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1.572 ! ian 19: <h2>July, 2007</h2>
! 20: <ul>
! 21: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
! 22: <a href="http://geektechnique.org/projectlab/797/openbsd-encrypted-nas-howto">
! 23: OpenBSD Encrypted NAS How-To</a>, geektechnique.org, page], July 15, 2007
! 24: </strong></font><br>
! 25: Mark Hoekstra gives a detailed step-by-step description of how to
! 26: build an encrypted
! 27: network storage box using off-the-shelf hardware and OpenBSD software.
! 28: <br>
! 29: Also reported in
! 30: <a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/07/07/16/002203.shtml">SlashDot
! 31: </a> and
! 32: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/news.php?id=14877">net-security</a>.
! 33: <p>
! 34:
! 35: </ul>
! 36:
1.569 ian 37: <h2>May, 2007</h2>
38: <ul>
39:
40: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.570 simon 41: [GERMAN]
42: OpenBSD 4.1 bietet Lastverteilung auf Layer 7,
43: iX magazine, May 18, 2007
44: </strong></font><br>
45: The German IT magazine iX reviews the new hoststated(8) Host Status Daemon that
46: comes with OpenBSD 4.1. The article describes various configurations including
47: SSL acceleration and gives a good insight into what hoststated(8) can do for the
48: reader.
49: <p>
50:
51: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.569 ian 52: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/05/03/openbsd-41-puffy-strikes-again.html">
53: OpenBSD 4.1: Puffy Strikes Again</a>, ONLamp, May 5, 2007
54: </strong></font><br>
55: Federico Biancuzzi interviewed a number of developers about the major
56: changes in 4.1: Mark Kettenis on UltraSPARC III and UltraSPARC T1;
57: Otto Moerbeek on the landisk port and fsck_ffs;
58: Artur Grabowski on rthreads and AMD64 timekeeping;
59: Kurt Miller on pthreads and, with Robert Nagy, on OpenOffice;
60: Marc Espie on the changes "under the hood" in
61: the package tools and on the new pkg_config;
62: Matthieu Herrb on our new X11 build system xenocara,
63: Henning Bauer on syslogd, hoststated and RSTP;
64: Henning and Claudio Jeker on a variety of topics in routing and PF;
65: Bob Beck on spam fighting;
66: and Jonathan Gray on WEP and on why authpf is better than WPA/WPA2.
67: Quite readable overview of some of the main issues in this release.
68: <br/>
69: Linked to from
70: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php/17851/OpenBSD-4.1-Puffy-Strikes-Again/">OSNews</a>.
71: Mentions of the release also appeared in
72: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1483">Tectonic</a>,
73: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/newsvac/07/05/02/1320248.shtml">Newsforge</a>
74: and
75: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/07/05/01/2231229.shtml">SlashDot</a>
76: (the latter two include pointers to official release announcements).
77: <p>
78:
79: </ul>
80:
1.565 ian 81: <h2>April, 2007</h2>
82: <ul>
83:
84: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
85: <a href="http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/03/28/1522252">
86: Reducing spam with OpenBSD and spamd</a>, Linux.com, April 11, 2007
87: </strong></font><br>
88: This is the first installment of a multi-part article on using OpenBSD's
89: anti-spam tools. This part contains a general overview of spamd, greylisting
90: and tarpitting. Later installments will cover the how-to details.
91: <p>
92:
93:
94: </ul>
95:
1.560 ian 96: <h2>March, 2007</h2>
97: <ul>
98:
99: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.564 ian 100: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2007/03/bsdtalk105-intro-to-pf-with-jason-dixon.html">
101: Introduction to PF with Jason Dixon</a>, BSDTalk 105, March 26, 2007
102: </strong></font><br>
103: Jason provides a nice general overview of OpenBSD's Packet Filter PF,
104: emphasizing the "why" rather than the "how" of using PF.
105: Goes over pf's history, initial setup, stateful filtering,
106: normalization with "scrub", use of synproxy, authpf,
107: CARP and pfsync, GUI configurations vs config files, the pfsense project,
108: logging, transparent bridges, AltQ queing, macros, lists and tables,
109: and the tie-in to spamd,
110: <p>
111:
112: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.560 ian 113: <a href="http://www.sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=30120&hilite=">
114: Welsh Government Agency demonstrates Open Source best practice</a>,
115: SourceWire, March 8, 2007
116: </strong></font><br>
1.562 ian 117: The Countryside Council for Wales, the UK Government's regional wildlife
118: conservation authority for Wales, has hired UK Open Source service provider Sirius
1.561 saad 119: Corporation to extend OpenBSD's interoperability with the proprietary
120: Cisco IOS software; part of the agreement calls for Sirius to contribute
121: its source changes back to the OpenBSD project.
1.560 ian 122: <p>
123:
124: </ul>
1.558 ian 125:
1.556 matthieu 126: <h2>February, 2007</h2>
127: <ul>
128:
129: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.558 ian 130: <a href="http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/security/is_symantecs_vista_security_assessment_credible.html">
131: Is Symantec's Vista Security Assessment Credible?</a>, Microsoft Watch, February 28, 2007
132: </strong></font><br>
133: This paper is nominally about the relationship between Symantec and Microsoft,
134: talking about a white paper released by the former.
135: But it's quite revealing about Microsoft itself.
136: "Even Microsoft... now acknowledges that UAC (User Account Control) -
137: Vista's most [high-]profile security feature - is vulnerable to subversion,
138: particularly through social-engineering tactics."
139: And while the Symantec report says some good things about Vista security,
140: "its criticisms are brutal - for their clarity and foreboding:
141: <blockquote>
142: "Many of the technologies that Microsoft has employed to bolster
143: the security of Windows Vista are not new. In fact, most are
144: derived from the groundwork originally laid by open-source
145: operating systems such as Linux and OpenBSD, the PaX and
146: Stackguard projects, as well as numerous academic publications....
147: The majority of these technologies first appeared in Windows
148: XP SP2 [Service Pack 2]. Windows XP SP2, at the time of its
149: release, was also billed as the most secure version of Windows."
150: </blockquote>
151: So remember, folks, if it's about security, you may well have heard it
152: here first, long before Microsoft "invented" it.
153: <p>
154:
155:
156: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.557 reyk 157: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/85495">
158: OpenBSD und Linux: Kritik an Stillhalteabkommen für Treiberentwicklung</a>, heise online, February 2, 2007
159: </strong></font><br>
160:
161: Short article about OpenBSD's clear statement against device driver
162: development under non-disclosure agreement (NDA).
163: It attempts to summarize the reaction of the OpenBSD community against the
164: <a href="http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/free_drivers.html">"Free Linux Driver Development"</a>
165: under NDA offered by the linux developer Greg Kroah-Hartman which previously raised some
166: discussion.
167: Code written under NDA will make it difficult to improve it in the future
168: because somebody signed an agreement to keep the required hardware
169: documentation secret. For the OpenBSD project
170: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/goals.html">NDAs are never acceptable</a>.
171: <p>
172:
173: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.556 matthieu 174: [FRENCH]
175: <a href="http://www.ed-diamond.com/produit.php?produit=462">GNU/Linux
176: Magazine France</a> special issue number 29
177: </strong></font>
178: is dedicated to BSD systems. It features several articles about
179: OpenBSD: a pf tutorial, an article on IPSec and two articles on
180: high-availability with pf and CARP and with dynamic routing protocols
181: using OpenOSPFd and OpenBGPd.
182: <p>
183:
184: </ul>
185:
1.558 ian 186: <h2>January, 2007</h2>
187: <ul>
188: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
189: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/01/18/greylisting-with-pf.html">
190: Greylisting with PF</a>, O'Reilly onLAMP, January 18, 2007
191: </strong></font><br>
192: This onLAMP article by Dan Langille leads you through the process of
1.559 ian 193: setting up greylisting using OpenBSD's pf and spamd, which has now been ported
1.558 ian 194: to most other BSD systems. The article is
195: quite detailed, but readers should ignore the FreeBSD-specific stuff
196: like kldload (OpenBSD uses modload, but, OpenBSD always has pf built-in
197: so you don't need this). Parts of the article are based on Bob Beck's
198: <a href="http://www.nycbsdcon.org/speakers#Beck">spamd talk at NYCBSDCon</a>.
199: <p>
200:
201: </ul>
202:
1.550 mbalmer 203: <h2>December, 2006</h2>
204: <ul>
205:
206: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.554 reyk 207: [GERMAN]
208: <a href="http://www.freie-radios.net/portal/content.php?id=15206">
209: 23C3: Interview mit Henning und Reyk von OpenBSD</a>,
210: Radio Unerhört Marbug, December 29, 2006
211: </strong></font><br>
212: Interview with Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter about OpenBSD and
213: the latest changes since 4.0 during the 23rd Chaos Communications
214: Congress in Berlin.
215: <p>
216:
217: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.552 ian 218: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/12/29/01OPsecadvise_1.html">
1.553 ian 219: New Year's Resolution No. 1: Get OpenBSD</a>,
1.552 ian 220: InfoWorld, December 29, 2006
221: </strong></font><br>
222: InfoWorld's Security Advisor columnist Roger A. Grimes says:
223: "Kick off 2007 with a new, more secure operating system."
224: Citing OpenBSD's code-auditing security process and its
225: excellent security record, Grimes advises readers to give the system a try.
226: Despite repeating some old canards about the "unfriendly" install, he
227: notes favorably that
228: "OpenBSD is shipped secure-by-default, with all non-essential services disabled.
229: You won't find NFS, mountd, or Apache [httpd] enabled by default.
230: The /bin and /sbin folders will be emptier than other Linux or BSD distros.
231: Install OpenBSD and you can be assured that it doesn't default to an insecure state."
232: <p>
233:
234: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.551 xsa 235: [GERMAN]
1.550 mbalmer 236: <a href="http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/2007/01/074/">
237: OpenBSD 4.0 - Kanadische Eröffnung</a>
238: iX magazine, December 14, 2006
239: </strong></font><br>
1.570 simon 240: The German IT magazine iX reviews the 4.0 release of OpenBSD and also mentions
1.550 mbalmer 241: why we don't support blobs and why this is beneficial to our users.
242: The article gives OpenBSD a very good rating for being strictly free software,
243: its swift installation, the support for upgrades, and the large number of
244: platforms and architectures it runs on.
245: <p>
246:
247: </ul>
248:
1.546 ian 249: <h2>November, 2006</h2>
250: <ul>
251:
1.549 ian 252: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
253: <a href='http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20061110204834'>
254: Official support for OpenBSD in Parallels Workstation</a>
255: undeadly.org, November 10, 2006
256: </strong></font><br>
257: OpenBSD is now supported by Parallels, a commercial OS
258: virtualization product for Mac OS X, Linux or MS-Windows.
259: In addition to allowing users to run both OpenBSD and one of those other
260: systems concurrently, the announcement means that developers with Intel Mac
261: hardware can run multiple test systems; the Undeadly Editor adds:
262: "I've had up to six OpenBSD guest systems operating simultaneously,
263: versions 3.8 through 4.0 (and -current)."
264: This also reinforces the increasing commercial acceptance of our favorite OS.
265: <p>
266:
267: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
268: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/11/bsdtalk082-openbsd-developer-jason.html">
269: Interview with Jason Wright</a>, BSDTalk 82, November 8, 2006
270: </strong></font><br>
271: Jason talks about the OpenBSD development process (particularly for device drivers
272: and getting hardware documentation from vendors), Sun SPARC hardware (particularly
273: the Ultra III), ham radio (APRS) with OpenBSD, and more.
274: <p>
275:
276: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
277: <a href='http://news.com.com/2061-10795_3-6132572.html'>
278: OpenBSD turns 4.0</a>
279: CNET News.com, November 3, 2006
280: </strong></font><br>
281: Stephen Shankland talks about the UltraSPARC III code in 4.0, and notes that
282: OpenBSD has chosen to stay with stable GCC versions rather than moving to
283: the latest and most bloated GCC versions like Linux did.
284: Quotes Theo as saying: OpenBSD doesn't aim for particular niches,
285: but it's popular in network applications... "The biggest
286: users of OpenBSD these days are people who need our fancy networking
287: features..."
288: <p>
289:
1.546 ian 290: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
291: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/55/">
292: OpenBSD 4.0 Review</a>, Software In Review, November 1, 2006
293: </strong></font><br>
294: "In an era when the next edition of Microsoft Windows is pushed
295: back more than a year, and popular GNU/Linux distributions are
296: almost expected to have their release dates delayed by weeks or
297: months, it's nice to know that at least one operating system releases
298: on schedule without all kinds of showstopping bugs and problems.
299: OpenBSD 4.0 was released on November 1 with its usual mix of new
300: hardware support and enhanced operating system features."
301: So opens Jem Matzam's review of the new 4.0 release.
302: Jem gives a brief overview of the project, discusses
303: several of the most important new features, evaluates
304: his installation and use of the system on a desktop and a notebook.
1.548 saad 305: He also offers a few recommendations for future developments to make
1.546 ian 306: the project even better.
307: There's even a link to the Wikipedia article on
308: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humppa">
309: Humppa</a>, for those who may have heard this term but not
310: the music behind it.
311: <p>
312:
1.547 ian 313: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
314: <a href='http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1243'>
315: Big changes with OpenBSD 4.0 out today</a>
316: Tectonic, November 1, 2006
317: </strong></font><br>
318: "With his characteristic no-frills approach OpenBSD team leader
319: Theo de Raadt this morning announced the release of OpenBSD 4.0."
320: This article lists the highlights of the 4.0 release and
321: tells readers where to order CD's or download the release.
322: Quotes Theo: ""We are pleased to announce the official release of
323: OpenBSD 4.0. This is our 20th release on CD-Rom (and 21st via FTP).
324: We remain proud of OpenBSD's record of ten years with only a single
325: remote hole in the default install,"
326: <p>
327:
328: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
329: <a href='http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061101-8123.html'>
330: OpenBSD 4.0 released</a>
331: Ars Technica, November 1, 2006
332: </strong></font><br>
333: A short note about the 4.0 release; refers to the O'ReillyNet article below.
334: <p>
335:
1.546 ian 336: </ul>
337:
1.539 ian 338: <h2>October, 2006</h2>
339: <ul>
1.540 ian 340:
341: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.546 ian 342: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/6769">
343: OpenBSD 4.0: Pufferix's Adventures</a>, O'Reilly Network, October 26, 2006
344: </strong></font><br>
345: Federico Biancuzzi interviewed a dozen and a half developers and compiled
346: the results into this report, all while listening to the obligatory Humppa.
1.548 saad 347: Topics include the new blob-free wireless drivers, pf and pf/dhcp interaction,
1.546 ian 348: CARP demotion, ipsecctl replacing ipsecadm, hardware support for disk/bioctl,
349: USB serial, new installation customization features, ports/packages, RCS, X,
350: CPU support for Sparc/64, AMD/Intel "speed step" techniques, and more.
351: <p>
352:
353: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.543 mbalmer 354: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/10/bsdtalk076-openbsd-developer-marc.html">
355: Interview with Marc Balmer about OpenCON 2006</a>, bsdtalk076, October 12, 2006
356: </strong></font><br>
357: BSDTalk interviews Marc Balmer about the upcoming
358: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a> conference
359: in Venice, Italy, how he got involved in the OpenBSD project, and what he
360: uses the OpenBSD operating system for in his company. Marc Balmer tells us about
361: the history of the conference that is dedicated solely to OpenBSD, why it
362: is taking place in Venice, and why he likes OpenBSD as the platform of choice
363: for his many customers.
364: <p>
365:
366: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.544 ian 367: <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/olpc-under-fire-for-proprietary-components/">
368: OLPC under fire for proprietary components</a>, Engadget, October 11, 2006
369: </strong></font><br>
370: Hardware site Engadget is one of several that has picked up this controversy
371: from the Jem Report quoted below and on the mailing lists.
372: Quotes Theo's reaction to Jim Gettys' latest comments:
373: "Jim is obviously very clever at convincing people that children
374: need proprietary laptops (OLPC has a greater percentage of undocumented
375: hardware than a Thinkpad from 3 years ago). It is easy for Jim to
376: convince people these things because he doesn't care at all about
377: the future maintainance of drivers. I do. And I think most of you
378: also do."
379: The article ends with: "Wow, them be fightin' words -- we're pulling up ringside
380: seats already."
381: <p>
382:
383: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
384: <a href="http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/286/">
385: Making sense of the One Laptop Per Child proprietary software row</a>,
386: The Jem Report, October 9, 2006
387: </strong></font><br>
388: Jem Matzan explores this ongoing controversy by blending separate interviews with
389: Jim Gettys, Richard Stallman and our own Theo de Raadt.
390: Theo consistently and clearly defends the project's interest in
391: getting documentation on, and permission to distribute, firmware
392: so that users can use hardware they have paid for.
393: Commenting on the multiple NDA-requiring parts in the current version of
394: the OLPC laptop, Theo notes that "If I am careful in selection,
395: I can buy a laptop on the market today that has fewer proprietary parts."
396: And on the OLPC project's use of NDA-requiring parts at all:
397: "I feel they have misled the community by acting as if they are open;
398: they rode on our coat-tails. Now it turns out they are going to ship GPL'd
399: code mixed with NDA-requiring proprietary drivers in the end.
400: Even their LinuxBIOS will need to link into drivers that
401: no one can repair because the documentation is locked up..."
402: <p>
403:
404: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.541 ian 405: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20061006000709">
406: OLPC hurts wireless documentation efforts</a>, undeadly.org, October 6, 2006
407: </strong></font><br>
408: Theo de Raadt takes on the high-profile
409: <a href="http://laptop.org/">OLPC</a> (One Laptop Per Child) Project
410: for not demanding open documentation from its wireless
411: chip manufacturer, wasting a "golden moment" opportunity to use sales
412: volume in the millions to pressure chip vendors, and thus helping destroy
413: the open source movement that makes the OLPC laptops affordable -
414: truly, betraying that hand that feeds it.
1.542 deraadt 415: Also strong words from other developers such as Bob Beck.
1.541 ian 416: <p>
417:
418: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.540 ian 419: <a href="http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;639736970;fp;2;fpid;3">
420: The sad state of computer security</a>, PC World Australia, October 5, 2006
421: </strong></font><br>
422: Roger Grimes opines on how bad security really is for most of the world
423: (and it is really bad). "If you aren't using OpenBSD [or a few others],
424: then every other product in the world is pretty bad in comparison.
425: <br />
426: "Most software contains numerous vulnerabilities, holes, and
427: exploitable routines. Even our anti-malware software and devices,
428: the things that are supposed to protect us, are full of buffer
429: overflows and vulnerabilities."
430: <br />
431: And, Grimes generalizes,
432: "Sadly, the world has decided that real computer security doesn't
433: matter any more than real terrorist security. It's all lip service.
434: We are, and apparently choose to be, reactive sheep. Proactive
435: thinkers get ignored and ridiculed...
436: As more and more of the world goes online, and as more of our
437: important infrastructure goes "e-something," it would appear that
438: we are on a collision course headed toward a tipping point event.
439: And when it does, the sheep will stand aghast wondering how it
440: happened."
441: Worth reading!
442: <p>
443:
1.539 ian 444: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
445: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061002-7874.html">
446: OpenBSD creator wants users to pressure Intel on open source policies</a>,
447: Ars Technica, October 2, 2006.
