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1.569 ! ian 19: <h2>May, 2007</h2>
! 20: <ul>
! 21:
! 22: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
! 23: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/05/03/openbsd-41-puffy-strikes-again.html">
! 24: OpenBSD 4.1: Puffy Strikes Again</a>, ONLamp, May 5, 2007
! 25: </strong></font><br>
! 26: Federico Biancuzzi interviewed a number of developers about the major
! 27: changes in 4.1: Mark Kettenis on UltraSPARC III and UltraSPARC T1;
! 28: Otto Moerbeek on the landisk port and fsck_ffs;
! 29: Artur Grabowski on rthreads and AMD64 timekeeping;
! 30: Kurt Miller on pthreads and, with Robert Nagy, on OpenOffice;
! 31: Marc Espie on the changes "under the hood" in
! 32: the package tools and on the new pkg_config;
! 33: Matthieu Herrb on our new X11 build system xenocara,
! 34: Henning Bauer on syslogd, hoststated and RSTP;
! 35: Henning and Claudio Jeker on a variety of topics in routing and PF;
! 36: Bob Beck on spam fighting;
! 37: and Jonathan Gray on WEP and on why authpf is better than WPA/WPA2.
! 38: Quite readable overview of some of the main issues in this release.
! 39: <br/>
! 40: Linked to from
! 41: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php/17851/OpenBSD-4.1-Puffy-Strikes-Again/">OSNews</a>.
! 42: Mentions of the release also appeared in
! 43: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1483">Tectonic</a>,
! 44: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/newsvac/07/05/02/1320248.shtml">Newsforge</a>
! 45: and
! 46: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/07/05/01/2231229.shtml">SlashDot</a>
! 47: (the latter two include pointers to official release announcements).
! 48: <p>
! 49:
! 50: </ul>
! 51:
1.565 ian 52: <h2>April, 2007</h2>
53: <ul>
54:
55: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
56: <a href="http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/03/28/1522252">
57: Reducing spam with OpenBSD and spamd</a>, Linux.com, April 11, 2007
58: </strong></font><br>
59: This is the first installment of a multi-part article on using OpenBSD's
60: anti-spam tools. This part contains a general overview of spamd, greylisting
61: and tarpitting. Later installments will cover the how-to details.
62: <p>
63:
64:
65: </ul>
66:
1.560 ian 67: <h2>March, 2007</h2>
68: <ul>
69:
70: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.564 ian 71: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2007/03/bsdtalk105-intro-to-pf-with-jason-dixon.html">
72: Introduction to PF with Jason Dixon</a>, BSDTalk 105, March 26, 2007
73: </strong></font><br>
74: Jason provides a nice general overview of OpenBSD's Packet Filter PF,
75: emphasizing the "why" rather than the "how" of using PF.
76: Goes over pf's history, initial setup, stateful filtering,
77: normalization with "scrub", use of synproxy, authpf,
78: CARP and pfsync, GUI configurations vs config files, the pfsense project,
79: logging, transparent bridges, AltQ queing, macros, lists and tables,
80: and the tie-in to spamd,
81: <p>
82:
83: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.560 ian 84: <a href="http://www.sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=30120&hilite=">
85: Welsh Government Agency demonstrates Open Source best practice</a>,
86: SourceWire, March 8, 2007
87: </strong></font><br>
1.562 ian 88: The Countryside Council for Wales, the UK Government's regional wildlife
89: conservation authority for Wales, has hired UK Open Source service provider Sirius
1.561 saad 90: Corporation to extend OpenBSD's interoperability with the proprietary
91: Cisco IOS software; part of the agreement calls for Sirius to contribute
92: its source changes back to the OpenBSD project.
1.560 ian 93: <p>
94:
95: </ul>
1.558 ian 96:
1.556 matthieu 97: <h2>February, 2007</h2>
98: <ul>
99:
100: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.558 ian 101: <a href="http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/security/is_symantecs_vista_security_assessment_credible.html">
102: Is Symantec's Vista Security Assessment Credible?</a>, Microsoft Watch, February 28, 2007
103: </strong></font><br>
104: This paper is nominally about the relationship between Symantec and Microsoft,
105: talking about a white paper released by the former.
106: But it's quite revealing about Microsoft itself.
107: "Even Microsoft... now acknowledges that UAC (User Account Control) -
108: Vista's most [high-]profile security feature - is vulnerable to subversion,
109: particularly through social-engineering tactics."
110: And while the Symantec report says some good things about Vista security,
111: "its criticisms are brutal - for their clarity and foreboding:
112: <blockquote>
113: "Many of the technologies that Microsoft has employed to bolster
114: the security of Windows Vista are not new. In fact, most are
115: derived from the groundwork originally laid by open-source
116: operating systems such as Linux and OpenBSD, the PaX and
117: Stackguard projects, as well as numerous academic publications....
118: The majority of these technologies first appeared in Windows
119: XP SP2 [Service Pack 2]. Windows XP SP2, at the time of its
120: release, was also billed as the most secure version of Windows."
121: </blockquote>
122: So remember, folks, if it's about security, you may well have heard it
123: here first, long before Microsoft "invented" it.
124: <p>
125:
126:
127: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.557 reyk 128: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/85495">
129: OpenBSD und Linux: Kritik an Stillhalteabkommen für Treiberentwicklung</a>, heise online, February 2, 2007
130: </strong></font><br>
131:
132: Short article about OpenBSD's clear statement against device driver
133: development under non-disclosure agreement (NDA).
134: It attempts to summarize the reaction of the OpenBSD community against the
135: <a href="http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/free_drivers.html">"Free Linux Driver Development"</a>
136: under NDA offered by the linux developer Greg Kroah-Hartman which previously raised some
137: discussion.
138: Code written under NDA will make it difficult to improve it in the future
139: because somebody signed an agreement to keep the required hardware
140: documentation secret. For the OpenBSD project
141: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/goals.html">NDAs are never acceptable</a>.
142: <p>
143:
144: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.556 matthieu 145: [FRENCH]
146: <a href="http://www.ed-diamond.com/produit.php?produit=462">GNU/Linux
147: Magazine France</a> special issue number 29
148: </strong></font>
149: is dedicated to BSD systems. It features several articles about
150: OpenBSD: a pf tutorial, an article on IPSec and two articles on
151: high-availability with pf and CARP and with dynamic routing protocols
152: using OpenOSPFd and OpenBGPd.
153: <p>
154:
155: </ul>
156:
1.558 ian 157: <h2>January, 2007</h2>
158: <ul>
159: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
160: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/01/18/greylisting-with-pf.html">
161: Greylisting with PF</a>, O'Reilly onLAMP, January 18, 2007
162: </strong></font><br>
163: This onLAMP article by Dan Langille leads you through the process of
1.559 ian 164: setting up greylisting using OpenBSD's pf and spamd, which has now been ported
1.558 ian 165: to most other BSD systems. The article is
166: quite detailed, but readers should ignore the FreeBSD-specific stuff
167: like kldload (OpenBSD uses modload, but, OpenBSD always has pf built-in
168: so you don't need this). Parts of the article are based on Bob Beck's
169: <a href="http://www.nycbsdcon.org/speakers#Beck">spamd talk at NYCBSDCon</a>.
170: <p>
171:
172: </ul>
173:
1.550 mbalmer 174: <h2>December, 2006</h2>
175: <ul>
176:
177: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.554 reyk 178: [GERMAN]
179: <a href="http://www.freie-radios.net/portal/content.php?id=15206">
180: 23C3: Interview mit Henning und Reyk von OpenBSD</a>,
181: Radio Unerhört Marbug, December 29, 2006
182: </strong></font><br>
183: Interview with Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter about OpenBSD and
184: the latest changes since 4.0 during the 23rd Chaos Communications
185: Congress in Berlin.
186: <p>
187:
188: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.552 ian 189: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/12/29/01OPsecadvise_1.html">
1.553 ian 190: New Year's Resolution No. 1: Get OpenBSD</a>,
1.552 ian 191: InfoWorld, December 29, 2006
192: </strong></font><br>
193: InfoWorld's Security Advisor columnist Roger A. Grimes says:
194: "Kick off 2007 with a new, more secure operating system."
195: Citing OpenBSD's code-auditing security process and its
196: excellent security record, Grimes advises readers to give the system a try.
197: Despite repeating some old canards about the "unfriendly" install, he
198: notes favorably that
199: "OpenBSD is shipped secure-by-default, with all non-essential services disabled.
200: You won't find NFS, mountd, or Apache [httpd] enabled by default.
201: The /bin and /sbin folders will be emptier than other Linux or BSD distros.
202: Install OpenBSD and you can be assured that it doesn't default to an insecure state."
203: <p>
204:
205: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.551 xsa 206: [GERMAN]
1.550 mbalmer 207: <a href="http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/2007/01/074/">
208: OpenBSD 4.0 - Kanadische Eröffnung</a>
209: iX magazine, December 14, 2006
210: </strong></font><br>
211: The german IT magazine iX reviews the 4.0 release of OpenBSD and also mentions
212: why we don't support blobs and why this is beneficial to our users.
213: The article gives OpenBSD a very good rating for being strictly free software,
214: its swift installation, the support for upgrades, and the large number of
215: platforms and architectures it runs on.
216: <p>
217:
218: </ul>
219:
1.546 ian 220: <h2>November, 2006</h2>
221: <ul>
222:
1.549 ian 223: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
224: <a href='http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20061110204834'>
225: Official support for OpenBSD in Parallels Workstation</a>
226: undeadly.org, November 10, 2006
227: </strong></font><br>
228: OpenBSD is now supported by Parallels, a commercial OS
229: virtualization product for Mac OS X, Linux or MS-Windows.
230: In addition to allowing users to run both OpenBSD and one of those other
231: systems concurrently, the announcement means that developers with Intel Mac
232: hardware can run multiple test systems; the Undeadly Editor adds:
233: "I've had up to six OpenBSD guest systems operating simultaneously,
234: versions 3.8 through 4.0 (and -current)."
235: This also reinforces the increasing commercial acceptance of our favorite OS.
236: <p>
237:
238: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
239: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/11/bsdtalk082-openbsd-developer-jason.html">
240: Interview with Jason Wright</a>, BSDTalk 82, November 8, 2006
241: </strong></font><br>
242: Jason talks about the OpenBSD development process (particularly for device drivers
243: and getting hardware documentation from vendors), Sun SPARC hardware (particularly
244: the Ultra III), ham radio (APRS) with OpenBSD, and more.
245: <p>
246:
247: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
248: <a href='http://news.com.com/2061-10795_3-6132572.html'>
249: OpenBSD turns 4.0</a>
250: CNET News.com, November 3, 2006
251: </strong></font><br>
252: Stephen Shankland talks about the UltraSPARC III code in 4.0, and notes that
253: OpenBSD has chosen to stay with stable GCC versions rather than moving to
254: the latest and most bloated GCC versions like Linux did.
255: Quotes Theo as saying: OpenBSD doesn't aim for particular niches,
256: but it's popular in network applications... "The biggest
257: users of OpenBSD these days are people who need our fancy networking
258: features..."
259: <p>
260:
1.546 ian 261: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
262: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/55/">
263: OpenBSD 4.0 Review</a>, Software In Review, November 1, 2006
264: </strong></font><br>
265: "In an era when the next edition of Microsoft Windows is pushed
266: back more than a year, and popular GNU/Linux distributions are
267: almost expected to have their release dates delayed by weeks or
268: months, it's nice to know that at least one operating system releases
269: on schedule without all kinds of showstopping bugs and problems.
270: OpenBSD 4.0 was released on November 1 with its usual mix of new
271: hardware support and enhanced operating system features."
272: So opens Jem Matzam's review of the new 4.0 release.
273: Jem gives a brief overview of the project, discusses
274: several of the most important new features, evaluates
275: his installation and use of the system on a desktop and a notebook.
1.548 saad 276: He also offers a few recommendations for future developments to make
1.546 ian 277: the project even better.
278: There's even a link to the Wikipedia article on
279: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humppa">
280: Humppa</a>, for those who may have heard this term but not
281: the music behind it.
282: <p>
283:
1.547 ian 284: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
285: <a href='http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1243'>
286: Big changes with OpenBSD 4.0 out today</a>
287: Tectonic, November 1, 2006
288: </strong></font><br>
289: "With his characteristic no-frills approach OpenBSD team leader
290: Theo de Raadt this morning announced the release of OpenBSD 4.0."
291: This article lists the highlights of the 4.0 release and
292: tells readers where to order CD's or download the release.
293: Quotes Theo: ""We are pleased to announce the official release of
294: OpenBSD 4.0. This is our 20th release on CD-Rom (and 21st via FTP).
295: We remain proud of OpenBSD's record of ten years with only a single
296: remote hole in the default install,"
297: <p>
298:
299: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
300: <a href='http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061101-8123.html'>
301: OpenBSD 4.0 released</a>
302: Ars Technica, November 1, 2006
303: </strong></font><br>
304: A short note about the 4.0 release; refers to the O'ReillyNet article below.
305: <p>
306:
1.546 ian 307: </ul>
308:
1.539 ian 309: <h2>October, 2006</h2>
310: <ul>
1.540 ian 311:
312: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.546 ian 313: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/6769">
314: OpenBSD 4.0: Pufferix's Adventures</a>, O'Reilly Network, October 26, 2006
315: </strong></font><br>
316: Federico Biancuzzi interviewed a dozen and a half developers and compiled
317: the results into this report, all while listening to the obligatory Humppa.
1.548 saad 318: Topics include the new blob-free wireless drivers, pf and pf/dhcp interaction,
1.546 ian 319: CARP demotion, ipsecctl replacing ipsecadm, hardware support for disk/bioctl,
320: USB serial, new installation customization features, ports/packages, RCS, X,
321: CPU support for Sparc/64, AMD/Intel "speed step" techniques, and more.
322: <p>
323:
324: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.543 mbalmer 325: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/10/bsdtalk076-openbsd-developer-marc.html">
326: Interview with Marc Balmer about OpenCON 2006</a>, bsdtalk076, October 12, 2006
327: </strong></font><br>
328: BSDTalk interviews Marc Balmer about the upcoming
329: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a> conference
330: in Venice, Italy, how he got involved in the OpenBSD project, and what he
331: uses the OpenBSD operating system for in his company. Marc Balmer tells us about
332: the history of the conference that is dedicated solely to OpenBSD, why it
333: is taking place in Venice, and why he likes OpenBSD as the platform of choice
334: for his many customers.
335: <p>
336:
337: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.544 ian 338: <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/olpc-under-fire-for-proprietary-components/">
339: OLPC under fire for proprietary components</a>, Engadget, October 11, 2006
340: </strong></font><br>
341: Hardware site Engadget is one of several that has picked up this controversy
342: from the Jem Report quoted below and on the mailing lists.
343: Quotes Theo's reaction to Jim Gettys' latest comments:
344: "Jim is obviously very clever at convincing people that children
345: need proprietary laptops (OLPC has a greater percentage of undocumented
346: hardware than a Thinkpad from 3 years ago). It is easy for Jim to
347: convince people these things because he doesn't care at all about
348: the future maintainance of drivers. I do. And I think most of you
349: also do."
350: The article ends with: "Wow, them be fightin' words -- we're pulling up ringside
351: seats already."
352: <p>
353:
354: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
355: <a href="http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/286/">
356: Making sense of the One Laptop Per Child proprietary software row</a>,
357: The Jem Report, October 9, 2006
358: </strong></font><br>
359: Jem Matzan explores this ongoing controversy by blending separate interviews with
360: Jim Gettys, Richard Stallman and our own Theo de Raadt.
361: Theo consistently and clearly defends the project's interest in
362: getting documentation on, and permission to distribute, firmware
363: so that users can use hardware they have paid for.
364: Commenting on the multiple NDA-requiring parts in the current version of
365: the OLPC laptop, Theo notes that "If I am careful in selection,
366: I can buy a laptop on the market today that has fewer proprietary parts."
367: And on the OLPC project's use of NDA-requiring parts at all:
368: "I feel they have misled the community by acting as if they are open;
369: they rode on our coat-tails. Now it turns out they are going to ship GPL'd
370: code mixed with NDA-requiring proprietary drivers in the end.
371: Even their LinuxBIOS will need to link into drivers that
372: no one can repair because the documentation is locked up..."
373: <p>
374:
375: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.541 ian 376: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20061006000709">
377: OLPC hurts wireless documentation efforts</a>, undeadly.org, October 6, 2006
378: </strong></font><br>
379: Theo de Raadt takes on the high-profile
380: <a href="http://laptop.org/">OLPC</a> (One Laptop Per Child) Project
381: for not demanding open documentation from its wireless
382: chip manufacturer, wasting a "golden moment" opportunity to use sales
383: volume in the millions to pressure chip vendors, and thus helping destroy
384: the open source movement that makes the OLPC laptops affordable -
385: truly, betraying that hand that feeds it.
1.542 deraadt 386: Also strong words from other developers such as Bob Beck.
1.541 ian 387: <p>
388:
389: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.540 ian 390: <a href="http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;639736970;fp;2;fpid;3">
391: The sad state of computer security</a>, PC World Australia, October 5, 2006
392: </strong></font><br>
393: Roger Grimes opines on how bad security really is for most of the world
394: (and it is really bad). "If you aren't using OpenBSD [or a few others],
395: then every other product in the world is pretty bad in comparison.
396: <br />
397: "Most software contains numerous vulnerabilities, holes, and
398: exploitable routines. Even our anti-malware software and devices,
399: the things that are supposed to protect us, are full of buffer
400: overflows and vulnerabilities."
401: <br />
402: And, Grimes generalizes,
403: "Sadly, the world has decided that real computer security doesn't
404: matter any more than real terrorist security. It's all lip service.
405: We are, and apparently choose to be, reactive sheep. Proactive
406: thinkers get ignored and ridiculed...
407: As more and more of the world goes online, and as more of our
408: important infrastructure goes "e-something," it would appear that
409: we are on a collision course headed toward a tipping point event.
410: And when it does, the sheep will stand aghast wondering how it
411: happened."
412: Worth reading!
413: <p>
414:
1.539 ian 415: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
416: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061002-7874.html">
417: OpenBSD creator wants users to pressure Intel on open source policies</a>,
418: Ars Technica, October 2, 2006.
419: </strong></font><br>
420: Summarizes Theo's efforts to obtain documentation and freely
421: redistributable firmware from Intel.
422: <p>
423:
424: </ul>
425:
1.536 grunk 426: <h2>September, 2006</h2>
427: <ul>
428:
429: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.537 ian 430: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/7184">
431: OpenBSD: Intel Accused Of Being "An Open Source Fraud"</a>,
432: KernelTrap, September 30, 2006.
433: </strong></font><br>
434: Mentions Damien's thread on misc summarizing Intel's policy toward
435: open-source software as being to make Intel "look like we're
436: open-source friendly by opening a project on sourceforge," and,
437: "give the open-source community the bare minimum so that they can
438: serve as our beta-testers." Damien reverse engineered the wpi(4)
439: driver source for the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Driver,
440: despite Intel's refusal to freely provide documentation.
441: Regular readers will know that OpenBSD has been at war with Intel
442: for ages over these chipsets.
