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1.1 deraadt 18:
1.573 ian 19: <h2>November, 2007</h2>
20: <ul>
21: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.574 ian 22: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/87">
23: Using OpenBSD 4.2</a>, Software In Review, November 5, 2007
24: </strong></font><br>
25: Jem Matzem advocates using OpenBSD and shows readers how to get
26: started and some hints on using the system after it's installed,
27: including setting up ports/packages to use third-party software.
28: Under the "For More Information" category, he acknowledges that
29: "OpenBSD has the most thorough, easy to follow native documentation
30: of any Unix-like operating system..."
31: <p>
32:
33: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
34: <a href="http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/11/a_few_cheers_fo.html">
35: A Few Cheers For OpenBSD</a>, Information Week, November 2, 2007
36: </strong></font><br>
37: "With all of the hollering about Linux..., there's another open-source
38: operating system that just celebrated getting a new 4.2 release out
39: the door. It's one that hasn't been quite as widely-celebrated as
40: Linux but is still deeply important in its own way: OpenBSD"
41: Talks about how BSD is real UNIX, and what that means, and our
42: security policy "secure by default".
43: Ends with a reminder that Linux is
44: "not the only open-source, Unix-like game in town."
45: <p>
46:
47: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.573 ian 48: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/7155">
49: Puffy's Marathon: What's New in OpenBSD 4.2</a>, onLamp, Nov 1, 2007
50: </strong></font><br>
51: Federico Biancuzzi interviewed almost two dozen OpenBSD developers
52: and combined their comments into this interview. Opens with:
53: "...this release comes with some amazing performance improvements: basic
54: benchmarks showed PF being twice as fast, a rewrite of the TLB
55: shootdown code for i386 and amd64 cut the time to do a full package
56: build by 20 percent (mostly because all the forks in configure
57: scripts have become much cheaper), and the improved frequency scaling
58: on MP systems can help save nearly 20 percent of battery power.
59: <p>
60: "And then the new features: FFS2, support for the Advanced Host
61: Controller Interface, IP balancing in CARP, layer 7 manipulation
62: with hoststated, Xenocara, and more!"
63: <p>
64: And goes on to discuss each of these and more with the good folk
65: who make it happen.
66: <p>
67:
68: </ul>
69:
1.572 ian 70: <h2>July, 2007</h2>
71: <ul>
72: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
73: <a href="http://geektechnique.org/projectlab/797/openbsd-encrypted-nas-howto">
1.578 ! ian 74: OpenBSD Encrypted NAS How-To</a>, geektechnique.org, July 15, 2007
1.572 ian 75: </strong></font><br>
76: Mark Hoekstra gives a detailed step-by-step description of how to
77: build an encrypted
78: network storage box using off-the-shelf hardware and OpenBSD software.
79: <br>
80: Also reported in
81: <a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/07/07/16/002203.shtml">SlashDot
82: </a> and
83: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/news.php?id=14877">net-security</a>.
84: <p>
85:
86: </ul>
87:
1.569 ian 88: <h2>May, 2007</h2>
89: <ul>
90:
91: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.570 simon 92: [GERMAN]
93: OpenBSD 4.1 bietet Lastverteilung auf Layer 7,
94: iX magazine, May 18, 2007
95: </strong></font><br>
96: The German IT magazine iX reviews the new hoststated(8) Host Status Daemon that
97: comes with OpenBSD 4.1. The article describes various configurations including
98: SSL acceleration and gives a good insight into what hoststated(8) can do for the
99: reader.
100: <p>
101:
102: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.569 ian 103: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/05/03/openbsd-41-puffy-strikes-again.html">
104: OpenBSD 4.1: Puffy Strikes Again</a>, ONLamp, May 5, 2007
105: </strong></font><br>
106: Federico Biancuzzi interviewed a number of developers about the major
107: changes in 4.1: Mark Kettenis on UltraSPARC III and UltraSPARC T1;
108: Otto Moerbeek on the landisk port and fsck_ffs;
109: Artur Grabowski on rthreads and AMD64 timekeeping;
110: Kurt Miller on pthreads and, with Robert Nagy, on OpenOffice;
111: Marc Espie on the changes "under the hood" in
112: the package tools and on the new pkg_config;
113: Matthieu Herrb on our new X11 build system xenocara,
1.575 tobias 114: Henning Brauer on syslogd, hoststated and RSTP;
1.569 ian 115: Henning and Claudio Jeker on a variety of topics in routing and PF;
116: Bob Beck on spam fighting;
117: and Jonathan Gray on WEP and on why authpf is better than WPA/WPA2.
118: Quite readable overview of some of the main issues in this release.
119: <br/>
120: Linked to from
121: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php/17851/OpenBSD-4.1-Puffy-Strikes-Again/">OSNews</a>.
122: Mentions of the release also appeared in
123: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1483">Tectonic</a>,
124: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/newsvac/07/05/02/1320248.shtml">Newsforge</a>
125: and
126: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/07/05/01/2231229.shtml">SlashDot</a>
127: (the latter two include pointers to official release announcements).
128: <p>
129:
130: </ul>
131:
1.565 ian 132: <h2>April, 2007</h2>
133: <ul>
134:
135: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
136: <a href="http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/03/28/1522252">
137: Reducing spam with OpenBSD and spamd</a>, Linux.com, April 11, 2007
138: </strong></font><br>
139: This is the first installment of a multi-part article on using OpenBSD's
140: anti-spam tools. This part contains a general overview of spamd, greylisting
141: and tarpitting. Later installments will cover the how-to details.
142: <p>
143:
144:
145: </ul>
146:
1.560 ian 147: <h2>March, 2007</h2>
148: <ul>
149:
150: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.564 ian 151: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2007/03/bsdtalk105-intro-to-pf-with-jason-dixon.html">
152: Introduction to PF with Jason Dixon</a>, BSDTalk 105, March 26, 2007
153: </strong></font><br>
154: Jason provides a nice general overview of OpenBSD's Packet Filter PF,
155: emphasizing the "why" rather than the "how" of using PF.
156: Goes over pf's history, initial setup, stateful filtering,
157: normalization with "scrub", use of synproxy, authpf,
158: CARP and pfsync, GUI configurations vs config files, the pfsense project,
1.576 martynas 159: logging, transparent bridges, AltQ queuing, macros, lists and tables,
1.564 ian 160: and the tie-in to spamd,
161: <p>
162:
163: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.560 ian 164: <a href="http://www.sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=30120&hilite=">
165: Welsh Government Agency demonstrates Open Source best practice</a>,
166: SourceWire, March 8, 2007
167: </strong></font><br>
1.562 ian 168: The Countryside Council for Wales, the UK Government's regional wildlife
169: conservation authority for Wales, has hired UK Open Source service provider Sirius
1.561 saad 170: Corporation to extend OpenBSD's interoperability with the proprietary
171: Cisco IOS software; part of the agreement calls for Sirius to contribute
172: its source changes back to the OpenBSD project.
1.560 ian 173: <p>
174:
175: </ul>
1.558 ian 176:
1.556 matthieu 177: <h2>February, 2007</h2>
178: <ul>
179:
180: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.558 ian 181: <a href="http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/security/is_symantecs_vista_security_assessment_credible.html">
182: Is Symantec's Vista Security Assessment Credible?</a>, Microsoft Watch, February 28, 2007
183: </strong></font><br>
184: This paper is nominally about the relationship between Symantec and Microsoft,
185: talking about a white paper released by the former.
186: But it's quite revealing about Microsoft itself.
187: "Even Microsoft... now acknowledges that UAC (User Account Control) -
188: Vista's most [high-]profile security feature - is vulnerable to subversion,
189: particularly through social-engineering tactics."
190: And while the Symantec report says some good things about Vista security,
191: "its criticisms are brutal - for their clarity and foreboding:
192: <blockquote>
193: "Many of the technologies that Microsoft has employed to bolster
194: the security of Windows Vista are not new. In fact, most are
195: derived from the groundwork originally laid by open-source
196: operating systems such as Linux and OpenBSD, the PaX and
197: Stackguard projects, as well as numerous academic publications....
198: The majority of these technologies first appeared in Windows
199: XP SP2 [Service Pack 2]. Windows XP SP2, at the time of its
200: release, was also billed as the most secure version of Windows."
201: </blockquote>
202: So remember, folks, if it's about security, you may well have heard it
203: here first, long before Microsoft "invented" it.
204: <p>
205:
206:
207: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.557 reyk 208: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/85495">
209: OpenBSD und Linux: Kritik an Stillhalteabkommen für Treiberentwicklung</a>, heise online, February 2, 2007
210: </strong></font><br>
211:
212: Short article about OpenBSD's clear statement against device driver
213: development under non-disclosure agreement (NDA).
214: It attempts to summarize the reaction of the OpenBSD community against the
215: <a href="http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/free_drivers.html">"Free Linux Driver Development"</a>
216: under NDA offered by the linux developer Greg Kroah-Hartman which previously raised some
217: discussion.
218: Code written under NDA will make it difficult to improve it in the future
219: because somebody signed an agreement to keep the required hardware
220: documentation secret. For the OpenBSD project
221: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/goals.html">NDAs are never acceptable</a>.
222: <p>
223:
224: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.556 matthieu 225: [FRENCH]
226: <a href="http://www.ed-diamond.com/produit.php?produit=462">GNU/Linux
227: Magazine France</a> special issue number 29
228: </strong></font>
229: is dedicated to BSD systems. It features several articles about
230: OpenBSD: a pf tutorial, an article on IPSec and two articles on
231: high-availability with pf and CARP and with dynamic routing protocols
232: using OpenOSPFd and OpenBGPd.
233: <p>
234:
235: </ul>
236:
1.558 ian 237: <h2>January, 2007</h2>
238: <ul>
239: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
240: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/01/18/greylisting-with-pf.html">
241: Greylisting with PF</a>, O'Reilly onLAMP, January 18, 2007
242: </strong></font><br>
243: This onLAMP article by Dan Langille leads you through the process of
1.559 ian 244: setting up greylisting using OpenBSD's pf and spamd, which has now been ported
1.558 ian 245: to most other BSD systems. The article is
246: quite detailed, but readers should ignore the FreeBSD-specific stuff
247: like kldload (OpenBSD uses modload, but, OpenBSD always has pf built-in
248: so you don't need this). Parts of the article are based on Bob Beck's
249: <a href="http://www.nycbsdcon.org/speakers#Beck">spamd talk at NYCBSDCon</a>.
250: <p>
251:
252: </ul>
253:
1.550 mbalmer 254: <h2>December, 2006</h2>
255: <ul>
256:
257: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.554 reyk 258: [GERMAN]
259: <a href="http://www.freie-radios.net/portal/content.php?id=15206">
260: 23C3: Interview mit Henning und Reyk von OpenBSD</a>,
261: Radio Unerhört Marbug, December 29, 2006
262: </strong></font><br>
263: Interview with Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter about OpenBSD and
264: the latest changes since 4.0 during the 23rd Chaos Communications
265: Congress in Berlin.
266: <p>
267:
268: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.552 ian 269: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/12/29/01OPsecadvise_1.html">
1.553 ian 270: New Year's Resolution No. 1: Get OpenBSD</a>,
1.552 ian 271: InfoWorld, December 29, 2006
272: </strong></font><br>
273: InfoWorld's Security Advisor columnist Roger A. Grimes says:
274: "Kick off 2007 with a new, more secure operating system."
275: Citing OpenBSD's code-auditing security process and its
276: excellent security record, Grimes advises readers to give the system a try.
277: Despite repeating some old canards about the "unfriendly" install, he
278: notes favorably that
279: "OpenBSD is shipped secure-by-default, with all non-essential services disabled.
280: You won't find NFS, mountd, or Apache [httpd] enabled by default.
281: The /bin and /sbin folders will be emptier than other Linux or BSD distros.
282: Install OpenBSD and you can be assured that it doesn't default to an insecure state."
283: <p>
284:
285: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.551 xsa 286: [GERMAN]
1.550 mbalmer 287: <a href="http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/2007/01/074/">
288: OpenBSD 4.0 - Kanadische Eröffnung</a>
289: iX magazine, December 14, 2006
290: </strong></font><br>
1.570 simon 291: The German IT magazine iX reviews the 4.0 release of OpenBSD and also mentions
1.550 mbalmer 292: why we don't support blobs and why this is beneficial to our users.
293: The article gives OpenBSD a very good rating for being strictly free software,
294: its swift installation, the support for upgrades, and the large number of
295: platforms and architectures it runs on.
296: <p>
297:
298: </ul>
299:
1.546 ian 300: <h2>November, 2006</h2>
301: <ul>
302:
1.549 ian 303: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
304: <a href='http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20061110204834'>
305: Official support for OpenBSD in Parallels Workstation</a>
306: undeadly.org, November 10, 2006
307: </strong></font><br>
308: OpenBSD is now supported by Parallels, a commercial OS
309: virtualization product for Mac OS X, Linux or MS-Windows.
310: In addition to allowing users to run both OpenBSD and one of those other
311: systems concurrently, the announcement means that developers with Intel Mac
312: hardware can run multiple test systems; the Undeadly Editor adds:
313: "I've had up to six OpenBSD guest systems operating simultaneously,
314: versions 3.8 through 4.0 (and -current)."
315: This also reinforces the increasing commercial acceptance of our favorite OS.
316: <p>
317:
318: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
319: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/11/bsdtalk082-openbsd-developer-jason.html">
320: Interview with Jason Wright</a>, BSDTalk 82, November 8, 2006
321: </strong></font><br>
322: Jason talks about the OpenBSD development process (particularly for device drivers
323: and getting hardware documentation from vendors), Sun SPARC hardware (particularly
324: the Ultra III), ham radio (APRS) with OpenBSD, and more.
325: <p>
326:
327: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
328: <a href='http://news.com.com/2061-10795_3-6132572.html'>
329: OpenBSD turns 4.0</a>
330: CNET News.com, November 3, 2006
331: </strong></font><br>
332: Stephen Shankland talks about the UltraSPARC III code in 4.0, and notes that
333: OpenBSD has chosen to stay with stable GCC versions rather than moving to
334: the latest and most bloated GCC versions like Linux did.
335: Quotes Theo as saying: OpenBSD doesn't aim for particular niches,
336: but it's popular in network applications... "The biggest
337: users of OpenBSD these days are people who need our fancy networking
338: features..."
339: <p>
340:
1.546 ian 341: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
342: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/55/">
343: OpenBSD 4.0 Review</a>, Software In Review, November 1, 2006
344: </strong></font><br>
345: "In an era when the next edition of Microsoft Windows is pushed
346: back more than a year, and popular GNU/Linux distributions are
347: almost expected to have their release dates delayed by weeks or
348: months, it's nice to know that at least one operating system releases
349: on schedule without all kinds of showstopping bugs and problems.
350: OpenBSD 4.0 was released on November 1 with its usual mix of new
351: hardware support and enhanced operating system features."
352: So opens Jem Matzam's review of the new 4.0 release.
353: Jem gives a brief overview of the project, discusses
354: several of the most important new features, evaluates
355: his installation and use of the system on a desktop and a notebook.
1.548 saad 356: He also offers a few recommendations for future developments to make
1.546 ian 357: the project even better.
358: There's even a link to the Wikipedia article on
359: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humppa">
360: Humppa</a>, for those who may have heard this term but not
361: the music behind it.
362: <p>
363:
1.547 ian 364: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
365: <a href='http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1243'>
366: Big changes with OpenBSD 4.0 out today</a>
367: Tectonic, November 1, 2006
368: </strong></font><br>
369: "With his characteristic no-frills approach OpenBSD team leader
370: Theo de Raadt this morning announced the release of OpenBSD 4.0."
371: This article lists the highlights of the 4.0 release and
372: tells readers where to order CD's or download the release.
373: Quotes Theo: ""We are pleased to announce the official release of
374: OpenBSD 4.0. This is our 20th release on CD-Rom (and 21st via FTP).
375: We remain proud of OpenBSD's record of ten years with only a single
376: remote hole in the default install,"
377: <p>
378:
379: <li><font color='#009000'><strong>
380: <a href='http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061101-8123.html'>
381: OpenBSD 4.0 released</a>
382: Ars Technica, November 1, 2006
383: </strong></font><br>
384: A short note about the 4.0 release; refers to the O'ReillyNet article below.
385: <p>
386:
1.546 ian 387: </ul>
388:
1.539 ian 389: <h2>October, 2006</h2>
390: <ul>
1.540 ian 391:
392: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.546 ian 393: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/6769">
394: OpenBSD 4.0: Pufferix's Adventures</a>, O'Reilly Network, October 26, 2006
395: </strong></font><br>
396: Federico Biancuzzi interviewed a dozen and a half developers and compiled
397: the results into this report, all while listening to the obligatory Humppa.
1.548 saad 398: Topics include the new blob-free wireless drivers, pf and pf/dhcp interaction,
1.546 ian 399: CARP demotion, ipsecctl replacing ipsecadm, hardware support for disk/bioctl,
400: USB serial, new installation customization features, ports/packages, RCS, X,
401: CPU support for Sparc/64, AMD/Intel "speed step" techniques, and more.
402: <p>
403:
404: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.543 mbalmer 405: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/10/bsdtalk076-openbsd-developer-marc.html">
406: Interview with Marc Balmer about OpenCON 2006</a>, bsdtalk076, October 12, 2006
407: </strong></font><br>
408: BSDTalk interviews Marc Balmer about the upcoming
409: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a> conference
410: in Venice, Italy, how he got involved in the OpenBSD project, and what he
411: uses the OpenBSD operating system for in his company. Marc Balmer tells us about
412: the history of the conference that is dedicated solely to OpenBSD, why it
413: is taking place in Venice, and why he likes OpenBSD as the platform of choice
414: for his many customers.
415: <p>
416:
417: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.544 ian 418: <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/olpc-under-fire-for-proprietary-components/">
419: OLPC under fire for proprietary components</a>, Engadget, October 11, 2006
420: </strong></font><br>
421: Hardware site Engadget is one of several that has picked up this controversy
422: from the Jem Report quoted below and on the mailing lists.
423: Quotes Theo's reaction to Jim Gettys' latest comments:
424: "Jim is obviously very clever at convincing people that children
425: need proprietary laptops (OLPC has a greater percentage of undocumented
426: hardware than a Thinkpad from 3 years ago). It is easy for Jim to
427: convince people these things because he doesn't care at all about
428: the future maintainance of drivers. I do. And I think most of you
429: also do."
430: The article ends with: "Wow, them be fightin' words -- we're pulling up ringside
431: seats already."
432: <p>
433:
434: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
435: <a href="http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/286/">
436: Making sense of the One Laptop Per Child proprietary software row</a>,
437: The Jem Report, October 9, 2006
438: </strong></font><br>
439: Jem Matzan explores this ongoing controversy by blending separate interviews with
440: Jim Gettys, Richard Stallman and our own Theo de Raadt.
441: Theo consistently and clearly defends the project's interest in
442: getting documentation on, and permission to distribute, firmware
443: so that users can use hardware they have paid for.
444: Commenting on the multiple NDA-requiring parts in the current version of
445: the OLPC laptop, Theo notes that "If I am careful in selection,
446: I can buy a laptop on the market today that has fewer proprietary parts."
447: And on the OLPC project's use of NDA-requiring parts at all:
448: "I feel they have misled the community by acting as if they are open;
449: they rode on our coat-tails. Now it turns out they are going to ship GPL'd
450: code mixed with NDA-requiring proprietary drivers in the end.
451: Even their LinuxBIOS will need to link into drivers that
452: no one can repair because the documentation is locked up..."
453: <p>
454:
455: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.541 ian 456: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20061006000709">
457: OLPC hurts wireless documentation efforts</a>, undeadly.org, October 6, 2006
458: </strong></font><br>
459: Theo de Raadt takes on the high-profile
460: <a href="http://laptop.org/">OLPC</a> (One Laptop Per Child) Project
461: for not demanding open documentation from its wireless
462: chip manufacturer, wasting a "golden moment" opportunity to use sales
463: volume in the millions to pressure chip vendors, and thus helping destroy
464: the open source movement that makes the OLPC laptops affordable -
465: truly, betraying that hand that feeds it.
1.542 deraadt 466: Also strong words from other developers such as Bob Beck.
1.541 ian 467: <p>
468:
469: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.540 ian 470: <a href="http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;639736970;fp;2;fpid;3">
471: The sad state of computer security</a>, PC World Australia, October 5, 2006
472: </strong></font><br>
473: Roger Grimes opines on how bad security really is for most of the world
474: (and it is really bad). "If you aren't using OpenBSD [or a few others],
475: then every other product in the world is pretty bad in comparison.
476: <br />
477: "Most software contains numerous vulnerabilities, holes, and
478: exploitable routines. Even our anti-malware software and devices,
479: the things that are supposed to protect us, are full of buffer
480: overflows and vulnerabilities."
481: <br />
482: And, Grimes generalizes,
483: "Sadly, the world has decided that real computer security doesn't
484: matter any more than real terrorist security. It's all lip service.
485: We are, and apparently choose to be, reactive sheep. Proactive
486: thinkers get ignored and ridiculed...
487: As more and more of the world goes online, and as more of our
488: important infrastructure goes "e-something," it would appear that
489: we are on a collision course headed toward a tipping point event.
490: And when it does, the sheep will stand aghast wondering how it
491: happened."
492: Worth reading!
493: <p>
494:
1.539 ian 495: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
496: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061002-7874.html">
497: OpenBSD creator wants users to pressure Intel on open source policies</a>,
498: Ars Technica, October 2, 2006.
499: </strong></font><br>
500: Summarizes Theo's efforts to obtain documentation and freely
501: redistributable firmware from Intel.
502: <p>
503:
504: </ul>
505:
1.536 grunk 506: <h2>September, 2006</h2>
507: <ul>
508:
509: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.537 ian 510: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/7184">
511: OpenBSD: Intel Accused Of Being "An Open Source Fraud"</a>,
512: KernelTrap, September 30, 2006.
513: </strong></font><br>
514: Mentions Damien's thread on misc summarizing Intel's policy toward
515: open-source software as being to make Intel "look like we're
516: open-source friendly by opening a project on sourceforge," and,
517: "give the open-source community the bare minimum so that they can
518: serve as our beta-testers." Damien reverse engineered the wpi(4)
519: driver source for the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Driver,
520: despite Intel's refusal to freely provide documentation.