448: </strong></font><br>
449: Summarizes Theo's efforts to obtain documentation and freely
450: redistributable firmware from Intel.
451: <p>
452:
453: </ul>
454:
1.536 grunk 455: <h2>September, 2006</h2>
456: <ul>
457:
458: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.537 ian 459: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/7184">
460: OpenBSD: Intel Accused Of Being "An Open Source Fraud"</a>,
461: KernelTrap, September 30, 2006.
462: </strong></font><br>
463: Mentions Damien's thread on misc summarizing Intel's policy toward
464: open-source software as being to make Intel "look like we're
465: open-source friendly by opening a project on sourceforge," and,
466: "give the open-source community the bare minimum so that they can
467: serve as our beta-testers." Damien reverse engineered the wpi(4)
468: driver source for the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Driver,
469: despite Intel's refusal to freely provide documentation.
470: Regular readers will know that OpenBSD has been at war with Intel
471: for ages over these chipsets.
472: Quotes Theo as saying:
473: "before we ask a vendor, we have already lost (ie. the
474: device does not work). When a vendor says no, we have lost nothing
475: further -- there is no way we can lose further than having the
476: device not work. We can only win, and then the device works. So
477: there is no point in giving up until we win back the rights to write
478: software for the hardware that we have purchased."
479: <p>
480:
481: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
482: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/09/bsdtalk069-interview-with-christoph.html">
483: Interview with Christoph Egger about Xen on OpenBSD</a>, bsdtalk069, September 26, 2006
484: </strong></font><br>
485: BSDTalk interviews Christoph Egger about Xen and about how Christoph make OpenBSD
486: able to run as a guest operating system on Xen.
487: Includes some background about Xen as well as what it would take to
488: make OpenBSD run as the "dom0" or master host.
489: <p>
490:
491: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.536 grunk 492: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/09/bsdtalk068-interview-with-openbsd.html">
493: Intervew with OpenBSD developer Bob Beck</a>, bsdtalk068, September 22, 2006
494: </strong></font><br>
495: Bob Beck talks about spamd and his history with OpenBSD and UNIX
496: on Will Backman's bsdtalk. Bob gives us a look into his work on
497: OpenBSD and gives us amusing stories of how spamd works and how it
498: actually fares in 'the wild.' The podcast lasts a whole 25 minutes,
499: 59 seconds so it's long enough to occupy a meal or a small commute.
500: <p>
501:
1.537 ian 502: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
503: <a href="http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060920185115">
504: OpenBSD 4.0 pre-orders are up!</a>, undeadly.org, September 20, 2006
505: </strong></font><br>
506: One of the first mentions of 4.0 going on sale for pre-ordering
507: (the official release date is November 1).
508: Also gives a list of the many good things that have been added
509: in 4.0, including many new device drivers,
510: support for UltraSPARC III on sparc64, improvements to ipsecctl,
511: a new RCS implementation, and much more.
512: Includes a reminder to "show your support for the project by
1.538 deraadt 513: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/orders.html">placing your pre-orders today!"</a>
1.537 ian 514: <p>
515:
1.536 grunk 516: </ul>
517:
1.534 ian 518: <h2>August, 2006</h2>
519: <ul>
520:
521: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.537 ian 522: <a href="http://anil.recoil.org/blog/articles/2006/08/21/openbsd-xen-boots-multi-user">
523: OpenBSD/Xen boots multi-user</a>, Recoil Blog, August 21, 2006
524: </strong></font><br>
525: Anil discusses his stewardship of a Google Summer of Code project in which
526: Christoph Egger ported and revised some NetBSD code to make OpenBSD boot up natively
527: as a guest operating system under
528: <a href="http://www.xensource.com/">Xen</a>, the open-source hypervisor
529: or "virtualization" system.
530: <p>
531:
532: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.534 ian 533: <a href="http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-openbsd.html">
534: Take a closer look at OpenBSD</a>, IBM developerWorks, August 08, 2006
535: </strong></font><br>
536: Tim McIntire holds OpenBSD up as a beacon to UNIX users, calling it
537: "quite possibly the most secure operating system on the planet."
538: He talks about how the development process leads to greater security
539: and how tools like OpenSSH make it out into the wider UNIX/Linux world.
540: "OpenBSD might not have a huge user base compared to other UNIX-like operating systems,
541: but it is installed at the most crucial points of many networks."
542: Has a somewhat brief but effective discussion of installing the software, and
543: ends with references to several papers and sites of interest.
544: <p>
545:
546: </ul>
547:
1.531 ian 548: <h2>July, 2006</h2>
549: <ul>
550: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
551: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/case-studies--profiles/founder-breathes-the-open-air/2006/07/17/1152988468274.html">
552: Founder breathes the Open air</a>, The Age, July 18, 2006
553: </strong></font><br>
554: Subtitled "Hiking in exotic climes is a brain adventure for the founder of OpenBSD", this is
555: as much about hiking and learning new symbols as about software, but our leader
556: manages to do both, and bring both into the interview.
557: The article quotes Theo as saying
558: "Another major lesson I have learnt is that most people only care
559: about things working for themselves, and thus it is very easy in a
560: group to build poorly thought-out solutions. It is very simple to
561: write small hacks and end up with unmaintainable systems in the long term."
562: Describes the hackathons as an important part of the project's process
563: and describes the funding issues as well.
564: <p>
565:
566: </ul>
567:
1.525 ian 568: <h2>June, 2006</h2>
569: <ul>
570: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.535 steven 571: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=472693&rl=1">
1.530 ian 572: Alternatives to LAMP</a>, informit.com, June 2, 2006
573: </strong></font><br>
574: While "Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP" get most of the attention,
575: there are alternatives to each that are, in some way, better.
576: David Chisnal starts this article with a look at OS alternatives,
577: and OpenBSD gets the most detailed coverage, including this:
578: "When it comes to security, OpenBSD has a well-earned reputation
579: as the operating system for the truly paranoid. The entire kernel
580: and base system, including the OpenBSD fork of Apache, undergoes a
581: constant auditing process. The OpenBSD attitude is that any bug is
582: potentially exploitable, and when a bug is found by the auditing
583: team the next step is to attempt to remove every single occurrence
584: of that category of bug. This approach leads to an incredibly secure
585: system." Also talks about our pioneering use of W^X and the
586: "incredibly powerful and easy to configure" packet filter, pf.
587: <p>
588:
589: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.527 ian 590: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article8785.phtml">
1.525 ian 591: Microsoft adopts open-source security feature</a>, OSDir.com, June 1, 2006
592: </strong></font><br>
593: Microsoft borrows one of OpenBSD's security features for Vista, stack/library randomization,
594: under the name Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR).
595: "Until now, the feature has been most prominently used in the OpenBSD Unix variant and
596: the PaX and Exec Shield security patches for Linux"
597: (despite the article's title, there is nothing open-source about Microsoft's implementation).
598: <p>
599:
1.526 ian 600: </ul>
1.525 ian 601:
1.514 ian 602: <h2>May, 2006</h2>
603: <ul>
1.524 ian 604: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
605: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6650">
606: OpenBSD: wpi, A Blob Free Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Driver</a>, KernelTrap, May 28, 2006
607: </strong></font><br>
608: Damien Bergamini wrote OpenBSD's all-open-source driver for the Intel Pro/Wireless,
609: a sharp contrast to other projects' bogus "open source" drivers that are just wrappers around
610: a "binary blob" (source code not available, sorry) provided by the vendor.
611: "His announcement came a little over two months after Intel released
612: the controversial ipw3945 driver for Linux which included
613: a binary-only daemon described as necessary for enforcing regulatory
614: limits for the radio transmitter on the wireless device."
615: Bergamini's work proves yet again that vendors don't have to obscure their products
616: to make them useful.
617: <p>
1.518 ian 618:
619: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.520 ian 620: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/openbsd/c2k6/who1">
1.523 ian 621: c2k6, Who's Who At the 2006 OpenBSD Hackathon, Part I</a>
622: and
623: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6662">Part II</a>,
1.522 ian 624: KernelTrap, May 28, 2006
1.520 ian 625: </strong></font><br>
1.521 deraadt 626: Jeremy Andrews visited our developers at the Hackathon and gives
1.523 ian 627: a brief but colorful summary of most of the team members:
1.520 ian 628: why they chose OpenBSD, how they got involved, what they do, and
629: their plans for the week.
630: <p>
631:
632: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.523 ian 633: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/05/22/OpenBSD-on-Flash.html">
634: Installing OpenBSD on Flash</a>,
635: Ping Wales, May 22, 2006
636: </strong></font><br>
637: David Chisnall shows how to set up an OpenBSD boot image for
638: Soekris or PC Engines machines that boot from flash memory.
639: <p>
640:
641: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.520 ian 642: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/eur/article.php/3603961">
643: Enterprise Unix Roundup: Whither BSD?</a>, ServerWatch, May 5, 2006
644: </strong></font><br>
645: Amy Newman and Brian Proffitt state that the BSDs are often overlooked
646: because of their limited commercial acceptance.
647: The authors call this an unfortunate oversight, because recent releases of
648: the freely available BSD flavors show significant technical improvements.
1.523 ian 649: As an example, they specifically refer to OpenBSD's sensor framework
1.520 ian 650: (introduced with 3.9).
651: Newman and Proffitt also accuse big vendors of picking the nice parts from
652: the BSDs' code and giving nothing back to the community in return.
653: <p>
654:
655: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.518 ian 656: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/35/1/">
657: OpenBSD 3.9 Review</a>, Software In Review, May 3, 2006
658: </strong></font><br>
659: Jem Matzan takes the 3.9 release out for a spin, and likes it.
660: Noting that each release consists of a lot of small changes
661: and some major improvements - and mentioning hardware support, sensors,
662: and "blob removal" - he clearly thinks the project is doing a lot of things right.
663: "Everything you get in the release is production-ready, secure by
664: default... and comes with possibly the finest integrated documentation
665: in the Unix-clone world. While you might find a poorly programmed
666: driver or other base system component in other BSDs and GNU/Linux
667: distributions, in OpenBSD if something is supported, it works."
668: <p>
669:
670: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
671: [GERMAN]
672: <a href="http://www.linux-magazin.de/Artikel/ausgabe/2006/06/news_zut/news_zut.html">
673: Mozilla greift OpenBSD unter die Arme</a>, Linux Magazin, Issue 06/06, May 2006, p. 18
674: </strong></font><br>
675: The German <a href="http://www.linux-magazin.de/">Linux Magazin</a> has a short
676: article about OpenBSD's financial situation and Marco Peerebroom's
1.535 steven 677: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060321034114">call for donations</a>
1.518 ian 678: on undeadly.org. The article further mentions how OpenSSH development
679: is connected to OpenBSD.
680: <p>
681:
1.514 ian 682: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
683: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6550">
684: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, KernelTrap, May 2, 2006
685: </strong></font><br>
686: Jeremy Andrews conducts a free-ranging interview, focused mainly on 3.9 and drivers,
687: that gives Theo a chance to explain how the big North American chip vendors'
688: business practices make it harder for open source projects,
1.515 ian 689: talk about "binary blobs" vs firmware in drivers, and more.
1.514 ian 690: There's also coverage of where the project is going up to and after 3.9 and where
1.516 steven 691: it might (or might not) go in the future, why doing things right (and
1.514 ian 692: running this project) is so important to Theo,
693: and even why he does mountain biking!
694: <p>
695:
696: </ul>
697:
1.503 ian 698: <h2>April, 2006</h2>
699: <ul>
700: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.532 ray 701: <a href="http://www.dribin.org/dave/blog/archives/2006/04/28/os_x_passwords_2/">
702: Mac OS X Password Implementation Compared to OpenBSD's</a>, April 28, 2006
703: </strong></font><br>
704: Dave Dribin analyzes Mac OS X's password implementation
705: and compares it with OpenBSD's:
706: "The king of the hill has to go to OpenBSD,
707: which uses a hash based on the Blowfish block cipher called bcrypt.
708: The benefit of [bcrypt] is best stated on their website:
709: <blockquote>
710: The most important property of bcrypt (and thus crypt_blowfish)
711: is that it is adaptable to future processor performance improvements,
712: allowing you to arbitrarily increase the processing cost of checking a
713: password while still maintaining compatibility with your older password hashes.
714: Already now bcrypt hashes you would use are several orders of magnitude
715: stronger than traditional Unix DES-based or FreeBSD-style MD5-based hashes.
716: </blockquote>
717: This is just plain cool."
718: <p>
719:
720: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.512 ian 721: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6557">
722: OpenBSD 3.9: Blob-Busters Interviewed</a>, OnLAMP, April 27, 2006
723: </strong></font><br>
724: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several of the developers on improvements
725: in 3.9: the continuing absence of "blob drivers", IPMI and sensors, apmd performance
726: adjustment, Macs, rthreads, multicast, trunk, hostapd, and more.
1.513 saad 727: jsg clarifies the issue of "binary blob" drivers vs "firmware", and
1.512 ian 728: discusses the NVIDIA nForce Ethernet driver he did after NVIDIA did refuse
729: to give out documentation; they can't stop us, but they can slow us down.
730: The result: "There aren't any drivers in OpenBSD with binary-only components;
731: this is quite a contrast to pretty much everyone else out there."
732: marco comments on the IPMI work in 3.9, and adds:
733: "IPMI is a standard, but there are vendors out there
1.513 saad 734: that have reading comprehension issues...".
1.512 ian 735: A long list of other developers explain their contributions
736: and other changes that make 3.9 one of our best releases yet.
737: <p>
738:
739: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.517 mbalmer 740: [GERMAN]
741: <a href="http://www.guug.de/uptimes/index.html">
742: Stop BLOB!</a>, UpTimes, April 25, 2006
743: </strong></font><br>
744: Wilhelm Bühler gives an overview in a short article about Blobs, what they
745: are and why they are bad.
746: <p>
747:
748: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.508 ian 749: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/34/1/">
750: Using OpenBSD</a>, Software In Review, April 24, 2006
751: </strong></font><br>
752: Jem Matzan gives a brief overview of using the system.
753: Covers ports and packages, use of SMP kernel, and more.
754: Capsule summary of how our security policy affects the administrator:
755: "Because it is secure by default, you may have to do more initial
756: configuration with OpenBSD than with most other Unix and Unix-like
757: operating systems, but you'll spend a lot less time securing it --
758: maybe no time at all, if you follow the instructions in the manual
759: pages."
760: <p>
761:
762: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.519 ian 763: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/16/1749215.shtml?tid=8">
764: Using OpenBSD on the desktop</a>, NewsForge, April 21, 2006
765: </strong></font><br>
766: Considers the use of OpenBSD as a desktop operating system,
767: starting with "Secure by default" - who wants to have their desktop hacked? -
768: and continues:
769: "OpenBSD's clean code and design also provide rock-solid stability.
770: I used to have lots of problems and crashes with new versions of
771: Linux (kernel 2.6.x) and FreeBSD (versions 5.x and 6.x). The main
772: focus of OpenBSD developers is to provide programs that work ...
773: [they] prefer to improve their code rather than just
774: add more new features and end up with a bloated and unstable product."
775: Covers X, ports/packages, window managers, what is and is not supported,
776: and more. Final thought:
777: "OpenBSD's clean design and remarkable stability, along with its
778: proactive security, not only make OpenBSD a potential candidate for
779: home desktop users but also every system administrator's dream come
780: true for business environments."
781: <p>
782:
783: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.511 djm 784: [FRENCH]
1.509 djm 785: <a href="http://developpeur.journaldunet.com/itws/060419-itw-openssh-openbsd-miller.shtml">
1.511 djm 786: JDN Développeurs interviews Damien Miller</a>,
1.509 djm 787: JDN Développeurs, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
788: Interview with Damien Miller, discussing OpenSSH security, the OpenBSD
789: development approach, the problem of blobby drivers and the recent request
1.510 djm 790: for funding.
1.509 djm 791: <p>
792:
793: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.507 cloder 794: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6497">
795: Interview with developers Jonathan Gray and Damien Bergamini</a>,
796: Kerneltrap, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
797: An interview with the authors of OpenBSD's new NVIDIA Ethernet driver. OpenBSD's
798: policy forbidding binary driver blobs is discussed, and the developers give a good
799: overview of how they went about implementing the new driver.
800: <p>
801:
802: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.528 ian 803: <a href="http://www.thehostingnews.com/article2217.html">GoDaddy.com
804: Donates $10K to Open Source Development Project</a>,
805: The Hosting News, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
806: GoDaddy.com, which claims to be "the Number One registrar of domain
807: names worldwide", recently donated $10,000 to the OpenSSH project
808: because, "according to the company, OpenSSH has become a staple
809: of all free Unix and Linux operating systems in the world."
810: They use it, and their customers use it, and they recognize the
811: value of supporting an open source projects that is, as company
812: CEO Bob Parsons says, "integral to online security".
813: <br/>
1.529 ian 814: Similar articles at
1.528 ian 815: <a href="http://www.hostsearch.com/news/the_go_daddy_group_news_4366.asp">
1.529 ian 816: hostsearch.com</a> and
817: <a href="http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20060419090443506">
818: LinuxElectrons.com</a>
1.528 ian 819: <p>
820:
821: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.506 aanriot 822: [FRENCH] Principles and usage of OpenSSH,
823: <a href="http://www.gnulinuxmag.com/">Linux Magazine France</a>,
824: issue 82, April 2006, p. 28-33
825: </strong></font><br>
1.533 ray 826: A 6 page article from Alexandre Courbot focuses on OpenSSH and its
1.507 cloder 827: basics. It begins with an history of the different implementations, and
1.506 aanriot 828: is punctuated with examples.
829: Tunneling features are described, as well as
1.535 steven 830: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp</a>,
831: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent&sektion=1">ssh-agent</a>,
1.506 aanriot 832: and
1.535 steven 833: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp</a>.
1.506 aanriot 834: <p>
835:
836: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.503 ian 837: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71658">
838: Mozilla Foundation spendet für OpenBSD</a>, heise online, April 4, 2006
839: </strong></font><br>
840: Short article mentioning the donation the Mozilla Foundation made in support of
841: further OpenSSH development.
842: The article emphasizes the opportunity to wire money through the project's
843: new European account - this one donation will not meet the
844: project's funding needs for all time.
845: <p>
1.504 bernd 846: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
847: [GERMAN] "OpenBSD mit finanziellen Problemen", c't 8/06, p. 45.,
848: April 3, 2006
849: </strong></font><br>
850: A very short article about OpenBSD's financial problems. They mention that
851: this could compromise future hackathons.
852: <p>
1.503 ian 853:
854: </ul>
855:
1.487 ian 856: <h2>March, 2006</h2>
857: <ul>
1.495 ian 858: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.500 ian 859: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/theo_interview.html">
1.501 ian 860: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>, DaemonNews, March, 2006
1.500 ian 861: </strong></font><br>
862: Chris Silva conducts a lightweight but wide-ranging and fun interview with Theo
863: on topics including "Puffy",
864: the logos used by certain other BSD projects -
865: Theo quips that "I really like how they make absolutely no statement at all" -
866: what's new in 3.9,
867: and of course project expenses.
868: Theo notes that "The electric bill is about $100 USD per week".
869: <!--
870: ... must be what comes from heating your house with VAXen.
871: -->
872: The interviewer nicely ends with a link to our donations page.
