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1.569 ian 19: <h2>May, 2007</h2>
20: <ul>
21:
22: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.570 simon 23: [GERMAN]
24: OpenBSD 4.1 bietet Lastverteilung auf Layer 7,
25: iX magazine, May 18, 2007
26: </strong></font><br>
27: The German IT magazine iX reviews the new hoststated(8) Host Status Daemon that
28: comes with OpenBSD 4.1. The article describes various configurations including
29: SSL acceleration and gives a good insight into what hoststated(8) can do for the
30: reader.
31: <p>
32:
33: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.569 ian 34: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/05/03/openbsd-41-puffy-strikes-again.html">
35: OpenBSD 4.1: Puffy Strikes Again</a>, ONLamp, May 5, 2007
36: </strong></font><br>
37: Federico Biancuzzi interviewed a number of developers about the major
38: changes in 4.1: Mark Kettenis on UltraSPARC III and UltraSPARC T1;
39: Otto Moerbeek on the landisk port and fsck_ffs;
40: Artur Grabowski on rthreads and AMD64 timekeeping;
41: Kurt Miller on pthreads and, with Robert Nagy, on OpenOffice;
42: Marc Espie on the changes "under the hood" in
43: the package tools and on the new pkg_config;
44: Matthieu Herrb on our new X11 build system xenocara,
45: Henning Bauer on syslogd, hoststated and RSTP;
46: Henning and Claudio Jeker on a variety of topics in routing and PF;
47: Bob Beck on spam fighting;
48: and Jonathan Gray on WEP and on why authpf is better than WPA/WPA2.
49: Quite readable overview of some of the main issues in this release.
50: <br/>
51: Linked to from
52: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php/17851/OpenBSD-4.1-Puffy-Strikes-Again/">OSNews</a>.
53: Mentions of the release also appeared in
54: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1483">Tectonic</a>,
55: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/newsvac/07/05/02/1320248.shtml">Newsforge</a>
56: and
57: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/07/05/01/2231229.shtml">SlashDot</a>
58: (the latter two include pointers to official release announcements).
59: <p>
60:
61: </ul>
62:
1.565 ian 63: <h2>April, 2007</h2>
64: <ul>
65:
66: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
67: <a href="http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/03/28/1522252">
68: Reducing spam with OpenBSD and spamd</a>, Linux.com, April 11, 2007
69: </strong></font><br>
70: This is the first installment of a multi-part article on using OpenBSD's
71: anti-spam tools. This part contains a general overview of spamd, greylisting
72: and tarpitting. Later installments will cover the how-to details.
73: <p>
74:
75:
76: </ul>
77:
1.560 ian 78: <h2>March, 2007</h2>
79: <ul>
80:
81: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.564 ian 82: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2007/03/bsdtalk105-intro-to-pf-with-jason-dixon.html">
83: Introduction to PF with Jason Dixon</a>, BSDTalk 105, March 26, 2007
84: </strong></font><br>
85: Jason provides a nice general overview of OpenBSD's Packet Filter PF,
86: emphasizing the "why" rather than the "how" of using PF.
87: Goes over pf's history, initial setup, stateful filtering,
88: normalization with "scrub", use of synproxy, authpf,
89: CARP and pfsync, GUI configurations vs config files, the pfsense project,
90: logging, transparent bridges, AltQ queing, macros, lists and tables,
91: and the tie-in to spamd,
92: <p>
93:
94: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.560 ian 95: <a href="http://www.sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=30120&hilite=">
96: Welsh Government Agency demonstrates Open Source best practice</a>,
97: SourceWire, March 8, 2007
98: </strong></font><br>
1.562 ian 99: The Countryside Council for Wales, the UK Government's regional wildlife
100: conservation authority for Wales, has hired UK Open Source service provider Sirius
1.561 saad 101: Corporation to extend OpenBSD's interoperability with the proprietary
102: Cisco IOS software; part of the agreement calls for Sirius to contribute
103: its source changes back to the OpenBSD project.
1.560 ian 104: <p>
105:
106: </ul>
1.558 ian 107:
1.556 matthieu 108: <h2>February, 2007</h2>
109: <ul>
110:
111: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.558 ian 112: <a href="http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/security/is_symantecs_vista_security_assessment_credible.html">
113: Is Symantec's Vista Security Assessment Credible?</a>, Microsoft Watch, February 28, 2007
114: </strong></font><br>
115: This paper is nominally about the relationship between Symantec and Microsoft,
116: talking about a white paper released by the former.
117: But it's quite revealing about Microsoft itself.
118: "Even Microsoft... now acknowledges that UAC (User Account Control) -
119: Vista's most [high-]profile security feature - is vulnerable to subversion,
120: particularly through social-engineering tactics."
121: And while the Symantec report says some good things about Vista security,
122: "its criticisms are brutal - for their clarity and foreboding:
123: <blockquote>
124: "Many of the technologies that Microsoft has employed to bolster
125: the security of Windows Vista are not new. In fact, most are
126: derived from the groundwork originally laid by open-source
127: operating systems such as Linux and OpenBSD, the PaX and
128: Stackguard projects, as well as numerous academic publications....
129: The majority of these technologies first appeared in Windows
130: XP SP2 [Service Pack 2]. Windows XP SP2, at the time of its
131: release, was also billed as the most secure version of Windows."
132: </blockquote>
133: So remember, folks, if it's about security, you may well have heard it
134: here first, long before Microsoft "invented" it.
135: <p>
136:
137:
138: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.557 reyk 139: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/85495">
140: OpenBSD und Linux: Kritik an Stillhalteabkommen für Treiberentwicklung</a>, heise online, February 2, 2007
141: </strong></font><br>
142:
143: Short article about OpenBSD's clear statement against device driver
144: development under non-disclosure agreement (NDA).
145: It attempts to summarize the reaction of the OpenBSD community against the
146: <a href="http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/free_drivers.html">"Free Linux Driver Development"</a>
147: under NDA offered by the linux developer Greg Kroah-Hartman which previously raised some
148: discussion.
149: Code written under NDA will make it difficult to improve it in the future
150: because somebody signed an agreement to keep the required hardware
151: documentation secret. For the OpenBSD project
152: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/goals.html">NDAs are never acceptable</a>.
153: <p>
154:
155: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.556 matthieu 156: [FRENCH]
157: <a href="http://www.ed-diamond.com/produit.php?produit=462">GNU/Linux
158: Magazine France</a> special issue number 29
159: </strong></font>
160: is dedicated to BSD systems. It features several articles about
161: OpenBSD: a pf tutorial, an article on IPSec and two articles on
162: high-availability with pf and CARP and with dynamic routing protocols
163: using OpenOSPFd and OpenBGPd.
164: <p>
165:
166: </ul>
167:
1.558 ian 168: <h2>January, 2007</h2>
169: <ul>
170: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
171: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/01/18/greylisting-with-pf.html">
172: Greylisting with PF</a>, O'Reilly onLAMP, January 18, 2007
173: </strong></font><br>
174: This onLAMP article by Dan Langille leads you through the process of
1.559 ian 175: setting up greylisting using OpenBSD's pf and spamd, which has now been ported
1.558 ian 176: to most other BSD systems. The article is
177: quite detailed, but readers should ignore the FreeBSD-specific stuff
178: like kldload (OpenBSD uses modload, but, OpenBSD always has pf built-in
179: so you don't need this). Parts of the article are based on Bob Beck's
180: <a href="http://www.nycbsdcon.org/speakers#Beck">spamd talk at NYCBSDCon</a>.
181: <p>
182:
183: </ul>
184:
1.550 mbalmer 185: <h2>December, 2006</h2>
186: <ul>
187:
188: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.554 reyk 189: [GERMAN]
190: <a href="http://www.freie-radios.net/portal/content.php?id=15206">
191: 23C3: Interview mit Henning und Reyk von OpenBSD</a>,
192: Radio Unerhört Marbug, December 29, 2006
193: </strong></font><br>
194: Interview with Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter about OpenBSD and
195: the latest changes since 4.0 during the 23rd Chaos Communications
196: Congress in Berlin.
197: <p>
198:
199: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.552 ian 200: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/12/29/01OPsecadvise_1.html">
1.553 ian 201: New Year's Resolution No. 1: Get OpenBSD</a>,
1.552 ian 202: InfoWorld, December 29, 2006
203: </strong></font><br>
204: InfoWorld's Security Advisor columnist Roger A. Grimes says:
205: "Kick off 2007 with a new, more secure operating system."
206: Citing OpenBSD's code-auditing security process and its
207: excellent security record, Grimes advises readers to give the system a try.
208: Despite repeating some old canards about the "unfriendly" install, he
209: notes favorably that
210: "OpenBSD is shipped secure-by-default, with all non-essential services disabled.
211: You won't find NFS, mountd, or Apache [httpd] enabled by default.
212: The /bin and /sbin folders will be emptier than other Linux or BSD distros.
213: Install OpenBSD and you can be assured that it doesn't default to an insecure state."
214: <p>
215:
216: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.551 xsa 217: [GERMAN]
1.550 mbalmer 218: <a href="http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/2007/01/074/">
219: OpenBSD 4.0 - Kanadische Eröffnung</a>
220: iX magazine, December 14, 2006
221: </strong></font><br>
1.570 simon 222: The German IT magazine iX reviews the 4.0 release of OpenBSD and also mentions
1.550 mbalmer 223: why we don't support blobs and why this is beneficial to our users.
224: The article gives OpenBSD a very good rating for being strictly free software,
225: its swift installation, the support for upgrades, and the large number of
226: platforms and architectures it runs on.
227: <p>
228:
229: </ul>
230:
1.546 ian 231: <h2>November, 2006</h2>
232: <ul>
233:
1.549 ian 234: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
235: <a href='http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20061110204834'>
236: Official support for OpenBSD in Parallels Workstation</a>
237: undeadly.org, November 10, 2006
238: </strong></font><br>
239: OpenBSD is now supported by Parallels, a commercial OS
240: virtualization product for Mac OS X, Linux or MS-Windows.
241: In addition to allowing users to run both OpenBSD and one of those other
242: systems concurrently, the announcement means that developers with Intel Mac
243: hardware can run multiple test systems; the Undeadly Editor adds:
244: "I've had up to six OpenBSD guest systems operating simultaneously,
245: versions 3.8 through 4.0 (and -current)."
246: This also reinforces the increasing commercial acceptance of our favorite OS.
247: <p>
248:
249: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
250: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/11/bsdtalk082-openbsd-developer-jason.html">
251: Interview with Jason Wright</a>, BSDTalk 82, November 8, 2006
252: </strong></font><br>
253: Jason talks about the OpenBSD development process (particularly for device drivers
254: and getting hardware documentation from vendors), Sun SPARC hardware (particularly
255: the Ultra III), ham radio (APRS) with OpenBSD, and more.
256: <p>
257:
258: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
259: <a href='http://news.com.com/2061-10795_3-6132572.html'>
260: OpenBSD turns 4.0</a>
261: CNET News.com, November 3, 2006
262: </strong></font><br>
263: Stephen Shankland talks about the UltraSPARC III code in 4.0, and notes that
264: OpenBSD has chosen to stay with stable GCC versions rather than moving to
265: the latest and most bloated GCC versions like Linux did.
266: Quotes Theo as saying: OpenBSD doesn't aim for particular niches,
267: but it's popular in network applications... "The biggest
268: users of OpenBSD these days are people who need our fancy networking
269: features..."
270: <p>
271:
1.546 ian 272: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
273: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/55/">
274: OpenBSD 4.0 Review</a>, Software In Review, November 1, 2006
275: </strong></font><br>
276: "In an era when the next edition of Microsoft Windows is pushed
277: back more than a year, and popular GNU/Linux distributions are
278: almost expected to have their release dates delayed by weeks or
279: months, it's nice to know that at least one operating system releases
280: on schedule without all kinds of showstopping bugs and problems.
281: OpenBSD 4.0 was released on November 1 with its usual mix of new
282: hardware support and enhanced operating system features."
283: So opens Jem Matzam's review of the new 4.0 release.
284: Jem gives a brief overview of the project, discusses
285: several of the most important new features, evaluates
286: his installation and use of the system on a desktop and a notebook.
1.548 saad 287: He also offers a few recommendations for future developments to make
1.546 ian 288: the project even better.
289: There's even a link to the Wikipedia article on
290: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humppa">
291: Humppa</a>, for those who may have heard this term but not
292: the music behind it.
293: <p>
294:
1.547 ian 295: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
296: <a href='http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1243'>
297: Big changes with OpenBSD 4.0 out today</a>
298: Tectonic, November 1, 2006
299: </strong></font><br>
300: "With his characteristic no-frills approach OpenBSD team leader
301: Theo de Raadt this morning announced the release of OpenBSD 4.0."
302: This article lists the highlights of the 4.0 release and
303: tells readers where to order CD's or download the release.
304: Quotes Theo: ""We are pleased to announce the official release of
305: OpenBSD 4.0. This is our 20th release on CD-Rom (and 21st via FTP).
306: We remain proud of OpenBSD's record of ten years with only a single
307: remote hole in the default install,"
308: <p>
309:
310: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
311: <a href='http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061101-8123.html'>
312: OpenBSD 4.0 released</a>
313: Ars Technica, November 1, 2006
314: </strong></font><br>
315: A short note about the 4.0 release; refers to the O'ReillyNet article below.
316: <p>
317:
1.546 ian 318: </ul>
319:
1.539 ian 320: <h2>October, 2006</h2>
321: <ul>
1.540 ian 322:
323: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.546 ian 324: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/6769">
325: OpenBSD 4.0: Pufferix's Adventures</a>, O'Reilly Network, October 26, 2006
326: </strong></font><br>
327: Federico Biancuzzi interviewed a dozen and a half developers and compiled
328: the results into this report, all while listening to the obligatory Humppa.
1.548 saad 329: Topics include the new blob-free wireless drivers, pf and pf/dhcp interaction,
1.546 ian 330: CARP demotion, ipsecctl replacing ipsecadm, hardware support for disk/bioctl,
331: USB serial, new installation customization features, ports/packages, RCS, X,
332: CPU support for Sparc/64, AMD/Intel "speed step" techniques, and more.
333: <p>
334:
335: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.543 mbalmer 336: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/10/bsdtalk076-openbsd-developer-marc.html">
337: Interview with Marc Balmer about OpenCON 2006</a>, bsdtalk076, October 12, 2006
338: </strong></font><br>
339: BSDTalk interviews Marc Balmer about the upcoming
340: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a> conference
341: in Venice, Italy, how he got involved in the OpenBSD project, and what he
342: uses the OpenBSD operating system for in his company. Marc Balmer tells us about
343: the history of the conference that is dedicated solely to OpenBSD, why it
344: is taking place in Venice, and why he likes OpenBSD as the platform of choice
345: for his many customers.
346: <p>
347:
348: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.544 ian 349: <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/olpc-under-fire-for-proprietary-components/">
350: OLPC under fire for proprietary components</a>, Engadget, October 11, 2006
351: </strong></font><br>
352: Hardware site Engadget is one of several that has picked up this controversy
353: from the Jem Report quoted below and on the mailing lists.
354: Quotes Theo's reaction to Jim Gettys' latest comments:
355: "Jim is obviously very clever at convincing people that children
356: need proprietary laptops (OLPC has a greater percentage of undocumented
357: hardware than a Thinkpad from 3 years ago). It is easy for Jim to
358: convince people these things because he doesn't care at all about
359: the future maintainance of drivers. I do. And I think most of you
360: also do."
361: The article ends with: "Wow, them be fightin' words -- we're pulling up ringside
362: seats already."
363: <p>
364:
365: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
366: <a href="http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/286/">
367: Making sense of the One Laptop Per Child proprietary software row</a>,
368: The Jem Report, October 9, 2006
369: </strong></font><br>
370: Jem Matzan explores this ongoing controversy by blending separate interviews with
371: Jim Gettys, Richard Stallman and our own Theo de Raadt.
372: Theo consistently and clearly defends the project's interest in
373: getting documentation on, and permission to distribute, firmware
374: so that users can use hardware they have paid for.
375: Commenting on the multiple NDA-requiring parts in the current version of
376: the OLPC laptop, Theo notes that "If I am careful in selection,
377: I can buy a laptop on the market today that has fewer proprietary parts."
378: And on the OLPC project's use of NDA-requiring parts at all:
379: "I feel they have misled the community by acting as if they are open;
380: they rode on our coat-tails. Now it turns out they are going to ship GPL'd
381: code mixed with NDA-requiring proprietary drivers in the end.
382: Even their LinuxBIOS will need to link into drivers that
383: no one can repair because the documentation is locked up..."
384: <p>
385:
386: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.541 ian 387: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20061006000709">
388: OLPC hurts wireless documentation efforts</a>, undeadly.org, October 6, 2006
389: </strong></font><br>
390: Theo de Raadt takes on the high-profile
391: <a href="http://laptop.org/">OLPC</a> (One Laptop Per Child) Project
392: for not demanding open documentation from its wireless
393: chip manufacturer, wasting a "golden moment" opportunity to use sales
394: volume in the millions to pressure chip vendors, and thus helping destroy
395: the open source movement that makes the OLPC laptops affordable -
396: truly, betraying that hand that feeds it.
1.542 deraadt 397: Also strong words from other developers such as Bob Beck.
1.541 ian 398: <p>
399:
400: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.540 ian 401: <a href="http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;639736970;fp;2;fpid;3">
402: The sad state of computer security</a>, PC World Australia, October 5, 2006
403: </strong></font><br>
404: Roger Grimes opines on how bad security really is for most of the world
405: (and it is really bad). "If you aren't using OpenBSD [or a few others],
406: then every other product in the world is pretty bad in comparison.
407: <br />
408: "Most software contains numerous vulnerabilities, holes, and
409: exploitable routines. Even our anti-malware software and devices,
410: the things that are supposed to protect us, are full of buffer
411: overflows and vulnerabilities."
412: <br />
413: And, Grimes generalizes,
414: "Sadly, the world has decided that real computer security doesn't
415: matter any more than real terrorist security. It's all lip service.
416: We are, and apparently choose to be, reactive sheep. Proactive
417: thinkers get ignored and ridiculed...
418: As more and more of the world goes online, and as more of our
419: important infrastructure goes "e-something," it would appear that
420: we are on a collision course headed toward a tipping point event.
421: And when it does, the sheep will stand aghast wondering how it
422: happened."
423: Worth reading!
424: <p>
425:
1.539 ian 426: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
427: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061002-7874.html">
428: OpenBSD creator wants users to pressure Intel on open source policies</a>,
429: Ars Technica, October 2, 2006.
430: </strong></font><br>
431: Summarizes Theo's efforts to obtain documentation and freely
432: redistributable firmware from Intel.
433: <p>
434:
435: </ul>
436:
1.536 grunk 437: <h2>September, 2006</h2>
438: <ul>
439:
440: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.537 ian 441: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/7184">
442: OpenBSD: Intel Accused Of Being "An Open Source Fraud"</a>,
443: KernelTrap, September 30, 2006.
444: </strong></font><br>
445: Mentions Damien's thread on misc summarizing Intel's policy toward
446: open-source software as being to make Intel "look like we're
447: open-source friendly by opening a project on sourceforge," and,
448: "give the open-source community the bare minimum so that they can
449: serve as our beta-testers." Damien reverse engineered the wpi(4)
450: driver source for the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Driver,
451: despite Intel's refusal to freely provide documentation.
