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1.1 deraadt 18:
1.565 ian 19: <h2>April, 2007</h2>
20: <ul>
21:
22: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
23: <a href="http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/03/28/1522252">
24: Reducing spam with OpenBSD and spamd</a>, Linux.com, April 11, 2007
25: </strong></font><br>
26: This is the first installment of a multi-part article on using OpenBSD's
27: anti-spam tools. This part contains a general overview of spamd, greylisting
28: and tarpitting. Later installments will cover the how-to details.
29: <p>
30:
31:
32: </ul>
33:
1.560 ian 34: <h2>March, 2007</h2>
35: <ul>
36:
37: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.564 ian 38: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2007/03/bsdtalk105-intro-to-pf-with-jason-dixon.html">
39: Introduction to PF with Jason Dixon</a>, BSDTalk 105, March 26, 2007
40: </strong></font><br>
41: Jason provides a nice general overview of OpenBSD's Packet Filter PF,
42: emphasizing the "why" rather than the "how" of using PF.
43: Goes over pf's history, initial setup, stateful filtering,
44: normalization with "scrub", use of synproxy, authpf,
45: CARP and pfsync, GUI configurations vs config files, the pfsense project,
46: logging, transparent bridges, AltQ queing, macros, lists and tables,
47: and the tie-in to spamd,
48: <p>
49:
50: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.560 ian 51: <a href="http://www.sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=30120&hilite=">
52: Welsh Government Agency demonstrates Open Source best practice</a>,
53: SourceWire, March 8, 2007
54: </strong></font><br>
1.562 ian 55: The Countryside Council for Wales, the UK Government's regional wildlife
56: conservation authority for Wales, has hired UK Open Source service provider Sirius
1.561 saad 57: Corporation to extend OpenBSD's interoperability with the proprietary
58: Cisco IOS software; part of the agreement calls for Sirius to contribute
59: its source changes back to the OpenBSD project.
1.560 ian 60: <p>
61:
62: </ul>
1.558 ian 63:
1.556 matthieu 64: <h2>February, 2007</h2>
65: <ul>
66:
67: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.558 ian 68: <a href="http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/security/is_symantecs_vista_security_assessment_credible.html">
69: Is Symantec's Vista Security Assessment Credible?</a>, Microsoft Watch, February 28, 2007
70: </strong></font><br>
71: This paper is nominally about the relationship between Symantec and Microsoft,
72: talking about a white paper released by the former.
73: But it's quite revealing about Microsoft itself.
74: "Even Microsoft... now acknowledges that UAC (User Account Control) -
75: Vista's most [high-]profile security feature - is vulnerable to subversion,
76: particularly through social-engineering tactics."
77: And while the Symantec report says some good things about Vista security,
78: "its criticisms are brutal - for their clarity and foreboding:
79: <blockquote>
80: "Many of the technologies that Microsoft has employed to bolster
81: the security of Windows Vista are not new. In fact, most are
82: derived from the groundwork originally laid by open-source
83: operating systems such as Linux and OpenBSD, the PaX and
84: Stackguard projects, as well as numerous academic publications....
85: The majority of these technologies first appeared in Windows
86: XP SP2 [Service Pack 2]. Windows XP SP2, at the time of its
87: release, was also billed as the most secure version of Windows."
88: </blockquote>
89: So remember, folks, if it's about security, you may well have heard it
90: here first, long before Microsoft "invented" it.
91: <p>
92:
93:
94: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.557 reyk 95: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/85495">
96: OpenBSD und Linux: Kritik an Stillhalteabkommen für Treiberentwicklung</a>, heise online, February 2, 2007
97: </strong></font><br>
98:
99: Short article about OpenBSD's clear statement against device driver
100: development under non-disclosure agreement (NDA).
101: It attempts to summarize the reaction of the OpenBSD community against the
102: <a href="http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/free_drivers.html">"Free Linux Driver Development"</a>
103: under NDA offered by the linux developer Greg Kroah-Hartman which previously raised some
104: discussion.
105: Code written under NDA will make it difficult to improve it in the future
106: because somebody signed an agreement to keep the required hardware
107: documentation secret. For the OpenBSD project
108: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/goals.html">NDAs are never acceptable</a>.
109: <p>
110:
111: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.556 matthieu 112: [FRENCH]
113: <a href="http://www.ed-diamond.com/produit.php?produit=462">GNU/Linux
114: Magazine France</a> special issue number 29
115: </strong></font>
116: is dedicated to BSD systems. It features several articles about
117: OpenBSD: a pf tutorial, an article on IPSec and two articles on
118: high-availability with pf and CARP and with dynamic routing protocols
119: using OpenOSPFd and OpenBGPd.
120: <p>
121:
122: </ul>
123:
1.558 ian 124: <h2>January, 2007</h2>
125: <ul>
126: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
127: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/01/18/greylisting-with-pf.html">
128: Greylisting with PF</a>, O'Reilly onLAMP, January 18, 2007
129: </strong></font><br>
130: This onLAMP article by Dan Langille leads you through the process of
1.559 ian 131: setting up greylisting using OpenBSD's pf and spamd, which has now been ported
1.558 ian 132: to most other BSD systems. The article is
133: quite detailed, but readers should ignore the FreeBSD-specific stuff
134: like kldload (OpenBSD uses modload, but, OpenBSD always has pf built-in
135: so you don't need this). Parts of the article are based on Bob Beck's
136: <a href="http://www.nycbsdcon.org/speakers#Beck">spamd talk at NYCBSDCon</a>.
137: <p>
138:
139: </ul>
140:
1.550 mbalmer 141: <h2>December, 2006</h2>
142: <ul>
143:
144: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.554 reyk 145: [GERMAN]
146: <a href="http://www.freie-radios.net/portal/content.php?id=15206">
147: 23C3: Interview mit Henning und Reyk von OpenBSD</a>,
148: Radio Unerhört Marbug, December 29, 2006
149: </strong></font><br>
150: Interview with Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter about OpenBSD and
151: the latest changes since 4.0 during the 23rd Chaos Communications
152: Congress in Berlin.
153: <p>
154:
155: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.552 ian 156: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/12/29/01OPsecadvise_1.html">
1.553 ian 157: New Year's Resolution No. 1: Get OpenBSD</a>,
1.552 ian 158: InfoWorld, December 29, 2006
159: </strong></font><br>
160: InfoWorld's Security Advisor columnist Roger A. Grimes says:
161: "Kick off 2007 with a new, more secure operating system."
162: Citing OpenBSD's code-auditing security process and its
163: excellent security record, Grimes advises readers to give the system a try.
164: Despite repeating some old canards about the "unfriendly" install, he
165: notes favorably that
166: "OpenBSD is shipped secure-by-default, with all non-essential services disabled.
167: You won't find NFS, mountd, or Apache [httpd] enabled by default.
168: The /bin and /sbin folders will be emptier than other Linux or BSD distros.
169: Install OpenBSD and you can be assured that it doesn't default to an insecure state."
170: <p>
171:
172: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.551 xsa 173: [GERMAN]
1.550 mbalmer 174: <a href="http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/2007/01/074/">
175: OpenBSD 4.0 - Kanadische Eröffnung</a>
176: iX magazine, December 14, 2006
177: </strong></font><br>
178: The german IT magazine iX reviews the 4.0 release of OpenBSD and also mentions
179: why we don't support blobs and why this is beneficial to our users.
180: The article gives OpenBSD a very good rating for being strictly free software,
181: its swift installation, the support for upgrades, and the large number of
182: platforms and architectures it runs on.
183: <p>
184:
185: </ul>
186:
1.546 ian 187: <h2>November, 2006</h2>
188: <ul>
189:
1.549 ian 190: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
191: <a href='http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20061110204834'>
192: Official support for OpenBSD in Parallels Workstation</a>
193: undeadly.org, November 10, 2006
194: </strong></font><br>
195: OpenBSD is now supported by Parallels, a commercial OS
196: virtualization product for Mac OS X, Linux or MS-Windows.
197: In addition to allowing users to run both OpenBSD and one of those other
198: systems concurrently, the announcement means that developers with Intel Mac
199: hardware can run multiple test systems; the Undeadly Editor adds:
200: "I've had up to six OpenBSD guest systems operating simultaneously,
201: versions 3.8 through 4.0 (and -current)."
202: This also reinforces the increasing commercial acceptance of our favorite OS.
203: <p>
204:
205: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
206: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/11/bsdtalk082-openbsd-developer-jason.html">
207: Interview with Jason Wright</a>, BSDTalk 82, November 8, 2006
208: </strong></font><br>
209: Jason talks about the OpenBSD development process (particularly for device drivers
210: and getting hardware documentation from vendors), Sun SPARC hardware (particularly
211: the Ultra III), ham radio (APRS) with OpenBSD, and more.
212: <p>
213:
214: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
215: <a href='http://news.com.com/2061-10795_3-6132572.html'>
216: OpenBSD turns 4.0</a>
217: CNET News.com, November 3, 2006
218: </strong></font><br>
219: Stephen Shankland talks about the UltraSPARC III code in 4.0, and notes that
220: OpenBSD has chosen to stay with stable GCC versions rather than moving to
221: the latest and most bloated GCC versions like Linux did.
222: Quotes Theo as saying: OpenBSD doesn't aim for particular niches,
223: but it's popular in network applications... "The biggest
224: users of OpenBSD these days are people who need our fancy networking
225: features..."
226: <p>
227:
1.546 ian 228: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
229: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/55/">
230: OpenBSD 4.0 Review</a>, Software In Review, November 1, 2006
231: </strong></font><br>
232: "In an era when the next edition of Microsoft Windows is pushed
233: back more than a year, and popular GNU/Linux distributions are
234: almost expected to have their release dates delayed by weeks or
235: months, it's nice to know that at least one operating system releases
236: on schedule without all kinds of showstopping bugs and problems.
237: OpenBSD 4.0 was released on November 1 with its usual mix of new
238: hardware support and enhanced operating system features."
239: So opens Jem Matzam's review of the new 4.0 release.
240: Jem gives a brief overview of the project, discusses
241: several of the most important new features, evaluates
242: his installation and use of the system on a desktop and a notebook.
1.548 saad 243: He also offers a few recommendations for future developments to make
1.546 ian 244: the project even better.
245: There's even a link to the Wikipedia article on
246: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humppa">
247: Humppa</a>, for those who may have heard this term but not
248: the music behind it.
249: <p>
250:
1.547 ian 251: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
252: <a href='http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1243'>
253: Big changes with OpenBSD 4.0 out today</a>
254: Tectonic, November 1, 2006
255: </strong></font><br>
256: "With his characteristic no-frills approach OpenBSD team leader
257: Theo de Raadt this morning announced the release of OpenBSD 4.0."
258: This article lists the highlights of the 4.0 release and
259: tells readers where to order CD's or download the release.
260: Quotes Theo: ""We are pleased to announce the official release of
261: OpenBSD 4.0. This is our 20th release on CD-Rom (and 21st via FTP).
262: We remain proud of OpenBSD's record of ten years with only a single
263: remote hole in the default install,"
264: <p>
265:
266: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
267: <a href='http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061101-8123.html'>
268: OpenBSD 4.0 released</a>
269: Ars Technica, November 1, 2006
270: </strong></font><br>
271: A short note about the 4.0 release; refers to the O'ReillyNet article below.
272: <p>
273:
1.546 ian 274: </ul>
275:
1.539 ian 276: <h2>October, 2006</h2>
277: <ul>
1.540 ian 278:
279: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.546 ian 280: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/6769">
281: OpenBSD 4.0: Pufferix's Adventures</a>, O'Reilly Network, October 26, 2006
282: </strong></font><br>
283: Federico Biancuzzi interviewed a dozen and a half developers and compiled
284: the results into this report, all while listening to the obligatory Humppa.
1.548 saad 285: Topics include the new blob-free wireless drivers, pf and pf/dhcp interaction,
1.546 ian 286: CARP demotion, ipsecctl replacing ipsecadm, hardware support for disk/bioctl,
287: USB serial, new installation customization features, ports/packages, RCS, X,
288: CPU support for Sparc/64, AMD/Intel "speed step" techniques, and more.
289: <p>
290:
291: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.543 mbalmer 292: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/10/bsdtalk076-openbsd-developer-marc.html">
293: Interview with Marc Balmer about OpenCON 2006</a>, bsdtalk076, October 12, 2006
294: </strong></font><br>
295: BSDTalk interviews Marc Balmer about the upcoming
296: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a> conference
297: in Venice, Italy, how he got involved in the OpenBSD project, and what he
298: uses the OpenBSD operating system for in his company. Marc Balmer tells us about
299: the history of the conference that is dedicated solely to OpenBSD, why it
300: is taking place in Venice, and why he likes OpenBSD as the platform of choice
301: for his many customers.
302: <p>
303:
304: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.544 ian 305: <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/olpc-under-fire-for-proprietary-components/">
306: OLPC under fire for proprietary components</a>, Engadget, October 11, 2006
307: </strong></font><br>
308: Hardware site Engadget is one of several that has picked up this controversy
309: from the Jem Report quoted below and on the mailing lists.
310: Quotes Theo's reaction to Jim Gettys' latest comments:
311: "Jim is obviously very clever at convincing people that children
312: need proprietary laptops (OLPC has a greater percentage of undocumented
313: hardware than a Thinkpad from 3 years ago). It is easy for Jim to
314: convince people these things because he doesn't care at all about
315: the future maintainance of drivers. I do. And I think most of you
316: also do."
317: The article ends with: "Wow, them be fightin' words -- we're pulling up ringside
318: seats already."
319: <p>
320:
321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
322: <a href="http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/286/">
323: Making sense of the One Laptop Per Child proprietary software row</a>,
324: The Jem Report, October 9, 2006
325: </strong></font><br>
326: Jem Matzan explores this ongoing controversy by blending separate interviews with
327: Jim Gettys, Richard Stallman and our own Theo de Raadt.
328: Theo consistently and clearly defends the project's interest in
329: getting documentation on, and permission to distribute, firmware
330: so that users can use hardware they have paid for.
331: Commenting on the multiple NDA-requiring parts in the current version of
332: the OLPC laptop, Theo notes that "If I am careful in selection,
333: I can buy a laptop on the market today that has fewer proprietary parts."
334: And on the OLPC project's use of NDA-requiring parts at all:
335: "I feel they have misled the community by acting as if they are open;
336: they rode on our coat-tails. Now it turns out they are going to ship GPL'd
337: code mixed with NDA-requiring proprietary drivers in the end.
338: Even their LinuxBIOS will need to link into drivers that
339: no one can repair because the documentation is locked up..."
340: <p>
341:
342: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.541 ian 343: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20061006000709">
344: OLPC hurts wireless documentation efforts</a>, undeadly.org, October 6, 2006
345: </strong></font><br>
346: Theo de Raadt takes on the high-profile
347: <a href="http://laptop.org/">OLPC</a> (One Laptop Per Child) Project
348: for not demanding open documentation from its wireless
349: chip manufacturer, wasting a "golden moment" opportunity to use sales
350: volume in the millions to pressure chip vendors, and thus helping destroy
351: the open source movement that makes the OLPC laptops affordable -
352: truly, betraying that hand that feeds it.
1.542 deraadt 353: Also strong words from other developers such as Bob Beck.
1.541 ian 354: <p>
355:
356: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.540 ian 357: <a href="http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;639736970;fp;2;fpid;3">
358: The sad state of computer security</a>, PC World Australia, October 5, 2006
359: </strong></font><br>
360: Roger Grimes opines on how bad security really is for most of the world
361: (and it is really bad). "If you aren't using OpenBSD [or a few others],
362: then every other product in the world is pretty bad in comparison.
363: <br />
364: "Most software contains numerous vulnerabilities, holes, and
365: exploitable routines. Even our anti-malware software and devices,
366: the things that are supposed to protect us, are full of buffer
367: overflows and vulnerabilities."
368: <br />
369: And, Grimes generalizes,
370: "Sadly, the world has decided that real computer security doesn't
371: matter any more than real terrorist security. It's all lip service.
372: We are, and apparently choose to be, reactive sheep. Proactive
373: thinkers get ignored and ridiculed...
374: As more and more of the world goes online, and as more of our
375: important infrastructure goes "e-something," it would appear that
376: we are on a collision course headed toward a tipping point event.
377: And when it does, the sheep will stand aghast wondering how it
378: happened."
379: Worth reading!
380: <p>
381:
1.539 ian 382: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
383: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061002-7874.html">
384: OpenBSD creator wants users to pressure Intel on open source policies</a>,
385: Ars Technica, October 2, 2006.
386: </strong></font><br>
387: Summarizes Theo's efforts to obtain documentation and freely
388: redistributable firmware from Intel.
389: <p>
390:
391: </ul>
392:
1.536 grunk 393: <h2>September, 2006</h2>
394: <ul>
395:
396: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.537 ian 397: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/7184">
398: OpenBSD: Intel Accused Of Being "An Open Source Fraud"</a>,
399: KernelTrap, September 30, 2006.
400: </strong></font><br>
401: Mentions Damien's thread on misc summarizing Intel's policy toward
402: open-source software as being to make Intel "look like we're
403: open-source friendly by opening a project on sourceforge," and,
404: "give the open-source community the bare minimum so that they can
405: serve as our beta-testers." Damien reverse engineered the wpi(4)
406: driver source for the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Driver,
407: despite Intel's refusal to freely provide documentation.
408: Regular readers will know that OpenBSD has been at war with Intel
409: for ages over these chipsets.
410: Quotes Theo as saying:
411: "before we ask a vendor, we have already lost (ie. the
412: device does not work). When a vendor says no, we have lost nothing
413: further -- there is no way we can lose further than having the
414: device not work. We can only win, and then the device works. So
415: there is no point in giving up until we win back the rights to write
416: software for the hardware that we have purchased."
417: <p>
418:
419: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
420: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/09/bsdtalk069-interview-with-christoph.html">
421: Interview with Christoph Egger about Xen on OpenBSD</a>, bsdtalk069, September 26, 2006
422: </strong></font><br>
423: BSDTalk interviews Christoph Egger about Xen and about how Christoph make OpenBSD
424: able to run as a guest operating system on Xen.
425: Includes some background about Xen as well as what it would take to
426: make OpenBSD run as the "dom0" or master host.
427: <p>
428:
429: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.536 grunk 430: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/09/bsdtalk068-interview-with-openbsd.html">
431: Intervew with OpenBSD developer Bob Beck</a>, bsdtalk068, September 22, 2006
432: </strong></font><br>
433: Bob Beck talks about spamd and his history with OpenBSD and UNIX
434: on Will Backman's bsdtalk. Bob gives us a look into his work on
435: OpenBSD and gives us amusing stories of how spamd works and how it
436: actually fares in 'the wild.' The podcast lasts a whole 25 minutes,
437: 59 seconds so it's long enough to occupy a meal or a small commute.