873: <p>
874:
875: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 876: <a href="http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/239/1/">
877: Linux supporters fiddle while OpenSSH burns</a>, The Jem Report, March 28, 2006
878: </strong></font><br>
1.499 ian 879: This write-up focusses on OpenBSD/OpenSSH funding, and has some
880: original legwork to go with it.
1.498 ian 881: Writer Jem Matzan took the trouble to
882: contact many of the companies who charge a lot for products
883: featuring OpenSSH and yet give nothing to OpenSSH in return.
884: Companies like SCO, IBM, Apple, and Sun.
885: Sun apparently did the worst job of responding:
886: "Since the release of Solaris 10, who has been a larger open source
887: software cheerleader than Sun Microsystems?", Matzan asks. "I asked Sun
888: representatives what they would do if OpenSSH were to disappear. The only response
889: I got was that there are parts of Solaris that compete with OpenSSH,
890: and that because of this, the company would rather not comment
891: further on the issue." What the Sun teleprompter-readers don't seem to realize -
892: but Matzan does - is that
893: <a href="http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/cmd/ssh/ssh/ssh.c">
894: SunSSH <em>is</em> OpenSSH</a>.
895: Or, at least, a mangled version of it...
896: IBM, on the other hand, is still trying to formulate their response.
897: <br/>
898: <p>
899:
900: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
901: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/20/2050223.shtml?tid=8">
902: Interview: Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD</a>, NewsForge, March 28, 2006
903: </strong></font><br>
904: A wide-ranging interview with Theo about new stuff in 3.9, security, funding,
905: "blob" drivers, and more.
906: Theo notes that "We've had 10 years of nearly fanatical devotion
907: to anything which can make OpenBSD more secure. A very important
908: part of that is that we have not been afraid to completely overhaul
909: anything even if it breaks backward compatibility. Secondly, when
910: we have found a flaw in any part of the system we have assumed that
911: the same mistake was made elsewhere, and gone on a hunt to fix them
912: all. Thirdly, we have developed and incorporated a collection of
913: methods that make software flaws very difficult to attack..."
914: Ends by trying to shame the companies that use OpenSSH without contributing
915: anything back - Sun is given especial mention here - and ends with
916: the tantalizing line ".. if an OpenSSH hole is found that applies to SunSSH,
917: Sun will not be informed. Or maybe that has happened already." Hmmmm.
918: <p>
919:
920: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 921: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259254,00.htm">
922: OpenBSD 3.9 adds sensor framework</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
923: </strong></font><br>
924: It's easy to focus on our project's security, but we innovate in other areas too.
925: This article highlights the "sensors" framework added in 3.9 to provide and integrated
926: approach to handling Dell PowerEdge servers' Embedded Server Management (ESM), IPMI, and
927: in general temperature and environmental issues.
928: "There is a significant new sensor framework [in OpenBSD 3.9], which
929: supports voltage sensors, fan sensors, temperature sensors, and so
930: on," said de Raadt. "Such a feature is still missing in Linux and
931: other major operating systems." ...
932: De Raadt has already been using the sensor framework to monitor the
933: machines running in
934: <a href="images/newrack.jpg">the project's server room</a>. "I now get a call
935: on my cell phone whenever something is wrong in the machine room,"
936: <p>
937:
938: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
939: <a href="http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/other/0,39020682,39259281,00.htm">
940: Paying for free software may be the bargain of a lifetime</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
941: </strong></font><br>
942: Starts with a Theo quote from the previous article on ZDNet:
943: "A culture of entitlement is starting to damage the open source community".
944: The article argues that mega-computer-companies that use open source tend to use BSD:
945: "The open BSDs may be less famous than Linux, but they are arguably
946: superior in stability and security. This has made it popular in
947: ISPs and elsewhere - Apple, for example, adopted BSD within OS X.
948: BSD, unlike software released under the GPL, carrys no legal
949: obligations for the adopter to provide anything for the community in return."
950: Goes on to argue that these companies <em>ought</em> to be fair enough
951: to send a small bit of their money back into funding open source.
952: "In the time it takes to read this article, we calculate that Apple
953: will have easily made enough to pay-off OpenBSD's annual losses,
954: with a little left over to buy black turtlenecks for all. It's not
955: just Apple's baby - other companies owe far more to OpenBSD - but
956: in open source a little symbolism goes a long way."
957: <p>
958:
1.487 ian 959: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.494 bernd 960: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71174">
961: OpenBSD muss an den Sparstrumpf</a>, heise online, March 23, 2006
962: </strong></font><br>
1.495 ian 963: OpenBSD is touching its savings - Small news article about the project's
1.494 bernd 964: financial situation.
965: <p>
966:
967: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 968: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259042,00.htm">
969: OpenBSD Founder Makes Funding Plea</a>, ZDNet UK, March 23, 2006
970: </strong></font><br>
971: One of the first mainstream sites to pick up on Marco's article (below),
972: this one reports the funding figures on how much it really costs to
973: produce our favorite operating system.
974: "Although OpenBSD has a number of commercial users, including many
975: ISPs, de Raadt claimed that all of its donations come from individuals
976: rather than companies many of who claim the have no budget to pay
977: for the operating system. "The culture of entitlement is starting
978: to damage the open source community," he said."
1.496 ian 979: <br/>
980: Also online at
981: <a href="http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/software/stories/135760.html">ZDNet India</a>.
982: <p>
983:
984: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
985: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/03/22/OpenBSD-money.html">
986: OpenBSD in Financial Trouble</a>, Ping Wales, March 21, 2006
987: </strong></font><br>
988: David Chisnall reports that "OpenBSD is one of my favourite platforms;
989: its focus on security and ease-of-use makes it a very simple and
990: safe system to use. Unfortunately, the OpenBSD organisation is now
991: experiencing financial difficulty. For the last two years, the
992: project has made a $20,000/year loss, something which it cannot
993: sustain indefinitely."
994: Goes on to report on the growing use of OpenBSD in commercial software
995: (and hardware!), and that none of the "big guys" has given anything back.
996: Unlike most of the articles on this topic, this one is kind enough to
997: include a direct link to our orders page and recommend its readers
998: to buy a copy of the CD to help fund the project.
1.495 ian 999: <p>
1000:
1001: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 1002: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/06/03/21/1555243.shtml">
1003: OpenBSD Project in Financial Danger</a>, Slashdot, March 21, 2006
1004: </strong></font><br>
1005: Slashdot mentions and quotes from Marco's article (below),
1006: with a reminder that
1007: "The OpenBSD team is the one that also develops the OpenSSH suite,
1008: used nowadays almost everywhere."
1009: Ends with this quote from Marco:
1010: "Without naming entities or projects by name, there are others out
1011: there that are sitting on some cash. It would be wonderful if these
1012: entities could share some of the wealth to keep us going."
1013: <p>
1014:
1015: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.505 grunk 1016: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060321034114">
1.495 ian 1017: OpenBSD Finances</a>, OpenBSD Journal, March 21, 2006
1018: </strong></font><br>
1019: Marco Peereboom's article notes that
1020: "OpenBSD for the past 2 years has turned a loss of approximately $20K USD" per year.
1021: Hackathons - where a lot of developers get together in critical mass and churn out
1022: new ideas and new code in great quantity - cost from US$10K-30K each, and we try to run
1023: a few of them each year.
1024: Meanwhile, compananies that use OpenBSD and companies - many of them highly profitable -
1025: that incorporate OpenSSH into operating systems and even routers and other appliances
1026: have not been forthcoming: no major computer company has given funding
1027: to the OpenBSD project.
1028: It's time for them to do so.
1029: <p>
1030:
1031: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.497 ian 1032: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/08/1646257.shtml?tid=8">
1033: Software RAID on OpenBSD using RAIDframe</a>, NewsForge, March 14, 2006
1034: </strong></font><br>
1035: "Software RAID provides an easy way to add redundancy or speed up a system
1036: without spending lots of money on a RAID adapter."
1037: Manolis Tzanidakis talks us through setting up RAID using OpenBSD.
1038: He describes the detailed steps, and recommends careful testing
1039: before putting the system into production, including taking one disk
1040: out of service and ensuring that it gets reloaded correctly.
1041: Ends with a technique for monitoring clean operation on an ongoing basis.
1042: <p>
1043:
1044: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.489 deraadt 1045: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">Report on Business Television</a>
1046: March 10, 5:45pm MST</strong></font><br>
1.490 deraadt 1047: Theo de Raadt was interviewed by Howard Green on <b>The Business Show</b>:<br>
1048: <!-- North America mirror:
1049: <a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB avi file</a>
1.491 deraadt 1050: -->
1.490 deraadt 1051: European mirror:
1052: <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/20060310/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB AVI file</a>
1053: <br>
1054: A longer segment is also available at <a href="http://www.robtv.ca">www.robtv.ca</a>.
1.489 deraadt 1055: <p>
1056:
1057: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.487 ian 1058: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/openbgpd.html">OpenBGPd in OpenBSD</a>
1059: Daemon News, March, 2006</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 1060: Check out the notes and slides from Henning Brauer's presentation at
1.487 ian 1061: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0602/">NANOG 36</a>;
1062: the text and questions cover everything from how and why OpenBGPd got created,
1063: through configuration and tools, to integration with pf and CARP,
1064: to technical issues regarding use of IPSEC to provide security for BGP packets.
1065: Along the way there's considerable discussion on how the program was
1066: designed to provide reliability and security.
1067: <p>
1068:
1069: </ul>
1070:
1.485 ian 1071: <h2>February, 2006</h2>
1072: <ul>
1073: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.486 ian 1074: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1859">Zero to IPSec in 4 minutes</a>
1075: Security Focus, February 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
1076: This article, as its lead-in says,
1.497 ian 1077: "looks at how to get a fully functional IPSec VPN up and running between two fresh OpenBSD
1.486 ian 1078: installations in about four minutes flat".
1079: If you've shied away from setting up an IPSEC VPN because of config file complexity,
1080: now is the time to reconsider.
1.497 ian 1081: Dragos Ruiu shows you how the ipsecctl command (introduced to the world in OpenBSD 3.8)
1.486 ian 1082: makes it really easy to set up a VPN between consenting OpenBSD machines.
1083: He states that he and a colleague were able to get two machines talking over IPSEC
1084: in a few minutes, and only changing a few configuration files.
1085: He also comments on the relative ease of installing our favorite OS, and hopes
1086: that our ipsecctl will be adopted by the other BSDs (hopefully in a compatible way)
1087: to make firewall setups easier all around the network.
1088: But you don't need to wait for that if you're running OpenBSD 3.8; just follow
1089: the steps in the article.
1090: <p>
1091:
1092: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.485 ian 1093: <a href="http://www.networkmagazineindia.com/200602/vendorvoice02.shtml">The Worm in the Machine</a>
1094: Network Magazine India, February 2006</strong></font><br>
1095: Dilip Ranade elaborates on several reasons why software is drearily buggy and endlessly insecure,
1096: particularly in comparison with other technologies.
1097: Imagines how very bad shape the automotive industry would be in if you had to sign the
1098: same disclaimer of (non-)usability that almost every commercial EULA requires of computer users.
1099: Ends with "I once dreamt that all the computer users in the world
1100: arose in revolt and switched to hardened OpenBSD", though he admits that there's "fat chance" of it
1101: happening in real life.
1102: <p>
1103:
1104: </ul>
1105:
1.492 ian 1106: <h2>January, 2006</h2>
1107: <ul>
1108: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1109: <a href="http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2006/01/28.html">Kevin Mitnick on
1110: Coast to Coast AM Radio Show with Art Bell</a>, Jan 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
1111: Art Bell interviewed Kevin Mitnick on his call-in show;
1112: Paul Zacharzewski from Edmonton called to ask Mitnick for his opinion of OpenBSD.
1113: If you don't want to download the whole show from coasttocoastam.com,
1114: you can listen to an
1.497 ian 1115: <a href="http://unworkable.org/misc/mitnick.mp3">MP3 excerpt of this call</a>
1.492 ian 1116: in which Mitnick says: "Well, I actually use OpenBSD, so I do like it".
1117: </ul>
1118:
1.483 ian 1119: <h2>December, 2005</h2>
1120: <ul>
1.555 reyk 1121:
1.483 ian 1122: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.555 reyk 1123: [GERMAN]
1124: <a href="http://www.ini.unizh.ch/~stephan/articles/openbsd/064-069_linux-bsd-fw.pdf">
1125: Wehrhaft abtauchen - HA-fähige Firewall mit OpenBSD/PF</a>, Linux-Magazin, December 2005
1126: </strong></font><br>
1127: High available firewall setups are considered as the high arts of network protection.
1128: Due to clustering the network stays online even if one firewall fails. This article
1129: from Stephan A. Rickauer (Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH / University Zurich) shows
1130: how well OpenBSD/PF performs in comparison to the well-known duo Linux/Netfilter.
1131: <p>
1132:
1133: </p></li><li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.484 djm 1134: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/375/1">OpenSSH cutting edge</a>
1135: SecurityFocus, December 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
1136: Federico Biancuzzi interviews OpenSSH developer Damien Miller to discuss
1137: features included in the upcoming version 4.3, public key crypto
1138: protocols details, timing based attacks and anti-worm measures.
1139: <p>
1140:
1141: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 1142: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/11/21/175249.shtml?tid=92&tid=78">Creating
1.483 ian 1143: Secure Wireless Access Points with OpenBSD and OpenVPN</a>
1144: NewsForge, December 13, 2005</strong></font><br>
1145: A cookbook approach to setting up a wireless interface as a secure Access Point
1146: using OpenBSD's hostap, pf, and authpf.
1147: Configuration examples are given with basic explanations and links
1148: to sites with more information on most topics.
1149: <p>
1150:
1151: </ul>
1152:
1153:
1.479 grunk 1154: <h2>November, 2005</h2>
1155: <ul>
1156: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 1157: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20051116145737">OpenBSD
1.482 ian 1158: Goes to Venice</a>,
1159: OpenBSD Journal, November 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 1160: "What happens when you put a dozen developers on a little island with their
1.482 ian 1161: laptops, power, and an internet connection?
1162: <br/>
1163: During the first week of November some OpenBSD developers met in a
1164: little island in Venice's lagoon to hack on the ports system.
1165: This was probably the first ports hackathon and was followed by
1.497 ian 1166: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON</a>, a European conference
1.482 ian 1167: fully dedicated to OpenBSD..."
1168: Great coverage of the OpenBSD Porting Hackathon: people, ports, beer, ...
1169: Contains a link to
1170: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ven05-pvalchev/mgp00008.html">
1171: pval's summary slides</a>.
1172: <p>
1173:
1174: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.481 niallo 1175: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1710223">
1176: Trying out the new OpenBSD 3.8</a>,
1177: NewsForge, November 11, 2005</strong></font><br>
1178: This article describes the installation of OpenBSD 3.8 from a Linux user's
1179: perspective, noting the simple elegance of the installer.
1180: Although the installation process may be hard to get used to at first for
1181: the average Linux user, the author tells us that one can learn a lot from
1182: it. Furthermore, the article clears up the common misconception that working
1.497 ian 1183: on an OpenBSD system is very different from working on a Linux system.
1.481 niallo 1184: In particular, the author states that on OpenBSD, <i>"virtually the entire
1185: catalog of familiar free and open source software titles is available through
1186: the packages and ports system"</i>.
1187: <p>
1188:
1189: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1190: <a href="http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3561526">
1191: Return of The BSDs</a>,
1192: internetnews.com, November 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
1193: This article mentions that with all three major BSD flavors having had
1194: a release this fall, BSD is <i>"still very much alive and kicking among
1195: all the noise and buzz created by Linux"</i>. The author talks about
1196: various new or improved features of 3.8, such as bioctl(8), hostapd(8),
1197: network interface aggregation and sasyncd(8), and there are some
1198: quotes from Bob Beck.
1199: <p>
1200:
1201: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.479 grunk 1202: <a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/051101/152/fvrlx.html">
1203: OpenBSD 3.8 improves hardware support</a>,
1204: ZDNet UK, November 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.480 ian 1205: This article reports on OpenBSD 3.8, which was released on November 1.
1206: The author gives an overview of the improvements and new
1.479 grunk 1207: features that were made with 3.8, and quotes Theo on RAID management
1208: and Linux.<br>
1209: The 3.8 release hit the news also in some other places:
1210: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1258232">Slashdot</a>
1211: and <a href="http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=12482">OSNews</a>
1212: also report about it, mostly repeating parts
1213: of the release
1214: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/ANNOUNCEMENT">ANNOUNCEMENT</a>.
1215: <p>
1216: </ul>
1217:
1.476 ian 1218: <h2>October, 2005</h2>
1219: <ul>
1220:
1221: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1222: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1375194866;fp;16;fpid;0">
1223: 'Nightmare' drove desperate user to open source</a>,
1224: Computerworld, October 24, 2005</strong></font><br>
1225: A great tale of how Mark Uemura of PricewaterhouseCoopers Japan
1226: was forced to move to OpenBSD because the alternatives were too costly
1227: and too unreliable.
1228: This quote will rattle some cages:
1229: "IT managers who want to deploy an open source solution but are
1230: worried about company politics should go ahead and do it without
1231: asking," according to Uemura, who was promoted to IT Manager of PWC Japan
1232: after saving the company seven IT-samurais' salaries.
1233: Further, "In Japan large organizations like Morgan Stanley and the
1234: Bank of America have moved all their backend systems to open source,
1235: Uemura said, because with open source you can reduce IT operating
1236: costs without any commercial lock-in."
1237: <p>
1238:
1.477 saad 1239: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1240: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6270">
1241: OpenBSD 3.8: Hackers of the Lost RAID</a>,
1242: ONLamp.com, October 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
1243: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
1244: new features in OpenBSD 3.8 including interface trunking,
1245: internationalization support, Inter-Access Point Protocol (IAPP),
1246: IPSec SA synchronization daemon, and RAID management. There is also some
1247: discussion about future plans.
1248: <p>
1249:
1.478 grunk 1250: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1251: <a href="http://securityfocus.com/columnists/361">
1252: OpenBSD's network stack</a>,
1253: SecurityFocus, October 12, 2005</strong></font><br>
1254: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about OpenBSD's
1255: network stack, including protection against ICMP attacks, and propagation
1256: of enhancements into other BSDs and into Linux.
1257: The interview also features the other protection mechanisms in the network
1258: stack, a comparison to the network stack in Linux, and the history and
1259: current status of <a href="http://www.openbgpd.org/">OpenBGPD</a>.
1260: <p>
1261:
1.476 ian 1262: </ul>
1263:
1.470 saad 1264: <h2>September, 2005</h2>
1265: <ul>
1266:
1267: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.474 niallo 1268: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/359">
1269: Security-related innovation in Unix</a>,
1270: SecurityFocus, Sept. 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1271: An article examining the mmap-based malloc() implementation to be
1272: included in OpenBSD 3.8. The author states that <i>"it will help OpenBSD
1273: users to find bugs in software more easily, which will result in better
1274: applications for everyone"</i>. He goes on to say that <i>"the more hurdles
1275: that one has to jump through for good security, the less likely people will
1276: go through the trouble. OpenBSD allows even the most inexperienced users to
1277: take advantage of these technologies without any effort"</i>.
