: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 3586: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
3587: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 3588: </strong></font><br>
3589: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
3590: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
3591: perspectives of the four OS.
3592: <br>
3593: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 3594: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 3595: <p>
3596:
1.247 jufi 3597: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 3598: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
3599: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 3600: software and security</a>,
3601: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 3602: </strong></font><br>
3603:
3604: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
3605: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
3606: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
3607: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
3608: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
3609: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
3610: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
3611: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
3612: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
3613: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
3614: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
3615: security conscious team beyond doubt.
3616: <p>
1.247 jufi 3617: </ul>
1.228 horacio 3618:
1.225 horacio 3619: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3620: <ul>
1.225 horacio 3621:
1.247 jufi 3622: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3623: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
3624: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 3625: Interview</a>,
3626: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 3627: </strong></font><br>
3628:
3629: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
3630: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
3631: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 3632: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 3633: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
3634: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
3635: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
3636: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
3637: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 3638: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 3639: of choice.
3640: <p>
1.247 jufi 3641: </ul>
1.225 horacio 3642:
3643: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3644: <ul>
1.225 horacio 3645:
1.247 jufi 3646: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3647: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 3648: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
3649: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 3650: </strong></font><br>
3651:
3652: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
3653: <p>
3654:
1.247 jufi 3655: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3656: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 3657: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
3658: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 3659: </strong></font><br>
3660:
3661: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
3662: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
3663: <p>
1.247 jufi 3664: </ul>
1.225 horacio 3665:
1.218 horacio 3666: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3667: <ul>
1.218 horacio 3668:
1.247 jufi 3669: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 3670: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 3671: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 3672: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 3673: </strong></font><br>
3674:
3675: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
3676: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
3677: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
3678: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
3679: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
3680: subjects. Worth a read.
3681: <p>
3682:
3683:
1.247 jufi 3684: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 3685: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 3686: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
3687: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 3688: </strong></font><br>
3689:
3690: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
3691: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
3692: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
3693: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
3694: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
3695: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
3696: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
3697: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
3698: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 3699: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 3700: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
3701: on other operating systems.<br>
3702: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
3703: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
3704: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
3705: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
3706: <p>
3707:
1.247 jufi 3708: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3709: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 3710: Operating System 2010</a>,
3711: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 3712: </strong></font><br>
3713:
3714: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
3715: covering the level of software integration into the core
3716: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
3717: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
3718: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
3719: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
3720: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
3721: <p>
3722:
1.247 jufi 3723: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 3724: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 3725: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
3726: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 3727: </strong></font><br>
3728:
3729: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
3730: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
3731: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
3732: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
3733: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
3734: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
3735: <p>
1.247 jufi 3736: </ul>
1.221 horacio 3737:
1.210 jufi 3738: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3739: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3740:
1.247 jufi 3741: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3742: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 3743: Already a Contender</a>,
3744: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 3745: </strong></font><br>
3746:
3747: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
3748: source software in response to an article which claimed that
3749: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
3750: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
3751: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
3752: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
3753: <p>
3754:
1.247 jufi 3755: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 3756: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 3757: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
3758: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 3759: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3760:
1.224 horacio 3761: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
3762: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
3763: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
3764: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
3765: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
3766: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 3767: <p>
1.247 jufi 3768: </ul>
1.215 horacio 3769:
3770: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3771: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3772:
1.247 jufi 3773: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3774: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
3775: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 3776: Division</a>,
3777: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 3778: </strong></font><br>
3779:
3780: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
3781: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 3782: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 3783: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
3784: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
3785: investment</em>.<br>
3786: The implementation details can be seen on their
3787: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
3788: <p>
3789:
1.247 jufi 3790: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3791: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
3792: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
3793: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
3794: </strong></font><br>
3795:
3796: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
3797: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
3798: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1.475 grunk 3799: laptops and T-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1.301 jose 3800: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
3801: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
3802: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
3803: <p>
3804:
3805: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3806: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 3807: Thinking about Security</a>,
3808: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 3809: </strong></font><br>
3810:
3811: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
3812: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
3813: security and says that even secured operating systems running
3814: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
3815: to time.<br>
3816: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
3817: system and just the most secure system.
3818: <p>
3819:
1.247 jufi 3820: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3821: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 3822: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
3823: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 3824: </strong></font><br>
3825:
3826: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
3827: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
3828: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
3829: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
3830: choice:<br>
3831: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
3832: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
3833: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
3834: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
3835: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
3836: network security devices and as such must be well
3837: armored."</em><br>
3838: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
3839: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
3840: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
3841: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
3842: <br>
3843: Bravo!