521: Regular readers will know that OpenBSD has been at war with Intel
522: for ages over these chipsets.
523: Quotes Theo as saying:
524: "before we ask a vendor, we have already lost (ie. the
525: device does not work). When a vendor says no, we have lost nothing
526: further -- there is no way we can lose further than having the
527: device not work. We can only win, and then the device works. So
528: there is no point in giving up until we win back the rights to write
529: software for the hardware that we have purchased."
530: <p>
531:
532: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
533: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/09/bsdtalk069-interview-with-christoph.html">
534: Interview with Christoph Egger about Xen on OpenBSD</a>, bsdtalk069, September 26, 2006
535: </strong></font><br>
536: BSDTalk interviews Christoph Egger about Xen and about how Christoph make OpenBSD
537: able to run as a guest operating system on Xen.
538: Includes some background about Xen as well as what it would take to
539: make OpenBSD run as the "dom0" or master host.
540: <p>
541:
542: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.536 grunk 543: <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/09/bsdtalk068-interview-with-openbsd.html">
544: Intervew with OpenBSD developer Bob Beck</a>, bsdtalk068, September 22, 2006
545: </strong></font><br>
546: Bob Beck talks about spamd and his history with OpenBSD and UNIX
547: on Will Backman's bsdtalk. Bob gives us a look into his work on
548: OpenBSD and gives us amusing stories of how spamd works and how it
549: actually fares in 'the wild.' The podcast lasts a whole 25 minutes,
550: 59 seconds so it's long enough to occupy a meal or a small commute.
551: <p>
552:
1.537 ian 553: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
554: <a href="http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060920185115">
555: OpenBSD 4.0 pre-orders are up!</a>, undeadly.org, September 20, 2006
556: </strong></font><br>
557: One of the first mentions of 4.0 going on sale for pre-ordering
558: (the official release date is November 1).
559: Also gives a list of the many good things that have been added
560: in 4.0, including many new device drivers,
561: support for UltraSPARC III on sparc64, improvements to ipsecctl,
562: a new RCS implementation, and much more.
563: Includes a reminder to "show your support for the project by
1.538 deraadt 564: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/orders.html">placing your pre-orders today!"</a>
1.537 ian 565: <p>
566:
1.536 grunk 567: </ul>
568:
1.534 ian 569: <h2>August, 2006</h2>
570: <ul>
571:
572: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.537 ian 573: <a href="http://anil.recoil.org/blog/articles/2006/08/21/openbsd-xen-boots-multi-user">
574: OpenBSD/Xen boots multi-user</a>, Recoil Blog, August 21, 2006
575: </strong></font><br>
576: Anil discusses his stewardship of a Google Summer of Code project in which
577: Christoph Egger ported and revised some NetBSD code to make OpenBSD boot up natively
578: as a guest operating system under
579: <a href="http://www.xensource.com/">Xen</a>, the open-source hypervisor
580: or "virtualization" system.
581: <p>
582:
583: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.534 ian 584: <a href="http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-openbsd.html">
585: Take a closer look at OpenBSD</a>, IBM developerWorks, August 08, 2006
586: </strong></font><br>
587: Tim McIntire holds OpenBSD up as a beacon to UNIX users, calling it
588: "quite possibly the most secure operating system on the planet."
589: He talks about how the development process leads to greater security
590: and how tools like OpenSSH make it out into the wider UNIX/Linux world.
591: "OpenBSD might not have a huge user base compared to other UNIX-like operating systems,
592: but it is installed at the most crucial points of many networks."
593: Has a somewhat brief but effective discussion of installing the software, and
594: ends with references to several papers and sites of interest.
595: <p>
596:
597: </ul>
598:
1.531 ian 599: <h2>July, 2006</h2>
600: <ul>
601: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
602: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/case-studies--profiles/founder-breathes-the-open-air/2006/07/17/1152988468274.html">
603: Founder breathes the Open air</a>, The Age, July 18, 2006
604: </strong></font><br>
605: Subtitled "Hiking in exotic climes is a brain adventure for the founder of OpenBSD", this is
606: as much about hiking and learning new symbols as about software, but our leader
607: manages to do both, and bring both into the interview.
608: The article quotes Theo as saying
609: "Another major lesson I have learnt is that most people only care
610: about things working for themselves, and thus it is very easy in a
611: group to build poorly thought-out solutions. It is very simple to
612: write small hacks and end up with unmaintainable systems in the long term."
613: Describes the hackathons as an important part of the project's process
614: and describes the funding issues as well.
615: <p>
616:
617: </ul>
618:
1.525 ian 619: <h2>June, 2006</h2>
620: <ul>
621: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.535 steven 622: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=472693&rl=1">
1.530 ian 623: Alternatives to LAMP</a>, informit.com, June 2, 2006
624: </strong></font><br>
625: While "Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP" get most of the attention,
626: there are alternatives to each that are, in some way, better.
627: David Chisnal starts this article with a look at OS alternatives,
628: and OpenBSD gets the most detailed coverage, including this:
629: "When it comes to security, OpenBSD has a well-earned reputation
630: as the operating system for the truly paranoid. The entire kernel
631: and base system, including the OpenBSD fork of Apache, undergoes a
632: constant auditing process. The OpenBSD attitude is that any bug is
633: potentially exploitable, and when a bug is found by the auditing
634: team the next step is to attempt to remove every single occurrence
635: of that category of bug. This approach leads to an incredibly secure
636: system." Also talks about our pioneering use of W^X and the
637: "incredibly powerful and easy to configure" packet filter, pf.
638: <p>
639:
640: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.527 ian 641: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article8785.phtml">
1.525 ian 642: Microsoft adopts open-source security feature</a>, OSDir.com, June 1, 2006
643: </strong></font><br>
644: Microsoft borrows one of OpenBSD's security features for Vista, stack/library randomization,
645: under the name Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR).
646: "Until now, the feature has been most prominently used in the OpenBSD Unix variant and
647: the PaX and Exec Shield security patches for Linux"
648: (despite the article's title, there is nothing open-source about Microsoft's implementation).
649: <p>
650:
1.526 ian 651: </ul>
1.525 ian 652:
1.514 ian 653: <h2>May, 2006</h2>
654: <ul>
1.524 ian 655: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
656: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6650">
657: OpenBSD: wpi, A Blob Free Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Driver</a>, KernelTrap, May 28, 2006
658: </strong></font><br>
659: Damien Bergamini wrote OpenBSD's all-open-source driver for the Intel Pro/Wireless,
660: a sharp contrast to other projects' bogus "open source" drivers that are just wrappers around
661: a "binary blob" (source code not available, sorry) provided by the vendor.
662: "His announcement came a little over two months after Intel released
663: the controversial ipw3945 driver for Linux which included
664: a binary-only daemon described as necessary for enforcing regulatory
665: limits for the radio transmitter on the wireless device."
666: Bergamini's work proves yet again that vendors don't have to obscure their products
667: to make them useful.
668: <p>
1.518 ian 669:
670: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.520 ian 671: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/openbsd/c2k6/who1">
1.523 ian 672: c2k6, Who's Who At the 2006 OpenBSD Hackathon, Part I</a>
673: and
674: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6662">Part II</a>,
1.522 ian 675: KernelTrap, May 28, 2006
1.520 ian 676: </strong></font><br>
1.521 deraadt 677: Jeremy Andrews visited our developers at the Hackathon and gives
1.523 ian 678: a brief but colorful summary of most of the team members:
1.520 ian 679: why they chose OpenBSD, how they got involved, what they do, and
680: their plans for the week.
681: <p>
682:
683: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.523 ian 684: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/05/22/OpenBSD-on-Flash.html">
685: Installing OpenBSD on Flash</a>,
686: Ping Wales, May 22, 2006
687: </strong></font><br>
688: David Chisnall shows how to set up an OpenBSD boot image for
689: Soekris or PC Engines machines that boot from flash memory.
690: <p>
691:
692: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.520 ian 693: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/eur/article.php/3603961">
694: Enterprise Unix Roundup: Whither BSD?</a>, ServerWatch, May 5, 2006
695: </strong></font><br>
696: Amy Newman and Brian Proffitt state that the BSDs are often overlooked
697: because of their limited commercial acceptance.
698: The authors call this an unfortunate oversight, because recent releases of
699: the freely available BSD flavors show significant technical improvements.
1.523 ian 700: As an example, they specifically refer to OpenBSD's sensor framework
1.520 ian 701: (introduced with 3.9).
702: Newman and Proffitt also accuse big vendors of picking the nice parts from
703: the BSDs' code and giving nothing back to the community in return.
704: <p>
705:
706: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.518 ian 707: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/35/1/">
708: OpenBSD 3.9 Review</a>, Software In Review, May 3, 2006
709: </strong></font><br>
710: Jem Matzan takes the 3.9 release out for a spin, and likes it.
711: Noting that each release consists of a lot of small changes
712: and some major improvements - and mentioning hardware support, sensors,
713: and "blob removal" - he clearly thinks the project is doing a lot of things right.
714: "Everything you get in the release is production-ready, secure by
715: default... and comes with possibly the finest integrated documentation
716: in the Unix-clone world. While you might find a poorly programmed
717: driver or other base system component in other BSDs and GNU/Linux
718: distributions, in OpenBSD if something is supported, it works."
719: <p>
720:
721: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
722: [GERMAN]
723: <a href="http://www.linux-magazin.de/Artikel/ausgabe/2006/06/news_zut/news_zut.html">
724: Mozilla greift OpenBSD unter die Arme</a>, Linux Magazin, Issue 06/06, May 2006, p. 18
725: </strong></font><br>
726: The German <a href="http://www.linux-magazin.de/">Linux Magazin</a> has a short
727: article about OpenBSD's financial situation and Marco Peerebroom's
1.535 steven 728: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060321034114">call for donations</a>
1.518 ian 729: on undeadly.org. The article further mentions how OpenSSH development
730: is connected to OpenBSD.
731: <p>
732:
1.514 ian 733: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
734: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6550">
735: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, KernelTrap, May 2, 2006
736: </strong></font><br>
737: Jeremy Andrews conducts a free-ranging interview, focused mainly on 3.9 and drivers,
738: that gives Theo a chance to explain how the big North American chip vendors'
739: business practices make it harder for open source projects,
1.515 ian 740: talk about "binary blobs" vs firmware in drivers, and more.
1.514 ian 741: There's also coverage of where the project is going up to and after 3.9 and where
1.516 steven 742: it might (or might not) go in the future, why doing things right (and
1.514 ian 743: running this project) is so important to Theo,
744: and even why he does mountain biking!
745: <p>
746:
747: </ul>
748:
1.503 ian 749: <h2>April, 2006</h2>
750: <ul>
751: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.532 ray 752: <a href="http://www.dribin.org/dave/blog/archives/2006/04/28/os_x_passwords_2/">
753: Mac OS X Password Implementation Compared to OpenBSD's</a>, April 28, 2006
754: </strong></font><br>
755: Dave Dribin analyzes Mac OS X's password implementation
756: and compares it with OpenBSD's:
757: "The king of the hill has to go to OpenBSD,
758: which uses a hash based on the Blowfish block cipher called bcrypt.
759: The benefit of [bcrypt] is best stated on their website:
760: <blockquote>
761: The most important property of bcrypt (and thus crypt_blowfish)
762: is that it is adaptable to future processor performance improvements,
763: allowing you to arbitrarily increase the processing cost of checking a
764: password while still maintaining compatibility with your older password hashes.
765: Already now bcrypt hashes you would use are several orders of magnitude
766: stronger than traditional Unix DES-based or FreeBSD-style MD5-based hashes.
767: </blockquote>
768: This is just plain cool."
769: <p>
770:
771: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.512 ian 772: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6557">
773: OpenBSD 3.9: Blob-Busters Interviewed</a>, OnLAMP, April 27, 2006
774: </strong></font><br>
775: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several of the developers on improvements
776: in 3.9: the continuing absence of "blob drivers", IPMI and sensors, apmd performance
777: adjustment, Macs, rthreads, multicast, trunk, hostapd, and more.
1.513 saad 778: jsg clarifies the issue of "binary blob" drivers vs "firmware", and
1.512 ian 779: discusses the NVIDIA nForce Ethernet driver he did after NVIDIA did refuse
780: to give out documentation; they can't stop us, but they can slow us down.
781: The result: "There aren't any drivers in OpenBSD with binary-only components;
782: this is quite a contrast to pretty much everyone else out there."
783: marco comments on the IPMI work in 3.9, and adds:
784: "IPMI is a standard, but there are vendors out there
1.513 saad 785: that have reading comprehension issues...".
1.512 ian 786: A long list of other developers explain their contributions
787: and other changes that make 3.9 one of our best releases yet.
788: <p>
789:
790: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.517 mbalmer 791: [GERMAN]
792: <a href="http://www.guug.de/uptimes/index.html">
793: Stop BLOB!</a>, UpTimes, April 25, 2006
794: </strong></font><br>
795: Wilhelm Bühler gives an overview in a short article about Blobs, what they
796: are and why they are bad.
797: <p>
798:
799: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.508 ian 800: <a href="http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/34/1/">
801: Using OpenBSD</a>, Software In Review, April 24, 2006
802: </strong></font><br>
803: Jem Matzan gives a brief overview of using the system.
804: Covers ports and packages, use of SMP kernel, and more.
805: Capsule summary of how our security policy affects the administrator:
806: "Because it is secure by default, you may have to do more initial
807: configuration with OpenBSD than with most other Unix and Unix-like
808: operating systems, but you'll spend a lot less time securing it --
809: maybe no time at all, if you follow the instructions in the manual
810: pages."
811: <p>
812:
813: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.519 ian 814: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/16/1749215.shtml?tid=8">
815: Using OpenBSD on the desktop</a>, NewsForge, April 21, 2006
816: </strong></font><br>
817: Considers the use of OpenBSD as a desktop operating system,
818: starting with "Secure by default" - who wants to have their desktop hacked? -
819: and continues:
820: "OpenBSD's clean code and design also provide rock-solid stability.
821: I used to have lots of problems and crashes with new versions of
822: Linux (kernel 2.6.x) and FreeBSD (versions 5.x and 6.x). The main
823: focus of OpenBSD developers is to provide programs that work ...
824: [they] prefer to improve their code rather than just
825: add more new features and end up with a bloated and unstable product."
826: Covers X, ports/packages, window managers, what is and is not supported,
827: and more. Final thought:
828: "OpenBSD's clean design and remarkable stability, along with its
829: proactive security, not only make OpenBSD a potential candidate for
830: home desktop users but also every system administrator's dream come
831: true for business environments."
832: <p>
833:
834: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.511 djm 835: [FRENCH]
1.509 djm 836: <a href="http://developpeur.journaldunet.com/itws/060419-itw-openssh-openbsd-miller.shtml">
1.511 djm 837: JDN Développeurs interviews Damien Miller</a>,
1.509 djm 838: JDN Développeurs, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
839: Interview with Damien Miller, discussing OpenSSH security, the OpenBSD
840: development approach, the problem of blobby drivers and the recent request
1.510 djm 841: for funding.
1.509 djm 842: <p>
843:
844: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.507 cloder 845: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6497">
846: Interview with developers Jonathan Gray and Damien Bergamini</a>,
847: Kerneltrap, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
848: An interview with the authors of OpenBSD's new NVIDIA Ethernet driver. OpenBSD's
849: policy forbidding binary driver blobs is discussed, and the developers give a good
850: overview of how they went about implementing the new driver.
851: <p>
852:
853: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.528 ian 854: <a href="http://www.thehostingnews.com/article2217.html">GoDaddy.com
855: Donates $10K to Open Source Development Project</a>,
856: The Hosting News, April 19, 2006</strong></font><br>
857: GoDaddy.com, which claims to be "the Number One registrar of domain
858: names worldwide", recently donated $10,000 to the OpenSSH project
859: because, "according to the company, OpenSSH has become a staple
860: of all free Unix and Linux operating systems in the world."
861: They use it, and their customers use it, and they recognize the
862: value of supporting an open source projects that is, as company
863: CEO Bob Parsons says, "integral to online security".
864: <br/>
1.529 ian 865: Similar articles at
1.528 ian 866: <a href="http://www.hostsearch.com/news/the_go_daddy_group_news_4366.asp">
1.529 ian 867: hostsearch.com</a> and
868: <a href="http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20060419090443506">
869: LinuxElectrons.com</a>
1.528 ian 870: <p>
871:
872: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.506 aanriot 873: [FRENCH] Principles and usage of OpenSSH,
874: <a href="http://www.gnulinuxmag.com/">Linux Magazine France</a>,
875: issue 82, April 2006, p. 28-33
876: </strong></font><br>
1.533 ray 877: A 6 page article from Alexandre Courbot focuses on OpenSSH and its
1.507 cloder 878: basics. It begins with an history of the different implementations, and
1.506 aanriot 879: is punctuated with examples.
880: Tunneling features are described, as well as
1.535 steven 881: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp</a>,
882: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent&sektion=1">ssh-agent</a>,
1.506 aanriot 883: and
1.535 steven 884: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp</a>.
1.506 aanriot 885: <p>
886:
887: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.503 ian 888: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71658">
889: Mozilla Foundation spendet für OpenBSD</a>, heise online, April 4, 2006
890: </strong></font><br>
891: Short article mentioning the donation the Mozilla Foundation made in support of
892: further OpenSSH development.
893: The article emphasizes the opportunity to wire money through the project's
894: new European account - this one donation will not meet the
895: project's funding needs for all time.
896: <p>
1.504 bernd 897: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
898: [GERMAN] "OpenBSD mit finanziellen Problemen", c't 8/06, p. 45.,
899: April 3, 2006
900: </strong></font><br>
901: A very short article about OpenBSD's financial problems. They mention that
902: this could compromise future hackathons.
903: <p>
1.503 ian 904:
905: </ul>
906:
1.487 ian 907: <h2>March, 2006</h2>
908: <ul>
1.495 ian 909: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.500 ian 910: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/theo_interview.html">
1.501 ian 911: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>, DaemonNews, March, 2006
1.500 ian 912: </strong></font><br>
913: Chris Silva conducts a lightweight but wide-ranging and fun interview with Theo
914: on topics including "Puffy",
915: the logos used by certain other BSD projects -
916: Theo quips that "I really like how they make absolutely no statement at all" -
917: what's new in 3.9,
918: and of course project expenses.
919: Theo notes that "The electric bill is about $100 USD per week".
920: <!--
921: ... must be what comes from heating your house with VAXen.
922: -->
923: The interviewer nicely ends with a link to our donations page.
924: <p>
925:
926: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 927: <a href="http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/239/1/">
928: Linux supporters fiddle while OpenSSH burns</a>, The Jem Report, March 28, 2006
929: </strong></font><br>
1.499 ian 930: This write-up focusses on OpenBSD/OpenSSH funding, and has some
931: original legwork to go with it.
1.498 ian 932: Writer Jem Matzan took the trouble to
933: contact many of the companies who charge a lot for products
934: featuring OpenSSH and yet give nothing to OpenSSH in return.
935: Companies like SCO, IBM, Apple, and Sun.
936: Sun apparently did the worst job of responding:
937: "Since the release of Solaris 10, who has been a larger open source
938: software cheerleader than Sun Microsystems?", Matzan asks. "I asked Sun
939: representatives what they would do if OpenSSH were to disappear. The only response
940: I got was that there are parts of Solaris that compete with OpenSSH,
941: and that because of this, the company would rather not comment
942: further on the issue." What the Sun teleprompter-readers don't seem to realize -
943: but Matzan does - is that
944: <a href="http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/cmd/ssh/ssh/ssh.c">
945: SunSSH <em>is</em> OpenSSH</a>.
946: Or, at least, a mangled version of it...
947: IBM, on the other hand, is still trying to formulate their response.
948: <br/>
949: <p>
950:
951: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
952: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/20/2050223.shtml?tid=8">
953: Interview: Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD</a>, NewsForge, March 28, 2006
954: </strong></font><br>
955: A wide-ranging interview with Theo about new stuff in 3.9, security, funding,
956: "blob" drivers, and more.
957: Theo notes that "We've had 10 years of nearly fanatical devotion
958: to anything which can make OpenBSD more secure. A very important
959: part of that is that we have not been afraid to completely overhaul
960: anything even if it breaks backward compatibility. Secondly, when
961: we have found a flaw in any part of the system we have assumed that
962: the same mistake was made elsewhere, and gone on a hunt to fix them
963: all. Thirdly, we have developed and incorporated a collection of
964: methods that make software flaws very difficult to attack..."
965: Ends by trying to shame the companies that use OpenSSH without contributing
966: anything back - Sun is given especial mention here - and ends with
967: the tantalizing line ".. if an OpenSSH hole is found that applies to SunSSH,
968: Sun will not be informed. Or maybe that has happened already." Hmmmm.
969: <p>
970:
971: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 972: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259254,00.htm">
973: OpenBSD 3.9 adds sensor framework</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
974: </strong></font><br>
975: It's easy to focus on our project's security, but we innovate in other areas too.
976: This article highlights the "sensors" framework added in 3.9 to provide and integrated
977: approach to handling Dell PowerEdge servers' Embedded Server Management (ESM), IPMI, and
978: in general temperature and environmental issues.
979: "There is a significant new sensor framework [in OpenBSD 3.9], which
980: supports voltage sensors, fan sensors, temperature sensors, and so
981: on," said de Raadt. "Such a feature is still missing in Linux and
982: other major operating systems." ...
983: De Raadt has already been using the sensor framework to monitor the
984: machines running in
985: <a href="images/newrack.jpg">the project's server room</a>. "I now get a call
986: on my cell phone whenever something is wrong in the machine room,"
987: <p>
988:
989: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
990: <a href="http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/other/0,39020682,39259281,00.htm">
991: Paying for free software may be the bargain of a lifetime</a>, ZDNet UK, March 24, 2006
992: </strong></font><br>
993: Starts with a Theo quote from the previous article on ZDNet:
994: "A culture of entitlement is starting to damage the open source community".
995: The article argues that mega-computer-companies that use open source tend to use BSD:
996: "The open BSDs may be less famous than Linux, but they are arguably
997: superior in stability and security. This has made it popular in
998: ISPs and elsewhere - Apple, for example, adopted BSD within OS X.
999: BSD, unlike software released under the GPL, carrys no legal
1000: obligations for the adopter to provide anything for the community in return."