1278: <p>
1279:
1280: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.473 aanriot 1281: <a href="http://www.miscmag.com/articles/index.php3?page=2100">
1282: [FRENCH] Champ libre : les chantiers OpenBSD</a>
1283: Misc, number 21, Sept/Oct, 2005, p. 4-14</strong></font><br>
1284: An interesting article about OpenBSD and associated projects. Saad Kadhi
1285: and Guillaume Arcas describe useful things you can do with PF and
1286: OpenSSH, and give a nice introduction to OpenNTPD and OpenCVS. If the
1287: article is focused on the presentation, you can find some interesting
1288: technical aspects people are not always acquainted to. A few examples
1289: are shown, like a basic CARP setup, or the manner to use multiplexing
1290: with OpenSSH and even how to check an OpenSSH server's keys using DNS.
1291: <p>
1292:
1293: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 1294: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/news/11306">
1295: Big debate over small packets</a>,
1296: SecurityFocus, Sept. 7, 2005</strong></font><br>
1297: Robert Lemos discusses the ICMP denial-of-service vulnerabilities found
1298: by Fernando Gont and fixed in OpenBSD. To date, OpenBSD is the only
1299: system that has implemented all of the fixes recommended in the IETF
1300: draft.
1301: <p>
1302:
1303: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.471 saad 1304: <a href="http://www.pcexpert.fr/">
1305: [FRENCH] "Quel est le meilleur système libre pour votre
1306: ordinateur ?"</a>,
1307: PC Expert, number 156, p. 42-62</strong></font><br>
1308: Philippe Roure compares 11 Linux and *BSD operating systems, including
1309: OpenBSD 3.7, on different criteria such as security, documentation and
1310: usability. OpenBSD earned a 5/5 mark (see pages 60-61) and while a mark
1311: isn't necessarily objective, the author seems to grasp the OpenBSD
1312: project, its goals, and how good is the operating system. The article
1313: includes an interview with Saad Kadhi.
1314: <p>
1315:
1316: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.470 saad 1317: <a href="http://www.samag.com/articles/2005/0509/">
1318: Monitoring PF Firewalls for Health and Performance</a>,
1319: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 9, p. 37</strong></font><br>
1320: Ryan Matteson describes several utilities that can be used to monitor the
1321: health and performance of a PF firewall. Besides pfctl, the article
1322: covers pftop, fwanalog, monitoring logs with tcpdump and graphing
1323: performance data with pfstat.
1324: <p>
1325:
1326: </ul>
1327:
1.461 grunk 1328: <h2>July, 2005</h2>
1329: <ul>
1330:
1331: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.466 deraadt 1332: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5382">
1333: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part III</a>,
1.467 grunk 1334: Kerneltrap, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.466 deraadt 1335: Jeremy Andrews writes about the recent Blind ICMP attacks discovered
1336: by Fernando Gont, and the fixes done by him and OpenBSD during the
1337: 2005 Hackathon.
1.469 ian 1338: The article goes into the technical background of the
1.467 grunk 1339: attacks, mentioning blind ICMP attacks, "hard" ICMP errors, source
1.469 ian 1340: quenching, and path MTU discovery;
1341: many helpful RFCs and technical papers are linked from the explanations.
1342: This is followed by a recap of the whole ICMP story, involving Gont's
1.467 grunk 1343: struggle with other free projects, Cisco lawyers, Microsoft people,
1344: and others.<br>
1.469 ian 1345: The article concludes that OpenBSD was the first project
1.467 grunk 1346: to take Fernando Gont's findings seriously, and also the first group to
1347: be really painless to work with.
1.466 deraadt 1348: <p>
1349:
1350: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.464 grunk 1351: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/06/security_blame/">
1352: Security meltdown: who's to blame?</a>,
1.466 deraadt 1353: The Register, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.464 grunk 1354: This article talks about various groups that are frequently blamed for
1355: poor security:
1.467 grunk 1356: individuals, ISPs, companies, crackers, security mailing lists,
1.464 grunk 1357: and last but not least: OS vendors!
1.467 grunk 1358: In the last paragraph, OpenBSD's style of <i>"dumbed-down, simplified
1.464 grunk 1359: and secure systems (with a heavily audited code base)"</i> is described
1360: as <i>"one of the smartest approaches to security"</i>.
1361: <p>
1362:
1363: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.461 grunk 1364: <a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-7-5/30084.html">
1365: Theo de Raadt on Industry and Free Software</a>,
1.466 deraadt 1366: The Epoch Times, July 5, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.463 tom 1367: In this interview, Theo talks about the inception of the OpenBSD project
1368: and its goals, as well as its impact on the commercial IT industry.
1.461 grunk 1369: He points out once more that <i>"vendors who incorporate OpenSSH have
1370: given us absolutely nothing back - not a cent"</i>.
1371: Other topics covered include the OpenBSD team, Theo's role as
1372: <i>"benevolent dictator"</i>, and the security process, which he compares
1373: to the security efforts led by other free software projects and some
1374: commercial vendors.
1375: <p>
1376:
1377: </ul>
1378:
1.454 ian 1379: <h2>June, 2005</h2>
1380: <ul>
1.468 grunk 1381:
1382: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1383: <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/ns-ttc062205.php">
1384: The true cost of computer crime</a>,
1385: EurekAlert / <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/">New Scientist Magazine</a>,
1386: issue June 25, 2005</strong></font><br>
1387: This article looks at computer crime, especially the way upcoming
1388: vulnerability reports are dealt with. It also gives a short overview of the
1.469 ian 1389: institutions involved in the process (vendors, free projects, CERTs).
1.468 grunk 1390: <br>
1391: The author mentions the work of Andy Ozment, who researches vulnerability
1392: disclosure at the University of Cambridge. Using OpenBSD as a good example
1393: of how disclosure and consequent fixing of bugs helps to strengthen security,
1394: he refutes the widely spread FUD that disclosing vulnerabilities leads to
1395: more harm than good. Ozment's methodology was to examine OpenBSD's CVS logs
1.469 ian 1396: and note when fixes were published; his research shows that
1.468 grunk 1397: <i>"the number of vulnerabilities decreases as a result of disclosure"</i>.
1398: <p>
1399:
1.454 ian 1400: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.458 niallo 1401: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0704/071.html">
1402: Free Bird</a>,
1403: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1404: <b>(Registration required)</b> A second Forbes article about OpenBSD, more
1405: focused on the project itself this time. It contains good description of the
1406: history of OpenBSD along with its prime motivations. Mention is made of the
1407: DARPA grant and the annual hackathon. Theo's motto "shut up and hack" finally
1408: becomes famous in this piece and there are some other very insightful quotes
1409: such as "All I care about is making high-quality code. If I had to work at a
1410: regular job, it would drive me nuts". This is certainly an astute and perceptive
1411: article, well worth reading. Do note that the big picture of Theo's machine
1412: room will only be available in the print edition.
1413: <p>
1.459 deraadt 1414:
1.458 niallo 1415: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.456 niallo 1416: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html">
1417: Is Linux For Losers?</a>,
1418: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1419: An interesting article, if somewhat polemic in tone, which raises questions
1420: about the quality of Linux code compared to OpenBSD. There is also some short
1421: discussion of the OpenBSD development model and focus (push for quality above
1422: everything else) including good quotes from Theo. It seems that the need for
1423: high quality software is beginning to be recognised by the mainstream.
1424: <p>
1.457 deraadt 1425:
1.456 niallo 1426: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1427: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/06/09/2132233.shtml?tid=152&tid=8&tid=2">
1.455 ian 1428: BSD cognoscenti on Linux</a>,
1429: NewsForge, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1430: NewsForge talks with Theo de Raadt and NetBSD's Christos Zoulas about the
1431: similarities and differences between the Linux kernel and the BSD
1432: operating systems. The questions asked were similar to those asked
1433: of Linus Torvalds in a <a
1.462 grunk 1434: href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/09/2128249&tid=2">previous
1.455 ian 1435: interview.</a>
1436: <p>
1437:
1438: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.454 ian 1439: <a href="http://www.tuxjournal.net/intervista3-en.html">
1440: A good morning with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1441: Tux Journal, June 2, 2005</strong></font><br>
1442: Brief but wide-ranging interview with Theo in which our leader
1443: opines about the good things in 3.7: "The list of new developments
1444: is impressive, but in my view not nearly as impressive as the small
1445: little details that continue to be fixed during each development
1446: cycle." And modestly credits all the developers for the project's
1447: continuing success, attributing it to "The passion of the developers,
1448: and the wide experience they bring into their development efforts.
1449: By amazing coincidence, our users typically have the same needs as we do."
1450: Manages to sidestep getting drawn into comparisons with Linux, e.g.,
1451: when asked if he likes it/why/why not, deftly replies
1452: "I have never used it."
1453: <p>
1454:
1455: </ul>
1456:
1.441 deraadt 1457: <h2>May, 2005</h2>
1458: <ul>
1459: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 1460: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5190">
1461: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part II</a>,
1462: Kerneltrap, May 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1463: In the second installment of Kerneltrap's Hackathon 2005 feature, Jeremy
1464: Andrews speaks with the pf developers at length about their plans for
1465: future enhancements.
1466: <p>
1467:
1468: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.450 deraadt 1469: <a href="http://www.ctv.ca">
1.448 deraadt 1470: TV coverage: OpenBSD hackathon</a>,
1471: CTV/CFCN, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1472: A TV spot done a Canadian national TV station about the Calgary
1473: hackathon this year, with 60 developers.<br>
1474: North America mirror:
1475: <ul>
1.452 marco 1476: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.449 jcs 1477: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a><br>
1478: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a>
1.448 deraadt 1479: </ul>
1480: European mirror:
1481: <ul>
1.452 marco 1482: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.448 deraadt 1483: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a>
1484: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a><br>
1485: </ul>
1486: <p>
1487:
1488: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 1489: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5186">
1490: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part I</a>,
1491: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1492: Jeremy Andrews of KernelTrap does a good job of describing what it's like
1493: to be at the Hackathon in Part I of KernelTrap's Hackathon feature. Several
1494: developers are interviewed in detail about what they are working on.
1495: <p>
1496:
1497: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 1498: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5184">
1499: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005: Day 6?</a>,
1500: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1501: Kjell Wooding describes a typical day at the Hackathon in this entertaining
1502: first-hand account.
1503: <p>
1504:
1505: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.447 cloder 1506: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/05/20/1426216.shtml?tid=8">
1507: Review: OpenBSD 3.7</a>,
1508: NewsForge.com, May 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
1509: "OpenBSD is not only highly polished and easy to
1510: configure because of its documentation, it's also totally free-as-in-rights.
1511: With an obsession with security, freedom of source code, and quality of
1512: programming technique, OpenBSD 3.7 continues the legacy established by
1513: its previous releases," writes Jem Matzan in this nice, small review.
1514: <p>
1515:
1516: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.446 cloder 1517: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/05/19/openbsd_3_7.html">
1518: OpenBSD 3.7: The Wizard of OS</a>,
1519: ONLamp.com, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
1520: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
1521: new features in OpenBSD 3.7, including new wireless chipsets, new
1522: spam-fighting features, zaurus, pf improvements, propolice, and
1523: many other things. A good overview of what's new in this release,
1524: plus some interesting comments about future direction.
1525: <p>
1526:
1527: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.444 niallo 1528: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/software/openbsd-3.7-released.html">
1.445 niallo 1529: Next incarnation of OpenBSD released</a>,
1.444 niallo 1530: Ping Wales, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
1531: "OpenBSD is often unjustly overlooked as a free UNIX-like system in favour of
1532: the more-hyped Linux. While it receives a lot less publicity than other
1533: operating systems, this is not due to lack of technical merit." says David
1534: Chisnall, in what is a clear and concise overview of the new features
1535: in 3.7 and indeed the project as a whole.
1536: <p>
1537:
1538: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1539: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5114">
1.445 niallo 1540: 2005 Calgary Hackathon, KernelTrap Coverage</a>,
1.444 niallo 1541: Kerneltrap, May 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1542: A great article about the annual OpenBSD Hackathon, detailing how the event
1543: functions, work done at previous Hackathons and features which may come out
1544: of this one. Includes many relevant quotes from developers themselves, and of
1545: course information about the legendary Hackathon BBQ!
1546: <p>
1547:
1548: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.442 deraadt 1549: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9658/sam0505e/">
1550: "Failover Firewalls with OpenBSD and CARP"</a>,
1551: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 5, p. 33
1.441 deraadt 1552: </strong></font><br>
1553: Jason Dixon discusses the history of the CARP and pfsync protocols
1554: and demonstrates using them to create redundant stateful firewalls
1555: with OpenBSD.
1556: </ul>
1557:
1.436 henning 1558: <h2>April, 2005</h2>
1559: <ul>
1560: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.440 ian 1561: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39195801,00.htm">
1562: Security guru wants access to bug databases</a>,
1563: ZDNet UK, April 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
1564: Ingrid Marson reports on Cambridge professor Ross Anderson's call for analysis of
1565: software maintenance records to determine whether open source code is more secure
1566: than closed source, as we have long contended.
1567: "One of Anderson's research students, Andy Ozment, has already done
1568: research using empirical data on bugs found in the open source
1569: operating system OpenBSD between 1997 and 2000. This research found
1570: that finding and fixing bugs results in a more secure product..."
1571: Just as the OpenBSD project has been saying for years.
1572: <p>
1573: This article can also be found online as
1574: <a href="http://uk.builder.com/manage/project/0,39026588,39244080,00.htm">Academic
1575: calls for better bug tracking</a> (uk.builder.com).
1576: <p>
1577:
1578: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.439 espie 1579: [FRENCH] "PC Expert", number 152, p. 58
1580: </strong></font><br>
1581: Very short interview of Marc Espie about OpenBSD as a free OS focusing
1582: on security, part of a larger dossier «les secrets des hackers».
1583: <p>
1584:
1585: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.436 henning 1586: [GERMAN] "Doppelwacht", iX 5/2005, p. 150.
1587: </strong></font><br>
1588: Stephan Tesch gives an introduction to CARP and using a pair of
1589: OpenBSD boxes as Firewalls in High Availibility scenarios. He goes
1.438 martin 1590: on explaining CARP and pfsync protocols, and does not forget to cover
1.436 henning 1591: the issues we had with IETF.
1592: </ul>
1593:
1.431 ian 1594: <h2>March, 2005</h2>
1595: <ul>
1596: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.435 reyk 1597: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/4818">
1598: OpenBSD's "Out of the Box" Wireless Support</a>,
1599: Kerneltrap, March 8, 2005</strong></font><br>
1600: This article is about the upcoming wireless support in OpenBSD 3.7 and
1601: the outcome of the work to open wireless chipsets. Jeremy Andrews
1602: talked with Theo de Raadt and the developers Damien Bergamini and Reyk
1603: Floeter who did some efforts to implement free and functional drivers.
1604: <p>
1605:
1606: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.431 ian 1607: <a href="http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/01/1109546842718.html">
1608: OpenBSD to support more wireless chipsets</a>,
1609: The Age, March 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1610: "The forthcoming 3.7 release of the OpenBSD operating system has
1611: added support for five more wireless chipsets, according to
1612: OpenBSD project founder Theo de Raadt...
1.432 ian 1613: OpenBSD 3.7 will also have have new drivers for Intel wireless
1.431 ian 1614: parts that do not work without the non-redistributable firmware,"
1615: namely the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11B
1616: and 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11A/B/G wireless network adapters.
1617: Mentions OpenBSD's activism in getting vendors to release chip specs.
1618: Referring to vendors that still refuse to play ball with open source
1619: projects, quotes Damien Miller as saying "Given the number of
1620: appliance devices that are built on free OSs, I think that the
1621: recalcitrant vendors are missing an important boat."
1622:
1623: </ul>
1624:
1.427 matthieu 1625: <h2>February, 2005</h2>
1626: <ul>
1627:
1628: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.428 david 1629: <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsaward2004.html">
1630: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
1631: FSF, February 26, 2005</strong></font><br>
1632: The Free Software Foundation awarded Theo de Raadt their "2004 Free Software
1633: Award" for his unwavering commitment to free software. Most recently he has
1634: been fighting hardware manufacturers for free redistribution of wireless card
1635: firmware.
1.434 ian 1636: Similar articles can be found online at:
1637: <ul>
1638: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1639: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=419">
1640: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
1641: Tectonic.za, March 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
1642: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1643: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article4362.phtml">
1644: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
1645: OSDir, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1646: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1647: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/De-Raadt-gets-free-software-award/2005/02/28/1109546758523.html?oneclick=true">
1648: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
1649: The Age, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1650: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1651: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/02/27/1413255.shtml?tid=99&tid=7">
1.434 ian 1652: Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award</a>,
1653: Slashdot, February 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1654: </ul>
1.427 matthieu 1655: </ul>
1656:
1.426 ian 1657: <h2>January, 2005</h2>
1658: <ul>
1659:
1660: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1661: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363731">
1662: Systrace in OpenBSD</a>,
1663: informit.com, January 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1664: This article talks about our systrace
1.462 grunk 1665: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&sektion=1">systrace(1)</a>
1.426 ian 1666: mechanism: what it is and why and
1667: how to use it, with examples.
1668: Another excerpt from the book
1669: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
1670: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
1671: <p>
1672:
1673: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1674: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363732">
1675: Overview of OpenBSD</a>,
1676: informit.com, January 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
1677: "OpenBSD is one of the most secure and well-designed operating
1678: systems available today. It has its roots in countless hours of
1679: research and development based on some of the best UNIX flavors of
1680: the past, and it boasts all the features of modern operating systems.
1681: The OS is widely considered one of the most secure general-purpose
1682: operating systems available today and it supports many key parts
1683: of the global Internet infrastructure..."
1684: This article is a sample chapter from
1685: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
1686: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
1687: <p>
1.443 ian 1688:
1689: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1690: <a href="http://www.pcplus.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=34628&subsectionid=784">
1.443 ian 1691: OpenBSD operating system</a>,
1692: PCPlus.co.uk, January, 2005</strong></font><br>
1693: Paul Grosse gives a brief tutorial on installing OpenBSD on i386 for people
1694: moving in a Windows->Linux direction, encouraging them to go a bit further for security.
1695: "While Linux out-scores Windows substantially (or completely) on [security as well as many other
1696: issues], it's still possible to use a more secure operating system on the PC... OpenBSD."
1697: Gives a brief but understandable walkthrough on the installation process, right up to
1698: downloading and installing the third-party packages, and
1699: ends with a sidebar on security.
1700: <p>
1.426 ian 1701: </ul>
1702:
1.424 ian 1703: <h2>December, 2004</h2>
1704: <ul>
1705:
1706: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.425 ian 1707: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/2329229">
1708: What are the real vulnerabilities of Linux?</a>
1709: NewsForge.com, December 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1710: Several security consultants were asked about "the real vulnerabilities of
1711: Linux". Cybersoure CEO Con Symaris seems to get it better than the rest:
1712: "One needs to approach security as a prime requirement and motivator,
1713: much as the OpenBSD team do," Zymaris said... "The Linux
1714: community mindset is different. Linux development is dynamic and
1715: races ahead towards more and broader functionality, drawing a
1716: multitude of interested parties in to make interesting extensions
1717: and adaptations at a rapid rate."
1718: <p>
1719: "In order to do security the BSD way, however, much more effort
1720: needs to be spent auditing code for holes, which is much less sexy,
1721: and attracts a different set of coders," Zymaris added.