443: Quotes Theo as saying:
444: "before we ask a vendor, we have already lost (ie. the
445: device does not work). When a vendor says no, we have lost nothing
446: further -- there is no way we can lose further than having the
447: device not work. We can only win, and then the device works. So
448: there is no point in giving up until we win back the rights to write
449: software for the hardware that we have purchased."
450: <p>
451:
452: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
453: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/09/bsdtalk069-interview-with-christoph.html">
454: Interview with Christoph Egger about Xen on OpenBSD</a>, bsdtalk069, September 26, 2006
455: </strong></font><br>
456: BSDTalk interviews Christoph Egger about Xen and about how Christoph make OpenBSD
457: able to run as a guest operating system on Xen.
458: Includes some background about Xen as well as what it would take to
459: make OpenBSD run as the "dom0" or master host.
460: <p>
461:
462: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.536 grunk 463: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/09/bsdtalk068-interview-with-openbsd.html">
464: Intervew with OpenBSD developer Bob Beck</a>, bsdtalk068, September 22, 2006
465: </strong></font><br>
466: Bob Beck talks about spamd and his history with OpenBSD and UNIX
467: on Will Backman's bsdtalk. Bob gives us a look into his work on
468: OpenBSD and gives us amusing stories of how spamd works and how it
469: actually fares in 'the wild.' The podcast lasts a whole 25 minutes,
470: 59 seconds so it's long enough to occupy a meal or a small commute.
471: <p>
472:
1.537 ian 473: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
474: <a href="http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060920185115">
475: OpenBSD 4.0 pre-orders are up!</a>, undeadly.org, September 20, 2006
476: </strong></font><br>
477: One of the first mentions of 4.0 going on sale for pre-ordering
478: (the official release date is November 1).
479: Also gives a list of the many good things that have been added
480: in 4.0, including many new device drivers,
481: support for UltraSPARC III on sparc64, improvements to ipsecctl,
482: a new RCS implementation, and much more.
483: Includes a reminder to "show your support for the project by
1.538 deraadt 484: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/orders.html">placing your pre-orders today!"</a>
1.537 ian 485: <p>
486:
1.536 grunk 487: </ul>
488:
1.534 ian 489: <h2>August, 2006</h2>
490: <ul>
491:
492: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.537 ian 493: <a href="http://anil.recoil.org/blog/articles/2006/08/21/openbsd-xen-boots-multi-user">
494: OpenBSD/Xen boots multi-user</a>, Recoil Blog, August 21, 2006
495: </strong></font><br>
496: Anil discusses his stewardship of a Google Summer of Code project in which
497: Christoph Egger ported and revised some NetBSD code to make OpenBSD boot up natively
498: as a guest operating system under
499: <a href="http://www.xensource.com/">Xen</a>, the open-source hypervisor
500: or "virtualization" system.
501: <p>
502:
503: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.534 ian 504: <a href="http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-openbsd.html">
505: Take a closer look at OpenBSD</a>, IBM developerWorks, August 08, 2006
506: </strong></font><br>
507: Tim McIntire holds OpenBSD up as a beacon to UNIX users, calling it
508: "quite possibly the most secure operating system on the planet."
509: He talks about how the development process leads to greater security
510: and how tools like OpenSSH make it out into the wider UNIX/Linux world.
511: "OpenBSD might not have a huge user base compared to other UNIX-like operating systems,
512: but it is installed at the most crucial points of many networks."
513: Has a somewhat brief but effective discussion of installing the software, and
514: ends with references to several papers and sites of interest.
515: <p>
516:
517: </ul>
518:
1.531 ian 519: <h2>July, 2006</h2>
520: <ul>
521: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
522: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/case-studies--profiles/founder-breathes-the-open-air/2006/07/17/1152988468274.html">
523: Founder breathes the Open air</a>, The Age, July 18, 2006
524: </strong></font><br>
525: Subtitled "Hiking in exotic climes is a brain adventure for the founder of OpenBSD", this is
526: as much about hiking and learning new symbols as about software, but our leader
527: manages to do both, and bring both into the interview.
528: The article quotes Theo as saying
529: "Another major lesson I have learnt is that most people only care
530: about things working for themselves, and thus it is very easy in a
531: group to build poorly thought-out solutions. It is very simple to
532: write small hacks and end up with unmaintainable systems in the long term."
533: Describes the hackathons as an important part of the project's process
534: and describes the funding issues as well.
535: <p>
536:
537: </ul>
538:
1.525 ian 539: <h2>June, 2006</h2>
540: <ul>
541: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.535 steven 542: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=472693&rl=1">
1.530 ian 543: Alternatives to LAMP</a>, informit.com, June 2, 2006
544: </strong></font><br>
545: While "Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP" get most of the attention,
546: there are alternatives to each that are, in some way, better.
547: David Chisnal starts this article with a look at OS alternatives,
548: and OpenBSD gets the most detailed coverage, including this:
549: "When it comes to security, OpenBSD has a well-earned reputation
550: as the operating system for the truly paranoid. The entire kernel
551: and base system, including the OpenBSD fork of Apache, undergoes a
552: constant auditing process. The OpenBSD attitude is that any bug is
553: potentially exploitable, and when a bug is found by the auditing
554: team the next step is to attempt to remove every single occurrence
555: of that category of bug. This approach leads to an incredibly secure
556: system." Also talks about our pioneering use of W^X and the
557: "incredibly powerful and easy to configure" packet filter, pf.
558: <p>
559:
560: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.527 ian 561: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article8785.phtml">
1.525 ian 562: Microsoft adopts open-source security feature</a>, OSDir.com, June 1, 2006
563: </strong></font><br>
564: Microsoft borrows one of OpenBSD's security features for Vista, stack/library randomization,
565: under the name Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR).
566: "Until now, the feature has been most prominently used in the OpenBSD Unix variant and
567: the PaX and Exec Shield security patches for Linux"
568: (despite the article's title, there is nothing open-source about Microsoft's implementation).
569: <p>
570:
1.526 ian 571: </ul>
1.525 ian 572:
1.514 ian 573: <h2>May, 2006</h2>
574: <ul>
1.524 ian 575: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
576: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6650">
577: OpenBSD: wpi, A Blob Free Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Driver</a>, KernelTrap, May 28, 2006
578: </strong></font><br>
579: Damien Bergamini wrote OpenBSD's all-open-source driver for the Intel Pro/Wireless,
580: a sharp contrast to other projects' bogus "open source" drivers that are just wrappers around
581: a "binary blob" (source code not available, sorry) provided by the vendor.
582: "His announcement came a little over two months after Intel released
583: the controversial ipw3945 driver for Linux which included
584: a binary-only daemon described as necessary for enforcing regulatory
585: limits for the radio transmitter on the wireless device."
586: Bergamini's work proves yet again that vendors don't have to obscure their products
587: to make them useful.
588: <p>
1.518 ian 589:
590: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.520 ian 591: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/openbsd/c2k6/who1">
1.523 ian 592: c2k6, Who's Who At the 2006 OpenBSD Hackathon, Part I</a>
593: and
594: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6662">Part II</a>,
1.522 ian 595: KernelTrap, May 28, 2006
1.520 ian 596: </strong></font><br>
1.521 deraadt 597: Jeremy Andrews visited our developers at the Hackathon and gives
1.523 ian 598: a brief but colorful summary of most of the team members:
1.520 ian 599: why they chose OpenBSD, how they got involved, what they do, and
600: their plans for the week.
601: <p>
602:
603: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.523 ian 604: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/05/22/OpenBSD-on-Flash.html">
605: Installing OpenBSD on Flash</a>,
606: Ping Wales, May 22, 2006
607: </strong></font><br>
608: David Chisnall shows how to set up an OpenBSD boot image for
609: Soekris or PC Engines machines that boot from flash memory.
610: <p>
611:
612: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.520 ian 613: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/eur/article.php/3603961">
614: Enterprise Unix Roundup: Whither BSD?</a>, ServerWatch, May 5, 2006
615: </strong></font><br>
616: Amy Newman and Brian Proffitt state that the BSDs are often overlooked
617: because of their limited commercial acceptance.
618: The authors call this an unfortunate oversight, because recent releases of
619: the freely available BSD flavors show significant technical improvements.
1.523 ian 620: As an example, they specifically refer to OpenBSD's sensor framework
1.520 ian 621: (introduced with 3.9).
622: Newman and Proffitt also accuse big vendors of picking the nice parts from
623: the BSDs' code and giving nothing back to the community in return.
624: <p>
625:
626: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.518 ian 627: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/35/1/">
628: OpenBSD 3.9 Review</a>, Software In Review, May 3, 2006
629: </strong></font><br>
630: Jem Matzan takes the 3.9 release out for a spin, and likes it.
631: Noting that each release consists of a lot of small changes
632: and some major improvements - and mentioning hardware support, sensors,
633: and "blob removal" - he clearly thinks the project is doing a lot of things right.
634: "Everything you get in the release is production-ready, secure by
635: default... and comes with possibly the finest integrated documentation
636: in the Unix-clone world. While you might find a poorly programmed
637: driver or other base system component in other BSDs and GNU/Linux
638: distributions, in OpenBSD if something is supported, it works."
639: <p>
640:
641: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
642: [GERMAN]
643: <a href="http://www.linux-magazin.de/Artikel/ausgabe/2006/06/news_zut/news_zut.html">
644: Mozilla greift OpenBSD unter die Arme</a>, Linux Magazin, Issue 06/06, May 2006, p. 18
645: </strong></font><br>
646: The German <a href="http://www.linux-magazin.de/">Linux Magazin</a> has a short
647: article about OpenBSD's financial situation and Marco Peerebroom's
1.535 steven 648: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060321034114">call for donations</a>
1.518 ian 649: on undeadly.org. The article further mentions how OpenSSH development
650: is connected to OpenBSD.
651: <p>
652:
1.514 ian 653: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
654: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6550">
655: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, KernelTrap, May 2, 2006
656: </strong></font><br>
657: Jeremy Andrews conducts a free-ranging interview, focused mainly on 3.9 and drivers,
658: that gives Theo a chance to explain how the big North American chip vendors'
659: business practices make it harder for open source projects,
1.515 ian 660: talk about "binary blobs" vs firmware in drivers, and more.
1.514 ian 661: There's also coverage of where the project is going up to and after 3.9 and where
1.516 steven 662: it might (or might not) go in the future, why doing things right (and
1.514 ian 663: running this project) is so important to Theo,
664: and even why he does mountain biking!
665: <p>
666:
667: </ul>
668:
1.503 ian 669: <h2>April, 2006</h2>
670: <ul>
671: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.532 ray 672: <a href="http://www.dribin.org/dave/blog/archives/2006/04/28/os_x_passwords_2/">
673: Mac OS X Password Implementation Compared to OpenBSD's</a>, April 28, 2006
674: </strong></font><br>
675: Dave Dribin analyzes Mac OS X's password implementation
676: and compares it with OpenBSD's:
677: "The king of the hill has to go to OpenBSD,
678: which uses a hash based on the Blowfish block cipher called bcrypt.
679: The benefit of [bcrypt] is best stated on their website:
680: <blockquote>
681: The most important property of bcrypt (and thus crypt_blowfish)
682: is that it is adaptable to future processor performance improvements,
683: allowing you to arbitrarily increase the processing cost of checking a
684: password while still maintaining compatibility with your older password hashes.
685: Already now bcrypt hashes you would use are several orders of magnitude
686: stronger than traditional Unix DES-based or FreeBSD-style MD5-based hashes.
687: </blockquote>
688: This is just plain cool."
689: <p>
690:
691: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.512 ian 692: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6557">
693: OpenBSD 3.9: Blob-Busters Interviewed</a>, OnLAMP, April 27, 2006
694: </strong></font><br>
695: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several of the developers on improvements
696: in 3.9: the continuing absence of "blob drivers", IPMI and sensors, apmd performance
697: adjustment, Macs, rthreads, multicast, trunk, hostapd, and more.
1.513 saad 698: jsg clarifies the issue of "binary blob" drivers vs "firmware", and
1.512 ian 699: discusses the NVIDIA nForce Ethernet driver he did after NVIDIA did refuse
700: to give out documentation; they can't stop us, but they can slow us down.
701: The result: "There aren't any drivers in OpenBSD with binary-only components;
702: this is quite a contrast to pretty much everyone else out there."
703: marco comments on the IPMI work in 3.9, and adds:
704: "IPMI is a standard, but there are vendors out there
1.513 saad 705: that have reading comprehension issues...".
1.512 ian 706: A long list of other developers explain their contributions
707: and other changes that make 3.9 one of our best releases yet.
708: <p>
709:
710: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.517 mbalmer 711: [GERMAN]
712: <a href="http://www.guug.de/uptimes/index.html">
713: Stop BLOB!</a>, UpTimes, April 25, 2006
714: </strong></font><br>
715: Wilhelm Bühler gives an overview in a short article about Blobs, what they
716: are and why they are bad.
717: <p>
718:
719: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.508 ian 720: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/34/1/">
721: Using OpenBSD</a>, Software In Review, April 24, 2006
722: </strong></font><br>
723: Jem Matzan gives a brief overview of using the system.
724: Covers ports and packages, use of SMP kernel, and more.
725: Capsule summary of how our security policy affects the administrator:
726: "Because it is secure by default, you may have to do more initial
727: configuration with OpenBSD than with most other Unix and Unix-like
728: operating systems, but you'll spend a lot less time securing it --
729: maybe no time at all, if you follow the instructions in the manual
730: pages."
731: <p>
732:
733: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.519 ian 734: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/16/1749215.shtml?tid=8">
735: Using OpenBSD on the desktop</a>, NewsForge, April 21, 2006
736: </strong></font><br>
737: Considers the use of OpenBSD as a desktop operating system,
738: starting with "Secure by default" - who wants to have their desktop hacked? -
739: and continues:
740: "OpenBSD's clean code and design also provide rock-solid stability.
741: I used to have lots of problems and crashes with new versions of
742: Linux (kernel 2.6.x) and FreeBSD (versions 5.x and 6.x). The main
743: focus of OpenBSD developers is to provide programs that work ...
744: [they] prefer to improve their code rather than just
745: add more new features and end up with a bloated and unstable product."
746: Covers X, ports/packages, window managers, what is and is not supported,
747: and more. Final thought:
748: "OpenBSD's clean design and remarkable stability, along with its
749: proactive security, not only make OpenBSD a potential candidate for
750: home desktop users but also every system administrator's dream come
751: true for business environments."
752: <p>
753:
754: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.511 djm 755: [FRENCH]
1.509 djm 756: <a href="http://developpeur.journaldunet.com/itws/060419-itw-openssh-openbsd-miller.shtml">
1.511 djm 757: JDN Développeurs interviews Damien Miller</a>,
1.509 djm 758: JDN Développeurs, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
759: Interview with Damien Miller, discussing OpenSSH security, the OpenBSD
760: development approach, the problem of blobby drivers and the recent request
1.510 djm 761: for funding.
1.509 djm 762: <p>
763:
764: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.507 cloder 765: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6497">
766: Interview with developers Jonathan Gray and Damien Bergamini</a>,
767: Kerneltrap, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
768: An interview with the authors of OpenBSD's new NVIDIA Ethernet driver. OpenBSD's
769: policy forbidding binary driver blobs is discussed, and the developers give a good
770: overview of how they went about implementing the new driver.
771: <p>
772:
773: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.528 ian 774: <a href="http://www.thehostingnews.com/article2217.html">GoDaddy.com
775: Donates $10K to Open Source Development Project</a>,
776: The Hosting News, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
777: GoDaddy.com, which claims to be "the Number One registrar of domain
778: names worldwide", recently donated $10,000 to the OpenSSH project
779: because, "according to the company, OpenSSH has become a staple
780: of all free Unix and Linux operating systems in the world."
781: They use it, and their customers use it, and they recognize the
782: value of supporting an open source projects that is, as company
783: CEO Bob Parsons says, "integral to online security".
784: <br/>
1.529 ian 785: Similar articles at
1.528 ian 786: <a href="http://www.hostsearch.com/news/the_go_daddy_group_news_4366.asp">
1.529 ian 787: hostsearch.com</a> and
788: <a href="http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20060419090443506">
789: LinuxElectrons.com</a>
1.528 ian 790: <p>
791:
792: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.506 aanriot 793: [FRENCH] Principles and usage of OpenSSH,
794: <a href="http://www.gnulinuxmag.com/">Linux Magazine France</a>,
795: issue 82, April 2006, p. 28-33
796: </strong></font><br>
1.533 ray 797: A 6 page article from Alexandre Courbot focuses on OpenSSH and its
1.507 cloder 798: basics. It begins with an history of the different implementations, and
1.506 aanriot 799: is punctuated with examples.
800: Tunneling features are described, as well as
1.535 steven 801: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp</a>,
802: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent&sektion=1">ssh-agent</a>,
1.506 aanriot 803: and
1.535 steven 804: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp</a>.
1.506 aanriot 805: <p>
806:
807: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.503 ian 808: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71658">
809: Mozilla Foundation spendet für OpenBSD</a>, heise online, April 4, 2006
810: </strong></font><br>
811: Short article mentioning the donation the Mozilla Foundation made in support of
812: further OpenSSH development.
813: The article emphasizes the opportunity to wire money through the project's
814: new European account - this one donation will not meet the
815: project's funding needs for all time.
816: <p>
1.504 bernd 817: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
818: [GERMAN] "OpenBSD mit finanziellen Problemen", c't 8/06, p. 45.,
819: April 3, 2006
820: </strong></font><br>
821: A very short article about OpenBSD's financial problems. They mention that
822: this could compromise future hackathons.
823: <p>
1.503 ian 824:
825: </ul>
826:
1.487 ian 827: <h2>March, 2006</h2>
828: <ul>
1.495 ian 829: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.500 ian 830: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/theo_interview.html">
1.501 ian 831: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>, DaemonNews, March, 2006
1.500 ian 832: </strong></font><br>
833: Chris Silva conducts a lightweight but wide-ranging and fun interview with Theo
834: on topics including "Puffy",
835: the logos used by certain other BSD projects -
836: Theo quips that "I really like how they make absolutely no statement at all" -
837: what's new in 3.9,
838: and of course project expenses.
839: Theo notes that "The electric bill is about $100 USD per week".
840: <!--
841: ... must be what comes from heating your house with VAXen.
842: -->
843: The interviewer nicely ends with a link to our donations page.
844: <p>
845:
846: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 847: <a href="http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/239/1/">
848: Linux supporters fiddle while OpenSSH burns</a>, The Jem Report, March 28, 2006
849: </strong></font><br>
1.499 ian 850: This write-up focusses on OpenBSD/OpenSSH funding, and has some
851: original legwork to go with it.
1.498 ian 852: Writer Jem Matzan took the trouble to
853: contact many of the companies who charge a lot for products
854: featuring OpenSSH and yet give nothing to OpenSSH in return.
855: Companies like SCO, IBM, Apple, and Sun.