438: <p>
439:
1.537 ian 440: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
441: <a href="http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060920185115">
442: OpenBSD 4.0 pre-orders are up!</a>, undeadly.org, September 20, 2006
443: </strong></font><br>
444: One of the first mentions of 4.0 going on sale for pre-ordering
445: (the official release date is November 1).
446: Also gives a list of the many good things that have been added
447: in 4.0, including many new device drivers,
448: support for UltraSPARC III on sparc64, improvements to ipsecctl,
449: a new RCS implementation, and much more.
450: Includes a reminder to "show your support for the project by
1.538 deraadt 451: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/orders.html">placing your pre-orders today!"</a>
1.537 ian 452: <p>
453:
1.536 grunk 454: </ul>
455:
1.534 ian 456: <h2>August, 2006</h2>
457: <ul>
458:
459: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.537 ian 460: <a href="http://anil.recoil.org/blog/articles/2006/08/21/openbsd-xen-boots-multi-user">
461: OpenBSD/Xen boots multi-user</a>, Recoil Blog, August 21, 2006
462: </strong></font><br>
463: Anil discusses his stewardship of a Google Summer of Code project in which
464: Christoph Egger ported and revised some NetBSD code to make OpenBSD boot up natively
465: as a guest operating system under
466: <a href="http://www.xensource.com/">Xen</a>, the open-source hypervisor
467: or "virtualization" system.
468: <p>
469:
470: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.534 ian 471: <a href="http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-openbsd.html">
472: Take a closer look at OpenBSD</a>, IBM developerWorks, August 08, 2006
473: </strong></font><br>
474: Tim McIntire holds OpenBSD up as a beacon to UNIX users, calling it
475: "quite possibly the most secure operating system on the planet."
476: He talks about how the development process leads to greater security
477: and how tools like OpenSSH make it out into the wider UNIX/Linux world.
478: "OpenBSD might not have a huge user base compared to other UNIX-like operating systems,
479: but it is installed at the most crucial points of many networks."
480: Has a somewhat brief but effective discussion of installing the software, and
481: ends with references to several papers and sites of interest.
482: <p>
483:
484: </ul>
485:
1.531 ian 486: <h2>July, 2006</h2>
487: <ul>
488: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
489: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/case-studies--profiles/founder-breathes-the-open-air/2006/07/17/1152988468274.html">
490: Founder breathes the Open air</a>, The Age, July 18, 2006
491: </strong></font><br>
492: Subtitled "Hiking in exotic climes is a brain adventure for the founder of OpenBSD", this is
493: as much about hiking and learning new symbols as about software, but our leader
494: manages to do both, and bring both into the interview.
495: The article quotes Theo as saying
496: "Another major lesson I have learnt is that most people only care
497: about things working for themselves, and thus it is very easy in a
498: group to build poorly thought-out solutions. It is very simple to
499: write small hacks and end up with unmaintainable systems in the long term."
500: Describes the hackathons as an important part of the project's process
501: and describes the funding issues as well.
502: <p>
503:
504: </ul>
505:
1.525 ian 506: <h2>June, 2006</h2>
507: <ul>
508: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.535 steven 509: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=472693&rl=1">
1.530 ian 510: Alternatives to LAMP</a>, informit.com, June 2, 2006
511: </strong></font><br>
512: While "Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP" get most of the attention,
513: there are alternatives to each that are, in some way, better.
514: David Chisnal starts this article with a look at OS alternatives,
515: and OpenBSD gets the most detailed coverage, including this:
516: "When it comes to security, OpenBSD has a well-earned reputation
517: as the operating system for the truly paranoid. The entire kernel
518: and base system, including the OpenBSD fork of Apache, undergoes a
519: constant auditing process. The OpenBSD attitude is that any bug is
520: potentially exploitable, and when a bug is found by the auditing
521: team the next step is to attempt to remove every single occurrence
522: of that category of bug. This approach leads to an incredibly secure
523: system." Also talks about our pioneering use of W^X and the
524: "incredibly powerful and easy to configure" packet filter, pf.
525: <p>
526:
527: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.527 ian 528: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article8785.phtml">
1.525 ian 529: Microsoft adopts open-source security feature</a>, OSDir.com, June 1, 2006
530: </strong></font><br>
531: Microsoft borrows one of OpenBSD's security features for Vista, stack/library randomization,
532: under the name Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR).
533: "Until now, the feature has been most prominently used in the OpenBSD Unix variant and
534: the PaX and Exec Shield security patches for Linux"
535: (despite the article's title, there is nothing open-source about Microsoft's implementation).
536: <p>
537:
1.526 ian 538: </ul>
1.525 ian 539:
1.514 ian 540: <h2>May, 2006</h2>
541: <ul>
1.524 ian 542: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
543: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6650">
544: OpenBSD: wpi, A Blob Free Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Driver</a>, KernelTrap, May 28, 2006
545: </strong></font><br>
546: Damien Bergamini wrote OpenBSD's all-open-source driver for the Intel Pro/Wireless,
547: a sharp contrast to other projects' bogus "open source" drivers that are just wrappers around
548: a "binary blob" (source code not available, sorry) provided by the vendor.
549: "His announcement came a little over two months after Intel released
550: the controversial ipw3945 driver for Linux which included
551: a binary-only daemon described as necessary for enforcing regulatory
552: limits for the radio transmitter on the wireless device."
553: Bergamini's work proves yet again that vendors don't have to obscure their products
554: to make them useful.
555: <p>
1.518 ian 556:
557: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.520 ian 558: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/openbsd/c2k6/who1">
1.523 ian 559: c2k6, Who's Who At the 2006 OpenBSD Hackathon, Part I</a>
560: and
561: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6662">Part II</a>,
1.522 ian 562: KernelTrap, May 28, 2006
1.520 ian 563: </strong></font><br>
1.521 deraadt 564: Jeremy Andrews visited our developers at the Hackathon and gives
1.523 ian 565: a brief but colorful summary of most of the team members:
1.520 ian 566: why they chose OpenBSD, how they got involved, what they do, and
567: their plans for the week.
568: <p>
569:
570: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.523 ian 571: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/05/22/OpenBSD-on-Flash.html">
572: Installing OpenBSD on Flash</a>,
573: Ping Wales, May 22, 2006
574: </strong></font><br>
575: David Chisnall shows how to set up an OpenBSD boot image for
576: Soekris or PC Engines machines that boot from flash memory.
577: <p>
578:
579: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.520 ian 580: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/eur/article.php/3603961">
581: Enterprise Unix Roundup: Whither BSD?</a>, ServerWatch, May 5, 2006
582: </strong></font><br>
583: Amy Newman and Brian Proffitt state that the BSDs are often overlooked
584: because of their limited commercial acceptance.
585: The authors call this an unfortunate oversight, because recent releases of
586: the freely available BSD flavors show significant technical improvements.
1.523 ian 587: As an example, they specifically refer to OpenBSD's sensor framework
1.520 ian 588: (introduced with 3.9).
589: Newman and Proffitt also accuse big vendors of picking the nice parts from
590: the BSDs' code and giving nothing back to the community in return.
591: <p>
592:
593: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.518 ian 594: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/35/1/">
595: OpenBSD 3.9 Review</a>, Software In Review, May 3, 2006
596: </strong></font><br>
597: Jem Matzan takes the 3.9 release out for a spin, and likes it.
598: Noting that each release consists of a lot of small changes
599: and some major improvements - and mentioning hardware support, sensors,
600: and "blob removal" - he clearly thinks the project is doing a lot of things right.
601: "Everything you get in the release is production-ready, secure by
602: default... and comes with possibly the finest integrated documentation
603: in the Unix-clone world. While you might find a poorly programmed
604: driver or other base system component in other BSDs and GNU/Linux
605: distributions, in OpenBSD if something is supported, it works."
606: <p>
607:
608: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
609: [GERMAN]
610: <a href="http://www.linux-magazin.de/Artikel/ausgabe/2006/06/news_zut/news_zut.html">
611: Mozilla greift OpenBSD unter die Arme</a>, Linux Magazin, Issue 06/06, May 2006, p. 18
612: </strong></font><br>
613: The German <a href="http://www.linux-magazin.de/">Linux Magazin</a> has a short
614: article about OpenBSD's financial situation and Marco Peerebroom's
1.535 steven 615: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060321034114">call for donations</a>
1.518 ian 616: on undeadly.org. The article further mentions how OpenSSH development
617: is connected to OpenBSD.
618: <p>
619:
1.514 ian 620: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
621: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6550">
622: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, KernelTrap, May 2, 2006
623: </strong></font><br>
624: Jeremy Andrews conducts a free-ranging interview, focused mainly on 3.9 and drivers,
625: that gives Theo a chance to explain how the big North American chip vendors'
626: business practices make it harder for open source projects,
1.515 ian 627: talk about "binary blobs" vs firmware in drivers, and more.
1.514 ian 628: There's also coverage of where the project is going up to and after 3.9 and where
1.516 steven 629: it might (or might not) go in the future, why doing things right (and
1.514 ian 630: running this project) is so important to Theo,
631: and even why he does mountain biking!
632: <p>
633:
634: </ul>
635:
1.503 ian 636: <h2>April, 2006</h2>
637: <ul>
638: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.532 ray 639: <a href="http://www.dribin.org/dave/blog/archives/2006/04/28/os_x_passwords_2/">
640: Mac OS X Password Implementation Compared to OpenBSD's</a>, April 28, 2006
641: </strong></font><br>
642: Dave Dribin analyzes Mac OS X's password implementation
643: and compares it with OpenBSD's:
644: "The king of the hill has to go to OpenBSD,
645: which uses a hash based on the Blowfish block cipher called bcrypt.
646: The benefit of [bcrypt] is best stated on their website:
647: <blockquote>
648: The most important property of bcrypt (and thus crypt_blowfish)
649: is that it is adaptable to future processor performance improvements,
650: allowing you to arbitrarily increase the processing cost of checking a
651: password while still maintaining compatibility with your older password hashes.
652: Already now bcrypt hashes you would use are several orders of magnitude
653: stronger than traditional Unix DES-based or FreeBSD-style MD5-based hashes.
654: </blockquote>
655: This is just plain cool."
656: <p>
657:
658: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.512 ian 659: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6557">
660: OpenBSD 3.9: Blob-Busters Interviewed</a>, OnLAMP, April 27, 2006
661: </strong></font><br>
662: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several of the developers on improvements
663: in 3.9: the continuing absence of "blob drivers", IPMI and sensors, apmd performance
664: adjustment, Macs, rthreads, multicast, trunk, hostapd, and more.
1.513 saad 665: jsg clarifies the issue of "binary blob" drivers vs "firmware", and
1.512 ian 666: discusses the NVIDIA nForce Ethernet driver he did after NVIDIA did refuse
667: to give out documentation; they can't stop us, but they can slow us down.
668: The result: "There aren't any drivers in OpenBSD with binary-only components;
669: this is quite a contrast to pretty much everyone else out there."
670: marco comments on the IPMI work in 3.9, and adds:
671: "IPMI is a standard, but there are vendors out there
1.513 saad 672: that have reading comprehension issues...".
1.512 ian 673: A long list of other developers explain their contributions
674: and other changes that make 3.9 one of our best releases yet.
675: <p>
676:
677: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.517 mbalmer 678: [GERMAN]
679: <a href="http://www.guug.de/uptimes/index.html">
680: Stop BLOB!</a>, UpTimes, April 25, 2006
681: </strong></font><br>
682: Wilhelm Bühler gives an overview in a short article about Blobs, what they
683: are and why they are bad.
684: <p>
685:
686: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.508 ian 687: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/34/1/">
688: Using OpenBSD</a>, Software In Review, April 24, 2006
689: </strong></font><br>
690: Jem Matzan gives a brief overview of using the system.
691: Covers ports and packages, use of SMP kernel, and more.
692: Capsule summary of how our security policy affects the administrator:
693: "Because it is secure by default, you may have to do more initial
694: configuration with OpenBSD than with most other Unix and Unix-like
695: operating systems, but you'll spend a lot less time securing it --
696: maybe no time at all, if you follow the instructions in the manual
697: pages."
698: <p>
699:
700: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.519 ian 701: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/16/1749215.shtml?tid=8">
702: Using OpenBSD on the desktop</a>, NewsForge, April 21, 2006
703: </strong></font><br>
704: Considers the use of OpenBSD as a desktop operating system,
705: starting with "Secure by default" - who wants to have their desktop hacked? -
706: and continues:
707: "OpenBSD's clean code and design also provide rock-solid stability.
708: I used to have lots of problems and crashes with new versions of
709: Linux (kernel 2.6.x) and FreeBSD (versions 5.x and 6.x). The main
710: focus of OpenBSD developers is to provide programs that work ...
711: [they] prefer to improve their code rather than just
712: add more new features and end up with a bloated and unstable product."
713: Covers X, ports/packages, window managers, what is and is not supported,
714: and more. Final thought:
715: "OpenBSD's clean design and remarkable stability, along with its
716: proactive security, not only make OpenBSD a potential candidate for
717: home desktop users but also every system administrator's dream come
718: true for business environments."
719: <p>
720:
721: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.511 djm 722: [FRENCH]
1.509 djm 723: <a href="http://developpeur.journaldunet.com/itws/060419-itw-openssh-openbsd-miller.shtml">
1.511 djm 724: JDN Développeurs interviews Damien Miller</a>,
1.509 djm 725: JDN Développeurs, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
726: Interview with Damien Miller, discussing OpenSSH security, the OpenBSD
727: development approach, the problem of blobby drivers and the recent request
1.510 djm 728: for funding.
1.509 djm 729: <p>
730:
731: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.507 cloder 732: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6497">
733: Interview with developers Jonathan Gray and Damien Bergamini</a>,
734: Kerneltrap, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
735: An interview with the authors of OpenBSD's new NVIDIA Ethernet driver. OpenBSD's
736: policy forbidding binary driver blobs is discussed, and the developers give a good
737: overview of how they went about implementing the new driver.
738: <p>
739:
740: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.528 ian 741: <a href="http://www.thehostingnews.com/article2217.html">GoDaddy.com
742: Donates $10K to Open Source Development Project</a>,
743: The Hosting News, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
744: GoDaddy.com, which claims to be "the Number One registrar of domain
745: names worldwide", recently donated $10,000 to the OpenSSH project
746: because, "according to the company, OpenSSH has become a staple
747: of all free Unix and Linux operating systems in the world."
748: They use it, and their customers use it, and they recognize the
749: value of supporting an open source projects that is, as company
750: CEO Bob Parsons says, "integral to online security".
751: <br/>
1.529 ian 752: Similar articles at
1.528 ian 753: <a href="http://www.hostsearch.com/news/the_go_daddy_group_news_4366.asp">
1.529 ian 754: hostsearch.com</a> and
755: <a href="http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20060419090443506">
756: LinuxElectrons.com</a>
1.528 ian 757: <p>
758:
759: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.506 aanriot 760: [FRENCH] Principles and usage of OpenSSH,
761: <a href="http://www.gnulinuxmag.com/">Linux Magazine France</a>,
762: issue 82, April 2006, p. 28-33
763: </strong></font><br>
1.533 ray 764: A 6 page article from Alexandre Courbot focuses on OpenSSH and its
1.507 cloder 765: basics. It begins with an history of the different implementations, and
1.506 aanriot 766: is punctuated with examples.
767: Tunneling features are described, as well as
1.535 steven 768: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp</a>,
769: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent&sektion=1">ssh-agent</a>,
1.506 aanriot 770: and
1.535 steven 771: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp</a>.
1.506 aanriot 772: <p>
773:
774: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.503 ian 775: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71658">
776: Mozilla Foundation spendet für OpenBSD</a>, heise online, April 4, 2006
777: </strong></font><br>
778: Short article mentioning the donation the Mozilla Foundation made in support of
779: further OpenSSH development.
780: The article emphasizes the opportunity to wire money through the project's
781: new European account - this one donation will not meet the
782: project's funding needs for all time.
783: <p>
1.504 bernd 784: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
785: [GERMAN] "OpenBSD mit finanziellen Problemen", c't 8/06, p. 45.,
786: April 3, 2006
787: </strong></font><br>
788: A very short article about OpenBSD's financial problems. They mention that
789: this could compromise future hackathons.
790: <p>
1.503 ian 791:
792: </ul>
793:
1.487 ian 794: <h2>March, 2006</h2>
795: <ul>
1.495 ian 796: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.500 ian 797: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/theo_interview.html">
1.501 ian 798: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>, DaemonNews, March, 2006
1.500 ian 799: </strong></font><br>
800: Chris Silva conducts a lightweight but wide-ranging and fun interview with Theo
801: on topics including "Puffy",
802: the logos used by certain other BSD projects -
803: Theo quips that "I really like how they make absolutely no statement at all" -
804: what's new in 3.9,
805: and of course project expenses.
806: Theo notes that "The electric bill is about $100 USD per week".
807: <!--
808: ... must be what comes from heating your house with VAXen.
809: -->
810: The interviewer nicely ends with a link to our donations page.
811: <p>
812:
813: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 814: <a href="http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/239/1/">
815: Linux supporters fiddle while OpenSSH burns</a>, The Jem Report, March 28, 2006
816: </strong></font><br>
1.499 ian 817: This write-up focusses on OpenBSD/OpenSSH funding, and has some
818: original legwork to go with it.
1.498 ian 819: Writer Jem Matzan took the trouble to
820: contact many of the companies who charge a lot for products
821: featuring OpenSSH and yet give nothing to OpenSSH in return.
822: Companies like SCO, IBM, Apple, and Sun.
823: Sun apparently did the worst job of responding:
824: "Since the release of Solaris 10, who has been a larger open source
825: software cheerleader than Sun Microsystems?", Matzan asks. "I asked Sun
826: representatives what they would do if OpenSSH were to disappear. The only response
827: I got was that there are parts of Solaris that compete with OpenSSH,
828: and that because of this, the company would rather not comment
829: further on the issue." What the Sun teleprompter-readers don't seem to realize -
830: but Matzan does - is that
831: <a href="http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/cmd/ssh/ssh/ssh.c">
832: SunSSH <em>is</em> OpenSSH</a>.
833: Or, at least, a mangled version of it...
834: IBM, on the other hand, is still trying to formulate their response.
835: <br/>
836: <p>
837:
838: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
839: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/20/2050223.shtml?tid=8">
840: Interview: Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD</a>, NewsForge, March 28, 2006
841: </strong></font><br>
842: A wide-ranging interview with Theo about new stuff in 3.9, security, funding,
843: "blob" drivers, and more.
844: Theo notes that "We've had 10 years of nearly fanatical devotion
845: to anything which can make OpenBSD more secure. A very important
846: part of that is that we have not been afraid to completely overhaul
847: anything even if it breaks backward compatibility. Secondly, when
848: we have found a flaw in any part of the system we have assumed that
849: the same mistake was made elsewhere, and gone on a hunt to fix them
850: all. Thirdly, we have developed and incorporated a collection of
851: methods that make software flaws very difficult to attack..."