3844: <p>
1.247 jufi 3845: </ul>
1.210 jufi 3846:
1.207 ian 3847: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3848: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3849:
1.247 jufi 3850: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 3851: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
3852: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
3853: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 3854:
1.207 ian 3855: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
3856: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 3857: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 3858: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
3859: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
3860: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 3861: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 3862: <p>
1.247 jufi 3863: </ul>
1.207 ian 3864:
1.194 jufi 3865: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3866: <ul>
1.194 jufi 3867:
1.247 jufi 3868: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3869: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 3870: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
3871: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 3872: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3873:
1.240 miod 3874: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 3875: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
3876: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
3877: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
3878: <p>
3879:
1.247 jufi 3880: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3881: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
3882: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
3883: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
3884:
3885: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
3886: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
3887: <p>
3888:
3889: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3890: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
3891: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3892: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
3893:
3894: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
3895: <p>
3896:
3897: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3898: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 3899: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
3900: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
3901: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3902:
1.240 miod 3903: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 3904: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 3905: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
3906: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 3907: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 3908: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 3909: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
3910: <br>
1.413 deraadt 3911: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 3912: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
3913: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
3914: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
3915: <p>
3916:
1.247 jufi 3917: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 3918: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
3919: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 3920: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 3921: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3922:
1.194 jufi 3923: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
3924: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
3925: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
3926: <br>
3927: The new
3928: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 3929: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 3930: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
3931: <p>
1.247 jufi 3932: </ul>
1.194 jufi 3933:
1.190 horacio 3934: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3935: <ul>
1.190 horacio 3936:
1.247 jufi 3937: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 3938:
3939: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
3940: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
3941:
1.301 jose 3942:
1.191 jufi 3943: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
3944: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
3945:
3946: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
3947: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
3948:
1.212 horacio 3949: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
3950: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 3951: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
3952:
1.211 horacio 3953: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
3954: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 3955: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
3956:
1.247 jufi 3957: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 3958: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
3959:
1.247 jufi 3960: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 3961: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
3962:
1.212 horacio 3963: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
3964: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 3965: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
3966:
3967: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
3968: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
3969:
3970: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
3971: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
3972:
1.301 jose 3973: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
3974: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
3975:
1.191 jufi 3976: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
3977: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
3978:
3979: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 3980: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 3981:
1.192 jufi 3982: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
3983: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 3984: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 3985:
1.193 deraadt 3986: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
3987: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 3988: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 3989:
1.247 jufi 3990: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 3991: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
3992:
1.247 jufi 3993: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 3994: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
3995: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
3996:
1.213 horacio 3997: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 3998: 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 3999: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
4000:
1.190 horacio 4001: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 4002: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
4003: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
4004: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
4005: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
4006: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
4007: <p>
1.190 horacio 4008:
1.247 jufi 4009: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4010: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
4011: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
4012: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 4013: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4014:
1.195 jufi 4015: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 4016: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
4017: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
4018: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 4019: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
4020: <p>
4021:
1.247 jufi 4022: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4023: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 4024: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
4025: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
4026: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4027:
1.191 jufi 4028: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 4029: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
4030: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
4031: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
4032: <p>
4033:
4034: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4035: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
4036: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4037: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
4038:
4039: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
4040: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 4041: <p>
1.247 jufi 4042: </ul>
1.190 horacio 4043:
1.191 jufi 4044:
1.186 jufi 4045: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4046: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 4047:
1.247 jufi 4048: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 4049: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 4050: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
4051: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 4052: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 4053:
1.188 jufi 4054: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 4055: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 4056: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 4057: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
4058: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 4059: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 4060: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 4061: <p>
4062:
1.301 jose 4063: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4064: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
4065: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4066: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
4067:
4068: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
4069: <p>
1.191 jufi 4070:
1.247 jufi 4071: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 4072: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
4073: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1.466 deraadt 4074: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 5, 2001
1.191 jufi 4075: </strong></font><br>
4076:
4077: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
4078: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
4079: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
4080: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
4081: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
4082: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
4083: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
4084: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
4085: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
4086: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
4087: familiar?
4088: <p>
1.247 jufi 4089: </ul>
1.191 jufi 4090:
1.178 louis 4091: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4092: <ul>
1.178 louis 4093:
1.247 jufi 4094: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 4095: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 4096: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
4097: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 4098: </strong></font><br>
4099:
4100: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
4101: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
4102: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
4103: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
4104: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
4105: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
4106: <p>
4107:
1.247 jufi 4108: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4109: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
4110: Open source under the hood</a>,
4111: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 4112: </strong></font><br>
4113:
4114: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
4115: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
4116: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
4117: <p>
4118:
1.247 jufi 4119: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4120: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
4121: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
4122: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 4123: </strong></font><br>
4124:
4125: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
4126: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
4127: <p>
1.247 jufi 4128: </ul>
1.179 louis 4129:
1.174 louis 4130:
1.175 louis 4131: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4132: <ul>
1.175 louis 4133:
1.247 jufi 4134: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4135: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
4136: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
4137: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 4138: </strong></font><br>
4139:
4140: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
4141: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
4142: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
4143: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
4144: <p>
4145:
1.247 jufi 4146: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4147: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
4148: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
4149: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 4150: </strong></font><br>
4151:
4152: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 4153: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 4154: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
4155: <p>
1.247 jufi 4156: </ul>
1.175 louis 4157:
1.176 louis 4158:
1.172 mickey 4159: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4160: <ul>
1.172 mickey 4161:
1.247 jufi 4162: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4163: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
4164: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 4165: </strong></font><br>
4166:
4167: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
4168: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
4169: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 4170: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 4171: <p>
4172:
1.247 jufi 4173: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 4174: <a
1.269 deraadt 4175: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
4176: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
4177: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 4178: </strong></font><br>
4179:
4180: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
4181: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
4182: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
4183: <p>
4184:
1.247 jufi 4185: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4186: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 4187: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
4188: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 4189: </strong></font><br>
4190:
4191: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
4192: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
4193: <p>
4194:
1.247 jufi 4195: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4196: <a
1.269 deraadt 4197: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
4198: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 4199: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
4200: </strong></font><br>
4201:
4202: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
4203: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
4204: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
4205: our own Theo de Raadt.