856: Sun apparently did the worst job of responding:
857: "Since the release of Solaris 10, who has been a larger open source
858: software cheerleader than Sun Microsystems?", Matzan asks. "I asked Sun
859: representatives what they would do if OpenSSH were to disappear. The only response
860: I got was that there are parts of Solaris that compete with OpenSSH,
861: and that because of this, the company would rather not comment
862: further on the issue." What the Sun teleprompter-readers don't seem to realize -
863: but Matzan does - is that
864: <a href="http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/cmd/ssh/ssh/ssh.c">
865: SunSSH <em>is</em> OpenSSH</a>.
866: Or, at least, a mangled version of it...
867: IBM, on the other hand, is still trying to formulate their response.
868: <br/>
869: <p>
870:
871: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
872: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/20/2050223.shtml?tid=8">
873: Interview: Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD</a>, NewsForge, March 28, 2006
874: </strong></font><br>
875: A wide-ranging interview with Theo about new stuff in 3.9, security, funding,
876: "blob" drivers, and more.
877: Theo notes that "We've had 10 years of nearly fanatical devotion
878: to anything which can make OpenBSD more secure. A very important
879: part of that is that we have not been afraid to completely overhaul
880: anything even if it breaks backward compatibility. Secondly, when
881: we have found a flaw in any part of the system we have assumed that
882: the same mistake was made elsewhere, and gone on a hunt to fix them
883: all. Thirdly, we have developed and incorporated a collection of
884: methods that make software flaws very difficult to attack..."
885: Ends by trying to shame the companies that use OpenSSH without contributing
886: anything back - Sun is given especial mention here - and ends with
887: the tantalizing line ".. if an OpenSSH hole is found that applies to SunSSH,
888: Sun will not be informed. Or maybe that has happened already." Hmmmm.
889: <p>
890:
891: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 892: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259254,00.htm">
893: OpenBSD 3.9 adds sensor framework</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
894: </strong></font><br>
895: It's easy to focus on our project's security, but we innovate in other areas too.
896: This article highlights the "sensors" framework added in 3.9 to provide and integrated
897: approach to handling Dell PowerEdge servers' Embedded Server Management (ESM), IPMI, and
898: in general temperature and environmental issues.
899: "There is a significant new sensor framework [in OpenBSD 3.9], which
900: supports voltage sensors, fan sensors, temperature sensors, and so
901: on," said de Raadt. "Such a feature is still missing in Linux and
902: other major operating systems." ...
903: De Raadt has already been using the sensor framework to monitor the
904: machines running in
905: <a href="images/newrack.jpg">the project's server room</a>. "I now get a call
906: on my cell phone whenever something is wrong in the machine room,"
907: <p>
908:
909: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
910: <a href="http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/other/0,39020682,39259281,00.htm">
911: Paying for free software may be the bargain of a lifetime</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
912: </strong></font><br>
913: Starts with a Theo quote from the previous article on ZDNet:
914: "A culture of entitlement is starting to damage the open source community".
915: The article argues that mega-computer-companies that use open source tend to use BSD:
916: "The open BSDs may be less famous than Linux, but they are arguably
917: superior in stability and security. This has made it popular in
918: ISPs and elsewhere - Apple, for example, adopted BSD within OS X.
919: BSD, unlike software released under the GPL, carrys no legal
920: obligations for the adopter to provide anything for the community in return."
921: Goes on to argue that these companies <em>ought</em> to be fair enough
922: to send a small bit of their money back into funding open source.
923: "In the time it takes to read this article, we calculate that Apple
924: will have easily made enough to pay-off OpenBSD's annual losses,
925: with a little left over to buy black turtlenecks for all. It's not
926: just Apple's baby - other companies owe far more to OpenBSD - but
927: in open source a little symbolism goes a long way."
928: <p>
929:
1.487 ian 930: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.494 bernd 931: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71174">
932: OpenBSD muss an den Sparstrumpf</a>, heise online, March 23, 2006
933: </strong></font><br>
1.495 ian 934: OpenBSD is touching its savings - Small news article about the project's
1.494 bernd 935: financial situation.
936: <p>
937:
938: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 939: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259042,00.htm">
940: OpenBSD Founder Makes Funding Plea</a>, ZDNet UK, March 23, 2006
941: </strong></font><br>
942: One of the first mainstream sites to pick up on Marco's article (below),
943: this one reports the funding figures on how much it really costs to
944: produce our favorite operating system.
945: "Although OpenBSD has a number of commercial users, including many
946: ISPs, de Raadt claimed that all of its donations come from individuals
947: rather than companies many of who claim the have no budget to pay
948: for the operating system. "The culture of entitlement is starting
949: to damage the open source community," he said."
1.496 ian 950: <br/>
951: Also online at
952: <a href="http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/software/stories/135760.html">ZDNet India</a>.
953: <p>
954:
955: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
956: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/03/22/OpenBSD-money.html">
957: OpenBSD in Financial Trouble</a>, Ping Wales, March 21, 2006
958: </strong></font><br>
959: David Chisnall reports that "OpenBSD is one of my favourite platforms;
960: its focus on security and ease-of-use makes it a very simple and
961: safe system to use. Unfortunately, the OpenBSD organisation is now
962: experiencing financial difficulty. For the last two years, the
963: project has made a $20,000/year loss, something which it cannot
964: sustain indefinitely."
965: Goes on to report on the growing use of OpenBSD in commercial software
966: (and hardware!), and that none of the "big guys" has given anything back.
967: Unlike most of the articles on this topic, this one is kind enough to
968: include a direct link to our orders page and recommend its readers
969: to buy a copy of the CD to help fund the project.
1.495 ian 970: <p>
971:
972: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 973: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/06/03/21/1555243.shtml">
974: OpenBSD Project in Financial Danger</a>, Slashdot, March 21, 2006
975: </strong></font><br>
976: Slashdot mentions and quotes from Marco's article (below),
977: with a reminder that
978: "The OpenBSD team is the one that also develops the OpenSSH suite,
979: used nowadays almost everywhere."
980: Ends with this quote from Marco:
981: "Without naming entities or projects by name, there are others out
982: there that are sitting on some cash. It would be wonderful if these
983: entities could share some of the wealth to keep us going."
984: <p>
985:
986: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.505 grunk 987: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060321034114">
1.495 ian 988: OpenBSD Finances</a>, OpenBSD Journal, March 21, 2006
989: </strong></font><br>
990: Marco Peereboom's article notes that
991: "OpenBSD for the past 2 years has turned a loss of approximately $20K USD" per year.
992: Hackathons - where a lot of developers get together in critical mass and churn out
993: new ideas and new code in great quantity - cost from US$10K-30K each, and we try to run
994: a few of them each year.
995: Meanwhile, compananies that use OpenBSD and companies - many of them highly profitable -
996: that incorporate OpenSSH into operating systems and even routers and other appliances
997: have not been forthcoming: no major computer company has given funding
998: to the OpenBSD project.
999: It's time for them to do so.
1000: <p>
1001:
1002: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.497 ian 1003: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/08/1646257.shtml?tid=8">
1004: Software RAID on OpenBSD using RAIDframe</a>, NewsForge, March 14, 2006
1005: </strong></font><br>
1006: "Software RAID provides an easy way to add redundancy or speed up a system
1007: without spending lots of money on a RAID adapter."
1008: Manolis Tzanidakis talks us through setting up RAID using OpenBSD.
1009: He describes the detailed steps, and recommends careful testing
1010: before putting the system into production, including taking one disk
1011: out of service and ensuring that it gets reloaded correctly.
1012: Ends with a technique for monitoring clean operation on an ongoing basis.
1013: <p>
1014:
1015: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.489 deraadt 1016: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">Report on Business Television</a>
1017: March 10, 5:45pm MST</strong></font><br>
1.490 deraadt 1018: Theo de Raadt was interviewed by Howard Green on <b>The Business Show</b>:<br>
1019: <!-- North America mirror:
1020: <a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB avi file</a>
1.491 deraadt 1021: -->
1.490 deraadt 1022: European mirror:
1023: <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/20060310/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB AVI file</a>
1024: <br>
1025: A longer segment is also available at <a href="http://www.robtv.ca">www.robtv.ca</a>.
1.489 deraadt 1026: <p>
1027:
1028: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.487 ian 1029: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/openbgpd.html">OpenBGPd in OpenBSD</a>
1030: Daemon News, March, 2006</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 1031: Check out the notes and slides from Henning Brauer's presentation at
1.487 ian 1032: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0602/">NANOG 36</a>;
1033: the text and questions cover everything from how and why OpenBGPd got created,
1034: through configuration and tools, to integration with pf and CARP,
1035: to technical issues regarding use of IPSEC to provide security for BGP packets.
1036: Along the way there's considerable discussion on how the program was
1037: designed to provide reliability and security.
1038: <p>
1039:
1040: </ul>
1041:
1.485 ian 1042: <h2>February, 2006</h2>
1043: <ul>
1044: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.486 ian 1045: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1859">Zero to IPSec in 4 minutes</a>
1046: Security Focus, February 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
1047: This article, as its lead-in says,
1.497 ian 1048: "looks at how to get a fully functional IPSec VPN up and running between two fresh OpenBSD
1.486 ian 1049: installations in about four minutes flat".
1050: If you've shied away from setting up an IPSEC VPN because of config file complexity,
1051: now is the time to reconsider.
1.497 ian 1052: Dragos Ruiu shows you how the ipsecctl command (introduced to the world in OpenBSD 3.8)
1.486 ian 1053: makes it really easy to set up a VPN between consenting OpenBSD machines.
1054: He states that he and a colleague were able to get two machines talking over IPSEC
1055: in a few minutes, and only changing a few configuration files.
1056: He also comments on the relative ease of installing our favorite OS, and hopes
1057: that our ipsecctl will be adopted by the other BSDs (hopefully in a compatible way)
1058: to make firewall setups easier all around the network.
1059: But you don't need to wait for that if you're running OpenBSD 3.8; just follow
1060: the steps in the article.
1061: <p>
1062:
1063: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.485 ian 1064: <a href="http://www.networkmagazineindia.com/200602/vendorvoice02.shtml">The Worm in the Machine</a>
1065: Network Magazine India, February 2006</strong></font><br>
1066: Dilip Ranade elaborates on several reasons why software is drearily buggy and endlessly insecure,
1067: particularly in comparison with other technologies.
1068: Imagines how very bad shape the automotive industry would be in if you had to sign the
1069: same disclaimer of (non-)usability that almost every commercial EULA requires of computer users.
1070: Ends with "I once dreamt that all the computer users in the world
1071: arose in revolt and switched to hardened OpenBSD", though he admits that there's "fat chance" of it
1072: happening in real life.
1073: <p>
1074:
1075: </ul>
1076:
1.492 ian 1077: <h2>January, 2006</h2>
1078: <ul>
1079: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1080: <a href="http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2006/01/28.html">Kevin Mitnick on
1081: Coast to Coast AM Radio Show with Art Bell</a>, Jan 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
1082: Art Bell interviewed Kevin Mitnick on his call-in show;
1083: Paul Zacharzewski from Edmonton called to ask Mitnick for his opinion of OpenBSD.
1084: If you don't want to download the whole show from coasttocoastam.com,
1085: you can listen to an
1.497 ian 1086: <a href="http://unworkable.org/misc/mitnick.mp3">MP3 excerpt of this call</a>
1.492 ian 1087: in which Mitnick says: "Well, I actually use OpenBSD, so I do like it".
1088: </ul>
1089:
1.483 ian 1090: <h2>December, 2005</h2>
1091: <ul>
1.555 reyk 1092:
1.483 ian 1093: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.555 reyk 1094: [GERMAN]
1095: <a href="http://www.ini.unizh.ch/~stephan/articles/openbsd/064-069_linux-bsd-fw.pdf">
1096: Wehrhaft abtauchen - HA-fähige Firewall mit OpenBSD/PF</a>, Linux-Magazin, December 2005
1097: </strong></font><br>
1098: High available firewall setups are considered as the high arts of network protection.
1099: Due to clustering the network stays online even if one firewall fails. This article
1100: from Stephan A. Rickauer (Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH / University Zurich) shows
1101: how well OpenBSD/PF performs in comparison to the well-known duo Linux/Netfilter.
1102: <p>
1103:
1104: </p></li><li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.484 djm 1105: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/375/1">OpenSSH cutting edge</a>
1106: SecurityFocus, December 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
1107: Federico Biancuzzi interviews OpenSSH developer Damien Miller to discuss
1108: features included in the upcoming version 4.3, public key crypto
1109: protocols details, timing based attacks and anti-worm measures.
1110: <p>
1111:
1112: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 1113: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/11/21/175249.shtml?tid=92&tid=78">Creating
1.483 ian 1114: Secure Wireless Access Points with OpenBSD and OpenVPN</a>
1115: NewsForge, December 13, 2005</strong></font><br>
1116: A cookbook approach to setting up a wireless interface as a secure Access Point
1117: using OpenBSD's hostap, pf, and authpf.
1118: Configuration examples are given with basic explanations and links
1119: to sites with more information on most topics.
1120: <p>
1121:
1122: </ul>
1123:
1124:
1.479 grunk 1125: <h2>November, 2005</h2>
1126: <ul>
1127: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 1128: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20051116145737">OpenBSD
1.482 ian 1129: Goes to Venice</a>,
1130: OpenBSD Journal, November 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 1131: "What happens when you put a dozen developers on a little island with their
1.482 ian 1132: laptops, power, and an internet connection?
1133: <br/>
1134: During the first week of November some OpenBSD developers met in a
1135: little island in Venice's lagoon to hack on the ports system.
1136: This was probably the first ports hackathon and was followed by
1.497 ian 1137: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON</a>, a European conference
1.482 ian 1138: fully dedicated to OpenBSD..."
1139: Great coverage of the OpenBSD Porting Hackathon: people, ports, beer, ...
1140: Contains a link to
1141: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ven05-pvalchev/mgp00008.html">
1142: pval's summary slides</a>.
1143: <p>
1144:
1145: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.481 niallo 1146: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1710223">
1147: Trying out the new OpenBSD 3.8</a>,
1148: NewsForge, November 11, 2005</strong></font><br>
1149: This article describes the installation of OpenBSD 3.8 from a Linux user's
1150: perspective, noting the simple elegance of the installer.
1151: Although the installation process may be hard to get used to at first for
1152: the average Linux user, the author tells us that one can learn a lot from
1153: it. Furthermore, the article clears up the common misconception that working
1.497 ian 1154: on an OpenBSD system is very different from working on a Linux system.
1.481 niallo 1155: In particular, the author states that on OpenBSD, <i>"virtually the entire
1156: catalog of familiar free and open source software titles is available through
1157: the packages and ports system"</i>.
1158: <p>
1159:
1160: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1161: <a href="http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3561526">
1162: Return of The BSDs</a>,
1163: internetnews.com, November 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
1164: This article mentions that with all three major BSD flavors having had
1165: a release this fall, BSD is <i>"still very much alive and kicking among
1166: all the noise and buzz created by Linux"</i>. The author talks about
1167: various new or improved features of 3.8, such as bioctl(8), hostapd(8),
1168: network interface aggregation and sasyncd(8), and there are some
1169: quotes from Bob Beck.
1170: <p>
1171:
1172: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.479 grunk 1173: <a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/051101/152/fvrlx.html">
1174: OpenBSD 3.8 improves hardware support</a>,
1175: ZDNet UK, November 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.480 ian 1176: This article reports on OpenBSD 3.8, which was released on November 1.
1177: The author gives an overview of the improvements and new
1.479 grunk 1178: features that were made with 3.8, and quotes Theo on RAID management
1179: and Linux.<br>
1180: The 3.8 release hit the news also in some other places:
1181: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1258232">Slashdot</a>
1182: and <a href="http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=12482">OSNews</a>
1183: also report about it, mostly repeating parts
1184: of the release
1185: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/ANNOUNCEMENT">ANNOUNCEMENT</a>.
1186: <p>
1187: </ul>
1188:
1.476 ian 1189: <h2>October, 2005</h2>
1190: <ul>
1191:
1192: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1193: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1375194866;fp;16;fpid;0">
1194: 'Nightmare' drove desperate user to open source</a>,
1195: Computerworld, October 24, 2005</strong></font><br>
1196: A great tale of how Mark Uemura of PricewaterhouseCoopers Japan
1197: was forced to move to OpenBSD because the alternatives were too costly
1198: and too unreliable.
1199: This quote will rattle some cages:
1200: "IT managers who want to deploy an open source solution but are
1201: worried about company politics should go ahead and do it without
1202: asking," according to Uemura, who was promoted to IT Manager of PWC Japan
1203: after saving the company seven IT-samurais' salaries.
1204: Further, "In Japan large organizations like Morgan Stanley and the
1205: Bank of America have moved all their backend systems to open source,
1206: Uemura said, because with open source you can reduce IT operating
1207: costs without any commercial lock-in."
1208: <p>
1209:
1.477 saad 1210: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1211: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6270">
1212: OpenBSD 3.8: Hackers of the Lost RAID</a>,
1213: ONLamp.com, October 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
1214: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
1215: new features in OpenBSD 3.8 including interface trunking,
1216: internationalization support, Inter-Access Point Protocol (IAPP),
1217: IPSec SA synchronization daemon, and RAID management. There is also some
1218: discussion about future plans.
1219: <p>
1220:
1.478 grunk 1221: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1222: <a href="http://securityfocus.com/columnists/361">
1223: OpenBSD's network stack</a>,
1224: SecurityFocus, October 12, 2005</strong></font><br>
1225: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about OpenBSD's
1226: network stack, including protection against ICMP attacks, and propagation
1227: of enhancements into other BSDs and into Linux.
1228: The interview also features the other protection mechanisms in the network
1229: stack, a comparison to the network stack in Linux, and the history and
1230: current status of <a href="http://www.openbgpd.org/">OpenBGPD</a>.
1231: <p>
1232:
1.476 ian 1233: </ul>
1234:
1.470 saad 1235: <h2>September, 2005</h2>
1236: <ul>
1237:
1238: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.474 niallo 1239: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/359">
1240: Security-related innovation in Unix</a>,
1241: SecurityFocus, Sept. 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1242: An article examining the mmap-based malloc() implementation to be
1243: included in OpenBSD 3.8. The author states that <i>"it will help OpenBSD
1244: users to find bugs in software more easily, which will result in better
1245: applications for everyone"</i>. He goes on to say that <i>"the more hurdles
1246: that one has to jump through for good security, the less likely people will
1247: go through the trouble. OpenBSD allows even the most inexperienced users to
1248: take advantage of these technologies without any effort"</i>.
1249: <p>
1250:
1251: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.473 aanriot 1252: <a href="http://www.miscmag.com/articles/index.php3?page=2100">
1253: [FRENCH] Champ libre : les chantiers OpenBSD</a>
1254: Misc, number 21, Sept/Oct, 2005, p. 4-14</strong></font><br>
1255: An interesting article about OpenBSD and associated projects. Saad Kadhi
1256: and Guillaume Arcas describe useful things you can do with PF and
1257: OpenSSH, and give a nice introduction to OpenNTPD and OpenCVS. If the
1258: article is focused on the presentation, you can find some interesting
1259: technical aspects people are not always acquainted to. A few examples
1260: are shown, like a basic CARP setup, or the manner to use multiplexing
1261: with OpenSSH and even how to check an OpenSSH server's keys using DNS.