1001: Goes on to argue that these companies <em>ought</em> to be fair enough
1002: to send a small bit of their money back into funding open source.
1003: "In the time it takes to read this article, we calculate that Apple
1004: will have easily made enough to pay-off OpenBSD's annual losses,
1005: with a little left over to buy black turtlenecks for all. It's not
1006: just Apple's baby - other companies owe far more to OpenBSD - but
1007: in open source a little symbolism goes a long way."
1008: <p>
1009:
1.487 ian 1010: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.494 bernd 1011: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71174">
1012: OpenBSD muss an den Sparstrumpf</a>, heise online, March 23, 2006
1013: </strong></font><br>
1.495 ian 1014: OpenBSD is touching its savings - Small news article about the project's
1.494 bernd 1015: financial situation.
1016: <p>
1017:
1018: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.495 ian 1019: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259042,00.htm">
1020: OpenBSD Founder Makes Funding Plea</a>, ZDNet UK, March 23, 2006
1021: </strong></font><br>
1022: One of the first mainstream sites to pick up on Marco's article (below),
1023: this one reports the funding figures on how much it really costs to
1024: produce our favorite operating system.
1025: "Although OpenBSD has a number of commercial users, including many
1026: ISPs, de Raadt claimed that all of its donations come from individuals
1027: rather than companies many of who claim the have no budget to pay
1028: for the operating system. "The culture of entitlement is starting
1029: to damage the open source community," he said."
1.496 ian 1030: <br/>
1031: Also online at
1032: <a href="http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/software/stories/135760.html">ZDNet India</a>.
1033: <p>
1034:
1035: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1036: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/03/22/OpenBSD-money.html">
1037: OpenBSD in Financial Trouble</a>, Ping Wales, March 21, 2006
1038: </strong></font><br>
1039: David Chisnall reports that "OpenBSD is one of my favourite platforms;
1040: its focus on security and ease-of-use makes it a very simple and
1041: safe system to use. Unfortunately, the OpenBSD organisation is now
1042: experiencing financial difficulty. For the last two years, the
1043: project has made a $20,000/year loss, something which it cannot
1044: sustain indefinitely."
1045: Goes on to report on the growing use of OpenBSD in commercial software
1046: (and hardware!), and that none of the "big guys" has given anything back.
1047: Unlike most of the articles on this topic, this one is kind enough to
1048: include a direct link to our orders page and recommend its readers
1049: to buy a copy of the CD to help fund the project.
1.495 ian 1050: <p>
1051:
1052: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.498 ian 1053: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/06/03/21/1555243.shtml">
1054: OpenBSD Project in Financial Danger</a>, Slashdot, March 21, 2006
1055: </strong></font><br>
1056: Slashdot mentions and quotes from Marco's article (below),
1057: with a reminder that
1058: "The OpenBSD team is the one that also develops the OpenSSH suite,
1059: used nowadays almost everywhere."
1060: Ends with this quote from Marco:
1061: "Without naming entities or projects by name, there are others out
1062: there that are sitting on some cash. It would be wonderful if these
1063: entities could share some of the wealth to keep us going."
1064: <p>
1065:
1066: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.505 grunk 1067: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060321034114">
1.495 ian 1068: OpenBSD Finances</a>, OpenBSD Journal, March 21, 2006
1069: </strong></font><br>
1070: Marco Peereboom's article notes that
1071: "OpenBSD for the past 2 years has turned a loss of approximately $20K USD" per year.
1072: Hackathons - where a lot of developers get together in critical mass and churn out
1073: new ideas and new code in great quantity - cost from US$10K-30K each, and we try to run
1074: a few of them each year.
1075: Meanwhile, compananies that use OpenBSD and companies - many of them highly profitable -
1076: that incorporate OpenSSH into operating systems and even routers and other appliances
1077: have not been forthcoming: no major computer company has given funding
1078: to the OpenBSD project.
1079: It's time for them to do so.
1080: <p>
1081:
1082: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.497 ian 1083: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/03/08/1646257.shtml?tid=8">
1084: Software RAID on OpenBSD using RAIDframe</a>, NewsForge, March 14, 2006
1085: </strong></font><br>
1086: "Software RAID provides an easy way to add redundancy or speed up a system
1087: without spending lots of money on a RAID adapter."
1088: Manolis Tzanidakis talks us through setting up RAID using OpenBSD.
1089: He describes the detailed steps, and recommends careful testing
1090: before putting the system into production, including taking one disk
1091: out of service and ensuring that it gets reloaded correctly.
1092: Ends with a technique for monitoring clean operation on an ongoing basis.
1093: <p>
1094:
1095: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.489 deraadt 1096: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">Report on Business Television</a>
1097: March 10, 5:45pm MST</strong></font><br>
1.490 deraadt 1098: Theo de Raadt was interviewed by Howard Green on <b>The Business Show</b>:<br>
1099: <!-- North America mirror:
1100: <a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB avi file</a>
1.491 deraadt 1101: -->
1.490 deraadt 1102: European mirror:
1103: <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/20060310/robtv2006.avi">Interview 35MB AVI file</a>
1104: <br>
1105: A longer segment is also available at <a href="http://www.robtv.ca">www.robtv.ca</a>.
1.489 deraadt 1106: <p>
1107:
1108: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.487 ian 1109: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/openbgpd.html">OpenBGPd in OpenBSD</a>
1110: Daemon News, March, 2006</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 1111: Check out the notes and slides from Henning Brauer's presentation at
1.487 ian 1112: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0602/">NANOG 36</a>;
1113: the text and questions cover everything from how and why OpenBGPd got created,
1114: through configuration and tools, to integration with pf and CARP,
1115: to technical issues regarding use of IPSEC to provide security for BGP packets.
1116: Along the way there's considerable discussion on how the program was
1117: designed to provide reliability and security.
1118: <p>
1119:
1120: </ul>
1121:
1.485 ian 1122: <h2>February, 2006</h2>
1123: <ul>
1124: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.486 ian 1125: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1859">Zero to IPSec in 4 minutes</a>
1126: Security Focus, February 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
1127: This article, as its lead-in says,
1.497 ian 1128: "looks at how to get a fully functional IPSec VPN up and running between two fresh OpenBSD
1.486 ian 1129: installations in about four minutes flat".
1130: If you've shied away from setting up an IPSEC VPN because of config file complexity,
1131: now is the time to reconsider.
1.497 ian 1132: Dragos Ruiu shows you how the ipsecctl command (introduced to the world in OpenBSD 3.8)
1.486 ian 1133: makes it really easy to set up a VPN between consenting OpenBSD machines.
1134: He states that he and a colleague were able to get two machines talking over IPSEC
1135: in a few minutes, and only changing a few configuration files.
1136: He also comments on the relative ease of installing our favorite OS, and hopes
1137: that our ipsecctl will be adopted by the other BSDs (hopefully in a compatible way)
1138: to make firewall setups easier all around the network.
1139: But you don't need to wait for that if you're running OpenBSD 3.8; just follow
1140: the steps in the article.
1141: <p>
1142:
1143: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.485 ian 1144: <a href="http://www.networkmagazineindia.com/200602/vendorvoice02.shtml">The Worm in the Machine</a>
1145: Network Magazine India, February 2006</strong></font><br>
1146: Dilip Ranade elaborates on several reasons why software is drearily buggy and endlessly insecure,
1147: particularly in comparison with other technologies.
1148: Imagines how very bad shape the automotive industry would be in if you had to sign the
1149: same disclaimer of (non-)usability that almost every commercial EULA requires of computer users.
1150: Ends with "I once dreamt that all the computer users in the world
1151: arose in revolt and switched to hardened OpenBSD", though he admits that there's "fat chance" of it
1152: happening in real life.
1153: <p>
1154:
1155: </ul>
1156:
1.492 ian 1157: <h2>January, 2006</h2>
1158: <ul>
1159: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1160: <a href="http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2006/01/28.html">Kevin Mitnick on
1161: Coast to Coast AM Radio Show with Art Bell</a>, Jan 28, 2006</strong></font><br>
1162: Art Bell interviewed Kevin Mitnick on his call-in show;
1163: Paul Zacharzewski from Edmonton called to ask Mitnick for his opinion of OpenBSD.
1164: If you don't want to download the whole show from coasttocoastam.com,
1165: you can listen to an
1.497 ian 1166: <a href="http://unworkable.org/misc/mitnick.mp3">MP3 excerpt of this call</a>
1.492 ian 1167: in which Mitnick says: "Well, I actually use OpenBSD, so I do like it".
1168: </ul>
1169:
1.483 ian 1170: <h2>December, 2005</h2>
1171: <ul>
1.555 reyk 1172:
1.483 ian 1173: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.555 reyk 1174: [GERMAN]
1175: <a href="http://www.ini.unizh.ch/~stephan/articles/openbsd/064-069_linux-bsd-fw.pdf">
1176: Wehrhaft abtauchen - HA-fähige Firewall mit OpenBSD/PF</a>, Linux-Magazin, December 2005
1177: </strong></font><br>
1178: High available firewall setups are considered as the high arts of network protection.
1179: Due to clustering the network stays online even if one firewall fails. This article
1180: from Stephan A. Rickauer (Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH / University Zurich) shows
1181: how well OpenBSD/PF performs in comparison to the well-known duo Linux/Netfilter.
1182: <p>
1183:
1184: </p></li><li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.484 djm 1185: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/375/1">OpenSSH cutting edge</a>
1186: SecurityFocus, December 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
1187: Federico Biancuzzi interviews OpenSSH developer Damien Miller to discuss
1188: features included in the upcoming version 4.3, public key crypto
1189: protocols details, timing based attacks and anti-worm measures.
1190: <p>
1191:
1192: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 1193: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/11/21/175249.shtml?tid=92&tid=78">Creating
1.483 ian 1194: Secure Wireless Access Points with OpenBSD and OpenVPN</a>
1195: NewsForge, December 13, 2005</strong></font><br>
1196: A cookbook approach to setting up a wireless interface as a secure Access Point
1197: using OpenBSD's hostap, pf, and authpf.
1198: Configuration examples are given with basic explanations and links
1199: to sites with more information on most topics.
1200: <p>
1201:
1202: </ul>
1203:
1204:
1.479 grunk 1205: <h2>November, 2005</h2>
1206: <ul>
1207: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.492 ian 1208: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20051116145737">OpenBSD
1.482 ian 1209: Goes to Venice</a>,
1210: OpenBSD Journal, November 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.497 ian 1211: "What happens when you put a dozen developers on a little island with their
1.482 ian 1212: laptops, power, and an internet connection?
1213: <br/>
1214: During the first week of November some OpenBSD developers met in a
1215: little island in Venice's lagoon to hack on the ports system.
1216: This was probably the first ports hackathon and was followed by
1.497 ian 1217: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON</a>, a European conference
1.482 ian 1218: fully dedicated to OpenBSD..."
1219: Great coverage of the OpenBSD Porting Hackathon: people, ports, beer, ...
1220: Contains a link to
1221: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ven05-pvalchev/mgp00008.html">
1222: pval's summary slides</a>.
1223: <p>
1224:
1225: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.481 niallo 1226: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1710223">
1227: Trying out the new OpenBSD 3.8</a>,
1228: NewsForge, November 11, 2005</strong></font><br>
1229: This article describes the installation of OpenBSD 3.8 from a Linux user's
1230: perspective, noting the simple elegance of the installer.
1231: Although the installation process may be hard to get used to at first for
1232: the average Linux user, the author tells us that one can learn a lot from
1233: it. Furthermore, the article clears up the common misconception that working
1.497 ian 1234: on an OpenBSD system is very different from working on a Linux system.
1.481 niallo 1235: In particular, the author states that on OpenBSD, <i>"virtually the entire
1236: catalog of familiar free and open source software titles is available through
1237: the packages and ports system"</i>.
1238: <p>
1239:
1240: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1241: <a href="http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3561526">
1242: Return of The BSDs</a>,
1243: internetnews.com, November 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
1244: This article mentions that with all three major BSD flavors having had
1245: a release this fall, BSD is <i>"still very much alive and kicking among
1246: all the noise and buzz created by Linux"</i>. The author talks about
1247: various new or improved features of 3.8, such as bioctl(8), hostapd(8),
1248: network interface aggregation and sasyncd(8), and there are some
1249: quotes from Bob Beck.
1250: <p>
1251:
1252: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.479 grunk 1253: <a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/051101/152/fvrlx.html">
1254: OpenBSD 3.8 improves hardware support</a>,
1255: ZDNet UK, November 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.480 ian 1256: This article reports on OpenBSD 3.8, which was released on November 1.
1257: The author gives an overview of the improvements and new
1.479 grunk 1258: features that were made with 3.8, and quotes Theo on RAID management
1259: and Linux.<br>
1260: The 3.8 release hit the news also in some other places:
1261: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1258232">Slashdot</a>
1262: and <a href="http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=12482">OSNews</a>
1263: also report about it, mostly repeating parts
1264: of the release
1265: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/ANNOUNCEMENT">ANNOUNCEMENT</a>.
1266: <p>
1267: </ul>
1268:
1.476 ian 1269: <h2>October, 2005</h2>
1270: <ul>
1271:
1272: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1273: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1375194866;fp;16;fpid;0">
1274: 'Nightmare' drove desperate user to open source</a>,
1275: Computerworld, October 24, 2005</strong></font><br>
1276: A great tale of how Mark Uemura of PricewaterhouseCoopers Japan
1277: was forced to move to OpenBSD because the alternatives were too costly
1278: and too unreliable.
1279: This quote will rattle some cages:
1280: "IT managers who want to deploy an open source solution but are
1281: worried about company politics should go ahead and do it without
1282: asking," according to Uemura, who was promoted to IT Manager of PWC Japan
1283: after saving the company seven IT-samurais' salaries.
1284: Further, "In Japan large organizations like Morgan Stanley and the
1285: Bank of America have moved all their backend systems to open source,
1286: Uemura said, because with open source you can reduce IT operating
1287: costs without any commercial lock-in."
1288: <p>
1289:
1.477 saad 1290: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1291: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6270">
1292: OpenBSD 3.8: Hackers of the Lost RAID</a>,
1293: ONLamp.com, October 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
1294: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
1295: new features in OpenBSD 3.8 including interface trunking,
1296: internationalization support, Inter-Access Point Protocol (IAPP),
1297: IPSec SA synchronization daemon, and RAID management. There is also some
1298: discussion about future plans.
1299: <p>
1300:
1.478 grunk 1301: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1302: <a href="http://securityfocus.com/columnists/361">
1303: OpenBSD's network stack</a>,
1304: SecurityFocus, October 12, 2005</strong></font><br>
1305: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about OpenBSD's
1306: network stack, including protection against ICMP attacks, and propagation
1307: of enhancements into other BSDs and into Linux.
1308: The interview also features the other protection mechanisms in the network
1309: stack, a comparison to the network stack in Linux, and the history and
1310: current status of <a href="http://www.openbgpd.org/">OpenBGPD</a>.
1311: <p>
1312:
1.476 ian 1313: </ul>
1314:
1.470 saad 1315: <h2>September, 2005</h2>
1316: <ul>
1317:
1318: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.474 niallo 1319: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/359">
1320: Security-related innovation in Unix</a>,
1321: SecurityFocus, Sept. 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1322: An article examining the mmap-based malloc() implementation to be
1323: included in OpenBSD 3.8. The author states that <i>"it will help OpenBSD
1324: users to find bugs in software more easily, which will result in better
1325: applications for everyone"</i>. He goes on to say that <i>"the more hurdles
1326: that one has to jump through for good security, the less likely people will
1327: go through the trouble. OpenBSD allows even the most inexperienced users to
1328: take advantage of these technologies without any effort"</i>.
1329: <p>
1330:
1331: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.473 aanriot 1332: <a href="http://www.miscmag.com/articles/index.php3?page=2100">
1333: [FRENCH] Champ libre : les chantiers OpenBSD</a>
1334: Misc, number 21, Sept/Oct, 2005, p. 4-14</strong></font><br>
1335: An interesting article about OpenBSD and associated projects. Saad Kadhi
1336: and Guillaume Arcas describe useful things you can do with PF and
1337: OpenSSH, and give a nice introduction to OpenNTPD and OpenCVS. If the
1338: article is focused on the presentation, you can find some interesting
1339: technical aspects people are not always acquainted to. A few examples
1340: are shown, like a basic CARP setup, or the manner to use multiplexing
1341: with OpenSSH and even how to check an OpenSSH server's keys using DNS.
1342: <p>
1343:
1344: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 1345: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/news/11306">
1346: Big debate over small packets</a>,
1347: SecurityFocus, Sept. 7, 2005</strong></font><br>
1348: Robert Lemos discusses the ICMP denial-of-service vulnerabilities found
1349: by Fernando Gont and fixed in OpenBSD. To date, OpenBSD is the only
1350: system that has implemented all of the fixes recommended in the IETF
1351: draft.
1352: <p>
1353:
1354: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.471 saad 1355: <a href="http://www.pcexpert.fr/">
1356: [FRENCH] "Quel est le meilleur système libre pour votre
1357: ordinateur ?"</a>,
1358: PC Expert, number 156, p. 42-62</strong></font><br>
1359: Philippe Roure compares 11 Linux and *BSD operating systems, including
1360: OpenBSD 3.7, on different criteria such as security, documentation and
1361: usability. OpenBSD earned a 5/5 mark (see pages 60-61) and while a mark
1362: isn't necessarily objective, the author seems to grasp the OpenBSD
1363: project, its goals, and how good is the operating system. The article
1364: includes an interview with Saad Kadhi.
1365: <p>
1366:
1367: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.470 saad 1368: <a href="http://www.samag.com/articles/2005/0509/">
1369: Monitoring PF Firewalls for Health and Performance</a>,
1370: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 9, p. 37</strong></font><br>
1371: Ryan Matteson describes several utilities that can be used to monitor the
1372: health and performance of a PF firewall. Besides pfctl, the article
1373: covers pftop, fwanalog, monitoring logs with tcpdump and graphing
1374: performance data with pfstat.
1375: <p>
1376:
1377: </ul>
1378:
1.461 grunk 1379: <h2>July, 2005</h2>
1380: <ul>
1381:
1382: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.466 deraadt 1383: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5382">
1384: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part III</a>,
1.467 grunk 1385: Kerneltrap, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.466 deraadt 1386: Jeremy Andrews writes about the recent Blind ICMP attacks discovered
1387: by Fernando Gont, and the fixes done by him and OpenBSD during the
1388: 2005 Hackathon.
1.469 ian 1389: The article goes into the technical background of the
1.467 grunk 1390: attacks, mentioning blind ICMP attacks, "hard" ICMP errors, source
1.469 ian 1391: quenching, and path MTU discovery;
1392: many helpful RFCs and technical papers are linked from the explanations.
1393: This is followed by a recap of the whole ICMP story, involving Gont's
1.467 grunk 1394: struggle with other free projects, Cisco lawyers, Microsoft people,
1395: and others.<br>
1.469 ian 1396: The article concludes that OpenBSD was the first project
1.467 grunk 1397: to take Fernando Gont's findings seriously, and also the first group to
1398: be really painless to work with.
1.466 deraadt 1399: <p>
1400:
1401: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.464 grunk 1402: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/06/security_blame/">
1403: Security meltdown: who's to blame?</a>,
1.466 deraadt 1404: The Register, July 6, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.464 grunk 1405: This article talks about various groups that are frequently blamed for
1406: poor security:
1.467 grunk 1407: individuals, ISPs, companies, crackers, security mailing lists,
1.464 grunk 1408: and last but not least: OS vendors!
1.467 grunk 1409: In the last paragraph, OpenBSD's style of <i>"dumbed-down, simplified
1.464 grunk 1410: and secure systems (with a heavily audited code base)"</i> is described
1411: as <i>"one of the smartest approaches to security"</i>.
1412: <p>
1413:
1414: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.461 grunk 1415: <a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-7-5/30084.html">
1416: Theo de Raadt on Industry and Free Software</a>,
1.466 deraadt 1417: The Epoch Times, July 5, 2005</strong></font><br>
1.463 tom 1418: In this interview, Theo talks about the inception of the OpenBSD project
1419: and its goals, as well as its impact on the commercial IT industry.
1.461 grunk 1420: He points out once more that <i>"vendors who incorporate OpenSSH have
1421: given us absolutely nothing back - not a cent"</i>.
1422: Other topics covered include the OpenBSD team, Theo's role as
1423: <i>"benevolent dictator"</i>, and the security process, which he compares
1424: to the security efforts led by other free software projects and some
1425: commercial vendors.
1426: <p>
1427:
1428: </ul>
1429:
1.454 ian 1430: <h2>June, 2005</h2>
1431: <ul>
1.468 grunk 1432:
1433: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1434: <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/ns-ttc062205.php">
1435: The true cost of computer crime</a>,
1436: EurekAlert / <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/">New Scientist Magazine</a>,
1437: issue June 25, 2005</strong></font><br>
1438: This article looks at computer crime, especially the way upcoming
1439: vulnerability reports are dealt with. It also gives a short overview of the
1.469 ian 1440: institutions involved in the process (vendors, free projects, CERTs).
1.468 grunk 1441: <br>
1442: The author mentions the work of Andy Ozment, who researches vulnerability
1443: disclosure at the University of Cambridge. Using OpenBSD as a good example
1444: of how disclosure and consequent fixing of bugs helps to strengthen security,
1445: he refutes the widely spread FUD that disclosing vulnerabilities leads to
1446: more harm than good. Ozment's methodology was to examine OpenBSD's CVS logs
1.469 ian 1447: and note when fixes were published; his research shows that
1.468 grunk 1448: <i>"the number of vulnerabilities decreases as a result of disclosure"</i>.
1449: <p>
1450:
1.454 ian 1451: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.458 niallo 1452: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0704/071.html">
1453: Free Bird</a>,
1454: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1455: <b>(Registration required)</b> A second Forbes article about OpenBSD, more
1456: focused on the project itself this time. It contains good description of the
1457: history of OpenBSD along with its prime motivations. Mention is made of the
1458: DARPA grant and the annual hackathon. Theo's motto "shut up and hack" finally
1459: becomes famous in this piece and there are some other very insightful quotes
1460: such as "All I care about is making high-quality code. If I had to work at a
1461: regular job, it would drive me nuts". This is certainly an astute and perceptive
1462: article, well worth reading. Do note that the big picture of Theo's machine
1463: room will only be available in the print edition.