852: Ends by trying to shame the companies that use OpenSSH without contributing
853: anything back - Sun is given especial mention here - and ends with
854: the tantalizing line ".. if an OpenSSH hole is found that applies to SunSSH,
855: Sun will not be informed. Or maybe that has happened already." Hmmmm.
856: <p>
857:
858: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 859: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259254,00.htm">
860: OpenBSD 3.9 adds sensor framework</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
861: </strong></font><br>
862: It's easy to focus on our project's security, but we innovate in other areas too.
863: This article highlights the "sensors" framework added in 3.9 to provide and integrated
864: approach to handling Dell PowerEdge servers' Embedded Server Management (ESM), IPMI, and
865: in general temperature and environmental issues.
866: "There is a significant new sensor framework [in OpenBSD 3.9], which
867: supports voltage sensors, fan sensors, temperature sensors, and so
868: on," said de Raadt. "Such a feature is still missing in Linux and
869: other major operating systems." ...
870: De Raadt has already been using the sensor framework to monitor the
871: machines running in
872: <a href="images/newrack.jpg">the project's server room</a>. "I now get a call
873: on my cell phone whenever something is wrong in the machine room,"
874: <p>
875:
876: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
877: <a href="http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/other/0,39020682,39259281,00.htm">
878: Paying for free software may be the bargain of a lifetime</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
879: </strong></font><br>
880: Starts with a Theo quote from the previous article on ZDNet:
881: "A culture of entitlement is starting to damage the open source community".
882: The article argues that mega-computer-companies that use open source tend to use BSD:
883: "The open BSDs may be less famous than Linux, but they are arguably
884: superior in stability and security. This has made it popular in
885: ISPs and elsewhere - Apple, for example, adopted BSD within OS X.
886: BSD, unlike software released under the GPL, carrys no legal
887: obligations for the adopter to provide anything for the community in return."
888: Goes on to argue that these companies <em>ought</em> to be fair enough
889: to send a small bit of their money back into funding open source.
890: "In the time it takes to read this article, we calculate that Apple
891: will have easily made enough to pay-off OpenBSD's annual losses,
892: with a little left over to buy black turtlenecks for all. It's not
893: just Apple's baby - other companies owe far more to OpenBSD - but
894: in open source a little symbolism goes a long way."
895: <p>
896:
1.487 ian 897: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.494 bernd 898: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71174">
899: OpenBSD muss an den Sparstrumpf</a>, heise online, March 23, 2006
900: </strong></font><br>
1.495 ian 901: OpenBSD is touching its savings - Small news article about the project's
1.494 bernd 902: financial situation.
903: <p>
904:
905: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 906: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259042,00.htm">
907: OpenBSD Founder Makes Funding Plea</a>, ZDNet UK, March 23, 2006
908: </strong></font><br>
909: One of the first mainstream sites to pick up on Marco's article (below),
910: this one reports the funding figures on how much it really costs to
911: produce our favorite operating system.
912: "Although OpenBSD has a number of commercial users, including many
913: ISPs, de Raadt claimed that all of its donations come from individuals
914: rather than companies many of who claim the have no budget to pay
915: for the operating system. "The culture of entitlement is starting
916: to damage the open source community," he said."
1.496 ian 917: <br/>
918: Also online at
919: <a href="http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/software/stories/135760.html">ZDNet India</a>.
920: <p>
921:
922: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
923: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/03/22/OpenBSD-money.html">
924: OpenBSD in Financial Trouble</a>, Ping Wales, March 21, 2006
925: </strong></font><br>
926: David Chisnall reports that "OpenBSD is one of my favourite platforms;
927: its focus on security and ease-of-use makes it a very simple and
928: safe system to use. Unfortunately, the OpenBSD organisation is now
929: experiencing financial difficulty. For the last two years, the
930: project has made a $20,000/year loss, something which it cannot
931: sustain indefinitely."
932: Goes on to report on the growing use of OpenBSD in commercial software
933: (and hardware!), and that none of the "big guys" has given anything back.
934: Unlike most of the articles on this topic, this one is kind enough to
935: include a direct link to our orders page and recommend its readers
936: to buy a copy of the CD to help fund the project.
1.495 ian 937: <p>
938:
939: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 940: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/06/03/21/1555243.shtml">
941: OpenBSD Project in Financial Danger</a>, Slashdot, March 21, 2006
942: </strong></font><br>
943: Slashdot mentions and quotes from Marco's article (below),
944: with a reminder that
945: "The OpenBSD team is the one that also develops the OpenSSH suite,
946: used nowadays almost everywhere."
947: Ends with this quote from Marco:
948: "Without naming entities or projects by name, there are others out
949: there that are sitting on some cash. It would be wonderful if these
950: entities could share some of the wealth to keep us going."
951: <p>
952:
953: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.505 grunk 954: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060321034114">
1.495 ian 955: OpenBSD Finances</a>, OpenBSD Journal, March 21, 2006
956: </strong></font><br>
957: Marco Peereboom's article notes that
958: "OpenBSD for the past 2 years has turned a loss of approximately $20K USD" per year.
959: Hackathons - where a lot of developers get together in critical mass and churn out
960: new ideas and new code in great quantity - cost from US$10K-30K each, and we try to run
961: a few of them each year.
962: Meanwhile, compananies that use OpenBSD and companies - many of them highly profitable -
963: that incorporate OpenSSH into operating systems and even routers and other appliances
964: have not been forthcoming: no major computer company has given funding
965: to the OpenBSD project.
966: It's time for them to do so.
967: <p>
968:
969: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.497 ian 970: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/08/1646257.shtml?tid=8">
971: Software RAID on OpenBSD using RAIDframe</a>, NewsForge, March 14, 2006
972: </strong></font><br>
973: "Software RAID provides an easy way to add redundancy or speed up a system
974: without spending lots of money on a RAID adapter."
975: Manolis Tzanidakis talks us through setting up RAID using OpenBSD.
976: He describes the detailed steps, and recommends careful testing
977: before putting the system into production, including taking one disk
978: out of service and ensuring that it gets reloaded correctly.
979: Ends with a technique for monitoring clean operation on an ongoing basis.
980: <p>
981:
982: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.489 deraadt 983: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">Report on Business Television</a>
984: March 10, 5:45pm MST</strong></font><br>
1.490 deraadt 985: Theo de Raadt was interviewed by Howard Green on <b>The Business Show</b>:<br>
986: <!-- North America mirror:
987: <a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB avi file</a>
1.491 deraadt 988: -->
1.490 deraadt 989: European mirror:
990: <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/20060310/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB AVI file</a>
991: <br>
992: A longer segment is also available at <a href="http://www.robtv.ca">www.robtv.ca</a>.
1.489 deraadt 993: <p>
994:
995: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.487 ian 996: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/openbgpd.html">OpenBGPd in OpenBSD</a>
997: Daemon News, March, 2006</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 998: Check out the notes and slides from Henning Brauer's presentation at
1.487 ian 999: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0602/">NANOG 36</a>;
1000: the text and questions cover everything from how and why OpenBGPd got created,
1001: through configuration and tools, to integration with pf and CARP,
1002: to technical issues regarding use of IPSEC to provide security for BGP packets.
1003: Along the way there's considerable discussion on how the program was
1004: designed to provide reliability and security.
1005: <p>
1006:
1007: </ul>
1008:
1.485 ian 1009: <h2>February, 2006</h2>
1010: <ul>
1011: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.486 ian 1012: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1859">Zero to IPSec in 4 minutes</a>
1013: Security Focus, February 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
1014: This article, as its lead-in says,
1.497 ian 1015: "looks at how to get a fully functional IPSec VPN up and running between two fresh OpenBSD
1.486 ian 1016: installations in about four minutes flat".
1017: If you've shied away from setting up an IPSEC VPN because of config file complexity,
1018: now is the time to reconsider.
1.497 ian 1019: Dragos Ruiu shows you how the ipsecctl command (introduced to the world in OpenBSD 3.8)
1.486 ian 1020: makes it really easy to set up a VPN between consenting OpenBSD machines.
1021: He states that he and a colleague were able to get two machines talking over IPSEC
1022: in a few minutes, and only changing a few configuration files.
1023: He also comments on the relative ease of installing our favorite OS, and hopes
1024: that our ipsecctl will be adopted by the other BSDs (hopefully in a compatible way)
1025: to make firewall setups easier all around the network.
1026: But you don't need to wait for that if you're running OpenBSD 3.8; just follow
1027: the steps in the article.
1028: <p>
1029:
1030: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.485 ian 1031: <a href="http://www.networkmagazineindia.com/200602/vendorvoice02.shtml">The Worm in the Machine</a>
1032: Network Magazine India, February 2006</strong></font><br>
1033: Dilip Ranade elaborates on several reasons why software is drearily buggy and endlessly insecure,
1034: particularly in comparison with other technologies.
1035: Imagines how very bad shape the automotive industry would be in if you had to sign the
1036: same disclaimer of (non-)usability that almost every commercial EULA requires of computer users.
1037: Ends with "I once dreamt that all the computer users in the world
1038: arose in revolt and switched to hardened OpenBSD", though he admits that there's "fat chance" of it
1039: happening in real life.
1040: <p>
1041:
1042: </ul>
1043:
1.492 ian 1044: <h2>January, 2006</h2>
1045: <ul>
1046: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1047: <a href="http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2006/01/28.html">Kevin Mitnick on
1048: Coast to Coast AM Radio Show with Art Bell</a>, Jan 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
1049: Art Bell interviewed Kevin Mitnick on his call-in show;
1050: Paul Zacharzewski from Edmonton called to ask Mitnick for his opinion of OpenBSD.
1051: If you don't want to download the whole show from coasttocoastam.com,
1052: you can listen to an
1.497 ian 1053: <a href="http://unworkable.org/misc/mitnick.mp3">MP3 excerpt of this call</a>
1.492 ian 1054: in which Mitnick says: "Well, I actually use OpenBSD, so I do like it".
1055: </ul>
1056:
1.483 ian 1057: <h2>December, 2005</h2>
1058: <ul>
1.555 reyk 1059:
1.483 ian 1060: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.555 reyk 1061: [GERMAN]
1062: <a href="http://www.ini.unizh.ch/~stephan/articles/openbsd/064-069_linux-bsd-fw.pdf">
1063: Wehrhaft abtauchen - HA-fähige Firewall mit OpenBSD/PF</a>, Linux-Magazin, December 2005
1064: </strong></font><br>
1065: High available firewall setups are considered as the high arts of network protection.
1066: Due to clustering the network stays online even if one firewall fails. This article
1067: from Stephan A. Rickauer (Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH / University Zurich) shows
1068: how well OpenBSD/PF performs in comparison to the well-known duo Linux/Netfilter.
1069: <p>
1070:
1071: </p></li><li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.484 djm 1072: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/375/1">OpenSSH cutting edge</a>
1073: SecurityFocus, December 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
1074: Federico Biancuzzi interviews OpenSSH developer Damien Miller to discuss
1075: features included in the upcoming version 4.3, public key crypto
1076: protocols details, timing based attacks and anti-worm measures.
1077: <p>
1078:
1079: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 1080: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/11/21/175249.shtml?tid=92&tid=78">Creating
1.483 ian 1081: Secure Wireless Access Points with OpenBSD and OpenVPN</a>
1082: NewsForge, December 13, 2005</strong></font><br>
1083: A cookbook approach to setting up a wireless interface as a secure Access Point
1084: using OpenBSD's hostap, pf, and authpf.
1085: Configuration examples are given with basic explanations and links
1086: to sites with more information on most topics.
1087: <p>
1088:
1089: </ul>
1090:
1091:
1.479 grunk 1092: <h2>November, 2005</h2>
1093: <ul>
1094: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 1095: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20051116145737">OpenBSD
1.482 ian 1096: Goes to Venice</a>,
1097: OpenBSD Journal, November 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 1098: "What happens when you put a dozen developers on a little island with their
1.482 ian 1099: laptops, power, and an internet connection?
1100: <br/>
1101: During the first week of November some OpenBSD developers met in a
1102: little island in Venice's lagoon to hack on the ports system.
1103: This was probably the first ports hackathon and was followed by
1.497 ian 1104: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON</a>, a European conference
1.482 ian 1105: fully dedicated to OpenBSD..."
1106: Great coverage of the OpenBSD Porting Hackathon: people, ports, beer, ...
1107: Contains a link to
1108: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ven05-pvalchev/mgp00008.html">
1109: pval's summary slides</a>.
1110: <p>
1111:
1112: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.481 niallo 1113: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1710223">
1114: Trying out the new OpenBSD 3.8</a>,
1115: NewsForge, November 11, 2005</strong></font><br>
1116: This article describes the installation of OpenBSD 3.8 from a Linux user's
1117: perspective, noting the simple elegance of the installer.
1118: Although the installation process may be hard to get used to at first for
1119: the average Linux user, the author tells us that one can learn a lot from
1120: it. Furthermore, the article clears up the common misconception that working
1.497 ian 1121: on an OpenBSD system is very different from working on a Linux system.
1.481 niallo 1122: In particular, the author states that on OpenBSD, <i>"virtually the entire
1123: catalog of familiar free and open source software titles is available through
1124: the packages and ports system"</i>.
1125: <p>
1126:
1127: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1128: <a href="http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3561526">
1129: Return of The BSDs</a>,
1130: internetnews.com, November 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
1131: This article mentions that with all three major BSD flavors having had
1132: a release this fall, BSD is <i>"still very much alive and kicking among
1133: all the noise and buzz created by Linux"</i>. The author talks about
1134: various new or improved features of 3.8, such as bioctl(8), hostapd(8),
1135: network interface aggregation and sasyncd(8), and there are some
1136: quotes from Bob Beck.
1137: <p>
1138:
1139: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.479 grunk 1140: <a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/051101/152/fvrlx.html">
1141: OpenBSD 3.8 improves hardware support</a>,
1142: ZDNet UK, November 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.480 ian 1143: This article reports on OpenBSD 3.8, which was released on November 1.
1144: The author gives an overview of the improvements and new
1.479 grunk 1145: features that were made with 3.8, and quotes Theo on RAID management
1146: and Linux.<br>
1147: The 3.8 release hit the news also in some other places:
1148: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1258232">Slashdot</a>
1149: and <a href="http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=12482">OSNews</a>
1150: also report about it, mostly repeating parts
1151: of the release
1152: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/ANNOUNCEMENT">ANNOUNCEMENT</a>.
1153: <p>
1154: </ul>
1155:
1.476 ian 1156: <h2>October, 2005</h2>
1157: <ul>
1158:
1159: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1160: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1375194866;fp;16;fpid;0">
1161: 'Nightmare' drove desperate user to open source</a>,
1162: Computerworld, October 24, 2005</strong></font><br>
1163: A great tale of how Mark Uemura of PricewaterhouseCoopers Japan
1164: was forced to move to OpenBSD because the alternatives were too costly
1165: and too unreliable.
1166: This quote will rattle some cages:
1167: "IT managers who want to deploy an open source solution but are
1168: worried about company politics should go ahead and do it without
1169: asking," according to Uemura, who was promoted to IT Manager of PWC Japan
1170: after saving the company seven IT-samurais' salaries.
1171: Further, "In Japan large organizations like Morgan Stanley and the
1172: Bank of America have moved all their backend systems to open source,
1173: Uemura said, because with open source you can reduce IT operating
1174: costs without any commercial lock-in."
1175: <p>
1176:
1.477 saad 1177: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1178: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6270">
1179: OpenBSD 3.8: Hackers of the Lost RAID</a>,
1180: ONLamp.com, October 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
1181: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
1182: new features in OpenBSD 3.8 including interface trunking,
1183: internationalization support, Inter-Access Point Protocol (IAPP),
1184: IPSec SA synchronization daemon, and RAID management. There is also some
1185: discussion about future plans.
1186: <p>
1187:
1.478 grunk 1188: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1189: <a href="http://securityfocus.com/columnists/361">
1190: OpenBSD's network stack</a>,
1191: SecurityFocus, October 12, 2005</strong></font><br>
1192: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about OpenBSD's
1193: network stack, including protection against ICMP attacks, and propagation
1194: of enhancements into other BSDs and into Linux.
1195: The interview also features the other protection mechanisms in the network
1196: stack, a comparison to the network stack in Linux, and the history and
1197: current status of <a href="http://www.openbgpd.org/">OpenBGPD</a>.
1198: <p>
1199:
1.476 ian 1200: </ul>
1201:
1.470 saad 1202: <h2>September, 2005</h2>
1203: <ul>
1204:
1205: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.474 niallo 1206: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/359">
1207: Security-related innovation in Unix</a>,
1208: SecurityFocus, Sept. 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1209: An article examining the mmap-based malloc() implementation to be
1210: included in OpenBSD 3.8. The author states that <i>"it will help OpenBSD
1211: users to find bugs in software more easily, which will result in better
1212: applications for everyone"</i>. He goes on to say that <i>"the more hurdles
1213: that one has to jump through for good security, the less likely people will
1214: go through the trouble. OpenBSD allows even the most inexperienced users to
1215: take advantage of these technologies without any effort"</i>.
1216: <p>
1217:
1218: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.473 aanriot 1219: <a href="http://www.miscmag.com/articles/index.php3?page=2100">
1220: [FRENCH] Champ libre : les chantiers OpenBSD</a>
1221: Misc, number 21, Sept/Oct, 2005, p. 4-14</strong></font><br>
1222: An interesting article about OpenBSD and associated projects. Saad Kadhi
1223: and Guillaume Arcas describe useful things you can do with PF and
1224: OpenSSH, and give a nice introduction to OpenNTPD and OpenCVS. If the
1225: article is focused on the presentation, you can find some interesting
1226: technical aspects people are not always acquainted to. A few examples
1227: are shown, like a basic CARP setup, or the manner to use multiplexing
1228: with OpenSSH and even how to check an OpenSSH server's keys using DNS.
1229: <p>
1230:
1231: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 1232: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/news/11306">
1233: Big debate over small packets</a>,
1234: SecurityFocus, Sept. 7, 2005</strong></font><br>
1235: Robert Lemos discusses the ICMP denial-of-service vulnerabilities found
1236: by Fernando Gont and fixed in OpenBSD. To date, OpenBSD is the only
1237: system that has implemented all of the fixes recommended in the IETF
1238: draft.
1239: <p>
1240:
1241: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.471 saad 1242: <a href="http://www.pcexpert.fr/">
1243: [FRENCH] "Quel est le meilleur système libre pour votre
1244: ordinateur ?"</a>,
1245: PC Expert, number 156, p. 42-62</strong></font><br>
1246: Philippe Roure compares 11 Linux and *BSD operating systems, including
1247: OpenBSD 3.7, on different criteria such as security, documentation and
1248: usability. OpenBSD earned a 5/5 mark (see pages 60-61) and while a mark
1249: isn't necessarily objective, the author seems to grasp the OpenBSD
1250: project, its goals, and how good is the operating system. The article
1251: includes an interview with Saad Kadhi.