1722: <p>
1723:
1724: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.424 ian 1725: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/281">
1726: Closed Source Hardware</a>
1727: Security Focus, December 1, 2004</strong></font><br>
1728: Symantec Threat Analyst Jason Miller analyzes the potential security threats
1729: when hardware vendors won't provide device documentation and
1730: instead provide "binary only" driver code for inclusion in open source
1731: operating systems.
1732: Miller is an open-source fan who says he uses a variety of systems, including
1733: OpenBSD on his firewall.
1734: Of the recent trend to closed-source binary drivers for open-source
1735: systems, he writes:
1736: <blockquote>
1737: The closed-source component required to support this hardware is
1738: completely independent of the associated operating system, and as
1739: such, is also independent of the engineering team, security team,
1740: auditing process, and quality control procedures normally related
1741: to the operating system...
1742: <br/>
1743: What's possibly even more disturbing is that we're talking about
1744: a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest
1745: possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a
1746: third-party vendor. This code could do anything once loaded, including
1747: leaking active WEP keys, gathering usage statistics, sniffing and
1748: disclosing traffic, and it could even introduce a subtle backdoor
1749: into the operating system itself (much the same as any device driver
1750: in a closed source operating system).
1751: <br/>
1752: [A]lthough some of these scenarios are a
1753: little far-fetched, the possibility for them to exist is there...
1754: Ultimately it becomes an issue of trust, which is a cornerstone of
1755: good security: whom do you trust, and how much do you trust them?
1756: </blockquote>
1757: <p>And he comments that trust "seems to be a one-way street": vendors
1758: demand that you trust them, but they won't trust you to know how
1759: their hardware and software operates.
1760: This lack of trust is one reason why OpenBSD has recently completed
1761: reverse-engineering the
1.462 grunk 1762: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4">
1.424 ian 1763: Atheros wireless chipset driver</a>
1764: that was originally provided as a binary insert.
1765: <p>
1766: </ul>
1767:
1.417 pvalchev 1768: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
1769: <ul>
1.421 ian 1770:
1.417 pvalchev 1771: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.422 ian 1772: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730775,00.asp">
1773: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Widens Its Scope</a>
1774: eWEEK, November 22, 2004</strong></font><br>
1775: Jason Brooks reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and likes the changes it brings,
1776: including the multi-processing support which, he notes,
1777: "will be even more important as multicore processors--which occupy space
1778: on the road maps of Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others--
1779: become more prevalent." Comments favorably on OpenNTPD
1780: ("the three-line configuration file we needed to modify ... on OpenBSD was
1781: much simpler to deal with than the equivalent configuration file on
1782: the Linux systems we've tested").
1.423 ian 1783: Overall a favorable review of some of the new stuff in 3.6.
1.422 ian 1784: <p>
1785: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 otto 1786: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
1787: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
1788: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
1789: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
1790: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
1791: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
1792: it claims to do".
1793: <p>
1794:
1795: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.571 miod 1796: <a href="http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109994542424009&w=2">
1.421 ian 1797: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution</a>
1798: misc@, November 8, 2004</strong></font><br>
1799: Theo recounts the struggle to get Intel to provide redistributable
1800: versions of the firmware for their wireless chipsets, and their
1.423 ian 1801: ultimate refusal to allow OpenBSD to redistribute the chipsets' firmware.
1.421 ian 1802: Includes a caveat about Intel's disingenuous "FAQ", typical of many
1803: corporate FAQs that answer questions nobody actually thought
1804: to ask, and don't truthfully answer the questions you want hard answers to.
1805: At the end Theo names the names (and their emails) that need to be contacted
1806: by large numbers of end-users and developers if Intel is to change
1807: (yes, this is a hint).
1808: Of interest is that this posting to one of our mailing lists was
1809: picked up on the
1810: <a href="http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1923">Screaming
1811: Electron Forum</a> and from there reported on
1.462 grunk 1812: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/22/1249249&from=rss">
1.421 ian 1813: SlashDot</a>, where it is accompanied by a link to SlashDot's paper
1814: on effective advocacy (be firm, but also be polite).
1815: <p>
1816:
1817: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 1818: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
1819: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
1820: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
1821: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
1822: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
1823: questions about the significance and rationale behind
1824: the current efforts.
1825: <p>
1826: </ul>
1827:
1.407 henning 1828: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
1829: <ul>
1830: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 1831: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
1832: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
1833: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
1834: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
1835: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
1836: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
1837: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
1838: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
1839: <p>
1840:
1841: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 1842: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
1843: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
1844: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1845: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
1846: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
1847: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
1848: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
1849: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
1850: of the important changes in 3.6.
1.462 grunk 1851: <p>
1.415 ian 1852:
1853: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1854: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
1.414 ian 1855: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
1856: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
1857: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
1858: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
1859: overflow attacks... because
1860: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
1861: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
1862: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
1863: and propolice.
1864: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
1865: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
1866: and that's when the science falls apart."
1867: <p>
1868:
1869: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 1870: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
1871: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
1872: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
1873: Starts with the question:
1874: <blockquote>
1875: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
1876: <br/>
1877: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
1878: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
1879: <br/>
1880: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
1881: Should we believe them?"
1882: </blockquote>
1883: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
1884: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
1885: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
1886: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
1887: for your mail, web and other online activities.
1888: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
1889: <p>
1890:
1891: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 1892: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
1893: Simple Simon</a>,
1894: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
1895: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
1896: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
1897: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
1898: routing/firewall, and more.
1899: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
1900: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
1901: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
1902: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
1903: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
1904: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
1905: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
1906: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
1907: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
1908: </blockquote>
1909: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
1910: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
1911: <p>
1912:
1913: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 1914: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
1915: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 1916: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 1917: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 1918: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
1919: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
1920: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 1921: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 1922: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
1923: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
1924: in spite of it
1925: (registration required, but worth it).
1926: <p>
1927:
1928: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1929: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
1930: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
1931: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1932: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
1933: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
1934: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
1935: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 1936: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 1937: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
1938: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
1939: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
1940: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
1941: <p>
1942:
1943: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 1944: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
1945: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
1946: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
1947: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
1948: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
1949: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
1950: <blockquote>
1951: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
1952: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
1953: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
1954: a lot of analysis.
1955: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
1956: </blockquote>
1957: <p>
1958: </ul>
1959:
1.400 marco 1960: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
1961: <ul>
1962: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 1963: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
1964: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
1965: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
1966: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
1967: UNIX-like systems.
1968: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
1969: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
1970: <p>
1971: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 1972: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
1973: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 1974: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1975: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
1976: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
1977: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
1978: At one point, the article states:
1979: <blockquote>
1980: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
1981: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
1982: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
1983: </blockquote>
1984: And then quotes Theo as saying:
1985: <blockquote>
1986: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
1987: fewer are reading or auditing code."
1988: </blockquote>
1989: <p>
1990: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1991: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
1992: marks its fifth birthday</a>
1993: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1994: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
1995: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
1996: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
1997: required).
1998: <p>
1999: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 2000: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
2001: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
2002: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
2003: </strong></font><br>
2004: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
2005: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
2006: <p>
2007: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 2008: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
2009: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 2010: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 2011: </strong></font><br>
2012: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
2013: <p>
2014: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 2015: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
2016: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 2017: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 2018: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 2019: 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 2020: <p>
2021: </ul>
2022:
1.396 henning 2023: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
2024: <ul>
2025: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 2026: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
2027: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
2028: Unix Review, July, 2004
2029: </strong></font><br>
2030: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
2031: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
1.462 grunk 2032: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
1.418 ian 2033: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
2034: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
2035: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
2036: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
2037: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
2038: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
2039: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
2040: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
2041: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
2042: and even spelling/wording errors.
2043: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
2044: <p>
2045: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 2046: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 2047: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
2048: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
2049: </strong></font><br>
2050: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
2051: <p>
2052: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 2053: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 2054: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
2055: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
2056: </strong></font><br>
2057: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
2058: <p>
2059: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 2060: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
2061: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
2062: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
2063: </strong></font><br>
2064: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
2065: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
2066: <p>
2067: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 2068: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
2069: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
2070: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
2071: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
2072: <p>
2073: </ul>
2074:
1.405 jolan 2075: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
2076: <ul>
1.545 tom 2077: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 2078: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
1.466 deraadt 2079: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 5, 2004</strong></font>
1.405 jolan 2080: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
2081: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
2082: details on how funds are dispersed.
2083: <p>
2084: </ul>
2085:
1.393 david 2086: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
2087: <ul>
2088: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 2089: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
2090: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
2091: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
2092: </strong></font><br>
2093: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
2094: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
2095: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
2096: on inserting large number of SQL records.
2097: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
2098: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
2099: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
2100: <p>
2101:
2102: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 2103: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
2104: Secure by Default</a>,
2105: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
2106: </strong></font><br>
2107: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
2108: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
2109: <p>
2110:
2111: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2112: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
2113: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
2114: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
2115: </strong></font><br>
2116: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
2117: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
2118: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
2119: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
2120: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
2121: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
2122: <p>
2123:
2124: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2125: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
2126: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
2127: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
2128: </strong></font><br>
2129: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
2130: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
2131: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
2132: <p>
2133:
2134: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2135: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
2136: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
2137: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
2138: </strong></font><br>
2139: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
2140: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
2141: <p>
2142: </ul>
2143:
1.388 mcbride 2144: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
2145: <ul>
1.394 jolan 2146:
2147: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2148: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
2149: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
2150: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
2151: </strong></font><br>
2152: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
2153: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
2154: available for sparc64.
2155: <p>
2156:
1.390 beck 2157: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 2158: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
2159: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
2160: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
2161: </strong></font><br>
2162: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
2163: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
2164: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
2165: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
2166: <p>
2167:
2168: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 2169: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
2170: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 2171: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 2172: </strong></font><br>
2173: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
2174: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
2175: it does: CARP provides sharing
2176: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
2177: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
2178: detail to get you started using it.
2179: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
2180: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
2181: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
2182: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
2183: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
2184: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
2185: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 2186: <p>
1.391 ian 2187:
2188: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 2189: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 2190: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
2191: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 2192: </strong></font><br>
2193: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 2194: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 2195: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 2196: <p>
1.388 mcbride 2197:
2198: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2199: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
2200: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 2201: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 2202: </strong></font><br>
2203: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
2204: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
2205: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
2206: unencumbered by patents.
2207: <p>
2208: </ul>
2209:
1.378 henning 2210: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
2211: <ul>
1.384 jose 2212:
2213: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 2214: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
2215: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
2216: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
2217: </strong></font><br>
2218: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
2219: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
2220: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
2221: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
2222: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
2223: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
2224: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
2225: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
2226: in the page tables."
2227: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
2228: <p>
2229:
2230: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 2231: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
2232: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
2233: </strong></font><br>
2234: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
2235: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
2236: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
2237: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 2238: <p>
1.384 jose 2239:
1.378 henning 2240: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 2241: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
2242: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 2243: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
2244: </strong></font><br>
2245: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
2246: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
2247: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
2248: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
2249: (quote:
2250: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
2251: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 2252: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 2253: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
2254: the other developers for their work on the system.
2255: <p>
2256:
2257: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 2258: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
2259: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
2260: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 2261: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 2262: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
2263: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
2264: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
2265: too.
2266: <p>
2267:
2268: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 2269: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
2270: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 2271: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 2272: OpenBSD source code using
2273: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
2274: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
2275: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
2276: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
2277: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
2278: <p>
2279: </ul>
2280:
1.374 jose 2281: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
2282: <ul>
2283: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 2284: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 2285: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
2286: </strong></font><br>
2287: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
2288: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
2289: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
2290: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
2291: it."
2292: <p>
2293:
2294: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 2295: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
2296: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
2297: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
2298: </strong></font><br/>
2299: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
2300: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
2301: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
2302: <p>
2303: </ul>
2304:
1.369 ian 2305: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
2306: <ul>
2307: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 2308: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
2309: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
2310: </strong></font><br/>
2311: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
2312: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
2313: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
2314: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
2315: <p>
2316:
2317: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 2318: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
2319: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
2320: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
2321: </strong></font><br/>
2322: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
2323: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
2324: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
2325: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
2326: form factor.
2327: <p>
2328:
2329: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2330: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
2331: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
2332: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
2333: Features</a>,
2334: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
2335: </strong></font><br/>
2336: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
2337: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
2338: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
2339: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
2340: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
2341: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
2342: <p>
2343: This article can also be found online at:
2344: <ul>
2345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 2346: <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 2347: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
2348: </strong></font>
2349: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
2350: </ul>
2351: <p>
1.392 david 2352:
1.371 jose 2353: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 2354: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
2355: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 2356: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
2357: </strong></font><br/>
2358: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
2359: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
2360: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 2361: <p>
1.371 jose 2362:
2363: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 2364: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 2365: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 2366: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 2367: </strong></font><br/>
2368: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
2369: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
2370: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
2371: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
2372: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
2373: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
2374: and its history with OpenBSD.
2375: </ul>
2376:
1.567 kurt 2377: <h2>September, 2003</h2>
2378: <ul>
2379: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2380: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/bsdcon03/tech/full_papers/rosenthal/rosenthal_html/">
2381: A Digital Preservation Network Appliance Based on OpenBSD</a>, BSDcon, September, 2003.
2382: </strong></font><br>
2383: David S. H. Rosenthal's paper on the design, implementation and deployment of the
2384: <a href="http://www.lockss.org">LOCKSS</a> network appliance based on OpenBSD.
2385: </ul>
2386:
1.368 henning 2387: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
2388: <ul>
2389: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 2390: [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 2391: </strong></font><br>
2392: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
2393: </ul>
2394:
1.364 jose 2395: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
2396: <ul>
2397: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 2398: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
2399: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
2400: UNIX Review,
2401: July, 2003.
2402: </strong></font><br>
2403: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
2404: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
2405: who want more information.
2406: <p>
2407:
2408: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 2409: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
2410: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
2411: Government Computer News,
2412: July 22, 2003.
2413: </strong></font><br>
2414: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
2415: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
2416: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
2417: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
2418: <p>
2419:
2420: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2421: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
2422: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
2423: SANS Institute,
2424: July 22, 2003.
2425: </strong></font><br>
2426: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 2427: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 2428: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
2429: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
2430: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
2431: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
2432: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
2433: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
2434: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
2435: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
2436: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
2437: <p>
2438:
2439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 2440: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
2441: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
2442: OnLamp.com,
2443: July 17, 2003.
2444: </strong></font><br>
2445: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
2446: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
2447: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
2448: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
2449: have been working on.
2450:
2451: </ul>
2452:
1.356 jose 2453: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 2454: <ul>
2455:
2456: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 2457: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
2458: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
2459: UNIX Review,
2460: June, 2003.
2461: </strong></font><br>
2462: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
2463: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
2464: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
2465: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
2466: <p>
2467:
2468: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 2469: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
2470: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
2471: eWeek,
2472: June 23, 2003.
2473: </strong></font><br>
2474: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
2475: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
2476: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
2477: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
2478: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
2479: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
2480: <p>
2481:
2482: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 2483: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
2484: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
2485: Software Development Online,
2486: June, 2003.
2487: </strong></font><br>
2488: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
2489: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
2490: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
2491: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
2492: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
2493: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
2494: current activities.
2495: <p>
2496:
2497: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 2498: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
2499: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 2500: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
2501: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
2502: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
2503: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 2504: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 2505: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
2506: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
2507: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 2508: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 2509: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
2510: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 2511: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 2512: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
2513: decisions.
2514: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
2515: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 2516: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 2517: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 2518: <p>
2519:
2520: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 2521: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
2522: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
2523: Page 58, eWeek,
2524: June 2, 2003.
2525: </strong></font><br>
2526: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
2527: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
2528: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
2529: been addressed in -current.
2530: <p>
2531:
1.356 jose 2532: </ul>
2533:
2534: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
2535: <ul>
2536:
1.355 jose 2537: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 2538: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
2539: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
2540: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
2541: </strong></font><br>
2542: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
2543: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
2544: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
2545: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
2546: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
2547: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
2548: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
2549: <p>
2550:
2551: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 2552: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
2553: Beyond Linux</a>,
2554: InfoWorld,
2555: May 23, 2003.
2556: </strong></font><br>
2557: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
2558: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
2559: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
2560: compared to the GPL.
2561: <p>
2562:
2563: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 2564: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
2565: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
2566: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 2567: May 17, 2003.
2568: </strong></font><br>
2569: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
2570: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
2571: the business section and half of another page inside
2572: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
2573: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
2574: in talking about the project's history and goals.
2575: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
2576: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
2577: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
2578: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 2579: <br>
2580: This article can also be found online at:
2581: <ul>
2582: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2583: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
2584: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
2585: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
2586: May 17, 2003
2587: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 2588: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
2589: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2590: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
2591: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
2592: Montreal Gazette,
2593: May 21, 2003
2594: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 2595: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 2596: <p>
1.346 ian 2597:
2598: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 2599: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 2600: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 2601: May 7, 2003.
2602: </strong></font><br>
2603: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
2604: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
2605: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
2606: <p>
2607:
2608: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 2609: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
2610: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2611: OsOpinion,
2612: May 6, 2003.
2613: </strong></font><br>
2614: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
2615: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
2616: <br>
2617: This article can also be found online at:
2618: <ul>
2619: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2620: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
2621: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2622: NewsFactor Network.
2623: </strong></font>
2624: </ul>
2625: <p>
2626:
2627: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2628: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 2629: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
2630: ITBusiness,
2631: May 2, 2003.
2632: </strong></font><br>
2633: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
2634: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
2635: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
2636: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
2637: <p>
2638:
2639: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 2640: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
2641: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
2642: InfoWorld,
2643: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 2644: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 2645: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
2646: <br>
2647: This article can also be found online at:
2648: <ul>
2649: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2650: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
2651: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
2652: IDG Singapore.
2653: </strong></font>
2654: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 2655: <p>
2656:
1.339 jose 2657: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2658: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
2659: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 2660: ZDNet,
2661: May 1, 2003.
2662: </strong></font><br>
2663: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 2664: someone using parts from previous articles.
2665: <br>
1.341 deraadt 2666: This article can also be found online at:
2667: <ul>
2668: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2669: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
2670: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
2671: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 2672: </strong></font>
2673: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2674: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
2675: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
2676: CNET News.com.
2677: </strong></font>
2678: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2679: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
2680: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
2681: ZDNet UK.
2682: </strong></font>
2683: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2684: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
2685: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
2686: Help Net Security, Croatia.
2687: </strong></font>
2688: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 2689: <p>
1.339 jose 2690:
1.341 deraadt 2691: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.571 miod 2692: <a href="http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 2693: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
2694: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
2695: May 1, 2003.
2696: </strong></font><br>
2697: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
2698: that have been added
2699: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
2700: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
2701: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 2702: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 2703: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
2704: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
2705: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 2706: <p>
2707:
2708: </ul>
2709:
1.253 ian 2710: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
2711: <ul>
1.255 ian 2712:
1.260 ian 2713: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2714: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 2715: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
2716: TechRepublic,
2717: April 28, 2003.
2718: </strong></font><br>
2719: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
2720: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 2721: work.<br>
2722: Can also be found online at:
2723: <ul>
2724: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2725: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
2726: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
2727: ZDNet UK.