1464: <p>
1.459 deraadt 1465:
1.458 niallo 1466: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.456 niallo 1467: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html">
1468: Is Linux For Losers?</a>,
1469: Forbes, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1470: An interesting article, if somewhat polemic in tone, which raises questions
1471: about the quality of Linux code compared to OpenBSD. There is also some short
1472: discussion of the OpenBSD development model and focus (push for quality above
1473: everything else) including good quotes from Theo. It seems that the need for
1474: high quality software is beginning to be recognised by the mainstream.
1475: <p>
1.457 deraadt 1476:
1.456 niallo 1477: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1478: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/06/09/2132233.shtml?tid=152&tid=8&tid=2">
1.455 ian 1479: BSD cognoscenti on Linux</a>,
1480: NewsForge, June 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1481: NewsForge talks with Theo de Raadt and NetBSD's Christos Zoulas about the
1482: similarities and differences between the Linux kernel and the BSD
1483: operating systems. The questions asked were similar to those asked
1484: of Linus Torvalds in a <a
1.462 grunk 1485: href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/09/2128249&tid=2">previous
1.455 ian 1486: interview.</a>
1487: <p>
1488:
1489: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.454 ian 1490: <a href="http://www.tuxjournal.net/intervista3-en.html">
1491: A good morning with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1492: Tux Journal, June 2, 2005</strong></font><br>
1493: Brief but wide-ranging interview with Theo in which our leader
1494: opines about the good things in 3.7: "The list of new developments
1495: is impressive, but in my view not nearly as impressive as the small
1496: little details that continue to be fixed during each development
1497: cycle." And modestly credits all the developers for the project's
1498: continuing success, attributing it to "The passion of the developers,
1499: and the wide experience they bring into their development efforts.
1500: By amazing coincidence, our users typically have the same needs as we do."
1501: Manages to sidestep getting drawn into comparisons with Linux, e.g.,
1502: when asked if he likes it/why/why not, deftly replies
1503: "I have never used it."
1504: <p>
1505:
1506: </ul>
1507:
1.441 deraadt 1508: <h2>May, 2005</h2>
1509: <ul>
1510: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 1511: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5190">
1512: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part II</a>,
1513: Kerneltrap, May 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1514: In the second installment of Kerneltrap's Hackathon 2005 feature, Jeremy
1515: Andrews speaks with the pf developers at length about their plans for
1516: future enhancements.
1517: <p>
1518:
1519: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.450 deraadt 1520: <a href="http://www.ctv.ca">
1.448 deraadt 1521: TV coverage: OpenBSD hackathon</a>,
1522: CTV/CFCN, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1523: A TV spot done a Canadian national TV station about the Calgary
1524: hackathon this year, with 60 developers.<br>
1525: North America mirror:
1526: <ul>
1.452 marco 1527: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.449 jcs 1528: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a><br>
1529: <li><a href="ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/news/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a>
1.448 deraadt 1530: </ul>
1531: European mirror:
1532: <ul>
1.452 marco 1533: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd-intro.avi">Intro</a>
1.448 deraadt 1534: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd1.avi">spot 1</a>
1535: <li><a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/2005-hackaton/obsd2.avi">spot 2</a><br>
1536: </ul>
1537: <p>
1538:
1539: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.451 cloder 1540: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5186">
1541: Feature: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005, Part I</a>,
1542: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1543: Jeremy Andrews of KernelTrap does a good job of describing what it's like
1544: to be at the Hackathon in Part I of KernelTrap's Hackathon feature. Several
1545: developers are interviewed in detail about what they are working on.
1546: <p>
1547:
1548: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.472 cloder 1549: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5184">
1550: OpenBSD Hackathon 2005: Day 6?</a>,
1551: Kerneltrap, May 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1552: Kjell Wooding describes a typical day at the Hackathon in this entertaining
1553: first-hand account.
1554: <p>
1555:
1556: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.447 cloder 1557: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/05/20/1426216.shtml?tid=8">
1558: Review: OpenBSD 3.7</a>,
1559: NewsForge.com, May 20, 2005</strong></font><br>
1560: "OpenBSD is not only highly polished and easy to
1561: configure because of its documentation, it's also totally free-as-in-rights.
1562: With an obsession with security, freedom of source code, and quality of
1563: programming technique, OpenBSD 3.7 continues the legacy established by
1564: its previous releases," writes Jem Matzan in this nice, small review.
1565: <p>
1566:
1567: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.446 cloder 1568: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/05/19/openbsd_3_7.html">
1569: OpenBSD 3.7: The Wizard of OS</a>,
1570: ONLamp.com, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
1571: Federico Biancuzzi interviews several OpenBSD developers about the
1572: new features in OpenBSD 3.7, including new wireless chipsets, new
1573: spam-fighting features, zaurus, pf improvements, propolice, and
1574: many other things. A good overview of what's new in this release,
1575: plus some interesting comments about future direction.
1576: <p>
1577:
1578: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.444 niallo 1579: <a href="http://www.pingwales.co.uk/software/openbsd-3.7-released.html">
1.445 niallo 1580: Next incarnation of OpenBSD released</a>,
1.444 niallo 1581: Ping Wales, May 19, 2005</strong></font><br>
1582: "OpenBSD is often unjustly overlooked as a free UNIX-like system in favour of
1583: the more-hyped Linux. While it receives a lot less publicity than other
1584: operating systems, this is not due to lack of technical merit." says David
1585: Chisnall, in what is a clear and concise overview of the new features
1586: in 3.7 and indeed the project as a whole.
1587: <p>
1588:
1589: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1590: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/5114">
1.445 niallo 1591: 2005 Calgary Hackathon, KernelTrap Coverage</a>,
1.444 niallo 1592: Kerneltrap, May 16, 2005</strong></font><br>
1593: A great article about the annual OpenBSD Hackathon, detailing how the event
1594: functions, work done at previous Hackathons and features which may come out
1595: of this one. Includes many relevant quotes from developers themselves, and of
1596: course information about the legendary Hackathon BBQ!
1597: <p>
1598:
1599: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.442 deraadt 1600: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9658/sam0505e/">
1601: "Failover Firewalls with OpenBSD and CARP"</a>,
1602: Sys Admin Magazine, Volume 14, Number 5, p. 33
1.441 deraadt 1603: </strong></font><br>
1604: Jason Dixon discusses the history of the CARP and pfsync protocols
1605: and demonstrates using them to create redundant stateful firewalls
1606: with OpenBSD.
1607: </ul>
1608:
1.436 henning 1609: <h2>April, 2005</h2>
1610: <ul>
1611: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.440 ian 1612: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39195801,00.htm">
1613: Security guru wants access to bug databases</a>,
1614: ZDNet UK, April 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
1615: Ingrid Marson reports on Cambridge professor Ross Anderson's call for analysis of
1616: software maintenance records to determine whether open source code is more secure
1617: than closed source, as we have long contended.
1618: "One of Anderson's research students, Andy Ozment, has already done
1619: research using empirical data on bugs found in the open source
1620: operating system OpenBSD between 1997 and 2000. This research found
1621: that finding and fixing bugs results in a more secure product..."
1622: Just as the OpenBSD project has been saying for years.
1623: <p>
1624: This article can also be found online as
1625: <a href="http://uk.builder.com/manage/project/0,39026588,39244080,00.htm">Academic
1626: calls for better bug tracking</a> (uk.builder.com).
1627: <p>
1628:
1629: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.439 espie 1630: [FRENCH] "PC Expert", number 152, p. 58
1631: </strong></font><br>
1632: Very short interview of Marc Espie about OpenBSD as a free OS focusing
1633: on security, part of a larger dossier «les secrets des hackers».
1634: <p>
1635:
1636: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.436 henning 1637: [GERMAN] "Doppelwacht", iX 5/2005, p. 150.
1638: </strong></font><br>
1639: Stephan Tesch gives an introduction to CARP and using a pair of
1640: OpenBSD boxes as Firewalls in High Availibility scenarios. He goes
1.438 martin 1641: on explaining CARP and pfsync protocols, and does not forget to cover
1.436 henning 1642: the issues we had with IETF.
1643: </ul>
1644:
1.431 ian 1645: <h2>March, 2005</h2>
1646: <ul>
1647: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.435 reyk 1648: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/4818">
1649: OpenBSD's "Out of the Box" Wireless Support</a>,
1650: Kerneltrap, March 8, 2005</strong></font><br>
1651: This article is about the upcoming wireless support in OpenBSD 3.7 and
1652: the outcome of the work to open wireless chipsets. Jeremy Andrews
1653: talked with Theo de Raadt and the developers Damien Bergamini and Reyk
1654: Floeter who did some efforts to implement free and functional drivers.
1655: <p>
1656:
1657: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.431 ian 1658: <a href="http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/01/1109546842718.html">
1659: OpenBSD to support more wireless chipsets</a>,
1660: The Age, March 1, 2005</strong></font><br>
1661: "The forthcoming 3.7 release of the OpenBSD operating system has
1662: added support for five more wireless chipsets, according to
1663: OpenBSD project founder Theo de Raadt...
1.432 ian 1664: OpenBSD 3.7 will also have have new drivers for Intel wireless
1.431 ian 1665: parts that do not work without the non-redistributable firmware,"
1666: namely the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11B
1667: and 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11A/B/G wireless network adapters.
1668: Mentions OpenBSD's activism in getting vendors to release chip specs.
1669: Referring to vendors that still refuse to play ball with open source
1670: projects, quotes Damien Miller as saying "Given the number of
1671: appliance devices that are built on free OSs, I think that the
1672: recalcitrant vendors are missing an important boat."
1673:
1674: </ul>
1675:
1.427 matthieu 1676: <h2>February, 2005</h2>
1677: <ul>
1678:
1679: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.428 david 1680: <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsaward2004.html">
1681: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
1682: FSF, February 26, 2005</strong></font><br>
1683: The Free Software Foundation awarded Theo de Raadt their "2004 Free Software
1684: Award" for his unwavering commitment to free software. Most recently he has
1685: been fighting hardware manufacturers for free redistribution of wireless card
1686: firmware.
1.434 ian 1687: Similar articles can be found online at:
1688: <ul>
1689: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1690: <a href="http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=419">
1691: Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award</a>,
1692: Tectonic.za, March 3, 2005</strong></font><br>
1693: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1694: <a href="http://www.osdir.com/Article4362.phtml">
1695: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
1696: OSDir, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1697: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1698: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/De-Raadt-gets-free-software-award/2005/02/28/1109546758523.html?oneclick=true">
1699: De Raadt gets free software award</a>,
1700: The Age, February 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1701: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1702: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/02/27/1413255.shtml?tid=99&tid=7">
1.434 ian 1703: Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award</a>,
1704: Slashdot, February 27, 2005</strong></font><br>
1705: </ul>
1.427 matthieu 1706: </ul>
1707:
1.426 ian 1708: <h2>January, 2005</h2>
1709: <ul>
1710:
1711: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1712: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363731">
1713: Systrace in OpenBSD</a>,
1714: informit.com, January 28, 2005</strong></font><br>
1715: This article talks about our systrace
1.462 grunk 1716: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&sektion=1">systrace(1)</a>
1.426 ian 1717: mechanism: what it is and why and
1718: how to use it, with examples.
1719: Another excerpt from the book
1720: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
1721: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
1722: <p>
1723:
1724: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1725: <a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363732">
1726: Overview of OpenBSD</a>,
1727: informit.com, January 21, 2005</strong></font><br>
1728: "OpenBSD is one of the most secure and well-designed operating
1729: systems available today. It has its roots in countless hours of
1730: research and development based on some of the best UNIX flavors of
1731: the past, and it boasts all the features of modern operating systems.
1732: The OS is widely considered one of the most secure general-purpose
1733: operating systems available today and it supports many key parts
1734: of the global Internet infrastructure..."
1735: This article is a sample chapter from
1736: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321193660/openbsdA/">Secure
1737: Architectures with OpenBSD</a> by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario.
1738: <p>
1.443 ian 1739:
1740: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1741: <a href="http://www.pcplus.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=34628&subsectionid=784">
1.443 ian 1742: OpenBSD operating system</a>,
1743: PCPlus.co.uk, January, 2005</strong></font><br>
1744: Paul Grosse gives a brief tutorial on installing OpenBSD on i386 for people
1745: moving in a Windows->Linux direction, encouraging them to go a bit further for security.
1746: "While Linux out-scores Windows substantially (or completely) on [security as well as many other
1747: issues], it's still possible to use a more secure operating system on the PC... OpenBSD."
1748: Gives a brief but understandable walkthrough on the installation process, right up to
1749: downloading and installing the third-party packages, and
1750: ends with a sidebar on security.
1751: <p>
1.426 ian 1752: </ul>
1753:
1.424 ian 1754: <h2>December, 2004</h2>
1755: <ul>
1756:
1757: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.425 ian 1758: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/01/2329229">
1759: What are the real vulnerabilities of Linux?</a>
1760: NewsForge.com, December 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1761: Several security consultants were asked about "the real vulnerabilities of
1762: Linux". Cybersoure CEO Con Symaris seems to get it better than the rest:
1763: "One needs to approach security as a prime requirement and motivator,
1764: much as the OpenBSD team do," Zymaris said... "The Linux
1765: community mindset is different. Linux development is dynamic and
1766: races ahead towards more and broader functionality, drawing a
1767: multitude of interested parties in to make interesting extensions
1768: and adaptations at a rapid rate."
1769: <p>
1770: "In order to do security the BSD way, however, much more effort
1771: needs to be spent auditing code for holes, which is much less sexy,
1772: and attracts a different set of coders," Zymaris added.
1773: <p>
1774:
1775: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.424 ian 1776: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/281">
1777: Closed Source Hardware</a>
1778: Security Focus, December 1, 2004</strong></font><br>
1779: Symantec Threat Analyst Jason Miller analyzes the potential security threats
1780: when hardware vendors won't provide device documentation and
1781: instead provide "binary only" driver code for inclusion in open source
1782: operating systems.
1783: Miller is an open-source fan who says he uses a variety of systems, including
1784: OpenBSD on his firewall.
1785: Of the recent trend to closed-source binary drivers for open-source
1786: systems, he writes:
1787: <blockquote>
1788: The closed-source component required to support this hardware is
1789: completely independent of the associated operating system, and as
1790: such, is also independent of the engineering team, security team,
1791: auditing process, and quality control procedures normally related
1792: to the operating system...
1793: <br/>
1794: What's possibly even more disturbing is that we're talking about
1795: a chunk of code in the operating system, running with the highest
1796: possible level of privilege (the kernel), which is supplied by a
1797: third-party vendor. This code could do anything once loaded, including
1798: leaking active WEP keys, gathering usage statistics, sniffing and
1799: disclosing traffic, and it could even introduce a subtle backdoor
1800: into the operating system itself (much the same as any device driver
1801: in a closed source operating system).
1802: <br/>
1803: [A]lthough some of these scenarios are a
1804: little far-fetched, the possibility for them to exist is there...
1805: Ultimately it becomes an issue of trust, which is a cornerstone of
1806: good security: whom do you trust, and how much do you trust them?
1807: </blockquote>
1808: <p>And he comments that trust "seems to be a one-way street": vendors
1809: demand that you trust them, but they won't trust you to know how
1810: their hardware and software operates.
1811: This lack of trust is one reason why OpenBSD has recently completed
1812: reverse-engineering the
1.462 grunk 1813: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4">
1.424 ian 1814: Atheros wireless chipset driver</a>
1815: that was originally provided as a binary insert.
1816: <p>
1817: </ul>
1818:
1.417 pvalchev 1819: <h2>November, 2004</h2>
1820: <ul>
1.421 ian 1821:
1.417 pvalchev 1822: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.422 ian 1823: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730775,00.asp">
1824: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 Widens Its Scope</a>
1825: eWEEK, November 22, 2004</strong></font><br>
1826: Jason Brooks reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and likes the changes it brings,
1827: including the multi-processing support which, he notes,
1828: "will be even more important as multicore processors--which occupy space
1829: on the road maps of Intel, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc. and others--
1830: become more prevalent." Comments favorably on OpenNTPD
1831: ("the three-line configuration file we needed to modify ... on OpenBSD was
1832: much simpler to deal with than the equivalent configuration file on
1833: the Linux systems we've tested").
1.423 ian 1834: Overall a favorable review of some of the new stuff in 3.6.
1.422 ian 1835: <p>
1836: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.420 otto 1837: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1544210">
1838: Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement</a>
1839: NewsForge, November 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
1840: Jem Matzan reviews OpenBSD 3.6, and is impressed by the professional
1841: way OpenBSD is developed and released:
1842: "... it's released on time with few problems and it does exactly what
1843: it claims to do".
1844: <p>
1845:
1846: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.571 miod 1847: <a href="http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109994542424009&w=2">
1.421 ian 1848: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution</a>
1849: misc@, November 8, 2004</strong></font><br>
1850: Theo recounts the struggle to get Intel to provide redistributable
1851: versions of the firmware for their wireless chipsets, and their
1.423 ian 1852: ultimate refusal to allow OpenBSD to redistribute the chipsets' firmware.
1.421 ian 1853: Includes a caveat about Intel's disingenuous "FAQ", typical of many
1854: corporate FAQs that answer questions nobody actually thought
1855: to ask, and don't truthfully answer the questions you want hard answers to.
1856: At the end Theo names the names (and their emails) that need to be contacted
1857: by large numbers of end-users and developers if Intel is to change
1858: (yes, this is a hint).
1859: Of interest is that this posting to one of our mailing lists was
1860: picked up on the
1861: <a href="http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1923">Screaming
1862: Electron Forum</a> and from there reported on
1.462 grunk 1863: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/22/1249249&from=rss">
1.421 ian 1864: SlashDot</a>, where it is accompanied by a link to SlashDot's paper
1865: on effective advocacy (be firm, but also be polite).
1866: <p>
1867:
1868: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.417 pvalchev 1869: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4118">
1870: OpenBSD Works To Open Wireless Chipsets</a>
1871: Kerneltrap, November 2, 2004</strong></font><br>
1872: A good summary of the battle on the wireless firmware front,
1873: including an interview with Theo de Raadt that answers
1874: questions about the significance and rationale behind
1875: the current efforts.
1876: <p>
1877: </ul>
1878:
1.407 henning 1879: <h2>October, 2004</h2>
1880: <ul>
1881: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.416 ian 1882: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/29/1098992287663.html">
1883: Activism Pays Off for OpenBSD</a>,
1884: The Age, October 29, 2004</strong></font><br>
1885: Favorable report on the project's continuing efforts to get hardware
1886: vendors to release documentation and/or binary code under reasonable
1887: conditions so that we can include drivers in the system.
1888: Names companies that have been naughty and nice, and warns the non-responsive
1889: companies that the activism will continue (registration required).
1890: <p>
1891:
1892: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.415 ian 1893: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/10/28/openbsd_3_6.html">
1894: OpenBSD 3.6 Live</a>,
1895: ONLamp.com, October 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
1896: "There is a mounting excitement for the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6 release,
1897: as it is the first release that supports multiprocessor systems."
1898: So saying, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several OpenBSD
1899: developers to discuss their current contributions and future plans.
1900: Provides interesting social notes, and a good overview of a lot
1901: of the important changes in 3.6.
1.462 grunk 1902: <p>
1.415 ian 1903:
1904: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 1905: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/10/26/itfeature/9170256&sec=itfeature">
1.414 ian 1906: Integer overflows - the next big threat</a>,
1907: The Malaysia Star - TechCentral, October 26, 2004</strong></font><br>
1908: Interview with Theo after HITBSecConf 2004.
1909: "The next big problem the IT security community faces is integer
1910: overflow attacks... because
1911: the community currently can't see a clear method to circumvent future
1912: vulnerabilities" that might arise from integer overflows...
1913: Talks about the security improvements in OpenBSD such as stackguard
1914: and propolice.
1915: Nice quote on the art and science of programming:
1916: "Technology is getting sloppier. Sometimes art is taken too far
1917: and that's when the science falls apart."
1918: <p>
1919:
1920: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.412 ian 1921: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951615940.html">
1922: Which platform will save you from the nasties?</a>,
1923: The Age, October 19, 2004</strong></font><br>
1924: Starts with the question:
1925: <blockquote>
1926: "... which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
1927: <br/>
1928: A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to
1929: security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
1930: <br/>
1931: Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux.
1932: Should we believe them?"
1933: </blockquote>
1934: Not surprisingly, the answer is in the negative.
1935: Good discussion on why Microsoft's OS is still not really secure.
1936: Ends with the conclusion that, if you must use MS-Windows, do so,
1937: but have another computer running an OS "which has a lower-risk profile"
1938: for your mail, web and other online activities.
1939: That could be OpenBSD (registration required).
1940: <p>
1941:
1942: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.411 nick 1943: <a href="http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory904-insight-Simple+Simon-status-25-newsID-5131.html">
1944: Simple Simon</a>,
1945: Only Punjab Business News, October 17, 2004</strong></font><br>
1946: Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three
1947: Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for
1948: Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration,
1949: routing/firewall, and more.
1950: Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD.
1951: J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok:
1952: <blockquote>because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus
1953: on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user,
1954: and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen,"
1955: says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself.
1956: "Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks.
1957: If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down
1958: before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete."
1959: </blockquote>
1960: Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves
1961: as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base.
1962: <p>
1963:
1964: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.408 nick 1965: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html">
1966: Staying on the Cutting Edge</a>,
1.409 saad 1967: The Age, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1.410 nick 1968: Fascinating interview with Theo, not just about OpenBSD but
1.408 nick 1969: how he got started in computers and came to know and love BSD, and how the
1970: project got started. "Despite the impression generally given out
1971: that the founder of the OpenBSD project is a person who is inclined
1.409 saad 1972: to be anti-social, I find him to be nothing but warm and friendly...".
1.408 nick 1973: Ends with some interesting dark comments about the lack of support
1974: for OpenBSD from hardware vendors, and how the project gets so much done
1975: in spite of it
1976: (registration required, but worth it).
1977: <p>
1978:
1979: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1980: <a href="http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/as_seen_in_the_power_of_many.html">
1981: As seen in <i>The Power of Many</i></a>,
1982: Portland Communique, October 6, 2004</strong></font><br>
1983: The <i>Portland Communique</i> is a small, localized e-zine with an
1984: average readership of about 6,000 per month in the Portland, Oregon area.