4206: <p>
4207:
1.247 jufi 4208: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4209: <a
1.269 deraadt 4210: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
4211: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
4212: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 4213: </strong></font><br>
4214:
4215: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
4216: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
4217: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
4218: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
4219: shut down.]
4220: <p>
4221:
1.247 jufi 4222: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4223: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 4224: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 4225: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
4226: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 4227: </strong></font><br>
4228:
4229: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
4230: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
4231: <p>
1.247 jufi 4232: </ul>
1.172 mickey 4233:
1.161 louis 4234: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4235: <ul>
1.161 louis 4236:
1.247 jufi 4237: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 4238: <a
1.269 deraadt 4239: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
4240: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
4241: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 4242: </strong></font><br>
4243:
4244: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
4245: by John Wolley
4246: <p>
4247:
1.247 jufi 4248: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 4249: <a
1.269 deraadt 4250: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
4251: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
4252: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 4253: </strong></font><br>
4254:
4255: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
4256: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
4257: OpenBSD).
4258: <p>
4259:
1.247 jufi 4260: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 4261: <a
1.247 jufi 4262: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 4263: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
4264: </strong></font><br>
4265:
4266: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
4267: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
4268: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
4269: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
4270: and hindsight.
4271: <p>
4272:
1.247 jufi 4273: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4274: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
4275: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
4276: </strong></font><br>
4277:
4278: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
4279: <p>
4280:
1.247 jufi 4281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 4282: <a
1.168 provos 4283: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
4284: December 7, 2000
4285: </strong></font><br>
4286:
4287: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
4288: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
4289: us explain.
4290: <p>
4291:
1.247 jufi 4292: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 4293: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
4294: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 4295: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 4296: December 6, 2000
4297: </strong></font><br>
4298:
4299: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
4300: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
4301: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
4302: <p>
4303:
1.247 jufi 4304: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4305: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
4306: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
4307: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
4308: </strong></font><br>
4309:
4310: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
4311: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
4312: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
4313: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
4314: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
4315: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
4316: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
4317: <p>
4318:
4319: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 4320: <a
1.226 horacio 4321: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
4322: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 4323: </strong></font><br>
4324:
4325: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 4326: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 4327: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 4328: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
4329: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
4330: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 4331: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 4332: <p>
1.162 millert 4333:
1.247 jufi 4334: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 4335: <a
1.161 louis 4336: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
4337: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
4338: </strong></font><br>
4339:
4340: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
4341: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
4342: <p>
4343:
1.247 jufi 4344: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 4345: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
4346: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
4347: </strong></font><br>
4348:
4349: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
4350: <p>
4351:
4352:
1.247 jufi 4353: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 4354: <a
1.226 horacio 4355: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
4356: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
4357: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 4358: </strong></font><br>
4359:
4360: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
4361: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
4362: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
4363: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
4364: <p>
1.247 jufi 4365: </ul>
1.169 louis 4366:
1.158 louis 4367: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4368: <ul>
1.147 louis 4369:
1.247 jufi 4370: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4371: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
4372: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 4373: </strong></font><br>
4374:
4375: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
4376: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
4377: <p>
4378:
1.247 jufi 4379: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4380: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
4381: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
4382: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 4383: </strong></font><br>
4384: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
4385: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
4386: <p>
4387:
1.247 jufi 4388: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 4389: <a
4390: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
4391: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
4392: </strong></font><br>
4393:
4394: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
4395: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
4396: <p>
4397:
1.247 jufi 4398: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4399: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 4400: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
4401: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 4402:
1.213 horacio 4403: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 4404: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 4405: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
4406: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
4407: <p>
1.215 horacio 4408:
1.247 jufi 4409: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4410: <a
4411: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
4412: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
4413: </strong></font><br>
4414:
4415: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
4416: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
4417: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
4418: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
4419: much of the attitude too).
4420: <p>
1.161 louis 4421:
1.247 jufi 4422: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4423: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4424: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 4425: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4426:
1.157 louis 4427: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
4428: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
4429: <p>
1.247 jufi 4430: </ul>
1.157 louis 4431:
4432: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4433: <ul>
1.157 louis 4434:
1.247 jufi 4435: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4436: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4437: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 4438: </strong></font><br>
4439:
4440: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
4441: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
4442: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
4443: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
4444: <p>
4445:
1.247 jufi 4446: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 4447: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
4448: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
4449: </strong></font><br>
4450:
4451: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
4452: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
4453: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
4454: it because they love coding...
4455: <p>
4456:
1.247 jufi 4457: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 4458: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
4459: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
4460: </strong></font><br>
4461:
4462: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
4463: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
4464: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
4465: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
4466: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
4467: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
4468: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
4469: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
4470: <p>
4471:
1.247 jufi 4472: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4473: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
4474: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
4475: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 4476: </strong></font><br>
4477:
4478: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
4479: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
4480: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
4481: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
4482: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
4483: the pizza.
4484: <p>
4485:
1.247 jufi 4486: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 4487: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
4488: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
4489: </strong></font><br>
4490:
4491: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
4492: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
4493: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
4494: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
4495: problems.