452: Regular readers will know that OpenBSD has been at war with Intel
453: for ages over these chipsets.
454: Quotes Theo as saying:
455: "before we ask a vendor, we have already lost (ie. the
456: device does not work). When a vendor says no, we have lost nothing
457: further -- there is no way we can lose further than having the
458: device not work. We can only win, and then the device works. So
459: there is no point in giving up until we win back the rights to write
460: software for the hardware that we have purchased."
461: <p>
462:
463: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
464: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/09/bsdtalk069-interview-with-christoph.html">
465: Interview with Christoph Egger about Xen on OpenBSD</a>, bsdtalk069, September 26, 2006
466: </strong></font><br>
467: BSDTalk interviews Christoph Egger about Xen and about how Christoph make OpenBSD
468: able to run as a guest operating system on Xen.
469: Includes some background about Xen as well as what it would take to
470: make OpenBSD run as the "dom0" or master host.
471: <p>
472:
473: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.536 grunk 474: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/09/bsdtalk068-interview-with-openbsd.html">
475: Intervew with OpenBSD developer Bob Beck</a>, bsdtalk068, September 22, 2006
476: </strong></font><br>
477: Bob Beck talks about spamd and his history with OpenBSD and UNIX
478: on Will Backman's bsdtalk. Bob gives us a look into his work on
479: OpenBSD and gives us amusing stories of how spamd works and how it
480: actually fares in 'the wild.' The podcast lasts a whole 25 minutes,
481: 59 seconds so it's long enough to occupy a meal or a small commute.
482: <p>
483:
1.537 ian 484: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
485: <a href="http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060920185115">
486: OpenBSD 4.0 pre-orders are up!</a>, undeadly.org, September 20, 2006
487: </strong></font><br>
488: One of the first mentions of 4.0 going on sale for pre-ordering
489: (the official release date is November 1).
490: Also gives a list of the many good things that have been added
491: in 4.0, including many new device drivers,
492: support for UltraSPARC III on sparc64, improvements to ipsecctl,
493: a new RCS implementation, and much more.
494: Includes a reminder to "show your support for the project by
1.538 deraadt 495: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/orders.html">placing your pre-orders today!"</a>
1.537 ian 496: <p>
497:
1.536 grunk 498: </ul>
499:
1.534 ian 500: <h2>August, 2006</h2>
501: <ul>
502:
503: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.537 ian 504: <a href="http://anil.recoil.org/blog/articles/2006/08/21/openbsd-xen-boots-multi-user">
505: OpenBSD/Xen boots multi-user</a>, Recoil Blog, August 21, 2006
506: </strong></font><br>
507: Anil discusses his stewardship of a Google Summer of Code project in which
508: Christoph Egger ported and revised some NetBSD code to make OpenBSD boot up natively
509: as a guest operating system under
510: <a href="http://www.xensource.com/">Xen</a>, the open-source hypervisor
511: or "virtualization" system.
512: <p>
513:
514: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.534 ian 515: <a href="http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-openbsd.html">
516: Take a closer look at OpenBSD</a>, IBM developerWorks, August 08, 2006
517: </strong></font><br>
518: Tim McIntire holds OpenBSD up as a beacon to UNIX users, calling it
519: "quite possibly the most secure operating system on the planet."
520: He talks about how the development process leads to greater security
521: and how tools like OpenSSH make it out into the wider UNIX/Linux world.
522: "OpenBSD might not have a huge user base compared to other UNIX-like operating systems,
523: but it is installed at the most crucial points of many networks."
524: Has a somewhat brief but effective discussion of installing the software, and
525: ends with references to several papers and sites of interest.
526: <p>
527:
528: </ul>
529:
1.531 ian 530: <h2>July, 2006</h2>
531: <ul>
532: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
533: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/case-studies--profiles/founder-breathes-the-open-air/2006/07/17/1152988468274.html">
534: Founder breathes the Open air</a>, The Age, July 18, 2006
535: </strong></font><br>
536: Subtitled "Hiking in exotic climes is a brain adventure for the founder of OpenBSD", this is
537: as much about hiking and learning new symbols as about software, but our leader
538: manages to do both, and bring both into the interview.
539: The article quotes Theo as saying
540: "Another major lesson I have learnt is that most people only care
541: about things working for themselves, and thus it is very easy in a
542: group to build poorly thought-out solutions. It is very simple to
543: write small hacks and end up with unmaintainable systems in the long term."
544: Describes the hackathons as an important part of the project's process
545: and describes the funding issues as well.
546: <p>
547:
548: </ul>
549:
1.525 ian 550: <h2>June, 2006</h2>
551: <ul>
552: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.535 steven 553: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=472693&rl=1">
1.530 ian 554: Alternatives to LAMP</a>, informit.com, June 2, 2006
555: </strong></font><br>
556: While "Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP" get most of the attention,
557: there are alternatives to each that are, in some way, better.
558: David Chisnal starts this article with a look at OS alternatives,
559: and OpenBSD gets the most detailed coverage, including this:
560: "When it comes to security, OpenBSD has a well-earned reputation
561: as the operating system for the truly paranoid. The entire kernel
562: and base system, including the OpenBSD fork of Apache, undergoes a
563: constant auditing process. The OpenBSD attitude is that any bug is
564: potentially exploitable, and when a bug is found by the auditing
565: team the next step is to attempt to remove every single occurrence
566: of that category of bug. This approach leads to an incredibly secure
567: system." Also talks about our pioneering use of W^X and the
568: "incredibly powerful and easy to configure" packet filter, pf.
569: <p>
570:
571: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.527 ian 572: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article8785.phtml">
1.525 ian 573: Microsoft adopts open-source security feature</a>, OSDir.com, June 1, 2006
574: </strong></font><br>
575: Microsoft borrows one of OpenBSD's security features for Vista, stack/library randomization,
576: under the name Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR).
577: "Until now, the feature has been most prominently used in the OpenBSD Unix variant and
578: the PaX and Exec Shield security patches for Linux"
579: (despite the article's title, there is nothing open-source about Microsoft's implementation).
580: <p>
581:
1.526 ian 582: </ul>
1.525 ian 583:
1.514 ian 584: <h2>May, 2006</h2>
585: <ul>
1.524 ian 586: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
587: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6650">
588: OpenBSD: wpi, A Blob Free Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Driver</a>, KernelTrap, May 28, 2006
589: </strong></font><br>
590: Damien Bergamini wrote OpenBSD's all-open-source driver for the Intel Pro/Wireless,
591: a sharp contrast to other projects' bogus "open source" drivers that are just wrappers around
592: a "binary blob" (source code not available, sorry) provided by the vendor.
593: "His announcement came a little over two months after Intel released
594: the controversial ipw3945 driver for Linux which included
595: a binary-only daemon described as necessary for enforcing regulatory
596: limits for the radio transmitter on the wireless device."
597: Bergamini's work proves yet again that vendors don't have to obscure their products
598: to make them useful.
599: <p>
1.518 ian 600:
601: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.520 ian 602: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/openbsd/c2k6/who1">
1.523 ian 603: c2k6, Who's Who At the 2006 OpenBSD Hackathon, Part I</a>
604: and
605: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6662">Part II</a>,
1.522 ian 606: KernelTrap, May 28, 2006
1.520 ian 607: </strong></font><br>
1.521 deraadt 608: Jeremy Andrews visited our developers at the Hackathon and gives
1.523 ian 609: a brief but colorful summary of most of the team members:
1.520 ian 610: why they chose OpenBSD, how they got involved, what they do, and
611: their plans for the week.
612: <p>
613:
614: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.523 ian 615: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/05/22/OpenBSD-on-Flash.html">
616: Installing OpenBSD on Flash</a>,
617: Ping Wales, May 22, 2006
618: </strong></font><br>
619: David Chisnall shows how to set up an OpenBSD boot image for
620: Soekris or PC Engines machines that boot from flash memory.
621: <p>
622:
623: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.520 ian 624: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/eur/article.php/3603961">
625: Enterprise Unix Roundup: Whither BSD?</a>, ServerWatch, May 5, 2006
626: </strong></font><br>
627: Amy Newman and Brian Proffitt state that the BSDs are often overlooked
628: because of their limited commercial acceptance.
629: The authors call this an unfortunate oversight, because recent releases of
630: the freely available BSD flavors show significant technical improvements.
1.523 ian 631: As an example, they specifically refer to OpenBSD's sensor framework
1.520 ian 632: (introduced with 3.9).
633: Newman and Proffitt also accuse big vendors of picking the nice parts from
634: the BSDs' code and giving nothing back to the community in return.
635: <p>
636:
637: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.518 ian 638: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/35/1/">
639: OpenBSD 3.9 Review</a>, Software In Review, May 3, 2006
640: </strong></font><br>
641: Jem Matzan takes the 3.9 release out for a spin, and likes it.
642: Noting that each release consists of a lot of small changes
643: and some major improvements - and mentioning hardware support, sensors,
644: and "blob removal" - he clearly thinks the project is doing a lot of things right.
645: "Everything you get in the release is production-ready, secure by
646: default... and comes with possibly the finest integrated documentation
647: in the Unix-clone world. While you might find a poorly programmed
648: driver or other base system component in other BSDs and GNU/Linux
649: distributions, in OpenBSD if something is supported, it works."
650: <p>
651:
652: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
653: [GERMAN]
654: <a href="http://www.linux-magazin.de/Artikel/ausgabe/2006/06/news_zut/news_zut.html">
655: Mozilla greift OpenBSD unter die Arme</a>, Linux Magazin, Issue 06/06, May 2006, p. 18
656: </strong></font><br>
657: The German <a href="http://www.linux-magazin.de/">Linux Magazin</a> has a short
658: article about OpenBSD's financial situation and Marco Peerebroom's
1.535 steven 659: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060321034114">call for donations</a>
1.518 ian 660: on undeadly.org. The article further mentions how OpenSSH development
661: is connected to OpenBSD.
662: <p>
663:
1.514 ian 664: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
665: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6550">
666: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, KernelTrap, May 2, 2006
667: </strong></font><br>
668: Jeremy Andrews conducts a free-ranging interview, focused mainly on 3.9 and drivers,
669: that gives Theo a chance to explain how the big North American chip vendors'
670: business practices make it harder for open source projects,
1.515 ian 671: talk about "binary blobs" vs firmware in drivers, and more.
1.514 ian 672: There's also coverage of where the project is going up to and after 3.9 and where
1.516 steven 673: it might (or might not) go in the future, why doing things right (and
1.514 ian 674: running this project) is so important to Theo,
675: and even why he does mountain biking!
676: <p>
677:
678: </ul>
679:
1.503 ian 680: <h2>April, 2006</h2>
681: <ul>
682: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.532 ray 683: <a href="http://www.dribin.org/dave/blog/archives/2006/04/28/os_x_passwords_2/">
684: Mac OS X Password Implementation Compared to OpenBSD's</a>, April 28, 2006
685: </strong></font><br>
686: Dave Dribin analyzes Mac OS X's password implementation
687: and compares it with OpenBSD's:
688: "The king of the hill has to go to OpenBSD,
689: which uses a hash based on the Blowfish block cipher called bcrypt.
690: The benefit of [bcrypt] is best stated on their website:
691: <blockquote>
692: The most important property of bcrypt (and thus crypt_blowfish)
693: is that it is adaptable to future processor performance improvements,
694: allowing you to arbitrarily increase the processing cost of checking a
695: password while still maintaining compatibility with your older password hashes.
696: Already now bcrypt hashes you would use are several orders of magnitude
697: stronger than traditional Unix DES-based or FreeBSD-style MD5-based hashes.
698: </blockquote>
699: This is just plain cool."
700: <p>
701:
702: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.512 ian 703: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6557">
704: OpenBSD 3.9: Blob-Busters Interviewed</a>, OnLAMP, April 27, 2006
705: </strong></font><br>
706: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several of the developers on improvements
707: in 3.9: the continuing absence of "blob drivers", IPMI and sensors, apmd performance
708: adjustment, Macs, rthreads, multicast, trunk, hostapd, and more.
1.513 saad 709: jsg clarifies the issue of "binary blob" drivers vs "firmware", and
1.512 ian 710: discusses the NVIDIA nForce Ethernet driver he did after NVIDIA did refuse
711: to give out documentation; they can't stop us, but they can slow us down.
712: The result: "There aren't any drivers in OpenBSD with binary-only components;
713: this is quite a contrast to pretty much everyone else out there."
714: marco comments on the IPMI work in 3.9, and adds:
715: "IPMI is a standard, but there are vendors out there
1.513 saad 716: that have reading comprehension issues...".
1.512 ian 717: A long list of other developers explain their contributions
718: and other changes that make 3.9 one of our best releases yet.
719: <p>
720:
721: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.517 mbalmer 722: [GERMAN]
723: <a href="http://www.guug.de/uptimes/index.html">
724: Stop BLOB!</a>, UpTimes, April 25, 2006
725: </strong></font><br>
726: Wilhelm Bühler gives an overview in a short article about Blobs, what they
727: are and why they are bad.
728: <p>
729:
730: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.508 ian 731: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/34/1/">
732: Using OpenBSD</a>, Software In Review, April 24, 2006
733: </strong></font><br>
734: Jem Matzan gives a brief overview of using the system.
735: Covers ports and packages, use of SMP kernel, and more.
736: Capsule summary of how our security policy affects the administrator:
737: "Because it is secure by default, you may have to do more initial
738: configuration with OpenBSD than with most other Unix and Unix-like
739: operating systems, but you'll spend a lot less time securing it --
740: maybe no time at all, if you follow the instructions in the manual
741: pages."
742: <p>
743:
744: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.519 ian 745: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/16/1749215.shtml?tid=8">
746: Using OpenBSD on the desktop</a>, NewsForge, April 21, 2006
747: </strong></font><br>
748: Considers the use of OpenBSD as a desktop operating system,
749: starting with "Secure by default" - who wants to have their desktop hacked? -
750: and continues:
751: "OpenBSD's clean code and design also provide rock-solid stability.
752: I used to have lots of problems and crashes with new versions of
753: Linux (kernel 2.6.x) and FreeBSD (versions 5.x and 6.x). The main
754: focus of OpenBSD developers is to provide programs that work ...
755: [they] prefer to improve their code rather than just
756: add more new features and end up with a bloated and unstable product."
757: Covers X, ports/packages, window managers, what is and is not supported,
758: and more. Final thought:
759: "OpenBSD's clean design and remarkable stability, along with its
760: proactive security, not only make OpenBSD a potential candidate for
761: home desktop users but also every system administrator's dream come
762: true for business environments."
763: <p>
764:
765: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.511 djm 766: [FRENCH]
1.509 djm 767: <a href="http://developpeur.journaldunet.com/itws/060419-itw-openssh-openbsd-miller.shtml">
1.511 djm 768: JDN Développeurs interviews Damien Miller</a>,
1.509 djm 769: JDN Développeurs, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
770: Interview with Damien Miller, discussing OpenSSH security, the OpenBSD
771: development approach, the problem of blobby drivers and the recent request
1.510 djm 772: for funding.
1.509 djm 773: <p>
774:
775: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.507 cloder 776: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6497">
777: Interview with developers Jonathan Gray and Damien Bergamini</a>,
778: Kerneltrap, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
779: An interview with the authors of OpenBSD's new NVIDIA Ethernet driver. OpenBSD's
780: policy forbidding binary driver blobs is discussed, and the developers give a good
781: overview of how they went about implementing the new driver.
782: <p>
783:
784: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.528 ian 785: <a href="http://www.thehostingnews.com/article2217.html">GoDaddy.com
786: Donates $10K to Open Source Development Project</a>,
787: The Hosting News, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
788: GoDaddy.com, which claims to be "the Number One registrar of domain
789: names worldwide", recently donated $10,000 to the OpenSSH project
790: because, "according to the company, OpenSSH has become a staple
791: of all free Unix and Linux operating systems in the world."
792: They use it, and their customers use it, and they recognize the
793: value of supporting an open source projects that is, as company
794: CEO Bob Parsons says, "integral to online security".
795: <br/>
1.529 ian 796: Similar articles at
1.528 ian 797: <a href="http://www.hostsearch.com/news/the_go_daddy_group_news_4366.asp">
1.529 ian 798: hostsearch.com</a> and
799: <a href="http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20060419090443506">
800: LinuxElectrons.com</a>
1.528 ian 801: <p>
802:
803: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.506 aanriot 804: [FRENCH] Principles and usage of OpenSSH,
805: <a href="http://www.gnulinuxmag.com/">Linux Magazine France</a>,
806: issue 82, April 2006, p. 28-33
807: </strong></font><br>
1.533 ray 808: A 6 page article from Alexandre Courbot focuses on OpenSSH and its
1.507 cloder 809: basics. It begins with an history of the different implementations, and
1.506 aanriot 810: is punctuated with examples.
811: Tunneling features are described, as well as
1.535 steven 812: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp</a>,
813: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent&sektion=1">ssh-agent</a>,
1.506 aanriot 814: and
1.535 steven 815: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp</a>.
1.506 aanriot 816: <p>
817:
818: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.503 ian 819: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71658">
820: Mozilla Foundation spendet für OpenBSD</a>, heise online, April 4, 2006
821: </strong></font><br>
822: Short article mentioning the donation the Mozilla Foundation made in support of
823: further OpenSSH development.
824: The article emphasizes the opportunity to wire money through the project's
825: new European account - this one donation will not meet the
826: project's funding needs for all time.
827: <p>
1.504 bernd 828: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
829: [GERMAN] "OpenBSD mit finanziellen Problemen", c't 8/06, p. 45.,
830: April 3, 2006
831: </strong></font><br>
832: A very short article about OpenBSD's financial problems. They mention that
833: this could compromise future hackathons.
834: <p>
1.503 ian 835:
836: </ul>
837:
1.487 ian 838: <h2>March, 2006</h2>
839: <ul>
1.495 ian 840: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.500 ian 841: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/theo_interview.html">
1.501 ian 842: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>, DaemonNews, March, 2006
1.500 ian 843: </strong></font><br>
844: Chris Silva conducts a lightweight but wide-ranging and fun interview with Theo
845: on topics including "Puffy",
846: the logos used by certain other BSD projects -
847: Theo quips that "I really like how they make absolutely no statement at all" -
848: what's new in 3.9,
849: and of course project expenses.
850: Theo notes that "The electric bill is about $100 USD per week".
851: <!--
852: ... must be what comes from heating your house with VAXen.
853: -->
854: The interviewer nicely ends with a link to our donations page.
855: <p>
856:
857: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 858: <a href="http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/239/1/">
859: Linux supporters fiddle while OpenSSH burns</a>, The Jem Report, March 28, 2006
860: </strong></font><br>
1.499 ian 861: This write-up focusses on OpenBSD/OpenSSH funding, and has some
862: original legwork to go with it.
1.498 ian 863: Writer Jem Matzan took the trouble to
864: contact many of the companies who charge a lot for products
865: featuring OpenSSH and yet give nothing to OpenSSH in return.
866: Companies like SCO, IBM, Apple, and Sun.