1985: <i>Communique</i>'s publisher is cited in
1986: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0782143466/qid=1097194721">The
1.409 saad 1987: Power of Many</a>,
1.408 nick 1988: <a href="http://x-pollen.com/many/wiki/newpom.php/ChristianCrumlish">Christian
1989: Crumlish</a>'s book about the web, saying
1990: "On the technical end, Communique runs via Movable Type on an OpenBSD
1991: box in my apartment, served over a DSL line."
1992: <p>
1993:
1994: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 1995: <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1011476,00.html">
1996: Schneier: Security outsourcing widespread by 2010</a>,
1997: SearchSecurity, October 5, 2004</strong></font><br>
1998: Brief interview with Bruce Schneier of
1999: <a href="http://schneier.com/crypto-gram.html">Crypto-Gram</a> fame,
2000: in which he mentions OpenBSD favorably yet again:
2001: <blockquote>
2002: There's lots of open-source software out there that no one has analyzed
2003: and is no more secure than all the closed-source products that no one has
2004: analyzed. But then there are things like Linux, Apache or OpenBSD that get
2005: a lot of analysis.
2006: When open-source code is properly analyzed, there's nothing better.
2007: </blockquote>
2008: <p>
2009: </ul>
2010:
1.400 marco 2011: <h2>September, 2004</h2>
2012: <ul>
2013: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.407 henning 2014: <a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3415651">
2015: Protecting the Perimeter With OpenBSD</a>,
2016: ServerWatch, September 30, 2004</strong></font><br>
2017: Reasonably positive review of OpenBSD 3.5 in the context of other
2018: UNIX-like systems.
2019: Favorite line: "In the Unix-like family, OpenBSD is akin to the crazy,
2020: paranoid uncle. Not necessarily in a bad way."
2021: <p>
2022: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.419 ian 2023: <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/itfeature/8955042&sec=itfeature">
2024: Going further to stop hackers</a>
1.406 nick 2025: The Star TechCentral. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
2026: An article sprinkled with quotations from our globetrotting Theo de
2027: Raadt as he prepares for his talk at the Kuala Lumpur Hack-In-The-Box
2028: Security Conference (HITBSecConf2004).
2029: At one point, the article states:
2030: <blockquote>
2031: Just as brilliant scientists are capable of making spelling mistakes,
2032: brilliant coders can also make fatal mistakes in their software
2033: perhaps because writing good software is both a science and an art.
2034: </blockquote>
2035: And then quotes Theo as saying:
2036: <blockquote>
2037: "Also, more people in the coding community are writing code, while
2038: fewer are reading or auditing code."
2039: </blockquote>
2040: <p>
2041: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2042: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
2043: marks its fifth birthday</a>
2044: The Age. September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
2045: Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an
2046: <a href="openssh/usage/index.html">88% market share</a>. Article
2047: includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project (registration
2048: required).
2049: <p>
2050: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.404 jolan 2051: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1498222899;fp;16;fpid;0">
2052: OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt talks software security</a>,
2053: Computerworld. September 10, 2004
2054: </strong></font><br>
2055: An interview with Theo de Raadt touching on the source of security problems,
2056: prevention techniques, and what OS vendors are doing wrong.
2057: <p>
2058: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.402 marco 2059: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39158189,00.htm">
2060: OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset</a>,
1.403 saad 2061: ZDNet Australia. September 3, 2004
1.402 marco 2062: </strong></font><br>
2063: Interview with Theo de Raadt about quality control in OpenBSD. This article also talks about the release cycle of OpenBSD.
2064: <p>
2065: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.400 marco 2066: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F7679726-EAD5-478B-AF35-7456929201D0">
2067: SMP-capable OpenBSD 3.6 set for November</a>,
1.403 saad 2068: Computer Business Review Online. September 2, 2004
1.400 marco 2069: </strong></font><br>
1.401 saad 2070: 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 2071: <p>
2072: </ul>
2073:
1.396 henning 2074: <h2>July, 2004</h2>
2075: <ul>
2076: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.418 ian 2077: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9233/ur0407d/">
2078: Review: Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
2079: Unix Review, July, 2004
2080: </strong></font><br>
2081: UNIX luminary Peter Salus reviews the book
2082: <i>Secure Architectures with OpenBSD</i> by
1.462 grunk 2083: Brandon Palmer & Jose Nazario.
1.418 ian 2084: "I view OpenBSD as the most secure operating system available. It
2085: certainly has far fewer holes than Windows, and fewer than any
2086: flavor of Linux I've looked at...
2087: Most of the chapters (e.g., XWindow, DNS, etc.) are very fine; the
2088: emphasis on security is thorough and well-instantiated. The frequent
2089: code examples are appropriate and enlightening. On an information
2090: level, Palmer and Nazario are very good."
2091: His only criticisms have to do with production issues: incomplete copy editing
2092: by the publisher leading to un-explained acronyms, poor cross-referencing
2093: and even spelling/wording errors.
2094: Overall he seems to like the book (and the operating system, of course).
2095: <p>
2096: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 2097: <a href="http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/20/180234&tid=8&tid=132">
1.398 henning 2098: Review: OpenBSD 3.5</a>,
2099: NewsForge, July 22, 2004
2100: </strong></font><br>
2101: Jem Matzan "really enjoyed using OpenBSD 3.5 for the review".
2102: <p>
2103: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 2104: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/07/17/1814245.shtml?tid=122&tid=172&tid=130">
1.399 henning 2105: OpenBSD Project Releases OpenNTPD</a>,
2106: Slashdot, July 17, 2004
2107: </strong></font><br>
2108: Announcing OpenNTPD, including a quick review.
2109: <p>
2110: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.397 otto 2111: <a href="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-openbsd">
2112: OpenBSD - For Your Eyes Only</a>,
2113: DistroWatch, July 7, 2004
2114: </strong></font><br>
2115: Robert Storey reviews OpenBSD 3.5, concluding:
2116: "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Theo and his crew for creating OpenBSD."
2117: <p>
2118: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.396 henning 2119: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.genua.de/news/presseinfo/presse/pi_openbsd_html">
2120: GeNUA moves to OpenBSD</a></strong></font><br>
2121: German security company GeNUA moves its firewall product line
2122: "GeNUgate" from BSD/OS to OpenBSD.
2123: <p>
2124: </ul>
2125:
1.405 jolan 2126: <h2>June, 2004</h2>
2127: <ul>
1.545 tom 2128: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.405 jolan 2129: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/04/142238.shtml">
1.466 deraadt 2130: The Gift Economy and Free Software</a>, NewsForge, June 5, 2004</strong></font>
1.405 jolan 2131: <br>Jem Matzan explores the "gift economy" that has become more prevalent.
2132: Contains snippets from Theo de Raadt about why OpenBSD exists and some
2133: details on how funds are dispersed.
2134: <p>
2135: </ul>
2136:
1.393 david 2137: <h2>May, 2004</h2>
2138: <ul>
2139: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.395 ian 2140: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7152">
2141: OpenBSD 3.4/3.5 for SPARC64 Addendum</a>,
2142: OSNews.com, May 26, 2004
2143: </strong></font><br>
2144: Tony Bourke updates his April 29 piece (see below) for 3.5. After overcoming some
2145: issues in getting MySQL going using ports and packages, he runs performance measurements,
2146: and finds OpenBSD faster than FreeBSD in several tests, albeit slower
2147: on inserting large number of SQL records.
2148: Despite various grumblings about the system (some of which are misunderstandings),
2149: he does conclude that it is "a useful system and would make a good
2150: development system in addition to a great firewall/router."
2151: <p>
2152:
2153: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 2154: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/241">
2155: Secure by Default</a>,
2156: SecurityFocus, May 13, 2004
2157: </strong></font><br>
2158: Jason Miller of SecurityFocus showers praise upon OpenBSD's policy of
2159: "Secure by Default" and recommends that other vendors adopt this mentality.
2160: <p>
2161:
2162: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2163: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3085">
2164: OpenBSD: Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP</a>,
2165: KernelTrap, May 11, 2004
2166: </strong></font><br>
2167: Before Jeremy even had a chance to post part II, he speaks again with
2168: Theo de Raadt about the trappings of the IETF, patents and Cisco. The
2169: history seen in the OpenBSD's development of CARP to counter VRRP is
2170: apparently repeating itself. The difference being, this time OpenBSD
2171: already had existing solutions to TCP stack implementation weaknesses
2172: prior to a proprietary vendor attempting to patent such a fix.
2173: <p>
2174:
2175: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2176: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3072">
2177: Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I</a>,
2178: KernelTrap, May 10, 2004
2179: </strong></font><br>
2180: Using OpenBSD and discussions with Theo de Raadt as a reference point,
2181: Jeremy Andrews of kerneltrap.org begins a two part series discussing the
2182: technical details behind TCP reset attacks.
2183: <p>
2184:
2185: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2186: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/06/pf_developers.html">
2187: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview, Part 2</a>,
2188: ONLamp.com, May 6, 2004
2189: </strong></font><br>
2190: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com concludes his interview with various
2191: OpenBSD developers discussing their work on PF and future goals.
2192: <p>
2193: </ul>
2194:
1.388 mcbride 2195: <h2>April, 2004</h2>
2196: <ul>
1.394 jolan 2197:
2198: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2199: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6892">
2200: OpenBSD 3.4 SPARC64 Edition</a>,
2201: OSNews.com, April 29, 2004
2202: </strong></font><br>
2203: Tony Bourke explores using OpenBSD on his Sun Ultra 5 while comparing and
2204: constrasting performance and features that exist on other operating systems
2205: available for sparc64.
2206: <p>
2207:
1.390 beck 2208: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.393 david 2209: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">
2210: Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD Systems</a>,
2211: ONLamp.com, April 29, 2004
2212: </strong></font><br>
2213: Michael Lucas continues his series of articles on OpenBSD and <a
2214: href="http://www.soekris.com">Soekris</a> devices. This time
2215: describing how to make use of tftpd, dhcpd, rarpd and NFS to accomplish
2216: booting OpenBSD without using a local disk.
2217: <p>
2218:
2219: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.391 ian 2220: <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml">
2221: CARP your way to high availability</a>,
1.392 david 2222: NewsForge, April 16, 2004
1.391 ian 2223: </strong></font><br>
2224: This write-up of OpenBSD's new Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
2225: covers its origins in Cisco's patent nonsense, then moves on to what
2226: it does: CARP provides sharing
2227: of an IP address among several hosts on the same network to provide
2228: failover and limited load balancing. Gives enough technical
2229: detail to get you started using it.
2230: Quote: "Some of you with highly redundant and fault-tolerant hardware
2231: may think CARP won't help you. Think again...
2232: think of how nice it would be to patch and reboot during normal
2233: business hours instead of at 2 a.m. Think about not having to balance
2234: doing system upgrades against taking an entire building offline.
2235: Think about hot-testing new technologies while knowing that, if
2236: things just don't work out, your old solution is simply a halt away."
1.392 david 2237: <p>
1.391 ian 2238:
2239: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.390 beck 2240: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/15/pf_developers.html">
1.392 david 2241: OpenBSD PF Developer Interview</a>,
2242: ONLamp.com, April 15, 2004
1.390 beck 2243: </strong></font><br>
2244: Federico Biancuzzi of onlamp.com interviews Daniel Hartmeier, Henning Brauer,
1.392 david 2245: Mike Frantzen, Cedric Berger, Ryan McBride, and Can Erkin Acar about PF, their
1.390 beck 2246: work with it, and what's new and cool in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.392 david 2247: <p>
1.388 mcbride 2248:
2249: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2250: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2873">
2251: Interview with Ryan McBride</a>,
1.392 david 2252: KernelTrap, April 7, 2004
1.388 mcbride 2253: </strong></font><br>
2254: In this interview conducted by Jeremy Andrews, Ryan McBride discusses
2255: the new CARP and pfsync protocols which allow for firewall failover,
2256: and covers the ongoing struggle with the IETF for truly open standards
2257: unencumbered by patents.
2258: <p>
2259: </ul>
2260:
1.378 henning 2261: <h2>March, 2004</h2>
2262: <ul>
1.384 jose 2263:
2264: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.386 ian 2265: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/intel_64bit/">
2266: Intel cribbed x86-64 tech 'from AMD documents'</a>,
2267: The Register, April 7th, 2004.
2268: </strong></font><br>
2269: Quotes Tom Halfhill in <em>Microprocessor Reports</em> as saying that
2270: Intel developed its 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit x86 instruction set by
2271: "reading AMD's pre-release documentation".
2272: After detailed comparison of AMD's 64-bit products and Intel's clone of them,
2273: "In every case," Halfhill concludes, "we found Intel had patterned its 64-bit x86 architecture after AMD64 in almost every detail."
2274: Quotes the OpenBSD team as saying
2275: "We've tested the Intel x86 64-bit stuff, and it works for OpenBSD.
2276: But it's nasty, because they left out the NX (non-executable) bit
2277: in the page tables."
2278: Maybe there was a page missing from Intel's photocopy of AMD's documentation.
2279: <p>
2280:
2281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 2282: <a href="http://www.cbronline.com/currentnews/7503585eb6e9543f80256e670038578b">Microsoft Preparing to Release Code to Open Source</a>,
2283: Computer Business Review Online, March 30, 2004.
2284: </strong></font><br>
2285: An article about how Microsoft is looking to release portions of their
2286: non-core code (non-OS portions) under their "Shared Source" license. Some
2287: discussion of how Microsoft has been shipping free software in their
2288: Unix Services for Windows product, which includes OpenBSD source code.
1.392 david 2289: <p>
1.384 jose 2290:
1.378 henning 2291: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 2292: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/18/marc_espie.html">
2293: An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie</a>,
1.381 ian 2294: ONLamp.com, March 18, 2004.
2295: </strong></font><br>
2296: A really good and colorful interview with Marc Espie. The
2297: interviewer gets Marc to list his areas of
2298: contributions to the project, but soon it gets around to
2299: methodology, how we differ from other open source OS projects
2300: (quote:
2301: "Evolve the OS, not Revolutionize it. This is in violent contrast to Linux."),
2302: how each release of gcc is slower than the previous, the ubiquitous
1.382 ian 2303: licensing wars (and the GPL'd stuff we've replaced by BSD-licensed),
1.381 ian 2304: future plans, and so on. Marc is careful to credit a number of
2305: the other developers for their work on the system.
2306: <p>
2307:
2308: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 2309: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html">Homemade Embedded BSD Systems</a>,
2310: ONLamp.com, March 11, 2004.
2311: </strong></font><br>
1.385 jose 2312: The start of a short series of articles on putting OpenBSD on the <a
1.384 jose 2313: href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris</a> device, a small x86 based PC
2314: device. Using the NET4801 device, the author pares down OpenBSD for
2315: installation on a CF storage device. A list of resources are available,
2316: too.
2317: <p>
2318:
2319: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.378 henning 2320: [GERMAN] Apparently insecure, analysis of Windows 2000, Linux and OpenBSD sourcecode, iX 04/04, p. 14.
2321: </strong></font><br>
1.379 henning 2322: A small article describing the results of examining Windows 2000, Linux and
1.378 henning 2323: OpenBSD source code using
2324: <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder">Flawfinder</a>.
2325: "OpenBSD is ahead, Flawfinder finds a surprisingly small number of
2326: potentially dangerous constructs. The source code audit by the OpenBSD team
2327: seems to pay out. Additionally, OpenBSD uses the secure strlcpy/strlcat by
2328: Todd C. Miller instead of strcpy etc."
2329: <p>
2330: </ul>
2331:
1.374 jose 2332: <h2>January, 2004</h2>
2333: <ul>
2334: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.389 xsa 2335: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1845592592&fp=16&fpid=0">Banks' use of IIS scary</a>,
1.375 jose 2336: ComputerWorld, January 30, 2004.
2337: </strong></font><br>
2338: A brief but solid mention of OpenBSD. After examining how many Australian
2339: banks use IIS on Windows, web server security is examined. The article
2340: ends with a priceless quote, "I recommend OpenBSD for Apache as it can't
2341: be overlooked for edge security and there is no such thing as viruses for
2342: it."
2343: <p>
2344:
2345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.374 jose 2346: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_brauer">Fosdem
2347: Interview: Henning Brauer</a>,
2348: Fosdem 2004, January 6, 2004.
2349: </strong></font><br/>
2350: A brief interview with Henning Brauer conducted as the Fosdem conference
2351: approaches. Henning talks about changes in 3.4, in -current, and the
2352: BGP daemon he's been working on for the past few months.
2353: <p>
2354: </ul>
2355:
1.369 ian 2356: <h2>October, 2003</h2>
2357: <ul>
2358: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.384 jose 2359: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1368006,00.asp">Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems</a>,
2360: eWeek, October 31, 2003.
2361: </strong></font><br/>
2362: A commentary on all of the BSDs and what kind of commercial success they've
2363: enjoyed. While Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols notes that Linux is easier to
2364: install and configure than the freely available BSDs, he does continually
2365: praise them, especially OpenBSD.
2366: <p>
2367:
2368: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 2369: <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542683131.html">VIA wows
2370: with nano-sized x86, entropy-based security, tiny PCs</a>,
2371: LinuxDevices.com, October 15, 2003.
2372: </strong></font><br/>
2373: Another article which extracts heavily from the VIA press release
2374: and includes a quote from Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD support for the
2375: processor. Additionally, it shows a photo of the processor next to a US
2376: one cent coin and an Intel Pentium M processor, illustrating its small
2377: form factor.
2378: <p>
2379:
2380: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2381: <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/Digital%20Library/PR031014EdenN.jsp">VIA
2382: Unveils New NanoBGA VIA Eden-N Processor, World's Smallest & Lowest
2383: Power Native x86 Processor with Industry's Most Advanced Embedded Security
2384: Features</a>,
2385: Press Release, October 14, 2003.
2386: </strong></font><br/>
2387: VIA announces a new small, low power native x86 processor with an
2388: integrated multi-mode AES implementation. Theo de Raadt is quoted as
2389: saying, "There's just no way to describe how happy we were to find such an
2390: inexpensive, blazingly fast, and correctly operating device as the VIA
2391: Eden-N processor's Padlock ACE ..." OpenBSD 3.4 has support for this
2392: processor and its integrated cryptographic engine.
2393: <p>
2394: This article can also be found online at:
2395: <ul>
2396: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.462 grunk 2397: <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 2398: HardwareZone.com, October 14, 2003.
2399: </strong></font>
2400: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
2401: </ul>
2402: <p>
1.392 david 2403:
1.371 jose 2404: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.392 david 2405: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html">
2406: Adding System Calls (an OpenBSD Example)</a>,
1.371 jose 2407: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 9, 2003.
2408: </strong></font><br/>
2409: Another O'ReillyNet article about OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer. This
2410: one, by Kevin Lo, is a quick introduction to the modification of the
2411: OpenBSD kernel to support a new system call. Example code is included.
1.392 david 2412: <p>
1.371 jose 2413:
2414: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.369 ian 2415: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/02/openbsd_gcc.html">Diving
1.370 ian 2416: into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k</a>,
1.371 jose 2417: O'Reilly Net OnLamp.com BSD DevCenter, October 2, 2003.
1.369 ian 2418: </strong></font><br/>
2419: Our own Miod Vallat discusses how he learned to stop fearing GCC
2420: by just getting down and messing with its internals.
2421: Since he "started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it
2422: should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that
2423: diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine." Along the way, he
2424: gives some informative background on the Motorola 88000 architecture
2425: and its history with OpenBSD.
2426: </ul>
2427:
1.567 kurt 2428: <h2>September, 2003</h2>
2429: <ul>
2430: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2431: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/bsdcon03/tech/full_papers/rosenthal/rosenthal_html/">
2432: A Digital Preservation Network Appliance Based on OpenBSD</a>, BSDcon, September, 2003.
2433: </strong></font><br>
2434: David S. H. Rosenthal's paper on the design, implementation and deployment of the
2435: <a href="http://www.lockss.org">LOCKSS</a> network appliance based on OpenBSD.
2436: </ul>
2437:
1.368 henning 2438: <h2>August, 2003</h2>
2439: <ul>
2440: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.371 jose 2441: [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 2442: </strong></font><br>
2443: Short announcement of pf's passive os fingerprinting.
2444: </ul>
2445:
1.364 jose 2446: <h2>July, 2003</h2>
2447: <ul>
2448: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 2449: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0307i/">
2450: The Open Road: Return of Packet Filter</a>,
2451: UNIX Review,
2452: July, 2003.
2453: </strong></font><br>
2454: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier returns to give a more detailed tour of the
2455: configuration and use of PF. Lots of links and pointers for people
2456: who want more information.
2457: <p>
2458:
2459: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.366 jose 2460: <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22845-1.html">
2461: Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT</a>,
2462: Government Computer News,
2463: July 22, 2003.
2464: </strong></font><br>
2465: Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity czar for the White House (US),
2466: discusses challenges to developing a secure IT infrastructure. The end
2467: of the article mentions the awards presentations he made with SANS
2468: to OpenBSD for effective OS security testing.
2469: <p>
2470:
2471: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2472: <a href="http://www.sans.org/press/ISLA.php">
2473: Users Recognize Leadership in Operating System and Network Security</a>,
2474: SANS Institute,
2475: July 22, 2003.
2476: </strong></font><br>
2477: OpenBSD was chosen as a winner in the 2003 Information Security Leadership
1.377 david 2478: Awards, organized by the <a href="http://www.sans.org/">SANS institute</a>.
1.366 jose 2479: OpenBSD was chosen as the winner of the award for effective security
2480: testing of an operating system. To quote part of the award,
2481: "In the 2003 competition among military academies and grad schools, in which
2482: they competed to provide the best defense against cyber attacks launched
2483: by National Security Agency specialists, the judges acknowledged that in
2484: the final analysis, use of OpenBSD was a determining factor in the winner's
2485: ability to fight off attacks." The awards were presented by Richard Clarke
2486: in Washington DC. Other awards included patch distribution mechanisms
2487: and denial of service attack mitigation techniques.
2488: <p>
2489:
2490: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.364 jose 2491: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/07/17/openbsd_core_team.html">
2492: The Essence of OpenBSD</a>,
2493: OnLamp.com,
2494: July 17, 2003.
2495: </strong></font><br>
2496: Cameron Laird and George Peter Staplin offer an interview with several
2497: OpenBSD developers, including Theo de Raadt, Daniel Hartmeier, Jason
2498: Wright, Miod Vallat, and Dale Rahn. The developers talk about how the
2499: project came to be in 1995, how they came to the project, and what they
2500: have been working on.