4496: <p>
4497:
1.247 jufi 4498: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 4499: <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 4500: </strong></font><br>
4501:
1.222 miod 4502: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 4503: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
4504: - whether they like it or not.
4505: <p>
4506:
1.247 jufi 4507: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4508: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
4509: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 4510: </strong></font><br>
4511:
4512: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
4513: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
4514: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 4515: <p>
1.148 aaron 4516:
1.247 jufi 4517: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4518: <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 4519: </strong></font><br>
4520:
4521: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
4522: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
4523: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
4524: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
4525: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
4526: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
4527: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
4528: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
4529: <p>
4530:
1.247 jufi 4531: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4532: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
4533: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 4534: </strong></font><br>
4535:
4536: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
4537: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 4538: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 4539: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
4540: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
4541: <p>
1.247 jufi 4542: </ul>
1.147 louis 4543:
1.138 louis 4544: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4545: <ul>
1.138 louis 4546:
1.247 jufi 4547: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4548: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
4549: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
4550: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
4551: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 4552: </strong></font><br>
4553:
1.227 horacio 4554: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 4555: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
4556: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
4557: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
4558: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
4559: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
4560: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
4561: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 4562: <p>
4563:
1.247 jufi 4564: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 4565: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 4566: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 4567: </strong></font><br>
4568:
4569: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
4570: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
4571: groups, and even Linux.
4572: <p>
4573:
1.247 jufi 4574: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4575: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
4576: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 4577: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
4578: </strong></font><br>
4579:
4580: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
4581: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
4582: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
4583: library after installing the OS.
4584: <p>
4585:
1.247 jufi 4586: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4587: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 4588: Sys Admin, September 2000
4589: </strong></font><br>
4590:
4591: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
4592: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
4593: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
4594: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 4595: (<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>,
4596: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
4597: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
4598: <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 4599: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 4600: out of the system.
4601: <p>
4602:
1.247 jufi 4603: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 4604: <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
4605: </strong></font><br>
4606:
4607: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 4608: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 4609: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
4610: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
4611: the IP filtering and address translation.
4612: <p>
1.301 jose 4613:
4614: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4615: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
4616: </strong></font><br>
4617:
4618: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
4619: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
4620: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
4621: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
4622: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
4623: <p>
1.247 jufi 4624: </ul>
1.200 niklas 4625:
1.131 louis 4626: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4627: <ul>
1.131 louis 4628:
1.247 jufi 4629: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4630: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
4631: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
4632: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 4633: </strong></font><br>
4634:
4635: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
4636: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
4637: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
4638: <p>
4639:
1.247 jufi 4640: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 4641: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
4642: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
4643: </strong></font><br>
4644:
4645: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
4646: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
4647: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
4648: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
4649: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
4650: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
4651: note of"</i>.
4652: <p>
4653:
1.247 jufi 4654: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 4655: <a
1.247 jufi 4656: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 4657: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
4658: </strong></font><br>
4659:
4660: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
4661: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
4662: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
4663: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
4664: <p>
4665:
1.247 jufi 4666: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 4667: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 4668: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
4669: </strong></font><br>
4670:
4671: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
4672: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
4673: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
4674: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
4675: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
4676: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
4677: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
4678: <p>
4679:
1.247 jufi 4680: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 4681: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
4682: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
4683: 2000
4684: </strong></font><br>
4685:
4686: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
4687: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
4688: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
4689: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
4690: against current industry practices.
4691: <p>
4692:
1.247 jufi 4693: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 4694: <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
4695: </strong></font><br>
4696:
4697: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
4698: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
4699: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
4700: <p>
4701:
1.247 jufi 4702: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 4703: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
4704: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
4705: </strong></font><br>
4706:
4707: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
4708: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
4709: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
4710: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
4711: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
4712: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
4713: careful code reviews, he concludes.
4714: <p>
4715:
1.247 jufi 4716: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 4717: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
4718: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
4719: </strong></font><br>
4720:
4721: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
4722: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
4723: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
4724: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
4725: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 4726: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
4727: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
4728: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 4729: <p>
1.247 jufi 4730: </ul>
1.131 louis 4731:
1.118 louis 4732: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4733: <ul>
1.118 louis 4734:
1.247 jufi 4735: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 4736: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
4737: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
4738: </strong></font><br>
4739:
4740: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
4741: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
4742: about time. The article mentions that
4743: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
4744: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
4745: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 4746: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 4747: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
4748: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 4749: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 4750: <p>
4751:
1.247 jufi 4752: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4753: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 4754: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 4755: </strong></font><br>
4756:
4757: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
4758: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
4759: of OpenSSH.
4760: <p>
4761:
1.247 jufi 4762: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4763: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4764: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 4765: </strong></font><br>
4766:
4767: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 4768: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 4769: bridging.
4770: <p>
4771:
1.247 jufi 4772: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4773: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
4774: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 4775: </strong></font><br>
4776:
1.121 deraadt 4777: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
4778: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 4779: <p>
4780:
1.247 jufi 4781: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 4782: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
4783: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
4784: </strong></font><br>
4785:
4786: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
4787: <p>
4788:
1.247 jufi 4789: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 4790: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 4791: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
4792: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 4793: </strong></font><br>
4794:
1.120 deraadt 4795: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
4796: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 4797: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
4798: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
4799: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
4800: <p>
4801:
1.247 jufi 4802: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 4803: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
4804: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
4805: </strong></font><br>
4806:
1.222 miod 4807: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 4808: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
4809: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
4810: protocols and their quirks.