867: Sun apparently did the worst job of responding:
868: "Since the release of Solaris 10, who has been a larger open source
869: software cheerleader than Sun Microsystems?", Matzan asks. "I asked Sun
870: representatives what they would do if OpenSSH were to disappear. The only response
871: I got was that there are parts of Solaris that compete with OpenSSH,
872: and that because of this, the company would rather not comment
873: further on the issue." What the Sun teleprompter-readers don't seem to realize -
874: but Matzan does - is that
875: <a href="http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/cmd/ssh/ssh/ssh.c">
876: SunSSH <em>is</em> OpenSSH</a>.
877: Or, at least, a mangled version of it...
878: IBM, on the other hand, is still trying to formulate their response.
879: <br/>
880: <p>
881:
882: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
883: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/20/2050223.shtml?tid=8">
884: Interview: Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD</a>, NewsForge, March 28, 2006
885: </strong></font><br>
886: A wide-ranging interview with Theo about new stuff in 3.9, security, funding,
887: "blob" drivers, and more.
888: Theo notes that "We've had 10 years of nearly fanatical devotion
889: to anything which can make OpenBSD more secure. A very important
890: part of that is that we have not been afraid to completely overhaul
891: anything even if it breaks backward compatibility. Secondly, when
892: we have found a flaw in any part of the system we have assumed that
893: the same mistake was made elsewhere, and gone on a hunt to fix them
894: all. Thirdly, we have developed and incorporated a collection of
895: methods that make software flaws very difficult to attack..."
896: Ends by trying to shame the companies that use OpenSSH without contributing
897: anything back - Sun is given especial mention here - and ends with
898: the tantalizing line ".. if an OpenSSH hole is found that applies to SunSSH,
899: Sun will not be informed. Or maybe that has happened already." Hmmmm.
900: <p>
901:
902: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 903: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259254,00.htm">
904: OpenBSD 3.9 adds sensor framework</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
905: </strong></font><br>
906: It's easy to focus on our project's security, but we innovate in other areas too.
907: This article highlights the "sensors" framework added in 3.9 to provide and integrated
908: approach to handling Dell PowerEdge servers' Embedded Server Management (ESM), IPMI, and
909: in general temperature and environmental issues.
910: "There is a significant new sensor framework [in OpenBSD 3.9], which
911: supports voltage sensors, fan sensors, temperature sensors, and so
912: on," said de Raadt. "Such a feature is still missing in Linux and
913: other major operating systems." ...
914: De Raadt has already been using the sensor framework to monitor the
915: machines running in
916: <a href="images/newrack.jpg">the project's server room</a>. "I now get a call
917: on my cell phone whenever something is wrong in the machine room,"
918: <p>
919:
920: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
921: <a href="http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/other/0,39020682,39259281,00.htm">
922: Paying for free software may be the bargain of a lifetime</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
923: </strong></font><br>
924: Starts with a Theo quote from the previous article on ZDNet:
925: "A culture of entitlement is starting to damage the open source community".
926: The article argues that mega-computer-companies that use open source tend to use BSD:
927: "The open BSDs may be less famous than Linux, but they are arguably
928: superior in stability and security. This has made it popular in
929: ISPs and elsewhere - Apple, for example, adopted BSD within OS X.
930: BSD, unlike software released under the GPL, carrys no legal
931: obligations for the adopter to provide anything for the community in return."
932: Goes on to argue that these companies <em>ought</em> to be fair enough
933: to send a small bit of their money back into funding open source.
934: "In the time it takes to read this article, we calculate that Apple
935: will have easily made enough to pay-off OpenBSD's annual losses,
936: with a little left over to buy black turtlenecks for all. It's not
937: just Apple's baby - other companies owe far more to OpenBSD - but
938: in open source a little symbolism goes a long way."
939: <p>
940:
1.487 ian 941: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.494 bernd 942: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71174">
943: OpenBSD muss an den Sparstrumpf</a>, heise online, March 23, 2006
944: </strong></font><br>
1.495 ian 945: OpenBSD is touching its savings - Small news article about the project's
1.494 bernd 946: financial situation.
947: <p>
948:
949: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 950: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259042,00.htm">
951: OpenBSD Founder Makes Funding Plea</a>, ZDNet UK, March 23, 2006
952: </strong></font><br>
953: One of the first mainstream sites to pick up on Marco's article (below),
954: this one reports the funding figures on how much it really costs to
955: produce our favorite operating system.
956: "Although OpenBSD has a number of commercial users, including many
957: ISPs, de Raadt claimed that all of its donations come from individuals
958: rather than companies many of who claim the have no budget to pay
959: for the operating system. "The culture of entitlement is starting
960: to damage the open source community," he said."
1.496 ian 961: <br/>
962: Also online at
963: <a href="http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/software/stories/135760.html">ZDNet India</a>.
964: <p>
965:
966: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
967: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/03/22/OpenBSD-money.html">
968: OpenBSD in Financial Trouble</a>, Ping Wales, March 21, 2006
969: </strong></font><br>
970: David Chisnall reports that "OpenBSD is one of my favourite platforms;
971: its focus on security and ease-of-use makes it a very simple and
972: safe system to use. Unfortunately, the OpenBSD organisation is now
973: experiencing financial difficulty. For the last two years, the
974: project has made a $20,000/year loss, something which it cannot
975: sustain indefinitely."
976: Goes on to report on the growing use of OpenBSD in commercial software
977: (and hardware!), and that none of the "big guys" has given anything back.
978: Unlike most of the articles on this topic, this one is kind enough to
979: include a direct link to our orders page and recommend its readers
980: to buy a copy of the CD to help fund the project.
1.495 ian 981: <p>
982:
983: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 984: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/06/03/21/1555243.shtml">
985: OpenBSD Project in Financial Danger</a>, Slashdot, March 21, 2006
986: </strong></font><br>
987: Slashdot mentions and quotes from Marco's article (below),
988: with a reminder that
989: "The OpenBSD team is the one that also develops the OpenSSH suite,
990: used nowadays almost everywhere."
991: Ends with this quote from Marco:
992: "Without naming entities or projects by name, there are others out
993: there that are sitting on some cash. It would be wonderful if these
994: entities could share some of the wealth to keep us going."
995: <p>
996:
997: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.505 grunk 998: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060321034114">
1.495 ian 999: OpenBSD Finances</a>, OpenBSD Journal, March 21, 2006
1000: </strong></font><br>
1001: Marco Peereboom's article notes that
1002: "OpenBSD for the past 2 years has turned a loss of approximately $20K USD" per year.
1003: Hackathons - where a lot of developers get together in critical mass and churn out
1004: new ideas and new code in great quantity - cost from US$10K-30K each, and we try to run
1005: a few of them each year.
1006: Meanwhile, compananies that use OpenBSD and companies - many of them highly profitable -
1007: that incorporate OpenSSH into operating systems and even routers and other appliances
1008: have not been forthcoming: no major computer company has given funding
1009: to the OpenBSD project.
1010: It's time for them to do so.
1011: <p>
1012:
1013: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.497 ian 1014: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/08/1646257.shtml?tid=8">
1015: Software RAID on OpenBSD using RAIDframe</a>, NewsForge, March 14, 2006
1016: </strong></font><br>
1017: "Software RAID provides an easy way to add redundancy or speed up a system
1018: without spending lots of money on a RAID adapter."
1019: Manolis Tzanidakis talks us through setting up RAID using OpenBSD.
1020: He describes the detailed steps, and recommends careful testing
1021: before putting the system into production, including taking one disk
1022: out of service and ensuring that it gets reloaded correctly.
1023: Ends with a technique for monitoring clean operation on an ongoing basis.
1024: <p>
1025:
1026: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.489 deraadt 1027: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">Report on Business Television</a>
1028: March 10, 5:45pm MST</strong></font><br>
1.490 deraadt 1029: Theo de Raadt was interviewed by Howard Green on <b>The Business Show</b>:<br>
1030: <!-- North America mirror:
1031: <a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB avi file</a>
1.491 deraadt 1032: -->
1.490 deraadt 1033: European mirror:
1034: <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/20060310/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB AVI file</a>
1035: <br>
1036: A longer segment is also available at <a href="http://www.robtv.ca">www.robtv.ca</a>.
1.489 deraadt 1037: <p>
1038:
1039: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.487 ian 1040: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/openbgpd.html">OpenBGPd in OpenBSD</a>
1041: Daemon News, March, 2006</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 1042: Check out the notes and slides from Henning Brauer's presentation at
1.487 ian 1043: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0602/">NANOG 36</a>;
1044: the text and questions cover everything from how and why OpenBGPd got created,
1045: through configuration and tools, to integration with pf and CARP,
1046: to technical issues regarding use of IPSEC to provide security for BGP packets.
1047: Along the way there's considerable discussion on how the program was
1048: designed to provide reliability and security.
1049: <p>
1050:
1051: </ul>
1052:
1.485 ian 1053: <h2>February, 2006</h2>
1054: <ul>
1055: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.486 ian 1056: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1859">Zero to IPSec in 4 minutes</a>
1057: Security Focus, February 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
1058: This article, as its lead-in says,
1.497 ian 1059: "looks at how to get a fully functional IPSec VPN up and running between two fresh OpenBSD
1.486 ian 1060: installations in about four minutes flat".
1061: If you've shied away from setting up an IPSEC VPN because of config file complexity,
1062: now is the time to reconsider.
1.497 ian 1063: Dragos Ruiu shows you how the ipsecctl command (introduced to the world in OpenBSD 3.8)
1.486 ian 1064: makes it really easy to set up a VPN between consenting OpenBSD machines.
1065: He states that he and a colleague were able to get two machines talking over IPSEC
1066: in a few minutes, and only changing a few configuration files.
1067: He also comments on the relative ease of installing our favorite OS, and hopes
1068: that our ipsecctl will be adopted by the other BSDs (hopefully in a compatible way)
1069: to make firewall setups easier all around the network.
1070: But you don't need to wait for that if you're running OpenBSD 3.8; just follow
1071: the steps in the article.
1072: <p>
1073:
1074: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.485 ian 1075: <a href="http://www.networkmagazineindia.com/200602/vendorvoice02.shtml">The Worm in the Machine</a>
1076: Network Magazine India, February 2006</strong></font><br>
1077: Dilip Ranade elaborates on several reasons why software is drearily buggy and endlessly insecure,
1078: particularly in comparison with other technologies.
1079: Imagines how very bad shape the automotive industry would be in if you had to sign the
1080: same disclaimer of (non-)usability that almost every commercial EULA requires of computer users.
1081: Ends with "I once dreamt that all the computer users in the world
1082: arose in revolt and switched to hardened OpenBSD", though he admits that there's "fat chance" of it
1083: happening in real life.
1084: <p>
1085:
1086: </ul>
1087:
1.492 ian 1088: <h2>January, 2006</h2>
1089: <ul>
1090: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1091: <a href="http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2006/01/28.html">Kevin Mitnick on
1092: Coast to Coast AM Radio Show with Art Bell</a>, Jan 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
1093: Art Bell interviewed Kevin Mitnick on his call-in show;
1094: Paul Zacharzewski from Edmonton called to ask Mitnick for his opinion of OpenBSD.
1095: If you don't want to download the whole show from coasttocoastam.com,
1096: you can listen to an
1.497 ian 1097: <a href="http://unworkable.org/misc/mitnick.mp3">MP3 excerpt of this call</a>
1.492 ian 1098: in which Mitnick says: "Well, I actually use OpenBSD, so I do like it".
1099: </ul>
1100:
1.483 ian 1101: <h2>December, 2005</h2>
1102: <ul>
1.555 reyk 1103:
1.483 ian 1104: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.555 reyk 1105: [GERMAN]
1106: <a href="http://www.ini.unizh.ch/~stephan/articles/openbsd/064-069_linux-bsd-fw.pdf">
1107: Wehrhaft abtauchen - HA-fähige Firewall mit OpenBSD/PF</a>, Linux-Magazin, December 2005
1108: </strong></font><br>
1109: High available firewall setups are considered as the high arts of network protection.
1110: Due to clustering the network stays online even if one firewall fails. This article
1111: from Stephan A. Rickauer (Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH / University Zurich) shows
1112: how well OpenBSD/PF performs in comparison to the well-known duo Linux/Netfilter.
1113: <p>
1114:
1115: </p></li><li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.484 djm 1116: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/375/1">OpenSSH cutting edge</a>
1117: SecurityFocus, December 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
1118: Federico Biancuzzi interviews OpenSSH developer Damien Miller to discuss
1119: features included in the upcoming version 4.3, public key crypto
1120: protocols details, timing based attacks and anti-worm measures.
1121: <p>
1122:
1123: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 1124: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/11/21/175249.shtml?tid=92&tid=78">Creating
1.483 ian 1125: Secure Wireless Access Points with OpenBSD and OpenVPN</a>
1126: NewsForge, December 13, 2005</strong></font><br>
1127: A cookbook approach to setting up a wireless interface as a secure Access Point
1128: using OpenBSD's hostap, pf, and authpf.
1129: Configuration examples are given with basic explanations and links
1130: to sites with more information on most topics.
1131: <p>
1132:
1133: </ul>
1134:
1135:
1.479 grunk 1136: <h2>November, 2005</h2>
1137: <ul>
1138: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 1139: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20051116145737">OpenBSD
1.482 ian 1140: Goes to Venice</a>,
1141: OpenBSD Journal, November 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 1142: "What happens when you put a dozen developers on a little island with their
1.482 ian 1143: laptops, power, and an internet connection?
1144: <br/>
1145: During the first week of November some OpenBSD developers met in a
1146: little island in Venice's lagoon to hack on the ports system.
1147: This was probably the first ports hackathon and was followed by
1.497 ian 1148: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON</a>, a European conference
1.482 ian 1149: fully dedicated to OpenBSD..."
1150: Great coverage of the OpenBSD Porting Hackathon: people, ports, beer, ...
1151: Contains a link to
1152: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ven05-pvalchev/mgp00008.html">
1153: pval's summary slides</a>.
1154: <p>
1155:
1156: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.481 niallo 1157: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1710223">
1158: Trying out the new OpenBSD 3.8</a>,
1159: NewsForge, November 11, 2005</strong></font><br>
1160: This article describes the installation of OpenBSD 3.8 from a Linux user's
1161: perspective, noting the simple elegance of the installer.
1162: Although the installation process may be hard to get used to at first for
1163: the average Linux user, the author tells us that one can learn a lot from
1164: it. Furthermore, the article clears up the common misconception that working
1.497 ian 1165: on an OpenBSD system is very different from working on a Linux system.
1.481 niallo 1166: In particular, the author states that on OpenBSD, <i>"virtually the entire
1167: catalog of familiar free and open source software titles is available through
1168: the packages and ports system"</i>.
1169: <p>
1170:
1171: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1172: <a href="http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3561526">
1173: Return of The BSDs</a>,
1174: internetnews.com, November 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
1175: This article mentions that with all three major BSD flavors having had
1176: a release this fall, BSD is <i>"still very much alive and kicking among
1177: all the noise and buzz created by Linux"</i>. The author talks about
1178: various new or improved features of 3.8, such as bioctl(8), hostapd(8),
1179: network interface aggregation and sasyncd(8), and there are some
1180: quotes from Bob Beck.
1181: <p>
1182:
1183: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.479 grunk 1184: <a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/051101/152/fvrlx.html">
1185: OpenBSD 3.8 improves hardware support</a>,
1186: ZDNet UK, November 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.480 ian 1187: This article reports on OpenBSD 3.8, which was released on November 1.
1188: The author gives an overview of the improvements and new
1.479 grunk 1189: features that were made with 3.8, and quotes Theo on RAID management
1190: and Linux.<br>
1191: The 3.8 release hit the news also in some other places:
1192: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1258232">Slashdot</a>
1193: and <a href="http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=12482">OSNews</a>
1194: also report about it, mostly repeating parts
1195: of the release
1196: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/ANNOUNCEMENT">ANNOUNCEMENT</a>.
1197: <p>
1198: </ul>
1199:
1.476 ian 1200: <h2>October, 2005</h2>
1201: <ul>
1202:
1203: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1204: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1375194866;fp;16;fpid;0">
1205: 'Nightmare' drove desperate user to open source</a>,
1206: Computerworld, October 24, 2005</strong></font><br>
1207: A great tale of how Mark Uemura of PricewaterhouseCoopers Japan
1208: was forced to move to OpenBSD because the alternatives were too costly
1209: and too unreliable.
1210: This quote will rattle some cages:
1211: "IT managers who want to deploy an open source solution but are
1212: worried about company politics should go ahead and do it without
1213: asking," according to Uemura, who was promoted to IT Manager of PWC Japan
1214: after saving the company seven IT-samurais' salaries.
1215: Further, "In Japan large organizations like Morgan Stanley and the
1216: Bank of America have moved all their backend systems to open source,
1217: Uemura said, because with open source you can reduce IT operating
1218: costs without any commercial lock-in."
1219: <p>
1220:
1.477 saad 1221: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1222: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6270">
1223: OpenBSD 3.8: Hackers of the Lost RAID</a>,
1224: ONLamp.com, October 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
1225: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
1226: new features in OpenBSD 3.8 including interface trunking,
1227: internationalization support, Inter-Access Point Protocol (IAPP),
1228: IPSec SA synchronization daemon, and RAID management. There is also some
1229: discussion about future plans.
1230: <p>
1231:
1.478 grunk 1232: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1233: <a href="http://securityfocus.com/columnists/361">
1234: OpenBSD's network stack</a>,
1235: SecurityFocus, October 12, 2005</strong></font><br>
1236: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about OpenBSD's
1237: network stack, including protection against ICMP attacks, and propagation
1238: of enhancements into other BSDs and into Linux.
1239: The interview also features the other protection mechanisms in the network
1240: stack, a comparison to the network stack in Linux, and the history and
1241: current status of <a href="http://www.openbgpd.org/">OpenBGPD</a>.
1242: <p>
1243:
1.476 ian 1244: </ul>
1245:
1.470 saad 1246: <h2>September, 2005</h2>
1247: <ul>
1248:
1249: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.474 niallo 1250: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/359">
1251: Security-related innovation in Unix</a>,
1252: SecurityFocus, Sept. 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1253: An article examining the mmap-based malloc() implementation to be
1254: included in OpenBSD 3.8. The author states that <i>"it will help OpenBSD
1255: users to find bugs in software more easily, which will result in better
1256: applications for everyone"</i>. He goes on to say that <i>"the more hurdles
1257: that one has to jump through for good security, the less likely people will
1258: go through the trouble. OpenBSD allows even the most inexperienced users to
1259: take advantage of these technologies without any effort"</i>.
1260: <p>
1261:
1262: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.473 aanriot 1263: <a href="http://www.miscmag.com/articles/index.php3?page=2100">
1264: [FRENCH] Champ libre : les chantiers OpenBSD</a>
1265: Misc, number 21, Sept/Oct, 2005, p. 4-14</strong></font><br>
1266: An interesting article about OpenBSD and associated projects. Saad Kadhi
1267: and Guillaume Arcas describe useful things you can do with PF and
1268: OpenSSH, and give a nice introduction to OpenNTPD and OpenCVS. If the
1269: article is focused on the presentation, you can find some interesting
1270: technical aspects people are not always acquainted to. A few examples
1271: are shown, like a basic CARP setup, or the manner to use multiplexing
1272: with OpenSSH and even how to check an OpenSSH server's keys using DNS.