1252: <p>
1253:
1254: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.470 saad 1255: <a href="http://www.samag.com/articles/2005/0509/">
1256: Monitoring PF Firewalls for Health and Performance</a>,
1257: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 9, p. 37</strong></font><br>
1258: Ryan Matteson describes several utilities that can be used to monitor the
1259: health and performance of a PF firewall. Besides pfctl, the article
1260: covers pftop, fwanalog, monitoring logs with tcpdump and graphing
1261: performance data with pfstat.
1262: <p>
1263:
1264: </ul>
1265:
1.461 grunk 1266: <h2>July, 2005</h2>
1267: <ul>
1268:
1269: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.466 deraadt 1270: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5382">
1271: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part III</a>,
1.467 grunk 1272: Kerneltrap, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.466 deraadt 1273: Jeremy Andrews writes about the recent Blind ICMP attacks discovered
1274: by Fernando Gont, and the fixes done by him and OpenBSD during the
1275: 2005 Hackathon.
1.469 ian 1276: The article goes into the technical background of the
1.467 grunk 1277: attacks, mentioning blind ICMP attacks, "hard" ICMP errors, source
1.469 ian 1278: quenching, and path MTU discovery;
1279: many helpful RFCs and technical papers are linked from the explanations.
1280: This is followed by a recap of the whole ICMP story, involving Gont's
1.467 grunk 1281: struggle with other free projects, Cisco lawyers, Microsoft people,
1282: and others.<br>
1.469 ian 1283: The article concludes that OpenBSD was the first project
1.467 grunk 1284: to take Fernando Gont's findings seriously, and also the first group to
1285: be really painless to work with.
1.466 deraadt 1286: <p>
1287:
1288: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.464 grunk 1289: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/06/security_blame/">
1290: Security meltdown: who's to blame?</a>,
1.466 deraadt 1291: The Register, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.464 grunk 1292: This article talks about various groups that are frequently blamed for
1293: poor security:
1.467 grunk 1294: individuals, ISPs, companies, crackers, security mailing lists,
1.464 grunk 1295: and last but not least: OS vendors!
1.467 grunk 1296: In the last paragraph, OpenBSD's style of <i>"dumbed-down, simplified
1.464 grunk 1297: and secure systems (with a heavily audited code base)"</i> is described
1298: as <i>"one of the smartest approaches to security"</i>.
1299: <p>
1300:
1301: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.461 grunk 1302: <a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-7-5/30084.html">
1303: Theo de Raadt on Industry and Free Software</a>,
1.466 deraadt 1304: The Epoch Times, July 5, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.463 tom 1305: In this interview, Theo talks about the inception of the OpenBSD project
1306: and its goals, as well as its impact on the commercial IT industry.
1.461 grunk 1307: He points out once more that <i>"vendors who incorporate OpenSSH have
1308: given us absolutely nothing back - not a cent"</i>.
1309: Other topics covered include the OpenBSD team, Theo's role as
1310: <i>"benevolent dictator"</i>, and the security process, which he compares
1311: to the security efforts led by other free software projects and some
1312: commercial vendors.
1313: <p>
1314:
1315: </ul>
1316:
1.454 ian 1317: <h2>June, 2005</h2>
1318: <ul>
1.468 grunk 1319:
1320: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1321: <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/ns-ttc062205.php">
1322: The true cost of computer crime</a>,
1323: EurekAlert / <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/">New Scientist Magazine</a>,
1324: issue June 25, 2005</strong></font><br>
1325: This article looks at computer crime, especially the way upcoming
1326: vulnerability reports are dealt with. It also gives a short overview of the
1.469 ian 1327: institutions involved in the process (vendors, free projects, CERTs).
1.468 grunk 1328: <br>
1329: The author mentions the work of Andy Ozment, who researches vulnerability
1330: disclosure at the University of Cambridge. Using OpenBSD as a good example
1331: of how disclosure and consequent fixing of bugs helps to strengthen security,
1332: he refutes the widely spread FUD that disclosing vulnerabilities leads to
1333: more harm than good. Ozment's methodology was to examine OpenBSD's CVS logs
1.469 ian 1334: and note when fixes were published; his research shows that
1.468 grunk 1335: <i>"the number of vulnerabilities decreases as a result of disclosure"</i>.
1336: <p>
1337:
1.454 ian 1338: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.458 niallo 1339: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0704/071.html">
1340: Free Bird</a>,
1341: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1342: <b>(Registration required)</b> A second Forbes article about OpenBSD, more
1343: focused on the project itself this time. It contains good description of the
1344: history of OpenBSD along with its prime motivations. Mention is made of the
1345: DARPA grant and the annual hackathon. Theo's motto "shut up and hack" finally
1346: becomes famous in this piece and there are some other very insightful quotes
1347: such as "All I care about is making high-quality code. If I had to work at a
1348: regular job, it would drive me nuts". This is certainly an astute and perceptive
1349: article, well worth reading. Do note that the big picture of Theo's machine
1350: room will only be available in the print edition.
1351: <p>
1.459 deraadt 1352:
1.458 niallo 1353: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.456 niallo 1354: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html">
1355: Is Linux For Losers?</a>,
1356: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1357: An interesting article, if somewhat polemic in tone, which raises questions
1358: about the quality of Linux code compared to OpenBSD. There is also some short
1359: discussion of the OpenBSD development model and focus (push for quality above
1360: everything else) including good quotes from Theo. It seems that the need for
1361: high quality software is beginning to be recognised by the mainstream.
1362: <p>
1.457 deraadt 1363:
1.456 niallo 1364: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1365: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/06/09/2132233.shtml?tid=152&tid=8&tid=2">
1.455 ian 1366: BSD cognoscenti on Linux</a>,
1367: NewsForge, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1368: NewsForge talks with Theo de Raadt and NetBSD's Christos Zoulas about the
1369: similarities and differences between the Linux kernel and the BSD
1370: operating systems. The questions asked were similar to those asked
1371: of Linus Torvalds in a <a
1.462 grunk 1372: href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/09/2128249&tid=2">previous
1.455 ian 1373: interview.</a>
1374: <p>
1375:
1376: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.454 ian 1377: <a href="http://www.tuxjournal.net/intervista3-en.html">
1378: A good morning with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1379: Tux Journal, June 2, 2005</strong></font><br>
1380: Brief but wide-ranging interview with Theo in which our leader
1381: opines about the good things in 3.7: "The list of new developments
1382: is impressive, but in my view not nearly as impressive as the small
1383: little details that continue to be fixed during each development
1384: cycle." And modestly credits all the developers for the project's
1385: continuing success, attributing it to "The passion of the developers,
1386: and the wide experience they bring into their development efforts.
1387: By amazing coincidence, our users typically have the same needs as we do."
1388: Manages to sidestep getting drawn into comparisons with Linux, e.g.,
1389: when asked if he likes it/why/why not, deftly replies
1390: "I have never used it."
1391: <p>
1392:
1393: </ul>
1394:
1.441 deraadt 1395: <h2>May, 2005</h2>
1396: <ul>
1397: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 1398: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5190">
1399: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part II</a>,
1400: Kerneltrap, May 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1401: In the second installment of Kerneltrap's Hackathon 2005 feature, Jeremy
1402: Andrews speaks with the pf developers at length about their plans for
1403: future enhancements.
1404: <p>
1405:
1406: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.450 deraadt 1407: <a href="http://www.ctv.ca">
1.448 deraadt 1408: TV coverage: OpenBSD hackathon</a>,
1409: CTV/CFCN, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1410: A TV spot done a Canadian national TV station about the Calgary
1411: hackathon this year, with 60 developers.<br>
1412: North America mirror:
1413: <ul>
1.452 marco 1414: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.449 jcs 1415: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a><br>
1416: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a>
1.448 deraadt 1417: </ul>
1418: European mirror:
1419: <ul>
1.452 marco 1420: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.448 deraadt 1421: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a>
1422: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a><br>
1423: </ul>
1424: <p>
1425:
1426: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 1427: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5186">
1428: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part I</a>,
1429: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1430: Jeremy Andrews of KernelTrap does a good job of describing what it's like
1431: to be at the Hackathon in Part I of KernelTrap's Hackathon feature. Several
1432: developers are interviewed in detail about what they are working on.
1433: <p>
1434:
1435: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 1436: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5184">
1437: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005: Day 6?</a>,
1438: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1439: Kjell Wooding describes a typical day at the Hackathon in this entertaining
1440: first-hand account.
1441: <p>
1442:
1443: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.447 cloder 1444: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/05/20/1426216.shtml?tid=8">
1445: Review: OpenBSD 3.7</a>,
1446: NewsForge.com, May 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
1447: "OpenBSD is not only highly polished and easy to
1448: configure because of its documentation, it's also totally free-as-in-rights.
1449: With an obsession with security, freedom of source code, and quality of
1450: programming technique, OpenBSD 3.7 continues the legacy established by
1451: its previous releases," writes Jem Matzan in this nice, small review.
1452: <p>
1453:
1454: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.446 cloder 1455: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/05/19/openbsd_3_7.html">
1456: OpenBSD 3.7: The Wizard of OS</a>,
1457: ONLamp.com, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
1458: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
1459: new features in OpenBSD 3.7, including new wireless chipsets, new
1460: spam-fighting features, zaurus, pf improvements, propolice, and
1461: many other things. A good overview of what's new in this release,
1462: plus some interesting comments about future direction.
1463: <p>
1464:
1465: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.444 niallo 1466: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/software/openbsd-3.7-released.html">
1.445 niallo 1467: Next incarnation of OpenBSD released</a>,
1.444 niallo 1468: Ping Wales, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
1469: "OpenBSD is often unjustly overlooked as a free UNIX-like system in favour of
1470: the more-hyped Linux. While it receives a lot less publicity than other
1471: operating systems, this is not due to lack of technical merit." says David
1472: Chisnall, in what is a clear and concise overview of the new features
1473: in 3.7 and indeed the project as a whole.
1474: <p>
1475:
1476: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1477: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5114">
1.445 niallo 1478: 2005 Calgary Hackathon, KernelTrap Coverage</a>,
1.444 niallo 1479: Kerneltrap, May 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1480: A great article about the annual OpenBSD Hackathon, detailing how the event
1481: functions, work done at previous Hackathons and features which may come out
1482: of this one. Includes many relevant quotes from developers themselves, and of
1483: course information about the legendary Hackathon BBQ!
1484: <p>
1485:
1486: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.442 deraadt 1487: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9658/sam0505e/">
1488: "Failover Firewalls with OpenBSD and CARP"</a>,
1489: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 5, p. 33
1.441 deraadt 1490: </strong></font><br>
1491: Jason Dixon discusses the history of the CARP and pfsync protocols
1492: and demonstrates using them to create redundant stateful firewalls
1493: with OpenBSD.
1494: </ul>
1495:
1.436 henning 1496: <h2>April, 2005</h2>
1497: <ul>
1498: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.440 ian 1499: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39195801,00.htm">
1500: Security guru wants access to bug databases</a>,
1501: ZDNet UK, April 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
1502: Ingrid Marson reports on Cambridge professor Ross Anderson's call for analysis of
1503: software maintenance records to determine whether open source code is more secure
1504: than closed source, as we have long contended.
1505: "One of Anderson's research students, Andy Ozment, has already done
1506: research using empirical data on bugs found in the open source
1507: operating system OpenBSD between 1997 and 2000. This research found
1508: that finding and fixing bugs results in a more secure product..."
1509: Just as the OpenBSD project has been saying for years.
1510: <p>
1511: This article can also be found online as
1512: <a href="http://uk.builder.com/manage/project/0,39026588,39244080,00.htm">Academic
1513: calls for better bug tracking</a> (uk.builder.com).
1514: <p>
1515:
1516: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.439 espie 1517: [FRENCH] "PC Expert", number 152, p. 58
1518: </strong></font><br>
1519: Very short interview of Marc Espie about OpenBSD as a free OS focusing
1520: on security, part of a larger dossier «les secrets des hackers».
1521: <p>
1522:
1523: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.436 henning 1524: [GERMAN] "Doppelwacht", iX 5/2005, p. 150.
1525: </strong></font><br>
1526: Stephan Tesch gives an introduction to CARP and using a pair of
1527: OpenBSD boxes as Firewalls in High Availibility scenarios. He goes
1.438 martin 1528: on explaining CARP and pfsync protocols, and does not forget to cover
1.436 henning 1529: the issues we had with IETF.
1530: </ul>
1531:
1.431 ian 1532: <h2>March, 2005</h2>
1533: <ul>
1534: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.435 reyk 1535: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/4818">
1536: OpenBSD's "Out of the Box" Wireless Support</a>,
1537: Kerneltrap, March 8, 2005</strong></font><br>
1538: This article is about the upcoming wireless support in OpenBSD 3.7 and
1539: the outcome of the work to open wireless chipsets. Jeremy Andrews
1540: talked with Theo de Raadt and the developers Damien Bergamini and Reyk
1541: Floeter who did some efforts to implement free and functional drivers.
1542: <p>
1543:
1544: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.431 ian 1545: <a href="http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/01/1109546842718.html">
1546: OpenBSD to support more wireless chipsets</a>,
1547: The Age, March 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1548: "The forthcoming 3.7 release of the OpenBSD operating system has
1549: added support for five more wireless chipsets, according to
1550: OpenBSD project founder Theo de Raadt...
1.432 ian 1551: OpenBSD 3.7 will also have have new drivers for Intel wireless
1.431 ian 1552: parts that do not work without the non-redistributable firmware,"
1553: namely the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11B
1554: and 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11A/B/G wireless network adapters.
1555: Mentions OpenBSD's activism in getting vendors to release chip specs.
1556: Referring to vendors that still refuse to play ball with open source
1557: projects, quotes Damien Miller as saying "Given the number of
1558: appliance devices that are built on free OSs, I think that the
1559: recalcitrant vendors are missing an important boat."
1560:
1561: </ul>
1562:
1.427 matthieu 1563: <h2>February, 2005</h2>
1564: <ul>
1565:
1566: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.428 david 1567: <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsaward2004.html">
1568: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
1569: FSF, February 26, 2005</strong></font><br>
1570: The Free Software Foundation awarded Theo de Raadt their "2004 Free Software
1571: Award" for his unwavering commitment to free software. Most recently he has
1572: been fighting hardware manufacturers for free redistribution of wireless card
1573: firmware.
1.434 ian 1574: Similar articles can be found online at:
1575: <ul>
1576: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1577: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=419">
1578: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
1579: Tectonic.za, March 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
1580: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1581: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article4362.phtml">
1582: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
1583: OSDir, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1584: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1585: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/De-Raadt-gets-free-software-award/2005/02/28/1109546758523.html?oneclick=true">
1586: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
1587: The Age, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1588: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1589: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/02/27/1413255.shtml?tid=99&tid=7">
1.434 ian 1590: Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award</a>,
1591: Slashdot, February 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1592: </ul>
1.427 matthieu 1593: </ul>
1594:
1.426 ian 1595: <h2>January, 2005</h2>
1596: <ul>
1597:
1598: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1599: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363731">
1600: Systrace in OpenBSD</a>,
1601: informit.com, January 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1602: This article talks about our systrace
1.462 grunk 1603: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&sektion=1">systrace(1)</a>
1.426 ian 1604: mechanism: what it is and why and
1605: how to use it, with examples.
1606: Another excerpt from the book
1607: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
1608: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
1609: <p>
1610:
1611: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1612: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363732">
1613: Overview of OpenBSD</a>,
1614: informit.com, January 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
1615: "OpenBSD is one of the most secure and well-designed operating
1616: systems available today. It has its roots in countless hours of
1617: research and development based on some of the best UNIX flavors of
1618: the past, and it boasts all the features of modern operating systems.
1619: The OS is widely considered one of the most secure general-purpose
1620: operating systems available today and it supports many key parts
1621: of the global Internet infrastructure..."
1622: This article is a sample chapter from
1623: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
1624: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
1625: <p>
1.443 ian 1626:
1627: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1628: <a href="http://www.pcplus.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=34628&subsectionid=784">
1.443 ian 1629: OpenBSD operating system</a>,
1630: PCPlus.co.uk, January, 2005</strong></font><br>
1631: Paul Grosse gives a brief tutorial on installing OpenBSD on i386 for people
1632: moving in a Windows->Linux direction, encouraging them to go a bit further for security.
1633: "While Linux out-scores Windows substantially (or completely) on [security as well as many other
1634: issues], it's still possible to use a more secure operating system on the PC... OpenBSD."
1635: Gives a brief but understandable walkthrough on the installation process, right up to
1636: downloading and installing the third-party packages, and
1637: ends with a sidebar on security.
1638: <p>
1.426 ian 1639: </ul>
1640:
1.424 ian 1641: <h2>December, 2004</h2>
1642: <ul>
1643:
1644: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.425 ian 1645: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/2329229">
1646: What are the real vulnerabilities of Linux?</a>
1647: NewsForge.com, December 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1648: Several security consultants were asked about "the real vulnerabilities of
1649: Linux". Cybersoure CEO Con Symaris seems to get it better than the rest:
1650: "One needs to approach security as a prime requirement and motivator,
1651: much as the OpenBSD team do," Zymaris said... "The Linux
1652: community mindset is different. Linux development is dynamic and
1653: races ahead towards more and broader functionality, drawing a
1654: multitude of interested parties in to make interesting extensions
1655: and adaptations at a rapid rate."
1656: <p>
1657: "In order to do security the BSD way, however, much more effort
1658: needs to be spent auditing code for holes, which is much less sexy,
1659: and attracts a different set of coders," Zymaris added.
1660: <p>
1661:
1662: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.424 ian 1663: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/281">
1664: Closed Source Hardware</a>
1665: Security Focus, December 1, 2004</strong></font><br>
1666: Symantec Threat Analyst Jason Miller analyzes the potential security threats
1667: when hardware vendors won't provide device documentation and
1668: instead provide "binary only" driver code for inclusion in open source
1669: operating systems.
1670: Miller is an open-source fan who says he uses a variety of systems, including
1671: OpenBSD on his firewall.
1672: Of the recent trend to closed-source binary drivers for open-source
1673: systems, he writes:
1674: <blockquote>
1675: The closed-source component required to support this hardware is
1676: completely independent of the associated operating system, and as
1677: such, is also independent of the engineering team, security team,
1678: auditing process, and quality control procedures normally related
1679: to the operating system...
1680: <br/>
1681: What's possibly even more disturbing is that we're talking about
1682: a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest
1683: possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a
1684: third-party vendor. This code could do anything once loaded, including
1685: leaking active WEP keys, gathering usage statistics, sniffing and
1686: disclosing traffic, and it could even introduce a subtle backdoor
1687: into the operating system itself (much the same as any device driver
1688: in a closed source operating system).
1689: <br/>
1690: [A]lthough some of these scenarios are a
1691: little far-fetched, the possibility for them to exist is there...