1262: <p>
1263:
1264: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 1265: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/news/11306">
1266: Big debate over small packets</a>,
1267: SecurityFocus, Sept. 7, 2005</strong></font><br>
1268: Robert Lemos discusses the ICMP denial-of-service vulnerabilities found
1269: by Fernando Gont and fixed in OpenBSD. To date, OpenBSD is the only
1270: system that has implemented all of the fixes recommended in the IETF
1271: draft.
1272: <p>
1273:
1274: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.471 saad 1275: <a href="http://www.pcexpert.fr/">
1276: [FRENCH] "Quel est le meilleur système libre pour votre
1277: ordinateur ?"</a>,
1278: PC Expert, number 156, p. 42-62</strong></font><br>
1279: Philippe Roure compares 11 Linux and *BSD operating systems, including
1280: OpenBSD 3.7, on different criteria such as security, documentation and
1281: usability. OpenBSD earned a 5/5 mark (see pages 60-61) and while a mark
1282: isn't necessarily objective, the author seems to grasp the OpenBSD
1283: project, its goals, and how good is the operating system. The article
1284: includes an interview with Saad Kadhi.
1285: <p>
1286:
1287: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.470 saad 1288: <a href="http://www.samag.com/articles/2005/0509/">
1289: Monitoring PF Firewalls for Health and Performance</a>,
1290: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 9, p. 37</strong></font><br>
1291: Ryan Matteson describes several utilities that can be used to monitor the
1292: health and performance of a PF firewall. Besides pfctl, the article
1293: covers pftop, fwanalog, monitoring logs with tcpdump and graphing
1294: performance data with pfstat.
1295: <p>
1296:
1297: </ul>
1298:
1.461 grunk 1299: <h2>July, 2005</h2>
1300: <ul>
1301:
1302: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.466 deraadt 1303: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5382">
1304: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part III</a>,
1.467 grunk 1305: Kerneltrap, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.466 deraadt 1306: Jeremy Andrews writes about the recent Blind ICMP attacks discovered
1307: by Fernando Gont, and the fixes done by him and OpenBSD during the
1308: 2005 Hackathon.
1.469 ian 1309: The article goes into the technical background of the
1.467 grunk 1310: attacks, mentioning blind ICMP attacks, "hard" ICMP errors, source
1.469 ian 1311: quenching, and path MTU discovery;
1312: many helpful RFCs and technical papers are linked from the explanations.
1313: This is followed by a recap of the whole ICMP story, involving Gont's
1.467 grunk 1314: struggle with other free projects, Cisco lawyers, Microsoft people,
1315: and others.<br>
1.469 ian 1316: The article concludes that OpenBSD was the first project
1.467 grunk 1317: to take Fernando Gont's findings seriously, and also the first group to
1318: be really painless to work with.
1.466 deraadt 1319: <p>
1320:
1321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.464 grunk 1322: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/06/security_blame/">
1323: Security meltdown: who's to blame?</a>,
1.466 deraadt 1324: The Register, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.464 grunk 1325: This article talks about various groups that are frequently blamed for
1326: poor security:
1.467 grunk 1327: individuals, ISPs, companies, crackers, security mailing lists,
1.464 grunk 1328: and last but not least: OS vendors!
1.467 grunk 1329: In the last paragraph, OpenBSD's style of <i>"dumbed-down, simplified
1.464 grunk 1330: and secure systems (with a heavily audited code base)"</i> is described
1331: as <i>"one of the smartest approaches to security"</i>.
1332: <p>
1333:
1334: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.461 grunk 1335: <a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-7-5/30084.html">
1336: Theo de Raadt on Industry and Free Software</a>,
1.466 deraadt 1337: The Epoch Times, July 5, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.463 tom 1338: In this interview, Theo talks about the inception of the OpenBSD project
1339: and its goals, as well as its impact on the commercial IT industry.
1.461 grunk 1340: He points out once more that <i>"vendors who incorporate OpenSSH have
1341: given us absolutely nothing back - not a cent"</i>.
1342: Other topics covered include the OpenBSD team, Theo's role as
1343: <i>"benevolent dictator"</i>, and the security process, which he compares
1344: to the security efforts led by other free software projects and some
1345: commercial vendors.
1346: <p>
1347:
1348: </ul>
1349:
1.454 ian 1350: <h2>June, 2005</h2>
1351: <ul>
1.468 grunk 1352:
1353: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1354: <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/ns-ttc062205.php">
1355: The true cost of computer crime</a>,
1356: EurekAlert / <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/">New Scientist Magazine</a>,
1357: issue June 25, 2005</strong></font><br>
1358: This article looks at computer crime, especially the way upcoming
1359: vulnerability reports are dealt with. It also gives a short overview of the
1.469 ian 1360: institutions involved in the process (vendors, free projects, CERTs).
1.468 grunk 1361: <br>
1362: The author mentions the work of Andy Ozment, who researches vulnerability
1363: disclosure at the University of Cambridge. Using OpenBSD as a good example
1364: of how disclosure and consequent fixing of bugs helps to strengthen security,
1365: he refutes the widely spread FUD that disclosing vulnerabilities leads to
1366: more harm than good. Ozment's methodology was to examine OpenBSD's CVS logs
1.469 ian 1367: and note when fixes were published; his research shows that
1.468 grunk 1368: <i>"the number of vulnerabilities decreases as a result of disclosure"</i>.
1369: <p>
1370:
1.454 ian 1371: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.458 niallo 1372: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0704/071.html">
1373: Free Bird</a>,
1374: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1375: <b>(Registration required)</b> A second Forbes article about OpenBSD, more
1376: focused on the project itself this time. It contains good description of the
1377: history of OpenBSD along with its prime motivations. Mention is made of the
1378: DARPA grant and the annual hackathon. Theo's motto "shut up and hack" finally
1379: becomes famous in this piece and there are some other very insightful quotes
1380: such as "All I care about is making high-quality code. If I had to work at a
1381: regular job, it would drive me nuts". This is certainly an astute and perceptive
1382: article, well worth reading. Do note that the big picture of Theo's machine
1383: room will only be available in the print edition.
1384: <p>
1.459 deraadt 1385:
1.458 niallo 1386: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.456 niallo 1387: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html">
1388: Is Linux For Losers?</a>,
1389: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1390: An interesting article, if somewhat polemic in tone, which raises questions
1391: about the quality of Linux code compared to OpenBSD. There is also some short
1392: discussion of the OpenBSD development model and focus (push for quality above
1393: everything else) including good quotes from Theo. It seems that the need for
1394: high quality software is beginning to be recognised by the mainstream.
1395: <p>
1.457 deraadt 1396:
1.456 niallo 1397: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1398: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/06/09/2132233.shtml?tid=152&tid=8&tid=2">
1.455 ian 1399: BSD cognoscenti on Linux</a>,
1400: NewsForge, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1401: NewsForge talks with Theo de Raadt and NetBSD's Christos Zoulas about the
1402: similarities and differences between the Linux kernel and the BSD
1403: operating systems. The questions asked were similar to those asked
1404: of Linus Torvalds in a <a
1.462 grunk 1405: href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/09/2128249&tid=2">previous
1.455 ian 1406: interview.</a>
1407: <p>
1408:
1409: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.454 ian 1410: <a href="http://www.tuxjournal.net/intervista3-en.html">
1411: A good morning with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1412: Tux Journal, June 2, 2005</strong></font><br>
1413: Brief but wide-ranging interview with Theo in which our leader
1414: opines about the good things in 3.7: "The list of new developments
1415: is impressive, but in my view not nearly as impressive as the small
1416: little details that continue to be fixed during each development
1417: cycle." And modestly credits all the developers for the project's
1418: continuing success, attributing it to "The passion of the developers,
1419: and the wide experience they bring into their development efforts.
1420: By amazing coincidence, our users typically have the same needs as we do."
1421: Manages to sidestep getting drawn into comparisons with Linux, e.g.,
1422: when asked if he likes it/why/why not, deftly replies
1423: "I have never used it."
1424: <p>
1425:
1426: </ul>
1427:
1.441 deraadt 1428: <h2>May, 2005</h2>
1429: <ul>
1430: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 1431: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5190">
1432: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part II</a>,
1433: Kerneltrap, May 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1434: In the second installment of Kerneltrap's Hackathon 2005 feature, Jeremy
1435: Andrews speaks with the pf developers at length about their plans for
1436: future enhancements.
1437: <p>
1438:
1439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.450 deraadt 1440: <a href="http://www.ctv.ca">
1.448 deraadt 1441: TV coverage: OpenBSD hackathon</a>,
1442: CTV/CFCN, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1443: A TV spot done a Canadian national TV station about the Calgary
1444: hackathon this year, with 60 developers.<br>
1445: North America mirror:
1446: <ul>
1.452 marco 1447: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.449 jcs 1448: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a><br>
1449: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a>
1.448 deraadt 1450: </ul>
1451: European mirror:
1452: <ul>
1.452 marco 1453: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.448 deraadt 1454: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a>
1455: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a><br>
1456: </ul>
1457: <p>
1458:
1459: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 1460: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5186">
1461: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part I</a>,
1462: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1463: Jeremy Andrews of KernelTrap does a good job of describing what it's like
1464: to be at the Hackathon in Part I of KernelTrap's Hackathon feature. Several
1465: developers are interviewed in detail about what they are working on.
1466: <p>
1467:
1468: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 1469: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5184">
1470: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005: Day 6?</a>,
1471: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1472: Kjell Wooding describes a typical day at the Hackathon in this entertaining
1473: first-hand account.
1474: <p>
1475:
1476: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.447 cloder 1477: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/05/20/1426216.shtml?tid=8">
1478: Review: OpenBSD 3.7</a>,
1479: NewsForge.com, May 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
1480: "OpenBSD is not only highly polished and easy to
1481: configure because of its documentation, it's also totally free-as-in-rights.
1482: With an obsession with security, freedom of source code, and quality of
1483: programming technique, OpenBSD 3.7 continues the legacy established by
1484: its previous releases," writes Jem Matzan in this nice, small review.
1485: <p>
1486:
1487: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.446 cloder 1488: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/05/19/openbsd_3_7.html">
1489: OpenBSD 3.7: The Wizard of OS</a>,
1490: ONLamp.com, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
1491: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
1492: new features in OpenBSD 3.7, including new wireless chipsets, new
1493: spam-fighting features, zaurus, pf improvements, propolice, and
1494: many other things. A good overview of what's new in this release,
1495: plus some interesting comments about future direction.
1496: <p>
1497:
1498: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.444 niallo 1499: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/software/openbsd-3.7-released.html">
1.445 niallo 1500: Next incarnation of OpenBSD released</a>,
1.444 niallo 1501: Ping Wales, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
1502: "OpenBSD is often unjustly overlooked as a free UNIX-like system in favour of
1503: the more-hyped Linux. While it receives a lot less publicity than other
1504: operating systems, this is not due to lack of technical merit." says David
1505: Chisnall, in what is a clear and concise overview of the new features
1506: in 3.7 and indeed the project as a whole.
1507: <p>
1508:
1509: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1510: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5114">
1.445 niallo 1511: 2005 Calgary Hackathon, KernelTrap Coverage</a>,
1.444 niallo 1512: Kerneltrap, May 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1513: A great article about the annual OpenBSD Hackathon, detailing how the event
1514: functions, work done at previous Hackathons and features which may come out
1515: of this one. Includes many relevant quotes from developers themselves, and of
1516: course information about the legendary Hackathon BBQ!
1517: <p>
1518:
1519: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.442 deraadt 1520: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9658/sam0505e/">
1521: "Failover Firewalls with OpenBSD and CARP"</a>,
1522: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 5, p. 33
1.441 deraadt 1523: </strong></font><br>
1524: Jason Dixon discusses the history of the CARP and pfsync protocols
1525: and demonstrates using them to create redundant stateful firewalls
1526: with OpenBSD.
1527: </ul>
1528:
1.436 henning 1529: <h2>April, 2005</h2>
1530: <ul>
1531: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.440 ian 1532: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39195801,00.htm">
1533: Security guru wants access to bug databases</a>,
1534: ZDNet UK, April 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
1535: Ingrid Marson reports on Cambridge professor Ross Anderson's call for analysis of
1536: software maintenance records to determine whether open source code is more secure
1537: than closed source, as we have long contended.
1538: "One of Anderson's research students, Andy Ozment, has already done
1539: research using empirical data on bugs found in the open source
1540: operating system OpenBSD between 1997 and 2000. This research found
1541: that finding and fixing bugs results in a more secure product..."
1542: Just as the OpenBSD project has been saying for years.
1543: <p>
1544: This article can also be found online as
1545: <a href="http://uk.builder.com/manage/project/0,39026588,39244080,00.htm">Academic
1546: calls for better bug tracking</a> (uk.builder.com).
1547: <p>
1548:
1549: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.439 espie 1550: [FRENCH] "PC Expert", number 152, p. 58
1551: </strong></font><br>
1552: Very short interview of Marc Espie about OpenBSD as a free OS focusing
1553: on security, part of a larger dossier «les secrets des hackers».
1554: <p>
1555:
1556: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.436 henning 1557: [GERMAN] "Doppelwacht", iX 5/2005, p. 150.
1558: </strong></font><br>
1559: Stephan Tesch gives an introduction to CARP and using a pair of
1560: OpenBSD boxes as Firewalls in High Availibility scenarios. He goes
1.438 martin 1561: on explaining CARP and pfsync protocols, and does not forget to cover
1.436 henning 1562: the issues we had with IETF.
1563: </ul>
1564:
1.431 ian 1565: <h2>March, 2005</h2>
1566: <ul>
1567: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.435 reyk 1568: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/4818">
1569: OpenBSD's "Out of the Box" Wireless Support</a>,
1570: Kerneltrap, March 8, 2005</strong></font><br>
1571: This article is about the upcoming wireless support in OpenBSD 3.7 and
1572: the outcome of the work to open wireless chipsets. Jeremy Andrews
1573: talked with Theo de Raadt and the developers Damien Bergamini and Reyk
1574: Floeter who did some efforts to implement free and functional drivers.
1575: <p>
1576:
1577: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.431 ian 1578: <a href="http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/01/1109546842718.html">
1579: OpenBSD to support more wireless chipsets</a>,
1580: The Age, March 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1581: "The forthcoming 3.7 release of the OpenBSD operating system has
1582: added support for five more wireless chipsets, according to
1583: OpenBSD project founder Theo de Raadt...
1.432 ian 1584: OpenBSD 3.7 will also have have new drivers for Intel wireless
1.431 ian 1585: parts that do not work without the non-redistributable firmware,"
1586: namely the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11B
1587: and 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11A/B/G wireless network adapters.
1588: Mentions OpenBSD's activism in getting vendors to release chip specs.
1589: Referring to vendors that still refuse to play ball with open source
1590: projects, quotes Damien Miller as saying "Given the number of
1591: appliance devices that are built on free OSs, I think that the
1592: recalcitrant vendors are missing an important boat."
1593:
1594: </ul>
1595:
1.427 matthieu 1596: <h2>February, 2005</h2>
1597: <ul>
1598:
1599: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.428 david 1600: <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsaward2004.html">
1601: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
1602: FSF, February 26, 2005</strong></font><br>
1603: The Free Software Foundation awarded Theo de Raadt their "2004 Free Software
1604: Award" for his unwavering commitment to free software. Most recently he has
1605: been fighting hardware manufacturers for free redistribution of wireless card
1606: firmware.
1.434 ian 1607: Similar articles can be found online at:
1608: <ul>
1609: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1610: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=419">
1611: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
1612: Tectonic.za, March 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
1613: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1614: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article4362.phtml">
1615: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
1616: OSDir, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1617: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1618: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/De-Raadt-gets-free-software-award/2005/02/28/1109546758523.html?oneclick=true">
1619: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
1620: The Age, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1621: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1622: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/02/27/1413255.shtml?tid=99&tid=7">
1.434 ian 1623: Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award</a>,
1624: Slashdot, February 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1625: </ul>
1.427 matthieu 1626: </ul>
1627:
1.426 ian 1628: <h2>January, 2005</h2>
1629: <ul>
1630:
1631: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1632: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363731">
1633: Systrace in OpenBSD</a>,
1634: informit.com, January 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1635: This article talks about our systrace
1.462 grunk 1636: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&sektion=1">systrace(1)</a>
1.426 ian 1637: mechanism: what it is and why and
1638: how to use it, with examples.
1639: Another excerpt from the book
1640: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
1641: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
1642: <p>
1643:
1644: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1645: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363732">
1646: Overview of OpenBSD</a>,
1647: informit.com, January 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
1648: "OpenBSD is one of the most secure and well-designed operating
1649: systems available today. It has its roots in countless hours of
1650: research and development based on some of the best UNIX flavors of
1651: the past, and it boasts all the features of modern operating systems.
1652: The OS is widely considered one of the most secure general-purpose
1653: operating systems available today and it supports many key parts
1654: of the global Internet infrastructure..."
1655: This article is a sample chapter from
1656: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
1657: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
1658: <p>
1.443 ian 1659:
1660: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1661: <a href="http://www.pcplus.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=34628&subsectionid=784">
1.443 ian 1662: OpenBSD operating system</a>,
1663: PCPlus.co.uk, January, 2005</strong></font><br>
1664: Paul Grosse gives a brief tutorial on installing OpenBSD on i386 for people
1665: moving in a Windows->Linux direction, encouraging them to go a bit further for security.
1666: "While Linux out-scores Windows substantially (or completely) on [security as well as many other
1667: issues], it's still possible to use a more secure operating system on the PC... OpenBSD."
1668: Gives a brief but understandable walkthrough on the installation process, right up to
1669: downloading and installing the third-party packages, and
1670: ends with a sidebar on security.
1671: <p>
1.426 ian 1672: </ul>
1673:
1.424 ian 1674: <h2>December, 2004</h2>
1675: <ul>
1676:
1677: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.425 ian 1678: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/2329229">
1679: What are the real vulnerabilities of Linux?</a>
1680: NewsForge.com, December 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1681: Several security consultants were asked about "the real vulnerabilities of
1682: Linux". Cybersoure CEO Con Symaris seems to get it better than the rest:
1683: "One needs to approach security as a prime requirement and motivator,
1684: much as the OpenBSD team do," Zymaris said... "The Linux
1685: community mindset is different. Linux development is dynamic and
1686: races ahead towards more and broader functionality, drawing a
1687: multitude of interested parties in to make interesting extensions
1688: and adaptations at a rapid rate."
1689: <p>
1690: "In order to do security the BSD way, however, much more effort
1691: needs to be spent auditing code for holes, which is much less sexy,
1692: and attracts a different set of coders," Zymaris added.
1693: <p>
1694:
1695: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.424 ian 1696: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/281">
1697: Closed Source Hardware</a>
1698: Security Focus, December 1, 2004</strong></font><br>
1699: Symantec Threat Analyst Jason Miller analyzes the potential security threats
1700: when hardware vendors won't provide device documentation and
1701: instead provide "binary only" driver code for inclusion in open source
1702: operating systems.
1703: Miller is an open-source fan who says he uses a variety of systems, including
1704: OpenBSD on his firewall.