1273: <p>
1274:
1275: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 1276: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/news/11306">
1277: Big debate over small packets</a>,
1278: SecurityFocus, Sept. 7, 2005</strong></font><br>
1279: Robert Lemos discusses the ICMP denial-of-service vulnerabilities found
1280: by Fernando Gont and fixed in OpenBSD. To date, OpenBSD is the only
1281: system that has implemented all of the fixes recommended in the IETF
1282: draft.
1283: <p>
1284:
1285: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.471 saad 1286: <a href="http://www.pcexpert.fr/">
1287: [FRENCH] "Quel est le meilleur système libre pour votre
1288: ordinateur ?"</a>,
1289: PC Expert, number 156, p. 42-62</strong></font><br>
1290: Philippe Roure compares 11 Linux and *BSD operating systems, including
1291: OpenBSD 3.7, on different criteria such as security, documentation and
1292: usability. OpenBSD earned a 5/5 mark (see pages 60-61) and while a mark
1293: isn't necessarily objective, the author seems to grasp the OpenBSD
1294: project, its goals, and how good is the operating system. The article
1295: includes an interview with Saad Kadhi.
1296: <p>
1297:
1298: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.470 saad 1299: <a href="http://www.samag.com/articles/2005/0509/">
1300: Monitoring PF Firewalls for Health and Performance</a>,
1301: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 9, p. 37</strong></font><br>
1302: Ryan Matteson describes several utilities that can be used to monitor the
1303: health and performance of a PF firewall. Besides pfctl, the article
1304: covers pftop, fwanalog, monitoring logs with tcpdump and graphing
1305: performance data with pfstat.
1306: <p>
1307:
1308: </ul>
1309:
1.461 grunk 1310: <h2>July, 2005</h2>
1311: <ul>
1312:
1313: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.466 deraadt 1314: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5382">
1315: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part III</a>,
1.467 grunk 1316: Kerneltrap, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.466 deraadt 1317: Jeremy Andrews writes about the recent Blind ICMP attacks discovered
1318: by Fernando Gont, and the fixes done by him and OpenBSD during the
1319: 2005 Hackathon.
1.469 ian 1320: The article goes into the technical background of the
1.467 grunk 1321: attacks, mentioning blind ICMP attacks, "hard" ICMP errors, source
1.469 ian 1322: quenching, and path MTU discovery;
1323: many helpful RFCs and technical papers are linked from the explanations.
1324: This is followed by a recap of the whole ICMP story, involving Gont's
1.467 grunk 1325: struggle with other free projects, Cisco lawyers, Microsoft people,
1326: and others.<br>
1.469 ian 1327: The article concludes that OpenBSD was the first project
1.467 grunk 1328: to take Fernando Gont's findings seriously, and also the first group to
1329: be really painless to work with.
1.466 deraadt 1330: <p>
1331:
1332: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.464 grunk 1333: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/06/security_blame/">
1334: Security meltdown: who's to blame?</a>,
1.466 deraadt 1335: The Register, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.464 grunk 1336: This article talks about various groups that are frequently blamed for
1337: poor security:
1.467 grunk 1338: individuals, ISPs, companies, crackers, security mailing lists,
1.464 grunk 1339: and last but not least: OS vendors!
1.467 grunk 1340: In the last paragraph, OpenBSD's style of <i>"dumbed-down, simplified
1.464 grunk 1341: and secure systems (with a heavily audited code base)"</i> is described
1342: as <i>"one of the smartest approaches to security"</i>.
1343: <p>
1344:
1345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.461 grunk 1346: <a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-7-5/30084.html">
1347: Theo de Raadt on Industry and Free Software</a>,
1.466 deraadt 1348: The Epoch Times, July 5, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.463 tom 1349: In this interview, Theo talks about the inception of the OpenBSD project
1350: and its goals, as well as its impact on the commercial IT industry.
1.461 grunk 1351: He points out once more that <i>"vendors who incorporate OpenSSH have
1352: given us absolutely nothing back - not a cent"</i>.
1353: Other topics covered include the OpenBSD team, Theo's role as
1354: <i>"benevolent dictator"</i>, and the security process, which he compares
1355: to the security efforts led by other free software projects and some
1356: commercial vendors.
1357: <p>
1358:
1359: </ul>
1360:
1.454 ian 1361: <h2>June, 2005</h2>
1362: <ul>
1.468 grunk 1363:
1364: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1365: <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/ns-ttc062205.php">
1366: The true cost of computer crime</a>,
1367: EurekAlert / <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/">New Scientist Magazine</a>,
1368: issue June 25, 2005</strong></font><br>
1369: This article looks at computer crime, especially the way upcoming
1370: vulnerability reports are dealt with. It also gives a short overview of the
1.469 ian 1371: institutions involved in the process (vendors, free projects, CERTs).
1.468 grunk 1372: <br>
1373: The author mentions the work of Andy Ozment, who researches vulnerability
1374: disclosure at the University of Cambridge. Using OpenBSD as a good example
1375: of how disclosure and consequent fixing of bugs helps to strengthen security,
1376: he refutes the widely spread FUD that disclosing vulnerabilities leads to
1377: more harm than good. Ozment's methodology was to examine OpenBSD's CVS logs
1.469 ian 1378: and note when fixes were published; his research shows that
1.468 grunk 1379: <i>"the number of vulnerabilities decreases as a result of disclosure"</i>.
1380: <p>
1381:
1.454 ian 1382: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.458 niallo 1383: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0704/071.html">
1384: Free Bird</a>,
1385: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1386: <b>(Registration required)</b> A second Forbes article about OpenBSD, more
1387: focused on the project itself this time. It contains good description of the
1388: history of OpenBSD along with its prime motivations. Mention is made of the
1389: DARPA grant and the annual hackathon. Theo's motto "shut up and hack" finally
1390: becomes famous in this piece and there are some other very insightful quotes
1391: such as "All I care about is making high-quality code. If I had to work at a
1392: regular job, it would drive me nuts". This is certainly an astute and perceptive
1393: article, well worth reading. Do note that the big picture of Theo's machine
1394: room will only be available in the print edition.
1395: <p>
1.459 deraadt 1396:
1.458 niallo 1397: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.456 niallo 1398: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html">
1399: Is Linux For Losers?</a>,
1400: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1401: An interesting article, if somewhat polemic in tone, which raises questions
1402: about the quality of Linux code compared to OpenBSD. There is also some short
1403: discussion of the OpenBSD development model and focus (push for quality above
1404: everything else) including good quotes from Theo. It seems that the need for
1405: high quality software is beginning to be recognised by the mainstream.
1406: <p>
1.457 deraadt 1407:
1.456 niallo 1408: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1409: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/06/09/2132233.shtml?tid=152&tid=8&tid=2">
1.455 ian 1410: BSD cognoscenti on Linux</a>,
1411: NewsForge, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1412: NewsForge talks with Theo de Raadt and NetBSD's Christos Zoulas about the
1413: similarities and differences between the Linux kernel and the BSD
1414: operating systems. The questions asked were similar to those asked
1415: of Linus Torvalds in a <a
1.462 grunk 1416: href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/09/2128249&tid=2">previous
1.455 ian 1417: interview.</a>
1418: <p>
1419:
1420: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.454 ian 1421: <a href="http://www.tuxjournal.net/intervista3-en.html">
1422: A good morning with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1423: Tux Journal, June 2, 2005</strong></font><br>
1424: Brief but wide-ranging interview with Theo in which our leader
1425: opines about the good things in 3.7: "The list of new developments
1426: is impressive, but in my view not nearly as impressive as the small
1427: little details that continue to be fixed during each development
1428: cycle." And modestly credits all the developers for the project's
1429: continuing success, attributing it to "The passion of the developers,
1430: and the wide experience they bring into their development efforts.
1431: By amazing coincidence, our users typically have the same needs as we do."
1432: Manages to sidestep getting drawn into comparisons with Linux, e.g.,
1433: when asked if he likes it/why/why not, deftly replies
1434: "I have never used it."
1435: <p>
1436:
1437: </ul>
1438:
1.441 deraadt 1439: <h2>May, 2005</h2>
1440: <ul>
1441: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 1442: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5190">
1443: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part II</a>,
1444: Kerneltrap, May 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1445: In the second installment of Kerneltrap's Hackathon 2005 feature, Jeremy
1446: Andrews speaks with the pf developers at length about their plans for
1447: future enhancements.
1448: <p>
1449:
1450: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.450 deraadt 1451: <a href="http://www.ctv.ca">
1.448 deraadt 1452: TV coverage: OpenBSD hackathon</a>,
1453: CTV/CFCN, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1454: A TV spot done a Canadian national TV station about the Calgary
1455: hackathon this year, with 60 developers.<br>
1456: North America mirror:
1457: <ul>
1.452 marco 1458: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.449 jcs 1459: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a><br>
1460: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a>
1.448 deraadt 1461: </ul>
1462: European mirror:
1463: <ul>
1.452 marco 1464: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.448 deraadt 1465: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a>
1466: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a><br>
1467: </ul>
1468: <p>
1469:
1470: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 1471: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5186">
1472: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part I</a>,
1473: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1474: Jeremy Andrews of KernelTrap does a good job of describing what it's like
1475: to be at the Hackathon in Part I of KernelTrap's Hackathon feature. Several
1476: developers are interviewed in detail about what they are working on.
1477: <p>
1478:
1479: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 1480: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5184">
1481: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005: Day 6?</a>,
1482: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1483: Kjell Wooding describes a typical day at the Hackathon in this entertaining
1484: first-hand account.
1485: <p>
1486:
1487: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.447 cloder 1488: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/05/20/1426216.shtml?tid=8">
1489: Review: OpenBSD 3.7</a>,
1490: NewsForge.com, May 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
1491: "OpenBSD is not only highly polished and easy to
1492: configure because of its documentation, it's also totally free-as-in-rights.
1493: With an obsession with security, freedom of source code, and quality of
1494: programming technique, OpenBSD 3.7 continues the legacy established by
1495: its previous releases," writes Jem Matzan in this nice, small review.
1496: <p>
1497:
1498: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.446 cloder 1499: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/05/19/openbsd_3_7.html">
1500: OpenBSD 3.7: The Wizard of OS</a>,
1501: ONLamp.com, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
1502: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
1503: new features in OpenBSD 3.7, including new wireless chipsets, new
1504: spam-fighting features, zaurus, pf improvements, propolice, and
1505: many other things. A good overview of what's new in this release,
1506: plus some interesting comments about future direction.
1507: <p>
1508:
1509: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.444 niallo 1510: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/software/openbsd-3.7-released.html">
1.445 niallo 1511: Next incarnation of OpenBSD released</a>,
1.444 niallo 1512: Ping Wales, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
1513: "OpenBSD is often unjustly overlooked as a free UNIX-like system in favour of
1514: the more-hyped Linux. While it receives a lot less publicity than other
1515: operating systems, this is not due to lack of technical merit." says David
1516: Chisnall, in what is a clear and concise overview of the new features
1517: in 3.7 and indeed the project as a whole.
1518: <p>
1519:
1520: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1521: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5114">
1.445 niallo 1522: 2005 Calgary Hackathon, KernelTrap Coverage</a>,
1.444 niallo 1523: Kerneltrap, May 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1524: A great article about the annual OpenBSD Hackathon, detailing how the event
1525: functions, work done at previous Hackathons and features which may come out
1526: of this one. Includes many relevant quotes from developers themselves, and of
1527: course information about the legendary Hackathon BBQ!
1528: <p>
1529:
1530: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.442 deraadt 1531: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9658/sam0505e/">
1532: "Failover Firewalls with OpenBSD and CARP"</a>,
1533: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 5, p. 33
1.441 deraadt 1534: </strong></font><br>
1535: Jason Dixon discusses the history of the CARP and pfsync protocols
1536: and demonstrates using them to create redundant stateful firewalls
1537: with OpenBSD.
1538: </ul>
1539:
1.436 henning 1540: <h2>April, 2005</h2>
1541: <ul>
1542: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.440 ian 1543: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39195801,00.htm">
1544: Security guru wants access to bug databases</a>,
1545: ZDNet UK, April 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
1546: Ingrid Marson reports on Cambridge professor Ross Anderson's call for analysis of
1547: software maintenance records to determine whether open source code is more secure
1548: than closed source, as we have long contended.
1549: "One of Anderson's research students, Andy Ozment, has already done
1550: research using empirical data on bugs found in the open source
1551: operating system OpenBSD between 1997 and 2000. This research found
1552: that finding and fixing bugs results in a more secure product..."
1553: Just as the OpenBSD project has been saying for years.
1554: <p>
1555: This article can also be found online as
1556: <a href="http://uk.builder.com/manage/project/0,39026588,39244080,00.htm">Academic
1557: calls for better bug tracking</a> (uk.builder.com).
1558: <p>
1559:
1560: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.439 espie 1561: [FRENCH] "PC Expert", number 152, p. 58
1562: </strong></font><br>
1563: Very short interview of Marc Espie about OpenBSD as a free OS focusing
1564: on security, part of a larger dossier «les secrets des hackers».
1565: <p>
1566:
1567: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.436 henning 1568: [GERMAN] "Doppelwacht", iX 5/2005, p. 150.
1569: </strong></font><br>
1570: Stephan Tesch gives an introduction to CARP and using a pair of
1571: OpenBSD boxes as Firewalls in High Availibility scenarios. He goes
1.438 martin 1572: on explaining CARP and pfsync protocols, and does not forget to cover
1.436 henning 1573: the issues we had with IETF.
1574: </ul>
1575:
1.431 ian 1576: <h2>March, 2005</h2>
1577: <ul>
1578: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.435 reyk 1579: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/4818">
1580: OpenBSD's "Out of the Box" Wireless Support</a>,
1581: Kerneltrap, March 8, 2005</strong></font><br>
1582: This article is about the upcoming wireless support in OpenBSD 3.7 and
1583: the outcome of the work to open wireless chipsets. Jeremy Andrews
1584: talked with Theo de Raadt and the developers Damien Bergamini and Reyk
1585: Floeter who did some efforts to implement free and functional drivers.
1586: <p>
1587:
1588: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.431 ian 1589: <a href="http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/01/1109546842718.html">
1590: OpenBSD to support more wireless chipsets</a>,
1591: The Age, March 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1592: "The forthcoming 3.7 release of the OpenBSD operating system has
1593: added support for five more wireless chipsets, according to
1594: OpenBSD project founder Theo de Raadt...
1.432 ian 1595: OpenBSD 3.7 will also have have new drivers for Intel wireless
1.431 ian 1596: parts that do not work without the non-redistributable firmware,"
1597: namely the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11B
1598: and 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11A/B/G wireless network adapters.
1599: Mentions OpenBSD's activism in getting vendors to release chip specs.
1600: Referring to vendors that still refuse to play ball with open source
1601: projects, quotes Damien Miller as saying "Given the number of
1602: appliance devices that are built on free OSs, I think that the
1603: recalcitrant vendors are missing an important boat."
1604:
1605: </ul>
1606:
1.427 matthieu 1607: <h2>February, 2005</h2>
1608: <ul>
1609:
1610: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.428 david 1611: <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsaward2004.html">
1612: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
1613: FSF, February 26, 2005</strong></font><br>
1614: The Free Software Foundation awarded Theo de Raadt their "2004 Free Software
1615: Award" for his unwavering commitment to free software. Most recently he has
1616: been fighting hardware manufacturers for free redistribution of wireless card
1617: firmware.
1.434 ian 1618: Similar articles can be found online at:
1619: <ul>
1620: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1621: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=419">
1622: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
1623: Tectonic.za, March 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
1624: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1625: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article4362.phtml">
1626: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
1627: OSDir, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1628: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1629: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/De-Raadt-gets-free-software-award/2005/02/28/1109546758523.html?oneclick=true">
1630: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
1631: The Age, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1632: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1633: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/02/27/1413255.shtml?tid=99&tid=7">
1.434 ian 1634: Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award</a>,
1635: Slashdot, February 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1636: </ul>
1.427 matthieu 1637: </ul>
1638:
1.426 ian 1639: <h2>January, 2005</h2>
1640: <ul>
1641:
1642: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1643: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363731">
1644: Systrace in OpenBSD</a>,
1645: informit.com, January 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1646: This article talks about our systrace
1.462 grunk 1647: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&sektion=1">systrace(1)</a>
1.426 ian 1648: mechanism: what it is and why and
1649: how to use it, with examples.
1650: Another excerpt from the book
1651: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
1652: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
1653: <p>
1654:
1655: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1656: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363732">
1657: Overview of OpenBSD</a>,
1658: informit.com, January 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
1659: "OpenBSD is one of the most secure and well-designed operating
1660: systems available today. It has its roots in countless hours of
1661: research and development based on some of the best UNIX flavors of
1662: the past, and it boasts all the features of modern operating systems.
1663: The OS is widely considered one of the most secure general-purpose
1664: operating systems available today and it supports many key parts
1665: of the global Internet infrastructure..."
1666: This article is a sample chapter from
1667: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
1668: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
1669: <p>
1.443 ian 1670:
1671: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1672: <a href="http://www.pcplus.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=34628&subsectionid=784">
1.443 ian 1673: OpenBSD operating system</a>,
1674: PCPlus.co.uk, January, 2005</strong></font><br>
1675: Paul Grosse gives a brief tutorial on installing OpenBSD on i386 for people
1676: moving in a Windows->Linux direction, encouraging them to go a bit further for security.
1677: "While Linux out-scores Windows substantially (or completely) on [security as well as many other
1678: issues], it's still possible to use a more secure operating system on the PC... OpenBSD."
1679: Gives a brief but understandable walkthrough on the installation process, right up to
1680: downloading and installing the third-party packages, and
1681: ends with a sidebar on security.
1682: <p>
1.426 ian 1683: </ul>
1684:
1.424 ian 1685: <h2>December, 2004</h2>
1686: <ul>
1687:
1688: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.425 ian 1689: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/2329229">
1690: What are the real vulnerabilities of Linux?</a>
1691: NewsForge.com, December 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1692: Several security consultants were asked about "the real vulnerabilities of
1693: Linux". Cybersoure CEO Con Symaris seems to get it better than the rest:
1694: "One needs to approach security as a prime requirement and motivator,
1695: much as the OpenBSD team do," Zymaris said... "The Linux
1696: community mindset is different. Linux development is dynamic and
1697: races ahead towards more and broader functionality, drawing a
1698: multitude of interested parties in to make interesting extensions
1699: and adaptations at a rapid rate."
1700: <p>
1701: "In order to do security the BSD way, however, much more effort
1702: needs to be spent auditing code for holes, which is much less sexy,
1703: and attracts a different set of coders," Zymaris added.
1704: <p>
1705:
1706: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.424 ian 1707: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/281">
1708: Closed Source Hardware</a>
1709: Security Focus, December 1, 2004</strong></font><br>
1710: Symantec Threat Analyst Jason Miller analyzes the potential security threats
1711: when hardware vendors won't provide device documentation and
1712: instead provide "binary only" driver code for inclusion in open source
1713: operating systems.