2501:
2502: </ul>
2503:
1.356 jose 2504: <h2>June, 2003</h2>
1.338 ian 2505: <ul>
2506:
2507: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.367 jose 2508: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306l/">
2509: The Open Road: OpenBSD's Packet Filter</a>,
2510: UNIX Review,
2511: June, 2003.
2512: </strong></font><br>
2513: Author Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier provides a brief introduction to installing
2514: OpenBSD and the basics of PF. The article is quite short and cannot
2515: provide enough detail to do anything but start looking at the rules and
2516: use of PF. This is the first in a two-part series on OpenBSD and PF.
2517: <p>
2518:
2519: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.363 jose 2520: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1135078,00.asp">
2521: Is It Time for BSD?</a>,
2522: eWeek,
2523: June 23, 2003.
2524: </strong></font><br>
2525: Jim Rapoza discusses the current SCO legal battles against IBM and the
2526: Linux community. Citing the legal friction, Rapoza encourages IT
2527: departments to investigate the BSD world, especially OpenBSD, which
2528: have already settled their UNIX source code claims with AT&T.
2529: The security and track record of the BSD distributions is also touted
2530: as a reason to investigate their use in corporate IT settings.
2531: <p>
2532:
2533: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.360 jose 2534: <a href="http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=7816/sdmdev0306/">
2535: Loose Lips Sink Ships</a>,
2536: Software Development Online,
2537: June, 2003.
2538: </strong></font><br>
2539: Alexandra Weber Morales provides a concise summary of the DARPA-OpenBSD
2540: funding issue by repeating some information published elsewhere and also
2541: providing original material from others. Old and new quotes from Jan
2542: Walker reiterate the original DARPA position. Gene Spafford, Gary McGraw
2543: both contribute comments on the project's situation and current state.
2544: Also provides a concise summary of the project's latest release and
2545: current activities.
2546: <p>
2547:
2548: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.358 henning 2549: [GERMAN] "We don't do politics, we write software", c't 13/03, p. 106.
2550: </strong></font><br>
1.361 henning 2551: An interview with Theo - over two pages, he talks about the DARPA funding
2552: story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003
2553: hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",
2554: like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this
1.413 deraadt 2555: year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working
1.361 henning 2556: on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.
2557: He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out
2558: that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.
1.362 henning 2559: Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically
1.361 henning 2560: that funding will work like it did before the grant, through
2561: CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.
1.413 deraadt 2562: Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD
1.361 henning 2563: as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major
2564: decisions.
2565: A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely
2566: secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and
1.413 deraadt 2567: briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the
1.361 henning 2568: basics of ProPolice and W^X.
1.358 henning 2569: <p>
2570:
2571: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.355 jose 2572: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1111894,00.asp">
2573: OpenBSD gets harder to crack</a>,
2574: Page 58, eWeek,
2575: June 2, 2003.
2576: </strong></font><br>
2577: Timothy Dyck reviews the latest OpenBSD release, 3.3, and focuses on the
2578: new features: PF and the integration with ALTQ and the system wide stack
2579: protection mechanisms. Some of the criticisms in the article have already
2580: been addressed in -current.
2581: <p>
2582:
1.356 jose 2583: </ul>
2584:
2585: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
2586: <ul>
2587:
1.355 jose 2588: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.357 jose 2589: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=499">
2590: Interview with Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies</a>
2591: Help Net Security, May 29, 2003.
2592: </strong></font><br>
2593: Berislav Kucan interviews Ivan Arce, CTO of <a
2594: href="http://www.corest.com">Core Security Technologies</a>. Several of
2595: the people at Core have been involved in the development of OpenBSD, and
2596: they commonly use OpenBSD as one of their development and deployment
2597: platforms. In the interview, Ivan is quoted as saying "... from a purely
2598: security perspective. I would say that OpenBSD is still the king of the
2599: hill." PF is also one of Ivan's top five security tools.
2600: <p>
2601:
2602: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.353 jose 2603: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/23/21OPconnection_1.html">
2604: Beyond Linux</a>,
2605: InfoWorld,
2606: May 23, 2003.
2607: </strong></font><br>
2608: Columnist Chad Dickerson discusses several Open Source projects as
2609: alternatives to Linux. OpenBSD gets a brief mention as the most secure
2610: free OS available. The BSD license is also touted in a positive light
2611: compared to the GPL.
2612: <p>
2613:
2614: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.349 deraadt 2615: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
2616: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
2617: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 2618: May 17, 2003.
2619: </strong></font><br>
2620: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
2621: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
2622: the business section and half of another page inside
2623: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
2624: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
2625: in talking about the project's history and goals.
2626: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
2627: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
2628: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
2629: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
1.351 ian 2630: <br>
2631: This article can also be found online at:
2632: <ul>
2633: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2634: <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/info/business/story.html?id=F5F23FF7-E0EE-4C54-BBED-7B523C6AFBF2">
2635: Hackers Try for a Good Rap</a>,
2636: Saskatoon StarPhoenix,
2637: May 17, 2003
2638: </strong></font>
1.352 ian 2639: (somewhat shortened version).</li>
2640: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2641: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=4C8B848C-8772-4C2E-B8F7-60CDAC678303">
2642: Hackers try to buff their image</a>,
2643: Montreal Gazette,
2644: May 21, 2003
2645: </strong></font></li>
1.351 ian 2646: </ul>
1.347 deraadt 2647: <p>
1.346 ian 2648:
2649: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 2650: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 2651: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 2652: May 7, 2003.
2653: </strong></font><br>
2654: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
2655: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
2656: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
2657: <p>
2658:
2659: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 2660: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
2661: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2662: OsOpinion,
2663: May 6, 2003.
2664: </strong></font><br>
2665: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
2666: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
2667: <br>
2668: This article can also be found online at:
2669: <ul>
2670: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2671: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
2672: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2673: NewsFactor Network.
2674: </strong></font>
2675: </ul>
2676: <p>
2677:
2678: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2679: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
1.343 deraadt 2680: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
2681: ITBusiness,
2682: May 2, 2003.
2683: </strong></font><br>
2684: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
2685: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
2686: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
2687: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
2688: <p>
2689:
2690: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 2691: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
2692: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
2693: InfoWorld,
2694: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 2695: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 2696: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
2697: <br>
2698: This article can also be found online at:
2699: <ul>
2700: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2701: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
2702: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
2703: IDG Singapore.
2704: </strong></font>
2705: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 2706: <p>
2707:
1.339 jose 2708: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2709: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
2710: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 2711: ZDNet,
2712: May 1, 2003.
2713: </strong></font><br>
2714: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 2715: someone using parts from previous articles.
2716: <br>
1.341 deraadt 2717: This article can also be found online at:
2718: <ul>
2719: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2720: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
2721: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
2722: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 2723: </strong></font>
2724: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2725: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
2726: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
2727: CNET News.com.
2728: </strong></font>
2729: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2730: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
2731: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
2732: ZDNet UK.
2733: </strong></font>
2734: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2735: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
2736: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
2737: Help Net Security, Croatia.
2738: </strong></font>
2739: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 2740: <p>
1.339 jose 2741:
1.341 deraadt 2742: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.571 miod 2743: <a href="http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
1.341 deraadt 2744: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
2745: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
2746: May 1, 2003.
2747: </strong></font><br>
2748: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
2749: that have been added
2750: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
2751: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
2752: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
1.350 deraadt 2753: third-party "ports", many upgrades to included software, and more.
1.341 deraadt 2754: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
2755: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
2756: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 2757: <p>
2758:
2759: </ul>
2760:
1.253 ian 2761: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
2762: <ul>
1.255 ian 2763:
1.260 ian 2764: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2765: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 2766: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
2767: TechRepublic,
2768: April 28, 2003.
2769: </strong></font><br>
2770: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
2771: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 2772: work.<br>
2773: Can also be found online at:
2774: <ul>
2775: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2776: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
2777: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
2778: ZDNet UK.
2779: </strong></font>
2780: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 2781: <p>
2782:
2783: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 2784: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
2785: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
2786: IDG,
2787: April 24, 2003.
2788: </strong></font><br>
2789: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
2790: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
2791: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
2792: Can also be found online at:
2793: <ul>
2794: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2795: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
2796: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 2797: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 2798: </strong></font>
2799: </ul>
2800: <p>
2801:
2802: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2803: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 2804: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 2805: Slate,
2806: April 24, 2003.
2807: </strong></font><br>
2808: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
2809: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
2810: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
2811: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
2812: <p>
2813:
2814: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 2815: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
2816: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
2817: April 24, 2003.
2818: </strong></font><br>
2819: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
2820: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
2821: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
2822: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
2823: <p>
2824:
2825: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 2826: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
2827: April 24, 2003.
2828: </strong></font><br>
2829: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
2830: the free software community".
2831: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
2832: other articles.
2833: <p>
2834:
2835: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 2836: <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 2837: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
2838: </strong></font><br>
2839: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
2840: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
2841: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
2842: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
2843: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
2844: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
2845: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
1.413 deraadt 2846: affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position
1.324 ian 2847: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
2848: <br/>
2849: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
2850: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
2851: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
2852: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 2853: <br>
2854: Can also be found online at:
2855: <ul>
2856: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2857: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
2858: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
2859: Common Dreams NewsCenter
2860: </strong></font>
2861: </ul>
1.324 ian 2862: <p>
2863:
2864: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2865: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
2866: Wired, April 24, 2003.
2867: </strong></font><br>
2868: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
2869: article above.
2870: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
2871: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
2872: wasting them."
1.332 ian 2873: <br>
2874: Can also be found online at:
2875: <ul>
2876: <li>
2877: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
2878: </strong></font>
2879: </ul>
1.324 ian 2880: <p>
2881:
2882: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 2883: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
2884: </strong></font><br>
2885: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
2886: <p>
2887:
2888: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 2889: <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.
2890: </strong></font><br>
2891: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
2892: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
2893: <p>
2894:
2895: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 2896: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
2897: April 23, 2003.
2898: </strong></font><br>
2899: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
2900: <p>
2901:
2902: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 2903: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 2904: April 22, 2003.
2905: </strong></font><br>
2906: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
2907: <p>
2908:
2909: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 2910: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
2911: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
2912: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 2913: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 2914: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
2915: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
2916: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
2917: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
2918: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
2919: Can also be found online at:
2920: <ul>
2921: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2922: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 2923: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
2924: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 2925: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 2926: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2927: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 2928: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
2929: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 2930: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 2931: </ul>
2932: <p>
2933:
2934: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 2935: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
2936: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 2937: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2938: </strong></font><br>
2939: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 2940: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
2941: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
2942: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
2943: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
2944: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
2945: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 2946: <p>
2947:
2948: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 2949: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
2950: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 2951: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
2952: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 2953: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
2954: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
2955: at UPenn and DARPA.
2956: <p>
2957:
2958: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.359 miod 2959: [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,
2960: France
1.315 deraadt 2961: April 18, 2003.
2962: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 2963: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 2964: <p>
2965:
2966: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 2967: [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 2968: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 2969: </strong></font><br>
2970: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
2971: <p>
2972:
2973: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 2974: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
2975: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
2976: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 2977: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 2978: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
2979: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
2980: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
2981: <p>
2982:
2983: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 2984: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
2985: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2986: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 2987: </strong></font><br>
2988: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
2989: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
2990: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 2991: American century.
1.267 deraadt 2992: <p>
2993:
2994: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 2995: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
2996: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 2997: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 2998: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 2999: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
3000: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
3001: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
3002: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
3003: Can also be found online at:
3004: <ul>
3005: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
3006: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 3007: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 3008: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 3009: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 3010: <p>
3011:
3012: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.377 david 3013: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 3014: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 3015: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 3016: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 3017: </strong></font><br>
3018: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 3019: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
3020: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
3021: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
3022: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 3023:
3024: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3025: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
3026: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
3027: New York Times.
3028: </strong></font>(free registration required)
3029:
1.273 deraadt 3030: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3031: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 3032: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 3033: ABC News.
3034: </strong></font>
3035:
3036: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3037: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 3038: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 3039: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 3040: </strong></font>
3041:
3042: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3043: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 3044: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 3045: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 3046: </strong></font>
3047:
3048: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 3049: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
3050: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 3051: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 3052: </strong></font>
3053:
3054: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3055: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 3056: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 3057: Times Daily, AL.
3058: </strong></font>
3059:
3060: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3061: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
3062: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
3063: Boston.com, MA.
3064: </strong></font>
3065:
3066: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3067: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 3068: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 3069: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
3070: </strong></font>
3071:
3072: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 3073: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
3074: [Article was pulled]</a>
3075: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 3076: </strong></font>
3077:
3078: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3079: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
3080: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
3081: Infoshop News.
3082: </strong></font>
3083:
3084: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3085: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
3086: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
3087: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
3088: </strong></font>
3089:
3090: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 3091: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
3092: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
3093: Raleigh News, NC.
3094: </strong></font>
3095:
3096: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.354 david 3097: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
1.314 deraadt 3098: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
3099: Napa News, CA.
3100: </strong></font>
3101:
3102: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3103: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 3104: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
3105: NEPA News, PA.
3106: </strong></font>
3107:
3108: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3109: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
3110: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
3111: Wired News.
3112: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 3113: <br>
3114: <li>
1.333 deraadt 3115: <font color="#009000"><strong>
3116: [JAPANESE]
3117: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
3118: Wired News Japan</a>
3119: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 3120:
1.271 deraadt 3121: </ul>
3122: <p>
1.272 deraadt 3123: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
3124: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 3125: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
3126: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
3127: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
3128: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
3129: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
3130: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 3131: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 3132: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
3133: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
3134: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 3135: <p>
3136: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 3137:
3138: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3139: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 3140: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
3141: Indianapolis Star, IN.
3142: </strong></font>
3143:
3144: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 3145: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
3146: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
3147: Miami Herald, FL.
3148: </strong></font>
3149:
3150: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 3151: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 3152: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
3153: </strong></font>
3154:
3155: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3156: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 3157: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 3158: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 3159: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 3160:
3161: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3162: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
3163: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
3164: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
3165: ABC News.
3166: </strong></font>
3167:
1.276 deraadt 3168: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3169: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 3170: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 3171: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 3172: </strong></font>
3173:
1.286 dhartmei 3174: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3175: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 3176: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
3177: Wilmington Star, NC.
3178: </strong></font>
3179:
1.300 jose 3180: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3181: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
3182: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
3183: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
3184: </strong></font>
3185:
1.309 jose 3186: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3187: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
3188: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
3189: Globe Technology.
3190: </strong></font>
3191:
1.263 deraadt 3192: </ul>
1.262 beck 3193: <p>
3194:
3195: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 3196: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
3197: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3198: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 3199: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 3200: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 3201: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
3202: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
3203: <p>
3204:
3205: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 3206: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
3207: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
3208: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 3209: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 3210: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
3211: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
3212: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
3213: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
3214: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
3215: and simply restates other press reports.
3216: <p>
3217:
3218: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 3219: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
3220: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
3221: OS News, April 18, 2003.
3222: </strong></font><br>
3223: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
3224: <p>
3225:
3226: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 3227: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
3228: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3229: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 3230: </strong></font><br>
3231: Another report on the DARPA funding.
3232: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
3233: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
3234: <p>
3235:
3236: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 3237: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
3238: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
3239: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
3240: April 17, 2003.
3241: </strong></font><br>
3242: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
3243: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
3244: Tech Anthems</a>
3245: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
3246: 4 so far.
3247: <p>
3248:
3249: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 3250: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
3251: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3252: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 3253: </strong></font><br>
3254: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
3255: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
3256: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
3257: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
3258: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
3259: Goes on to say:
3260: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
3261: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
3262: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
3263: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 3264: This article is also found online at:
3265: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 3266: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3267: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
3268: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
3269: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 3270: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 3271: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3272: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
3273: ZDnet</a>,
3274: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 3275: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 3276: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3277: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
3278: ZDnet Australia</a>,
3279: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 3280: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 3281: </ul>
1.260 ian 3282: <p>
1.279 deraadt 3283:
1.260 ian 3284: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3285: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 3286: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 3287: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 3288: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 3289: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 3290: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
3291: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
3292: without notice or justification.
3293: <p>
3294:
3295: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.571 miod 3296: <a href="http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 3297: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 3298: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 3299: </strong></font><br>
3300: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
3301: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 3302: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 3303: effective today, without any warning..."
3304: <p>
1.257 ian 3305:
3306: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 3307: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
3308: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3309: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 3310: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 3311: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
3312: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
3313: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
3314: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
3315: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 3316: <p>
3317:
3318: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 3319: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
3320: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3321: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 3322: </strong></font><br>
3323: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
3324: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
3325: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
3326: quoting two of them:
3327: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
3328: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
3329: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
3330: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
3331: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
3332: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
3333: <p>
3334:
1.255 ian 3335: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 3336: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
3337: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 3338: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3339: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 3340: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 3341: <p>
3342:
3343: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 3344: [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 3345: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3346: </strong></font><br>
3347: New security concepts in OpenBSD
3348: <p>
3349:
3350: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 3351: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
3352: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3353: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 3354: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 3355: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 3356: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
3357: security experts for more than three decades."
3358: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
3359: <p>
1.261 ian 3360:
1.254 drahn 3361: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 3362: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 3363: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 3364: </strong></font><br>
3365: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
3366: <p>
3367:
3368: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 3369: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
3370: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
3371: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
3372: </strong></font><br>
3373: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
3374: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
3375: discussion OpenBSD's path.
3376: <p>
3377:
3378: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 3379: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
3380: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3381: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 3382: </strong></font><br>
3383: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
3384: from US DARPA.
3385: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
3386: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
3387: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
3388: the BSD license.
3389: <p>
3390: </ul>
3391:
1.251 ian 3392: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
3393: <ul>
3394:
3395: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3396: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
3397: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
3398: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
3399: </strong></font><br>
3400:
3401: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
3402: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
3403: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
3404: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
3405: <p>
3406:
3407: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 3408: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
3409: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.371 jose 3410: OnLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 3411: </strong></font><br>
3412: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
3413: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
3414: Mentions
3415: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
3416: and
3417: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
3418: programs.
3419: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 3420: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 3421: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
3422: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
3423: <p>
1.325 ian 3424: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
3425: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 3426:
3427: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3428: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
3429: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
3430: </strong></font><br>
3431: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
3432: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
3433: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
3434: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
3435: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
3436: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
3437: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
3438: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
3439: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
3440: put into service."
3441: <p>
3442: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
3443: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
3444: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
3445: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
3446: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
3447: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
3448: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
3449: computers with security features."
3450: <p>
1.329 ian 3451:
3452: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3453: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
3454: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
3455: Slate,
3456: March 3, 2003.
3457: </strong></font><br>
1.413 deraadt 3458: Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD
1.329 ian 3459: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
3460: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
3461: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
3462: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
3463: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
3464: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
3465: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
3466: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
3467: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
3468: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
3469: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
3470: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
3471: of more secure open-source solutions like
3472: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
3473: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
3474: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
3475: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
3476: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
3477: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
3478: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
3479: the Beltway."
3480: <p>
1.251 ian 3481: </ul>
3482:
1.249 jufi 3483: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
3484: <ul>
3485: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3486: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
3487: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3488: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 3489: </strong></font><br>
3490: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
3491: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 3492: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 3493: <p>
1.334 ian 3494:
3495: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3496: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
3497: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
3498: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
3499: </strong></font><br>
3500: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
3501: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
3502: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
3503: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
3504: "... the hypothetical question ...
3505: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
3506: <br>
3507: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
3508: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
3509: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
3510: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
3511: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
3512: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 3513: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 3514: support network security.
3515: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
3516: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
3517: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
3518: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
3519: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
3520: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
3521: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
3522: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
3523: <br>
3524: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
3525: <p>
3526:
1.249 jufi 3527: </ul>
3528:
1.246 jufi 3529: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3530: <ul>
1.246 jufi 3531:
1.247 jufi 3532: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3533: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 3534: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3535: CNET News.com, December 4, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3536: </strong></font><br>
3537: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
3538: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
3539: <p>
3540:
1.247 jufi 3541: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3542: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
3543: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3544: Heise News-Ticker, December 4, 2002
1.301 jose 3545: </strong></font><br>
1.460 david 3546: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III CPU
1.301 jose 3547: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
3548: <p>
3549:
3550: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3551: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 3552: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3553: eWeek, December 3, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3554: </strong></font><br>
3555: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
3556: in their annual OpenHack security test.
3557: <p>
1.247 jufi 3558: </ul>
1.246 jufi 3559:
1.244 jufi 3560: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3561: <ul>
1.246 jufi 3562:
1.247 jufi 3563: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3564: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
3565: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
3566: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3567: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 3568: </strong></font><br>
3569: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
3570: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
3571: md5 digests.
3572: <p>
3573:
1.247 jufi 3574: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3575: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 3576: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
3577: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3578: </strong></font><br>
3579: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
3580: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
3581: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
3582: right the first time."
3583: <p>
1.247 jufi 3584: </ul>
1.244 jufi 3585:
3586:
3587: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3588: <ul>
1.244 jufi 3589:
1.247 jufi 3590: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3591: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3592: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
3593: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3594: </strong></font><br>
3595: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
3596: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
3597: part 6</a>.
3598: <p>
3599:
1.247 jufi 3600: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 3601: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 3602: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:
3603: Securing Remote PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3604: O'Reilly Network, August 8, 2002.
1.244 jufi 3605: </strong></font><br>
3606: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
3607: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
3608: <p>
1.301 jose 3609:
3610: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3611: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
3612: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
3613: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
3614: </strong></font><br>
3615:
3616: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
3617: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
3618: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
3619: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
3620: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
3621: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
3622: <i>Here's the
3623: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
3624: <p>
1.247 jufi 3625: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3626:
3627: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3628: <ul>
1.242 jufi 3629:
1.247 jufi 3630: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3631: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.392 david 3632: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6: Archiving PF Firewall Logs</a>,
1.269 deraadt 3633: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3634: </strong></font><br>
3635: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
3636: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
3637: <p>
3638:
1.247 jufi 3639: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3640: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3641: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3642: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 1, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3643: </strong></font><br>
3644: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
3645: this time using pf.