1692: Ultimately it becomes an issue of trust, which is a cornerstone of
1693: good security: whom do you trust, and how much do you trust them?
1694: </blockquote>
1695: <p>And he comments that trust "seems to be a one-way street": vendors
1696: demand that you trust them, but they won't trust you to know how
1697: their hardware and software operates.
1698: This lack of trust is one reason why OpenBSD has recently completed
1699: reverse-engineering the
1.462 grunk 1700: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4">
1.424 ian 1701: Atheros wireless chipset driver</a>
1702: that was originally provided as a binary insert.
1703: <p>
1704: </ul>
1705:
1.417 pvalchev 1706: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
1707: <ul>
1.421 ian 1708:
1.417 pvalchev 1709: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.422 ian 1710: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730775,00.asp">
1711: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Widens Its Scope</a>
1712: eWEEK, November 22, 2004</strong></font><br>
1713: Jason Brooks reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and likes the changes it brings,
1714: including the multi-processing support which, he notes,
1715: "will be even more important as multicore processors--which occupy space
1716: on the road maps of Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others--
1717: become more prevalent." Comments favorably on OpenNTPD
1718: ("the three-line configuration file we needed to modify ... on OpenBSD was
1719: much simpler to deal with than the equivalent configuration file on
1720: the Linux systems we've tested").
1.423 ian 1721: Overall a favorable review of some of the new stuff in 3.6.
1.422 ian 1722: <p>
1723: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 otto 1724: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
1725: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
1726: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
1727: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
1728: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
1729: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
1730: it claims to do".
1731: <p>
1732:
1733: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1734: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109994542424009&w=2">
1.421 ian 1735: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution</a>
1736: misc@, November 8, 2004</strong></font><br>
1737: Theo recounts the struggle to get Intel to provide redistributable
1738: versions of the firmware for their wireless chipsets, and their
1.423 ian 1739: ultimate refusal to allow OpenBSD to redistribute the chipsets' firmware.
1.421 ian 1740: Includes a caveat about Intel's disingenuous "FAQ", typical of many
1741: corporate FAQs that answer questions nobody actually thought
1742: to ask, and don't truthfully answer the questions you want hard answers to.
1743: At the end Theo names the names (and their emails) that need to be contacted
1744: by large numbers of end-users and developers if Intel is to change
1745: (yes, this is a hint).
1746: Of interest is that this posting to one of our mailing lists was
1747: picked up on the
1748: <a href="http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1923">Screaming
1749: Electron Forum</a> and from there reported on
1.462 grunk 1750: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/22/1249249&from=rss">
1.421 ian 1751: SlashDot</a>, where it is accompanied by a link to SlashDot's paper
1752: on effective advocacy (be firm, but also be polite).
1753: <p>
1754:
1755: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 1756: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
1757: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
1758: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
1759: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
1760: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
1761: questions about the significance and rationale behind
1762: the current efforts.
1763: <p>
1764: </ul>
1765:
1.407 henning 1766: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
1767: <ul>
1768: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 1769: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
1770: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
1771: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
1772: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
1773: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
1774: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
1775: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
1776: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
1777: <p>
1778:
1779: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 1780: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
1781: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
1782: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1783: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
1784: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
1785: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
1786: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
1787: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
1788: of the important changes in 3.6.
1.462 grunk 1789: <p>
1.415 ian 1790:
1791: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1792: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
1.414 ian 1793: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
1794: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
1795: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
1796: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
1797: overflow attacks... because
1798: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
1799: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
1800: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
1801: and propolice.
1802: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
1803: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
1804: and that's when the science falls apart."
1805: <p>
1806:
1807: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 1808: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
1809: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
1810: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
1811: Starts with the question:
1812: <blockquote>
1813: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
1814: <br/>
1815: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
1816: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
1817: <br/>
1818: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
1819: Should we believe them?"
1820: </blockquote>
1821: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
1822: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
1823: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
1824: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
1825: for your mail, web and other online activities.
1826: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
1827: <p>
1828:
1829: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 1830: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
1831: Simple Simon</a>,
1832: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
1833: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
1834: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
1835: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
1836: routing/firewall, and more.
1837: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
1838: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
1839: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
1840: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
1841: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
1842: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
1843: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
1844: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
1845: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
1846: </blockquote>
1847: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
1848: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
1849: <p>
1850:
1851: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 1852: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
1853: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 1854: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 1855: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 1856: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
1857: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
1858: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 1859: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 1860: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
1861: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
1862: in spite of it
1863: (registration required, but worth it).
1864: <p>
1865:
1866: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1867: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
1868: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
1869: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1870: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
1871: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
1872: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
1873: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 1874: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 1875: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
1876: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
1877: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
1878: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
1879: <p>
1880:
1881: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 1882: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
1883: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
1884: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
1885: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
1886: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
1887: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
1888: <blockquote>
1889: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
1890: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
1891: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
1892: a lot of analysis.
1893: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
1894: </blockquote>
1895: <p>
1896: </ul>
1897:
1.400 marco 1898: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
1899: <ul>
1900: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 1901: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
1902: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
1903: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
1904: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
1905: UNIX-like systems.
1906: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
1907: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
1908: <p>
1909: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 1910: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
1911: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 1912: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1913: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
1914: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
1915: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
1916: At one point, the article states:
1917: <blockquote>
1918: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
1919: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
1920: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
1921: </blockquote>
1922: And then quotes Theo as saying:
1923: <blockquote>
1924: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
1925: fewer are reading or auditing code."
1926: </blockquote>
1927: <p>
1928: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1929: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
1930: marks its fifth birthday</a>
1931: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1932: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
1933: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
1934: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
1935: required).
1936: <p>
1937: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 1938: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
1939: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
1940: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
1941: </strong></font><br>
1942: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
1943: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
1944: <p>
1945: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 1946: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
1947: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 1948: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 1949: </strong></font><br>
1950: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
1951: <p>
1952: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 1953: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
1954: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 1955: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 1956: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 1957: 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 1958: <p>
1959: </ul>
1960:
1.396 henning 1961: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
1962: <ul>
1963: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 1964: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
1965: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
1966: Unix Review, July, 2004
1967: </strong></font><br>
1968: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
1969: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
1.462 grunk 1970: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
1.418 ian 1971: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
1972: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
1973: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
1974: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
1975: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
1976: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
1977: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
1978: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
1979: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
1980: and even spelling/wording errors.
1981: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
1982: <p>
1983: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 1984: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 1985: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
1986: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
1987: </strong></font><br>
1988: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
1989: <p>
1990: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 1991: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 1992: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
1993: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
1994: </strong></font><br>
1995: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
1996: <p>
1997: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 1998: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
1999: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
2000: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
2001: </strong></font><br>
2002: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
2003: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
2004: <p>
2005: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 2006: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
2007: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
2008: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
2009: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
2010: <p>
2011: </ul>
2012:
1.405 jolan 2013: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
2014: <ul>
1.545 tom 2015: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 2016: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
1.466 deraadt 2017: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 5, 2004</strong></font>
1.405 jolan 2018: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
2019: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
2020: details on how funds are dispersed.
2021: <p>
2022: </ul>
2023:
1.393 david 2024: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
2025: <ul>
2026: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 2027: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
2028: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
2029: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
2030: </strong></font><br>
2031: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
2032: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
2033: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
2034: on inserting large number of SQL records.
2035: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
2036: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
2037: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
2038: <p>
2039:
2040: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 2041: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
2042: Secure by Default</a>,
2043: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
2044: </strong></font><br>
2045: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
2046: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
2047: <p>
2048:
2049: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2050: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
2051: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
2052: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
2053: </strong></font><br>
2054: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
2055: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
2056: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
2057: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
2058: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
2059: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
2060: <p>
2061:
2062: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2063: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
2064: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
2065: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
2066: </strong></font><br>
2067: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
2068: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
2069: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
2070: <p>
2071:
2072: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2073: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
2074: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
2075: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
2076: </strong></font><br>
2077: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
2078: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
2079: <p>
2080: </ul>
2081:
1.388 mcbride 2082: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
2083: <ul>
1.394 jolan 2084:
2085: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2086: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
2087: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
2088: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
2089: </strong></font><br>
2090: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
2091: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
2092: available for sparc64.
2093: <p>
2094:
1.390 beck 2095: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 2096: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
2097: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
2098: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
2099: </strong></font><br>
2100: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
2101: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
2102: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
2103: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
2104: <p>
2105:
2106: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 2107: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
2108: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 2109: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 2110: </strong></font><br>
2111: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
2112: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
2113: it does: CARP provides sharing
2114: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
2115: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
2116: detail to get you started using it.
2117: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
2118: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
2119: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
2120: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
2121: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
2122: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
2123: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 2124: <p>
1.391 ian 2125:
2126: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 2127: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 2128: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
2129: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 2130: </strong></font><br>
2131: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 2132: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 2133: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 2134: <p>
1.388 mcbride 2135:
2136: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2137: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
2138: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 2139: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 2140: </strong></font><br>
2141: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
2142: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
2143: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
2144: unencumbered by patents.
2145: <p>
2146: </ul>
2147:
1.378 henning 2148: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
2149: <ul>
1.384 jose 2150:
2151: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 2152: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
2153: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
2154: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
2155: </strong></font><br>
2156: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
2157: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
2158: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
2159: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
2160: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
2161: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
2162: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
2163: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
2164: in the page tables."
2165: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
2166: <p>
2167:
2168: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 2169: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
2170: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
2171: </strong></font><br>
2172: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
2173: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
2174: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
2175: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 2176: <p>
1.384 jose 2177:
1.378 henning 2178: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 2179: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
2180: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 2181: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
2182: </strong></font><br>
2183: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
2184: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
2185: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
2186: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
2187: (quote:
2188: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
2189: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 2190: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 2191: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
2192: the other developers for their work on the system.
2193: <p>
2194:
2195: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 2196: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
2197: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
2198: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 2199: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 2200: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
2201: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
2202: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
2203: too.
2204: <p>
2205:
2206: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 2207: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
2208: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 2209: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 2210: OpenBSD source code using
2211: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
2212: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
2213: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
2214: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
2215: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
2216: <p>
2217: </ul>
2218:
1.374 jose 2219: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
2220: <ul>
2221: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 2222: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 2223: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
2224: </strong></font><br>
2225: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
2226: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
2227: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
2228: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
2229: it."
2230: <p>
2231:
2232: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 2233: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
2234: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
2235: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
2236: </strong></font><br/>
2237: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
2238: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
2239: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
2240: <p>
2241: </ul>
2242:
1.369 ian 2243: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
2244: <ul>
2245: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 2246: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
2247: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
2248: </strong></font><br/>
2249: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
2250: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
2251: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
2252: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
2253: <p>
2254:
2255: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 2256: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
2257: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
2258: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
2259: </strong></font><br/>
2260: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
2261: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
2262: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
2263: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
2264: form factor.
2265: <p>
2266:
2267: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2268: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
2269: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
2270: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
2271: Features</a>,
2272: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
2273: </strong></font><br/>
2274: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
2275: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
2276: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
2277: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
2278: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
2279: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
2280: <p>
2281: This article can also be found online at:
2282: <ul>
2283: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 2284: <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 2285: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
2286: </strong></font>
2287: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
2288: </ul>
2289: <p>
1.392 david 2290:
1.371 jose 2291: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 2292: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
2293: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 2294: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
2295: </strong></font><br/>
2296: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
2297: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
2298: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 2299: <p>
1.371 jose 2300:
2301: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 2302: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 2303: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 2304: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 2305: </strong></font><br/>
2306: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
2307: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
2308: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
2309: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
2310: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
2311: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
2312: and its history with OpenBSD.
2313: </ul>
2314:
1.567 ! kurt 2315: <h2>September, 2003</h2>
! 2316: <ul>
! 2317: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
! 2318: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/bsdcon03/tech/full_papers/rosenthal/rosenthal_html/">
! 2319: A Digital Preservation Network Appliance Based on OpenBSD</a>, BSDcon, September, 2003.
! 2320: </strong></font><br>
! 2321: David S. H. Rosenthal's paper on the design, implementation and deployment of the
! 2322: <a href="http://www.lockss.org">LOCKSS</a> network appliance based on OpenBSD.
! 2323: </ul>
! 2324:
1.368 henning 2325: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
2326: <ul>
2327: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 2328: [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 2329: </strong></font><br>
2330: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
2331: </ul>
2332:
1.364 jose 2333: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
2334: <ul>
2335: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 2336: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
2337: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
2338: UNIX Review,
2339: July, 2003.
2340: </strong></font><br>
2341: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
2342: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
2343: who want more information.
2344: <p>
2345:
2346: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 2347: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
2348: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
2349: Government Computer News,
2350: July 22, 2003.
2351: </strong></font><br>
2352: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
2353: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
2354: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
2355: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
2356: <p>
2357:
2358: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2359: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
2360: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
2361: SANS Institute,
2362: July 22, 2003.
2363: </strong></font><br>
2364: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 2365: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 2366: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
2367: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
2368: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
2369: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
2370: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
2371: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
2372: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
2373: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
2374: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
2375: <p>
2376:
2377: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 2378: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
2379: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
2380: OnLamp.com,
2381: July 17, 2003.
2382: </strong></font><br>
2383: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
2384: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
2385: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
2386: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
2387: have been working on.
2388:
2389: </ul>
2390:
1.356 jose 2391: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 2392: <ul>
2393:
2394: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 2395: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
2396: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
2397: UNIX Review,
2398: June, 2003.
2399: </strong></font><br>
2400: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
2401: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
2402: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
2403: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
2404: <p>
2405:
2406: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 2407: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
2408: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
2409: eWeek,
2410: June 23, 2003.
2411: </strong></font><br>
2412: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
2413: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
2414: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
2415: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
2416: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
2417: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
2418: <p>
2419:
2420: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 2421: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
2422: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
2423: Software Development Online,
2424: June, 2003.
2425: </strong></font><br>
2426: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
2427: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
2428: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
2429: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
2430: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
2431: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
2432: current activities.
2433: <p>
2434:
2435: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 2436: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
2437: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 2438: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
2439: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
2440: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
2441: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 2442: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 2443: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
2444: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
2445: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 2446: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 2447: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
2448: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 2449: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 2450: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
2451: decisions.
2452: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
2453: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 2454: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 2455: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 2456: <p>
2457:
2458: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 2459: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
2460: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
2461: Page 58, eWeek,
2462: June 2, 2003.
2463: </strong></font><br>
2464: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
2465: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
2466: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
2467: been addressed in -current.
2468: <p>
2469:
1.356 jose 2470: </ul>
2471:
2472: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
2473: <ul>
2474:
1.355 jose 2475: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 2476: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
2477: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
2478: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
2479: </strong></font><br>
2480: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
2481: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
2482: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
2483: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
2484: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
2485: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
2486: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
2487: <p>
2488:
2489: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 2490: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
2491: Beyond Linux</a>,
2492: InfoWorld,
2493: May 23, 2003.
2494: </strong></font><br>
2495: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
2496: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
2497: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
2498: compared to the GPL.
2499: <p>
2500:
2501: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 2502: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
2503: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
2504: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 2505: May 17, 2003.
2506: </strong></font><br>
2507: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
2508: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
2509: the business section and half of another page inside
2510: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
2511: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
2512: in talking about the project's history and goals.
2513: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
2514: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
2515: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
2516: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 2517: <br>
2518: This article can also be found online at:
2519: <ul>
2520: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2521: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
2522: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
2523: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
2524: May 17, 2003
2525: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 2526: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
2527: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2528: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
2529: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
2530: Montreal Gazette,
2531: May 21, 2003
2532: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 2533: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 2534: <p>
1.346 ian 2535:
2536: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 2537: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 2538: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 2539: May 7, 2003.
2540: </strong></font><br>
2541: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
2542: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
2543: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
2544: <p>
2545:
2546: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 2547: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
2548: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2549: OsOpinion,
2550: May 6, 2003.
2551: </strong></font><br>
2552: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
2553: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
2554: <br>
2555: This article can also be found online at:
2556: <ul>
2557: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2558: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
2559: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2560: NewsFactor Network.
2561: </strong></font>
2562: </ul>
2563: <p>
2564:
2565: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2566: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 2567: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
2568: ITBusiness,
2569: May 2, 2003.
2570: </strong></font><br>
2571: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
2572: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
2573: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
2574: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
2575: <p>
2576:
2577: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 2578: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
2579: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
2580: InfoWorld,
2581: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 2582: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 2583: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
2584: <br>
2585: This article can also be found online at:
2586: <ul>
2587: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2588: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
2589: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
2590: IDG Singapore.
2591: </strong></font>
2592: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 2593: <p>
2594:
1.339 jose 2595: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2596: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
2597: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 2598: ZDNet,
2599: May 1, 2003.
2600: </strong></font><br>
2601: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 2602: someone using parts from previous articles.
2603: <br>
1.341 deraadt 2604: This article can also be found online at:
2605: <ul>
2606: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2607: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
2608: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
2609: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 2610: </strong></font>
2611: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2612: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
2613: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
2614: CNET News.com.
2615: </strong></font>
2616: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2617: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
2618: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
2619: ZDNet UK.
2620: </strong></font>
2621: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2622: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
2623: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
2624: Help Net Security, Croatia.
2625: </strong></font>
2626: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 2627: <p>
1.339 jose 2628:
1.341 deraadt 2629: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2630: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 2631: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
2632: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
2633: May 1, 2003.
2634: </strong></font><br>
2635: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
2636: that have been added
2637: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
2638: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
2639: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 2640: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 2641: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
2642: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
2643: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 2644: <p>
2645:
2646: </ul>
2647:
1.253 ian 2648: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
2649: <ul>
1.255 ian 2650:
1.260 ian 2651: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2652: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 2653: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
2654: TechRepublic,
2655: April 28, 2003.
2656: </strong></font><br>
2657: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
2658: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 2659: work.<br>
2660: Can also be found online at:
2661: <ul>
2662: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2663: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
2664: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
2665: ZDNet UK.
2666: </strong></font>
2667: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 2668: <p>
2669:
2670: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 2671: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
2672: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
2673: IDG,
2674: April 24, 2003.
2675: </strong></font><br>
2676: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
2677: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
2678: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
2679: Can also be found online at:
2680: <ul>
2681: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2682: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
2683: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 2684: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 2685: </strong></font>
2686: </ul>
2687: <p>
2688:
2689: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2690: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 2691: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 2692: Slate,
2693: April 24, 2003.
2694: </strong></font><br>
2695: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
2696: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
2697: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
2698: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
2699: <p>
2700:
2701: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 2702: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2703: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
2704: April 24, 2003.
2705: </strong></font><br>
2706: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
2707: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
2708: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
2709: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
2710: <p>
2711:
2712: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 2713: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
2714: April 24, 2003.
2715: </strong></font><br>
2716: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
2717: the free software community".
2718: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
2719: other articles.