2728: </strong></font>
2729: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 2730: <p>
2731:
2732: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 2733: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
2734: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
2735: IDG,
2736: April 24, 2003.
2737: </strong></font><br>
2738: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
2739: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
2740: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
2741: Can also be found online at:
2742: <ul>
2743: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2744: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
2745: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 2746: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 2747: </strong></font>
2748: </ul>
2749: <p>
2750:
2751: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2752: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 2753: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 2754: Slate,
2755: April 24, 2003.
2756: </strong></font><br>
2757: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
2758: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
2759: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
2760: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
2761: <p>
2762:
2763: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 2764: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2765: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
2766: April 24, 2003.
2767: </strong></font><br>
2768: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
2769: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
2770: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
2771: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
2772: <p>
2773:
2774: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 2775: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
2776: April 24, 2003.
2777: </strong></font><br>
2778: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
2779: the free software community".
2780: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
2781: other articles.
2782: <p>
2783:
2784: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2785: <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 2786: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
2787: </strong></font><br>
2788: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
2789: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
2790: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
2791: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
2792: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
2793: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
2794: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 2795: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 2796: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
2797: <br/>
2798: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
2799: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
2800: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
2801: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 2802: <br>
2803: Can also be found online at:
2804: <ul>
2805: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2806: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
2807: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
2808: Common Dreams NewsCenter
2809: </strong></font>
2810: </ul>
1.324 ian 2811: <p>
2812:
2813: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2814: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
2815: Wired, April 24, 2003.
2816: </strong></font><br>
2817: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
2818: article above.
2819: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
2820: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
2821: wasting them."
1.332 ian 2822: <br>
2823: Can also be found online at:
2824: <ul>
2825: <li>
2826: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
2827: </strong></font>
2828: </ul>
1.324 ian 2829: <p>
2830:
2831: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 2832: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
2833: </strong></font><br>
2834: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
2835: <p>
2836:
2837: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 2838: <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.
2839: </strong></font><br>
2840: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
2841: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
2842: <p>
2843:
2844: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 2845: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
2846: April 23, 2003.
2847: </strong></font><br>
2848: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
2849: <p>
2850:
2851: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 2852: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 2853: April 22, 2003.
2854: </strong></font><br>
2855: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
2856: <p>
2857:
2858: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 2859: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
2860: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
2861: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 2862: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 2863: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
2864: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
2865: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
2866: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
2867: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
2868: Can also be found online at:
2869: <ul>
2870: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2871: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 2872: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
2873: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 2874: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 2875: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2876: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 2877: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
2878: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 2879: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 2880: </ul>
2881: <p>
2882:
2883: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 2884: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
2885: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 2886: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2887: </strong></font><br>
2888: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 2889: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
2890: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
2891: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
2892: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
2893: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
2894: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 2895: <p>
2896:
2897: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 2898: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
2899: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 2900: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
2901: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 2902: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
2903: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
2904: at UPenn and DARPA.
2905: <p>
2906:
2907: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 2908: [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,
2909: France
1.315 deraadt 2910: April 18, 2003.
2911: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 2912: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 2913: <p>
2914:
2915: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 2916: [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 2917: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2918: </strong></font><br>
2919: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
2920: <p>
2921:
2922: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 2923: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
2924: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
2925: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 2926: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 2927: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
2928: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
2929: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
2930: <p>
2931:
2932: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 2933: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
2934: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2935: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 2936: </strong></font><br>
2937: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
2938: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
2939: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 2940: American century.
1.267 deraadt 2941: <p>
2942:
2943: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 2944: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
2945: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2946: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 2947: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 2948: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
2949: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
2950: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
2951: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
2952: Can also be found online at:
2953: <ul>
2954: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
2955: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 2956: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 2957: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 2958: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 2959: <p>
2960:
2961: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 2962: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 2963: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 2964: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 2965: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 2966: </strong></font><br>
2967: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 2968: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
2969: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
2970: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
2971: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 2972:
2973: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2974: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
2975: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
2976: New York Times.
2977: </strong></font>(free registration required)
2978:
1.273 deraadt 2979: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2980: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 2981: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 2982: ABC News.
2983: </strong></font>
2984:
2985: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2986: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 2987: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 2988: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 2989: </strong></font>
2990:
2991: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 2992: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 2993: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 2994: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 2995: </strong></font>
2996:
2997: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 2998: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
2999: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 3000: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 3001: </strong></font>
3002:
3003: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3004: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 3005: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 3006: Times Daily, AL.
3007: </strong></font>
3008:
3009: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3010: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
3011: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
3012: Boston.com, MA.
3013: </strong></font>
3014:
3015: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3016: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 3017: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 3018: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
3019: </strong></font>
3020:
3021: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 3022: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
3023: [Article was pulled]</a>
3024: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 3025: </strong></font>
3026:
3027: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3028: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
3029: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
3030: Infoshop News.
3031: </strong></font>
3032:
3033: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3034: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
3035: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
3036: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
3037: </strong></font>
3038:
3039: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 3040: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
3041: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
3042: Raleigh News, NC.
3043: </strong></font>
3044:
3045: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 3046: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 3047: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
3048: Napa News, CA.
3049: </strong></font>
3050:
3051: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3052: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 3053: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
3054: NEPA News, PA.
3055: </strong></font>
3056:
3057: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3058: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
3059: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
3060: Wired News.
3061: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 3062: <br>
3063: <li>
1.333 deraadt 3064: <font color="#009000"><strong>
3065: [JAPANESE]
3066: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
3067: Wired News Japan</a>
3068: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 3069:
1.271 deraadt 3070: </ul>
3071: <p>
1.272 deraadt 3072: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
3073: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 3074: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
3075: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
3076: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
3077: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
3078: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
3079: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 3080: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 3081: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
3082: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
3083: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 3084: <p>
3085: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 3086:
3087: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3088: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 3089: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
3090: Indianapolis Star, IN.
3091: </strong></font>
3092:
3093: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 3094: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
3095: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
3096: Miami Herald, FL.
3097: </strong></font>
3098:
3099: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 3100: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 3101: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
3102: </strong></font>
3103:
3104: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3105: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 3106: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 3107: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 3108: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 3109:
3110: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3111: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
3112: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
3113: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
3114: ABC News.
3115: </strong></font>
3116:
1.276 deraadt 3117: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3118: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 3119: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 3120: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 3121: </strong></font>
3122:
1.286 dhartmei 3123: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3124: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 3125: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
3126: Wilmington Star, NC.
3127: </strong></font>
3128:
1.300 jose 3129: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3130: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
3131: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
3132: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
3133: </strong></font>
3134:
1.309 jose 3135: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3136: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
3137: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
3138: Globe Technology.
3139: </strong></font>
3140:
1.263 deraadt 3141: </ul>
1.262 beck 3142: <p>
3143:
3144: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 3145: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
3146: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3147: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 3148: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 3149: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 3150: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
3151: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
3152: <p>
3153:
3154: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 3155: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
3156: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
3157: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 3158: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 3159: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
3160: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
3161: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
3162: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
3163: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
3164: and simply restates other press reports.
3165: <p>
3166:
3167: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 3168: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
3169: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
3170: OS News, April 18, 2003.
3171: </strong></font><br>
3172: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
3173: <p>
3174:
3175: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 3176: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
3177: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3178: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 3179: </strong></font><br>
3180: Another report on the DARPA funding.
3181: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
3182: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
3183: <p>
3184:
3185: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 3186: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
3187: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
3188: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
3189: April 17, 2003.
3190: </strong></font><br>
3191: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
3192: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
3193: Tech Anthems</a>
3194: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
3195: 4 so far.
3196: <p>
3197:
3198: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 3199: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
3200: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3201: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 3202: </strong></font><br>
3203: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
3204: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
3205: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
3206: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
3207: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
3208: Goes on to say:
3209: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
3210: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
3211: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
3212: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 3213: This article is also found online at:
3214: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 3215: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3216: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
3217: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
3218: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 3219: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 3220: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3221: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
3222: ZDnet</a>,
3223: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 3224: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 3225: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3226: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
3227: ZDnet Australia</a>,
3228: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 3229: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 3230: </ul>
1.260 ian 3231: <p>
1.279 deraadt 3232:
1.260 ian 3233: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3234: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 3235: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 3236: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 3237: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 3238: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 3239: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
3240: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
3241: without notice or justification.
3242: <p>
3243:
3244: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.571 miod 3245: <a href="http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 3246: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 3247: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 3248: </strong></font><br>
3249: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
3250: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 3251: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 3252: effective today, without any warning..."
3253: <p>
1.257 ian 3254:
3255: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 3256: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
3257: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3258: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 3259: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 3260: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
3261: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
3262: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
3263: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
3264: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 3265: <p>
3266:
3267: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 3268: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
3269: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3270: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 3271: </strong></font><br>
3272: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
3273: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
3274: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
3275: quoting two of them:
3276: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
3277: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
3278: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
3279: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
3280: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
3281: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
3282: <p>
3283:
1.255 ian 3284: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3285: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
3286: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 3287: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3288: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 3289: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 3290: <p>
3291:
3292: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 3293: [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 3294: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3295: </strong></font><br>
3296: New security concepts in OpenBSD
3297: <p>
3298:
3299: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 3300: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
3301: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3302: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 3303: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 3304: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 3305: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
3306: security experts for more than three decades."
3307: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
3308: <p>
1.261 ian 3309:
1.254 drahn 3310: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 3311: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 3312: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3313: </strong></font><br>
3314: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
3315: <p>
3316:
3317: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 3318: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
3319: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
3320: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
3321: </strong></font><br>
3322: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
3323: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
3324: discussion OpenBSD's path.
3325: <p>
3326:
3327: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 3328: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
3329: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3330: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 3331: </strong></font><br>
3332: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
3333: from US DARPA.
3334: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
3335: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
3336: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
3337: the BSD license.
3338: <p>
3339: </ul>
3340:
1.251 ian 3341: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
3342: <ul>
3343:
3344: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3345: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
3346: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
3347: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
3348: </strong></font><br>
3349:
3350: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
3351: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
3352: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
3353: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
3354: <p>
3355:
3356: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 3357: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
3358: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 3359: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 3360: </strong></font><br>
3361: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
3362: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
3363: Mentions
3364: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
3365: and
3366: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
3367: programs.
3368: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 3369: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 3370: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
3371: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
3372: <p>
1.325 ian 3373: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
3374: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 3375:
3376: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3377: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
3378: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
3379: </strong></font><br>
3380: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
3381: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
3382: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
3383: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
3384: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
3385: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
3386: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
3387: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
3388: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
3389: put into service."
3390: <p>
3391: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
3392: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
3393: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
3394: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
3395: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
3396: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
3397: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
3398: computers with security features."
3399: <p>
1.329 ian 3400:
3401: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3402: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
3403: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
3404: Slate,
3405: March 3, 2003.
3406: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 3407: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 3408: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
3409: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
3410: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
3411: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
3412: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
3413: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
3414: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
3415: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
3416: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
3417: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
3418: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
3419: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
3420: of more secure open-source solutions like
3421: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
3422: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
3423: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
3424: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
3425: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
3426: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
3427: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
3428: the Beltway."
3429: <p>
1.251 ian 3430: </ul>
3431:
1.249 jufi 3432: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
3433: <ul>
3434: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3435: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
3436: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3437: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 3438: </strong></font><br>
3439: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
3440: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 3441: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 3442: <p>
1.334 ian 3443:
3444: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3445: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
3446: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
3447: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
3448: </strong></font><br>
3449: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
3450: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
3451: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
3452: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
3453: "... the hypothetical question ...
3454: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
3455: <br>
3456: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
3457: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
3458: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
3459: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
3460: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
3461: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 3462: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 3463: support network security.
3464: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
3465: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
3466: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
3467: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
3468: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
3469: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
3470: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
3471: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
3472: <br>
3473: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
3474: <p>
3475:
1.249 jufi 3476: </ul>
3477:
1.246 jufi 3478: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3479: <ul>
1.246 jufi 3480:
1.247 jufi 3481: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3482: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 3483: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3484: CNET News.com, December 4, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3485: </strong></font><br>
3486: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
3487: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
3488: <p>
3489:
1.247 jufi 3490: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3491: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
3492: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3493: Heise News-Ticker, December 4, 2002
1.301 jose 3494: </strong></font><br>
1.460 david 3495: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III CPU
1.301 jose 3496: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
3497: <p>
3498:
3499: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3500: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 3501: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3502: eWeek, December 3, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3503: </strong></font><br>
3504: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
3505: in their annual OpenHack security test.
3506: <p>
1.247 jufi 3507: </ul>
1.246 jufi 3508:
1.244 jufi 3509: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3510: <ul>
1.246 jufi 3511:
1.247 jufi 3512: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3513: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
3514: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
3515: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3516: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3517: </strong></font><br>
3518: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
3519: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
3520: md5 digests.
3521: <p>
3522:
1.247 jufi 3523: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3524: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 3525: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
3526: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3527: </strong></font><br>
3528: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
3529: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
3530: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
3531: right the first time."
3532: <p>
1.247 jufi 3533: </ul>
1.244 jufi 3534:
3535:
3536: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3537: <ul>
1.244 jufi 3538:
1.247 jufi 3539: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3540: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3541: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
3542: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3543: </strong></font><br>
3544: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
3545: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
3546: part 6</a>.
3547: <p>
3548:
1.247 jufi 3549: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3550: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 3551: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
3552: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3553: O'Reilly Network, August 8, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3554: </strong></font><br>
3555: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
3556: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
3557: <p>
1.301 jose 3558:
3559: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3560: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
3561: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
3562: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
3563: </strong></font><br>
3564:
3565: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
3566: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
3567: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
3568: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
3569: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
3570: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
3571: <i>Here's the
3572: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
3573: <p>
1.247 jufi 3574: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3575:
3576: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3577: <ul>
1.242 jufi 3578:
1.247 jufi 3579: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3580: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 3581: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3582: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3583: </strong></font><br>
3584: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
3585: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
3586: <p>
3587:
1.247 jufi 3588: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3589: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3590: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3591: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 1, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3592: </strong></font><br>
3593: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
3594: this time using pf.
3595: <p>
1.247 jufi 3596: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3597:
3598: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3599: <ul>
1.242 jufi 3600:
1.247 jufi 3601: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3602: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3603: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
3604: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3605: </strong></font><br>
3606: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
3607: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
3608: their rotation.
3609: <p>
3610:
1.247 jufi 3611: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3612: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3613: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3614: O'Reilly Network, June 6, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3615: </strong></font><br>
3616: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
3617: <p>
1.247 jufi 3618: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3619:
1.239 jufi 3620: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3621: <ul>
1.239 jufi 3622:
1.247 jufi 3623: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3624: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 3625: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
3626: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3627: </strong></font><br>
3628: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
3629: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
3630: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
3631: <p>
3632:
1.247 jufi 3633: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 3634: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 3635: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
3636: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 3637: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 3638: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
3639: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
3640: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 3641: <p>
1.247 jufi 3642: </ul>
1.239 jufi 3643:
1.235 lebel 3644: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3645: <ul>
1.235 lebel 3646:
1.239 jufi 3647:
1.247 jufi 3648: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 3649: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 3650: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
3651: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 3652: </strong></font><br>
3653: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
3654: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
3655: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
3656: <p>
1.301 jose 3657:
1.247 jufi 3658: </ul>
1.235 lebel 3659:
1.228 horacio 3660: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3661: <ul>
1.228 horacio 3662:
1.247 jufi 3663: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3664: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3665: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
3666: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 3667: </strong></font><br>
3668: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
3669: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
3670: <p>
3671:
1.247 jufi 3672: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 3673: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 3674: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
3675: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 3676: </strong></font><br>
3677: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
3678: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
3679: <p>
3680:
1.247 jufi 3681: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 3682: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 3683: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
3684: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 3685: </strong></font><br>
3686: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
3687: on the desktop of his parents.
3688: <p>
3689:
1.247 jufi 3690: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 3691: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 3692: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
3693: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 3694: </strong></font><br>
3695: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
3696: using IPFilter.
3697:
3698: <p>
3699:
1.247 jufi 3700: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 3701: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 3702: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
3703: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 3704: </strong></font><br>
3705: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
3706: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
3707: perspectives of the four OS.
3708: <br>
3709: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 3710: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 3711: <p>
3712:
1.247 jufi 3713: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 3714: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
3715: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 3716: software and security</a>,
3717: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 3718: </strong></font><br>
3719:
3720: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
3721: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
3722: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
3723: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
3724: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
3725: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
3726: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
3727: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
3728: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
3729: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
3730: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
3731: security conscious team beyond doubt.
3732: <p>
1.247 jufi 3733: </ul>
1.228 horacio 3734:
1.225 horacio 3735: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3736: <ul>
1.225 horacio 3737:
1.247 jufi 3738: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3739: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
3740: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 3741: Interview</a>,
3742: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 3743: </strong></font><br>
3744:
3745: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
3746: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
3747: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 3748: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 3749: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
3750: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
3751: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
3752: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
3753: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 3754: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 3755: of choice.
3756: <p>
1.247 jufi 3757: </ul>
1.225 horacio 3758:
3759: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3760: <ul>
1.225 horacio 3761:
1.247 jufi 3762: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3763: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 3764: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
3765: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 3766: </strong></font><br>
3767:
3768: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
3769: <p>
3770:
1.247 jufi 3771: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3772: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 3773: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
3774: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 3775: </strong></font><br>
3776:
3777: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
3778: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
3779: <p>
1.247 jufi 3780: </ul>
1.225 horacio 3781:
1.218 horacio 3782: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3783: <ul>
1.218 horacio 3784:
1.247 jufi 3785: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 3786: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 3787: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 3788: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 3789: </strong></font><br>
3790:
3791: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
3792: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
3793: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
3794: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
3795: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
3796: subjects. Worth a read.
3797: <p>
3798:
3799:
1.247 jufi 3800: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 3801: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 3802: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
3803: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 3804: </strong></font><br>
3805:
3806: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
3807: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
3808: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
3809: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
3810: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
3811: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
3812: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
3813: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
3814: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 3815: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 3816: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
3817: on other operating systems.<br>
3818: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
3819: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
3820: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
3821: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
3822: <p>
3823:
1.247 jufi 3824: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3825: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 3826: Operating System 2010</a>,
3827: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 3828: </strong></font><br>
3829:
3830: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
3831: covering the level of software integration into the core
3832: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
3833: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
3834: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
3835: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
3836: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
3837: <p>
3838:
1.247 jufi 3839: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 3840: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 3841: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
3842: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 3843: </strong></font><br>
3844:
3845: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
3846: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
3847: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
3848: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
3849: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
3850: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
3851: <p>
1.247 jufi 3852: </ul>
1.221 horacio 3853:
1.210 jufi 3854: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3855: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3856:
1.247 jufi 3857: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3858: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 3859: Already a Contender</a>,
3860: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 3861: </strong></font><br>
3862:
3863: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
3864: source software in response to an article which claimed that
3865: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
3866: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
3867: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
3868: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
3869: <p>
3870:
1.247 jufi 3871: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 3872: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 3873: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
3874: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 3875: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3876:
1.224 horacio 3877: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
3878: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
3879: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
3880: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
3881: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
3882: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 3883: <p>
1.247 jufi 3884: </ul>
1.215 horacio 3885:
3886: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3887: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3888:
1.247 jufi 3889: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3890: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
3891: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 3892: Division</a>,
3893: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 3894: </strong></font><br>
3895:
3896: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
3897: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 3898: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 3899: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
3900: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
3901: investment</em>.<br>
3902: The implementation details can be seen on their
3903: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
3904: <p>
3905:
1.247 jufi 3906: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3907: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
3908: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
3909: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
3910: </strong></font><br>
3911:
3912: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
3913: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
3914: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1.475 grunk 3915: laptops and T-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1.301 jose 3916: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
3917: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
3918: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
3919: <p>
3920:
3921: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3922: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 3923: Thinking about Security</a>,
3924: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 3925: </strong></font><br>
3926:
3927: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
3928: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
3929: security and says that even secured operating systems running
3930: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
3931: to time.<br>
3932: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
3933: system and just the most secure system.