4811: <p>
4812:
1.247 jufi 4813: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4814: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
4815: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 4816: </strong></font><br>
4817:
4818: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
4819: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
4820: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 4821: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 4822: <p>
4823:
1.247 jufi 4824: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 4825: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
4826: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
4827: </strong></font><br>
4828:
4829: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
4830: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
4831: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
4832: <p>
4833:
1.247 jufi 4834: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 4835: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 4836: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
4837: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 4838: </strong></font><br>
4839:
4840: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
4841: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
4842: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
4843: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
4844: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
4845: <p>
1.247 jufi 4846: </ul>
1.118 louis 4847:
1.104 louis 4848: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4849: <ul>
1.104 louis 4850:
1.247 jufi 4851: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 4852: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
4853: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
4854: </strong></font><br>
4855:
4856: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
4857: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
4858: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
4859: be a bit dry.
4860: <p>
4861:
1.247 jufi 4862: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4863: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
4864: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
4865: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
4866: </strong></font><br>
4867: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
4868: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
4869: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
4870: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
4871: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
4872: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
4873: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
4874: <p>
4875:
1.247 jufi 4876: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4877: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
4878: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 4879: 2000
1.128 louis 4880: </strong></font><br>
4881:
4882: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
4883: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
4884: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
4885: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
4886: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 4887: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 4888: <p>
4889:
1.247 jufi 4890: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4891: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
4892: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 4893: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 4894:
4895: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
4896: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
4897: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
4898: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 4899: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
4900: <p>
1.110 louis 4901:
1.247 jufi 4902: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 4903: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
4904: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
4905: </strong></font><br>
4906:
4907: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
4908: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
4909: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
4910: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
4911: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
4912: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
4913: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
4914: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
4915: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
4916: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
4917: <p>
4918:
1.247 jufi 4919: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 4920: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 4921: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 4922:
4923: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
4924: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 4925: <p>
1.108 louis 4926:
1.247 jufi 4927: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 4928: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
4929: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 4930: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 4931:
4932: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
4933: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
4934: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 4935: <p>
1.106 louis 4936:
1.247 jufi 4937: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 4938: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
4939: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 4940: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 4941:
4942: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
4943: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
4944: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
4945: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 4946: <p>
1.107 louis 4947:
1.247 jufi 4948: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 4949: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
4950: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 4951: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 4952:
4953: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
4954: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 4955: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 4956: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
4957: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 4958: <p>
1.105 louis 4959:
1.247 jufi 4960: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 4961: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 4962: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 4963: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 4964:
1.113 naddy 4965: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
4966: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 4967: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 4968: <p>
1.104 louis 4969:
1.247 jufi 4970: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4971: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
4972: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
4973: </strong></font><br>
4974:
4975: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
4976: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
4977: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
4978: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
4979: <p>
1.301 jose 4980:
4981: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4982: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
4983: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
4984: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
4985:
4986: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
4987: hardware-supported cryptography.
4988: <p>
1.247 jufi 4989: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 4990:
1.85 louis 4991: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4992: <ul>
1.85 louis 4993:
1.247 jufi 4994: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 4995: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 4996: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 4997: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 4998:
4999: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
5000: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
5001: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
5002: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
5003: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
5004: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
5005: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 5006: <p>
1.99 louis 5007:
1.247 jufi 5008: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5009: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 5010: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 5011: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 5012:
5013: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
5014: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
5015: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
5016: conditions.
1.113 naddy 5017: <p>
1.100 louis 5018:
1.247 jufi 5019: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5020: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 5021: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 5022: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 5023:
5024: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
5025: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
5026: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
5027: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 5028: <p>
1.95 louis 5029:
1.247 jufi 5030: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5031: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 5032: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 5033: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 5034:
5035: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
5036: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 5037: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 5038: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
5039: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5040: <p>
1.92 louis 5041:
1.247 jufi 5042: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5043: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 5044: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 5045: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 5046:
5047: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
5048: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
5049: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
5050: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
5051: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
5052: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 5053: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 5054: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 5055: <p>
1.91 louis 5056:
1.247 jufi 5057: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5058: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
5059: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 5060: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 5061:
5062: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
5063: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
5064: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
5065: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
5066: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
5067: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
5068: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
5069: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
5070: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 5071: <p>
1.90 louis 5072:
1.247 jufi 5073: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 5074: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
5075: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
5076: </strong></font><br>
5077: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
5078: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
5079: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
5080: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
5081: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
5082: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
5083: <p>
5084:
1.247 jufi 5085: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 5086: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
5087: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 5088: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 5089:
1.113 naddy 5090: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
5091: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 5092: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
5093: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
5094: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
5095: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
5096: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 5097: <p>
1.87 louis 5098:
1.247 jufi 5099: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 5100: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
5101: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 5102: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 5103:
5104: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 5105: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 5106: <p>
1.85 louis 5107:
1.247 jufi 5108: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5109: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
5110: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
5111: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
5112:
5113: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
5114: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
5115: <p>
5116:
5117: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 5118: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
5119: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 5120: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 5121:
5122: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 5123: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 5124: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
5125: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 5126: <p>
1.89 louis 5127:
1.247 jufi 5128: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5129: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
1.85 louis 5130: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 5131: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 5132:
5133: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
5134: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
5135: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