2720: <p>
2721:
2722: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2723: <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 2724: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
2725: </strong></font><br>
2726: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
2727: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
2728: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
2729: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
2730: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
2731: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
2732: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 2733: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 2734: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
2735: <br/>
2736: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
2737: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
2738: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
2739: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 2740: <br>
2741: Can also be found online at:
2742: <ul>
2743: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2744: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
2745: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
2746: Common Dreams NewsCenter
2747: </strong></font>
2748: </ul>
1.324 ian 2749: <p>
2750:
2751: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2752: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
2753: Wired, April 24, 2003.
2754: </strong></font><br>
2755: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
2756: article above.
2757: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
2758: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
2759: wasting them."
1.332 ian 2760: <br>
2761: Can also be found online at:
2762: <ul>
2763: <li>
2764: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
2765: </strong></font>
2766: </ul>
1.324 ian 2767: <p>
2768:
2769: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 2770: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
2771: </strong></font><br>
2772: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
2773: <p>
2774:
2775: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 2776: <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.
2777: </strong></font><br>
2778: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
2779: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
2780: <p>
2781:
2782: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 2783: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
2784: April 23, 2003.
2785: </strong></font><br>
2786: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
2787: <p>
2788:
2789: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 2790: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 2791: April 22, 2003.
2792: </strong></font><br>
2793: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
2794: <p>
2795:
2796: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 2797: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
2798: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
2799: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 2800: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 2801: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
2802: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
2803: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
2804: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
2805: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
2806: Can also be found online at:
2807: <ul>
2808: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2809: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 2810: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
2811: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 2812: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 2813: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2814: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 2815: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
2816: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 2817: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 2818: </ul>
2819: <p>
2820:
2821: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 2822: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
2823: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 2824: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2825: </strong></font><br>
2826: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 2827: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
2828: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
2829: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
2830: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
2831: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
2832: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 2833: <p>
2834:
2835: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 2836: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
2837: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 2838: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
2839: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 2840: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
2841: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
2842: at UPenn and DARPA.
2843: <p>
2844:
2845: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 2846: [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,
2847: France
1.315 deraadt 2848: April 18, 2003.
2849: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 2850: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 2851: <p>
2852:
2853: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 2854: [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 2855: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2856: </strong></font><br>
2857: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
2858: <p>
2859:
2860: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 2861: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
2862: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
2863: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 2864: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 2865: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
2866: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
2867: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
2868: <p>
2869:
2870: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 2871: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
2872: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2873: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 2874: </strong></font><br>
2875: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
2876: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
2877: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 2878: American century.
1.267 deraadt 2879: <p>
2880:
2881: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 2882: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
2883: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2884: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 2885: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 2886: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
2887: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
2888: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
2889: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
2890: Can also be found online at:
2891: <ul>
2892: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
2893: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 2894: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 2895: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 2896: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 2897: <p>
2898:
2899: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 2900: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 2901: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 2902: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 2903: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 2904: </strong></font><br>
2905: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 2906: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
2907: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
2908: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
2909: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 2910:
2911: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2912: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
2913: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
2914: New York Times.
2915: </strong></font>(free registration required)
2916:
1.273 deraadt 2917: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2918: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 2919: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 2920: ABC News.
2921: </strong></font>
2922:
2923: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2924: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 2925: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 2926: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 2927: </strong></font>
2928:
2929: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2930: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 2931: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 2932: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 2933: </strong></font>
2934:
2935: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 2936: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
2937: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 2938: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 2939: </strong></font>
2940:
2941: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2942: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 2943: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 2944: Times Daily, AL.
2945: </strong></font>
2946:
2947: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2948: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
2949: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
2950: Boston.com, MA.
2951: </strong></font>
2952:
2953: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2954: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 2955: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 2956: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
2957: </strong></font>
2958:
2959: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 2960: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
2961: [Article was pulled]</a>
2962: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 2963: </strong></font>
2964:
2965: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2966: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
2967: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
2968: Infoshop News.
2969: </strong></font>
2970:
2971: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2972: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
2973: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2974: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
2975: </strong></font>
2976:
2977: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 2978: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
2979: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
2980: Raleigh News, NC.
2981: </strong></font>
2982:
2983: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2984: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 2985: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
2986: Napa News, CA.
2987: </strong></font>
2988:
2989: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2990: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 2991: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
2992: NEPA News, PA.
2993: </strong></font>
2994:
2995: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2996: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
2997: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
2998: Wired News.
2999: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 3000: <br>
3001: <li>
1.333 deraadt 3002: <font color="#009000"><strong>
3003: [JAPANESE]
3004: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
3005: Wired News Japan</a>
3006: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 3007:
1.271 deraadt 3008: </ul>
3009: <p>
1.272 deraadt 3010: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
3011: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 3012: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
3013: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
3014: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
3015: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
3016: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
3017: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 3018: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 3019: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
3020: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
3021: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 3022: <p>
3023: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 3024:
3025: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3026: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 3027: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
3028: Indianapolis Star, IN.
3029: </strong></font>
3030:
3031: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 3032: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
3033: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
3034: Miami Herald, FL.
3035: </strong></font>
3036:
3037: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 3038: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 3039: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
3040: </strong></font>
3041:
3042: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3043: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 3044: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 3045: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 3046: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 3047:
3048: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3049: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
3050: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
3051: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
3052: ABC News.
3053: </strong></font>
3054:
1.276 deraadt 3055: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3056: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 3057: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 3058: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 3059: </strong></font>
3060:
1.286 dhartmei 3061: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3062: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 3063: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
3064: Wilmington Star, NC.
3065: </strong></font>
3066:
1.300 jose 3067: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3068: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
3069: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
3070: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
3071: </strong></font>
3072:
1.309 jose 3073: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3074: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
3075: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
3076: Globe Technology.
3077: </strong></font>
3078:
1.263 deraadt 3079: </ul>
1.262 beck 3080: <p>
3081:
3082: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 3083: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
3084: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3085: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 3086: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 3087: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 3088: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
3089: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
3090: <p>
3091:
3092: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 3093: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
3094: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
3095: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 3096: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 3097: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
3098: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
3099: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
3100: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
3101: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
3102: and simply restates other press reports.
3103: <p>
3104:
3105: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 3106: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
3107: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
3108: OS News, April 18, 2003.
3109: </strong></font><br>
3110: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
3111: <p>
3112:
3113: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 3114: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
3115: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3116: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 3117: </strong></font><br>
3118: Another report on the DARPA funding.
3119: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
3120: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
3121: <p>
3122:
3123: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 3124: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
3125: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
3126: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
3127: April 17, 2003.
3128: </strong></font><br>
3129: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
3130: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
3131: Tech Anthems</a>
3132: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
3133: 4 so far.
3134: <p>
3135:
3136: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 3137: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
3138: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3139: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 3140: </strong></font><br>
3141: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
3142: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
3143: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
3144: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
3145: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
3146: Goes on to say:
3147: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
3148: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
3149: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
3150: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 3151: This article is also found online at:
3152: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 3153: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3154: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
3155: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
3156: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 3157: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 3158: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3159: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
3160: ZDnet</a>,
3161: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 3162: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 3163: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3164: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
3165: ZDnet Australia</a>,
3166: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 3167: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 3168: </ul>
1.260 ian 3169: <p>
1.279 deraadt 3170:
1.260 ian 3171: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3172: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 3173: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 3174: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 3175: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 3176: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 3177: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
3178: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
3179: without notice or justification.
3180: <p>
3181:
3182: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3183: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 3184: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 3185: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 3186: </strong></font><br>
3187: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
3188: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 3189: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 3190: effective today, without any warning..."
3191: <p>
1.257 ian 3192:
3193: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 3194: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
3195: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3196: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 3197: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 3198: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
3199: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
3200: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
3201: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
3202: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 3203: <p>
3204:
3205: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 3206: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
3207: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3208: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 3209: </strong></font><br>
3210: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
3211: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
3212: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
3213: quoting two of them:
3214: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
3215: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
3216: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
3217: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
3218: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
3219: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
3220: <p>
3221:
1.255 ian 3222: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3223: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
3224: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 3225: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3226: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 3227: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 3228: <p>
3229:
3230: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 3231: [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 3232: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3233: </strong></font><br>
3234: New security concepts in OpenBSD
3235: <p>
3236:
3237: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 3238: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
3239: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3240: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 3241: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 3242: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 3243: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
3244: security experts for more than three decades."
3245: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
3246: <p>
1.261 ian 3247:
1.254 drahn 3248: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 3249: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 3250: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3251: </strong></font><br>
3252: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
3253: <p>
3254:
3255: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 3256: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
3257: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
3258: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
3259: </strong></font><br>
3260: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
3261: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
3262: discussion OpenBSD's path.
3263: <p>
3264:
3265: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 3266: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
3267: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3268: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 3269: </strong></font><br>
3270: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
3271: from US DARPA.
3272: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
3273: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
3274: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
3275: the BSD license.
3276: <p>
3277: </ul>
3278:
1.251 ian 3279: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
3280: <ul>
3281:
3282: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3283: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
3284: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
3285: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
3286: </strong></font><br>
3287:
3288: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
3289: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
3290: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
3291: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
3292: <p>
3293:
3294: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 3295: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
3296: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 3297: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 3298: </strong></font><br>
3299: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
3300: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
3301: Mentions
3302: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
3303: and
3304: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
3305: programs.
3306: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 3307: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 3308: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
3309: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
3310: <p>
1.325 ian 3311: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
3312: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 3313:
3314: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3315: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
3316: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
3317: </strong></font><br>
3318: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
3319: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
3320: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
3321: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
3322: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
3323: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
3324: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
3325: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
3326: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
3327: put into service."
3328: <p>
3329: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
3330: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
3331: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
3332: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
3333: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
3334: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
3335: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
3336: computers with security features."
3337: <p>
1.329 ian 3338:
3339: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3340: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
3341: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
3342: Slate,
3343: March 3, 2003.
3344: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 3345: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 3346: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
3347: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
3348: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
3349: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
3350: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
3351: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
3352: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
3353: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
3354: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
3355: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
3356: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
3357: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
3358: of more secure open-source solutions like
3359: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
3360: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
3361: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
3362: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
3363: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
3364: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
3365: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
3366: the Beltway."
3367: <p>
1.251 ian 3368: </ul>
3369:
1.249 jufi 3370: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
3371: <ul>
3372: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3373: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
3374: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3375: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 3376: </strong></font><br>
3377: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
3378: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 3379: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 3380: <p>
1.334 ian 3381:
3382: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3383: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
3384: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
3385: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
3386: </strong></font><br>
3387: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
3388: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
3389: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
3390: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
3391: "... the hypothetical question ...
3392: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
3393: <br>
3394: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
3395: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
3396: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
3397: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
3398: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
3399: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 3400: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 3401: support network security.
3402: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
3403: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
3404: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
3405: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
3406: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
3407: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
3408: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
3409: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
3410: <br>
3411: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
3412: <p>
3413:
1.249 jufi 3414: </ul>
3415:
1.246 jufi 3416: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3417: <ul>
1.246 jufi 3418:
1.247 jufi 3419: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3420: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 3421: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3422: CNET News.com, December 4, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3423: </strong></font><br>
3424: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
3425: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
3426: <p>
3427:
1.247 jufi 3428: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3429: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
3430: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3431: Heise News-Ticker, December 4, 2002
1.301 jose 3432: </strong></font><br>
1.460 david 3433: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III CPU
1.301 jose 3434: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
3435: <p>
3436:
3437: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3438: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 3439: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3440: eWeek, December 3, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3441: </strong></font><br>
3442: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
3443: in their annual OpenHack security test.
3444: <p>
1.247 jufi 3445: </ul>
1.246 jufi 3446:
1.244 jufi 3447: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3448: <ul>
1.246 jufi 3449:
1.247 jufi 3450: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3451: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
3452: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
3453: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3454: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3455: </strong></font><br>
3456: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
3457: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
3458: md5 digests.
3459: <p>
3460:
1.247 jufi 3461: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3462: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 3463: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
3464: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3465: </strong></font><br>
3466: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
3467: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
3468: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
3469: right the first time."
3470: <p>
1.247 jufi 3471: </ul>
1.244 jufi 3472:
3473:
3474: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3475: <ul>
1.244 jufi 3476:
1.247 jufi 3477: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3478: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3479: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
3480: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3481: </strong></font><br>
3482: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
3483: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
3484: part 6</a>.
3485: <p>
3486:
1.247 jufi 3487: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3488: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 3489: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
3490: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3491: O'Reilly Network, August 8, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3492: </strong></font><br>
3493: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
3494: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
3495: <p>
1.301 jose 3496:
3497: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3498: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
3499: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
3500: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
3501: </strong></font><br>
3502:
3503: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
3504: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
3505: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
3506: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
3507: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
3508: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
3509: <i>Here's the
3510: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
3511: <p>
1.247 jufi 3512: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3513:
3514: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3515: <ul>
1.242 jufi 3516:
1.247 jufi 3517: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3518: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 3519: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3520: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3521: </strong></font><br>
3522: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
3523: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
3524: <p>
3525:
1.247 jufi 3526: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3527: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3528: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3529: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 1, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3530: </strong></font><br>
3531: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
3532: this time using pf.
3533: <p>
1.247 jufi 3534: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3535:
3536: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3537: <ul>
1.242 jufi 3538:
1.247 jufi 3539: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3540: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3541: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
3542: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3543: </strong></font><br>
3544: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
3545: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
3546: their rotation.
3547: <p>
3548:
1.247 jufi 3549: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3550: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3551: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3552: O'Reilly Network, June 6, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3553: </strong></font><br>
3554: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
3555: <p>
1.247 jufi 3556: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3557:
1.239 jufi 3558: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3559: <ul>
1.239 jufi 3560:
1.247 jufi 3561: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3562: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 3563: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
3564: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3565: </strong></font><br>
3566: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
3567: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
3568: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
3569: <p>
3570:
1.247 jufi 3571: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 3572: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 3573: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
3574: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 3575: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 3576: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
3577: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
3578: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 3579: <p>
1.247 jufi 3580: </ul>
1.239 jufi 3581:
1.235 lebel 3582: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3583: <ul>
1.235 lebel 3584:
1.239 jufi 3585:
1.247 jufi 3586: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 3587: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 3588: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
3589: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 3590: </strong></font><br>
3591: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
3592: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
3593: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
3594: <p>
1.301 jose 3595:
1.247 jufi 3596: </ul>
1.235 lebel 3597:
1.228 horacio 3598: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3599: <ul>
1.228 horacio 3600:
1.247 jufi 3601: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3602: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3603: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
3604: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 3605: </strong></font><br>
3606: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
3607: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
3608: <p>
3609:
1.247 jufi 3610: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 3611: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 3612: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
3613: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 3614: </strong></font><br>
3615: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
3616: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
3617: <p>
3618:
1.247 jufi 3619: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 3620: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 3621: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
3622: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 3623: </strong></font><br>
3624: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
3625: on the desktop of his parents.
3626: <p>
3627:
1.247 jufi 3628: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 3629: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 3630: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
3631: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 3632: </strong></font><br>
3633: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
3634: using IPFilter.
3635:
3636: <p>
3637:
1.247 jufi 3638: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 3639: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 3640: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
3641: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 3642: </strong></font><br>
3643: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
3644: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
3645: perspectives of the four OS.
3646: <br>
3647: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 3648: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 3649: <p>
3650:
1.247 jufi 3651: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 3652: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
3653: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 3654: software and security</a>,
3655: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 3656: </strong></font><br>
3657:
3658: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
3659: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
3660: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
3661: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
3662: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
3663: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
3664: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
3665: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
3666: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
3667: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
3668: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
3669: security conscious team beyond doubt.
3670: <p>
1.247 jufi 3671: </ul>
1.228 horacio 3672:
1.225 horacio 3673: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3674: <ul>
1.225 horacio 3675:
1.247 jufi 3676: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3677: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
3678: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 3679: Interview</a>,
3680: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 3681: </strong></font><br>
3682:
3683: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
3684: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
3685: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 3686: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 3687: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
3688: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
3689: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
3690: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
3691: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 3692: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 3693: of choice.
3694: <p>
1.247 jufi 3695: </ul>
1.225 horacio 3696:
3697: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3698: <ul>
1.225 horacio 3699:
1.247 jufi 3700: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3701: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 3702: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
3703: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 3704: </strong></font><br>
3705:
3706: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
3707: <p>
3708:
1.247 jufi 3709: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3710: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 3711: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
3712: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 3713: </strong></font><br>
3714:
3715: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
3716: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
3717: <p>
1.247 jufi 3718: </ul>
1.225 horacio 3719:
1.218 horacio 3720: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3721: <ul>
1.218 horacio 3722:
1.247 jufi 3723: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 3724: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 3725: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 3726: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 3727: </strong></font><br>
3728:
3729: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
3730: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
3731: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
3732: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
3733: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
3734: subjects. Worth a read.
3735: <p>
3736:
3737:
1.247 jufi 3738: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 3739: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 3740: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
3741: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 3742: </strong></font><br>
3743:
3744: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
3745: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
3746: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
3747: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
3748: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
3749: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
3750: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
3751: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
3752: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 3753: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 3754: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
3755: on other operating systems.<br>
3756: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
3757: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
3758: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
3759: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
3760: <p>
3761:
1.247 jufi 3762: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3763: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 3764: Operating System 2010</a>,
3765: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 3766: </strong></font><br>
3767:
3768: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
3769: covering the level of software integration into the core
3770: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
3771: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
3772: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
3773: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
3774: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
3775: <p>
3776:
1.247 jufi 3777: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 3778: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 3779: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
3780: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 3781: </strong></font><br>
3782:
3783: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
3784: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
3785: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
3786: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
3787: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
3788: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
3789: <p>
1.247 jufi 3790: </ul>
1.221 horacio 3791:
1.210 jufi 3792: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3793: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3794:
1.247 jufi 3795: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3796: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 3797: Already a Contender</a>,
3798: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 3799: </strong></font><br>
3800:
3801: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
3802: source software in response to an article which claimed that
3803: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
3804: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
3805: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
3806: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
3807: <p>
3808:
1.247 jufi 3809: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 3810: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 3811: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
3812: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 3813: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3814:
1.224 horacio 3815: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
3816: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
3817: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
3818: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
3819: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
3820: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 3821: <p>
1.247 jufi 3822: </ul>
1.215 horacio 3823:
3824: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3825: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3826:
1.247 jufi 3827: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3828: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
3829: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 3830: Division</a>,
3831: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 3832: </strong></font><br>
3833:
3834: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
3835: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 3836: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 3837: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
3838: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
3839: investment</em>.<br>
3840: The implementation details can be seen on their
3841: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
3842: <p>
3843:
1.247 jufi 3844: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3845: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
3846: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
3847: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
3848: </strong></font><br>
3849:
3850: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
3851: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
3852: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1.475 grunk 3853: laptops and T-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1.301 jose 3854: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
3855: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
3856: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
3857: <p>
3858:
3859: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3860: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 3861: Thinking about Security</a>,
3862: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 3863: </strong></font><br>
3864:
3865: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
3866: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
3867: security and says that even secured operating systems running
3868: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
3869: to time.<br>
3870: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
3871: system and just the most secure system.