3934: <p>
3935:
1.247 jufi 3936: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3937: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 3938: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
3939: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 3940: </strong></font><br>
3941:
3942: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
3943: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
3944: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
3945: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
3946: choice:<br>
3947: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
3948: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
3949: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
3950: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
3951: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
3952: network security devices and as such must be well
3953: armored."</em><br>
3954: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
3955: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
3956: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
3957: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
3958: <br>
3959: Bravo!
3960: <p>
1.247 jufi 3961: </ul>
1.210 jufi 3962:
1.207 ian 3963: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3964: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3965:
1.247 jufi 3966: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 3967: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
3968: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
3969: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 3970:
1.207 ian 3971: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
3972: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 3973: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 3974: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
3975: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
3976: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 3977: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 3978: <p>
1.247 jufi 3979: </ul>
1.207 ian 3980:
1.194 jufi 3981: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3982: <ul>
1.194 jufi 3983:
1.247 jufi 3984: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 3985: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 3986: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
3987: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 3988: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3989:
1.240 miod 3990: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 3991: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
3992: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
3993: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
3994: <p>
3995:
1.247 jufi 3996: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3997: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
3998: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
3999: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
4000:
4001: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
4002: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
4003: <p>
4004:
4005: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4006: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
4007: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4008: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
4009:
4010: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
4011: <p>
4012:
4013: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4014: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 4015: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
4016: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
4017: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4018:
1.240 miod 4019: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 4020: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 4021: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
4022: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 4023: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 4024: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 4025: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
4026: <br>
1.413 deraadt 4027: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 4028: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
4029: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
4030: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
4031: <p>
4032:
1.247 jufi 4033: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 4034: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
4035: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 4036: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 4037: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4038:
1.194 jufi 4039: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
4040: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
4041: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
4042: <br>
4043: The new
4044: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 4045: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 4046: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
4047: <p>
1.247 jufi 4048: </ul>
1.194 jufi 4049:
1.190 horacio 4050: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4051: <ul>
1.190 horacio 4052:
1.247 jufi 4053: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 4054:
4055: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
4056: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
4057:
1.301 jose 4058:
1.191 jufi 4059: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
4060: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
4061:
4062: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
4063: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
4064:
1.566 martynas 4065: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20010527142347">
1.212 horacio 4066: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 4067: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
4068:
1.211 horacio 4069: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
4070: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 4071: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
4072:
1.247 jufi 4073: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 4074: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
4075:
1.247 jufi 4076: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 4077: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
4078:
1.212 horacio 4079: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
4080: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 4081: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
4082:
4083: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
4084: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
4085:
4086: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
4087: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
4088:
1.301 jose 4089: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
4090: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
4091:
1.191 jufi 4092: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
4093: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
4094:
4095: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 4096: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 4097:
1.192 jufi 4098: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
4099: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 4100: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 4101:
1.193 deraadt 4102: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
4103: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 4104: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 4105:
1.247 jufi 4106: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 4107: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
4108:
1.247 jufi 4109: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 4110: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
4111: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
4112:
1.213 horacio 4113: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 4114: 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 4115: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
4116:
1.190 horacio 4117: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 4118: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
4119: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
4120: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
4121: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
4122: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
4123: <p>
1.190 horacio 4124:
1.247 jufi 4125: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4126: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
4127: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
4128: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 4129: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4130:
1.195 jufi 4131: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 4132: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
4133: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
4134: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 4135: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
4136: <p>
4137:
1.247 jufi 4138: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4139: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 4140: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
4141: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
4142: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4143:
1.191 jufi 4144: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 4145: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
4146: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
4147: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
4148: <p>
4149:
4150: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4151: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
4152: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4153: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
4154:
4155: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
4156: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 4157: <p>
1.247 jufi 4158: </ul>
1.190 horacio 4159:
1.191 jufi 4160:
1.186 jufi 4161: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4162: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 4163:
1.247 jufi 4164: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 4165: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 4166: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
4167: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 4168: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 4169:
1.188 jufi 4170: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 4171: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 4172: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 4173: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
4174: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 4175: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 4176: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 4177: <p>
4178:
1.301 jose 4179: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4180: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
4181: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4182: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
4183:
4184: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
4185: <p>
1.191 jufi 4186:
1.247 jufi 4187: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 4188: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
4189: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1.466 deraadt 4190: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 5, 2001
1.191 jufi 4191: </strong></font><br>
4192:
4193: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
4194: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
4195: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
4196: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
4197: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
4198: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
4199: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
4200: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
4201: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
4202: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
4203: familiar?
4204: <p>
1.247 jufi 4205: </ul>
1.191 jufi 4206:
1.178 louis 4207: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4208: <ul>
1.178 louis 4209:
1.247 jufi 4210: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 4211: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 4212: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
4213: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 4214: </strong></font><br>
4215:
4216: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
4217: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
4218: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
4219: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
4220: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
4221: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
4222: <p>
4223:
1.247 jufi 4224: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4225: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
4226: Open source under the hood</a>,
4227: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 4228: </strong></font><br>
4229:
4230: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
4231: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
4232: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
4233: <p>
4234:
1.247 jufi 4235: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4236: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
4237: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
4238: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 4239: </strong></font><br>
4240:
4241: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
4242: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
4243: <p>
1.247 jufi 4244: </ul>
1.179 louis 4245:
1.174 louis 4246:
1.175 louis 4247: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4248: <ul>
1.175 louis 4249:
1.247 jufi 4250: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4251: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
4252: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
4253: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 4254: </strong></font><br>
4255:
4256: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
4257: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
4258: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
4259: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
4260: <p>
4261:
1.247 jufi 4262: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4263: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
4264: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
4265: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 4266: </strong></font><br>
4267:
4268: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 4269: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 4270: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
4271: <p>
1.247 jufi 4272: </ul>
1.175 louis 4273:
1.176 louis 4274:
1.172 mickey 4275: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4276: <ul>
1.172 mickey 4277:
1.247 jufi 4278: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4279: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
4280: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 4281: </strong></font><br>
4282:
4283: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
4284: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
4285: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 4286: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 4287: <p>
4288:
1.247 jufi 4289: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 4290: <a
1.269 deraadt 4291: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
4292: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
4293: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 4294: </strong></font><br>
4295:
4296: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
4297: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
4298: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
4299: <p>
4300:
1.247 jufi 4301: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4302: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 4303: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
4304: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 4305: </strong></font><br>
4306:
4307: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
4308: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
4309: <p>
4310:
1.247 jufi 4311: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4312: <a
1.269 deraadt 4313: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
4314: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 4315: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
4316: </strong></font><br>
4317:
4318: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
4319: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
4320: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
4321: our own Theo de Raadt.
4322: <p>
4323:
1.247 jufi 4324: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4325: <a
1.269 deraadt 4326: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
4327: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
4328: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 4329: </strong></font><br>
4330:
4331: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
4332: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
4333: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
4334: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
4335: shut down.]
4336: <p>
4337:
1.247 jufi 4338: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4339: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 4340: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 4341: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
4342: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 4343: </strong></font><br>
4344:
4345: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
4346: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
4347: <p>
1.247 jufi 4348: </ul>
1.172 mickey 4349:
1.161 louis 4350: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4351: <ul>
1.161 louis 4352:
1.247 jufi 4353: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 4354: <a
1.269 deraadt 4355: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
4356: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
4357: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 4358: </strong></font><br>
4359:
4360: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
4361: by John Wolley
4362: <p>
4363:
1.247 jufi 4364: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 4365: <a
1.269 deraadt 4366: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
4367: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
4368: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 4369: </strong></font><br>
4370:
4371: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
4372: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
4373: OpenBSD).
4374: <p>
4375:
1.247 jufi 4376: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 4377: <a
1.247 jufi 4378: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 4379: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
4380: </strong></font><br>
4381:
4382: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
4383: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
4384: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
4385: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
4386: and hindsight.
4387: <p>
4388:
1.247 jufi 4389: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4390: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
4391: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
4392: </strong></font><br>
4393:
4394: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
4395: <p>
4396:
1.247 jufi 4397: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 4398: <a
1.168 provos 4399: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
4400: December 7, 2000
4401: </strong></font><br>
4402:
4403: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
4404: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
4405: us explain.
4406: <p>
4407:
1.247 jufi 4408: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 4409: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
4410: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 4411: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 4412: December 6, 2000
4413: </strong></font><br>
4414:
4415: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
4416: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
4417: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
4418: <p>
4419:
1.247 jufi 4420: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4421: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
4422: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
4423: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
4424: </strong></font><br>
4425:
4426: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
4427: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
4428: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
4429: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
4430: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
4431: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
4432: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
4433: <p>
4434:
4435: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 4436: <a
1.226 horacio 4437: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
4438: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 4439: </strong></font><br>
4440:
4441: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 4442: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 4443: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 4444: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
4445: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
4446: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 4447: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 4448: <p>
1.162 millert 4449:
1.247 jufi 4450: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 4451: <a
1.161 louis 4452: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
4453: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
4454: </strong></font><br>
4455:
4456: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
4457: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
4458: <p>
4459:
1.247 jufi 4460: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 4461: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
4462: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
4463: </strong></font><br>
4464:
4465: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
4466: <p>
4467:
4468:
1.247 jufi 4469: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 4470: <a
1.226 horacio 4471: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
4472: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
4473: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 4474: </strong></font><br>
4475:
4476: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
4477: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
4478: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
4479: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
4480: <p>
1.247 jufi 4481: </ul>
1.169 louis 4482:
1.158 louis 4483: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4484: <ul>
1.147 louis 4485:
1.247 jufi 4486: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4487: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
4488: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 4489: </strong></font><br>
4490:
4491: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
4492: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
4493: <p>
4494:
1.247 jufi 4495: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4496: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
4497: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
4498: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 4499: </strong></font><br>
4500: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
4501: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
4502: <p>
4503:
1.247 jufi 4504: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 4505: <a
4506: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
4507: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
4508: </strong></font><br>
4509:
4510: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
4511: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
4512: <p>
4513:
1.247 jufi 4514: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4515: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 4516: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
4517: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 4518:
1.213 horacio 4519: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 4520: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 4521: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
4522: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
4523: <p>
1.215 horacio 4524:
1.247 jufi 4525: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4526: <a
4527: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
4528: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
4529: </strong></font><br>
4530:
4531: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
4532: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
4533: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
4534: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
4535: much of the attitude too).
4536: <p>
1.161 louis 4537:
1.247 jufi 4538: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4539: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4540: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 4541: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4542:
1.157 louis 4543: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
4544: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
4545: <p>
1.247 jufi 4546: </ul>
1.157 louis 4547:
4548: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4549: <ul>
1.157 louis 4550:
1.247 jufi 4551: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4552: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4553: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 4554: </strong></font><br>
4555:
4556: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
4557: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
4558: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
4559: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
4560: <p>
4561:
1.247 jufi 4562: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 4563: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
4564: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
4565: </strong></font><br>
4566:
4567: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
4568: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
4569: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
4570: it because they love coding...
4571: <p>
4572:
1.247 jufi 4573: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 4574: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
4575: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
4576: </strong></font><br>
4577:
4578: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
4579: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
4580: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
4581: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
4582: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
4583: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
4584: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
4585: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
4586: <p>
4587:
1.247 jufi 4588: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4589: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
4590: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
4591: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 4592: </strong></font><br>
4593:
4594: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
4595: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
4596: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
4597: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
4598: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
4599: the pizza.
4600: <p>
4601:
1.247 jufi 4602: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 4603: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
4604: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
4605: </strong></font><br>
4606:
4607: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
4608: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
4609: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
4610: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
4611: problems.
4612: <p>
4613:
1.247 jufi 4614: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.568 ian 4615: <a href="https://osuny.co.uk/txt/zines/napalm/issue7.txt">Using IPSEC and Samba
4616: to integrate Windows Networks</a>, Napalm, October 6, 2000
1.154 louis 4617: </strong></font><br>
4618:
1.222 miod 4619: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 4620: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
4621: - whether they like it or not.
4622: <p>
4623:
1.247 jufi 4624: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4625: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
4626: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 4627: </strong></font><br>
4628:
4629: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
4630: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
4631: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 4632: <p>
1.148 aaron 4633:
1.247 jufi 4634: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4635: <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 4636: </strong></font><br>
4637:
4638: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
4639: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
4640: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
4641: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
4642: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
4643: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
4644: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
4645: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
4646: <p>
4647:
1.247 jufi 4648: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4649: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
4650: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 4651: </strong></font><br>
4652:
4653: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
4654: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 4655: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 4656: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
4657: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
4658: <p>
1.247 jufi 4659: </ul>
1.147 louis 4660:
1.138 louis 4661: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4662: <ul>
1.138 louis 4663:
1.247 jufi 4664: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4665: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
4666: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
4667: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
4668: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 4669: </strong></font><br>
4670:
1.227 horacio 4671: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 4672: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
4673: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
4674: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
4675: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
4676: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
4677: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
4678: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 4679: <p>
4680:
1.247 jufi 4681: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 4682: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 4683: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 4684: </strong></font><br>
4685:
4686: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
4687: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
4688: groups, and even Linux.
4689: <p>
4690:
1.247 jufi 4691: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4692: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
4693: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 4694: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
4695: </strong></font><br>
4696:
4697: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
4698: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
4699: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
4700: library after installing the OS.
4701: <p>
4702:
1.247 jufi 4703: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4704: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 4705: Sys Admin, September 2000
4706: </strong></font><br>
4707:
4708: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
4709: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
4710: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
4711: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 4712: (<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>,
4713: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
4714: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
4715: <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 4716: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 4717: out of the system.
4718: <p>
4719:
1.247 jufi 4720: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 4721: <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
4722: </strong></font><br>
4723:
4724: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 4725: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 4726: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
4727: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
4728: the IP filtering and address translation.
4729: <p>
1.301 jose 4730:
4731: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4732: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
4733: </strong></font><br>
4734:
4735: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
4736: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
4737: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
4738: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
4739: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
4740: <p>
1.247 jufi 4741: </ul>
1.200 niklas 4742:
1.131 louis 4743: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4744: <ul>
1.131 louis 4745:
1.247 jufi 4746: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4747: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
4748: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
4749: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 4750: </strong></font><br>
4751:
4752: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
4753: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
4754: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
4755: <p>
4756:
1.247 jufi 4757: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 4758: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
4759: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
4760: </strong></font><br>
4761:
4762: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
4763: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
4764: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
4765: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
4766: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
4767: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
4768: note of"</i>.
4769: <p>
4770:
1.247 jufi 4771: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 4772: <a
1.247 jufi 4773: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 4774: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
4775: </strong></font><br>
4776:
4777: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
4778: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
4779: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
4780: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
4781: <p>
4782:
1.247 jufi 4783: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 4784: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 4785: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
4786: </strong></font><br>
4787:
4788: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
4789: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
4790: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
4791: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
4792: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
4793: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
4794: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
4795: <p>
4796:
1.247 jufi 4797: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 4798: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
4799: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
4800: 2000
4801: </strong></font><br>
4802:
4803: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
4804: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
4805: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
4806: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
4807: against current industry practices.
4808: <p>
4809:
1.247 jufi 4810: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 4811: <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
4812: </strong></font><br>
4813:
4814: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
4815: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
4816: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
4817: <p>
4818:
1.247 jufi 4819: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 4820: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
4821: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
4822: </strong></font><br>
4823:
4824: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
4825: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
4826: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
4827: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
4828: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
4829: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
4830: careful code reviews, he concludes.
4831: <p>
4832:
1.247 jufi 4833: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 4834: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
4835: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
4836: </strong></font><br>
4837:
4838: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
4839: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
4840: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
4841: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
4842: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 4843: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
4844: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
4845: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 4846: <p>
1.247 jufi 4847: </ul>
1.131 louis 4848:
1.118 louis 4849: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4850: <ul>
1.118 louis 4851:
1.247 jufi 4852: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 4853: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
4854: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
4855: </strong></font><br>
4856:
4857: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
4858: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
4859: about time. The article mentions that
4860: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
4861: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
4862: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 4863: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 4864: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
4865: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 4866: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 4867: <p>
4868:
1.247 jufi 4869: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4870: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 4871: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 4872: </strong></font><br>
4873:
4874: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
4875: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
4876: of OpenSSH.
4877: <p>
4878:
1.247 jufi 4879: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4880: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4881: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 4882: </strong></font><br>
4883:
4884: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 4885: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 4886: bridging.
4887: <p>
4888:
1.247 jufi 4889: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4890: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
4891: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 4892: </strong></font><br>
4893:
1.121 deraadt 4894: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
4895: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 4896: <p>
4897:
1.247 jufi 4898: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 4899: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
4900: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
4901: </strong></font><br>
4902:
4903: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
4904: <p>
4905:
1.247 jufi 4906: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 4907: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 4908: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
4909: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 4910: </strong></font><br>
4911:
1.120 deraadt 4912: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
4913: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 4914: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
4915: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
4916: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
4917: <p>
4918:
1.247 jufi 4919: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 4920: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
4921: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
4922: </strong></font><br>
4923:
1.222 miod 4924: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 4925: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
4926: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
4927: protocols and their quirks.
4928: <p>
4929:
1.247 jufi 4930: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4931: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
4932: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 4933: </strong></font><br>
4934:
4935: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
4936: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
4937: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 4938: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 4939: <p>
4940:
1.247 jufi 4941: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 4942: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
4943: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
4944: </strong></font><br>
4945:
4946: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
4947: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
4948: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
4949: <p>
4950:
1.247 jufi 4951: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 4952: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 4953: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
4954: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 4955: </strong></font><br>
4956:
4957: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
4958: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
4959: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
4960: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
4961: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
4962: <p>
1.247 jufi 4963: </ul>
1.118 louis 4964:
1.104 louis 4965: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4966: <ul>
1.104 louis 4967:
1.247 jufi 4968: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 4969: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
4970: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
4971: </strong></font><br>
4972:
4973: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
4974: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
4975: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
4976: be a bit dry.