5136: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
5137: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 5138: </ul>
1.85 louis 5139:
1.78 deraadt 5140: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5141: <ul>
1.74 louis 5142:
1.247 jufi 5143: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5144: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 5145: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 5146: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 5147: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 5148:
5149: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
5150: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
5151: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5152: <p>
1.83 louis 5153:
1.247 jufi 5154: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 5155: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
5156: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 5157: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 5158:
5159: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
5160: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 5161: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 5162: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
5163: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 5164: <p>
1.93 louis 5165:
1.247 jufi 5166: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 5167: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
5168: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
5169: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 5170: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 5171:
1.83 louis 5172: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
5173: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
5174: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
5175: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
5176: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 5177: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
5178: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
5179: <p>
1.82 aaron 5180:
1.247 jufi 5181: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5182: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 5183: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 5184: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 5185:
1.83 louis 5186: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
5187: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
5188: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 5189: <p>
1.80 louis 5190:
1.247 jufi 5191: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5192: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 5193: Bad Press</a>,
5194: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 5195: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 5196:
5197: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 5198: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 5199: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
5200: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
5201: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 5202: <p>
1.247 jufi 5203: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 5204:
5205: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5206: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 5207:
1.247 jufi 5208: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5209: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
5210: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 5211: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 5212: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 5213:
5214: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
5215: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
5216: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
5217: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 5218: <p>
1.74 louis 5219:
1.247 jufi 5220: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 5221: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
5222: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 5223: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 5224:
1.219 horacio 5225: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
5226: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
5227: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
5228: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
5229: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
5230: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
5231: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 5232: <p>
1.88 louis 5233:
1.247 jufi 5234: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 5235: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 5236: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 5237: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 5238:
5239: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
5240: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
5241: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
5242: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 5243: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 5244: <p>
1.81 louis 5245:
1.247 jufi 5246: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5247: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 5248: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 5249: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 5250:
5251: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
5252: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
5253: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
5254: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
5255: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
5256: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
5257: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 5258: <p>
1.90 louis 5259:
1.247 jufi 5260: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5261: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 5262: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 5263: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 5264:
5265: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
5266: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
5267: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 5268: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 5269: <p>
1.247 jufi 5270: </ul>
1.71 louis 5271:
1.69 deraadt 5272: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5273: <ul>
1.70 louis 5274:
1.247 jufi 5275: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5276: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
5277: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 5278: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 5279:
5280: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
5281: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
5282: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 5283: <p>
1.70 louis 5284:
1.247 jufi 5285: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5286: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
5287: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 5288: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 5289:
5290: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 5291: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 5292: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 5293: <p>
1.68 louis 5294:
1.247 jufi 5295: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5296: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
5297: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 5298: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 5299: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 5300:
1.111 jufi 5301: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
5302: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 5303: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 5304: "secure by default" installation.
5305: <p>
1.64 louis 5306:
1.247 jufi 5307: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 5308: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 5309: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 5310: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 5311:
1.113 naddy 5312: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 5313: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 5314: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 5315: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
5316: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
5317: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 5318: <p>
1.66 louis 5319:
1.247 jufi 5320: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5321: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 5322: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5323: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 5324:
5325: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 5326: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 5327: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
5328: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
5329: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 5330: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
5331: <p>
1.83 louis 5332:
1.247 jufi 5333: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5334: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 5335: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5336: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 5337:
5338: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 5339: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
5340: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 5341: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
5342: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 5343: <p>
1.64 louis 5344:
1.247 jufi 5345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5346: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 5347: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5348: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 5349:
5350: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
5351: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 5352: <p>
1.301 jose 5353:
5354: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5355: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
5356: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
5357: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
5358: </strong></font><br>
5359:
5360: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
5361: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
5362: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
5363: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
5364: Giving way to
5365: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
5366: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
5367: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
5368: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
5369: <p>
1.247 jufi 5370: </ul>
1.65 louis 5371:
1.69 deraadt 5372: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5373: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5374:
1.247 jufi 5375: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5376: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 5377: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 5378: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 5379:
5380: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
5381: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
5382: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
5383: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 5384: <p>
1.88 louis 5385:
1.247 jufi 5386: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5387: <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 5388: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 5389:
5390: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 5391: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
5392: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 5393: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
5394: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 5395: <p>
1.60 louis 5396:
1.247 jufi 5397: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 5398: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 5399: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 5400: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 5401: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5402:
5403: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
5404: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
5405: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 5406: <p>
1.58 louis 5407:
1.247 jufi 5408: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 5409: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 5410: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 5411:
5412: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
5413: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 5414: <p>
1.53 louis 5415:
1.247 jufi 5416: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 5417: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
5418: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 5419: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 5420:
5421: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
5422: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
5423: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 5424: <p>
1.99 louis 5425:
1.247 jufi 5426: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 5427: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 5428: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5429:
5430: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
5431: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 5432: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 5433: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 5434: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 5435:
1.247 jufi 5436: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 5437: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
5438: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 5439: </strong></font><br>
5440:
5441: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
5442: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
5443: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
5444: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
5445: <p>
5446:
1.247 jufi 5447: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5448: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 5449: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 5450: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5451:
5452: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
5453: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 5454: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 5455:
1.247 jufi 5456: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 5457: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 5458: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 5459:
5460: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 5461: in
1.247 jufi 5462: <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 5463: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 5464: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 5465: <p>
1.53 louis 5466:
1.247 jufi 5467: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5468: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 5469: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
5470: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 5471: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 5472:
1.58 louis 5473: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5474: <p>
1.301 jose 5475:
5476: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5477: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
5478: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
5479: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
5480: Informacyjny, January 2000
5481: </strong></font><br>
5482:
5483: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
5484: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
5485: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
5486: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
5487: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
5488: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
5489: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
5490: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
5491: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
5492: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 5493: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
5494: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 5495: <p>
5496:
5497: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5498: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
5499: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
5500: </strong></font><br>
5501:
5502: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
5503: <p>
5504: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 5505:
1.69 deraadt 5506: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5507: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5508:
1.247 jufi 5509: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 5510: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
5511: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
5512: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 5513: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5514:
1.58 louis 5515: Kurt Seifried
5516: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
5517: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
5518: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 5519: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 5520:
1.247 jufi 5521: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5522: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 5523: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 5524: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 5525:
5526: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 5527: <p>
1.96 louis 5528:
1.247 jufi 5529: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5530: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
5531: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
5532: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
5533: </strong></font><br>
5534:
5535: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
5536: <p>
5537:
5538: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5539: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 5540: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 5541: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 5542:
5543: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
5544: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 5545: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 5546: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 5547: <p>
1.247 jufi 5548: </ul>
1.86 louis 5549:
1.69 deraadt 5550: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5551: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5552:
1.247 jufi 5553: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 5554: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
5555: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 5556: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 5557:
5558: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
5559: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 5560: <p>
1.61 louis 5561:
1.247 jufi 5562: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5563: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 5564: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
5565: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5566: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 5567:
5568: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 5569: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 5570: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
5571: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 5572: right -- or at least strives to".
5573: <p>
1.48 louis 5574:
1.247 jufi 5575: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 5576: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
5577: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5578: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 5579: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
5580: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
5581: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
5582: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 5583: <p>
1.61 louis 5584:
1.247 jufi 5585: <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 5586: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 5587: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 5588:
5589: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
5590: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
5591: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
5592: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 5593: <p>
1.46 louis 5594:
1.247 jufi 5595: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 5596: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
5597: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 5598: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5599:
5600: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
5601: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 5602: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 5603:
1.247 jufi 5604: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 5605: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
5606: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 5607: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 5608:
5609: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
5610: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
5611: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
5612: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 5613: <p>
1.247 jufi 5614: </ul>
1.70 louis 5615:
1.69 deraadt 5616: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5617: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5618:
1.247 jufi 5619: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5620: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
5621: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 5622: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 5623: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 5624:
5625: Kurt Seifried
5626: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
5627: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
5628: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 5629: <p>
1.44 philen 5630:
1.247 jufi 5631: <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 5632: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 5633: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 5634:
5635: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 5636: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 5637:
1.247 jufi 5638: <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 5639: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 5640: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 5641:
5642: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 5643: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 5644:
1.247 jufi 5645: <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 5646: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 5647: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 5648:
5649: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
5650: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
5651: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
5652: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 5653: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 5654:
1.247 jufi 5655: <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 5656: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 5657: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 5658:
1.36 louis 5659: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 5660: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 5661:
1.247 jufi 5662: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5663: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
1.39 louis 5664: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 5665: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 5666:
5667: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 5668: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 5669: </ul>
1.38 louis 5670:
1.69 deraadt 5671: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5672: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5673:
1.247 jufi 5674: <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 5675: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 5676: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 5677:
5678: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
5679: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 5680: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 5681:
1.113 naddy 5682: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 5683: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 5684: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 5685: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 5686:
5687: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
5688: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 5689: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
5690: terminal:
1.113 naddy 5691: <blockquote>
5692: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
5693: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
5694: <br>
5695: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
5696: </code>
5697: </blockquote>
5698: <p>
5699:
1.247 jufi 5700: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 5701: <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 5702: <p>
5703:
5704: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5705: <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 5706: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 5707:
5708: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
5709: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 5710: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 5711: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 5712:
1.247 jufi 5713: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5714: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
5715: Sept. 28, 1999
5716: </strong></font><br>
5717:
5718: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
5719: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
5720: translating and reprinting articles from
5721: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
5722: <p>
5723:
5724: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 5725: <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 5726: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 5727:
5728: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
5729: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
5730: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
5731: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
5732: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 5733: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 5734: <p>
1.19 louis 5735:
1.113 naddy 5736: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 5737: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 5738: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 5739:
5740: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
5741: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
5742: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 5743: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
5744: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 5745: <p>
1.16 louis 5746:
1.247 jufi 5747: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5748: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 5749: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 5750: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 5751:
1.57 louis 5752: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
5753: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
5754: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 5755: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 5756:
1.247 jufi 5757: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5758: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.466 deraadt 5759: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5760: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5761:
1.113 naddy 5762: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 5763:
1.247 jufi 5764: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 5765: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
5766: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 5767: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 5768:
1.23 louis 5769: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
5770: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
5771: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
5772: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
5773: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 5774: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 5775:
1.247 jufi 5776: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 5777: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
5778: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 5779: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 5780:
1.199 pvalchev 5781: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 5782: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
5783: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
5784: installation.