1714: Miller is an open-source fan who says he uses a variety of systems, including
1715: OpenBSD on his firewall.
1716: Of the recent trend to closed-source binary drivers for open-source
1717: systems, he writes:
1718: <blockquote>
1719: The closed-source component required to support this hardware is
1720: completely independent of the associated operating system, and as
1721: such, is also independent of the engineering team, security team,
1722: auditing process, and quality control procedures normally related
1723: to the operating system...
1724: <br/>
1725: What's possibly even more disturbing is that we're talking about
1726: a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest
1727: possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a
1728: third-party vendor. This code could do anything once loaded, including
1729: leaking active WEP keys, gathering usage statistics, sniffing and
1730: disclosing traffic, and it could even introduce a subtle backdoor
1731: into the operating system itself (much the same as any device driver
1732: in a closed source operating system).
1733: <br/>
1734: [A]lthough some of these scenarios are a
1735: little far-fetched, the possibility for them to exist is there...
1736: Ultimately it becomes an issue of trust, which is a cornerstone of
1737: good security: whom do you trust, and how much do you trust them?
1738: </blockquote>
1739: <p>And he comments that trust "seems to be a one-way street": vendors
1740: demand that you trust them, but they won't trust you to know how
1741: their hardware and software operates.
1742: This lack of trust is one reason why OpenBSD has recently completed
1743: reverse-engineering the
1.462 grunk 1744: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4">
1.424 ian 1745: Atheros wireless chipset driver</a>
1746: that was originally provided as a binary insert.
1747: <p>
1748: </ul>
1749:
1.417 pvalchev 1750: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
1751: <ul>
1.421 ian 1752:
1.417 pvalchev 1753: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.422 ian 1754: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730775,00.asp">
1755: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Widens Its Scope</a>
1756: eWEEK, November 22, 2004</strong></font><br>
1757: Jason Brooks reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and likes the changes it brings,
1758: including the multi-processing support which, he notes,
1759: "will be even more important as multicore processors--which occupy space
1760: on the road maps of Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others--
1761: become more prevalent." Comments favorably on OpenNTPD
1762: ("the three-line configuration file we needed to modify ... on OpenBSD was
1763: much simpler to deal with than the equivalent configuration file on
1764: the Linux systems we've tested").
1.423 ian 1765: Overall a favorable review of some of the new stuff in 3.6.
1.422 ian 1766: <p>
1767: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 otto 1768: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
1769: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
1770: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
1771: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
1772: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
1773: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
1774: it claims to do".
1775: <p>
1776:
1777: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.571 ! miod 1778: <a href="http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109994542424009&w=2">
1.421 ian 1779: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution</a>
1780: misc@, November 8, 2004</strong></font><br>
1781: Theo recounts the struggle to get Intel to provide redistributable
1782: versions of the firmware for their wireless chipsets, and their
1.423 ian 1783: ultimate refusal to allow OpenBSD to redistribute the chipsets' firmware.
1.421 ian 1784: Includes a caveat about Intel's disingenuous "FAQ", typical of many
1785: corporate FAQs that answer questions nobody actually thought
1786: to ask, and don't truthfully answer the questions you want hard answers to.
1787: At the end Theo names the names (and their emails) that need to be contacted
1788: by large numbers of end-users and developers if Intel is to change
1789: (yes, this is a hint).
1790: Of interest is that this posting to one of our mailing lists was
1791: picked up on the
1792: <a href="http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1923">Screaming
1793: Electron Forum</a> and from there reported on
1.462 grunk 1794: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/22/1249249&from=rss">
1.421 ian 1795: SlashDot</a>, where it is accompanied by a link to SlashDot's paper
1796: on effective advocacy (be firm, but also be polite).
1797: <p>
1798:
1799: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 1800: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
1801: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
1802: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
1803: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
1804: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
1805: questions about the significance and rationale behind
1806: the current efforts.
1807: <p>
1808: </ul>
1809:
1.407 henning 1810: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
1811: <ul>
1812: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 1813: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
1814: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
1815: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
1816: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
1817: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
1818: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
1819: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
1820: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
1821: <p>
1822:
1823: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 1824: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
1825: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
1826: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1827: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
1828: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
1829: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
1830: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
1831: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
1832: of the important changes in 3.6.
1.462 grunk 1833: <p>
1.415 ian 1834:
1835: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1836: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
1.414 ian 1837: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
1838: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
1839: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
1840: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
1841: overflow attacks... because
1842: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
1843: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
1844: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
1845: and propolice.
1846: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
1847: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
1848: and that's when the science falls apart."
1849: <p>
1850:
1851: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 1852: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
1853: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
1854: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
1855: Starts with the question:
1856: <blockquote>
1857: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
1858: <br/>
1859: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
1860: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
1861: <br/>
1862: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
1863: Should we believe them?"
1864: </blockquote>
1865: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
1866: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
1867: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
1868: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
1869: for your mail, web and other online activities.
1870: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
1871: <p>
1872:
1873: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 1874: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
1875: Simple Simon</a>,
1876: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
1877: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
1878: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
1879: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
1880: routing/firewall, and more.
1881: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
1882: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
1883: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
1884: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
1885: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
1886: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
1887: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
1888: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
1889: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
1890: </blockquote>
1891: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
1892: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
1893: <p>
1894:
1895: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 1896: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
1897: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 1898: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 1899: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 1900: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
1901: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
1902: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 1903: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 1904: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
1905: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
1906: in spite of it
1907: (registration required, but worth it).
1908: <p>
1909:
1910: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1911: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
1912: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
1913: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1914: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
1915: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
1916: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
1917: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 1918: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 1919: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
1920: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
1921: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
1922: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
1923: <p>
1924:
1925: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 1926: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
1927: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
1928: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
1929: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
1930: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
1931: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
1932: <blockquote>
1933: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
1934: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
1935: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
1936: a lot of analysis.
1937: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
1938: </blockquote>
1939: <p>
1940: </ul>
1941:
1.400 marco 1942: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
1943: <ul>
1944: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 1945: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
1946: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
1947: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
1948: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
1949: UNIX-like systems.
1950: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
1951: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
1952: <p>
1953: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 1954: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
1955: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 1956: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1957: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
1958: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
1959: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
1960: At one point, the article states:
1961: <blockquote>
1962: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
1963: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
1964: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
1965: </blockquote>
1966: And then quotes Theo as saying:
1967: <blockquote>
1968: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
1969: fewer are reading or auditing code."
1970: </blockquote>
1971: <p>
1972: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1973: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
1974: marks its fifth birthday</a>
1975: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1976: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
1977: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
1978: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
1979: required).
1980: <p>
1981: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 1982: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
1983: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
1984: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
1985: </strong></font><br>
1986: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
1987: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
1988: <p>
1989: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 1990: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
1991: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 1992: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 1993: </strong></font><br>
1994: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
1995: <p>
1996: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 1997: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
1998: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 1999: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 2000: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 2001: 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 2002: <p>
2003: </ul>
2004:
1.396 henning 2005: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
2006: <ul>
2007: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 2008: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
2009: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
2010: Unix Review, July, 2004
2011: </strong></font><br>
2012: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
2013: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
1.462 grunk 2014: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
1.418 ian 2015: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
2016: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
2017: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
2018: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
2019: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
2020: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
2021: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
2022: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
2023: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
2024: and even spelling/wording errors.
2025: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
2026: <p>
2027: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 2028: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 2029: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
2030: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
2031: </strong></font><br>
2032: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
2033: <p>
2034: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 2035: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 2036: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
2037: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
2038: </strong></font><br>
2039: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
2040: <p>
2041: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 2042: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
2043: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
2044: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
2045: </strong></font><br>
2046: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
2047: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
2048: <p>
2049: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 2050: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
2051: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
2052: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
2053: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
2054: <p>
2055: </ul>
2056:
1.405 jolan 2057: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
2058: <ul>
1.545 tom 2059: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 2060: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
1.466 deraadt 2061: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 5, 2004</strong></font>
1.405 jolan 2062: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
2063: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
2064: details on how funds are dispersed.
2065: <p>
2066: </ul>
2067:
1.393 david 2068: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
2069: <ul>
2070: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 2071: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
2072: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
2073: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
2074: </strong></font><br>
2075: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
2076: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
2077: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
2078: on inserting large number of SQL records.
2079: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
2080: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
2081: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
2082: <p>
2083:
2084: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 2085: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
2086: Secure by Default</a>,
2087: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
2088: </strong></font><br>
2089: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
2090: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
2091: <p>
2092:
2093: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2094: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
2095: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
2096: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
2097: </strong></font><br>
2098: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
2099: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
2100: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
2101: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
2102: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
2103: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
2104: <p>
2105:
2106: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2107: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
2108: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
2109: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
2110: </strong></font><br>
2111: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
2112: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
2113: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
2114: <p>
2115:
2116: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2117: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
2118: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
2119: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
2120: </strong></font><br>
2121: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
2122: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
2123: <p>
2124: </ul>
2125:
1.388 mcbride 2126: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
2127: <ul>
1.394 jolan 2128:
2129: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2130: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
2131: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
2132: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
2133: </strong></font><br>
2134: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
2135: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
2136: available for sparc64.
2137: <p>
2138:
1.390 beck 2139: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 2140: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
2141: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
2142: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
2143: </strong></font><br>
2144: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
2145: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
2146: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
2147: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
2148: <p>
2149:
2150: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 2151: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
2152: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 2153: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 2154: </strong></font><br>
2155: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
2156: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
2157: it does: CARP provides sharing
2158: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
2159: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
2160: detail to get you started using it.
2161: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
2162: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
2163: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
2164: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
2165: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
2166: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
2167: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 2168: <p>
1.391 ian 2169:
2170: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 2171: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 2172: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
2173: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 2174: </strong></font><br>
2175: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 2176: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 2177: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 2178: <p>
1.388 mcbride 2179:
2180: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2181: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
2182: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 2183: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 2184: </strong></font><br>
2185: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
2186: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
2187: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
2188: unencumbered by patents.
2189: <p>
2190: </ul>
2191:
1.378 henning 2192: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
2193: <ul>
1.384 jose 2194:
2195: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 2196: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
2197: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
2198: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
2199: </strong></font><br>
2200: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
2201: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
2202: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
2203: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
2204: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
2205: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
2206: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
2207: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
2208: in the page tables."
2209: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
2210: <p>
2211:
2212: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 2213: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
2214: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
2215: </strong></font><br>
2216: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
2217: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
2218: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
2219: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 2220: <p>
1.384 jose 2221:
1.378 henning 2222: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 2223: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
2224: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 2225: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
2226: </strong></font><br>
2227: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
2228: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
2229: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
2230: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
2231: (quote:
2232: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
2233: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 2234: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 2235: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
2236: the other developers for their work on the system.
2237: <p>
2238:
2239: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 2240: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
2241: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
2242: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 2243: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 2244: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
2245: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
2246: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
2247: too.
2248: <p>
2249:
2250: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 2251: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
2252: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 2253: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 2254: OpenBSD source code using
2255: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
2256: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
2257: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
2258: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
2259: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
2260: <p>
2261: </ul>
2262:
1.374 jose 2263: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
2264: <ul>
2265: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 2266: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 2267: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
2268: </strong></font><br>
2269: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
2270: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
2271: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
2272: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
2273: it."
2274: <p>
2275:
2276: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 2277: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
2278: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
2279: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
2280: </strong></font><br/>
2281: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
2282: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
2283: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
2284: <p>
2285: </ul>
2286:
1.369 ian 2287: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
2288: <ul>
2289: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 2290: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
2291: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
2292: </strong></font><br/>
2293: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
2294: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
2295: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
2296: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
2297: <p>
2298:
2299: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 2300: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
2301: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
2302: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
2303: </strong></font><br/>
2304: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
2305: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
2306: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
2307: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
2308: form factor.
2309: <p>
2310:
2311: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2312: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
2313: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
2314: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
2315: Features</a>,
2316: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
2317: </strong></font><br/>
2318: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
2319: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
2320: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
2321: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
2322: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
2323: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
2324: <p>
2325: This article can also be found online at:
2326: <ul>
2327: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 2328: <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 2329: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
2330: </strong></font>
2331: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
2332: </ul>
2333: <p>
1.392 david 2334:
1.371 jose 2335: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 2336: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
2337: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 2338: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
2339: </strong></font><br/>
2340: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
2341: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
2342: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 2343: <p>
1.371 jose 2344:
2345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 2346: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 2347: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 2348: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 2349: </strong></font><br/>
2350: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
2351: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
2352: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
2353: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
2354: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
2355: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
2356: and its history with OpenBSD.
2357: </ul>
2358:
1.567 kurt 2359: <h2>September, 2003</h2>
2360: <ul>
2361: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2362: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/bsdcon03/tech/full_papers/rosenthal/rosenthal_html/">
2363: A Digital Preservation Network Appliance Based on OpenBSD</a>, BSDcon, September, 2003.
2364: </strong></font><br>
2365: David S. H. Rosenthal's paper on the design, implementation and deployment of the
2366: <a href="http://www.lockss.org">LOCKSS</a> network appliance based on OpenBSD.
2367: </ul>
2368:
1.368 henning 2369: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
2370: <ul>
2371: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 2372: [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 2373: </strong></font><br>
2374: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
2375: </ul>
2376:
1.364 jose 2377: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
2378: <ul>
2379: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 2380: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
2381: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
2382: UNIX Review,
2383: July, 2003.
2384: </strong></font><br>
2385: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
2386: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
2387: who want more information.
2388: <p>
2389:
2390: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 2391: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
2392: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
2393: Government Computer News,
2394: July 22, 2003.
2395: </strong></font><br>
2396: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
2397: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
2398: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
2399: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
2400: <p>
2401:
2402: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2403: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
2404: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
2405: SANS Institute,
2406: July 22, 2003.
2407: </strong></font><br>
2408: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 2409: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 2410: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
2411: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
2412: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
2413: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
2414: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
2415: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
2416: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
2417: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
2418: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
2419: <p>
2420:
2421: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 2422: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
2423: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
2424: OnLamp.com,
2425: July 17, 2003.
2426: </strong></font><br>
2427: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
2428: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
2429: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
2430: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
2431: have been working on.
2432:
2433: </ul>
2434:
1.356 jose 2435: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 2436: <ul>
2437:
2438: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 2439: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
2440: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
2441: UNIX Review,
2442: June, 2003.
2443: </strong></font><br>
2444: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
2445: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
2446: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
2447: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
2448: <p>
2449:
2450: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 2451: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
2452: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
2453: eWeek,
2454: June 23, 2003.
2455: </strong></font><br>
2456: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
2457: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
2458: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
2459: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
2460: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
2461: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
2462: <p>
2463:
2464: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 2465: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
2466: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
2467: Software Development Online,
2468: June, 2003.
2469: </strong></font><br>
2470: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
2471: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
2472: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
2473: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
2474: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
2475: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
2476: current activities.
2477: <p>
2478:
2479: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 2480: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
2481: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 2482: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
2483: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
2484: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
2485: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 2486: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 2487: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
2488: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
2489: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 2490: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 2491: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
2492: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 2493: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 2494: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
2495: decisions.
2496: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
2497: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 2498: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 2499: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 2500: <p>
2501:
2502: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 2503: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
2504: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
2505: Page 58, eWeek,
2506: June 2, 2003.
2507: </strong></font><br>
2508: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
2509: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
2510: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
2511: been addressed in -current.
2512: <p>
2513:
1.356 jose 2514: </ul>
2515:
2516: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
2517: <ul>
2518:
1.355 jose 2519: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 2520: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
2521: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
2522: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
2523: </strong></font><br>
2524: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
2525: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
2526: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
2527: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
2528: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
2529: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
2530: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
2531: <p>
2532:
2533: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 2534: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
2535: Beyond Linux</a>,
2536: InfoWorld,
2537: May 23, 2003.
2538: </strong></font><br>
2539: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
2540: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
2541: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
2542: compared to the GPL.
2543: <p>
2544:
2545: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 2546: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
2547: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
2548: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 2549: May 17, 2003.
2550: </strong></font><br>
2551: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
2552: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
2553: the business section and half of another page inside
2554: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
2555: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
2556: in talking about the project's history and goals.
2557: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
2558: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
2559: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
2560: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 2561: <br>
2562: This article can also be found online at:
2563: <ul>
2564: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2565: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
2566: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
2567: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
2568: May 17, 2003
2569: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 2570: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
2571: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2572: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
2573: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
2574: Montreal Gazette,
2575: May 21, 2003
2576: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 2577: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 2578: <p>
1.346 ian 2579:
2580: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 2581: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 2582: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 2583: May 7, 2003.
2584: </strong></font><br>
2585: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
2586: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
2587: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
2588: <p>
2589:
2590: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 2591: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
2592: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2593: OsOpinion,
2594: May 6, 2003.
2595: </strong></font><br>
2596: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
2597: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
2598: <br>
2599: This article can also be found online at:
2600: <ul>
2601: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2602: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
2603: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2604: NewsFactor Network.
2605: </strong></font>
2606: </ul>
2607: <p>
2608:
2609: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2610: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 2611: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
2612: ITBusiness,
2613: May 2, 2003.
2614: </strong></font><br>
2615: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
2616: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
2617: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
2618: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
2619: <p>
2620:
2621: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 2622: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
2623: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
2624: InfoWorld,
2625: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 2626: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 2627: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
2628: <br>
2629: This article can also be found online at:
2630: <ul>
2631: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2632: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
2633: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
2634: IDG Singapore.
2635: </strong></font>
2636: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 2637: <p>
2638:
1.339 jose 2639: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2640: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
2641: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 2642: ZDNet,
2643: May 1, 2003.
2644: </strong></font><br>
2645: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 2646: someone using parts from previous articles.
2647: <br>
1.341 deraadt 2648: This article can also be found online at:
2649: <ul>
2650: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2651: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
2652: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
2653: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 2654: </strong></font>
2655: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2656: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
2657: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
2658: CNET News.com.
2659: </strong></font>
2660: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2661: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
2662: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
2663: ZDNet UK.
2664: </strong></font>
2665: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2666: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
2667: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
2668: Help Net Security, Croatia.
2669: </strong></font>
2670: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 2671: <p>
1.339 jose 2672:
1.341 deraadt 2673: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.571 ! miod 2674: <a href="http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 2675: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
2676: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
2677: May 1, 2003.
2678: </strong></font><br>
2679: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
2680: that have been added
2681: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
2682: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
2683: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 2684: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 2685: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
2686: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
2687: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 2688: <p>
2689:
2690: </ul>
2691:
1.253 ian 2692: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
2693: <ul>
1.255 ian 2694:
1.260 ian 2695: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2696: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 2697: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
2698: TechRepublic,
2699: April 28, 2003.
2700: </strong></font><br>
2701: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
2702: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 2703: work.<br>
2704: Can also be found online at:
2705: <ul>
2706: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2707: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
2708: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
2709: ZDNet UK.
2710: </strong></font>
2711: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 2712: <p>
2713:
2714: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 2715: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
2716: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
2717: IDG,
2718: April 24, 2003.
2719: </strong></font><br>
2720: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
2721: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
2722: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
2723: Can also be found online at:
2724: <ul>
2725: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2726: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
2727: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 2728: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 2729: </strong></font>
2730: </ul>
2731: <p>
2732:
2733: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2734: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 2735: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 2736: Slate,
2737: April 24, 2003.