1705: Of the recent trend to closed-source binary drivers for open-source
1706: systems, he writes:
1707: <blockquote>
1708: The closed-source component required to support this hardware is
1709: completely independent of the associated operating system, and as
1710: such, is also independent of the engineering team, security team,
1711: auditing process, and quality control procedures normally related
1712: to the operating system...
1713: <br/>
1714: What's possibly even more disturbing is that we're talking about
1715: a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest
1716: possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a
1717: third-party vendor. This code could do anything once loaded, including
1718: leaking active WEP keys, gathering usage statistics, sniffing and
1719: disclosing traffic, and it could even introduce a subtle backdoor
1720: into the operating system itself (much the same as any device driver
1721: in a closed source operating system).
1722: <br/>
1723: [A]lthough some of these scenarios are a
1724: little far-fetched, the possibility for them to exist is there...
1725: Ultimately it becomes an issue of trust, which is a cornerstone of
1726: good security: whom do you trust, and how much do you trust them?
1727: </blockquote>
1728: <p>And he comments that trust "seems to be a one-way street": vendors
1729: demand that you trust them, but they won't trust you to know how
1730: their hardware and software operates.
1731: This lack of trust is one reason why OpenBSD has recently completed
1732: reverse-engineering the
1.462 grunk 1733: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4">
1.424 ian 1734: Atheros wireless chipset driver</a>
1735: that was originally provided as a binary insert.
1736: <p>
1737: </ul>
1738:
1.417 pvalchev 1739: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
1740: <ul>
1.421 ian 1741:
1.417 pvalchev 1742: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.422 ian 1743: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730775,00.asp">
1744: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Widens Its Scope</a>
1745: eWEEK, November 22, 2004</strong></font><br>
1746: Jason Brooks reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and likes the changes it brings,
1747: including the multi-processing support which, he notes,
1748: "will be even more important as multicore processors--which occupy space
1749: on the road maps of Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others--
1750: become more prevalent." Comments favorably on OpenNTPD
1751: ("the three-line configuration file we needed to modify ... on OpenBSD was
1752: much simpler to deal with than the equivalent configuration file on
1753: the Linux systems we've tested").
1.423 ian 1754: Overall a favorable review of some of the new stuff in 3.6.
1.422 ian 1755: <p>
1756: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 otto 1757: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
1758: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
1759: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
1760: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
1761: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
1762: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
1763: it claims to do".
1764: <p>
1765:
1766: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1767: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109994542424009&w=2">
1.421 ian 1768: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution</a>
1769: misc@, November 8, 2004</strong></font><br>
1770: Theo recounts the struggle to get Intel to provide redistributable
1771: versions of the firmware for their wireless chipsets, and their
1.423 ian 1772: ultimate refusal to allow OpenBSD to redistribute the chipsets' firmware.
1.421 ian 1773: Includes a caveat about Intel's disingenuous "FAQ", typical of many
1774: corporate FAQs that answer questions nobody actually thought
1775: to ask, and don't truthfully answer the questions you want hard answers to.
1776: At the end Theo names the names (and their emails) that need to be contacted
1777: by large numbers of end-users and developers if Intel is to change
1778: (yes, this is a hint).
1779: Of interest is that this posting to one of our mailing lists was
1780: picked up on the
1781: <a href="http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1923">Screaming
1782: Electron Forum</a> and from there reported on
1.462 grunk 1783: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/22/1249249&from=rss">
1.421 ian 1784: SlashDot</a>, where it is accompanied by a link to SlashDot's paper
1785: on effective advocacy (be firm, but also be polite).
1786: <p>
1787:
1788: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 1789: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
1790: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
1791: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
1792: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
1793: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
1794: questions about the significance and rationale behind
1795: the current efforts.
1796: <p>
1797: </ul>
1798:
1.407 henning 1799: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
1800: <ul>
1801: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 1802: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
1803: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
1804: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
1805: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
1806: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
1807: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
1808: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
1809: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
1810: <p>
1811:
1812: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 1813: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
1814: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
1815: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1816: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
1817: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
1818: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
1819: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
1820: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
1821: of the important changes in 3.6.
1.462 grunk 1822: <p>
1.415 ian 1823:
1824: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1825: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
1.414 ian 1826: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
1827: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
1828: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
1829: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
1830: overflow attacks... because
1831: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
1832: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
1833: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
1834: and propolice.
1835: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
1836: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
1837: and that's when the science falls apart."
1838: <p>
1839:
1840: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 1841: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
1842: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
1843: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
1844: Starts with the question:
1845: <blockquote>
1846: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
1847: <br/>
1848: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
1849: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
1850: <br/>
1851: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
1852: Should we believe them?"
1853: </blockquote>
1854: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
1855: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
1856: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
1857: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
1858: for your mail, web and other online activities.
1859: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
1860: <p>
1861:
1862: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 1863: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
1864: Simple Simon</a>,
1865: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
1866: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
1867: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
1868: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
1869: routing/firewall, and more.
1870: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
1871: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
1872: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
1873: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
1874: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
1875: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
1876: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
1877: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
1878: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
1879: </blockquote>
1880: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
1881: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
1882: <p>
1883:
1884: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 1885: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
1886: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 1887: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 1888: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 1889: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
1890: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
1891: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 1892: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 1893: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
1894: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
1895: in spite of it
1896: (registration required, but worth it).
1897: <p>
1898:
1899: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1900: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
1901: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
1902: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1903: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
1904: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
1905: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
1906: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 1907: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 1908: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
1909: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
1910: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
1911: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
1912: <p>
1913:
1914: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 1915: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
1916: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
1917: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
1918: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
1919: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
1920: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
1921: <blockquote>
1922: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
1923: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
1924: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
1925: a lot of analysis.
1926: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
1927: </blockquote>
1928: <p>
1929: </ul>
1930:
1.400 marco 1931: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
1932: <ul>
1933: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 1934: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
1935: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
1936: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
1937: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
1938: UNIX-like systems.
1939: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
1940: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
1941: <p>
1942: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 1943: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
1944: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 1945: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1946: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
1947: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
1948: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
1949: At one point, the article states:
1950: <blockquote>
1951: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
1952: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
1953: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
1954: </blockquote>
1955: And then quotes Theo as saying:
1956: <blockquote>
1957: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
1958: fewer are reading or auditing code."
1959: </blockquote>
1960: <p>
1961: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1962: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
1963: marks its fifth birthday</a>
1964: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1965: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
1966: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
1967: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
1968: required).
1969: <p>
1970: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 1971: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
1972: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
1973: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
1974: </strong></font><br>
1975: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
1976: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
1977: <p>
1978: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 1979: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
1980: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 1981: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 1982: </strong></font><br>
1983: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
1984: <p>
1985: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 1986: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
1987: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 1988: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 1989: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 1990: 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 1991: <p>
1992: </ul>
1993:
1.396 henning 1994: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
1995: <ul>
1996: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 1997: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
1998: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
1999: Unix Review, July, 2004
2000: </strong></font><br>
2001: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
2002: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
1.462 grunk 2003: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
1.418 ian 2004: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
2005: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
2006: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
2007: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
2008: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
2009: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
2010: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
2011: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
2012: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
2013: and even spelling/wording errors.
2014: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
2015: <p>
2016: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 2017: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 2018: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
2019: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
2020: </strong></font><br>
2021: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
2022: <p>
2023: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 2024: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 2025: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
2026: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
2027: </strong></font><br>
2028: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
2029: <p>
2030: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 2031: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
2032: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
2033: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
2034: </strong></font><br>
2035: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
2036: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
2037: <p>
2038: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 2039: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
2040: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
2041: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
2042: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
2043: <p>
2044: </ul>
2045:
1.405 jolan 2046: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
2047: <ul>
1.545 tom 2048: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 2049: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
1.466 deraadt 2050: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 5, 2004</strong></font>
1.405 jolan 2051: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
2052: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
2053: details on how funds are dispersed.
2054: <p>
2055: </ul>
2056:
1.393 david 2057: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
2058: <ul>
2059: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 2060: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
2061: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
2062: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
2063: </strong></font><br>
2064: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
2065: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
2066: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
2067: on inserting large number of SQL records.
2068: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
2069: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
2070: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
2071: <p>
2072:
2073: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 2074: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
2075: Secure by Default</a>,
2076: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
2077: </strong></font><br>
2078: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
2079: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
2080: <p>
2081:
2082: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2083: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
2084: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
2085: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
2086: </strong></font><br>
2087: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
2088: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
2089: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
2090: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
2091: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
2092: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
2093: <p>
2094:
2095: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2096: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
2097: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
2098: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
2099: </strong></font><br>
2100: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
2101: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
2102: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
2103: <p>
2104:
2105: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2106: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
2107: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
2108: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
2109: </strong></font><br>
2110: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
2111: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
2112: <p>
2113: </ul>
2114:
1.388 mcbride 2115: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
2116: <ul>
1.394 jolan 2117:
2118: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2119: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
2120: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
2121: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
2122: </strong></font><br>
2123: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
2124: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
2125: available for sparc64.
2126: <p>
2127:
1.390 beck 2128: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 2129: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
2130: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
2131: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
2132: </strong></font><br>
2133: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
2134: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
2135: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
2136: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
2137: <p>
2138:
2139: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 2140: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
2141: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 2142: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 2143: </strong></font><br>
2144: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
2145: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
2146: it does: CARP provides sharing
2147: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
2148: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
2149: detail to get you started using it.
2150: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
2151: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
2152: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
2153: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
2154: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
2155: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
2156: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 2157: <p>
1.391 ian 2158:
2159: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 2160: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 2161: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
2162: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 2163: </strong></font><br>
2164: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 2165: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 2166: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 2167: <p>
1.388 mcbride 2168:
2169: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2170: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
2171: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 2172: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 2173: </strong></font><br>
2174: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
2175: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
2176: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
2177: unencumbered by patents.
2178: <p>
2179: </ul>
2180:
1.378 henning 2181: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
2182: <ul>
1.384 jose 2183:
2184: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 2185: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
2186: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
2187: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
2188: </strong></font><br>
2189: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
2190: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
2191: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
2192: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
2193: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
2194: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
2195: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
2196: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
2197: in the page tables."
2198: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
2199: <p>
2200:
2201: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 2202: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
2203: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
2204: </strong></font><br>
2205: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
2206: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
2207: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
2208: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 2209: <p>
1.384 jose 2210:
1.378 henning 2211: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 2212: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
2213: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 2214: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
2215: </strong></font><br>
2216: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
2217: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
2218: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
2219: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
2220: (quote:
2221: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
2222: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 2223: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 2224: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
2225: the other developers for their work on the system.
2226: <p>
2227:
2228: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 2229: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
2230: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
2231: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 2232: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 2233: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
2234: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
2235: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
2236: too.
2237: <p>
2238:
2239: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 2240: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
2241: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 2242: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 2243: OpenBSD source code using
2244: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
2245: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
2246: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
2247: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
2248: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
2249: <p>
2250: </ul>
2251:
1.374 jose 2252: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
2253: <ul>
2254: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 2255: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 2256: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
2257: </strong></font><br>
2258: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
2259: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
2260: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
2261: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
2262: it."
2263: <p>
2264:
2265: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 2266: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
2267: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
2268: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
2269: </strong></font><br/>
2270: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
2271: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
2272: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
2273: <p>
2274: </ul>
2275:
1.369 ian 2276: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
2277: <ul>
2278: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 2279: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
2280: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
2281: </strong></font><br/>
2282: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
2283: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
2284: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
2285: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
2286: <p>
2287:
2288: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 2289: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
2290: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
2291: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
2292: </strong></font><br/>
2293: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
2294: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
2295: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
2296: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
2297: form factor.
2298: <p>
2299:
2300: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2301: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
2302: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
2303: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
2304: Features</a>,
2305: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
2306: </strong></font><br/>
2307: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
2308: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
2309: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
2310: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
2311: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
2312: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
2313: <p>
2314: This article can also be found online at:
2315: <ul>
2316: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 2317: <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 2318: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
2319: </strong></font>
2320: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
2321: </ul>
2322: <p>
1.392 david 2323:
1.371 jose 2324: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 2325: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
2326: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 2327: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
2328: </strong></font><br/>
2329: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
2330: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
2331: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 2332: <p>
1.371 jose 2333:
2334: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 2335: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 2336: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 2337: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 2338: </strong></font><br/>
2339: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
2340: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
2341: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
2342: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
2343: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
2344: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
2345: and its history with OpenBSD.
2346: </ul>
2347:
1.567 kurt 2348: <h2>September, 2003</h2>
2349: <ul>
2350: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2351: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/bsdcon03/tech/full_papers/rosenthal/rosenthal_html/">
2352: A Digital Preservation Network Appliance Based on OpenBSD</a>, BSDcon, September, 2003.
2353: </strong></font><br>
2354: David S. H. Rosenthal's paper on the design, implementation and deployment of the
2355: <a href="http://www.lockss.org">LOCKSS</a> network appliance based on OpenBSD.
2356: </ul>
2357:
1.368 henning 2358: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
2359: <ul>
2360: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 2361: [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 2362: </strong></font><br>
2363: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
2364: </ul>
2365:
1.364 jose 2366: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
2367: <ul>
2368: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 2369: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
2370: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
2371: UNIX Review,
2372: July, 2003.
2373: </strong></font><br>
2374: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
2375: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
2376: who want more information.
2377: <p>
2378:
2379: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 2380: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
2381: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
2382: Government Computer News,
2383: July 22, 2003.
2384: </strong></font><br>
2385: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
2386: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
2387: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
2388: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
2389: <p>
2390:
2391: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2392: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
2393: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
2394: SANS Institute,
2395: July 22, 2003.
2396: </strong></font><br>
2397: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 2398: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 2399: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
2400: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
2401: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
2402: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
2403: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
2404: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
2405: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
2406: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
2407: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
2408: <p>
2409:
2410: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 2411: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
2412: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
2413: OnLamp.com,
2414: July 17, 2003.
2415: </strong></font><br>
2416: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
2417: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
2418: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
2419: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
2420: have been working on.
2421:
2422: </ul>
2423:
1.356 jose 2424: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 2425: <ul>
2426:
2427: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 2428: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
2429: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
2430: UNIX Review,
2431: June, 2003.
2432: </strong></font><br>
2433: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
2434: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
2435: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
2436: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
2437: <p>
2438:
2439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 2440: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
2441: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
2442: eWeek,
2443: June 23, 2003.
2444: </strong></font><br>
2445: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
2446: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
2447: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
2448: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
2449: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
2450: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
2451: <p>
2452:
2453: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 2454: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
2455: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
2456: Software Development Online,
2457: June, 2003.
2458: </strong></font><br>
2459: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
2460: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
2461: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
2462: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
2463: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
2464: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
2465: current activities.
2466: <p>
2467:
2468: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 2469: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
2470: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 2471: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
2472: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
2473: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
2474: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 2475: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 2476: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
2477: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
2478: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 2479: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 2480: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
2481: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 2482: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 2483: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
2484: decisions.
2485: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
2486: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 2487: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 2488: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 2489: <p>
2490:
2491: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 2492: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
2493: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
2494: Page 58, eWeek,
2495: June 2, 2003.
2496: </strong></font><br>
2497: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
2498: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
2499: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
2500: been addressed in -current.
2501: <p>
2502:
1.356 jose 2503: </ul>
2504:
2505: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
2506: <ul>
2507:
1.355 jose 2508: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 2509: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
2510: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
2511: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
2512: </strong></font><br>
2513: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
2514: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
2515: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
2516: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
2517: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
2518: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
2519: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
2520: <p>
2521:
2522: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 2523: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
2524: Beyond Linux</a>,
2525: InfoWorld,
2526: May 23, 2003.
2527: </strong></font><br>
2528: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
2529: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
2530: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
2531: compared to the GPL.
2532: <p>
2533:
2534: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 2535: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
2536: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
2537: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 2538: May 17, 2003.
2539: </strong></font><br>
2540: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
2541: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
2542: the business section and half of another page inside
2543: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
2544: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
2545: in talking about the project's history and goals.
2546: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
2547: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
2548: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
2549: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 2550: <br>
2551: This article can also be found online at:
2552: <ul>
2553: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2554: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
2555: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
2556: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
2557: May 17, 2003
2558: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 2559: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
2560: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2561: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
2562: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
2563: Montreal Gazette,
2564: May 21, 2003
2565: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 2566: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 2567: <p>
1.346 ian 2568:
2569: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 2570: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 2571: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 2572: May 7, 2003.
2573: </strong></font><br>
2574: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
2575: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
2576: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
2577: <p>
2578:
2579: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 2580: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
2581: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2582: OsOpinion,
2583: May 6, 2003.
2584: </strong></font><br>
2585: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
2586: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
2587: <br>
2588: This article can also be found online at:
2589: <ul>
2590: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2591: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
2592: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2593: NewsFactor Network.
2594: </strong></font>
2595: </ul>
2596: <p>
2597:
2598: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2599: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 2600: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
2601: ITBusiness,
2602: May 2, 2003.
2603: </strong></font><br>
2604: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
2605: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
2606: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
2607: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
2608: <p>
2609:
2610: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 2611: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
2612: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
2613: InfoWorld,
2614: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 2615: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 2616: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
2617: <br>
2618: This article can also be found online at:
2619: <ul>
2620: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2621: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
2622: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
2623: IDG Singapore.
2624: </strong></font>
2625: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 2626: <p>
2627:
1.339 jose 2628: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2629: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
2630: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 2631: ZDNet,
2632: May 1, 2003.
2633: </strong></font><br>
2634: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 2635: someone using parts from previous articles.
2636: <br>
1.341 deraadt 2637: This article can also be found online at:
2638: <ul>
2639: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2640: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
2641: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
2642: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 2643: </strong></font>
2644: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2645: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
2646: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
2647: CNET News.com.
2648: </strong></font>
2649: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2650: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
2651: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
2652: ZDNet UK.
2653: </strong></font>
2654: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2655: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
2656: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
2657: Help Net Security, Croatia.
2658: </strong></font>
2659: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 2660: <p>
1.339 jose 2661:
1.341 deraadt 2662: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2663: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 2664: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
2665: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
2666: May 1, 2003.
2667: </strong></font><br>
2668: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
2669: that have been added
2670: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
2671: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
2672: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 2673: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 2674: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
2675: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
2676: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 2677: <p>
2678:
2679: </ul>
2680:
1.253 ian 2681: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
2682: <ul>
1.255 ian 2683:
1.260 ian 2684: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2685: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 2686: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
2687: TechRepublic,
2688: April 28, 2003.
2689: </strong></font><br>
2690: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
2691: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 2692: work.<br>
2693: Can also be found online at:
2694: <ul>
2695: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2696: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
2697: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
2698: ZDNet UK.
2699: </strong></font>
2700: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 2701: <p>
2702:
2703: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 2704: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
2705: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
2706: IDG,
2707: April 24, 2003.
2708: </strong></font><br>
2709: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
2710: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
2711: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
2712: Can also be found online at:
2713: <ul>
2714: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2715: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
2716: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 2717: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 2718: </strong></font>
2719: </ul>
2720: <p>
2721:
2722: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2723: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 2724: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 2725: Slate,
2726: April 24, 2003.