1.113 naddy 5785: <p>
1.47 louis 5786:
1.247 jufi 5787: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5788: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 5789: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 5790: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5791:
1.301 jose 5792: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
5793: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
5794: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 5795: </ul>
1.57 louis 5796:
1.69 deraadt 5797: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5798: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5799:
1.247 jufi 5800: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 5801: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 5802: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 5803: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 5804:
5805: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
5806: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 5807: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5808: <p>
1.12 louis 5809:
1.247 jufi 5810: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 5811: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 5812: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 5813: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 5814:
5815: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
5816: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 5817: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
5818: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
5819: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
5820: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
5821: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 5822: <p>
1.247 jufi 5823: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 5824:
1.69 deraadt 5825: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5826: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 5827:
1.247 jufi 5828: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 5829: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 5830: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 5831:
5832: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
5833: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
5834: available."
1.113 naddy 5835: <p>
1.301 jose 5836:
5837: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5838: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
5839: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
5840: </strong></font><br>
5841:
5842: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
5843: <p>
1.247 jufi 5844: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 5845:
1.69 deraadt 5846: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5847: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5848:
1.247 jufi 5849: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 5850: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 5851: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 5852:
5853: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
5854: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
5855: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
5856: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
5857: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 5858: <p>
1.33 louis 5859:
1.247 jufi 5860: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5861: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 5862: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 5863: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5864:
1.113 naddy 5865: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
5866: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 5867: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
5868: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
5869: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 5870: <p>
1.247 jufi 5871: </ul>
1.57 louis 5872:
1.69 deraadt 5873: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5874: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5875:
1.247 jufi 5876: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5877: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 5878: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 5879: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 5880:
5881: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
5882: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 5883: <p>
1.69 deraadt 5884:
1.247 jufi 5885: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 5886: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
5887: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
5888: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 5889: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 5890:
5891: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 5892: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 5893:
1.247 jufi 5894: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5895: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 5896:
1.113 naddy 5897: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 5898:
1.247 jufi 5899: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5900: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
1.68 louis 5901: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 5902: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 5903:
5904: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 5905: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 5906: </ul>
1.23 louis 5907:
1.69 deraadt 5908: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5909: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5910:
1.247 jufi 5911: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 5912: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 5913: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 5914:
5915: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
5916: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 5917: <p>
1.2 deraadt 5918:
1.247 jufi 5919: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5920: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 5921: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5922: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5923:
5924: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
5925: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 5926: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 5927: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 5928: </ul>
1.57 louis 5929:
1.69 deraadt 5930: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5931: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5932:
1.247 jufi 5933: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5934: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
1.15 louis 5935: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 5936: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 5937:
5938: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
5939: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
5940: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
5941: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5942: <p>
1.15 louis 5943:
1.247 jufi 5944: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 5945: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
5946: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 5947: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 5948:
5949: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
5950: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
5951: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
5952: columns."
1.113 naddy 5953: <p>
1.247 jufi 5954: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 5955:
1.69 deraadt 5956: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5957: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5958:
1.247 jufi 5959: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5960: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 5961: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 5962: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5963:
5964: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 5965: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 5966:
1.113 naddy 5967: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5968: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 5969: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5970:
5971: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
5972: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 5973: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 5974: </ul>
1.57 louis 5975:
1.69 deraadt 5976: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 5977: <ul>
1.301 jose 5978: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5979: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
5980: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
5981: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
5982:
5983: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
5984: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
5985: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
5986: <p>
5987:
5988: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5989: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
5990: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
5991: Nov 13, 1998 and
5992: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
5993: Datateknik</a>,
5994: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
5995:
1.380 saad 5996: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 5997: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
5998: explains the licensing issues and points to our
5999: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
6000: <p>
1.69 deraadt 6001:
1.113 naddy 6002: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 6003: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 6004: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 6005: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 6006:
1.222 miod 6007: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 6008: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
6009: Implementation, including a brief interview with
6010: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 6011: <p>
1.247 jufi 6012: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 6013:
1.69 deraadt 6014: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6015: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6016:
1.247 jufi 6017: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 6018: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 6019: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 6020:
1.69 deraadt 6021: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
6022: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 6023: <p>
1.247 jufi 6024: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 6025:
1.69 deraadt 6026: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6027: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 6028:
1.247 jufi 6029: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 6030: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
6031: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 6032: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 6033:
1.383 jcs 6034: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 6035: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 6036: <p>
1.1 deraadt 6037:
1.247 jufi 6038: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 6039: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 6040: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
6041: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 6042: <p>
1.247 jufi 6043: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 6044:
1.69 deraadt 6045: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6046: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6047:
1.247 jufi 6048: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 6049: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 6050: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
6051: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 6052: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 6053: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 6054:
6055: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
6056: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
6057: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 6058: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 6059: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 6060: <p>
1.247 jufi 6061: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 6062:
6063: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6064: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6065:
1.247 jufi 6066: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 6067: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 6068: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 6069:
1.69 deraadt 6070: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
6071: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 6072: <p>
1.112 naddy 6073:
1.247 jufi 6074: </ul>
1.113 naddy 6075: <p>
1.1 deraadt 6076:
1.292 camield 6077: <hr>
1.216 horacio 6078: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 6079: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.558 ! ian 6080: <br><small>$OpenBSD: press.html,v 1.557 2007/02/19 18:57:21 reyk Exp $</small>
1.1 deraadt 6081:
6082: </body>
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