3872: <p>
3873:
1.247 jufi 3874: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3875: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 3876: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
3877: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 3878: </strong></font><br>
3879:
3880: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
3881: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
3882: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
3883: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
3884: choice:<br>
3885: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
3886: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
3887: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
3888: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
3889: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
3890: network security devices and as such must be well
3891: armored."</em><br>
3892: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
3893: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
3894: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
3895: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
3896: <br>
3897: Bravo!
3898: <p>
1.247 jufi 3899: </ul>
1.210 jufi 3900:
1.207 ian 3901: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3902: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3903:
1.247 jufi 3904: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 3905: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
3906: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
3907: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 3908:
1.207 ian 3909: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
3910: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 3911: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 3912: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
3913: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
3914: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 3915: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 3916: <p>
1.247 jufi 3917: </ul>
1.207 ian 3918:
1.194 jufi 3919: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3920: <ul>
1.194 jufi 3921:
1.247 jufi 3922: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3923: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 3924: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
3925: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 3926: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3927:
1.240 miod 3928: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 3929: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
3930: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
3931: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
3932: <p>
3933:
1.247 jufi 3934: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3935: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
3936: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
3937: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
3938:
3939: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
3940: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
3941: <p>
3942:
3943: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3944: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
3945: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3946: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
3947:
3948: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
3949: <p>
3950:
3951: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3952: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 3953: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
3954: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
3955: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3956:
1.240 miod 3957: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 3958: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 3959: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
3960: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 3961: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 3962: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 3963: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
3964: <br>
1.413 deraadt 3965: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 3966: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
3967: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
3968: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
3969: <p>
3970:
1.247 jufi 3971: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 3972: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
3973: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 3974: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 3975: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3976:
1.194 jufi 3977: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
3978: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
3979: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
3980: <br>
3981: The new
3982: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 3983: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 3984: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
3985: <p>
1.247 jufi 3986: </ul>
1.194 jufi 3987:
1.190 horacio 3988: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3989: <ul>
1.190 horacio 3990:
1.247 jufi 3991: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 3992:
3993: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
3994: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
3995:
1.301 jose 3996:
1.191 jufi 3997: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
3998: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
3999:
4000: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
4001: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
4002:
1.566 martynas 4003: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20010527142347">
1.212 horacio 4004: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 4005: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
4006:
1.211 horacio 4007: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
4008: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 4009: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
4010:
1.247 jufi 4011: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 4012: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
4013:
1.247 jufi 4014: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 4015: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
4016:
1.212 horacio 4017: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
4018: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 4019: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
4020:
4021: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
4022: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
4023:
4024: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
4025: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
4026:
1.301 jose 4027: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
4028: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
4029:
1.191 jufi 4030: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
4031: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
4032:
4033: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 4034: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 4035:
1.192 jufi 4036: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
4037: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 4038: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 4039:
1.193 deraadt 4040: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
4041: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 4042: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 4043:
1.247 jufi 4044: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 4045: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
4046:
1.247 jufi 4047: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 4048: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
4049: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
4050:
1.213 horacio 4051: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 4052: 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 4053: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
4054:
1.190 horacio 4055: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 4056: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
4057: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
4058: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
4059: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
4060: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
4061: <p>
1.190 horacio 4062:
1.247 jufi 4063: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4064: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
4065: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
4066: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 4067: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4068:
1.195 jufi 4069: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 4070: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
4071: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
4072: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 4073: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
4074: <p>
4075:
1.247 jufi 4076: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4077: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 4078: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
4079: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
4080: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4081:
1.191 jufi 4082: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 4083: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
4084: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
4085: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
4086: <p>
4087:
4088: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4089: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
4090: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4091: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
4092:
4093: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
4094: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 4095: <p>
1.247 jufi 4096: </ul>
1.190 horacio 4097:
1.191 jufi 4098:
1.186 jufi 4099: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4100: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 4101:
1.247 jufi 4102: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 4103: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 4104: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
4105: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 4106: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 4107:
1.188 jufi 4108: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 4109: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 4110: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 4111: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
4112: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 4113: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 4114: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 4115: <p>
4116:
1.301 jose 4117: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4118: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
4119: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4120: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
4121:
4122: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
4123: <p>
1.191 jufi 4124:
1.247 jufi 4125: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 4126: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
4127: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1.466 deraadt 4128: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 5, 2001
1.191 jufi 4129: </strong></font><br>
4130:
4131: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
4132: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
4133: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
4134: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
4135: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
4136: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
4137: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
4138: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
4139: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
4140: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
4141: familiar?
4142: <p>
1.247 jufi 4143: </ul>
1.191 jufi 4144:
1.178 louis 4145: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4146: <ul>
1.178 louis 4147:
1.247 jufi 4148: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 4149: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 4150: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
4151: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 4152: </strong></font><br>
4153:
4154: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
4155: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
4156: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
4157: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
4158: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
4159: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
4160: <p>
4161:
1.247 jufi 4162: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4163: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
4164: Open source under the hood</a>,
4165: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 4166: </strong></font><br>
4167:
4168: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
4169: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
4170: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
4171: <p>
4172:
1.247 jufi 4173: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4174: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
4175: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
4176: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 4177: </strong></font><br>
4178:
4179: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
4180: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
4181: <p>
1.247 jufi 4182: </ul>
1.179 louis 4183:
1.174 louis 4184:
1.175 louis 4185: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4186: <ul>
1.175 louis 4187:
1.247 jufi 4188: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4189: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
4190: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
4191: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 4192: </strong></font><br>
4193:
4194: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
4195: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
4196: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
4197: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
4198: <p>
4199:
1.247 jufi 4200: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4201: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
4202: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
4203: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 4204: </strong></font><br>
4205:
4206: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 4207: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 4208: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
4209: <p>
1.247 jufi 4210: </ul>
1.175 louis 4211:
1.176 louis 4212:
1.172 mickey 4213: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4214: <ul>
1.172 mickey 4215:
1.247 jufi 4216: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4217: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
4218: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 4219: </strong></font><br>
4220:
4221: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
4222: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
4223: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 4224: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 4225: <p>
4226:
1.247 jufi 4227: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 4228: <a
1.269 deraadt 4229: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
4230: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
4231: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 4232: </strong></font><br>
4233:
4234: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
4235: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
4236: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
4237: <p>
4238:
1.247 jufi 4239: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4240: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 4241: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
4242: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 4243: </strong></font><br>
4244:
4245: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
4246: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
4247: <p>
4248:
1.247 jufi 4249: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4250: <a
1.269 deraadt 4251: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
4252: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 4253: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
4254: </strong></font><br>
4255:
4256: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
4257: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
4258: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
4259: our own Theo de Raadt.
4260: <p>
4261:
1.247 jufi 4262: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4263: <a
1.269 deraadt 4264: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
4265: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
4266: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 4267: </strong></font><br>
4268:
4269: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
4270: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
4271: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
4272: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
4273: shut down.]
4274: <p>
4275:
1.247 jufi 4276: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4277: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 4278: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 4279: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
4280: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 4281: </strong></font><br>
4282:
4283: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
4284: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
4285: <p>
1.247 jufi 4286: </ul>
1.172 mickey 4287:
1.161 louis 4288: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4289: <ul>
1.161 louis 4290:
1.247 jufi 4291: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 4292: <a
1.269 deraadt 4293: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
4294: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
4295: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 4296: </strong></font><br>
4297:
4298: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
4299: by John Wolley
4300: <p>
4301:
1.247 jufi 4302: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 4303: <a
1.269 deraadt 4304: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
4305: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
4306: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 4307: </strong></font><br>
4308:
4309: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
4310: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
4311: OpenBSD).
4312: <p>
4313:
1.247 jufi 4314: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 4315: <a
1.247 jufi 4316: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 4317: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
4318: </strong></font><br>
4319:
4320: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
4321: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
4322: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
4323: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
4324: and hindsight.
4325: <p>
4326:
1.247 jufi 4327: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4328: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
4329: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
4330: </strong></font><br>
4331:
4332: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
4333: <p>
4334:
1.247 jufi 4335: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 4336: <a
1.168 provos 4337: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
4338: December 7, 2000
4339: </strong></font><br>
4340:
4341: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
4342: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
4343: us explain.
4344: <p>
4345:
1.247 jufi 4346: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 4347: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
4348: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 4349: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 4350: December 6, 2000
4351: </strong></font><br>
4352:
4353: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
4354: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
4355: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
4356: <p>
4357:
1.247 jufi 4358: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4359: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
4360: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
4361: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
4362: </strong></font><br>
4363:
4364: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
4365: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
4366: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
4367: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
4368: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
4369: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
4370: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
4371: <p>
4372:
4373: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 4374: <a
1.226 horacio 4375: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
4376: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 4377: </strong></font><br>
4378:
4379: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 4380: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 4381: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 4382: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
4383: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
4384: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 4385: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 4386: <p>
1.162 millert 4387:
1.247 jufi 4388: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 4389: <a
1.161 louis 4390: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
4391: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
4392: </strong></font><br>
4393:
4394: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
4395: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
4396: <p>
4397:
1.247 jufi 4398: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 4399: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
4400: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
4401: </strong></font><br>
4402:
4403: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
4404: <p>
4405:
4406:
1.247 jufi 4407: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 4408: <a
1.226 horacio 4409: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
4410: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
4411: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 4412: </strong></font><br>
4413:
4414: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
4415: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
4416: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
4417: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
4418: <p>
1.247 jufi 4419: </ul>
1.169 louis 4420:
1.158 louis 4421: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4422: <ul>
1.147 louis 4423:
1.247 jufi 4424: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4425: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
4426: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 4427: </strong></font><br>
4428:
4429: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
4430: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
4431: <p>
4432:
1.247 jufi 4433: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4434: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
4435: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
4436: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 4437: </strong></font><br>
4438: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
4439: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
4440: <p>
4441:
1.247 jufi 4442: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 4443: <a
4444: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
4445: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
4446: </strong></font><br>
4447:
4448: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
4449: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
4450: <p>
4451:
1.247 jufi 4452: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4453: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 4454: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
4455: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 4456:
1.213 horacio 4457: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 4458: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 4459: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
4460: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
4461: <p>
1.215 horacio 4462:
1.247 jufi 4463: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4464: <a
4465: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
4466: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
4467: </strong></font><br>
4468:
4469: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
4470: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
4471: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
4472: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
4473: much of the attitude too).
4474: <p>
1.161 louis 4475:
1.247 jufi 4476: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4477: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4478: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 4479: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4480:
1.157 louis 4481: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
4482: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
4483: <p>
1.247 jufi 4484: </ul>
1.157 louis 4485:
4486: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4487: <ul>
1.157 louis 4488:
1.247 jufi 4489: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4490: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4491: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 4492: </strong></font><br>
4493:
4494: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
4495: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
4496: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
4497: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
4498: <p>
4499:
1.247 jufi 4500: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 4501: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
4502: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
4503: </strong></font><br>
4504:
4505: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
4506: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
4507: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
4508: it because they love coding...
4509: <p>
4510:
1.247 jufi 4511: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 4512: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
4513: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
4514: </strong></font><br>
4515:
4516: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
4517: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
4518: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
4519: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
4520: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
4521: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
4522: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
4523: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
4524: <p>
4525:
1.247 jufi 4526: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4527: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
4528: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
4529: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 4530: </strong></font><br>
4531:
4532: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
4533: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
4534: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
4535: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
4536: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
4537: the pizza.
4538: <p>
4539:
1.247 jufi 4540: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 4541: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
4542: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
4543: </strong></font><br>
4544:
4545: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
4546: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
4547: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
4548: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
4549: problems.
4550: <p>
4551:
1.247 jufi 4552: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 4553: <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 4554: </strong></font><br>
4555:
1.222 miod 4556: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 4557: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
4558: - whether they like it or not.
4559: <p>
4560:
1.247 jufi 4561: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4562: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
4563: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 4564: </strong></font><br>
4565:
4566: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
4567: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
4568: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 4569: <p>
1.148 aaron 4570:
1.247 jufi 4571: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4572: <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 4573: </strong></font><br>
4574:
4575: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
4576: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
4577: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
4578: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
4579: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
4580: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
4581: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
4582: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
4583: <p>
4584:
1.247 jufi 4585: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4586: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
4587: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 4588: </strong></font><br>
4589:
4590: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
4591: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 4592: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 4593: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
4594: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
4595: <p>
1.247 jufi 4596: </ul>
1.147 louis 4597:
1.138 louis 4598: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4599: <ul>
1.138 louis 4600:
1.247 jufi 4601: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4602: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
4603: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
4604: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
4605: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 4606: </strong></font><br>
4607:
1.227 horacio 4608: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 4609: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
4610: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
4611: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
4612: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
4613: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
4614: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
4615: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 4616: <p>
4617:
1.247 jufi 4618: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 4619: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 4620: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 4621: </strong></font><br>
4622:
4623: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
4624: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
4625: groups, and even Linux.
4626: <p>
4627:
1.247 jufi 4628: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4629: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
4630: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 4631: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
4632: </strong></font><br>
4633:
4634: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
4635: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
4636: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
4637: library after installing the OS.
4638: <p>
4639:
1.247 jufi 4640: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4641: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 4642: Sys Admin, September 2000
4643: </strong></font><br>
4644:
4645: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
4646: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
4647: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
4648: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 4649: (<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>,
4650: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
4651: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
4652: <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 4653: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 4654: out of the system.
4655: <p>
4656:
1.247 jufi 4657: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 4658: <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
4659: </strong></font><br>
4660:
4661: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 4662: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 4663: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
4664: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
4665: the IP filtering and address translation.
4666: <p>
1.301 jose 4667:
4668: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4669: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
4670: </strong></font><br>
4671:
4672: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
4673: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
4674: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
4675: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
4676: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
4677: <p>
1.247 jufi 4678: </ul>
1.200 niklas 4679:
1.131 louis 4680: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4681: <ul>
1.131 louis 4682:
1.247 jufi 4683: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4684: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
4685: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
4686: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 4687: </strong></font><br>
4688:
4689: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
4690: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
4691: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
4692: <p>
4693:
1.247 jufi 4694: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 4695: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
4696: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
4697: </strong></font><br>
4698:
4699: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
4700: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
4701: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
4702: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
4703: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
4704: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
4705: note of"</i>.
4706: <p>
4707:
1.247 jufi 4708: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 4709: <a
1.247 jufi 4710: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 4711: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
4712: </strong></font><br>
4713:
4714: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
4715: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
4716: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
4717: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
4718: <p>
4719:
1.247 jufi 4720: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 4721: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 4722: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
4723: </strong></font><br>
4724:
4725: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
4726: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
4727: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
4728: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
4729: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
4730: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
4731: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
4732: <p>
4733:
1.247 jufi 4734: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 4735: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
4736: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
4737: 2000
4738: </strong></font><br>
4739:
4740: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
4741: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
4742: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
4743: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
4744: against current industry practices.
4745: <p>
4746:
1.247 jufi 4747: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 4748: <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
4749: </strong></font><br>
4750:
4751: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
4752: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
4753: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
4754: <p>
4755:
1.247 jufi 4756: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 4757: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
4758: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
4759: </strong></font><br>
4760:
4761: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
4762: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
4763: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
4764: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
4765: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
4766: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
4767: careful code reviews, he concludes.
4768: <p>
4769:
1.247 jufi 4770: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 4771: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
4772: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
4773: </strong></font><br>
4774:
4775: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
4776: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
4777: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
4778: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
4779: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 4780: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
4781: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
4782: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 4783: <p>
1.247 jufi 4784: </ul>
1.131 louis 4785:
1.118 louis 4786: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4787: <ul>
1.118 louis 4788:
1.247 jufi 4789: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 4790: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
4791: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
4792: </strong></font><br>
4793:
4794: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
4795: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
4796: about time. The article mentions that
4797: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
4798: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
4799: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 4800: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 4801: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
4802: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 4803: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 4804: <p>
4805:
1.247 jufi 4806: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4807: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 4808: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 4809: </strong></font><br>
4810:
4811: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
4812: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
4813: of OpenSSH.
4814: <p>
4815:
1.247 jufi 4816: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4817: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4818: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 4819: </strong></font><br>
4820:
4821: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 4822: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 4823: bridging.
4824: <p>
4825:
1.247 jufi 4826: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4827: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
4828: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 4829: </strong></font><br>
4830:
1.121 deraadt 4831: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
4832: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 4833: <p>
4834:
1.247 jufi 4835: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 4836: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
4837: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
4838: </strong></font><br>
4839:
4840: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
4841: <p>
4842:
1.247 jufi 4843: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 4844: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 4845: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
4846: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 4847: </strong></font><br>
4848:
1.120 deraadt 4849: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
4850: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 4851: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
4852: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
4853: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
4854: <p>
4855:
1.247 jufi 4856: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 4857: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
4858: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
4859: </strong></font><br>
4860:
1.222 miod 4861: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 4862: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
4863: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
4864: protocols and their quirks.
4865: <p>
4866:
1.247 jufi 4867: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4868: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
4869: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 4870: </strong></font><br>
4871:
4872: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
4873: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
4874: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 4875: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 4876: <p>
4877:
1.247 jufi 4878: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 4879: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
4880: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
4881: </strong></font><br>
4882:
4883: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
4884: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
4885: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
4886: <p>
4887:
1.247 jufi 4888: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 4889: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 4890: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
4891: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 4892: </strong></font><br>
4893:
4894: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
4895: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
4896: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
4897: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
4898: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
4899: <p>
1.247 jufi 4900: </ul>
1.118 louis 4901:
1.104 louis 4902: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4903: <ul>
1.104 louis 4904:
1.247 jufi 4905: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 4906: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
4907: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
4908: </strong></font><br>
4909:
4910: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
4911: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
4912: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
4913: be a bit dry.