2738: </strong></font><br>
2739: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
2740: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
2741: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
2742: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
2743: <p>
2744:
2745: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 2746: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2747: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
2748: April 24, 2003.
2749: </strong></font><br>
2750: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
2751: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
2752: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
2753: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
2754: <p>
2755:
2756: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 2757: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
2758: April 24, 2003.
2759: </strong></font><br>
2760: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
2761: the free software community".
2762: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
2763: other articles.
2764: <p>
2765:
2766: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2767: <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 2768: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
2769: </strong></font><br>
2770: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
2771: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
2772: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
2773: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
2774: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
2775: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
2776: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 2777: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 2778: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
2779: <br/>
2780: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
2781: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
2782: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
2783: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 2784: <br>
2785: Can also be found online at:
2786: <ul>
2787: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2788: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
2789: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
2790: Common Dreams NewsCenter
2791: </strong></font>
2792: </ul>
1.324 ian 2793: <p>
2794:
2795: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2796: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
2797: Wired, April 24, 2003.
2798: </strong></font><br>
2799: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
2800: article above.
2801: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
2802: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
2803: wasting them."
1.332 ian 2804: <br>
2805: Can also be found online at:
2806: <ul>
2807: <li>
2808: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
2809: </strong></font>
2810: </ul>
1.324 ian 2811: <p>
2812:
2813: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 2814: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
2815: </strong></font><br>
2816: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
2817: <p>
2818:
2819: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 2820: <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.
2821: </strong></font><br>
2822: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
2823: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
2824: <p>
2825:
2826: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 2827: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
2828: April 23, 2003.
2829: </strong></font><br>
2830: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
2831: <p>
2832:
2833: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 2834: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 2835: April 22, 2003.
2836: </strong></font><br>
2837: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
2838: <p>
2839:
2840: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 2841: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
2842: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
2843: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 2844: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 2845: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
2846: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
2847: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
2848: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
2849: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
2850: Can also be found online at:
2851: <ul>
2852: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2853: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 2854: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
2855: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 2856: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 2857: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2858: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 2859: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
2860: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 2861: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 2862: </ul>
2863: <p>
2864:
2865: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 2866: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
2867: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 2868: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2869: </strong></font><br>
2870: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 2871: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
2872: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
2873: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
2874: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
2875: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
2876: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 2877: <p>
2878:
2879: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 2880: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
2881: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 2882: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
2883: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 2884: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
2885: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
2886: at UPenn and DARPA.
2887: <p>
2888:
2889: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 2890: [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,
2891: France
1.315 deraadt 2892: April 18, 2003.
2893: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 2894: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 2895: <p>
2896:
2897: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 2898: [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 2899: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2900: </strong></font><br>
2901: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
2902: <p>
2903:
2904: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 2905: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
2906: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
2907: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 2908: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 2909: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
2910: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
2911: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
2912: <p>
2913:
2914: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 2915: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
2916: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2917: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 2918: </strong></font><br>
2919: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
2920: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
2921: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 2922: American century.
1.267 deraadt 2923: <p>
2924:
2925: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 2926: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
2927: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2928: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 2929: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 2930: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
2931: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
2932: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
2933: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
2934: Can also be found online at:
2935: <ul>
2936: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
2937: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 2938: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 2939: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 2940: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 2941: <p>
2942:
2943: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 2944: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 2945: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 2946: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 2947: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 2948: </strong></font><br>
2949: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 2950: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
2951: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
2952: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
2953: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 2954:
2955: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2956: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
2957: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
2958: New York Times.
2959: </strong></font>(free registration required)
2960:
1.273 deraadt 2961: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2962: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 2963: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 2964: ABC News.
2965: </strong></font>
2966:
2967: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2968: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 2969: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 2970: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 2971: </strong></font>
2972:
2973: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2974: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 2975: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 2976: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 2977: </strong></font>
2978:
2979: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 2980: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
2981: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 2982: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 2983: </strong></font>
2984:
2985: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2986: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 2987: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 2988: Times Daily, AL.
2989: </strong></font>
2990:
2991: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2992: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
2993: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
2994: Boston.com, MA.
2995: </strong></font>
2996:
2997: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2998: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 2999: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 3000: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
3001: </strong></font>
3002:
3003: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 3004: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
3005: [Article was pulled]</a>
3006: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 3007: </strong></font>
3008:
3009: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3010: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
3011: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
3012: Infoshop News.
3013: </strong></font>
3014:
3015: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3016: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
3017: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
3018: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
3019: </strong></font>
3020:
3021: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 3022: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
3023: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
3024: Raleigh News, NC.
3025: </strong></font>
3026:
3027: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 3028: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 3029: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
3030: Napa News, CA.
3031: </strong></font>
3032:
3033: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3034: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 3035: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
3036: NEPA News, PA.
3037: </strong></font>
3038:
3039: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3040: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
3041: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
3042: Wired News.
3043: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 3044: <br>
3045: <li>
1.333 deraadt 3046: <font color="#009000"><strong>
3047: [JAPANESE]
3048: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
3049: Wired News Japan</a>
3050: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 3051:
1.271 deraadt 3052: </ul>
3053: <p>
1.272 deraadt 3054: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
3055: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 3056: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
3057: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
3058: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
3059: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
3060: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
3061: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 3062: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 3063: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
3064: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
3065: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 3066: <p>
3067: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 3068:
3069: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3070: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 3071: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
3072: Indianapolis Star, IN.
3073: </strong></font>
3074:
3075: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 3076: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
3077: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
3078: Miami Herald, FL.
3079: </strong></font>
3080:
3081: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 3082: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 3083: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
3084: </strong></font>
3085:
3086: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3087: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 3088: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 3089: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 3090: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 3091:
3092: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3093: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
3094: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
3095: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
3096: ABC News.
3097: </strong></font>
3098:
1.276 deraadt 3099: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3100: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 3101: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 3102: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 3103: </strong></font>
3104:
1.286 dhartmei 3105: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3106: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 3107: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
3108: Wilmington Star, NC.
3109: </strong></font>
3110:
1.300 jose 3111: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3112: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
3113: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
3114: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
3115: </strong></font>
3116:
1.309 jose 3117: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3118: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
3119: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
3120: Globe Technology.
3121: </strong></font>
3122:
1.263 deraadt 3123: </ul>
1.262 beck 3124: <p>
3125:
3126: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 3127: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
3128: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3129: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 3130: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 3131: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 3132: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
3133: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
3134: <p>
3135:
3136: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 3137: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
3138: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
3139: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 3140: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 3141: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
3142: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
3143: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
3144: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
3145: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
3146: and simply restates other press reports.
3147: <p>
3148:
3149: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 3150: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
3151: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
3152: OS News, April 18, 2003.
3153: </strong></font><br>
3154: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
3155: <p>
3156:
3157: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 3158: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
3159: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3160: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 3161: </strong></font><br>
3162: Another report on the DARPA funding.
3163: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
3164: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
3165: <p>
3166:
3167: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 3168: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
3169: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
3170: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
3171: April 17, 2003.
3172: </strong></font><br>
3173: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
3174: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
3175: Tech Anthems</a>
3176: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
3177: 4 so far.
3178: <p>
3179:
3180: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 3181: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
3182: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3183: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 3184: </strong></font><br>
3185: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
3186: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
3187: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
3188: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
3189: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
3190: Goes on to say:
3191: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
3192: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
3193: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
3194: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 3195: This article is also found online at:
3196: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 3197: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3198: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
3199: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
3200: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 3201: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 3202: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3203: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
3204: ZDnet</a>,
3205: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 3206: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 3207: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3208: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
3209: ZDnet Australia</a>,
3210: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 3211: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 3212: </ul>
1.260 ian 3213: <p>
1.279 deraadt 3214:
1.260 ian 3215: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3216: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 3217: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 3218: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 3219: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 3220: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 3221: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
3222: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
3223: without notice or justification.
3224: <p>
3225:
3226: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.571 ! miod 3227: <a href="http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 3228: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 3229: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 3230: </strong></font><br>
3231: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
3232: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 3233: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 3234: effective today, without any warning..."
3235: <p>
1.257 ian 3236:
3237: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 3238: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
3239: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3240: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 3241: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 3242: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
3243: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
3244: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
3245: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
3246: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 3247: <p>
3248:
3249: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 3250: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
3251: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3252: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 3253: </strong></font><br>
3254: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
3255: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
3256: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
3257: quoting two of them:
3258: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
3259: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
3260: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
3261: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
3262: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
3263: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
3264: <p>
3265:
1.255 ian 3266: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3267: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
3268: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 3269: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3270: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 3271: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 3272: <p>
3273:
3274: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 3275: [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 3276: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3277: </strong></font><br>
3278: New security concepts in OpenBSD
3279: <p>
3280:
3281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 3282: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
3283: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3284: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 3285: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 3286: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 3287: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
3288: security experts for more than three decades."
3289: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
3290: <p>
1.261 ian 3291:
1.254 drahn 3292: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 3293: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 3294: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3295: </strong></font><br>
3296: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
3297: <p>
3298:
3299: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 3300: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
3301: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
3302: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
3303: </strong></font><br>
3304: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
3305: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
3306: discussion OpenBSD's path.
3307: <p>
3308:
3309: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 3310: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
3311: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3312: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 3313: </strong></font><br>
3314: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
3315: from US DARPA.
3316: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
3317: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
3318: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
3319: the BSD license.
3320: <p>
3321: </ul>
3322:
1.251 ian 3323: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
3324: <ul>
3325:
3326: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3327: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
3328: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
3329: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
3330: </strong></font><br>
3331:
3332: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
3333: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
3334: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
3335: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
3336: <p>
3337:
3338: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 3339: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
3340: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 3341: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 3342: </strong></font><br>
3343: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
3344: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
3345: Mentions
3346: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
3347: and
3348: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
3349: programs.
3350: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 3351: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 3352: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
3353: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
3354: <p>
1.325 ian 3355: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
3356: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 3357:
3358: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3359: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
3360: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
3361: </strong></font><br>
3362: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
3363: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
3364: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
3365: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
3366: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
3367: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
3368: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
3369: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
3370: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
3371: put into service."
3372: <p>
3373: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
3374: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
3375: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
3376: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
3377: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
3378: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
3379: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
3380: computers with security features."
3381: <p>
1.329 ian 3382:
3383: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3384: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
3385: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
3386: Slate,
3387: March 3, 2003.
3388: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 3389: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 3390: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
3391: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
3392: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
3393: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
3394: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
3395: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
3396: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
3397: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
3398: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
3399: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
3400: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
3401: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
3402: of more secure open-source solutions like
3403: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
3404: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
3405: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
3406: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
3407: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
3408: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
3409: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
3410: the Beltway."
3411: <p>
1.251 ian 3412: </ul>
3413:
1.249 jufi 3414: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
3415: <ul>
3416: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3417: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
3418: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3419: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 3420: </strong></font><br>
3421: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
3422: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 3423: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 3424: <p>
1.334 ian 3425:
3426: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3427: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
3428: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
3429: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
3430: </strong></font><br>
3431: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
3432: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
3433: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
3434: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
3435: "... the hypothetical question ...
3436: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
3437: <br>
3438: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
3439: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
3440: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
3441: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
3442: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
3443: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 3444: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 3445: support network security.
3446: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
3447: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
3448: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
3449: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
3450: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
3451: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
3452: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
3453: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
3454: <br>
3455: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
3456: <p>
3457:
1.249 jufi 3458: </ul>
3459:
1.246 jufi 3460: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3461: <ul>
1.246 jufi 3462:
1.247 jufi 3463: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3464: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 3465: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3466: CNET News.com, December 4, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3467: </strong></font><br>
3468: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
3469: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
3470: <p>
3471:
1.247 jufi 3472: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3473: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
3474: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3475: Heise News-Ticker, December 4, 2002
1.301 jose 3476: </strong></font><br>
1.460 david 3477: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III CPU
1.301 jose 3478: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
3479: <p>
3480:
3481: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3482: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 3483: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3484: eWeek, December 3, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3485: </strong></font><br>
3486: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
3487: in their annual OpenHack security test.
3488: <p>
1.247 jufi 3489: </ul>
1.246 jufi 3490:
1.244 jufi 3491: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3492: <ul>
1.246 jufi 3493:
1.247 jufi 3494: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3495: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
3496: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
3497: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3498: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3499: </strong></font><br>
3500: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
3501: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
3502: md5 digests.
3503: <p>
3504:
1.247 jufi 3505: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3506: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 3507: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
3508: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3509: </strong></font><br>
3510: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
3511: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
3512: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
3513: right the first time."
3514: <p>
1.247 jufi 3515: </ul>
1.244 jufi 3516:
3517:
3518: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3519: <ul>
1.244 jufi 3520:
1.247 jufi 3521: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3522: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3523: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
3524: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3525: </strong></font><br>
3526: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
3527: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
3528: part 6</a>.
3529: <p>
3530:
1.247 jufi 3531: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3532: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 3533: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
3534: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3535: O'Reilly Network, August 8, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3536: </strong></font><br>
3537: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
3538: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
3539: <p>
1.301 jose 3540:
3541: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3542: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
3543: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
3544: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
3545: </strong></font><br>
3546:
3547: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
3548: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
3549: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
3550: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
3551: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
3552: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
3553: <i>Here's the
3554: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
3555: <p>
1.247 jufi 3556: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3557:
3558: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3559: <ul>
1.242 jufi 3560:
1.247 jufi 3561: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3562: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 3563: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3564: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3565: </strong></font><br>
3566: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
3567: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
3568: <p>
3569:
1.247 jufi 3570: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3571: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3572: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3573: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 1, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3574: </strong></font><br>
3575: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
3576: this time using pf.
3577: <p>
1.247 jufi 3578: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3579:
3580: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3581: <ul>
1.242 jufi 3582:
1.247 jufi 3583: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3584: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3585: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
3586: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3587: </strong></font><br>
3588: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
3589: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
3590: their rotation.
3591: <p>
3592:
1.247 jufi 3593: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3594: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3595: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3596: O'Reilly Network, June 6, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3597: </strong></font><br>
3598: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
3599: <p>
1.247 jufi 3600: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3601:
1.239 jufi 3602: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3603: <ul>
1.239 jufi 3604:
1.247 jufi 3605: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3606: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 3607: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
3608: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3609: </strong></font><br>
3610: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
3611: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
3612: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
3613: <p>
3614:
1.247 jufi 3615: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 3616: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 3617: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
3618: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 3619: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 3620: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
3621: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
3622: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 3623: <p>
1.247 jufi 3624: </ul>
1.239 jufi 3625:
1.235 lebel 3626: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3627: <ul>
1.235 lebel 3628:
1.239 jufi 3629:
1.247 jufi 3630: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 3631: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 3632: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
3633: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 3634: </strong></font><br>
3635: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
3636: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
3637: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
3638: <p>
1.301 jose 3639:
1.247 jufi 3640: </ul>
1.235 lebel 3641:
1.228 horacio 3642: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3643: <ul>
1.228 horacio 3644:
1.247 jufi 3645: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3646: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3647: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
3648: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 3649: </strong></font><br>
3650: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
3651: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
3652: <p>
3653:
1.247 jufi 3654: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 3655: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 3656: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
3657: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 3658: </strong></font><br>
3659: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
3660: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
3661: <p>
3662:
1.247 jufi 3663: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 3664: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 3665: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
3666: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 3667: </strong></font><br>
3668: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
3669: on the desktop of his parents.
3670: <p>
3671:
1.247 jufi 3672: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 3673: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 3674: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
3675: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 3676: </strong></font><br>
3677: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
3678: using IPFilter.
3679:
3680: <p>
3681:
1.247 jufi 3682: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 3683: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 3684: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
3685: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 3686: </strong></font><br>
3687: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
3688: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
3689: perspectives of the four OS.
3690: <br>
3691: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 3692: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 3693: <p>
3694:
1.247 jufi 3695: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 3696: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
3697: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 3698: software and security</a>,
3699: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 3700: </strong></font><br>
3701:
3702: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
3703: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
3704: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
3705: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
3706: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
3707: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
3708: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
3709: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
3710: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
3711: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
3712: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
3713: security conscious team beyond doubt.
3714: <p>
1.247 jufi 3715: </ul>
1.228 horacio 3716:
1.225 horacio 3717: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3718: <ul>
1.225 horacio 3719:
1.247 jufi 3720: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3721: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
3722: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 3723: Interview</a>,
3724: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 3725: </strong></font><br>
3726:
3727: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
3728: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
3729: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 3730: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 3731: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
3732: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
3733: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
3734: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
3735: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 3736: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 3737: of choice.
3738: <p>
1.247 jufi 3739: </ul>
1.225 horacio 3740:
3741: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3742: <ul>
1.225 horacio 3743:
1.247 jufi 3744: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3745: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 3746: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
3747: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 3748: </strong></font><br>
3749:
3750: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
3751: <p>
3752:
1.247 jufi 3753: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3754: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 3755: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
3756: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 3757: </strong></font><br>
3758:
3759: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
3760: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
3761: <p>
1.247 jufi 3762: </ul>
1.225 horacio 3763:
1.218 horacio 3764: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3765: <ul>
1.218 horacio 3766:
1.247 jufi 3767: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 3768: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 3769: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 3770: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 3771: </strong></font><br>
3772:
3773: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
3774: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
3775: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
3776: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
3777: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
3778: subjects. Worth a read.
3779: <p>
3780:
3781:
1.247 jufi 3782: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 3783: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 3784: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
3785: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 3786: </strong></font><br>
3787:
3788: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
3789: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
3790: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
3791: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
3792: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
3793: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
3794: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
3795: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
3796: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 3797: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 3798: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
3799: on other operating systems.<br>
3800: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
3801: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
3802: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
3803: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
3804: <p>
3805:
1.247 jufi 3806: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3807: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 3808: Operating System 2010</a>,
3809: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 3810: </strong></font><br>
3811:
3812: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
3813: covering the level of software integration into the core
3814: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
3815: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
3816: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
3817: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
3818: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
3819: <p>
3820:
1.247 jufi 3821: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 3822: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 3823: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
3824: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 3825: </strong></font><br>
3826:
3827: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
3828: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
3829: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
3830: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
3831: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
3832: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
3833: <p>
1.247 jufi 3834: </ul>
1.221 horacio 3835:
1.210 jufi 3836: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3837: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3838:
1.247 jufi 3839: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3840: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 3841: Already a Contender</a>,
3842: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 3843: </strong></font><br>
3844:
3845: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
3846: source software in response to an article which claimed that
3847: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
3848: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
3849: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
3850: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
3851: <p>
3852:
1.247 jufi 3853: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 3854: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 3855: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
3856: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 3857: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3858:
1.224 horacio 3859: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
3860: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
3861: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
3862: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
3863: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
3864: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 3865: <p>
1.247 jufi 3866: </ul>
1.215 horacio 3867:
3868: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3869: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3870:
1.247 jufi 3871: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3872: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
3873: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 3874: Division</a>,
3875: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 3876: </strong></font><br>
3877:
3878: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
3879: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 3880: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 3881: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
3882: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
3883: investment</em>.<br>
3884: The implementation details can be seen on their
3885: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
3886: <p>
3887:
1.247 jufi 3888: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3889: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
3890: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
3891: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
3892: </strong></font><br>
3893:
3894: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
3895: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
3896: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1.475 grunk 3897: laptops and T-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1.301 jose 3898: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
3899: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
3900: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
3901: <p>
3902:
3903: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3904: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 3905: Thinking about Security</a>,
3906: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 3907: </strong></font><br>
3908:
3909: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
3910: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
3911: security and says that even secured operating systems running
3912: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
3913: to time.<br>
3914: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
3915: system and just the most secure system.