2727: </strong></font><br>
2728: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
2729: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
2730: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
2731: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
2732: <p>
2733:
2734: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 2735: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2736: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
2737: April 24, 2003.
2738: </strong></font><br>
2739: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
2740: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
2741: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
2742: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
2743: <p>
2744:
2745: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 2746: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
2747: April 24, 2003.
2748: </strong></font><br>
2749: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
2750: the free software community".
2751: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
2752: other articles.
2753: <p>
2754:
2755: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2756: <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 2757: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
2758: </strong></font><br>
2759: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
2760: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
2761: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
2762: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
2763: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
2764: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
2765: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 2766: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 2767: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
2768: <br/>
2769: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
2770: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
2771: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
2772: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 2773: <br>
2774: Can also be found online at:
2775: <ul>
2776: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2777: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
2778: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
2779: Common Dreams NewsCenter
2780: </strong></font>
2781: </ul>
1.324 ian 2782: <p>
2783:
2784: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2785: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
2786: Wired, April 24, 2003.
2787: </strong></font><br>
2788: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
2789: article above.
2790: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
2791: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
2792: wasting them."
1.332 ian 2793: <br>
2794: Can also be found online at:
2795: <ul>
2796: <li>
2797: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
2798: </strong></font>
2799: </ul>
1.324 ian 2800: <p>
2801:
2802: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 2803: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
2804: </strong></font><br>
2805: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
2806: <p>
2807:
2808: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 2809: <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.
2810: </strong></font><br>
2811: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
2812: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
2813: <p>
2814:
2815: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 2816: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
2817: April 23, 2003.
2818: </strong></font><br>
2819: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
2820: <p>
2821:
2822: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 2823: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 2824: April 22, 2003.
2825: </strong></font><br>
2826: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
2827: <p>
2828:
2829: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 2830: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
2831: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
2832: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 2833: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 2834: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
2835: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
2836: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
2837: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
2838: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
2839: Can also be found online at:
2840: <ul>
2841: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2842: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 2843: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
2844: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 2845: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 2846: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2847: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 2848: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
2849: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 2850: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 2851: </ul>
2852: <p>
2853:
2854: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 2855: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
2856: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 2857: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2858: </strong></font><br>
2859: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 2860: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
2861: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
2862: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
2863: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
2864: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
2865: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 2866: <p>
2867:
2868: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 2869: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
2870: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 2871: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
2872: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 2873: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
2874: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
2875: at UPenn and DARPA.
2876: <p>
2877:
2878: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 2879: [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,
2880: France
1.315 deraadt 2881: April 18, 2003.
2882: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 2883: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 2884: <p>
2885:
2886: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 2887: [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 2888: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2889: </strong></font><br>
2890: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
2891: <p>
2892:
2893: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 2894: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
2895: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
2896: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 2897: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 2898: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
2899: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
2900: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
2901: <p>
2902:
2903: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 2904: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
2905: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2906: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 2907: </strong></font><br>
2908: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
2909: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
2910: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 2911: American century.
1.267 deraadt 2912: <p>
2913:
2914: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 2915: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
2916: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2917: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 2918: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 2919: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
2920: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
2921: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
2922: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
2923: Can also be found online at:
2924: <ul>
2925: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
2926: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 2927: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 2928: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 2929: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 2930: <p>
2931:
2932: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 2933: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 2934: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 2935: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 2936: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 2937: </strong></font><br>
2938: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 2939: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
2940: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
2941: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
2942: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 2943:
2944: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2945: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
2946: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
2947: New York Times.
2948: </strong></font>(free registration required)
2949:
1.273 deraadt 2950: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2951: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 2952: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 2953: ABC News.
2954: </strong></font>
2955:
2956: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2957: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 2958: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 2959: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 2960: </strong></font>
2961:
2962: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2963: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 2964: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 2965: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 2966: </strong></font>
2967:
2968: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 2969: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
2970: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 2971: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 2972: </strong></font>
2973:
2974: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2975: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 2976: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 2977: Times Daily, AL.
2978: </strong></font>
2979:
2980: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2981: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
2982: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
2983: Boston.com, MA.
2984: </strong></font>
2985:
2986: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2987: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 2988: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 2989: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
2990: </strong></font>
2991:
2992: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 2993: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
2994: [Article was pulled]</a>
2995: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 2996: </strong></font>
2997:
2998: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2999: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
3000: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
3001: Infoshop News.
3002: </strong></font>
3003:
3004: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3005: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
3006: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
3007: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
3008: </strong></font>
3009:
3010: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 3011: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
3012: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
3013: Raleigh News, NC.
3014: </strong></font>
3015:
3016: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 3017: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 3018: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
3019: Napa News, CA.
3020: </strong></font>
3021:
3022: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3023: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 3024: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
3025: NEPA News, PA.
3026: </strong></font>
3027:
3028: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3029: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
3030: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
3031: Wired News.
3032: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 3033: <br>
3034: <li>
1.333 deraadt 3035: <font color="#009000"><strong>
3036: [JAPANESE]
3037: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
3038: Wired News Japan</a>
3039: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 3040:
1.271 deraadt 3041: </ul>
3042: <p>
1.272 deraadt 3043: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
3044: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 3045: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
3046: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
3047: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
3048: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
3049: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
3050: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 3051: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 3052: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
3053: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
3054: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 3055: <p>
3056: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 3057:
3058: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3059: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 3060: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
3061: Indianapolis Star, IN.
3062: </strong></font>
3063:
3064: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 3065: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
3066: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
3067: Miami Herald, FL.
3068: </strong></font>
3069:
3070: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 3071: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 3072: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
3073: </strong></font>
3074:
3075: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3076: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 3077: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 3078: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 3079: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 3080:
3081: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3082: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
3083: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
3084: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
3085: ABC News.
3086: </strong></font>
3087:
1.276 deraadt 3088: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3089: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 3090: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 3091: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 3092: </strong></font>
3093:
1.286 dhartmei 3094: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3095: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 3096: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
3097: Wilmington Star, NC.
3098: </strong></font>
3099:
1.300 jose 3100: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3101: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
3102: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
3103: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
3104: </strong></font>
3105:
1.309 jose 3106: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3107: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
3108: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
3109: Globe Technology.
3110: </strong></font>
3111:
1.263 deraadt 3112: </ul>
1.262 beck 3113: <p>
3114:
3115: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 3116: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
3117: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3118: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 3119: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 3120: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 3121: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
3122: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
3123: <p>
3124:
3125: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 3126: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
3127: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
3128: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 3129: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 3130: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
3131: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
3132: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
3133: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
3134: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
3135: and simply restates other press reports.
3136: <p>
3137:
3138: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 3139: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
3140: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
3141: OS News, April 18, 2003.
3142: </strong></font><br>
3143: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
3144: <p>
3145:
3146: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 3147: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
3148: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3149: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 3150: </strong></font><br>
3151: Another report on the DARPA funding.
3152: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
3153: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
3154: <p>
3155:
3156: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 3157: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
3158: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
3159: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
3160: April 17, 2003.
3161: </strong></font><br>
3162: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
3163: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
3164: Tech Anthems</a>
3165: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
3166: 4 so far.
3167: <p>
3168:
3169: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 3170: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
3171: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3172: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 3173: </strong></font><br>
3174: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
3175: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
3176: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
3177: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
3178: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
3179: Goes on to say:
3180: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
3181: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
3182: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
3183: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 3184: This article is also found online at:
3185: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 3186: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3187: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
3188: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
3189: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 3190: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 3191: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3192: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
3193: ZDnet</a>,
3194: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 3195: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 3196: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3197: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
3198: ZDnet Australia</a>,
3199: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 3200: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 3201: </ul>
1.260 ian 3202: <p>
1.279 deraadt 3203:
1.260 ian 3204: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3205: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 3206: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 3207: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 3208: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 3209: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 3210: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
3211: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
3212: without notice or justification.
3213: <p>
3214:
3215: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3216: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 3217: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 3218: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 3219: </strong></font><br>
3220: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
3221: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 3222: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 3223: effective today, without any warning..."
3224: <p>
1.257 ian 3225:
3226: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 3227: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
3228: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3229: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 3230: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 3231: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
3232: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
3233: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
3234: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
3235: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 3236: <p>
3237:
3238: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 3239: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
3240: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3241: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 3242: </strong></font><br>
3243: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
3244: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
3245: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
3246: quoting two of them:
3247: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
3248: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
3249: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
3250: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
3251: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
3252: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
3253: <p>
3254:
1.255 ian 3255: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3256: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
3257: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 3258: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3259: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 3260: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 3261: <p>
3262:
3263: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 3264: [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 3265: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3266: </strong></font><br>
3267: New security concepts in OpenBSD
3268: <p>
3269:
3270: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 3271: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
3272: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3273: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 3274: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 3275: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 3276: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
3277: security experts for more than three decades."
3278: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
3279: <p>
1.261 ian 3280:
1.254 drahn 3281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 3282: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 3283: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3284: </strong></font><br>
3285: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
3286: <p>
3287:
3288: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 3289: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
3290: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
3291: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
3292: </strong></font><br>
3293: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
3294: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
3295: discussion OpenBSD's path.
3296: <p>
3297:
3298: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 3299: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
3300: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3301: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 3302: </strong></font><br>
3303: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
3304: from US DARPA.
3305: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
3306: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
3307: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
3308: the BSD license.
3309: <p>
3310: </ul>
3311:
1.251 ian 3312: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
3313: <ul>
3314:
3315: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3316: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
3317: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
3318: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
3319: </strong></font><br>
3320:
3321: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
3322: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
3323: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
3324: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
3325: <p>
3326:
3327: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 3328: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
3329: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 3330: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 3331: </strong></font><br>
3332: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
3333: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
3334: Mentions
3335: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
3336: and
3337: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
3338: programs.
3339: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 3340: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 3341: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
3342: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
3343: <p>
1.325 ian 3344: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
3345: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 3346:
3347: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3348: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
3349: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
3350: </strong></font><br>
3351: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
3352: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
3353: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
3354: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
3355: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
3356: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
3357: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
3358: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
3359: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
3360: put into service."
3361: <p>
3362: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
3363: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
3364: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
3365: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
3366: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
3367: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
3368: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
3369: computers with security features."
3370: <p>
1.329 ian 3371:
3372: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3373: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
3374: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
3375: Slate,
3376: March 3, 2003.
3377: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 3378: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 3379: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
3380: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
3381: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
3382: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
3383: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
3384: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
3385: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
3386: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
3387: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
3388: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
3389: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
3390: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
3391: of more secure open-source solutions like
3392: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
3393: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
3394: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
3395: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
3396: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
3397: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
3398: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
3399: the Beltway."
3400: <p>
1.251 ian 3401: </ul>
3402:
1.249 jufi 3403: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
3404: <ul>
3405: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3406: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
3407: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3408: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 3409: </strong></font><br>
3410: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
3411: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 3412: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 3413: <p>
1.334 ian 3414:
3415: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3416: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
3417: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
3418: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
3419: </strong></font><br>
3420: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
3421: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
3422: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
3423: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
3424: "... the hypothetical question ...
3425: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
3426: <br>
3427: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
3428: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
3429: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
3430: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
3431: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
3432: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 3433: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 3434: support network security.
3435: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
3436: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
3437: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
3438: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
3439: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
3440: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
3441: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
3442: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
3443: <br>
3444: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
3445: <p>
3446:
1.249 jufi 3447: </ul>
3448:
1.246 jufi 3449: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3450: <ul>
1.246 jufi 3451:
1.247 jufi 3452: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3453: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 3454: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3455: CNET News.com, December 4, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3456: </strong></font><br>
3457: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
3458: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
3459: <p>
3460:
1.247 jufi 3461: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3462: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
3463: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3464: Heise News-Ticker, December 4, 2002
1.301 jose 3465: </strong></font><br>
1.460 david 3466: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III CPU
1.301 jose 3467: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
3468: <p>
3469:
3470: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3471: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 3472: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3473: eWeek, December 3, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3474: </strong></font><br>
3475: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
3476: in their annual OpenHack security test.
3477: <p>
1.247 jufi 3478: </ul>
1.246 jufi 3479:
1.244 jufi 3480: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3481: <ul>
1.246 jufi 3482:
1.247 jufi 3483: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3484: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
3485: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
3486: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3487: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3488: </strong></font><br>
3489: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
3490: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
3491: md5 digests.
3492: <p>
3493:
1.247 jufi 3494: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3495: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 3496: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
3497: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3498: </strong></font><br>
3499: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
3500: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
3501: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
3502: right the first time."
3503: <p>
1.247 jufi 3504: </ul>
1.244 jufi 3505:
3506:
3507: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3508: <ul>
1.244 jufi 3509:
1.247 jufi 3510: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3511: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3512: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
3513: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3514: </strong></font><br>
3515: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
3516: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
3517: part 6</a>.
3518: <p>
3519:
1.247 jufi 3520: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3521: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 3522: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
3523: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3524: O'Reilly Network, August 8, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3525: </strong></font><br>
3526: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
3527: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
3528: <p>
1.301 jose 3529:
3530: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3531: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
3532: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
3533: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
3534: </strong></font><br>
3535:
3536: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
3537: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
3538: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
3539: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
3540: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
3541: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
3542: <i>Here's the
3543: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
3544: <p>
1.247 jufi 3545: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3546:
3547: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3548: <ul>
1.242 jufi 3549:
1.247 jufi 3550: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3551: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 3552: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3553: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3554: </strong></font><br>
3555: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
3556: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
3557: <p>
3558:
1.247 jufi 3559: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3560: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3561: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3562: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 1, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3563: </strong></font><br>
3564: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
3565: this time using pf.
3566: <p>
1.247 jufi 3567: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3568:
3569: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3570: <ul>
1.242 jufi 3571:
1.247 jufi 3572: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3573: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3574: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
3575: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3576: </strong></font><br>
3577: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
3578: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
3579: their rotation.
3580: <p>
3581:
1.247 jufi 3582: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3583: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3584: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3585: O'Reilly Network, June 6, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3586: </strong></font><br>
3587: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
3588: <p>
1.247 jufi 3589: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3590:
1.239 jufi 3591: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3592: <ul>
1.239 jufi 3593:
1.247 jufi 3594: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3595: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 3596: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
3597: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3598: </strong></font><br>
3599: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
3600: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
3601: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
3602: <p>
3603:
1.247 jufi 3604: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 3605: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 3606: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
3607: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 3608: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 3609: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
3610: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
3611: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 3612: <p>
1.247 jufi 3613: </ul>
1.239 jufi 3614:
1.235 lebel 3615: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3616: <ul>
1.235 lebel 3617:
1.239 jufi 3618:
1.247 jufi 3619: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 3620: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 3621: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
3622: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 3623: </strong></font><br>
3624: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
3625: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
3626: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
3627: <p>
1.301 jose 3628:
1.247 jufi 3629: </ul>
1.235 lebel 3630:
1.228 horacio 3631: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3632: <ul>
1.228 horacio 3633:
1.247 jufi 3634: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3635: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3636: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
3637: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 3638: </strong></font><br>
3639: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
3640: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
3641: <p>
3642:
1.247 jufi 3643: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 3644: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 3645: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
3646: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 3647: </strong></font><br>
3648: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
3649: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
3650: <p>
3651:
1.247 jufi 3652: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 3653: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 3654: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
3655: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 3656: </strong></font><br>
3657: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
3658: on the desktop of his parents.
3659: <p>
3660:
1.247 jufi 3661: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 3662: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 3663: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
3664: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 3665: </strong></font><br>
3666: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
3667: using IPFilter.
3668:
3669: <p>
3670:
1.247 jufi 3671: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 3672: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 3673: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
3674: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 3675: </strong></font><br>
3676: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
3677: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
3678: perspectives of the four OS.
3679: <br>
3680: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 3681: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 3682: <p>
3683:
1.247 jufi 3684: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 3685: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
3686: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 3687: software and security</a>,
3688: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 3689: </strong></font><br>
3690:
3691: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
3692: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
3693: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
3694: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
3695: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
3696: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
3697: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
3698: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
3699: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
3700: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
3701: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
3702: security conscious team beyond doubt.
3703: <p>
1.247 jufi 3704: </ul>
1.228 horacio 3705:
1.225 horacio 3706: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3707: <ul>
1.225 horacio 3708:
1.247 jufi 3709: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3710: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
3711: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 3712: Interview</a>,
3713: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 3714: </strong></font><br>
3715:
3716: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
3717: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
3718: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 3719: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 3720: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
3721: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
3722: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
3723: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
3724: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 3725: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 3726: of choice.
3727: <p>
1.247 jufi 3728: </ul>
1.225 horacio 3729:
3730: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3731: <ul>
1.225 horacio 3732:
1.247 jufi 3733: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3734: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 3735: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
3736: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 3737: </strong></font><br>
3738:
3739: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
3740: <p>
3741:
1.247 jufi 3742: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3743: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 3744: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
3745: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 3746: </strong></font><br>
3747:
3748: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
3749: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
3750: <p>
1.247 jufi 3751: </ul>
1.225 horacio 3752:
1.218 horacio 3753: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3754: <ul>
1.218 horacio 3755:
1.247 jufi 3756: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 3757: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 3758: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 3759: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 3760: </strong></font><br>
3761:
3762: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
3763: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
3764: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
3765: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
3766: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
3767: subjects. Worth a read.
3768: <p>
3769:
3770:
1.247 jufi 3771: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 3772: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 3773: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
3774: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 3775: </strong></font><br>
3776:
3777: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
3778: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
3779: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
3780: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
3781: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
3782: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
3783: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
3784: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
3785: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 3786: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 3787: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
3788: on other operating systems.<br>
3789: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
3790: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
3791: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
3792: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
3793: <p>
3794:
1.247 jufi 3795: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3796: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 3797: Operating System 2010</a>,
3798: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 3799: </strong></font><br>
3800:
3801: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
3802: covering the level of software integration into the core
3803: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
3804: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
3805: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
3806: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
3807: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
3808: <p>
3809:
1.247 jufi 3810: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 3811: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 3812: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
3813: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 3814: </strong></font><br>
3815:
3816: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
3817: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
3818: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
3819: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
3820: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
3821: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
3822: <p>
1.247 jufi 3823: </ul>
1.221 horacio 3824:
1.210 jufi 3825: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3826: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3827:
1.247 jufi 3828: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3829: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 3830: Already a Contender</a>,
3831: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 3832: </strong></font><br>
3833:
3834: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
3835: source software in response to an article which claimed that
3836: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
3837: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
3838: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
3839: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
3840: <p>
3841:
1.247 jufi 3842: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 3843: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 3844: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
3845: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 3846: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3847:
1.224 horacio 3848: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
3849: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
3850: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
3851: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
3852: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
3853: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 3854: <p>
1.247 jufi 3855: </ul>
1.215 horacio 3856:
3857: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3858: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3859:
1.247 jufi 3860: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3861: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
3862: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 3863: Division</a>,
3864: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 3865: </strong></font><br>
3866:
3867: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
3868: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 3869: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 3870: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
3871: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
3872: investment</em>.<br>
3873: The implementation details can be seen on their
3874: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
3875: <p>
3876:
1.247 jufi 3877: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3878: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
3879: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
3880: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
3881: </strong></font><br>
3882:
3883: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
3884: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
3885: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1.475 grunk 3886: laptops and T-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1.301 jose 3887: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
3888: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
3889: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
3890: <p>
3891:
3892: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3893: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 3894: Thinking about Security</a>,
3895: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 3896: </strong></font><br>
3897:
3898: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
3899: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
3900: security and says that even secured operating systems running
3901: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
3902: to time.<br>
3903: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
3904: system and just the most secure system.