3646: <p>
1.247 jufi 3647: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3648:
3649: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3650: <ul>
1.242 jufi 3651:
1.247 jufi 3652: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3653: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3654: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
3655: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3656: </strong></font><br>
3657: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
3658: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
3659: their rotation.
3660: <p>
3661:
1.247 jufi 3662: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3663: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3664: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1.466 deraadt 3665: O'Reilly Network, June 6, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3666: </strong></font><br>
3667: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
3668: <p>
1.247 jufi 3669: </ul>
1.242 jufi 3670:
1.239 jufi 3671: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3672: <ul>
1.239 jufi 3673:
1.247 jufi 3674: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3675: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 3676: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
3677: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 3678: </strong></font><br>
3679: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
3680: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
3681: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
3682: <p>
3683:
1.247 jufi 3684: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 3685: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 3686: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
3687: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 3688: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 3689: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
3690: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
3691: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 3692: <p>
1.247 jufi 3693: </ul>
1.239 jufi 3694:
1.235 lebel 3695: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3696: <ul>
1.235 lebel 3697:
1.239 jufi 3698:
1.247 jufi 3699: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 3700: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 3701: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
3702: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 3703: </strong></font><br>
3704: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
3705: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
3706: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
3707: <p>
1.301 jose 3708:
1.247 jufi 3709: </ul>
1.235 lebel 3710:
1.228 horacio 3711: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3712: <ul>
1.228 horacio 3713:
1.247 jufi 3714: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 3715: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 3716: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
3717: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 3718: </strong></font><br>
3719: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
3720: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
3721: <p>
3722:
1.247 jufi 3723: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 3724: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 3725: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
3726: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 3727: </strong></font><br>
3728: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
3729: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
3730: <p>
3731:
1.247 jufi 3732: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 3733: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 3734: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
3735: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 3736: </strong></font><br>
3737: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
3738: on the desktop of his parents.
3739: <p>
3740:
1.247 jufi 3741: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 3742: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 3743: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
3744: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 3745: </strong></font><br>
3746: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
3747: using IPFilter.
3748:
3749: <p>
3750:
1.247 jufi 3751: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 3752: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 3753: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
3754: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 3755: </strong></font><br>
3756: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
3757: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
3758: perspectives of the four OS.
3759: <br>
3760: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 3761: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 3762: <p>
3763:
1.247 jufi 3764: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 3765: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
3766: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 3767: software and security</a>,
3768: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 3769: </strong></font><br>
3770:
3771: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
3772: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
3773: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
3774: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
3775: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
3776: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
3777: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
3778: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
3779: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
3780: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
3781: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
3782: security conscious team beyond doubt.
3783: <p>
1.247 jufi 3784: </ul>
1.228 horacio 3785:
1.225 horacio 3786: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3787: <ul>
1.225 horacio 3788:
1.247 jufi 3789: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3790: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
3791: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 3792: Interview</a>,
3793: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 3794: </strong></font><br>
3795:
3796: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
3797: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
3798: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 3799: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 3800: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
3801: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
3802: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
3803: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
3804: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 3805: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 3806: of choice.
3807: <p>
1.247 jufi 3808: </ul>
1.225 horacio 3809:
3810: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3811: <ul>
1.225 horacio 3812:
1.247 jufi 3813: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 3814: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 3815: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
3816: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 3817: </strong></font><br>
3818:
3819: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
3820: <p>
3821:
1.247 jufi 3822: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3823: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 3824: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
3825: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 3826: </strong></font><br>
3827:
3828: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
3829: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
3830: <p>
1.247 jufi 3831: </ul>
1.225 horacio 3832:
1.218 horacio 3833: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3834: <ul>
1.218 horacio 3835:
1.247 jufi 3836: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.387 mcbride 3837: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/6">
1.269 deraadt 3838: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1.392 david 3839: KernelTrap, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 3840: </strong></font><br>
3841:
3842: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
3843: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
3844: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
3845: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
3846: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
3847: subjects. Worth a read.
3848: <p>
3849:
3850:
1.247 jufi 3851: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 3852: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 3853: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
3854: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 3855: </strong></font><br>
3856:
3857: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
3858: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
3859: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
3860: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
3861: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
3862: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
3863: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
3864: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
3865: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 3866: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 3867: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
3868: on other operating systems.<br>
3869: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
3870: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
3871: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
3872: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
3873: <p>
3874:
1.247 jufi 3875: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3876: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 3877: Operating System 2010</a>,
3878: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 3879: </strong></font><br>
3880:
3881: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
3882: covering the level of software integration into the core
3883: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
3884: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
3885: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
3886: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
3887: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
3888: <p>
3889:
1.247 jufi 3890: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 3891: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 3892: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
3893: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 3894: </strong></font><br>
3895:
3896: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
3897: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
3898: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
3899: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
3900: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
3901: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
3902: <p>
1.247 jufi 3903: </ul>
1.221 horacio 3904:
1.210 jufi 3905: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3906: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3907:
1.247 jufi 3908: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3909: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 3910: Already a Contender</a>,
3911: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 3912: </strong></font><br>
3913:
3914: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
3915: source software in response to an article which claimed that
3916: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
3917: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
3918: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
3919: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
3920: <p>
3921:
1.247 jufi 3922: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 3923: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 3924: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
3925: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 3926: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 3927:
1.224 horacio 3928: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
3929: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
3930: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
3931: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
3932: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
3933: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 3934: <p>
1.247 jufi 3935: </ul>
1.215 horacio 3936:
3937: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3938: <ul>
1.215 horacio 3939:
1.247 jufi 3940: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 3941: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
3942: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 3943: Division</a>,
3944: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 3945: </strong></font><br>
3946:
3947: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
3948: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 3949: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 3950: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
3951: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
3952: investment</em>.<br>
3953: The implementation details can be seen on their
3954: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
3955: <p>
3956:
1.247 jufi 3957: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3958: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
3959: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
3960: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
3961: </strong></font><br>
3962:
3963: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
3964: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
3965: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1.475 grunk 3966: laptops and T-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1.301 jose 3967: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
3968: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
3969: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
3970: <p>
3971:
3972: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3973: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 3974: Thinking about Security</a>,
3975: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 3976: </strong></font><br>
3977:
3978: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
3979: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
3980: security and says that even secured operating systems running
3981: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
3982: to time.<br>
3983: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
3984: system and just the most secure system.
3985: <p>
3986:
1.247 jufi 3987: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3988: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 3989: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
3990: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 3991: </strong></font><br>
3992:
3993: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
3994: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
3995: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
3996: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
3997: choice:<br>
3998: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
3999: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
4000: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
4001: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
4002: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
4003: network security devices and as such must be well
4004: armored."</em><br>
4005: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
4006: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
4007: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
4008: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
4009: <br>
4010: Bravo!
4011: <p>
1.247 jufi 4012: </ul>
1.210 jufi 4013:
1.207 ian 4014: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4015: <ul>
1.215 horacio 4016:
1.247 jufi 4017: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 4018: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
4019: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
4020: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 4021:
1.207 ian 4022: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
4023: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 4024: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 4025: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
4026: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
4027: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 4028: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 4029: <p>
1.247 jufi 4030: </ul>
1.207 ian 4031:
1.194 jufi 4032: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4033: <ul>
1.194 jufi 4034:
1.247 jufi 4035: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4036: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 4037: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
4038: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 4039: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4040:
1.240 miod 4041: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 4042: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
4043: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
4044: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
4045: <p>
4046:
1.247 jufi 4047: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4048: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
4049: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
4050: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
4051:
4052: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
4053: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
4054: <p>
4055:
4056: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4057: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
4058: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4059: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
4060:
4061: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
4062: <p>
4063:
4064: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4065: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 4066: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
4067: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
4068: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4069:
1.240 miod 4070: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 4071: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 4072: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
4073: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1.413 deraadt 4074: on the article he comments on the team's <em>license audit</em> through
1.206 ian 4075: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 4076: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
4077: <br>
1.413 deraadt 4078: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the
1.201 horacio 4079: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
4080: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
4081: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
4082: <p>
4083:
1.247 jufi 4084: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 4085: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
4086: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 4087: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 4088: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4089:
1.194 jufi 4090: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
4091: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
4092: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
4093: <br>
4094: The new
4095: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 4096: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 4097: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
4098: <p>
1.247 jufi 4099: </ul>
1.194 jufi 4100:
1.190 horacio 4101: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4102: <ul>
1.190 horacio 4103:
1.247 jufi 4104: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 4105:
4106: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
4107: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
4108:
1.301 jose 4109:
1.191 jufi 4110: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
4111: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
4112:
4113: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
4114: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
4115:
1.566 martynas 4116: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20010527142347">
1.212 horacio 4117: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 4118: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
4119:
1.211 horacio 4120: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
4121: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 4122: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
4123:
1.247 jufi 4124: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 4125: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
4126:
1.247 jufi 4127: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 4128: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
4129:
1.212 horacio 4130: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
4131: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 4132: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
4133:
4134: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
4135: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
4136:
4137: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
4138: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
4139:
1.301 jose 4140: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
4141: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
4142:
1.191 jufi 4143: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
4144: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
4145:
4146: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 4147: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 4148:
1.192 jufi 4149: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
4150: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 4151: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 4152:
1.193 deraadt 4153: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
4154: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 4155: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 4156:
1.247 jufi 4157: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 4158: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
4159:
1.247 jufi 4160: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 4161: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
4162: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
4163:
1.213 horacio 4164: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 4165: 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 4166: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
4167:
1.190 horacio 4168: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 4169: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
4170: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
4171: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
4172: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
4173: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
4174: <p>
1.190 horacio 4175:
1.247 jufi 4176: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 4177: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
4178: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
4179: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 4180: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4181:
1.195 jufi 4182: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 4183: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
4184: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
4185: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 4186: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
4187: <p>
4188:
1.247 jufi 4189: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 4190: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 4191: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
4192: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
4193: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4194:
1.191 jufi 4195: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 4196: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
4197: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
4198: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
4199: <p>
4200:
4201: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4202: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
4203: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4204: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
4205:
4206: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
4207: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 4208: <p>
1.247 jufi 4209: </ul>
1.190 horacio 4210:
1.191 jufi 4211:
1.186 jufi 4212: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4213: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 4214:
1.247 jufi 4215: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 4216: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 4217: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
4218: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 4219: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 4220:
1.188 jufi 4221: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 4222: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 4223: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 4224: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
4225: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 4226: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 4227: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 4228: <p>
4229:
1.301 jose 4230: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4231: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
4232: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
4233: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
4234:
4235: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
4236: <p>
1.191 jufi 4237:
1.247 jufi 4238: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 4239: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
4240: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1.466 deraadt 4241: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 5, 2001
1.191 jufi 4242: </strong></font><br>
4243:
4244: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
4245: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
4246: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
4247: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
4248: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
4249: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
4250: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
4251: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
4252: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
4253: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
4254: familiar?
4255: <p>
1.247 jufi 4256: </ul>
1.191 jufi 4257:
1.178 louis 4258: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4259: <ul>
1.178 louis 4260:
1.247 jufi 4261: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 4262: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 4263: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
4264: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 4265: </strong></font><br>
4266:
4267: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
4268: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
4269: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
4270: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
4271: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
4272: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
4273: <p>
4274:
1.247 jufi 4275: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4276: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
4277: Open source under the hood</a>,
4278: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 4279: </strong></font><br>
4280:
4281: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
4282: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
4283: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
4284: <p>
4285:
1.247 jufi 4286: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4287: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
4288: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
4289: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 4290: </strong></font><br>
4291:
4292: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
4293: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
4294: <p>
1.247 jufi 4295: </ul>
1.179 louis 4296:
1.174 louis 4297:
1.175 louis 4298: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4299: <ul>
1.175 louis 4300:
1.247 jufi 4301: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4302: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
4303: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
4304: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 4305: </strong></font><br>
4306:
4307: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
4308: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
4309: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
4310: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
4311: <p>
4312:
1.247 jufi 4313: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4314: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
4315: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
4316: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 4317: </strong></font><br>
4318:
4319: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 4320: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 4321: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
4322: <p>
1.247 jufi 4323: </ul>
1.175 louis 4324:
1.176 louis 4325:
1.172 mickey 4326: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 4327: <ul>
1.172 mickey 4328:
1.247 jufi 4329: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4330: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
4331: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 4332: </strong></font><br>
4333:
4334: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
4335: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
4336: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 4337: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 4338: <p>
4339:
1.247 jufi 4340: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 4341: <a
1.269 deraadt 4342: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
4343: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
4344: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 4345: </strong></font><br>
4346:
4347: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
4348: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
4349: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
4350: <p>
4351:
1.247 jufi 4352: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4353: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 4354: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
4355: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 4356: </strong></font><br>
4357:
4358: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
4359: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
4360: <p>
4361:
1.247 jufi 4362: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4363: <a
1.269 deraadt 4364: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
4365: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 4366: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
4367: </strong></font><br>
4368:
4369: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
4370: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
4371: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
4372: our own Theo de Raadt.
4373: <p>
4374:
1.247 jufi 4375: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4376: <a
1.269 deraadt 4377: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
4378: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
4379: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 4380: </strong></font><br>
4381:
4382: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
4383: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
4384: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
4385: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
4386: shut down.]
4387: <p>
4388:
1.247 jufi 4389: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 4390: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 4391: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 4392: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
4393: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 4394: </strong></font><br>
4395:
4396: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
4397: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
4398: <p>
1.247 jufi 4399: </ul>
1.172 mickey 4400:
1.161 louis 4401: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4402: <ul>
1.161 louis 4403:
1.247 jufi 4404: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 4405: <a
1.269 deraadt 4406: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
4407: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
4408: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 4409: </strong></font><br>
4410:
4411: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
4412: by John Wolley
4413: <p>
4414:
1.247 jufi 4415: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 4416: <a
1.269 deraadt 4417: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
4418: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
4419: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 4420: </strong></font><br>
4421:
4422: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
4423: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
4424: OpenBSD).
4425: <p>
4426:
1.247 jufi 4427: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 4428: <a
1.247 jufi 4429: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 4430: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
4431: </strong></font><br>
4432:
4433: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
4434: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
4435: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
4436: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
4437: and hindsight.
4438: <p>
4439:
1.247 jufi 4440: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4441: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
4442: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
4443: </strong></font><br>
4444:
4445: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
4446: <p>
4447:
1.247 jufi 4448: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 4449: <a
1.168 provos 4450: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
4451: December 7, 2000
4452: </strong></font><br>
4453:
4454: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
4455: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
4456: us explain.
4457: <p>
4458:
1.247 jufi 4459: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 4460: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
4461: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 4462: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 4463: December 6, 2000
4464: </strong></font><br>
4465:
4466: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
4467: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
4468: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
4469: <p>
4470:
1.247 jufi 4471: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 4472: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
4473: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
4474: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
4475: </strong></font><br>
4476:
4477: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
4478: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
4479: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
4480: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
4481: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
4482: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
4483: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
4484: <p>
4485:
4486: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 4487: <a
1.226 horacio 4488: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
4489: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 4490: </strong></font><br>
4491:
4492: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 4493: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 4494: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 4495: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
4496: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
4497: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 4498: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 4499: <p>
1.162 millert 4500:
1.247 jufi 4501: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 4502: <a
1.161 louis 4503: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
4504: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
4505: </strong></font><br>
4506:
4507: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
4508: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
4509: <p>
4510:
1.247 jufi 4511: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 4512: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
4513: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
4514: </strong></font><br>
4515:
4516: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
4517: <p>
4518:
4519:
1.247 jufi 4520: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 4521: <a
1.226 horacio 4522: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
4523: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
4524: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 4525: </strong></font><br>
4526:
4527: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
4528: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
4529: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
4530: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
4531: <p>
1.247 jufi 4532: </ul>
1.169 louis 4533:
1.158 louis 4534: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4535: <ul>
1.147 louis 4536:
1.247 jufi 4537: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4538: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
4539: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 4540: </strong></font><br>
4541:
4542: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
4543: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
4544: <p>
4545:
1.247 jufi 4546: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4547: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
4548: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
4549: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 4550: </strong></font><br>
4551: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
4552: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
4553: <p>
4554:
1.247 jufi 4555: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 4556: <a
4557: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
4558: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
4559: </strong></font><br>
4560:
4561: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
4562: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
4563: <p>
4564:
1.247 jufi 4565: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4566: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 4567: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
4568: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 4569:
1.213 horacio 4570: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.383 jcs 4571: <a href="books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1.161 louis 4572: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
4573: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
4574: <p>
1.215 horacio 4575:
1.247 jufi 4576: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 4577: <a
4578: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
4579: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
4580: </strong></font><br>
4581:
4582: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
4583: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
4584: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
4585: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
4586: much of the attitude too).
4587: <p>
1.161 louis 4588:
1.247 jufi 4589: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4590: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4591: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 4592: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 4593:
1.157 louis 4594: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
4595: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
4596: <p>
1.247 jufi 4597: </ul>
1.157 louis 4598:
4599: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4600: <ul>
1.157 louis 4601:
1.247 jufi 4602: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4603: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4604: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 4605: </strong></font><br>
4606:
4607: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
4608: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
4609: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
4610: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
4611: <p>
4612:
1.247 jufi 4613: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 4614: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
4615: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
4616: </strong></font><br>
4617:
4618: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
4619: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
4620: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
4621: it because they love coding...
4622: <p>
4623:
1.247 jufi 4624: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 4625: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
4626: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
4627: </strong></font><br>
4628:
4629: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
4630: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
4631: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
4632: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
4633: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
4634: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
4635: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
4636: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
4637: <p>
4638:
1.247 jufi 4639: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4640: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
4641: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
4642: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 4643: </strong></font><br>
4644:
4645: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
4646: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
4647: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
4648: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
4649: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
4650: the pizza.
4651: <p>
4652:
1.247 jufi 4653: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 4654: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
4655: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
4656: </strong></font><br>
4657:
4658: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
4659: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
4660: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
4661: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
4662: problems.
4663: <p>
4664:
1.247 jufi 4665: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.568 ian 4666: <a href="https://osuny.co.uk/txt/zines/napalm/issue7.txt">Using IPSEC and Samba
4667: to integrate Windows Networks</a>, Napalm, October 6, 2000
1.154 louis 4668: </strong></font><br>
4669:
1.222 miod 4670: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 4671: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
4672: - whether they like it or not.
4673: <p>
4674:
1.247 jufi 4675: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4676: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
4677: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 4678: </strong></font><br>
4679:
4680: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
4681: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
4682: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 4683: <p>
1.148 aaron 4684:
1.247 jufi 4685: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4686: <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 4687: </strong></font><br>
4688:
4689: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
4690: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
4691: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
4692: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
4693: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
4694: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
4695: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
4696: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
4697: <p>
4698:
1.247 jufi 4699: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 4700: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
4701: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 4702: </strong></font><br>
4703:
4704: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
4705: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1.413 deraadt 4706: BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project
1.147 louis 4707: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
4708: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
4709: <p>
1.247 jufi 4710: </ul>
1.147 louis 4711:
1.138 louis 4712: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4713: <ul>
1.138 louis 4714:
1.247 jufi 4715: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4716: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
4717: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
4718: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
4719: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 4720: </strong></font><br>
4721:
1.227 horacio 4722: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 4723: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
4724: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
4725: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
4726: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
4727: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
4728: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
4729: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 4730: <p>
4731:
1.247 jufi 4732: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 4733: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 4734: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 4735: </strong></font><br>
4736:
4737: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
4738: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
4739: groups, and even Linux.
4740: <p>
4741:
1.247 jufi 4742: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4743: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
4744: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 4745: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
4746: </strong></font><br>
4747:
4748: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
4749: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
4750: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
4751: library after installing the OS.
4752: <p>
4753:
1.247 jufi 4754: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 4755: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 4756: Sys Admin, September 2000
4757: </strong></font><br>
4758:
4759: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
4760: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
4761: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
4762: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 4763: (<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>,
4764: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
4765: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
4766: <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 4767: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 4768: out of the system.
4769: <p>
4770:
1.247 jufi 4771: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 4772: <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
4773: </strong></font><br>
4774:
4775: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.413 deraadt 4776: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.200 niklas 4777: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
4778: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
4779: the IP filtering and address translation.
4780: <p>
1.301 jose 4781:
4782: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
4783: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
4784: </strong></font><br>
4785:
4786: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
4787: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
4788: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
4789: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
4790: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
4791: <p>
1.247 jufi 4792: </ul>
1.200 niklas 4793:
1.131 louis 4794: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4795: <ul>
1.131 louis 4796:
1.247 jufi 4797: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4798: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
4799: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
4800: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 4801: </strong></font><br>
4802:
4803: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
4804: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
4805: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
4806: <p>
4807:
1.247 jufi 4808: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 4809: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
4810: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
4811: </strong></font><br>
4812:
4813: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
4814: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
4815: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
4816: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
4817: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
4818: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
4819: note of"</i>.
4820: <p>
4821:
1.247 jufi 4822: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 4823: <a
1.247 jufi 4824: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 4825: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
4826: </strong></font><br>
4827:
4828: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
4829: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
4830: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
4831: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
4832: <p>
4833:
1.247 jufi 4834: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 4835: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 4836: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
4837: </strong></font><br>
4838:
4839: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
4840: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
4841: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
4842: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
4843: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
4844: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
4845: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
4846: <p>
4847:
1.247 jufi 4848: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 4849: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
4850: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
4851: 2000
4852: </strong></font><br>
4853:
4854: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
4855: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
4856: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
4857: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
4858: against current industry practices.
4859: <p>
4860:
1.247 jufi 4861: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 4862: <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
4863: </strong></font><br>
4864:
4865: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
4866: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
4867: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
4868: <p>
4869:
1.247 jufi 4870: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 4871: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
4872: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
4873: </strong></font><br>
4874:
4875: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
4876: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
4877: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
4878: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
4879: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
4880: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
4881: careful code reviews, he concludes.
4882: <p>
4883:
1.247 jufi 4884: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 4885: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
4886: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
4887: </strong></font><br>
4888:
4889: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
4890: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
4891: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
4892: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
4893: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 4894: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
4895: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
4896: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 4897: <p>
1.247 jufi 4898: </ul>
1.131 louis 4899:
1.118 louis 4900: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 4901: <ul>
1.118 louis 4902:
1.247 jufi 4903: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 4904: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
4905: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
4906: </strong></font><br>
4907:
4908: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
4909: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
4910: about time. The article mentions that
4911: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
4912: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
4913: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 4914: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 4915: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
4916: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 4917: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 4918: <p>
4919:
1.247 jufi 4920: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4921: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 4922: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 4923: </strong></font><br>
4924:
4925: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
4926: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
4927: of OpenSSH.