3916: <p>
3917:
1.247 jufi 3918: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3919: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 3920: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
3921: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 3922: </strong></font><br>
3923:
3924: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
3925: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
3926: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
3927: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
3928: choice:<br>
3929: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
3930: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
3931: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
3932: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
3933: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
3934: network security devices and as such must be well
3935: armored."</em><br>
3936: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
3937: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
3938: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
3939: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
3940: <br>
3941: Bravo!
3942: <p>
1.247 jufi 3943: </ul>
1.210 jufi 3944:
1.207 ian 3945: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3946: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3947:
1.247 jufi 3948: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 3949: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
3950: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
3951: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 3952:
1.207 ian 3953: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
3954: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 3955: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 3956: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
3957: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
3958: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 3959: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 3960: <p>
1.247 jufi 3961: </ul>
1.207 ian 3962:
1.194 jufi 3963: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3964: <ul>
1.194 jufi 3965:
1.247 jufi 3966: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3967: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 3968: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
3969: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 3970: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3971:
1.240 miod 3972: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 3973: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
3974: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
3975: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
3976: <p>
3977:
1.247 jufi 3978: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3979: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
3980: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
3981: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
3982:
3983: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
3984: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
3985: <p>
3986:
3987: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3988: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
3989: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
3990: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
3991:
3992: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
3993: <p>
3994:
3995: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3996: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 3997: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
3998: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
3999: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4000:
1.240 miod 4001: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 4002: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 4003: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
4004: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 4005: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 4006: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 4007: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
4008: <br>
1.413 deraadt 4009: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 4010: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
4011: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
4012: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
4013: <p>
4014:
1.247 jufi 4015: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 4016: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
4017: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 4018: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 4019: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4020:
1.194 jufi 4021: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
4022: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
4023: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
4024: <br>
4025: The new
4026: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 4027: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 4028: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
4029: <p>
1.247 jufi 4030: </ul>
1.194 jufi 4031:
1.190 horacio 4032: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4033: <ul>
1.190 horacio 4034:
1.247 jufi 4035: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 4036:
4037: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
4038: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
4039:
1.301 jose 4040:
1.191 jufi 4041: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
4042: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
4043:
4044: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
4045: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
4046:
1.566 martynas 4047: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20010527142347">
1.212 horacio 4048: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 4049: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
4050:
1.211 horacio 4051: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
4052: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 4053: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
4054:
1.247 jufi 4055: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 4056: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
4057:
1.247 jufi 4058: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 4059: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
4060:
1.212 horacio 4061: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
4062: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 4063: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
4064:
4065: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
4066: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
4067:
4068: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
4069: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
4070:
1.301 jose 4071: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
4072: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
4073:
1.191 jufi 4074: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
4075: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
4076:
4077: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 4078: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 4079:
1.192 jufi 4080: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
4081: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 4082: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 4083:
1.193 deraadt 4084: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
4085: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 4086: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 4087:
1.247 jufi 4088: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 4089: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
4090:
1.247 jufi 4091: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 4092: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
4093: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
4094:
1.213 horacio 4095: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 4096: 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 4097: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
4098:
1.190 horacio 4099: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 4100: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
4101: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
4102: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
4103: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
4104: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
4105: <p>
1.190 horacio 4106:
1.247 jufi 4107: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4108: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
4109: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
4110: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 4111: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4112:
1.195 jufi 4113: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 4114: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
4115: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
4116: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 4117: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
4118: <p>
4119:
1.247 jufi 4120: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4121: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 4122: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
4123: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
4124: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4125:
1.191 jufi 4126: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 4127: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
4128: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
4129: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
4130: <p>
4131:
4132: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4133: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
4134: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4135: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
4136:
4137: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
4138: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 4139: <p>
1.247 jufi 4140: </ul>
1.190 horacio 4141:
1.191 jufi 4142:
1.186 jufi 4143: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4144: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 4145:
1.247 jufi 4146: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 4147: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 4148: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
4149: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 4150: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 4151:
1.188 jufi 4152: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 4153: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 4154: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 4155: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
4156: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 4157: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 4158: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 4159: <p>
4160:
1.301 jose 4161: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4162: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
4163: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4164: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
4165:
4166: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
4167: <p>
1.191 jufi 4168:
1.247 jufi 4169: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 4170: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
4171: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1.466 deraadt 4172: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 5, 2001
1.191 jufi 4173: </strong></font><br>
4174:
4175: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
4176: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
4177: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
4178: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
4179: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
4180: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
4181: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
4182: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
4183: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
4184: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
4185: familiar?
4186: <p>
1.247 jufi 4187: </ul>
1.191 jufi 4188:
1.178 louis 4189: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4190: <ul>
1.178 louis 4191:
1.247 jufi 4192: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 4193: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 4194: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
4195: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 4196: </strong></font><br>
4197:
4198: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
4199: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
4200: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
4201: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
4202: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
4203: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
4204: <p>
4205:
1.247 jufi 4206: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4207: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
4208: Open source under the hood</a>,
4209: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 4210: </strong></font><br>
4211:
4212: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
4213: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
4214: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
4215: <p>
4216:
1.247 jufi 4217: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4218: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
4219: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
4220: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 4221: </strong></font><br>
4222:
4223: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
4224: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
4225: <p>
1.247 jufi 4226: </ul>
1.179 louis 4227:
1.174 louis 4228:
1.175 louis 4229: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4230: <ul>
1.175 louis 4231:
1.247 jufi 4232: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4233: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
4234: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
4235: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 4236: </strong></font><br>
4237:
4238: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
4239: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
4240: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
4241: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
4242: <p>
4243:
1.247 jufi 4244: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4245: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
4246: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
4247: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 4248: </strong></font><br>
4249:
4250: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 4251: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 4252: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
4253: <p>
1.247 jufi 4254: </ul>
1.175 louis 4255:
1.176 louis 4256:
1.172 mickey 4257: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4258: <ul>
1.172 mickey 4259:
1.247 jufi 4260: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4261: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
4262: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 4263: </strong></font><br>
4264:
4265: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
4266: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
4267: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 4268: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 4269: <p>
4270:
1.247 jufi 4271: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 4272: <a
1.269 deraadt 4273: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
4274: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
4275: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 4276: </strong></font><br>
4277:
4278: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
4279: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
4280: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
4281: <p>
4282:
1.247 jufi 4283: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4284: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 4285: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
4286: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 4287: </strong></font><br>
4288:
4289: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
4290: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
4291: <p>
4292:
1.247 jufi 4293: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4294: <a
1.269 deraadt 4295: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
4296: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 4297: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
4298: </strong></font><br>
4299:
4300: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
4301: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
4302: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
4303: our own Theo de Raadt.
4304: <p>
4305:
1.247 jufi 4306: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4307: <a
1.269 deraadt 4308: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
4309: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
4310: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 4311: </strong></font><br>
4312:
4313: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
4314: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
4315: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
4316: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
4317: shut down.]
4318: <p>
4319:
1.247 jufi 4320: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4321: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 4322: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 4323: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
4324: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 4325: </strong></font><br>
4326:
4327: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
4328: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
4329: <p>
1.247 jufi 4330: </ul>
1.172 mickey 4331:
1.161 louis 4332: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4333: <ul>
1.161 louis 4334:
1.247 jufi 4335: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 4336: <a
1.269 deraadt 4337: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
4338: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
4339: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 4340: </strong></font><br>
4341:
4342: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
4343: by John Wolley
4344: <p>
4345:
1.247 jufi 4346: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 4347: <a
1.269 deraadt 4348: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
4349: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
4350: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 4351: </strong></font><br>
4352:
4353: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
4354: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
4355: OpenBSD).
4356: <p>
4357:
1.247 jufi 4358: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 4359: <a
1.247 jufi 4360: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 4361: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
4362: </strong></font><br>
4363:
4364: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
4365: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
4366: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
4367: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
4368: and hindsight.
4369: <p>
4370:
1.247 jufi 4371: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4372: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
4373: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
4374: </strong></font><br>
4375:
4376: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
4377: <p>
4378:
1.247 jufi 4379: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 4380: <a
1.168 provos 4381: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
4382: December 7, 2000
4383: </strong></font><br>
4384:
4385: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
4386: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
4387: us explain.
4388: <p>
4389:
1.247 jufi 4390: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 4391: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
4392: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 4393: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 4394: December 6, 2000
4395: </strong></font><br>
4396:
4397: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
4398: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
4399: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
4400: <p>
4401:
1.247 jufi 4402: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4403: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
4404: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
4405: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
4406: </strong></font><br>
4407:
4408: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
4409: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
4410: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
4411: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
4412: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
4413: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
4414: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
4415: <p>
4416:
4417: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 4418: <a
1.226 horacio 4419: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
4420: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 4421: </strong></font><br>
4422:
4423: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 4424: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 4425: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 4426: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
4427: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
4428: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 4429: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 4430: <p>
1.162 millert 4431:
1.247 jufi 4432: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 4433: <a
1.161 louis 4434: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
4435: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
4436: </strong></font><br>
4437:
4438: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
4439: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
4440: <p>
4441:
1.247 jufi 4442: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 4443: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
4444: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
4445: </strong></font><br>
4446:
4447: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
4448: <p>
4449:
4450:
1.247 jufi 4451: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 4452: <a
1.226 horacio 4453: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
4454: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
4455: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 4456: </strong></font><br>
4457:
4458: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
4459: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
4460: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
4461: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
4462: <p>
1.247 jufi 4463: </ul>
1.169 louis 4464:
1.158 louis 4465: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4466: <ul>
1.147 louis 4467:
1.247 jufi 4468: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4469: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
4470: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 4471: </strong></font><br>
4472:
4473: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
4474: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
4475: <p>
4476:
1.247 jufi 4477: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4478: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
4479: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
4480: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 4481: </strong></font><br>
4482: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
4483: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
4484: <p>
4485:
1.247 jufi 4486: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 4487: <a
4488: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
4489: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
4490: </strong></font><br>
4491:
4492: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
4493: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
4494: <p>
4495:
1.247 jufi 4496: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4497: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 4498: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
4499: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 4500:
1.213 horacio 4501: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 4502: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 4503: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
4504: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
4505: <p>
1.215 horacio 4506:
1.247 jufi 4507: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4508: <a
4509: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
4510: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
4511: </strong></font><br>
4512:
4513: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
4514: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
4515: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
4516: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
4517: much of the attitude too).
4518: <p>
1.161 louis 4519:
1.247 jufi 4520: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4521: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4522: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 4523: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4524:
1.157 louis 4525: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
4526: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
4527: <p>
1.247 jufi 4528: </ul>
1.157 louis 4529:
4530: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4531: <ul>
1.157 louis 4532:
1.247 jufi 4533: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4534: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4535: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 4536: </strong></font><br>
4537:
4538: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
4539: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
4540: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
4541: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
4542: <p>
4543:
1.247 jufi 4544: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 4545: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
4546: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
4547: </strong></font><br>
4548:
4549: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
4550: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
4551: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
4552: it because they love coding...
4553: <p>
4554:
1.247 jufi 4555: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 4556: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
4557: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
4558: </strong></font><br>
4559:
4560: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
4561: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
4562: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
4563: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
4564: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
4565: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
4566: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
4567: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
4568: <p>
4569:
1.247 jufi 4570: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4571: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
4572: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
4573: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 4574: </strong></font><br>
4575:
4576: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
4577: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
4578: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
4579: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
4580: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
4581: the pizza.
4582: <p>
4583:
1.247 jufi 4584: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 4585: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
4586: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
4587: </strong></font><br>
4588:
4589: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
4590: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
4591: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
4592: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
4593: problems.
4594: <p>
4595:
1.247 jufi 4596: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.568 ian 4597: <a href="https://osuny.co.uk/txt/zines/napalm/issue7.txt">Using IPSEC and Samba
4598: to integrate Windows Networks</a>, Napalm, October 6, 2000
1.154 louis 4599: </strong></font><br>
4600:
1.222 miod 4601: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 4602: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
4603: - whether they like it or not.
4604: <p>
4605:
1.247 jufi 4606: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4607: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
4608: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 4609: </strong></font><br>
4610:
4611: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
4612: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
4613: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 4614: <p>
1.148 aaron 4615:
1.247 jufi 4616: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4617: <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 4618: </strong></font><br>
4619:
4620: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
4621: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
4622: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
4623: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
4624: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
4625: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
4626: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
4627: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
4628: <p>
4629:
1.247 jufi 4630: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4631: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
4632: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 4633: </strong></font><br>
4634:
4635: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
4636: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 4637: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 4638: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
4639: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
4640: <p>
1.247 jufi 4641: </ul>
1.147 louis 4642:
1.138 louis 4643: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4644: <ul>
1.138 louis 4645:
1.247 jufi 4646: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4647: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
4648: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
4649: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
4650: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 4651: </strong></font><br>
4652:
1.227 horacio 4653: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 4654: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
4655: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
4656: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
4657: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
4658: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
4659: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
4660: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 4661: <p>
4662:
1.247 jufi 4663: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 4664: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 4665: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 4666: </strong></font><br>
4667:
4668: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
4669: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
4670: groups, and even Linux.
4671: <p>
4672:
1.247 jufi 4673: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4674: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
4675: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 4676: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
4677: </strong></font><br>
4678:
4679: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
4680: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
4681: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
4682: library after installing the OS.
4683: <p>
4684:
1.247 jufi 4685: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4686: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 4687: Sys Admin, September 2000
4688: </strong></font><br>
4689:
4690: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
4691: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
4692: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
4693: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 4694: (<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>,
4695: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
4696: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
4697: <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 4698: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 4699: out of the system.
4700: <p>
4701:
1.247 jufi 4702: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 4703: <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
4704: </strong></font><br>
4705:
4706: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 4707: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 4708: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
4709: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
4710: the IP filtering and address translation.
4711: <p>
1.301 jose 4712:
4713: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4714: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
4715: </strong></font><br>
4716:
4717: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
4718: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
4719: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
4720: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
4721: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
4722: <p>
1.247 jufi 4723: </ul>
1.200 niklas 4724:
1.131 louis 4725: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4726: <ul>
1.131 louis 4727:
1.247 jufi 4728: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4729: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
4730: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
4731: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 4732: </strong></font><br>
4733:
4734: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
4735: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
4736: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
4737: <p>
4738:
1.247 jufi 4739: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 4740: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
4741: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
4742: </strong></font><br>
4743:
4744: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
4745: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
4746: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
4747: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
4748: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
4749: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
4750: note of"</i>.
4751: <p>
4752:
1.247 jufi 4753: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 4754: <a
1.247 jufi 4755: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 4756: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
4757: </strong></font><br>
4758:
4759: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
4760: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
4761: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
4762: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
4763: <p>
4764:
1.247 jufi 4765: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 4766: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 4767: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
4768: </strong></font><br>
4769:
4770: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
4771: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
4772: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
4773: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
4774: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
4775: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
4776: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
4777: <p>
4778:
1.247 jufi 4779: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 4780: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
4781: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
4782: 2000
4783: </strong></font><br>
4784:
4785: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
4786: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
4787: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
4788: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
4789: against current industry practices.
4790: <p>
4791:
1.247 jufi 4792: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 4793: <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
4794: </strong></font><br>
4795:
4796: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
4797: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
4798: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
4799: <p>
4800:
1.247 jufi 4801: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 4802: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
4803: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
4804: </strong></font><br>
4805:
4806: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
4807: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
4808: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
4809: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
4810: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
4811: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
4812: careful code reviews, he concludes.
4813: <p>
4814:
1.247 jufi 4815: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 4816: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
4817: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
4818: </strong></font><br>
4819:
4820: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
4821: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
4822: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
4823: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
4824: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 4825: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
4826: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
4827: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 4828: <p>
1.247 jufi 4829: </ul>
1.131 louis 4830:
1.118 louis 4831: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4832: <ul>
1.118 louis 4833:
1.247 jufi 4834: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 4835: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
4836: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
4837: </strong></font><br>
4838:
4839: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
4840: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
4841: about time. The article mentions that
4842: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
4843: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
4844: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 4845: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 4846: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
4847: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 4848: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 4849: <p>
4850:
1.247 jufi 4851: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4852: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 4853: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 4854: </strong></font><br>
4855:
4856: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
4857: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
4858: of OpenSSH.
4859: <p>
4860:
1.247 jufi 4861: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4862: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4863: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 4864: </strong></font><br>
4865:
4866: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 4867: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 4868: bridging.
4869: <p>
4870:
1.247 jufi 4871: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4872: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
4873: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 4874: </strong></font><br>
4875:
1.121 deraadt 4876: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
4877: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 4878: <p>
4879:
1.247 jufi 4880: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 4881: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
4882: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
4883: </strong></font><br>
4884:
4885: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
4886: <p>
4887:
1.247 jufi 4888: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 4889: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 4890: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
4891: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 4892: </strong></font><br>
4893:
1.120 deraadt 4894: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
4895: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 4896: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
4897: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
4898: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
4899: <p>
4900:
1.247 jufi 4901: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 4902: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
4903: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
4904: </strong></font><br>
4905:
1.222 miod 4906: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 4907: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
4908: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
4909: protocols and their quirks.
4910: <p>
4911:
1.247 jufi 4912: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4913: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
4914: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 4915: </strong></font><br>
4916:
4917: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
4918: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
4919: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 4920: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 4921: <p>
4922:
1.247 jufi 4923: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 4924: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
4925: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
4926: </strong></font><br>
4927:
4928: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
4929: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
4930: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
4931: <p>
4932:
1.247 jufi 4933: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 4934: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 4935: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
4936: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 4937: </strong></font><br>
4938:
4939: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
4940: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
4941: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
4942: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
4943: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
4944: <p>
1.247 jufi 4945: </ul>
1.118 louis 4946:
1.104 louis 4947: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4948: <ul>
1.104 louis 4949:
1.247 jufi 4950: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 4951: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
4952: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
4953: </strong></font><br>
4954:
4955: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
4956: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
4957: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
4958: be a bit dry.