4914: <p>
4915:
1.247 jufi 4916: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4917: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
4918: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
4919: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
4920: </strong></font><br>
4921: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
4922: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
4923: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
4924: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
4925: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
4926: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
4927: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
4928: <p>
4929:
1.247 jufi 4930: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4931: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
4932: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 4933: 2000
1.128 louis 4934: </strong></font><br>
4935:
4936: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
4937: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
4938: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
4939: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
4940: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 4941: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 4942: <p>
4943:
1.247 jufi 4944: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4945: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
4946: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 4947: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 4948:
4949: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
4950: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
4951: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
4952: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 4953: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
4954: <p>
1.110 louis 4955:
1.247 jufi 4956: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 4957: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
4958: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
4959: </strong></font><br>
4960:
4961: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
4962: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
4963: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
4964: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
4965: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
4966: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
4967: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
4968: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
4969: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
4970: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
4971: <p>
4972:
1.247 jufi 4973: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 4974: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 4975: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 4976:
4977: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
4978: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 4979: <p>
1.108 louis 4980:
1.247 jufi 4981: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 4982: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
4983: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 4984: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 4985:
4986: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
4987: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
4988: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 4989: <p>
1.106 louis 4990:
1.247 jufi 4991: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 4992: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
4993: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 4994: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 4995:
4996: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
4997: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
4998: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
4999: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 5000: <p>
1.107 louis 5001:
1.247 jufi 5002: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 5003: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
5004: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 5005: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 5006:
5007: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
5008: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 5009: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 5010: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
5011: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 5012: <p>
1.105 louis 5013:
1.247 jufi 5014: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 5015: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 5016: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 5017: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 5018:
1.113 naddy 5019: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
5020: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 5021: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 5022: <p>
1.104 louis 5023:
1.247 jufi 5024: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 5025: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
5026: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
5027: </strong></font><br>
5028:
5029: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
5030: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
5031: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
5032: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
5033: <p>
1.301 jose 5034:
5035: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5036: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
5037: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
5038: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
5039:
5040: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
5041: hardware-supported cryptography.
5042: <p>
1.247 jufi 5043: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 5044:
1.85 louis 5045: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5046: <ul>
1.85 louis 5047:
1.247 jufi 5048: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5049: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 5050: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 5051: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 5052:
5053: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
5054: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
5055: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
5056: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
5057: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
5058: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
5059: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 5060: <p>
1.99 louis 5061:
1.247 jufi 5062: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5063: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 5064: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 5065: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 5066:
5067: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
5068: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
5069: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
5070: conditions.
1.113 naddy 5071: <p>
1.100 louis 5072:
1.247 jufi 5073: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5074: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 5075: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 5076: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 5077:
5078: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
5079: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
5080: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
5081: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 5082: <p>
1.95 louis 5083:
1.247 jufi 5084: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5085: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 5086: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 5087: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 5088:
5089: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
5090: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 5091: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 5092: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
5093: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5094: <p>
1.92 louis 5095:
1.247 jufi 5096: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5097: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 5098: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 5099: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 5100:
5101: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
5102: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
5103: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
5104: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
5105: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
5106: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 5107: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 5108: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 5109: <p>
1.91 louis 5110:
1.247 jufi 5111: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5112: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
5113: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 5114: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 5115:
5116: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
5117: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
5118: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
5119: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
5120: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
5121: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
5122: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
5123: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
5124: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 5125: <p>
1.90 louis 5126:
1.247 jufi 5127: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 5128: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
5129: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
5130: </strong></font><br>
5131: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
5132: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
5133: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
5134: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
5135: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
5136: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
5137: <p>
5138:
1.247 jufi 5139: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 5140: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
5141: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 5142: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 5143:
1.113 naddy 5144: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
5145: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 5146: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
5147: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
5148: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
5149: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
5150: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 5151: <p>
1.87 louis 5152:
1.247 jufi 5153: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 5154: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
5155: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 5156: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 5157:
5158: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 5159: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 5160: <p>
1.85 louis 5161:
1.247 jufi 5162: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5163: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
5164: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
5165: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
5166:
5167: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
5168: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
5169: <p>
5170:
5171: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 5172: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
5173: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 5174: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 5175:
5176: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 5177: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 5178: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
5179: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 5180: <p>
1.89 louis 5181:
1.247 jufi 5182: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5183: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
1.85 louis 5184: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 5185: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 5186:
5187: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
5188: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
5189: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
5190: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
5191: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 5192: </ul>
1.85 louis 5193:
1.78 deraadt 5194: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5195: <ul>
1.74 louis 5196:
1.247 jufi 5197: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5198: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 5199: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 5200: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 5201: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 5202:
5203: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
5204: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
5205: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5206: <p>
1.83 louis 5207:
1.247 jufi 5208: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 5209: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
5210: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 5211: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 5212:
5213: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
5214: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 5215: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 5216: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
5217: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 5218: <p>
1.93 louis 5219:
1.247 jufi 5220: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 5221: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
5222: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
5223: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 5224: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 5225:
1.83 louis 5226: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
5227: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
5228: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
5229: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
5230: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 5231: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
5232: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
5233: <p>
1.82 aaron 5234:
1.247 jufi 5235: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5236: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 5237: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 5238: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 5239:
1.83 louis 5240: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
5241: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
5242: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 5243: <p>
1.80 louis 5244:
1.247 jufi 5245: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5246: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 5247: Bad Press</a>,
5248: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 5249: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 5250:
5251: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 5252: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 5253: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
5254: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
5255: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 5256: <p>
1.247 jufi 5257: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 5258:
5259: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5260: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 5261:
1.247 jufi 5262: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5263: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
5264: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 5265: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 5266: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 5267:
5268: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
5269: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
5270: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
5271: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 5272: <p>
1.74 louis 5273:
1.247 jufi 5274: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 5275: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
5276: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 5277: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 5278:
1.219 horacio 5279: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
5280: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
5281: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
5282: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
5283: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
5284: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
5285: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 5286: <p>
1.88 louis 5287:
1.247 jufi 5288: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 5289: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 5290: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 5291: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 5292:
5293: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
5294: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
5295: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
5296: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 5297: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 5298: <p>
1.81 louis 5299:
1.247 jufi 5300: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5301: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 5302: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 5303: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 5304:
5305: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
5306: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
5307: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
5308: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
5309: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
5310: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
5311: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 5312: <p>
1.90 louis 5313:
1.247 jufi 5314: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5315: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 5316: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 5317: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 5318:
5319: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
5320: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
5321: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 5322: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 5323: <p>
1.247 jufi 5324: </ul>
1.71 louis 5325:
1.69 deraadt 5326: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5327: <ul>
1.70 louis 5328:
1.247 jufi 5329: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5330: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
5331: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 5332: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 5333:
5334: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
5335: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
5336: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 5337: <p>
1.70 louis 5338:
1.247 jufi 5339: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5340: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
5341: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 5342: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 5343:
5344: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 5345: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 5346: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 5347: <p>
1.68 louis 5348:
1.247 jufi 5349: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5350: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
5351: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 5352: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 5353: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 5354:
1.111 jufi 5355: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
5356: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 5357: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 5358: "secure by default" installation.
5359: <p>
1.64 louis 5360:
1.247 jufi 5361: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 5362: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 5363: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 5364: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 5365:
1.113 naddy 5366: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 5367: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 5368: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 5369: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
5370: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
5371: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 5372: <p>
1.66 louis 5373:
1.247 jufi 5374: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5375: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 5376: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5377: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 5378:
5379: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 5380: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 5381: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
5382: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
5383: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 5384: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
5385: <p>
1.83 louis 5386:
1.247 jufi 5387: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5388: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 5389: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5390: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 5391:
5392: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 5393: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
5394: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 5395: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
5396: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 5397: <p>
1.64 louis 5398:
1.247 jufi 5399: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5400: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 5401: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5402: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 5403:
5404: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
5405: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 5406: <p>
1.301 jose 5407:
5408: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5409: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
5410: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
5411: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
5412: </strong></font><br>
5413:
5414: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
5415: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
5416: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
5417: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
5418: Giving way to
5419: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
5420: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
5421: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
5422: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
5423: <p>
1.247 jufi 5424: </ul>
1.65 louis 5425:
1.69 deraadt 5426: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5427: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5428:
1.247 jufi 5429: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5430: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 5431: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 5432: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 5433:
5434: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
5435: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
5436: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
5437: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 5438: <p>
1.88 louis 5439:
1.247 jufi 5440: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5441: <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 5442: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 5443:
5444: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 5445: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
5446: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 5447: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
5448: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 5449: <p>
1.60 louis 5450:
1.247 jufi 5451: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 5452: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 5453: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 5454: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 5455: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5456:
5457: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
5458: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
5459: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 5460: <p>
1.58 louis 5461:
1.247 jufi 5462: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 5463: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 5464: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 5465:
5466: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
5467: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 5468: <p>
1.53 louis 5469:
1.247 jufi 5470: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 5471: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
5472: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 5473: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 5474:
5475: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
5476: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
5477: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 5478: <p>
1.99 louis 5479:
1.247 jufi 5480: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 5481: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 5482: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5483:
5484: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
5485: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 5486: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 5487: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 5488: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 5489:
1.247 jufi 5490: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 5491: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
5492: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 5493: </strong></font><br>
5494:
5495: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
5496: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
5497: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
5498: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
5499: <p>
5500:
1.247 jufi 5501: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5502: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 5503: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 5504: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5505:
5506: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
5507: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 5508: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 5509:
1.247 jufi 5510: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 5511: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 5512: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 5513:
5514: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 5515: in
1.247 jufi 5516: <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 5517: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 5518: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 5519: <p>
1.53 louis 5520:
1.247 jufi 5521: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5522: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 5523: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
5524: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 5525: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 5526:
1.58 louis 5527: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5528: <p>
1.301 jose 5529:
5530: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5531: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
5532: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
5533: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
5534: Informacyjny, January 2000
5535: </strong></font><br>
5536:
5537: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
5538: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
5539: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
5540: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
5541: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
5542: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
5543: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
5544: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
5545: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
5546: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 5547: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
5548: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 5549: <p>
5550:
5551: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5552: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
5553: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
5554: </strong></font><br>
5555:
5556: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
5557: <p>
5558: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 5559:
1.69 deraadt 5560: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5561: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5562:
1.247 jufi 5563: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 5564: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
5565: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
5566: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 5567: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5568:
1.58 louis 5569: Kurt Seifried
5570: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
5571: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
5572: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 5573: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 5574:
1.247 jufi 5575: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5576: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 5577: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 5578: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 5579:
5580: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 5581: <p>
1.96 louis 5582:
1.247 jufi 5583: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5584: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
5585: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
5586: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
5587: </strong></font><br>
5588:
5589: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
5590: <p>
5591:
5592: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5593: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 5594: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 5595: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 5596:
5597: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
5598: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 5599: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 5600: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 5601: <p>
1.247 jufi 5602: </ul>
1.86 louis 5603:
1.69 deraadt 5604: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5605: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5606:
1.247 jufi 5607: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 5608: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
5609: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 5610: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 5611:
5612: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
5613: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 5614: <p>
1.61 louis 5615:
1.247 jufi 5616: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5617: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 5618: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
5619: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5620: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 5621:
5622: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 5623: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 5624: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
5625: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 5626: right -- or at least strives to".
5627: <p>
1.48 louis 5628:
1.247 jufi 5629: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 5630: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
5631: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5632: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 5633: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
5634: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
5635: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
5636: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 5637: <p>
1.61 louis 5638:
1.247 jufi 5639: <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 5640: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 5641: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 5642:
5643: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
5644: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
5645: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
5646: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 5647: <p>
1.46 louis 5648:
1.247 jufi 5649: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 5650: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
5651: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 5652: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5653:
5654: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
5655: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 5656: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 5657:
1.247 jufi 5658: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 5659: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
5660: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 5661: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 5662:
5663: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
5664: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
5665: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
5666: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 5667: <p>
1.247 jufi 5668: </ul>
1.70 louis 5669:
1.69 deraadt 5670: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5671: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5672:
1.247 jufi 5673: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5674: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
5675: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 5676: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 5677: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 5678:
5679: Kurt Seifried
5680: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
5681: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
5682: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 5683: <p>
1.44 philen 5684:
1.247 jufi 5685: <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 5686: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 5687: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 5688:
5689: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 5690: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 5691:
1.247 jufi 5692: <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 5693: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 5694: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 5695:
5696: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 5697: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 5698:
1.247 jufi 5699: <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 5700: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 5701: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 5702:
5703: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
5704: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
5705: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
5706: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 5707: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 5708:
1.247 jufi 5709: <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 5710: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 5711: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 5712:
1.36 louis 5713: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 5714: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 5715:
1.247 jufi 5716: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5717: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
1.39 louis 5718: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 5719: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 5720:
5721: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 5722: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 5723: </ul>
1.38 louis 5724:
1.69 deraadt 5725: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5726: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5727:
1.247 jufi 5728: <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 5729: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 5730: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 5731:
5732: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
5733: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 5734: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 5735:
1.113 naddy 5736: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 5737: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 5738: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 5739: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 5740:
5741: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
5742: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 5743: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
5744: terminal:
1.113 naddy 5745: <blockquote>
5746: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
5747: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
5748: <br>
5749: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
5750: </code>
5751: </blockquote>
5752: <p>
5753:
1.247 jufi 5754: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 5755: <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 5756: <p>
5757:
5758: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5759: <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 5760: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 5761:
5762: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
5763: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 5764: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 5765: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 5766:
1.247 jufi 5767: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5768: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
5769: Sept. 28, 1999
5770: </strong></font><br>
5771:
5772: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
5773: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
5774: translating and reprinting articles from
5775: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
5776: <p>
5777:
5778: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 5779: <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 5780: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 5781:
5782: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
5783: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
5784: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
5785: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
5786: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 5787: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 5788: <p>
1.19 louis 5789:
1.113 naddy 5790: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 5791: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 5792: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 5793:
5794: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
5795: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
5796: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 5797: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
5798: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 5799: <p>
1.16 louis 5800:
1.247 jufi 5801: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5802: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 5803: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 5804: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 5805:
1.57 louis 5806: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
5807: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
5808: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 5809: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 5810:
1.247 jufi 5811: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5812: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.466 deraadt 5813: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5814: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5815:
1.113 naddy 5816: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 5817:
1.247 jufi 5818: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 5819: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
5820: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 5821: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 5822:
1.23 louis 5823: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
5824: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
5825: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
5826: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
5827: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 5828: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 5829:
1.247 jufi 5830: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 5831: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
5832: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 5833: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 5834:
1.199 pvalchev 5835: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 5836: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
5837: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
5838: installation.
1.113 naddy 5839: <p>
1.47 louis 5840:
1.247 jufi 5841: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5842: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 5843: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 5844: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5845:
1.301 jose 5846: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
5847: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
5848: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 5849: </ul>
1.57 louis 5850:
1.69 deraadt 5851: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5852: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5853:
1.247 jufi 5854: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 5855: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 5856: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 5857: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 5858:
5859: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
5860: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 5861: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5862: <p>
1.12 louis 5863:
1.247 jufi 5864: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 5865: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 5866: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 5867: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 5868:
5869: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
5870: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 5871: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
5872: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
5873: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
5874: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
5875: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 5876: <p>
1.247 jufi 5877: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 5878:
1.69 deraadt 5879: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5880: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 5881:
1.247 jufi 5882: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 5883: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 5884: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 5885:
5886: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
5887: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
5888: available."
1.113 naddy 5889: <p>
1.301 jose 5890:
5891: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5892: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
5893: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
5894: </strong></font><br>
5895:
5896: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
5897: <p>
1.247 jufi 5898: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 5899:
1.69 deraadt 5900: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5901: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5902:
1.247 jufi 5903: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 5904: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 5905: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 5906:
5907: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
5908: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
5909: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
5910: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
5911: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 5912: <p>
1.33 louis 5913:
1.247 jufi 5914: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5915: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 5916: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 5917: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5918:
1.113 naddy 5919: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
5920: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 5921: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
5922: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
5923: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 5924: <p>
1.247 jufi 5925: </ul>
1.57 louis 5926:
1.69 deraadt 5927: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5928: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5929:
1.247 jufi 5930: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5931: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 5932: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 5933: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 5934:
5935: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
5936: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 5937: <p>
1.69 deraadt 5938:
1.247 jufi 5939: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 5940: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
5941: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
5942: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 5943: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 5944:
5945: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 5946: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 5947:
1.247 jufi 5948: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5949: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 5950:
1.113 naddy 5951: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 5952:
1.247 jufi 5953: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5954: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
1.68 louis 5955: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 5956: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 5957:
5958: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 5959: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 5960: </ul>
1.23 louis 5961:
1.69 deraadt 5962: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5963: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5964:
1.247 jufi 5965: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 5966: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 5967: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 5968:
5969: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
5970: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 5971: <p>
1.2 deraadt 5972:
1.247 jufi 5973: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5974: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 5975: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5976: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5977:
5978: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
5979: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 5980: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 5981: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 5982: </ul>
1.57 louis 5983:
1.69 deraadt 5984: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5985: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5986:
1.247 jufi 5987: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5988: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
1.15 louis 5989: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 5990: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 5991:
5992: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
5993: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
5994: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
5995: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5996: <p>
1.15 louis 5997:
1.247 jufi 5998: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 5999: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
6000: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 6001: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 6002:
6003: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
6004: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
6005: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
6006: columns."
1.113 naddy 6007: <p>
1.247 jufi 6008: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 6009:
1.69 deraadt 6010: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6011: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6012:
1.247 jufi 6013: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6014: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 6015: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 6016: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 6017:
6018: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 6019: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 6020:
1.113 naddy 6021: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6022: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 6023: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 6024:
6025: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
6026: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 6027: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 6028: </ul>
1.57 louis 6029:
1.69 deraadt 6030: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6031: <ul>
1.301 jose 6032: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
6033: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
6034: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
6035: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
6036:
6037: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
6038: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
6039: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
6040: <p>
6041:
6042: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
6043: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
6044: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
6045: Nov 13, 1998 and
6046: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
6047: Datateknik</a>,
6048: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
6049:
1.380 saad 6050: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 6051: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
6052: explains the licensing issues and points to our
6053: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
6054: <p>
1.69 deraadt 6055:
1.113 naddy 6056: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 6057: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 6058: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 6059: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 6060:
1.222 miod 6061: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 6062: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
6063: Implementation, including a brief interview with
6064: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 6065: <p>
1.247 jufi 6066: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 6067:
1.69 deraadt 6068: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6069: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6070:
1.247 jufi 6071: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 6072: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 6073: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 6074:
1.69 deraadt 6075: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
6076: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 6077: <p>
1.247 jufi 6078: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 6079:
1.69 deraadt 6080: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6081: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 6082:
1.247 jufi 6083: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 6084: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
6085: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 6086: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 6087:
1.383 jcs 6088: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 6089: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 6090: <p>
1.1 deraadt 6091:
1.247 jufi 6092: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 6093: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 6094: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
6095: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 6096: <p>
1.247 jufi 6097: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 6098:
1.69 deraadt 6099: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6100: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6101:
1.247 jufi 6102: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 6103: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 6104: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
6105: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 6106: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 6107: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 6108:
6109: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
6110: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
6111: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 6112: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 6113: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 6114: <p>
1.247 jufi 6115: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 6116:
6117: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6118: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6119:
1.247 jufi 6120: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 6121: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 6122: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 6123:
1.69 deraadt 6124: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
6125: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 6126: <p>
1.112 naddy 6127:
1.247 jufi 6128: </ul>
1.113 naddy 6129: <p>
1.1 deraadt 6130:
1.292 camield 6131: <hr>
1.216 horacio 6132: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 6133: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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