4928: <p>
4929:
1.247 jufi 4930: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 4931: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 4932: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 4933: </strong></font><br>
4934:
4935: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 4936: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 4937: bridging.
4938: <p>
4939:
1.247 jufi 4940: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 4941: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
4942: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 4943: </strong></font><br>
4944:
1.121 deraadt 4945: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
4946: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 4947: <p>
4948:
1.247 jufi 4949: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 4950: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
4951: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
4952: </strong></font><br>
4953:
4954: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
4955: <p>
4956:
1.247 jufi 4957: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 4958: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 4959: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
4960: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 4961: </strong></font><br>
4962:
1.120 deraadt 4963: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
4964: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 4965: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
4966: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
4967: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
4968: <p>
4969:
1.247 jufi 4970: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 4971: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
4972: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
4973: </strong></font><br>
4974:
1.222 miod 4975: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 4976: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
4977: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
4978: protocols and their quirks.
4979: <p>
4980:
1.247 jufi 4981: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 4982: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
4983: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 4984: </strong></font><br>
4985:
4986: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
4987: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
4988: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 4989: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 4990: <p>
4991:
1.247 jufi 4992: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 4993: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
4994: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
4995: </strong></font><br>
4996:
4997: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
4998: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
4999: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
5000: <p>
5001:
1.247 jufi 5002: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 5003: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 5004: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
5005: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 5006: </strong></font><br>
5007:
5008: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
5009: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
5010: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
5011: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
5012: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
5013: <p>
1.247 jufi 5014: </ul>
1.118 louis 5015:
1.104 louis 5016: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5017: <ul>
1.104 louis 5018:
1.247 jufi 5019: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 5020: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
5021: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
5022: </strong></font><br>
5023:
5024: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
5025: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
5026: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
5027: be a bit dry.
5028: <p>
5029:
1.247 jufi 5030: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 5031: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
5032: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
5033: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
5034: </strong></font><br>
5035: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
5036: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
5037: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
5038: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
5039: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
5040: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
5041: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
5042: <p>
5043:
1.247 jufi 5044: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 5045: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
5046: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 5047: 2000
1.128 louis 5048: </strong></font><br>
5049:
5050: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
5051: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
5052: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
5053: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
5054: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 5055: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 5056: <p>
5057:
1.247 jufi 5058: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5059: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
5060: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 5061: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 5062:
5063: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
5064: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
5065: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
5066: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 5067: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
5068: <p>
1.110 louis 5069:
1.247 jufi 5070: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 5071: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
5072: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
5073: </strong></font><br>
5074:
5075: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
5076: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
5077: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
5078: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
5079: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
5080: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
5081: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
5082: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
5083: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
5084: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
5085: <p>
5086:
1.247 jufi 5087: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 5088: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 5089: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 5090:
5091: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
5092: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 5093: <p>
1.108 louis 5094:
1.247 jufi 5095: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 5096: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
5097: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 5098: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 5099:
5100: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
5101: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
5102: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 5103: <p>
1.106 louis 5104:
1.247 jufi 5105: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 5106: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
5107: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 5108: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 5109:
5110: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
5111: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
5112: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
5113: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 5114: <p>
1.107 louis 5115:
1.247 jufi 5116: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 5117: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
5118: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 5119: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 5120:
5121: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
5122: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 5123: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 5124: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
5125: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 5126: <p>
1.105 louis 5127:
1.247 jufi 5128: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 5129: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 5130: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 5131: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 5132:
1.113 naddy 5133: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
5134: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 5135: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 5136: <p>
1.104 louis 5137:
1.247 jufi 5138: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 5139: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
5140: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
5141: </strong></font><br>
5142:
5143: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
5144: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
5145: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
5146: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
5147: <p>
1.301 jose 5148:
5149: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5150: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
1.577 tobias 5151: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
1.301 jose 5152: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
5153:
5154: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
5155: hardware-supported cryptography.
5156: <p>
1.247 jufi 5157: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 5158:
1.85 louis 5159: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5160: <ul>
1.85 louis 5161:
1.247 jufi 5162: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5163: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 5164: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 5165: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 5166:
5167: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
5168: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
5169: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
5170: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
5171: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
5172: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
5173: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 5174: <p>
1.99 louis 5175:
1.247 jufi 5176: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5177: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 5178: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 5179: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 5180:
5181: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
5182: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
5183: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
5184: conditions.
1.113 naddy 5185: <p>
1.100 louis 5186:
1.247 jufi 5187: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5188: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 5189: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 5190: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 5191:
5192: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
5193: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
5194: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
5195: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 5196: <p>
1.95 louis 5197:
1.247 jufi 5198: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5199: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 5200: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 5201: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 5202:
5203: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
5204: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 5205: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 5206: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
5207: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5208: <p>
1.92 louis 5209:
1.247 jufi 5210: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5211: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 5212: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 5213: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 5214:
5215: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
5216: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
5217: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
5218: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
5219: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
5220: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 5221: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 5222: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 5223: <p>
1.91 louis 5224:
1.247 jufi 5225: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5226: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
5227: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 5228: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 5229:
5230: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
5231: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
5232: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
5233: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
5234: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
5235: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
5236: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
5237: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
5238: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 5239: <p>
1.90 louis 5240:
1.247 jufi 5241: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 5242: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
5243: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
5244: </strong></font><br>
5245: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
5246: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
5247: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
5248: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
5249: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
5250: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
5251: <p>
5252:
1.247 jufi 5253: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 5254: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
5255: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 5256: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 5257:
1.113 naddy 5258: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
5259: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 5260: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
5261: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
5262: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
5263: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
5264: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 5265: <p>
1.87 louis 5266:
1.247 jufi 5267: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 5268: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
5269: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 5270: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 5271:
5272: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 5273: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 5274: <p>
1.85 louis 5275:
1.247 jufi 5276: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5277: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
5278: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
5279: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
5280:
5281: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
5282: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
5283: <p>
5284:
5285: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 5286: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
5287: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 5288: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 5289:
5290: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.577 tobias 5291: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 5292: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
5293: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 5294: <p>
1.89 louis 5295:
1.247 jufi 5296: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5297: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
1.85 louis 5298: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 5299: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 5300:
5301: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
5302: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
5303: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
5304: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
5305: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 5306: </ul>
1.85 louis 5307:
1.78 deraadt 5308: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5309: <ul>
1.74 louis 5310:
1.247 jufi 5311: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5312: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 5313: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 5314: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 5315: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 5316:
5317: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
5318: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
5319: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5320: <p>
1.83 louis 5321:
1.247 jufi 5322: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 5323: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
5324: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 5325: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 5326:
5327: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
5328: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 5329: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 5330: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
5331: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 5332: <p>
1.93 louis 5333:
1.247 jufi 5334: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 5335: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
5336: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
5337: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 5338: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 5339:
1.83 louis 5340: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
5341: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
5342: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
5343: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
5344: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 5345: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
5346: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
5347: <p>
1.82 aaron 5348:
1.247 jufi 5349: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5350: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 5351: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 5352: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 5353:
1.83 louis 5354: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
5355: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
5356: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 5357: <p>
1.80 louis 5358:
1.247 jufi 5359: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5360: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 5361: Bad Press</a>,
5362: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 5363: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 5364:
5365: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 5366: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 5367: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
5368: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
5369: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 5370: <p>
1.247 jufi 5371: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 5372:
5373: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5374: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 5375:
1.247 jufi 5376: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5377: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
5378: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 5379: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 5380: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 5381:
5382: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
5383: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
5384: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
5385: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 5386: <p>
1.74 louis 5387:
1.247 jufi 5388: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 5389: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
5390: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 5391: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 5392:
1.219 horacio 5393: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
5394: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
5395: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
5396: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
5397: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
5398: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
5399: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 5400: <p>
1.88 louis 5401:
1.247 jufi 5402: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 5403: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 5404: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 5405: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 5406:
5407: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
5408: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
5409: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
5410: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 5411: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 5412: <p>
1.81 louis 5413:
1.247 jufi 5414: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5415: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 5416: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 5417: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 5418:
5419: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
5420: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
5421: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
5422: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
5423: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
5424: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
5425: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 5426: <p>
1.90 louis 5427:
1.247 jufi 5428: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5429: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 5430: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 5431: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 5432:
5433: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
5434: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
5435: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 5436: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 5437: <p>
1.247 jufi 5438: </ul>
1.71 louis 5439:
1.69 deraadt 5440: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5441: <ul>
1.70 louis 5442:
1.247 jufi 5443: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5444: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
5445: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 5446: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 5447:
5448: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
5449: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
5450: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 5451: <p>
1.70 louis 5452:
1.247 jufi 5453: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5454: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
5455: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 5456: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 5457:
5458: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 5459: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 5460: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 5461: <p>
1.68 louis 5462:
1.247 jufi 5463: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5464: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
5465: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 5466: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 5467: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 5468:
1.111 jufi 5469: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
5470: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 5471: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 5472: "secure by default" installation.
5473: <p>
1.64 louis 5474:
1.247 jufi 5475: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 5476: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 5477: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 5478: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 5479:
1.113 naddy 5480: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 5481: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 5482: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 5483: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
5484: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
5485: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 5486: <p>
1.66 louis 5487:
1.247 jufi 5488: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5489: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 5490: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5491: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 5492:
5493: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 5494: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 5495: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
5496: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
5497: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 5498: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
5499: <p>
1.83 louis 5500:
1.247 jufi 5501: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5502: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 5503: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5504: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 5505:
5506: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 5507: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
5508: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 5509: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
5510: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 5511: <p>
1.64 louis 5512:
1.247 jufi 5513: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5514: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 5515: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 5516: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 5517:
5518: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
5519: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 5520: <p>
1.301 jose 5521:
5522: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5523: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
5524: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
5525: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
5526: </strong></font><br>
5527:
5528: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
5529: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
5530: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
5531: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
5532: Giving way to
5533: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
5534: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
5535: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
5536: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
5537: <p>
1.247 jufi 5538: </ul>
1.65 louis 5539:
1.69 deraadt 5540: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 5541: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5542:
1.247 jufi 5543: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5544: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 5545: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 5546: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 5547:
5548: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
5549: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
5550: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
5551: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 5552: <p>
1.88 louis 5553:
1.247 jufi 5554: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5555: <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 5556: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 5557:
5558: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 5559: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
5560: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 5561: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
5562: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 5563: <p>
1.60 louis 5564:
1.247 jufi 5565: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 5566: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.377 david 5567: <a href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 5568: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 5569: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5570:
5571: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
5572: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
5573: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 5574: <p>
1.58 louis 5575:
1.247 jufi 5576: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 5577: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 5578: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 5579:
5580: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
5581: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 5582: <p>
1.53 louis 5583:
1.247 jufi 5584: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 5585: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
5586: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 5587: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 5588:
5589: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
5590: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
5591: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 5592: <p>
1.99 louis 5593:
1.247 jufi 5594: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 5595: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 5596: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5597:
5598: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
5599: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 5600: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 5601: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 5602: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 5603:
1.247 jufi 5604: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 5605: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
5606: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 5607: </strong></font><br>
5608:
5609: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
5610: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
5611: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
5612: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
5613: <p>
5614:
1.247 jufi 5615: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5616: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 5617: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 5618: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5619:
5620: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
5621: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 5622: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 5623:
1.247 jufi 5624: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 5625: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 5626: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 5627:
5628: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 5629: in
1.247 jufi 5630: <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 5631: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 5632: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 5633: <p>
1.53 louis 5634:
1.247 jufi 5635: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5636: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 5637: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
5638: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 5639: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 5640:
1.58 louis 5641: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5642: <p>
1.301 jose 5643:
5644: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5645: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
5646: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
5647: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
5648: Informacyjny, January 2000
5649: </strong></font><br>
5650:
5651: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
5652: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
5653: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
5654: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
5655: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
5656: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
5657: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
5658: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
5659: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
5660: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1.383 jcs 5661: <a href="mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org mail archives</a>. Interpretation
5662: errors are mine --louis</i>
1.301 jose 5663: <p>
5664:
5665: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5666: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
5667: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
5668: </strong></font><br>
5669:
5670: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
5671: <p>
5672: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 5673:
1.69 deraadt 5674: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5675: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5676:
1.247 jufi 5677: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 5678: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
5679: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
5680: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 5681: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5682:
1.58 louis 5683: Kurt Seifried
5684: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
5685: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
5686: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 5687: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 5688:
1.247 jufi 5689: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5690: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 5691: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 5692: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 5693:
5694: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 5695: <p>
1.96 louis 5696:
1.247 jufi 5697: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5698: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
5699: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
5700: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
5701: </strong></font><br>
5702:
5703: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
5704: <p>
5705:
5706: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5707: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 5708: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 5709: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 5710:
5711: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
5712: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1.383 jcs 5713: <a href="smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1.86 louis 5714: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 5715: <p>
1.247 jufi 5716: </ul>
1.86 louis 5717:
1.69 deraadt 5718: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5719: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5720:
1.247 jufi 5721: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 5722: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
5723: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 5724: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 5725:
5726: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
5727: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 5728: <p>
1.61 louis 5729:
1.247 jufi 5730: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5731: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 5732: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
5733: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5734: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 5735:
5736: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 5737: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 5738: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
5739: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 5740: right -- or at least strives to".
5741: <p>
1.48 louis 5742:
1.247 jufi 5743: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 5744: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
5745: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5746: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 5747: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
5748: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
5749: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
5750: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 5751: <p>
1.61 louis 5752:
1.247 jufi 5753: <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 5754: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 5755: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 5756:
5757: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
5758: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
5759: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
5760: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 5761: <p>
1.46 louis 5762:
1.247 jufi 5763: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 5764: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
5765: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 5766: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 5767:
5768: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
5769: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 5770: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 5771:
1.247 jufi 5772: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 5773: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
5774: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 5775: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 5776:
5777: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
5778: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
5779: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
5780: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 5781: <p>
1.247 jufi 5782: </ul>
1.70 louis 5783:
1.69 deraadt 5784: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5785: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5786:
1.247 jufi 5787: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 5788: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
5789: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 5790: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 5791: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 5792:
5793: Kurt Seifried
5794: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
5795: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
5796: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 5797: <p>
1.44 philen 5798:
1.247 jufi 5799: <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 5800: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 5801: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 5802:
5803: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 5804: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 5805:
1.247 jufi 5806: <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 5807: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 5808: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 5809:
5810: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 5811: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 5812:
1.247 jufi 5813: <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 5814: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 5815: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 5816:
5817: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
5818: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
5819: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
5820: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 5821: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 5822:
1.247 jufi 5823: <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 5824: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 5825: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 5826:
1.36 louis 5827: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 5828: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 5829:
1.247 jufi 5830: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 5831: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
1.39 louis 5832: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 5833: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 5834:
5835: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 5836: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 5837: </ul>
1.38 louis 5838:
1.69 deraadt 5839: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5840: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5841:
1.247 jufi 5842: <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 5843: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 5844: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 5845:
5846: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
5847: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 5848: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 5849:
1.113 naddy 5850: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 5851: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 5852: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 5853: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 5854:
5855: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
5856: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 5857: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
5858: terminal:
1.113 naddy 5859: <blockquote>
5860: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
5861: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
5862: <br>
5863: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
5864: </code>
5865: </blockquote>
5866: <p>
5867:
1.247 jufi 5868: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 5869: <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 5870: <p>
5871:
5872: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
5873: <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 5874: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 5875:
5876: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
5877: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 5878: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 5879: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 5880:
1.247 jufi 5881: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 5882: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
5883: Sept. 28, 1999
5884: </strong></font><br>
5885:
5886: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
5887: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
5888: translating and reprinting articles from
5889: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
5890: <p>
5891:
5892: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 5893: <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 5894: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 5895:
5896: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
5897: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
5898: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
5899: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
5900: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 5901: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 5902: <p>
1.19 louis 5903:
1.113 naddy 5904: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 5905: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 5906: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 5907:
5908: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
5909: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
5910: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 5911: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
5912: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 5913: <p>
1.16 louis 5914:
1.247 jufi 5915: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5916: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 5917: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 5918: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 5919:
1.57 louis 5920: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
5921: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
5922: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 5923: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 5924:
1.247 jufi 5925: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5926: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.466 deraadt 5927: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 5928: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5929:
1.113 naddy 5930: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 5931:
1.247 jufi 5932: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 5933: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
5934: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 5935: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 5936:
1.23 louis 5937: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
5938: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
5939: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
5940: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
5941: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 5942: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 5943:
1.247 jufi 5944: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 5945: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
5946: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 5947: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 5948:
1.199 pvalchev 5949: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 5950: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
5951: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
5952: installation.
1.113 naddy 5953: <p>
1.47 louis 5954:
1.247 jufi 5955: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 5956: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 5957: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 5958: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 5959:
1.301 jose 5960: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
5961: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
5962: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 5963: </ul>
1.57 louis 5964:
1.69 deraadt 5965: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5966: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 5967:
1.247 jufi 5968: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 5969: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 5970: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 5971: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 5972:
5973: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
5974: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 5975: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 5976: <p>
1.12 louis 5977:
1.247 jufi 5978: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 5979: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 5980: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 5981: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 5982:
5983: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
5984: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 5985: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
5986: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
5987: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
5988: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
5989: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 5990: <p>
1.247 jufi 5991: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 5992:
1.69 deraadt 5993: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 5994: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 5995:
1.247 jufi 5996: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 5997: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 5998: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 5999:
6000: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
6001: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
6002: available."
1.113 naddy 6003: <p>
1.301 jose 6004:
6005: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
6006: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
6007: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
6008: </strong></font><br>
6009:
6010: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
6011: <p>
1.247 jufi 6012: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 6013:
1.69 deraadt 6014: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6015: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6016:
1.247 jufi 6017: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 6018: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 6019: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 6020:
6021: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
6022: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
6023: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
6024: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
6025: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 6026: <p>
1.33 louis 6027:
1.247 jufi 6028: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6029: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 6030: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 6031: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 6032:
1.113 naddy 6033: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
6034: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 6035: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
6036: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
6037: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 6038: <p>
1.247 jufi 6039: </ul>
1.57 louis 6040:
1.69 deraadt 6041: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6042: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6043:
1.247 jufi 6044: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
6045: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 6046: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 6047: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 6048:
6049: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
6050: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 6051: <p>
1.69 deraadt 6052:
1.247 jufi 6053: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 6054: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
6055: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
6056: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 6057: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 6058:
6059: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 6060: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 6061:
1.247 jufi 6062: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 6063: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 6064:
1.113 naddy 6065: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 6066:
1.247 jufi 6067: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 6068: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
1.68 louis 6069: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 6070: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 6071:
6072: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 6073: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 6074: </ul>
1.23 louis 6075:
1.69 deraadt 6076: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6077: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6078:
1.247 jufi 6079: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.365 jose 6080: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0300/bsd.html">
1.113 naddy 6081: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 6082:
6083: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
6084: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 6085: <p>
1.2 deraadt 6086:
1.247 jufi 6087: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6088: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 6089: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 6090: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 6091:
6092: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
6093: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 6094: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 6095: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 6096: </ul>
1.57 louis 6097:
1.69 deraadt 6098: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6099: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6100:
1.247 jufi 6101: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 6102: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
1.15 louis 6103: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 6104: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 6105:
6106: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
6107: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
6108: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
6109: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 6110: <p>
1.15 louis 6111:
1.247 jufi 6112: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 6113: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
6114: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 6115: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 6116:
6117: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
6118: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
6119: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
6120: columns."
1.113 naddy 6121: <p>
1.247 jufi 6122: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 6123:
1.69 deraadt 6124: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 6125: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6126:
1.247 jufi 6127: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6128: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 6129: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 6130: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 6131:
6132: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 6133: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 6134:
1.113 naddy 6135: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 6136: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 6137: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 6138:
6139: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
6140: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 6141: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 6142: </ul>
1.57 louis 6143:
1.69 deraadt 6144: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6145: <ul>
1.301 jose 6146: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
6147: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
6148: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
6149: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
6150:
6151: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
6152: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
6153: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
6154: <p>
6155:
6156: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
6157: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
6158: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
6159: Nov 13, 1998 and
6160: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
6161: Datateknik</a>,
6162: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
6163:
1.380 saad 6164: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in Mac OS X. The first
1.301 jose 6165: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
6166: explains the licensing issues and points to our
6167: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
6168: <p>
1.69 deraadt 6169:
1.113 naddy 6170: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.493 steven 6171: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 6172: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 6173: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 6174:
1.222 miod 6175: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 6176: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
6177: Implementation, including a brief interview with
6178: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 6179: <p>
1.247 jufi 6180: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 6181:
1.69 deraadt 6182: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6183: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6184:
1.247 jufi 6185: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 6186: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 6187: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 6188:
1.69 deraadt 6189: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
6190: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 6191: <p>
1.247 jufi 6192: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 6193:
1.69 deraadt 6194: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6195: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 6196:
1.247 jufi 6197: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 6198: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
6199: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 6200: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 6201:
1.383 jcs 6202: Points at our <a href="security.html">security page</a>
1.1 deraadt 6203: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 6204: <p>
1.1 deraadt 6205:
1.247 jufi 6206: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 6207: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 6208: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
6209: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 6210: <p>
1.247 jufi 6211: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 6212:
1.69 deraadt 6213: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6214: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6215:
1.247 jufi 6216: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 6217: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.377 david 6218: WebServer Online</a>, reprinted in
6219: <a href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 6220: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 6221: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 6222:
6223: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
6224: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
6225: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 6226: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 6227: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 6228: <p>
1.247 jufi 6229: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 6230:
6231: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 6232: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 6233:
1.247 jufi 6234: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 6235: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 6236: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 6237:
1.69 deraadt 6238: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
6239: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 6240: <p>
1.112 naddy 6241:
1.247 jufi 6242: </ul>
1.113 naddy 6243: <p>
1.1 deraadt 6244:
1.292 camield 6245: <hr>
1.216 horacio 6246: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 6247: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.578 ! ian 6248: <br><small>$OpenBSD: press.html,v 1.577 2008/01/02 23:08:58 tobias Exp $</small>
1.1 deraadt 6249:
6250: </body>
6251: </html>