4959: <p>
4960:
1.247 jufi 4961: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4962: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
4963: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
4964: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
4965: </strong></font><br>
4966: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
4967: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
4968: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
4969: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
4970: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
4971: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
4972: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
4973: <p>
4974:
1.247 jufi 4975: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4976: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
4977: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 4978: 2000
1.128 louis 4979: </strong></font><br>
4980:
4981: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
4982: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
4983: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
4984: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
4985: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 4986: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 4987: <p>
4988:
1.247 jufi 4989: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4990: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
4991: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 4992: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 4993:
4994: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
4995: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
4996: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
4997: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 4998: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
4999: <p>
1.110 louis 5000:
1.247 jufi 5001: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 5002: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
5003: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
5004: </strong></font><br>
5005:
5006: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
5007: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
5008: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
5009: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
5010: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
5011: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
5012: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
5013: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
5014: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
5015: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
5016: <p>
5017:
1.247 jufi 5018: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 5019: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 5020: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 5021:
5022: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
5023: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 5024: <p>
1.108 louis 5025:
1.247 jufi 5026: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 5027: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
5028: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 5029: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 5030:
5031: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
5032: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
5033: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 5034: <p>
1.106 louis 5035:
1.247 jufi 5036: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 5037: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
5038: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 5039: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 5040:
5041: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
5042: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
5043: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
5044: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 5045: <p>
1.107 louis 5046:
1.247 jufi 5047: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 5048: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
5049: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 5050: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 5051:
5052: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
5053: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 5054: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 5055: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
5056: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 5057: <p>
1.105 louis 5058:
1.247 jufi 5059: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 5060: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 5061: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 5062: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 5063:
1.113 naddy 5064: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
5065: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 5066: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 5067: <p>
1.104 louis 5068:
1.247 jufi 5069: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 5070: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
5071: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
5072: </strong></font><br>
5073:
5074: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
5075: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
5076: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
5077: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
5078: <p>
1.301 jose 5079:
5080: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5081: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
5082: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
5083: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
5084:
5085: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
5086: hardware-supported cryptography.
5087: <p>
1.247 jufi 5088: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 5089:
1.85 louis 5090: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5091: <ul>
1.85 louis 5092:
1.247 jufi 5093: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5094: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 5095: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 5096: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 5097:
5098: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
5099: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
5100: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
5101: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
5102: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
5103: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
5104: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 5105: <p>
1.99 louis 5106:
1.247 jufi 5107: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5108: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 5109: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 5110: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 5111:
5112: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
5113: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
5114: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
5115: conditions.
1.113 naddy 5116: <p>
1.100 louis 5117:
1.247 jufi 5118: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5119: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 5120: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 5121: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 5122:
5123: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
5124: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
5125: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
5126: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 5127: <p>
1.95 louis 5128:
1.247 jufi 5129: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5130: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 5131: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 5132: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 5133:
5134: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
5135: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 5136: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 5137: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
5138: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5139: <p>
1.92 louis 5140:
1.247 jufi 5141: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5142: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 5143: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 5144: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 5145:
5146: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
5147: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
5148: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
5149: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
5150: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
5151: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 5152: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 5153: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 5154: <p>
1.91 louis 5155:
1.247 jufi 5156: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5157: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
5158: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 5159: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 5160:
5161: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
5162: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
5163: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
5164: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
5165: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
5166: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
5167: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
5168: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
5169: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 5170: <p>
1.90 louis 5171:
1.247 jufi 5172: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 5173: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
5174: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
5175: </strong></font><br>
5176: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
5177: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
5178: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
5179: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
5180: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
5181: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
5182: <p>
5183:
1.247 jufi 5184: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 5185: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
5186: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 5187: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 5188:
1.113 naddy 5189: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
5190: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 5191: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
5192: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
5193: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
5194: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
5195: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 5196: <p>
1.87 louis 5197:
1.247 jufi 5198: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 5199: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
5200: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 5201: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 5202:
5203: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 5204: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 5205: <p>
1.85 louis 5206:
1.247 jufi 5207: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5208: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
5209: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
5210: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
5211:
5212: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
5213: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
5214: <p>
5215:
5216: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 5217: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
5218: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 5219: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 5220:
5221: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 5222: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 5223: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
5224: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 5225: <p>
1.89 louis 5226:
1.247 jufi 5227: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5228: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
1.85 louis 5229: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 5230: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 5231:
5232: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
5233: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
5234: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
5235: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
5236: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 5237: </ul>
1.85 louis 5238:
1.78 deraadt 5239: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5240: <ul>
1.74 louis 5241:
1.247 jufi 5242: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5243: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 5244: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 5245: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 5246: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 5247:
5248: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
5249: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
5250: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5251: <p>
1.83 louis 5252:
1.247 jufi 5253: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 5254: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
5255: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 5256: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 5257:
5258: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
5259: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 5260: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 5261: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
5262: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 5263: <p>
1.93 louis 5264:
1.247 jufi 5265: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 5266: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
5267: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
5268: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 5269: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 5270:
1.83 louis 5271: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
5272: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
5273: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
5274: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
5275: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 5276: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
5277: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
5278: <p>
1.82 aaron 5279:
1.247 jufi 5280: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5281: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 5282: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 5283: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 5284:
1.83 louis 5285: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
5286: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
5287: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 5288: <p>
1.80 louis 5289:
1.247 jufi 5290: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5291: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 5292: Bad Press</a>,
5293: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 5294: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 5295:
5296: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 5297: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 5298: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
5299: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
5300: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 5301: <p>
1.247 jufi 5302: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 5303:
5304: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5305: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 5306:
1.247 jufi 5307: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5308: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
5309: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 5310: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 5311: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 5312:
5313: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
5314: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
5315: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
5316: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 5317: <p>
1.74 louis 5318:
1.247 jufi 5319: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 5320: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
5321: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 5322: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 5323:
1.219 horacio 5324: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
5325: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
5326: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
5327: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
5328: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
5329: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
5330: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 5331: <p>
1.88 louis 5332:
1.247 jufi 5333: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 5334: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 5335: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 5336: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 5337:
5338: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
5339: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
5340: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
5341: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 5342: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 5343: <p>
1.81 louis 5344:
1.247 jufi 5345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5346: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 5347: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 5348: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 5349:
5350: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
5351: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
5352: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
5353: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
5354: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
5355: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
5356: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 5357: <p>
1.90 louis 5358:
1.247 jufi 5359: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5360: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 5361: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 5362: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 5363:
5364: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
5365: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
5366: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 5367: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 5368: <p>
1.247 jufi 5369: </ul>
1.71 louis 5370:
1.69 deraadt 5371: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5372: <ul>
1.70 louis 5373:
1.247 jufi 5374: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5375: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
5376: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 5377: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 5378:
5379: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
5380: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
5381: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 5382: <p>
1.70 louis 5383:
1.247 jufi 5384: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5385: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
5386: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 5387: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 5388:
5389: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 5390: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 5391: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 5392: <p>
1.68 louis 5393:
1.247 jufi 5394: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5395: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
5396: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 5397: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 5398: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 5399:
1.111 jufi 5400: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
5401: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 5402: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 5403: "secure by default" installation.
5404: <p>
1.64 louis 5405:
1.247 jufi 5406: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 5407: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 5408: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 5409: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 5410:
1.113 naddy 5411: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 5412: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 5413: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 5414: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
5415: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
5416: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 5417: <p>
1.66 louis 5418:
1.247 jufi 5419: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5420: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 5421: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5422: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 5423:
5424: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 5425: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 5426: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
5427: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
5428: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 5429: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
5430: <p>
1.83 louis 5431:
1.247 jufi 5432: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5433: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 5434: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5435: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 5436:
5437: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 5438: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
5439: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 5440: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
5441: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 5442: <p>
1.64 louis 5443:
1.247 jufi 5444: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5445: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 5446: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5447: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 5448:
5449: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
5450: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 5451: <p>
1.301 jose 5452:
5453: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5454: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
5455: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
5456: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
5457: </strong></font><br>
5458:
5459: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
5460: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
5461: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
5462: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
5463: Giving way to
5464: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
5465: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
5466: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
5467: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
5468: <p>
1.247 jufi 5469: </ul>
1.65 louis 5470:
1.69 deraadt 5471: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5472: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5473:
1.247 jufi 5474: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5475: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 5476: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 5477: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 5478:
5479: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
5480: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
5481: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
5482: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 5483: <p>
1.88 louis 5484:
1.247 jufi 5485: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5486: <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 5487: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 5488:
5489: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 5490: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
5491: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 5492: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
5493: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 5494: <p>
1.60 louis 5495:
1.247 jufi 5496: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 5497: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 5498: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 5499: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 5500: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5501:
5502: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
5503: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
5504: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 5505: <p>
1.58 louis 5506:
1.247 jufi 5507: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 5508: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 5509: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 5510:
5511: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
5512: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 5513: <p>
1.53 louis 5514:
1.247 jufi 5515: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 5516: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
5517: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 5518: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 5519:
5520: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
5521: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
5522: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 5523: <p>
1.99 louis 5524:
1.247 jufi 5525: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 5526: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 5527: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5528:
5529: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
5530: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 5531: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 5532: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 5533: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 5534:
1.247 jufi 5535: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 5536: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
5537: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 5538: </strong></font><br>
5539:
5540: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
5541: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
5542: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
5543: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
5544: <p>
5545:
1.247 jufi 5546: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5547: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 5548: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 5549: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5550:
5551: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
5552: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 5553: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 5554:
1.247 jufi 5555: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 5556: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 5557: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 5558:
5559: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 5560: in
1.247 jufi 5561: <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 5562: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 5563: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 5564: <p>
1.53 louis 5565:
1.247 jufi 5566: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5567: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 5568: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
5569: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 5570: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 5571:
1.58 louis 5572: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5573: <p>
1.301 jose 5574:
5575: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5576: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
5577: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
5578: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
5579: Informacyjny, January 2000
5580: </strong></font><br>
5581:
5582: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
5583: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
5584: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
5585: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
5586: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
5587: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
5588: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
5589: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
5590: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
5591: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 5592: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
5593: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 5594: <p>
5595:
5596: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5597: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
5598: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
5599: </strong></font><br>
5600:
5601: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
5602: <p>
5603: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 5604:
1.69 deraadt 5605: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5606: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5607:
1.247 jufi 5608: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 5609: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
5610: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
5611: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 5612: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5613:
1.58 louis 5614: Kurt Seifried
5615: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
5616: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
5617: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 5618: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 5619:
1.247 jufi 5620: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5621: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 5622: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 5623: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 5624:
5625: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 5626: <p>
1.96 louis 5627:
1.247 jufi 5628: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5629: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
5630: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
5631: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
5632: </strong></font><br>
5633:
5634: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
5635: <p>
5636:
5637: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5638: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 5639: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 5640: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 5641:
5642: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
5643: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 5644: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 5645: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 5646: <p>
1.247 jufi 5647: </ul>
1.86 louis 5648:
1.69 deraadt 5649: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5650: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5651:
1.247 jufi 5652: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 5653: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
5654: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 5655: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 5656:
5657: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
5658: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 5659: <p>
1.61 louis 5660:
1.247 jufi 5661: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5662: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 5663: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
5664: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5665: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 5666:
5667: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 5668: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 5669: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
5670: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 5671: right -- or at least strives to".
5672: <p>
1.48 louis 5673:
1.247 jufi 5674: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 5675: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
5676: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5677: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 5678: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
5679: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
5680: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
5681: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 5682: <p>
1.61 louis 5683:
1.247 jufi 5684: <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 5685: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 5686: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 5687:
5688: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
5689: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
5690: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
5691: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 5692: <p>
1.46 louis 5693:
1.247 jufi 5694: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 5695: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
5696: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 5697: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5698:
5699: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
5700: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 5701: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 5702:
1.247 jufi 5703: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 5704: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
5705: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 5706: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 5707:
5708: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
5709: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
5710: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
5711: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 5712: <p>
1.247 jufi 5713: </ul>
1.70 louis 5714:
1.69 deraadt 5715: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5716: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5717:
1.247 jufi 5718: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5719: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
5720: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 5721: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 5722: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 5723:
5724: Kurt Seifried
5725: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
5726: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
5727: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 5728: <p>
1.44 philen 5729:
1.247 jufi 5730: <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 5731: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 5732: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 5733:
5734: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 5735: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 5736:
1.247 jufi 5737: <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 5738: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 5739: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 5740:
5741: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 5742: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 5743:
1.247 jufi 5744: <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 5745: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 5746: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 5747:
5748: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
5749: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
5750: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
5751: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 5752: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 5753:
1.247 jufi 5754: <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 5755: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 5756: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 5757:
1.36 louis 5758: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 5759: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 5760:
1.247 jufi 5761: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5762: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
1.39 louis 5763: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 5764: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 5765:
5766: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 5767: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 5768: </ul>
1.38 louis 5769:
1.69 deraadt 5770: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5771: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5772:
1.247 jufi 5773: <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 5774: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 5775: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 5776:
5777: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
5778: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 5779: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 5780:
1.113 naddy 5781: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 5782: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 5783: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 5784: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 5785:
5786: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
5787: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 5788: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
5789: terminal:
1.113 naddy 5790: <blockquote>
5791: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
5792: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
5793: <br>
5794: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
5795: </code>
5796: </blockquote>
5797: <p>
5798:
1.247 jufi 5799: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 5800: <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 5801: <p>
5802:
5803: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5804: <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 5805: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 5806:
5807: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
5808: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 5809: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 5810: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 5811:
1.247 jufi 5812: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5813: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
5814: Sept. 28, 1999
5815: </strong></font><br>
5816:
5817: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
5818: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
5819: translating and reprinting articles from
5820: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
5821: <p>
5822:
5823: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 5824: <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 5825: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 5826:
5827: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
5828: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
5829: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
5830: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
5831: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 5832: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 5833: <p>
1.19 louis 5834:
1.113 naddy 5835: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 5836: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 5837: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 5838:
5839: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
5840: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
5841: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 5842: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
5843: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 5844: <p>
1.16 louis 5845:
1.247 jufi 5846: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5847: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 5848: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 5849: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 5850:
1.57 louis 5851: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
5852: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
5853: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 5854: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 5855:
1.247 jufi 5856: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5857: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.466 deraadt 5858: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5859: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5860:
1.113 naddy 5861: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 5862:
1.247 jufi 5863: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 5864: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
5865: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 5866: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 5867:
1.23 louis 5868: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
5869: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
5870: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
5871: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
5872: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 5873: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 5874:
1.247 jufi 5875: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 5876: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
5877: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 5878: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 5879:
1.199 pvalchev 5880: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 5881: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
5882: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
5883: installation.
1.113 naddy 5884: <p>
1.47 louis 5885:
1.247 jufi 5886: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5887: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 5888: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 5889: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5890:
1.301 jose 5891: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
5892: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
5893: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 5894: </ul>
1.57 louis 5895:
1.69 deraadt 5896: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5897: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5898:
1.247 jufi 5899: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 5900: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 5901: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 5902: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 5903:
5904: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
5905: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 5906: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5907: <p>
1.12 louis 5908:
1.247 jufi 5909: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 5910: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 5911: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 5912: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 5913:
5914: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
5915: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 5916: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
5917: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
5918: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
5919: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
5920: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 5921: <p>
1.247 jufi 5922: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 5923:
1.69 deraadt 5924: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5925: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 5926:
1.247 jufi 5927: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 5928: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 5929: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 5930:
5931: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
5932: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
5933: available."
1.113 naddy 5934: <p>
1.301 jose 5935:
5936: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5937: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
5938: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
5939: </strong></font><br>
5940:
5941: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
5942: <p>
1.247 jufi 5943: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 5944:
1.69 deraadt 5945: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5946: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5947:
1.247 jufi 5948: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 5949: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 5950: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 5951:
5952: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
5953: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
5954: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
5955: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
5956: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 5957: <p>
1.33 louis 5958:
1.247 jufi 5959: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5960: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 5961: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 5962: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5963:
1.113 naddy 5964: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
5965: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 5966: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
5967: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
5968: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 5969: <p>
1.247 jufi 5970: </ul>
1.57 louis 5971:
1.69 deraadt 5972: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5973: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5974:
1.247 jufi 5975: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5976: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 5977: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 5978: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 5979:
5980: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
5981: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 5982: <p>
1.69 deraadt 5983:
1.247 jufi 5984: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 5985: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
5986: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
5987: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 5988: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 5989:
5990: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 5991: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 5992:
1.247 jufi 5993: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5994: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 5995:
1.113 naddy 5996: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 5997:
1.247 jufi 5998: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5999: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
1.68 louis 6000: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 6001: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 6002:
6003: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 6004: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 6005: </ul>
1.23 louis 6006:
1.69 deraadt 6007: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6008: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6009:
1.247 jufi 6010: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 6011: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 6012: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 6013:
6014: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
6015: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 6016: <p>
1.2 deraadt 6017:
1.247 jufi 6018: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6019: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 6020: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 6021: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 6022:
6023: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
6024: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 6025: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 6026: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 6027: </ul>
1.57 louis 6028:
1.69 deraadt 6029: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6030: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6031:
1.247 jufi 6032: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 6033: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
1.15 louis 6034: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 6035: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 6036:
6037: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
6038: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
6039: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
6040: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 6041: <p>
1.15 louis 6042:
1.247 jufi 6043: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 6044: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
6045: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 6046: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 6047:
6048: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
6049: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
6050: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
6051: columns."
1.113 naddy 6052: <p>
1.247 jufi 6053: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 6054:
1.69 deraadt 6055: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6056: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6057:
1.247 jufi 6058: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6059: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 6060: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 6061: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 6062:
6063: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 6064: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 6065:
1.113 naddy 6066: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6067: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 6068: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 6069:
6070: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
6071: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 6072: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 6073: </ul>
1.57 louis 6074:
1.69 deraadt 6075: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6076: <ul>
1.301 jose 6077: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
6078: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
6079: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
6080: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
6081:
6082: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
6083: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
6084: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
6085: <p>
6086:
6087: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
6088: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
6089: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
6090: Nov 13, 1998 and
6091: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
6092: Datateknik</a>,
6093: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
6094:
1.380 saad 6095: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 6096: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
6097: explains the licensing issues and points to our
6098: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
6099: <p>
1.69 deraadt 6100:
1.113 naddy 6101: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 6102: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 6103: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 6104: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 6105:
1.222 miod 6106: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 6107: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
6108: Implementation, including a brief interview with
6109: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 6110: <p>
1.247 jufi 6111: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 6112:
1.69 deraadt 6113: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6114: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6115:
1.247 jufi 6116: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 6117: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 6118: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 6119:
1.69 deraadt 6120: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
6121: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 6122: <p>
1.247 jufi 6123: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 6124:
1.69 deraadt 6125: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6126: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 6127:
1.247 jufi 6128: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 6129: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
6130: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 6131: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 6132:
1.383 jcs 6133: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 6134: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 6135: <p>
1.1 deraadt 6136:
1.247 jufi 6137: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 6138: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 6139: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
6140: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 6141: <p>
1.247 jufi 6142: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 6143:
1.69 deraadt 6144: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6145: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6146:
1.247 jufi 6147: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 6148: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 6149: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
6150: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 6151: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 6152: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 6153:
6154: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
6155: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
6156: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 6157: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 6158: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 6159: <p>
1.247 jufi 6160: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 6161:
6162: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6163: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6164:
1.247 jufi 6165: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 6166: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 6167: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 6168:
1.69 deraadt 6169: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
6170: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 6171: <p>
1.112 naddy 6172:
1.247 jufi 6173: </ul>
1.113 naddy 6174: <p>
1.1 deraadt 6175:
1.292 camield 6176: <hr>
1.216 horacio 6177: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 6178: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.571 ! miod 6179: <br><small>$OpenBSD: press.html,v 1.570 2007/05/16 17:43:28 simon Exp $</small>
1.1 deraadt 6180:
6181: </body>
6182: </html>