3905: <p>
3906:
1.247 jufi 3907: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3908: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 3909: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
3910: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 3911: </strong></font><br>
3912:
3913: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
3914: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
3915: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
3916: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
3917: choice:<br>
3918: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
3919: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
3920: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
3921: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
3922: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
3923: network security devices and as such must be well
3924: armored."</em><br>
3925: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
3926: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
3927: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
3928: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
3929: <br>
3930: Bravo!
3931: <p>
1.247 jufi 3932: </ul>
1.210 jufi 3933:
1.207 ian 3934: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3935: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3936:
1.247 jufi 3937: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 3938: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
3939: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
3940: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 3941:
1.207 ian 3942: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
3943: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 3944: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 3945: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
3946: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
3947: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 3948: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 3949: <p>
1.247 jufi 3950: </ul>
1.207 ian 3951:
1.194 jufi 3952: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3953: <ul>
1.194 jufi 3954:
1.247 jufi 3955: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3956: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 3957: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
3958: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 3959: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3960:
1.240 miod 3961: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 3962: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
3963: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
3964: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
3965: <p>
3966:
1.247 jufi 3967: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3968: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
3969: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
3970: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
3971:
3972: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
3973: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
3974: <p>
3975:
3976: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3977: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
3978: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3979: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
3980:
3981: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
3982: <p>
3983:
3984: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3985: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 3986: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
3987: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
3988: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3989:
1.240 miod 3990: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 3991: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 3992: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
3993: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 3994: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 3995: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 3996: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
3997: <br>
1.413 deraadt 3998: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 3999: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
4000: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
4001: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
4002: <p>
4003:
1.247 jufi 4004: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 4005: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
4006: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 4007: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 4008: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4009:
1.194 jufi 4010: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
4011: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
4012: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
4013: <br>
4014: The new
4015: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 4016: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 4017: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
4018: <p>
1.247 jufi 4019: </ul>
1.194 jufi 4020:
1.190 horacio 4021: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4022: <ul>
1.190 horacio 4023:
1.247 jufi 4024: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 4025:
4026: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
4027: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
4028:
1.301 jose 4029:
1.191 jufi 4030: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
4031: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
4032:
4033: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
4034: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
4035:
1.566 martynas 4036: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20010527142347">
1.212 horacio 4037: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 4038: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
4039:
1.211 horacio 4040: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
4041: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 4042: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
4043:
1.247 jufi 4044: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 4045: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
4046:
1.247 jufi 4047: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 4048: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
4049:
1.212 horacio 4050: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
4051: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 4052: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
4053:
4054: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
4055: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
4056:
4057: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
4058: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
4059:
1.301 jose 4060: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
4061: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
4062:
1.191 jufi 4063: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
4064: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
4065:
4066: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 4067: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 4068:
1.192 jufi 4069: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
4070: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 4071: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 4072:
1.193 deraadt 4073: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
4074: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 4075: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 4076:
1.247 jufi 4077: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 4078: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
4079:
1.247 jufi 4080: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 4081: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
4082: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
4083:
1.213 horacio 4084: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 4085: 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 4086: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
4087:
1.190 horacio 4088: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 4089: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
4090: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
4091: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
4092: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
4093: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
4094: <p>
1.190 horacio 4095:
1.247 jufi 4096: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4097: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
4098: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
4099: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 4100: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4101:
1.195 jufi 4102: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 4103: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
4104: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
4105: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 4106: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
4107: <p>
4108:
1.247 jufi 4109: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4110: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 4111: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
4112: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
4113: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4114:
1.191 jufi 4115: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 4116: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
4117: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
4118: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
4119: <p>
4120:
4121: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4122: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
4123: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4124: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
4125:
4126: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
4127: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 4128: <p>
1.247 jufi 4129: </ul>
1.190 horacio 4130:
1.191 jufi 4131:
1.186 jufi 4132: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4133: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 4134:
1.247 jufi 4135: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 4136: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 4137: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
4138: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 4139: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 4140:
1.188 jufi 4141: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 4142: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 4143: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 4144: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
4145: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 4146: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 4147: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 4148: <p>
4149:
1.301 jose 4150: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4151: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
4152: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4153: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
4154:
4155: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
4156: <p>
1.191 jufi 4157:
1.247 jufi 4158: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 4159: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
4160: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1.466 deraadt 4161: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 5, 2001
1.191 jufi 4162: </strong></font><br>
4163:
4164: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
4165: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
4166: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
4167: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
4168: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
4169: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
4170: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
4171: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
4172: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
4173: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
4174: familiar?
4175: <p>
1.247 jufi 4176: </ul>
1.191 jufi 4177:
1.178 louis 4178: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4179: <ul>
1.178 louis 4180:
1.247 jufi 4181: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 4182: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 4183: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
4184: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 4185: </strong></font><br>
4186:
4187: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
4188: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
4189: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
4190: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
4191: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
4192: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
4193: <p>
4194:
1.247 jufi 4195: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4196: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
4197: Open source under the hood</a>,
4198: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 4199: </strong></font><br>
4200:
4201: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
4202: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
4203: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
4204: <p>
4205:
1.247 jufi 4206: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4207: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
4208: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
4209: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 4210: </strong></font><br>
4211:
4212: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
4213: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
4214: <p>
1.247 jufi 4215: </ul>
1.179 louis 4216:
1.174 louis 4217:
1.175 louis 4218: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4219: <ul>
1.175 louis 4220:
1.247 jufi 4221: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4222: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
4223: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
4224: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 4225: </strong></font><br>
4226:
4227: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
4228: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
4229: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
4230: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
4231: <p>
4232:
1.247 jufi 4233: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4234: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
4235: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
4236: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 4237: </strong></font><br>
4238:
4239: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 4240: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 4241: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
4242: <p>
1.247 jufi 4243: </ul>
1.175 louis 4244:
1.176 louis 4245:
1.172 mickey 4246: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4247: <ul>
1.172 mickey 4248:
1.247 jufi 4249: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4250: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
4251: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 4252: </strong></font><br>
4253:
4254: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
4255: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
4256: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 4257: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 4258: <p>
4259:
1.247 jufi 4260: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 4261: <a
1.269 deraadt 4262: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
4263: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
4264: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 4265: </strong></font><br>
4266:
4267: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
4268: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
4269: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
4270: <p>
4271:
1.247 jufi 4272: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4273: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 4274: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
4275: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 4276: </strong></font><br>
4277:
4278: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
4279: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
4280: <p>
4281:
1.247 jufi 4282: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4283: <a
1.269 deraadt 4284: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
4285: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 4286: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
4287: </strong></font><br>
4288:
4289: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
4290: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
4291: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
4292: our own Theo de Raadt.
4293: <p>
4294:
1.247 jufi 4295: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4296: <a
1.269 deraadt 4297: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
4298: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
4299: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 4300: </strong></font><br>
4301:
4302: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
4303: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
4304: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
4305: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
4306: shut down.]
4307: <p>
4308:
1.247 jufi 4309: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4310: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 4311: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 4312: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
4313: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 4314: </strong></font><br>
4315:
4316: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
4317: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
4318: <p>
1.247 jufi 4319: </ul>
1.172 mickey 4320:
1.161 louis 4321: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4322: <ul>
1.161 louis 4323:
1.247 jufi 4324: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 4325: <a
1.269 deraadt 4326: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
4327: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
4328: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 4329: </strong></font><br>
4330:
4331: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
4332: by John Wolley
4333: <p>
4334:
1.247 jufi 4335: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 4336: <a
1.269 deraadt 4337: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
4338: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
4339: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 4340: </strong></font><br>
4341:
4342: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
4343: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
4344: OpenBSD).
4345: <p>
4346:
1.247 jufi 4347: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 4348: <a
1.247 jufi 4349: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 4350: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
4351: </strong></font><br>
4352:
4353: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
4354: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
4355: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
4356: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
4357: and hindsight.
4358: <p>
4359:
1.247 jufi 4360: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4361: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
4362: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
4363: </strong></font><br>
4364:
4365: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
4366: <p>
4367:
1.247 jufi 4368: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 4369: <a
1.168 provos 4370: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
4371: December 7, 2000
4372: </strong></font><br>
4373:
4374: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
4375: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
4376: us explain.
4377: <p>
4378:
1.247 jufi 4379: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 4380: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
4381: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 4382: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 4383: December 6, 2000
4384: </strong></font><br>
4385:
4386: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
4387: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
4388: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
4389: <p>
4390:
1.247 jufi 4391: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4392: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
4393: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
4394: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
4395: </strong></font><br>
4396:
4397: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
4398: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
4399: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
4400: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
4401: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
4402: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
4403: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
4404: <p>
4405:
4406: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 4407: <a
1.226 horacio 4408: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
4409: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 4410: </strong></font><br>
4411:
4412: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 4413: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 4414: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 4415: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
4416: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
4417: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 4418: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 4419: <p>
1.162 millert 4420:
1.247 jufi 4421: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 4422: <a
1.161 louis 4423: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
4424: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
4425: </strong></font><br>
4426:
4427: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
4428: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
4429: <p>
4430:
1.247 jufi 4431: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 4432: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
4433: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
4434: </strong></font><br>
4435:
4436: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
4437: <p>
4438:
4439:
1.247 jufi 4440: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 4441: <a
1.226 horacio 4442: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
4443: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
4444: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 4445: </strong></font><br>
4446:
4447: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
4448: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
4449: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
4450: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
4451: <p>
1.247 jufi 4452: </ul>
1.169 louis 4453:
1.158 louis 4454: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4455: <ul>
1.147 louis 4456:
1.247 jufi 4457: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4458: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
4459: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 4460: </strong></font><br>
4461:
4462: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
4463: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
4464: <p>
4465:
1.247 jufi 4466: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4467: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
4468: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
4469: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 4470: </strong></font><br>
4471: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
4472: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
4473: <p>
4474:
1.247 jufi 4475: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 4476: <a
4477: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
4478: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
4479: </strong></font><br>
4480:
4481: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
4482: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
4483: <p>
4484:
1.247 jufi 4485: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4486: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 4487: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
4488: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 4489:
1.213 horacio 4490: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 4491: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 4492: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
4493: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
4494: <p>
1.215 horacio 4495:
1.247 jufi 4496: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4497: <a
4498: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
4499: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
4500: </strong></font><br>
4501:
4502: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
4503: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
4504: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
4505: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
4506: much of the attitude too).
4507: <p>
1.161 louis 4508:
1.247 jufi 4509: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4510: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4511: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 4512: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4513:
1.157 louis 4514: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
4515: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
4516: <p>
1.247 jufi 4517: </ul>
1.157 louis 4518:
4519: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4520: <ul>
1.157 louis 4521:
1.247 jufi 4522: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4523: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4524: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 4525: </strong></font><br>
4526:
4527: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
4528: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
4529: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
4530: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
4531: <p>
4532:
1.247 jufi 4533: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 4534: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
4535: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
4536: </strong></font><br>
4537:
4538: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
4539: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
4540: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
4541: it because they love coding...
4542: <p>
4543:
1.247 jufi 4544: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 4545: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
4546: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
4547: </strong></font><br>
4548:
4549: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
4550: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
4551: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
4552: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
4553: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
4554: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
4555: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
4556: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
4557: <p>
4558:
1.247 jufi 4559: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4560: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
4561: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
4562: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 4563: </strong></font><br>
4564:
4565: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
4566: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
4567: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
4568: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
4569: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
4570: the pizza.
4571: <p>
4572:
1.247 jufi 4573: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 4574: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
4575: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
4576: </strong></font><br>
4577:
4578: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
4579: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
4580: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
4581: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
4582: problems.
4583: <p>
4584:
1.247 jufi 4585: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.568 ian 4586: <a href="https://osuny.co.uk/txt/zines/napalm/issue7.txt">Using IPSEC and Samba
4587: to integrate Windows Networks</a>, Napalm, October 6, 2000
1.154 louis 4588: </strong></font><br>
4589:
1.222 miod 4590: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 4591: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
4592: - whether they like it or not.
4593: <p>
4594:
1.247 jufi 4595: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4596: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
4597: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 4598: </strong></font><br>
4599:
4600: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
4601: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
4602: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 4603: <p>
1.148 aaron 4604:
1.247 jufi 4605: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4606: <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 4607: </strong></font><br>
4608:
4609: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
4610: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
4611: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
4612: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
4613: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
4614: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
4615: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
4616: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
4617: <p>
4618:
1.247 jufi 4619: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4620: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
4621: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 4622: </strong></font><br>
4623:
4624: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
4625: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 4626: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 4627: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
4628: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
4629: <p>
1.247 jufi 4630: </ul>
1.147 louis 4631:
1.138 louis 4632: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4633: <ul>
1.138 louis 4634:
1.247 jufi 4635: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4636: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
4637: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
4638: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
4639: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 4640: </strong></font><br>
4641:
1.227 horacio 4642: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 4643: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
4644: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
4645: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
4646: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
4647: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
4648: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
4649: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 4650: <p>
4651:
1.247 jufi 4652: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 4653: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 4654: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 4655: </strong></font><br>
4656:
4657: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
4658: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
4659: groups, and even Linux.
4660: <p>
4661:
1.247 jufi 4662: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4663: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
4664: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 4665: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
4666: </strong></font><br>
4667:
4668: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
4669: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
4670: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
4671: library after installing the OS.
4672: <p>
4673:
1.247 jufi 4674: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4675: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 4676: Sys Admin, September 2000
4677: </strong></font><br>
4678:
4679: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
4680: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
4681: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
4682: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 4683: (<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>,
4684: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
4685: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
4686: <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 4687: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 4688: out of the system.
4689: <p>
4690:
1.247 jufi 4691: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 4692: <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
4693: </strong></font><br>
4694:
4695: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 4696: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 4697: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
4698: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
4699: the IP filtering and address translation.
4700: <p>
1.301 jose 4701:
4702: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4703: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
4704: </strong></font><br>
4705:
4706: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
4707: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
4708: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
4709: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
4710: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
4711: <p>
1.247 jufi 4712: </ul>
1.200 niklas 4713:
1.131 louis 4714: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4715: <ul>
1.131 louis 4716:
1.247 jufi 4717: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4718: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
4719: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
4720: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 4721: </strong></font><br>
4722:
4723: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
4724: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
4725: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
4726: <p>
4727:
1.247 jufi 4728: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 4729: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
4730: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
4731: </strong></font><br>
4732:
4733: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
4734: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
4735: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
4736: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
4737: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
4738: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
4739: note of"</i>.
4740: <p>
4741:
1.247 jufi 4742: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 4743: <a
1.247 jufi 4744: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 4745: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
4746: </strong></font><br>
4747:
4748: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
4749: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
4750: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
4751: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
4752: <p>
4753:
1.247 jufi 4754: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 4755: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 4756: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
4757: </strong></font><br>
4758:
4759: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
4760: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
4761: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
4762: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
4763: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
4764: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
4765: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
4766: <p>
4767:
1.247 jufi 4768: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 4769: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
4770: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
4771: 2000
4772: </strong></font><br>
4773:
4774: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
4775: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
4776: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
4777: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
4778: against current industry practices.
4779: <p>
4780:
1.247 jufi 4781: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 4782: <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
4783: </strong></font><br>
4784:
4785: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
4786: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
4787: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
4788: <p>
4789:
1.247 jufi 4790: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 4791: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
4792: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
4793: </strong></font><br>
4794:
4795: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
4796: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
4797: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
4798: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
4799: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
4800: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
4801: careful code reviews, he concludes.
4802: <p>
4803:
1.247 jufi 4804: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 4805: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
4806: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
4807: </strong></font><br>
4808:
4809: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
4810: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
4811: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
4812: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
4813: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 4814: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
4815: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
4816: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 4817: <p>
1.247 jufi 4818: </ul>
1.131 louis 4819:
1.118 louis 4820: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4821: <ul>
1.118 louis 4822:
1.247 jufi 4823: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 4824: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
4825: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
4826: </strong></font><br>
4827:
4828: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
4829: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
4830: about time. The article mentions that
4831: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
4832: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
4833: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 4834: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 4835: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
4836: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 4837: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 4838: <p>
4839:
1.247 jufi 4840: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4841: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 4842: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 4843: </strong></font><br>
4844:
4845: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
4846: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
4847: of OpenSSH.
4848: <p>
4849:
1.247 jufi 4850: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4851: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4852: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 4853: </strong></font><br>
4854:
4855: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 4856: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 4857: bridging.
4858: <p>
4859:
1.247 jufi 4860: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4861: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
4862: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 4863: </strong></font><br>
4864:
1.121 deraadt 4865: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
4866: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 4867: <p>
4868:
1.247 jufi 4869: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 4870: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
4871: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
4872: </strong></font><br>
4873:
4874: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
4875: <p>
4876:
1.247 jufi 4877: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 4878: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 4879: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
4880: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 4881: </strong></font><br>
4882:
1.120 deraadt 4883: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
4884: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 4885: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
4886: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
4887: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
4888: <p>
4889:
1.247 jufi 4890: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 4891: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
4892: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
4893: </strong></font><br>
4894:
1.222 miod 4895: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 4896: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
4897: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
4898: protocols and their quirks.
4899: <p>
4900:
1.247 jufi 4901: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4902: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
4903: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 4904: </strong></font><br>
4905:
4906: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
4907: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
4908: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 4909: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 4910: <p>
4911:
1.247 jufi 4912: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 4913: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
4914: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
4915: </strong></font><br>
4916:
4917: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
4918: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
4919: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
4920: <p>
4921:
1.247 jufi 4922: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 4923: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 4924: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
4925: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 4926: </strong></font><br>
4927:
4928: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
4929: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
4930: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
4931: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
4932: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
4933: <p>
1.247 jufi 4934: </ul>
1.118 louis 4935:
1.104 louis 4936: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4937: <ul>
1.104 louis 4938:
1.247 jufi 4939: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 4940: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
4941: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
4942: </strong></font><br>
4943:
4944: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
4945: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
4946: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
4947: be a bit dry.