4977: <p>
4978:
1.247 jufi 4979: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4980: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
4981: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
4982: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
4983: </strong></font><br>
4984: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
4985: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
4986: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
4987: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
4988: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
4989: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
4990: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
4991: <p>
4992:
1.247 jufi 4993: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4994: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
4995: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 4996: 2000
1.128 louis 4997: </strong></font><br>
4998:
4999: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
5000: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
5001: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
5002: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
5003: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 5004: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 5005: <p>
5006:
1.247 jufi 5007: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5008: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
5009: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 5010: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 5011:
5012: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
5013: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
5014: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
5015: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 5016: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
5017: <p>
1.110 louis 5018:
1.247 jufi 5019: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 5020: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
5021: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
5022: </strong></font><br>
5023:
5024: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
5025: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
5026: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
5027: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
5028: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
5029: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
5030: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
5031: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
5032: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
5033: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
5034: <p>
5035:
1.247 jufi 5036: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 5037: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 5038: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 5039:
5040: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
5041: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 5042: <p>
1.108 louis 5043:
1.247 jufi 5044: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 5045: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
5046: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 5047: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 5048:
5049: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
5050: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
5051: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 5052: <p>
1.106 louis 5053:
1.247 jufi 5054: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 5055: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
5056: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 5057: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 5058:
5059: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
5060: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
5061: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
5062: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 5063: <p>
1.107 louis 5064:
1.247 jufi 5065: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 5066: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
5067: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 5068: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 5069:
5070: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
5071: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 5072: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 5073: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
5074: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 5075: <p>
1.105 louis 5076:
1.247 jufi 5077: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 5078: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 5079: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 5080: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 5081:
1.113 naddy 5082: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
5083: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 5084: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 5085: <p>
1.104 louis 5086:
1.247 jufi 5087: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 5088: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
5089: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
5090: </strong></font><br>
5091:
5092: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
5093: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
5094: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
5095: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
5096: <p>
1.301 jose 5097:
5098: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5099: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
5100: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
5101: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
5102:
5103: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
5104: hardware-supported cryptography.
5105: <p>
1.247 jufi 5106: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 5107:
1.85 louis 5108: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5109: <ul>
1.85 louis 5110:
1.247 jufi 5111: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5112: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 5113: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 5114: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 5115:
5116: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
5117: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
5118: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
5119: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
5120: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
5121: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
5122: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 5123: <p>
1.99 louis 5124:
1.247 jufi 5125: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5126: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 5127: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 5128: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 5129:
5130: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
5131: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
5132: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
5133: conditions.
1.113 naddy 5134: <p>
1.100 louis 5135:
1.247 jufi 5136: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5137: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 5138: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 5139: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 5140:
5141: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
5142: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
5143: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
5144: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 5145: <p>
1.95 louis 5146:
1.247 jufi 5147: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5148: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 5149: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 5150: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 5151:
5152: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
5153: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 5154: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 5155: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
5156: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5157: <p>
1.92 louis 5158:
1.247 jufi 5159: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5160: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 5161: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 5162: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 5163:
5164: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
5165: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
5166: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
5167: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
5168: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
5169: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 5170: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 5171: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 5172: <p>
1.91 louis 5173:
1.247 jufi 5174: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5175: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
5176: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 5177: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 5178:
5179: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
5180: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
5181: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
5182: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
5183: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
5184: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
5185: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
5186: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
5187: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 5188: <p>
1.90 louis 5189:
1.247 jufi 5190: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 5191: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
5192: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
5193: </strong></font><br>
5194: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
5195: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
5196: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
5197: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
5198: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
5199: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
5200: <p>
5201:
1.247 jufi 5202: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 5203: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
5204: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 5205: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 5206:
1.113 naddy 5207: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
5208: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 5209: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
5210: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
5211: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
5212: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
5213: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 5214: <p>
1.87 louis 5215:
1.247 jufi 5216: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 5217: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
5218: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 5219: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 5220:
5221: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 5222: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 5223: <p>
1.85 louis 5224:
1.247 jufi 5225: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5226: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
5227: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
5228: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
5229:
5230: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
5231: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
5232: <p>
5233:
5234: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 5235: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
5236: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 5237: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 5238:
5239: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 5240: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 5241: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
5242: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 5243: <p>
1.89 louis 5244:
1.247 jufi 5245: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5246: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
1.85 louis 5247: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 5248: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 5249:
5250: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
5251: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
5252: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
5253: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
5254: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 5255: </ul>
1.85 louis 5256:
1.78 deraadt 5257: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5258: <ul>
1.74 louis 5259:
1.247 jufi 5260: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5261: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 5262: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 5263: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 5264: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 5265:
5266: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
5267: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
5268: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5269: <p>
1.83 louis 5270:
1.247 jufi 5271: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 5272: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
5273: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 5274: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 5275:
5276: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
5277: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 5278: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 5279: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
5280: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 5281: <p>
1.93 louis 5282:
1.247 jufi 5283: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 5284: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
5285: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
5286: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 5287: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 5288:
1.83 louis 5289: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
5290: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
5291: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
5292: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
5293: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 5294: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
5295: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
5296: <p>
1.82 aaron 5297:
1.247 jufi 5298: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5299: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 5300: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 5301: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 5302:
1.83 louis 5303: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
5304: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
5305: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 5306: <p>
1.80 louis 5307:
1.247 jufi 5308: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5309: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 5310: Bad Press</a>,
5311: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 5312: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 5313:
5314: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 5315: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 5316: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
5317: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
5318: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 5319: <p>
1.247 jufi 5320: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 5321:
5322: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5323: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 5324:
1.247 jufi 5325: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5326: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
5327: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 5328: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 5329: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 5330:
5331: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
5332: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
5333: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
5334: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 5335: <p>
1.74 louis 5336:
1.247 jufi 5337: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 5338: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
5339: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 5340: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 5341:
1.219 horacio 5342: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
5343: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
5344: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
5345: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
5346: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
5347: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
5348: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 5349: <p>
1.88 louis 5350:
1.247 jufi 5351: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 5352: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 5353: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 5354: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 5355:
5356: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
5357: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
5358: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
5359: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 5360: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 5361: <p>
1.81 louis 5362:
1.247 jufi 5363: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5364: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 5365: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 5366: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 5367:
5368: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
5369: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
5370: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
5371: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
5372: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
5373: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
5374: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 5375: <p>
1.90 louis 5376:
1.247 jufi 5377: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5378: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 5379: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 5380: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 5381:
5382: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
5383: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
5384: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 5385: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 5386: <p>
1.247 jufi 5387: </ul>
1.71 louis 5388:
1.69 deraadt 5389: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5390: <ul>
1.70 louis 5391:
1.247 jufi 5392: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5393: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
5394: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 5395: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 5396:
5397: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
5398: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
5399: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 5400: <p>
1.70 louis 5401:
1.247 jufi 5402: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5403: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
5404: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 5405: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 5406:
5407: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 5408: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 5409: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 5410: <p>
1.68 louis 5411:
1.247 jufi 5412: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5413: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
5414: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 5415: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 5416: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 5417:
1.111 jufi 5418: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
5419: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 5420: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 5421: "secure by default" installation.
5422: <p>
1.64 louis 5423:
1.247 jufi 5424: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 5425: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 5426: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 5427: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 5428:
1.113 naddy 5429: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 5430: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 5431: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 5432: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
5433: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
5434: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 5435: <p>
1.66 louis 5436:
1.247 jufi 5437: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5438: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 5439: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5440: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 5441:
5442: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 5443: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 5444: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
5445: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
5446: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 5447: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
5448: <p>
1.83 louis 5449:
1.247 jufi 5450: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5451: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 5452: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5453: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 5454:
5455: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 5456: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
5457: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 5458: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
5459: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 5460: <p>
1.64 louis 5461:
1.247 jufi 5462: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5463: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 5464: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5465: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 5466:
5467: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
5468: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 5469: <p>
1.301 jose 5470:
5471: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5472: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
5473: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
5474: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
5475: </strong></font><br>
5476:
5477: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
5478: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
5479: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
5480: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
5481: Giving way to
5482: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
5483: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
5484: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
5485: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
5486: <p>
1.247 jufi 5487: </ul>
1.65 louis 5488:
1.69 deraadt 5489: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5490: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5491:
1.247 jufi 5492: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5493: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 5494: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 5495: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 5496:
5497: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
5498: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
5499: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
5500: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 5501: <p>
1.88 louis 5502:
1.247 jufi 5503: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5504: <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 5505: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 5506:
5507: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 5508: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
5509: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 5510: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
5511: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 5512: <p>
1.60 louis 5513:
1.247 jufi 5514: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 5515: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 5516: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 5517: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 5518: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5519:
5520: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
5521: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
5522: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 5523: <p>
1.58 louis 5524:
1.247 jufi 5525: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 5526: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 5527: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 5528:
5529: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
5530: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 5531: <p>
1.53 louis 5532:
1.247 jufi 5533: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 5534: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
5535: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 5536: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 5537:
5538: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
5539: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
5540: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 5541: <p>
1.99 louis 5542:
1.247 jufi 5543: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 5544: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 5545: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5546:
5547: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
5548: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 5549: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 5550: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 5551: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 5552:
1.247 jufi 5553: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 5554: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
5555: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 5556: </strong></font><br>
5557:
5558: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
5559: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
5560: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
5561: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
5562: <p>
5563:
1.247 jufi 5564: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5565: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 5566: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 5567: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5568:
5569: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
5570: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 5571: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 5572:
1.247 jufi 5573: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 5574: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 5575: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 5576:
5577: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 5578: in
1.247 jufi 5579: <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 5580: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 5581: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 5582: <p>
1.53 louis 5583:
1.247 jufi 5584: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5585: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 5586: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
5587: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 5588: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 5589:
1.58 louis 5590: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5591: <p>
1.301 jose 5592:
5593: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5594: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
5595: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
5596: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
5597: Informacyjny, January 2000
5598: </strong></font><br>
5599:
5600: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
5601: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
5602: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
5603: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
5604: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
5605: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
5606: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
5607: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
5608: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
5609: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 5610: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
5611: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 5612: <p>
5613:
5614: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5615: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
5616: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
5617: </strong></font><br>
5618:
5619: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
5620: <p>
5621: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 5622:
1.69 deraadt 5623: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5624: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5625:
1.247 jufi 5626: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 5627: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
5628: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
5629: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 5630: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5631:
1.58 louis 5632: Kurt Seifried
5633: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
5634: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
5635: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 5636: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 5637:
1.247 jufi 5638: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5639: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 5640: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 5641: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 5642:
5643: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 5644: <p>
1.96 louis 5645:
1.247 jufi 5646: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5647: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
5648: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
5649: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
5650: </strong></font><br>
5651:
5652: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
5653: <p>
5654:
5655: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5656: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 5657: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 5658: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 5659:
5660: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
5661: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 5662: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 5663: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 5664: <p>
1.247 jufi 5665: </ul>
1.86 louis 5666:
1.69 deraadt 5667: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5668: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5669:
1.247 jufi 5670: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 5671: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
5672: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 5673: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 5674:
5675: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
5676: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 5677: <p>
1.61 louis 5678:
1.247 jufi 5679: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5680: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 5681: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
5682: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5683: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 5684:
5685: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 5686: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 5687: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
5688: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 5689: right -- or at least strives to".
5690: <p>
1.48 louis 5691:
1.247 jufi 5692: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 5693: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
5694: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5695: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 5696: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
5697: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
5698: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
5699: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 5700: <p>
1.61 louis 5701:
1.247 jufi 5702: <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 5703: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 5704: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 5705:
5706: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
5707: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
5708: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
5709: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 5710: <p>
1.46 louis 5711:
1.247 jufi 5712: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 5713: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
5714: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 5715: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5716:
5717: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
5718: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 5719: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 5720:
1.247 jufi 5721: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 5722: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
5723: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 5724: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 5725:
5726: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
5727: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
5728: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
5729: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 5730: <p>
1.247 jufi 5731: </ul>
1.70 louis 5732:
1.69 deraadt 5733: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5734: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5735:
1.247 jufi 5736: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5737: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
5738: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 5739: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 5740: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 5741:
5742: Kurt Seifried
5743: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
5744: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
5745: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 5746: <p>
1.44 philen 5747:
1.247 jufi 5748: <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 5749: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 5750: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 5751:
5752: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 5753: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 5754:
1.247 jufi 5755: <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 5756: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 5757: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 5758:
5759: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 5760: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 5761:
1.247 jufi 5762: <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 5763: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 5764: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 5765:
5766: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
5767: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
5768: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
5769: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 5770: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 5771:
1.247 jufi 5772: <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 5773: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 5774: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 5775:
1.36 louis 5776: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 5777: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 5778:
1.247 jufi 5779: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5780: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
1.39 louis 5781: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 5782: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 5783:
5784: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 5785: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 5786: </ul>
1.38 louis 5787:
1.69 deraadt 5788: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5789: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5790:
1.247 jufi 5791: <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 5792: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 5793: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 5794:
5795: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
5796: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 5797: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 5798:
1.113 naddy 5799: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 5800: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 5801: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 5802: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 5803:
5804: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
5805: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 5806: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
5807: terminal:
1.113 naddy 5808: <blockquote>
5809: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
5810: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
5811: <br>
5812: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
5813: </code>
5814: </blockquote>
5815: <p>
5816:
1.247 jufi 5817: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 5818: <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 5819: <p>
5820:
5821: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5822: <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 5823: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 5824:
5825: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
5826: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 5827: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 5828: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 5829:
1.247 jufi 5830: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5831: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
5832: Sept. 28, 1999
5833: </strong></font><br>
5834:
5835: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
5836: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
5837: translating and reprinting articles from
5838: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
5839: <p>
5840:
5841: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 5842: <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 5843: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 5844:
5845: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
5846: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
5847: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
5848: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
5849: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 5850: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 5851: <p>
1.19 louis 5852:
1.113 naddy 5853: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 5854: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 5855: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 5856:
5857: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
5858: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
5859: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 5860: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
5861: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 5862: <p>
1.16 louis 5863:
1.247 jufi 5864: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5865: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 5866: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 5867: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 5868:
1.57 louis 5869: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
5870: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
5871: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 5872: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 5873:
1.247 jufi 5874: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5875: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.466 deraadt 5876: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5877: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5878:
1.113 naddy 5879: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 5880:
1.247 jufi 5881: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 5882: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
5883: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 5884: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 5885:
1.23 louis 5886: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
5887: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
5888: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
5889: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
5890: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 5891: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 5892:
1.247 jufi 5893: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 5894: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
5895: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 5896: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 5897:
1.199 pvalchev 5898: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 5899: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
5900: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
5901: installation.
1.113 naddy 5902: <p>
1.47 louis 5903:
1.247 jufi 5904: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5905: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 5906: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 5907: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5908:
1.301 jose 5909: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
5910: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
5911: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 5912: </ul>
1.57 louis 5913:
1.69 deraadt 5914: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5915: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5916:
1.247 jufi 5917: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 5918: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 5919: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 5920: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 5921:
5922: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
5923: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 5924: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5925: <p>
1.12 louis 5926:
1.247 jufi 5927: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 5928: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 5929: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 5930: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 5931:
5932: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
5933: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 5934: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
5935: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
5936: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
5937: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
5938: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 5939: <p>
1.247 jufi 5940: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 5941:
1.69 deraadt 5942: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5943: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 5944:
1.247 jufi 5945: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 5946: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 5947: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 5948:
5949: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
5950: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
5951: available."
1.113 naddy 5952: <p>
1.301 jose 5953:
5954: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5955: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
5956: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
5957: </strong></font><br>
5958:
5959: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
5960: <p>
1.247 jufi 5961: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 5962:
1.69 deraadt 5963: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5964: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5965:
1.247 jufi 5966: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 5967: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 5968: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 5969:
5970: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
5971: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
5972: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
5973: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
5974: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 5975: <p>
1.33 louis 5976:
1.247 jufi 5977: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5978: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 5979: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 5980: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5981:
1.113 naddy 5982: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
5983: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 5984: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
5985: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
5986: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 5987: <p>
1.247 jufi 5988: </ul>
1.57 louis 5989:
1.69 deraadt 5990: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5991: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5992:
1.247 jufi 5993: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5994: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 5995: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 5996: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 5997:
5998: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
5999: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 6000: <p>
1.69 deraadt 6001:
1.247 jufi 6002: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 6003: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
6004: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
6005: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 6006: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 6007:
6008: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 6009: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 6010:
1.247 jufi 6011: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 6012: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 6013:
1.113 naddy 6014: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 6015:
1.247 jufi 6016: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 6017: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
1.68 louis 6018: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 6019: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 6020:
6021: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 6022: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 6023: </ul>
1.23 louis 6024:
1.69 deraadt 6025: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6026: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6027:
1.247 jufi 6028: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 6029: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 6030: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 6031:
6032: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
6033: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 6034: <p>
1.2 deraadt 6035:
1.247 jufi 6036: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6037: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 6038: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 6039: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 6040:
6041: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
6042: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 6043: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 6044: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 6045: </ul>
1.57 louis 6046:
1.69 deraadt 6047: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6048: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6049:
1.247 jufi 6050: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 6051: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
1.15 louis 6052: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 6053: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 6054:
6055: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
6056: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
6057: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
6058: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 6059: <p>
1.15 louis 6060:
1.247 jufi 6061: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 6062: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
6063: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 6064: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 6065:
6066: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
6067: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
6068: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
6069: columns."
1.113 naddy 6070: <p>
1.247 jufi 6071: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 6072:
1.69 deraadt 6073: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6074: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6075:
1.247 jufi 6076: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6077: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 6078: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 6079: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 6080:
6081: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 6082: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 6083:
1.113 naddy 6084: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6085: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 6086: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 6087:
6088: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
6089: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 6090: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 6091: </ul>
1.57 louis 6092:
1.69 deraadt 6093: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6094: <ul>
1.301 jose 6095: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
6096: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
6097: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
6098: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
6099:
6100: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
6101: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
6102: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
6103: <p>
6104:
6105: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
6106: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
6107: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
6108: Nov 13, 1998 and
6109: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
6110: Datateknik</a>,
6111: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
6112:
1.380 saad 6113: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 6114: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
6115: explains the licensing issues and points to our
6116: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
6117: <p>
1.69 deraadt 6118:
1.113 naddy 6119: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 6120: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 6121: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 6122: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 6123:
1.222 miod 6124: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 6125: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
6126: Implementation, including a brief interview with
6127: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 6128: <p>
1.247 jufi 6129: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 6130:
1.69 deraadt 6131: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6132: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6133:
1.247 jufi 6134: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 6135: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 6136: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 6137:
1.69 deraadt 6138: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
6139: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 6140: <p>
1.247 jufi 6141: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 6142:
1.69 deraadt 6143: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6144: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 6145:
1.247 jufi 6146: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 6147: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
6148: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 6149: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 6150:
1.383 jcs 6151: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 6152: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 6153: <p>
1.1 deraadt 6154:
1.247 jufi 6155: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 6156: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 6157: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
6158: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 6159: <p>
1.247 jufi 6160: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 6161:
1.69 deraadt 6162: <h2>June, 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://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 6167: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
6168: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 6169: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 6170: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 6171:
6172: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
6173: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
6174: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 6175: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 6176: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 6177: <p>
1.247 jufi 6178: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 6179:
6180: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6181: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6182:
1.247 jufi 6183: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 6184: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 6185: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 6186:
1.69 deraadt 6187: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
6188: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 6189: <p>
1.112 naddy 6190:
1.247 jufi 6191: </ul>
1.113 naddy 6192: <p>
1.1 deraadt 6193:
1.292 camield 6194: <hr>
1.216 horacio 6195: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 6196: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.572 ! ian 6197: <br><small>$OpenBSD: press.html,v 1.571 2007/06/20 18:14:11 miod Exp $</small>
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