4948: <p>
4949:
1.247 jufi 4950: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4951: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
4952: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
4953: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
4954: </strong></font><br>
4955: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
4956: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
4957: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
4958: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
4959: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
4960: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
4961: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
4962: <p>
4963:
1.247 jufi 4964: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4965: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
4966: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 4967: 2000
1.128 louis 4968: </strong></font><br>
4969:
4970: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
4971: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
4972: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
4973: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
4974: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 4975: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 4976: <p>
4977:
1.247 jufi 4978: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4979: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
4980: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 4981: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 4982:
4983: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
4984: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
4985: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
4986: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 4987: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
4988: <p>
1.110 louis 4989:
1.247 jufi 4990: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 4991: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
4992: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
4993: </strong></font><br>
4994:
4995: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
4996: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
4997: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
4998: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
4999: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
5000: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
5001: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
5002: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
5003: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
5004: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
5005: <p>
5006:
1.247 jufi 5007: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 5008: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 5009: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 5010:
5011: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
5012: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 5013: <p>
1.108 louis 5014:
1.247 jufi 5015: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 5016: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
5017: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 5018: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 5019:
5020: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
5021: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
5022: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 5023: <p>
1.106 louis 5024:
1.247 jufi 5025: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 5026: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
5027: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 5028: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 5029:
5030: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
5031: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
5032: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
5033: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 5034: <p>
1.107 louis 5035:
1.247 jufi 5036: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 5037: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
5038: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 5039: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 5040:
5041: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
5042: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 5043: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 5044: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
5045: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 5046: <p>
1.105 louis 5047:
1.247 jufi 5048: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 5049: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 5050: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 5051: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 5052:
1.113 naddy 5053: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
5054: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 5055: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 5056: <p>
1.104 louis 5057:
1.247 jufi 5058: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 5059: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
5060: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
5061: </strong></font><br>
5062:
5063: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
5064: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
5065: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
5066: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
5067: <p>
1.301 jose 5068:
5069: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5070: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
5071: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
5072: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
5073:
5074: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
5075: hardware-supported cryptography.
5076: <p>
1.247 jufi 5077: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 5078:
1.85 louis 5079: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5080: <ul>
1.85 louis 5081:
1.247 jufi 5082: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5083: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 5084: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 5085: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 5086:
5087: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
5088: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
5089: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
5090: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
5091: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
5092: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
5093: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 5094: <p>
1.99 louis 5095:
1.247 jufi 5096: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5097: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 5098: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 5099: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 5100:
5101: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
5102: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
5103: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
5104: conditions.
1.113 naddy 5105: <p>
1.100 louis 5106:
1.247 jufi 5107: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5108: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 5109: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 5110: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 5111:
5112: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
5113: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
5114: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
5115: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 5116: <p>
1.95 louis 5117:
1.247 jufi 5118: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5119: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 5120: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 5121: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 5122:
5123: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
5124: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 5125: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 5126: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
5127: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5128: <p>
1.92 louis 5129:
1.247 jufi 5130: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5131: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 5132: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 5133: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 5134:
5135: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
5136: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
5137: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
5138: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
5139: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
5140: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 5141: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 5142: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 5143: <p>
1.91 louis 5144:
1.247 jufi 5145: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5146: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
5147: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 5148: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 5149:
5150: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
5151: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
5152: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
5153: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
5154: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
5155: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
5156: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
5157: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
5158: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 5159: <p>
1.90 louis 5160:
1.247 jufi 5161: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 5162: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
5163: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
5164: </strong></font><br>
5165: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
5166: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
5167: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
5168: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
5169: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
5170: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
5171: <p>
5172:
1.247 jufi 5173: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 5174: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
5175: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 5176: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 5177:
1.113 naddy 5178: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
5179: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 5180: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
5181: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
5182: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
5183: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
5184: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 5185: <p>
1.87 louis 5186:
1.247 jufi 5187: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 5188: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
5189: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 5190: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 5191:
5192: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 5193: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 5194: <p>
1.85 louis 5195:
1.247 jufi 5196: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5197: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
5198: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
5199: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
5200:
5201: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
5202: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
5203: <p>
5204:
5205: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 5206: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
5207: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 5208: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 5209:
5210: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 5211: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 5212: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
5213: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 5214: <p>
1.89 louis 5215:
1.247 jufi 5216: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5217: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
1.85 louis 5218: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 5219: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 5220:
5221: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
5222: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
5223: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
5224: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
5225: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 5226: </ul>
1.85 louis 5227:
1.78 deraadt 5228: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5229: <ul>
1.74 louis 5230:
1.247 jufi 5231: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5232: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 5233: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 5234: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 5235: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 5236:
5237: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
5238: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
5239: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5240: <p>
1.83 louis 5241:
1.247 jufi 5242: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 5243: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
5244: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 5245: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 5246:
5247: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
5248: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 5249: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 5250: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
5251: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 5252: <p>
1.93 louis 5253:
1.247 jufi 5254: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 5255: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
5256: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
5257: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 5258: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 5259:
1.83 louis 5260: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
5261: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
5262: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
5263: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
5264: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 5265: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
5266: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
5267: <p>
1.82 aaron 5268:
1.247 jufi 5269: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5270: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 5271: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 5272: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 5273:
1.83 louis 5274: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
5275: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
5276: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 5277: <p>
1.80 louis 5278:
1.247 jufi 5279: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5280: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 5281: Bad Press</a>,
5282: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 5283: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 5284:
5285: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 5286: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 5287: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
5288: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
5289: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 5290: <p>
1.247 jufi 5291: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 5292:
5293: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5294: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 5295:
1.247 jufi 5296: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5297: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
5298: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 5299: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 5300: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 5301:
5302: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
5303: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
5304: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
5305: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 5306: <p>
1.74 louis 5307:
1.247 jufi 5308: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 5309: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
5310: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 5311: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 5312:
1.219 horacio 5313: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
5314: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
5315: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
5316: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
5317: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
5318: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
5319: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 5320: <p>
1.88 louis 5321:
1.247 jufi 5322: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 5323: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 5324: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 5325: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 5326:
5327: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
5328: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
5329: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
5330: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 5331: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 5332: <p>
1.81 louis 5333:
1.247 jufi 5334: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5335: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 5336: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 5337: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 5338:
5339: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
5340: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
5341: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
5342: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
5343: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
5344: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
5345: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 5346: <p>
1.90 louis 5347:
1.247 jufi 5348: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5349: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 5350: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 5351: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 5352:
5353: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
5354: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
5355: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 5356: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 5357: <p>
1.247 jufi 5358: </ul>
1.71 louis 5359:
1.69 deraadt 5360: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5361: <ul>
1.70 louis 5362:
1.247 jufi 5363: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5364: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
5365: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 5366: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 5367:
5368: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
5369: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
5370: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 5371: <p>
1.70 louis 5372:
1.247 jufi 5373: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5374: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
5375: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 5376: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 5377:
5378: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 5379: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 5380: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 5381: <p>
1.68 louis 5382:
1.247 jufi 5383: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5384: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
5385: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 5386: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 5387: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 5388:
1.111 jufi 5389: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
5390: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 5391: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 5392: "secure by default" installation.
5393: <p>
1.64 louis 5394:
1.247 jufi 5395: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 5396: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 5397: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 5398: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 5399:
1.113 naddy 5400: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 5401: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 5402: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 5403: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
5404: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
5405: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 5406: <p>
1.66 louis 5407:
1.247 jufi 5408: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5409: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 5410: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5411: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 5412:
5413: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 5414: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 5415: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
5416: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
5417: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 5418: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
5419: <p>
1.83 louis 5420:
1.247 jufi 5421: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5422: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 5423: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5424: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 5425:
5426: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 5427: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
5428: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 5429: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
5430: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 5431: <p>
1.64 louis 5432:
1.247 jufi 5433: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5434: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 5435: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5436: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 5437:
5438: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
5439: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 5440: <p>
1.301 jose 5441:
5442: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5443: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
5444: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
5445: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
5446: </strong></font><br>
5447:
5448: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
5449: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
5450: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
5451: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
5452: Giving way to
5453: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
5454: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
5455: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
5456: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
5457: <p>
1.247 jufi 5458: </ul>
1.65 louis 5459:
1.69 deraadt 5460: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5461: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5462:
1.247 jufi 5463: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5464: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 5465: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 5466: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 5467:
5468: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
5469: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
5470: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
5471: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 5472: <p>
1.88 louis 5473:
1.247 jufi 5474: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5475: <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 5476: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 5477:
5478: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 5479: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
5480: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 5481: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
5482: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 5483: <p>
1.60 louis 5484:
1.247 jufi 5485: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 5486: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 5487: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 5488: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 5489: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5490:
5491: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
5492: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
5493: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 5494: <p>
1.58 louis 5495:
1.247 jufi 5496: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 5497: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 5498: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 5499:
5500: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
5501: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 5502: <p>
1.53 louis 5503:
1.247 jufi 5504: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 5505: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
5506: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 5507: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 5508:
5509: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
5510: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
5511: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 5512: <p>
1.99 louis 5513:
1.247 jufi 5514: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 5515: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 5516: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5517:
5518: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
5519: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 5520: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 5521: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 5522: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 5523:
1.247 jufi 5524: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 5525: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
5526: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 5527: </strong></font><br>
5528:
5529: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
5530: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
5531: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
5532: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
5533: <p>
5534:
1.247 jufi 5535: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5536: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 5537: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 5538: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5539:
5540: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
5541: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 5542: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 5543:
1.247 jufi 5544: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 5545: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 5546: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 5547:
5548: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 5549: in
1.247 jufi 5550: <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 5551: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 5552: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 5553: <p>
1.53 louis 5554:
1.247 jufi 5555: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5556: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 5557: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
5558: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 5559: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 5560:
1.58 louis 5561: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5562: <p>
1.301 jose 5563:
5564: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5565: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
5566: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
5567: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
5568: Informacyjny, January 2000
5569: </strong></font><br>
5570:
5571: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
5572: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
5573: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
5574: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
5575: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
5576: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
5577: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
5578: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
5579: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
5580: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 5581: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
5582: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 5583: <p>
5584:
5585: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5586: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
5587: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
5588: </strong></font><br>
5589:
5590: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
5591: <p>
5592: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 5593:
1.69 deraadt 5594: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5595: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5596:
1.247 jufi 5597: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 5598: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
5599: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
5600: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 5601: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5602:
1.58 louis 5603: Kurt Seifried
5604: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
5605: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
5606: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 5607: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 5608:
1.247 jufi 5609: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5610: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 5611: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 5612: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 5613:
5614: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 5615: <p>
1.96 louis 5616:
1.247 jufi 5617: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5618: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
5619: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
5620: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
5621: </strong></font><br>
5622:
5623: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
5624: <p>
5625:
5626: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5627: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 5628: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 5629: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 5630:
5631: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
5632: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 5633: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 5634: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 5635: <p>
1.247 jufi 5636: </ul>
1.86 louis 5637:
1.69 deraadt 5638: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5639: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5640:
1.247 jufi 5641: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 5642: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
5643: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 5644: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 5645:
5646: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
5647: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 5648: <p>
1.61 louis 5649:
1.247 jufi 5650: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5651: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 5652: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
5653: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5654: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 5655:
5656: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 5657: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 5658: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
5659: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 5660: right -- or at least strives to".
5661: <p>
1.48 louis 5662:
1.247 jufi 5663: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 5664: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
5665: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5666: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 5667: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
5668: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
5669: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
5670: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 5671: <p>
1.61 louis 5672:
1.247 jufi 5673: <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 5674: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 5675: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 5676:
5677: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
5678: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
5679: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
5680: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 5681: <p>
1.46 louis 5682:
1.247 jufi 5683: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 5684: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
5685: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 5686: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5687:
5688: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
5689: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 5690: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 5691:
1.247 jufi 5692: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 5693: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
5694: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 5695: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 5696:
5697: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
5698: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
5699: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
5700: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 5701: <p>
1.247 jufi 5702: </ul>
1.70 louis 5703:
1.69 deraadt 5704: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5705: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5706:
1.247 jufi 5707: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5708: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
5709: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 5710: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 5711: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 5712:
5713: Kurt Seifried
5714: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
5715: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
5716: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 5717: <p>
1.44 philen 5718:
1.247 jufi 5719: <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 5720: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 5721: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 5722:
5723: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 5724: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 5725:
1.247 jufi 5726: <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 5727: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 5728: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 5729:
5730: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 5731: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 5732:
1.247 jufi 5733: <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 5734: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 5735: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 5736:
5737: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
5738: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
5739: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
5740: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 5741: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 5742:
1.247 jufi 5743: <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 5744: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 5745: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 5746:
1.36 louis 5747: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 5748: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 5749:
1.247 jufi 5750: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5751: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
1.39 louis 5752: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 5753: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 5754:
5755: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 5756: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 5757: </ul>
1.38 louis 5758:
1.69 deraadt 5759: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5760: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5761:
1.247 jufi 5762: <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 5763: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 5764: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 5765:
5766: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
5767: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 5768: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 5769:
1.113 naddy 5770: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 5771: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 5772: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 5773: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 5774:
5775: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
5776: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 5777: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
5778: terminal:
1.113 naddy 5779: <blockquote>
5780: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
5781: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
5782: <br>
5783: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
5784: </code>
5785: </blockquote>
5786: <p>
5787:
1.247 jufi 5788: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 5789: <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 5790: <p>
5791:
5792: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5793: <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 5794: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 5795:
5796: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
5797: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 5798: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 5799: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 5800:
1.247 jufi 5801: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5802: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
5803: Sept. 28, 1999
5804: </strong></font><br>
5805:
5806: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
5807: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
5808: translating and reprinting articles from
5809: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
5810: <p>
5811:
5812: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 5813: <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 5814: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 5815:
5816: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
5817: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
5818: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
5819: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
5820: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 5821: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 5822: <p>
1.19 louis 5823:
1.113 naddy 5824: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 5825: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 5826: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 5827:
5828: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
5829: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
5830: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 5831: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
5832: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 5833: <p>
1.16 louis 5834:
1.247 jufi 5835: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5836: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 5837: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 5838: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 5839:
1.57 louis 5840: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
5841: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
5842: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 5843: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 5844:
1.247 jufi 5845: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5846: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.466 deraadt 5847: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5848: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5849:
1.113 naddy 5850: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 5851:
1.247 jufi 5852: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 5853: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
5854: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 5855: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 5856:
1.23 louis 5857: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
5858: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
5859: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
5860: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
5861: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 5862: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 5863:
1.247 jufi 5864: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 5865: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
5866: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 5867: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 5868:
1.199 pvalchev 5869: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 5870: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
5871: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
5872: installation.
1.113 naddy 5873: <p>
1.47 louis 5874:
1.247 jufi 5875: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5876: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 5877: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 5878: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5879:
1.301 jose 5880: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
5881: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
5882: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 5883: </ul>
1.57 louis 5884:
1.69 deraadt 5885: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5886: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5887:
1.247 jufi 5888: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 5889: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 5890: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 5891: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 5892:
5893: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
5894: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 5895: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5896: <p>
1.12 louis 5897:
1.247 jufi 5898: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 5899: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 5900: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 5901: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 5902:
5903: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
5904: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 5905: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
5906: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
5907: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
5908: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
5909: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 5910: <p>
1.247 jufi 5911: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 5912:
1.69 deraadt 5913: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5914: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 5915:
1.247 jufi 5916: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 5917: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 5918: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 5919:
5920: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
5921: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
5922: available."
1.113 naddy 5923: <p>
1.301 jose 5924:
5925: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5926: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
5927: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
5928: </strong></font><br>
5929:
5930: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
5931: <p>
1.247 jufi 5932: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 5933:
1.69 deraadt 5934: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5935: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5936:
1.247 jufi 5937: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 5938: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 5939: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 5940:
5941: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
5942: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
5943: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
5944: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
5945: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 5946: <p>
1.33 louis 5947:
1.247 jufi 5948: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5949: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 5950: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 5951: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5952:
1.113 naddy 5953: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
5954: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 5955: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
5956: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
5957: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 5958: <p>
1.247 jufi 5959: </ul>
1.57 louis 5960:
1.69 deraadt 5961: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5962: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5963:
1.247 jufi 5964: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5965: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 5966: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 5967: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 5968:
5969: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
5970: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 5971: <p>
1.69 deraadt 5972:
1.247 jufi 5973: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 5974: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
5975: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
5976: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 5977: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 5978:
5979: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 5980: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 5981:
1.247 jufi 5982: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5983: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 5984:
1.113 naddy 5985: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 5986:
1.247 jufi 5987: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5988: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
1.68 louis 5989: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 5990: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 5991:
5992: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 5993: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 5994: </ul>
1.23 louis 5995:
1.69 deraadt 5996: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5997: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5998:
1.247 jufi 5999: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 6000: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 6001: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 6002:
6003: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
6004: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 6005: <p>
1.2 deraadt 6006:
1.247 jufi 6007: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6008: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 6009: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 6010: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 6011:
6012: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
6013: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 6014: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 6015: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 6016: </ul>
1.57 louis 6017:
1.69 deraadt 6018: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6019: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6020:
1.247 jufi 6021: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 6022: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
1.15 louis 6023: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 6024: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 6025:
6026: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
6027: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
6028: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
6029: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 6030: <p>
1.15 louis 6031:
1.247 jufi 6032: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 6033: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
6034: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 6035: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 6036:
6037: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
6038: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
6039: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
6040: columns."
1.113 naddy 6041: <p>
1.247 jufi 6042: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 6043:
1.69 deraadt 6044: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6045: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6046:
1.247 jufi 6047: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6048: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 6049: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 6050: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 6051:
6052: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 6053: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 6054:
1.113 naddy 6055: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6056: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 6057: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 6058:
6059: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
6060: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 6061: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 6062: </ul>
1.57 louis 6063:
1.69 deraadt 6064: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6065: <ul>
1.301 jose 6066: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
6067: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
6068: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
6069: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
6070:
6071: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
6072: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
6073: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
6074: <p>
6075:
6076: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
6077: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
6078: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
6079: Nov 13, 1998 and
6080: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
6081: Datateknik</a>,
6082: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
6083:
1.380 saad 6084: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 6085: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
6086: explains the licensing issues and points to our
6087: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
6088: <p>
1.69 deraadt 6089:
1.113 naddy 6090: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 6091: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 6092: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 6093: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 6094:
1.222 miod 6095: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 6096: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
6097: Implementation, including a brief interview with
6098: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 6099: <p>
1.247 jufi 6100: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 6101:
1.69 deraadt 6102: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6103: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6104:
1.247 jufi 6105: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 6106: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 6107: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 6108:
1.69 deraadt 6109: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
6110: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 6111: <p>
1.247 jufi 6112: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 6113:
1.69 deraadt 6114: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6115: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 6116:
1.247 jufi 6117: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 6118: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
6119: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 6120: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 6121:
1.383 jcs 6122: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 6123: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 6124: <p>
1.1 deraadt 6125:
1.247 jufi 6126: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 6127: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 6128: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
6129: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 6130: <p>
1.247 jufi 6131: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 6132:
1.69 deraadt 6133: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6134: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6135:
1.247 jufi 6136: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 6137: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 6138: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
6139: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 6140: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 6141: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 6142:
6143: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
6144: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
6145: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 6146: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 6147: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 6148: <p>
1.247 jufi 6149: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 6150:
6151: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6152: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6153:
1.247 jufi 6154: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 6155: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 6156: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 6157:
1.69 deraadt 6158: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
6159: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 6160: <p>
1.112 naddy 6161:
1.247 jufi 6162: </ul>
1.113 naddy 6163: <p>
1.1 deraadt 6164:
1.292 camield 6165: <hr>
1.216 horacio 6166: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 6167: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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